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Strangely the original url:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/casino_tattoos_womans_face/
didn't work. Is this a bug?
Also. This is the last time I post wacky news items to metachat for a while. I ... just ... can't ... resist. I guess we could talk about something else. Like the best way to eat crab. or something.
Do you know how many Fear Factor episodes I've seen in which the person said "I'm doing this for my son/daughter"? I never believe that. The most difficult and challenging things to do for one's children take place every single day in every small decision and every time you get up in the morning to carry on doing the basic stuff.
No child is ever going to say, 20 years later, "And I'm so grateful to my Mom/Dad who [had her/his face tatooed with an ad |and/or| ate worms and cockroaches] for ME!!! Really.
My family (Italian) cooks crabs slowly and lovingly, all day, in tomato sauce. Then you spend hours at the dinner table, picking crabs apart, drinking wine, eating pasta, dipping bread in the crab sauce, and making loud slurping noises. It's definitely the best way to eat them. The sauce is orgasmic. I'll type up the recipe if anyone wants it, although it's my husband or my MIL who always make it. I just watch.
About the casino thing - Too much pressure on the kid, for sure. And what private school is she planning on sending him to, that she can get his whole education for only $10,000??
Plus, the tatoo looks like a sticker, in some other photos that I've seen. Although I have the feeling that it isn't.
Send on that recipe. Here in Maryland, the home of the world's best crab, the Chesapeake Blue Crab, we steam 'em, smother 'em in Old Bay, and then sit down with little hammers and bowls of vinegar to hack away and eat the bejesus out of them. Natty Bo is the beer of choice here in Charm City for crabs.
Of course, that's just for hard-shells. My favorite crabs are soft-shells, or peelers, which are best lightly dredged in flour and fried. A sandwhich made with a peeler and some picante mayonaisse of some sort is just heavenly, for some reason I really relish the chewy texture that says I'm eating something best left unexamined.
omiewise, we vist Maryland a few times every summer, just to go crabbing! Love love love Maryland crabs, you lucky so and so.
Crabs and Gravy (I know...it's a South Philly thing...)
Crabs!
Lots of italian (plum) tomatoes - fresh or canned (no exact measurements here)
fresh herbs
some chopped garlic
a good olive oil
optional - chopped onion
some nice white wine for cooking and drinking
lots of bread
angel hair or fettucine
fresh romano cheese, grated
Clean up your crabs (but keep the shell on), and break each one in half. Saute them in the onion, garlic, and oil, for about 5 minutes, and then add the tomatoes, which you've crushed, and some wine, and cover and simmer for at least 2 hours, on a low heat. The longer the better, because the sauce takes on a gorgeous delicate crab flavor - very very hard to stop eating.
When you're ready to eat, just scoop out the crabs and put them in a bowl, and then put your pasta into another bowl and toss it with the sauce and a handful of the cheese. You should have a lot of sauce - extra is great, because everyone loves to dip bread in it. We serve it with bread and a green salad - romaine, endive, etc, all tossed together, with oil and lemon dressing. It's one of those dinners that brings everyone together and will keep you all at the table for hours, talking and laughing and getting drunk. Make sure you have crab tools for everyone!
In return, I promise to finally put my gumbo recipe into print, right here, sometime in the very near future. Really! (Been promising the gumbo recipe for about 10 years now, but I really do want share!)
Faidleys in Lexington Market is the best place in the world for lump crabcakes and softshell crab sandwiches. Gunnings is too filler-y.
Phillips would like you to think they are the real deal, but it's just too fancy-schmantzy. Same with the Rusty Scupper.
I'm no judge of steamed crabs, as I class them along with artichokes and pomegranates as foodstuffs that are delicious, but that are so annoying to eat that I'd just as soon let someone else do the work for me.
All this talk of seafood has me hungry. I just found out that we're only working a half-day today. So come 1pm, I'm on a train for this joint to drink beer and eat crab cakes. or calamari.
Mmmm, crab cakes... calamari... jonmc, most of the time your consumption proclivities scare me, but every once in a while, I think I love you.
Oh yeah, and the tattoo? Makes me sad and horrified, truly. Anyone read "Feed"? This one kid got what they called a verbal tattoo, so he said "Nike!" every four or five words.
I can not believe this. I refuse! I even got an email from the writer of this article stating that he did indeed see it done, blood-wiping and all. Still.. I just .. *shakes head*
I mean look at that shot! If there were so many camera-men and photographers at the scene you'd think they'd be able to take one shot where it didn't look like a plastic rub-on sticker.
Also. This is the last time I post wacky news items to metachat for a while. I ... just ... can't ... resist. I guess we could talk about something else. Like the best way to eat crab. or something.
The shiny plastic appearing thing could just be the sticker put over new tattoos. They are wounds, you know, and are generally covered afterwards.
I can't decide which makes me feel more ill: this woman and her $15,000, which is a pittance. Or the thought of eating crab. It's a close call, actually.
Sorry to disagree, but I feel strongly about this. The best way to eat crab is standing up at Fisherman's Wharf back at the dock where the fishing boats are.
jokeefe, the after-tat-plastic doesn't quite look like that though, unless they have some high-tech stuff over there in Utah. More importantly, one doesn't take the "look at my new tattoo"-shot while wearing the plastic. Plus, this does not explain why there is no redness nor swelling which is usually pretty prominent. As for the protective plastic some skin-tape and reynolds wrap will usually do. ;) seriously. I just can not believe this at all. It's too damn dumb!
I really really hope you're right, dabitch. Though god knows there are enough borderline people out there that this pathetic story is entirely plausible.
God I hope so too, If only because I really can't make up my mind which is dumber - the woman doing this to her face, or the so called journalists who "report" on Goldenpalace's crap.
dabitch, to me, that tat looks like a fresh tat with Vaseline on it. With all three of mine, the redness was gone after a couple hours, leaving my skin slightly puffed and shiny with ointment.
It looks like you can see the sticker stretching and bunching on the "GO" in golden. The clear sticker puts a kind of texture on her skin too, you can see it in the lettering. Not to mention the fact that the entire area of the tattoo looks darker than the rest of her face. Looks pretty fake to me.
calamari... jonmc, most of the time your consumption proclivities scare me, but every once in a while, I think I love you.
I actually had fried clams, and they were gooood and they serve beer in 32oz. styrofoam cups, bad for the enviornment but great for a buzz. I spent the afternoon bullshitting with a Boricuan hard hat and a swedish stockbroker. I love New York. The calamri I saw people noshing did look tasty, maybe next time.
that turn of phrase CAN'T be a coincidence, seanyboy -- I remember a sci-fi tale involving a future where the author tells us early on that dangerous convicts are often tattooed with messages that display their particularly dangerous traits -- and a little while later our character enters the scene, sporting a "poor impulse control" tattoo on his forehead.
i wrote a sci fi story a long time ago that had neon bright words flash before a person for crimes like "sex offender" whenever they got within proximity of someone.
sci fi use to be a great platform for social theory
that's what may separate the trekkies from the wars warriors
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