My experience too. And don't neglect the Olympic peninsula. Great ferry ride, beautiful geography, and tiny local restaurants with great local (WA & OR) wines. Some nice art galleries too.

Sure, beautiful scenery, and wonderful food, but ya can't swing a dead cat without hittin' one of them hippie liberals.;)

Have another glass of wine, Bruce ... you won't care about the hippie liberals! ;)

Wine? Hell no, that's what they drink. :eyebrow:

Since when has hitting hippie liberals with a dead cat been a problem for you?

In fact, you may have just invented a new Olympic sport.

It's for the cats... my god, think of the cats. :p:

You can't be cruel to a dead cat.

Remember, cats don't give a #$%&. We established that in another thread.

Aren't you thinking of the honeybadgers?

Won't somebody please think of the honey badgers!

Couldn't bring myself to. The smell, man. The SMELL. :greenface


ETA: Although, with your posting of the Chebornek vid, my estimation of you has improved slightly. *wink*

wth?

delicious lutefisk makes you lower your estimation of me

a sketch about eating dog shit raises your estimation of me

You're not one of my exes are you?

...

*wink*

Nay, merely an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, surrounded by oddballs who make me laugh. :D

I captured the shining beauty of my city yesterday.

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V, Very neat pic../.
Has the building boom tapered out yet ?

Also, is Smith Tower still standing ?
That building has/had the most unique elevators ( :eek: )
when I visited there away back when.

Thanks!

The Smith Tower is just to the right (cropped out of the frame) of the Columbia Tower, the tall black building on the right of the picture.

Twitter sized update:

I won the oyster slurping championships again tonight! That makes ten years in a row without losing a single round.

More info later. :-P

Uh...are they held at the same venue as the submarine races?

Motor boat races...

I posted a weather report a little while back, I said it might be 88 degrees. Well, 89 was the record high for this date in this area, and the temperature rose to 94 degrees. Hot. I was extremely happy to be two cars from the bow on the ferry during the hottest part of the day. Though I couldn't feel the snow, Mount Rainier's glaciers made the trip cooler nonetheless.

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This is Mount Baker to the north. Farther away, not as tall, but that is still a LOT of snow!

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Nice...the pix that is. Not the ttemperature.

The Mrs is interested in moving to Seattle. She's never been there...I have, and know its evil.

That was 7 years ago and a wife and a world ago...I would enjoy going back to see if my opinion of the city has changed.

What kinds of things do you like in a city?

It had a lot of what I like in a city...along with things like aggressive and obnoxious people. Not Philly aggressive, which is neat, but more like NY and LA aggressive. And it was horribly expensive, though it probably wouldn't feel expensive if I lived there. I think the biggest problem there is that you fuckers drink too much coffee. :)

check.
wtf? is that even possible?

Want to see a major American city stop dead in its tracks? Take away all the coffee from Seattle...shit, just take a tenth of it.

Didn't Seattle invent the hipster? If that is the case, everyone there should be shot for letting that happen.

But, just a little bit.

:D

They did give us Heart, though, so there's that...

Same headline, different year.

eta:

I went back looking for a thread dedicated to this topic and found none. But I did find my first entry for this topic and it's in this thread. In it I talk about being the returning champion of the 2004 contest... That makes this year the twelfth consecutive year of eating free oysters faster than those other people.

Here's your "more info":

You suck... all hail the best of all those suckers.

At 0.20 the lesbian on the left tries to put a move on the woman on the right, but is rebuffed Angela Merkel style.

I am impressed!

Go go BigV!

Wow, where has the time gone?

No entry for 2016?

Whoops. I'll get the video from last year's contest when I get home.

Meanwhile, today's the first Friday in March. Again. Care to guess what I'll be having as an appetizer from 6:00:00 to 6:00:10?

Winner!


Of course...

You suck... best. :lol2:

Exploring the San Juan Island is a great day trip. You can take the ferry out of Anacortes, have lunch at the little town out there, and return before evening.

Winner!!

Congratulations!

Thank you!

I have pics and videos, but no easy way to post reasonable sizes from the phone.

Did have a very, very nice conversation with Captain Brad a perennial runner up.. He's in some of the posted videos. Great guy, he runs a charter cruise operation.... Out of... Dunno.. Anyway very pleasant, especially considering my whole entourage consisted of Captain Brad..

In case of a tie, the announcer says those oysters have MSX - (Multinucleated Sphere Unknown) disease. It is caused by a single-celled Protozoan parasite.

Champion is the last one to vomit.

MSX (Multinucleated Sphere Unknown) disease is caused by a single‐celled Protozoan parasite, Haplosporidium nelsoni.**MSX is lethal to the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), but it is not known to be harmful to humans.

So you'd better be careful, tw.

Then it must be health food. High in protein?

Am I health food?

I'm high in general.

Yesterday was the championship round at my local restaurant and I won!

This year, I've been invited to the championship round for all the champions from each restaurant.

The competition take place in fifteen minutes. This is the first time I've competed outside my "home field".

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

Hope you had fun and did well!

Hope you suck better than the others. :thumb:

:cheerldr:

Thanks everybody!

I WON!

I set a new record for contest, one dozen oysters in 9.8 seconds. I got a very nice gift basket with some Anthony's swag, hoodie, hat, cell phone charger, steel water bottle, couple bottles of wine three bottles of beer cheese knife set, beer cozie, coffee table book about local winery, dinner for two, gift card for another local restaurant, and a couple tickets to the Space Needle. And I drank for free all afternoon. And a giant medal!

Congratulations, you sucked best. :notworthy

Congratulations on your Win!!!

W00t!

Gogo Big V!!!!

This is my sixteenth year of competition. I won this week's qualification round. The championships will be in two weeks at the end of March.

Enjoy!

What Gravdigr Said!!!

V been practicing!

Championship round