I’ll resist the temptation to make the obvious Polt-comment and instead ask, what do vegetarians use at BBQ’s? Or dont they have BBQ’s? The poor, poor people….
I was at a Fourth of July party with my bf, and at the end of the night one of the hosts (who had apparently grilled far more burgers and hot dogs than necessary) came up to us and said, “do you guys want to take home some extra meat tonight?” Fortunately he realized what he said. Better than fireworks.
Polt: We grill Boca burgers. On foil so they don’t get meat taint on them. Or we do the chopped veggies and veggie burgers wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals. Especially good with chipotle lime butter.
I’m a recovered vegetarian. Never have liked tofu. And always thought making vegetarian imitations of meat dishes was a tad silly; kind of like going to Marrakesh and then ordering lunch at McDonalds or going out for pizza.
Ryan – you are still the reigning puntabuperv. It literally would never have occurred to me to consider that a sex toy.
I have a scott adams story.
I used to work with a guy who looked just like dilbert. Without the tie.
He was very self-conscious about his ears, which stuck out a lot, just like dilbert’s too — and he was particularly annoyed about a dilbert cartoon once where dilbert’s therapist said his ears meant that mother must have been a giant flightless moth.
He also had very bad luck with women, just like dilbert. In fact, in college, his dorm did a betting pool on what excuse a woman he notoriously had a crush on would use to turn him down for a date to the dance. I don’t know who won the pool, because the woman got word of the fact that he was going to ask her out, and she had an overlapping list of about 20 excuses (“I’m doing my laundry”, “I’m washing my hair”, “I need to go to bed early”, “I have a final to study for”, etc. etc. etc.) Then she showed up at the dance anyway with another guy.
One summer a bunch of work friends went out for a camping trip over the weekend. The woman he had a crush on at the time was there. He was hoping to be able to make some conversation with her (typically he didn’t even get to the point of TALKING to the women he had crushes on).
While everybody else was involved in conversation around the campfire, he saw his opportunity and screwed up his courage and turned to the woman, who was sitting next to him, to strike up a conversation.
Just as he opened his mouth to speak, she said:
“Wow. Your ears stick out so much that with the light from the campfire shining through them, I can see all the veins.”
Needless to say, he was crushed.
I sent this story in an email to Scott Adams. This was 1991, so he wasn’t QUITE as famous yet as he later became, and he actually responded to my email right away. He said “That’s a keeper. Expect to see it in a future comic.”
I forwarded Scott’s response to my friend. He was not amused.
Sadly, I never DID see the campfire / veins story in a dilbert comic … :-/
Heh-heh-heh….meat.
Ha! Funny. I love Dilbert.
Oh god I’m having a cookouton Friday….. And I don’t really have a lot of friends here. How do you say, “do you like meat?” in French
I’ll resist the temptation to make the obvious Polt-comment and instead ask, what do vegetarians use at BBQ’s? Or dont they have BBQ’s? The poor, poor people….
HUGS…
Tofu dogs Polt. Tofu burgers. Tofurkey. Any number of amazing creatings carved from a tofu tree.
I was at a Fourth of July party with my bf, and at the end of the night one of the hosts (who had apparently grilled far more burgers and hot dogs than necessary) came up to us and said, “do you guys want to take home some extra meat tonight?” Fortunately he realized what he said. Better than fireworks.
I gotcher meat right here.
Polt: We grill Boca burgers. On foil so they don’t get meat taint on them. Or we do the chopped veggies and veggie burgers wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals. Especially good with chipotle lime butter.
Dilbert is holding one kinky sex toy.
I’m a recovered vegetarian. Never have liked tofu. And always thought making vegetarian imitations of meat dishes was a tad silly; kind of like going to Marrakesh and then ordering lunch at McDonalds or going out for pizza.
For vegetarians, I’d recommend grilling… vegetables! Peppers, onions, eggplants, squashes, tomatoes….
Aww – that was cute. I just read an article in my People magazine about how Scott Adams lost his voice for a few years. Cue Debbie Downer horns.
Mel: “meat taint”….teehee….had me giggling like a schoolgirl.
HUGS…
Ryan – you are still the reigning puntabuperv. It literally would never have occurred to me to consider that a sex toy.
I have a scott adams story.
I used to work with a guy who looked just like dilbert. Without the tie.
He was very self-conscious about his ears, which stuck out a lot, just like dilbert’s too — and he was particularly annoyed about a dilbert cartoon once where dilbert’s therapist said his ears meant that mother must have been a giant flightless moth.
He also had very bad luck with women, just like dilbert. In fact, in college, his dorm did a betting pool on what excuse a woman he notoriously had a crush on would use to turn him down for a date to the dance. I don’t know who won the pool, because the woman got word of the fact that he was going to ask her out, and she had an overlapping list of about 20 excuses (“I’m doing my laundry”, “I’m washing my hair”, “I need to go to bed early”, “I have a final to study for”, etc. etc. etc.) Then she showed up at the dance anyway with another guy.
One summer a bunch of work friends went out for a camping trip over the weekend. The woman he had a crush on at the time was there. He was hoping to be able to make some conversation with her (typically he didn’t even get to the point of TALKING to the women he had crushes on).
While everybody else was involved in conversation around the campfire, he saw his opportunity and screwed up his courage and turned to the woman, who was sitting next to him, to strike up a conversation.
Just as he opened his mouth to speak, she said:
“Wow. Your ears stick out so much that with the light from the campfire shining through them, I can see all the veins.”
Needless to say, he was crushed.
I sent this story in an email to Scott Adams. This was 1991, so he wasn’t QUITE as famous yet as he later became, and he actually responded to my email right away. He said “That’s a keeper. Expect to see it in a future comic.”
I forwarded Scott’s response to my friend. He was not amused.
Sadly, I never DID see the campfire / veins story in a dilbert comic … :-/