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08 June 2006

A giant meteor is coming! I have 10 hours to live. What can I do to spend the time?

post by: joelf at: 13:42 | 30 comments

I could rent a car on the credit card, not the usual Ford, no. I'll take the Mercury! WITH a CD player!

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:43

I could have a really good game of online checkers.

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:44

Can you learn how to make a really great chai? I mean, one of those amazing, rich, thick, frothy ones? The ones with cardamom and vanilla. After you learn, could you make me one? I'd like it before dinner, or I won't be able to sleep.

posted by iconomy 08 June | 13:44

LOTR MARATHON! WOOOO!

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:44

Or you could perfect that meteor-blasting laser that you've probably been working on in your spare time.

WHAT?? You haven't been working on a meteor-blasting laser?? Thanks. Thanks a lot.

posted by iconomy 08 June | 13:45

i could try out that restaurant I always wanted to go and would regret not going to.

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:45

return my copy of ER volume 3 to the video store so i don't get a fine

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:47

Watch all of ER volume 3 again because it was really really good.

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:48

have a nap

posted by joelf 08 June | 13:51

Go fishing.

Can you learn how to make a really great chai? I mean, one of those amazing, rich, thick, frothy ones? The ones with cardamom and vanilla.

SERIOUSLY! All the places I go to just pour it out of a jug, and it tastes terrible. I don't know of one place in Cleveland that makes good chai.

posted by sciurus 08 June | 13:56

You should set fires.

And knife that fucker. You know who I'm talking about.

posted by Hugh Janus 08 June | 13:57

a really good nap.

posted by elizard 08 June | 13:57

sciurus, I hate to invoke the evil coffee corporation that likes to open branches in bookstores, but their house chai is off the charts. It's unbelievably good, and you can get it with either regular or soy milk. I was in shock. Chai it.

posted by iconomy 08 June | 14:02

I make really really good chai. (I learned in India, the genuine birthplace of chai.) And I'm not an evil coffee corporation.

posted by Specklet 08 June | 14:05

Okay, everyone over to Specklet's!

posted by elizard 08 June | 14:17

Give us some tips, Speck!

posted by iconomy 08 June | 14:27

SERIOUSLY! All the places I go to just pour it out of a jug, and it tastes terrible. I don't know of one place in Cleveland that makes good chai.

Go to Indian restaurants instead of coffee shops and you'll be fine. The India Cafe on Ridge Rd. in Parma will give it to you free with the lunch buffet.

But to answer the questions, I'd definitely go with sex. Maybe not for all 10 hours. Sex. Nap. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

posted by ferociouskitty 08 June | 14:48

No need to floss after that last meal that you didn't pay for.

posted by StickyCarpet 08 June | 14:56

Jaipur Junction, too.

posted by box 08 June | 15:02

Fresh cardomom pods (crack open a little), cinnamon sticks, cloves, peppercorns, sugar, whole milk, high-quality loose black tea.

Amount vary, depending on your tastes. Traditionally, the milk and water are boiled together, then the spices and tea added to steep.

While I was in India, it was always made with fresh spices, amazing tea, and water buffalo milk, which is ambrosial. (I still yearn for water buffalo butter...)

Everybody come over now for chai and whuffly snuggles. Maybe enchiladas if I get in the mood.

posted by Specklet 08 June | 15:21

*puts on her finest whuffling snuggle frock*

posted by elizard 08 June | 15:25

Water buffalo butter... sounds yummy.

Meteor in ten hours? Well, I'd like to say I'd remain calm, enjoy a nice meal (lobster, steak, Spaghetti-Os...), make love, watch my favorite movie (True Romance), call my loved ones (the roads would probably be jammed), listen to some music out on the back porch with jon, sip some Herradura... But, knowing me, I'd panic and spend the whole time looking up. (Don't do what I'd do.)

posted by Pips 08 June | 17:14

learn a new trade

posted by joelf 08 June | 17:24

Write a letter to the government stating my displeasure at being in the brunt of a meteor, and buy stamps.

posted by joelf 08 June | 17:25

Post articles on metachat.

posted by joelf 08 June | 17:30

Smoke weed, eat cake, have sex.

posted by matildaben 08 June | 17:35

Make photo copies of my butt. In 10 hours I could get a lot of copies.

posted by joelf 08 June | 17:48

start reading a book, but it would suck if i didn't finish it.

posted by joelf 08 June | 18:04

read a children's book... a really short one.

posted by joelf 08 June | 18:06

do a crossword

posted by joelf 08 June | 18:37

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