[Chancellor Palpatine]

Reagan would have laughed his keister off at you people. Geez!

[Billthedrill]

I'm boycotting this thread.

So there.

[onyx]

Good afternoon to you too. LOL!

[IncPen]

Absurd. Yes.

[mewzilla]

What's got your shorts in a knot?

[Allegra]

I'm boycotting oxygen.

And Brussels sprouts.

[Poohbah]

Who has time to watch TV when there's so much posting to do on FR?

[LonePalm]

What about girl cotts?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Billthedrill]

I'm bumping this thread, but I'm not reading it.

Or replying to it.

Well, except for this, that is, but that's it.

OK, so it's a limited boycott. Except for this posting I'm not participating.

Except to read the replies.

But I'm only reading them with one eye.

[Interesting Times]

If boycotts are ineffective, why do you care whether we do them?

After all, what could be more pointless than obsessing over a meaningless activity?

[Sam Spade]

So, are you going to sue us anytime soon or threaten to sue or just say something stupid?

[Clinging Bitterly]

I am quite fond of liver myself. Chicken livers rolled in seasoned flour and fried with onions, very good stuff. Beef liver, like to parboil first then do like I do the chicken livers. Brussels sprouts is an entirely acceptable side dish with either sort of liver. I hated Brussels sprouts as a kid, but I have grown to like them. Always did like liver though.

The brown butter something about which I've never heard. If somebody can tell me what it is, I might try some with my next batch of liver & Brussels sprouts (or maybe not).

My wife made a batch of black beans & rice one time, and she used some green butter in it. I thought the beans & rice was very good and I ate quite a lot of it. She didn't tell me about the butter though. It was very special butter, and I was feeling pretty "special" for most of the next day.

She fooled me with a batch of toll house cookies that way once too. Understand that I normally don't mess with that sort of thing, I don't and never did, tolerate it all that well. My old teenage friends used to say I was a "lightweight". They are all dead now. Guess I showed them. But I digress.

We seem to be speaking about food tonight. Today happens to be our 10th anniversary, and we had dinner at the local Outback Steak House. I had what I usually have, a dish called "Drover's Platter". I don't exactly know what a "drover" is, but the dish is a combo of a boneless chicken breast and small rack of ribs, both drizzled with some fairly spicy barbecue sauce, served on top of a heap of plain old french fries with lots of salt. On the side you get a dish of some more of that barbecue sauce for dipping the fries, and a dish of carmeled baked apple, and I also ordered a Ceasar salad. Their Ceasar dressing is like almost everything else at Outback - spicy.

The wife had a sort of fettucini alfredo dish with shrimp and crawdads (they call them crawfish) on it, and a bowl of cream of broccoli soup. I sampled both of those things, and they were also quite good.

And of course we also had one of those "bloomin' onion" things, with that tangy creamy tomato dipping sause they give you with it. Good stuff. A couple other places around town make them, but they are better at Outback. Most of the others get real greasy after the first few bites - sort of like the calamari rings at McGrath's get when you don't eat them fast enough (well, just about anything at McGrath's, really).

A word on boycotts, which seems to be a side topic here.
I have participated in boycotts before, and I, like everyone else, have my own ideas about how best to go about it. You can't just go along with the crowd and not buy, for istance, Dell computers. What you need to do is personally contact Dell (or whomever) and tell them you did not buy from them, what you did not buy from them, why you did not buy it from them, and what you bought instead. If you don't buy, say, Michelin tires because they are crappy rags (the reason I don't buy them), that's one thing, a normal market sort of thing. But if somebody's got something good out there (and most of them that do know it), and you're staying away from it because activities unrelated to their product displease you, you have to get personally involved with them and tell them about it. I do that sort of thing sometimes, but I don't waste anybody's time pretending to boycott something I wouldn't normally buy anyway. To me that's dishonest - the sort of thing one might expect of a Democrat - and a trait I'd be ashamed to have one attribute to me.