Mindless Rambles Rambles from the tech world

A Solo Player is a miserable performer on any instrument, who always plays alone, because no one will stay in the room to hear him.

Note Ingredients are to taste  (no measuring allowed!)
Hardware:

• Baking dish
• Oven thermometer
• Microwaveable bowl. ( I used a cereal bowl) 

Software

• Steak for three people
• 1 large head of Garlic
• 2 Tablespoons prepared mustard.
• Small can mushrooms (drained)
• 1/4 cup Russian dressing
• 1/4 Soy Sauce
• 1/3 cup (three scoops) lemonade mix
• 1/2 teaspoon Sriracha chili sauce
• Sprinkle of olive oil

Break garlic onto cloves. Don’t worry about peeling them yet. Put into the microwave safe bowl and sprinkle them with olive oil. Microwave for up to one minute. Allow to cool to a temperature that will not burn your hands. Squeeze each of the cloves into the bottom of the baking dish. If you pinch them at this point, the garlic will slip out and the paper will stay attached to your fingers. Discard “paper” from the garlic.

Add the mushrooms to the garlic in the bottom of the dish and cover with the steak. Spread the mustard on the top of the stake. Pour/sprinkle the dressing, chili and Soy sauce onto the steak. Do not worry about getting it even. Sprinkle the lemonade on the steak. Insert your meat thermometer into the middle of the meat.

Bake at 350 until the steak is done. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. Place steak pieces on the plate and garnish with mushrooms and baked garlic.

He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail, i.e. he went to sea and left them unpaid. Some soldiers are said to pay off their scores with the drum; that is, by marching away.

 
(Invented by Bruce Jacobs)

Note: This recipe must be done in the order shown.   Read it carefully first. If you skip steps you will get yuck results.  

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup Nonfat Dry Milk
5 level tbsp. Cocoa

2/3 cup Water

6 level Tbsp. Nutrasweet

1. Measure Nonfat Dry Milk and Cocoa into a small sauce pan. Mix together dry until blended.
2. Add water.
3. Place over low heat. Stirring constantly, heat to 125 degrees F.
4. Remove from heat. Continue to stir until there is no risk of burnt
   chocolate. At this point, mixture is thin and has a dark brown color
   when stirred. When not mixed, a light brown film will appear.
   Beware: When tasted, the mixture will taste bitter. This is because no
   sweetener can be added while the mixture is warm!
   1. Place mixture in fridge to cool. Mixture should be at least room
      temperature before you continue.
   2. Once cool, add Nutrasweet two tablespoons at a time, stirring in as
      you go. We found 6 tablespoons tasted best, but play around to find
      the sweetness level you like.

I have a non-dairy version of this somewhere that uses non-dairy creamer.  If I find the recipe I will post it.

Babes in the woods were criminals in the stocks, or pillory.

Note: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory for more information

A Lazy Bones is an instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or very fat people to take any thing from the ground without stooping.

A glazier in 1811 slang is one who breaks windows and shew-glasses, to steal goods exposed for sale. Glaziers; eyes. CANT.–
Note:  shew-glasses probably refers to glass display cases in shops.

Also: Is your father a glazier; a question asked of a lad or young man, who stands between the speaker and the candle, or  fire. If it is answered in the negative, the rejoinder is:

I wish he was, that he might make a window through your body, to enable us to see the fire or light.

I have heard words somewhat like this said of children in front of television sets.

You old fly-by-night is an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted on brooms.

A glim is a candle, or dark lantern, used in housebreaking.  Also fire.

A Word Pecker is a punster, one who plays upon words.

Editors note:  No I did not make this up!