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fivecats

fivecats

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I've done my share of unintentional tread hijacking. I figured it might be fun to start a thread with the intention of allowing everyone to hijack it in their own direction!

Here are the rules:

  • Pick a word/phrase/sentence from the last message in this thread and spin it out in whatever tangent that has meaning for you. (Meaning being a fairly loose term.)
  • At least two other people should have their hijack-say in things before you can re-hijack.

Ready? The world is waiting... Travel safe... GO!
 
fivecats said:
The world is waiting... Travel safe... GO!
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I drive an unmodified Chevette. They had 68 horsepower brand spanking new and mine's 30 years old with almost 350,000 km on it. The world will have to wait a little bit longer, 0-60 mph in 40 seconds now that we're down half a cylinder... And safe? Well, it does at least have real steel bumpers with actual shock absorbers, not plastic-wrapped styrofoam like I've seen in new cars. But airbags? Nope, none of those.
 
Chevette Girl said:
I drive an unmodified Chevette. They had 68 horsepower brand spanking new and mine's 30 years old with almost 350,000 km on it. The world will have to wait a little bit longer, 0-60 mph in 40 seconds now that we're down half a cylinder... And safe? Well, it does at least have real steel bumpers with actual shock absorbers, not plastic-wrapped styrofoam like I've seen in new cars. But airbags? Nope, none of those.
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I had the next step up, a 1981 Chevy Citation and I loved that little car. I beat the crap out of that car and it just would not die. Wish I still had it, the friend who bout it off me in 1995 still has it and it is still his daily driver with almost 400,000 miles on it (he did eventually need to replace the clutch)
 
TAKeyser said:
I had the next step up, a 1981 Chevy Citation
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Aah, the Citation, an overgrown Chevette... were those front wheel drive? I've never been up close to one, just seen the odd one on the road. I think the Pontiac Phoenix was the same... technically my Beast is a Pontiac Acadian (T-1000 in the 'States).

C'mon, someone hijack this to something else or we're gonna end up talking cars all thread...
 
My fist car was a poop brown 81 Chevette. My uncle had to install a manual choke so I could keep it running. Also, I had to pump the gas pedal constantly or it would stall and the idle speed was so high I could drive from my parents' house to the grocery store and back without stepping on the gas. I was the only person who could start it and keep it 'running'.

By the way, I think hijacking this thread's purpose by making it all about cars would be the ultimate hijack of all time.
 
browncoats said:
...manual choke...
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<JACK!> I made a blackberry-chokecherry wine several years ago (well, a couple of decades ago now), that was as astringent as sucking on a wooden tongue depressor when new, but it mellowed nicely after a decade or so! ;D Manually trying to scrape off the skin/fruit pulp from the seeds was an exercise in futility, so we just fermented the whole fruit, pips and all. I'm pretty sure that was the source of the excess tannins.

(I also figured that jacking on "choke" was better than trying something with "poop." ;) )
 
After doing a cherry cyser and pitting all those things, I'd totally consider just throwing them in whole next time. Mmmm, tannin. I wonder when cherry season is in NY... Wait, do they have cherries there?
 
Bwahaahaa, jacking the thread back to be about mead, awesome :D

I've done cherry wine with the pips and got no bitterness (or flavour, either). I've eaten chokecherries without the pips and I don't think the pips are the source of the bitterness, the chokecherries are! I left the pips in when I made my chokecherry wine, the bitterness is slowly aging out and it should be drinkable this year... But they're nothing compared to highbush cranberries, the bitterness from my 2004 batch is still slowly dropping out. It has improved from "reflex spit-it-out-now" bitter to "hey, I can actually swallow this without fighting my instincts now". But it smells soooo good I can't bear to throw it out, so I just rack and taste it every year or so.

The last time I picked chokecherries, I was standing on top of my in-laws' pickup truck because the trees overhang the driveway and the stepladder wasn't long enough. This was right before the 500 km drive home (in the Chevette of course) and I had this cute little spider on me from the cherry trees that I played with in the car for about 45 min till we got to the gas station and I set it free in the ditch... nothing quite like being a human hamster-wheel... for a spider.
 
akueck said:
After doing a cherry cyser and pitting all those things, I'd totally consider just throwing them in whole next time. Mmmm, tannin. I wonder when cherry season is in NY... Wait, do they have cherries there?
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In a word, yes : http://www.pickyourown.org/nywest.htm

To pit cherries I usually let the Upick place do it, or I put on plastic gloves and squeeze the pits out into a pot. Since I'm going to freeze and ferment them who cares how broken up or messy they get? :)
 
skunkboy said:
In a word, yes : http://www.pickyourown.org/nywest.htm

To pit cherries I usually let the Upick place do it, or I put on plastic gloves and squeeze the pits out into a pot. Since I'm going to freeze and ferment them who cares how broken up or messy they get? :)
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/JACK!

I wonder if you could use the back-end of this:
http://peppermania.com/new_products_6.html

I have one of these and use it all the time. I'm obsessed with chili peppers. I even grow my own so I can dehydrate them and make my own chili powder (at least that's the plan for this season).
 
Val said:
/JACK!

I wonder if you could use the back-end of this:
http://peppermania.com/new_products_6.html

I have one of these and use it all the time. I'm obsessed with chili peppers. I even grow my own so I can dehydrate them and make my own chili powder (at least that's the plan for this season).
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I love chili peppers, but that tool looks like something a tad bit naughty. Speaking of naughty tools, I was down in my shop the other day trying to drill a thin pieve of metal in my drill press. The vise I had the metal clamped into was apparently not as tight I thought it to be and the drill bit bound up and slung that little piece of metal off into the garage... Needless to say, I'm glad that it hadn't at least slung it towards me.

Ah well, I'm off to work on some leather... Got a show coming up this weekend. Have fun all! ;D
 
Deacon Aegis said:
The vise I had the metal clamped into was apparently not as tight I thought it to be and the drill bit bound up and slung that little piece of metal off into the garage... Needless to say, I'm glad that it hadn't at least slung it towards me.
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That's about the only way I know of to injure onessself with a drill press... I'd know, I'm pretty accident-prone and I haven't managed. Yet.
 
Val said:
I'm obsessed with chili peppers. I even grow my own so I can dehydrate them and make my own chili powder (at least that's the plan for this season).
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We grew chili peppers two years ago. I took most of our harvest and dried them in a dehydrator, them sealed them in zip lock freezer bags and stashed them in the freezer.

I use a coffee grinder that's reserved just for hot peppers to turn them into a fine powder. It is incredibly hot stuff!
 
fivecats said:
We grew chili peppers two years ago. I took most of our harvest and dried them in a dehydrator, them sealed them in zip lock freezer bags and stashed them in the freezer.

I use a coffee grinder that's reserved just for hot peppers to turn them into a fine powder. It is incredibly hot stuff!
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We had chili peppers in our taco salad last night. The store was out of jalepenos so my wife got anaheims. No zing at all. I think the scoville units was like 2!
 
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