Author Topic: Best and Worst (Read 4312 times)

Tamsin · « **on:** September 28, 2009, 05:24:21 PM »

So here is how this game works. The previous poster names a thing. You name the best example of that thing you've ever come across, and then the worst one. Then you name a new thing.

I'll start it off: Best and worst of... deli sandwiches.

Bunner · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2009, 05:29:11 PM »

Mr Sub multi-meat subs over @ the Health Sci annex.
[They were faboo, but probably only because they were cheap, and I was hungries.]

Worst: The pre-made subs I used to grab as a rather intorxicated snackey from the local Esso on my way home. Only good when torched.
Edit: And I do mean, literally, torched. KILL IT WITH FIRE!

And, to continue, and, on a foods related realm:

PIZZA. Proceed, my teenaged mutant ninja posters....

Tamsin · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2009, 05:36:24 PM »

*cracks knuckles*

Best: A little parlor called Captain Pizza in my hometown. The crust was crisp but not crackly on the outside, and fluffy and chewy, but not tough, on the inside. The sauce - and they had three kinds, regular, fra diavolo, and pesto - was flavorful without being too noisy. The only canned toppings they used were artichoke hearts. They grated their own cheese from blocks and balls, parmesan and romano and mozzarella... They knew how to balance amounts and flavors of foods. Just plain delicious.

Worst: the french bread pizza from my elementary school cafeteria. The bread was hard on the bottom, had to be gnawed, and soggy near the top where the sauce was spread. The sauce may as well have been ketchup with oregano mixed in, and probably was. The cheese was chalky towards the edges, rubbery in the middle. No toppings... which may have been a minor blessing, as I shudder to think what would have been done to them.

Next thing is: concerts.

machiavelli33 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2009, 07:51:38 PM »

Best: ....I'd have to say the Flogging Molly concert I went to last year. I'm usually just alright with their music, but -man- do they know how to throw a live show.

Worst: When I was in St. Petersburg, I got dragged to this fundraiser concert for Survivor: Russia, featuring a bunch of B-List Russian rock bands in a warehouse. The house was packed. And by packed I mean, there was barely enough people to form a good crowd around the edges of the stage. It was really sorry.

Alright how about...best and worst- Haircuts You've Ever Paid For.

S*S · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:55:12 PM »

Best: I don't remember what she cut my hair like, but I DO remember that she was a smoking hot brunette in a black tanktop with these really big, perfectly rounded, soft breasts, and she kept pressing them into my head when she washed my hair, or then whenever she leaned forward to do... well, anything. It was the Best Thing.

Worst: She basically ignored what I asked for, and give me a half-assed trim which showed up the huge sideburns I'd accumulated, which I eventually shaved off, but only after my friends stopped laughing enough to explain, and also she ignored the thing about my scar, so I carried around an odd bald patch on the back of my head until my hair grew back.

Best and worst BOOKS. Go.

Major · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2009, 05:23:33 PM »

Best: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. If there is a better American novel than this, I wish somebody would sit me down and make me read it. It is a bildungsroman not only of the protagonist but of the American soul.

Worst: Quag Keep by Andre Norton. You would think that a recognized artist of fantasy literature could take the idea of a group of players being sucked into their RPG characters' lives and make a decent novel, right? The most succinct review I can remember was "Quag Keep sucks."

Next: burgers at a restaurant

K · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2009, 08:40:30 PM »

Best: The Clutch burger from Kuma's Corner in Chicago. 10 oz beef patty, cheddar, swiss, jack, and smoked gouda cheeses, and four pieces of thick-cut peppered bacon on a pretzel roll. Came with fresh-cut french fries and home-made ketchup.

At the middle, the cheese layer was thicker than the goddamn burger.

(Close second was the Kaijo from the same restaurant. Bleu cheese, bacon, and frizzled onions. Also, their mac and cheese was out of this fucking world. Seriously, go there any time you're in Chicago.)

Worst: Easy. McDonalds doesn't taste like meat or cheese.

Best and worst thing you've every done for/to a friend.

Narcissa · « **Reply #7 on:** September 29, 2009, 09:55:00 PM »

Best: Driven 100 miles to pick her up and get her safely to her apartment in the middle of the night.

Worst: Gone to a concert without her when I was supposed to be driving, when she had bought both of our tickets, and proceeded to get in for free, while she wasn't allowed to go because it was night and the bus is bad at night.

Flavoured tobaccos.

Major · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2009, 04:21:31 AM »

Best: Smoker's Pride Vanilla Cavendish. This stuff gets me compliments all over the place. It's a mellow smoke, not too sweet. And it's dirt cheap: a 12 oz. bag costs $18.00 US at the tobacconist's shop across the border.

Worst: It's a tie. For aroma, Balkan Sobranie has a lot of latakia, which smells like burning manure. For taste and convenience, MacBaren's Plum Cake was way too sweet, and it comes in little rolls that need to be hand-rubbed, so you end up with sticky, stinky hands.

Let's hit the road with cars you've driven.

fixer · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2009, 04:34:11 AM »

Yay cars!

Best: Tie between the '01 Firebird I test drove (oh yum) and the at the time brand-new '93 RX-7 that my dad had when I was in HS. Both of them drove like a dream.

Worst: Rented Nissan Altima when my own car was in the shop for repairs. No pick up, no handling...it was like driving a car made of Lego, only without the cool factor. Zero stars, I'd never even contemplate buying one.

Since I'm living on it these days, lets hear about your experiences with: tea!

Major · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2009, 04:58:45 AM »

Tea is a very personal subject. The best cuppa I ever had was an oolong, shui sen, shared at the Purple Lantern with a brilliant philosophy professor and his lovely, talented daughter.

The worst was Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder, which tasted like latakia smells: fire in the stable!

Since we are overly blessed with Italian food here, next topic is pizza.

goo · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2009, 06:09:41 AM »

Best: I kid you not, this one time I ordered a pizza from Dominos and by some weird random chaos theory series of events, it was the most awesomely perfect pizza ever. All proportions were exactly right and somehow the dough was amazing. I was completely sober for the entirety of this consumption.

Worst: Wallingford Pizza here in Seattle, near my house. It got rave reviews and I could tell that they started off with good ingredients, but then something went horribly wrong. There were a number of cheeses, and it felt like if they'd had a reasonable mix of them, it would have been delicious, but by the end it was almost all mozzarella. Granted it was a deep dish pizza (which I don't recall ordering, but that's besides the point), but the dough didn't quite get cooked all the way through. Also for some reason half the pepperonis were burnt to a crisp and the other half seemed like they were completely uncooked, but both cooked and uncooked were evenly distributed over the pizza.

So there you go. Massive chain that should have had complete shit pizza proved to be awesome, and local artisan pizza house produced a lackluster pile of barely cooked ingredients that seemed like it hadn't been given any attention.

Next topic: Article of Clothing.

Vel · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2009, 06:28:13 AM »

Best: My black skinny jeans. I bought them in summer 2007 and am still wearing them despite a hole in the inner thigh that I keep trying to patch. They fit me better than any other jeans ever. They are black so I can wear them to work. They are awesome. They were $13. BUT Guess doesn't make them anymore. D:
Runner-up: My awesome gold bra.

Worst: Hmmmm. My BLUE skinny jeans. They SUCK. They are high-waisted and too long. And make my butt look weird. And the dye rubs off on whatever I sit on. I bought them cause they looked good in the stupid dressing rooms and were on sale. And now I just want to throw them away.
Runner-up: Everything I wore freshman year of high school.

Next topic: Comic book characters!

LoneCoon · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2009, 09:43:40 AM »

Best: Rorschach. He may have been racist, homophobic, and psychotic, but he never compromised his principles. Even though it cost him his life, he never compromised on the truth.

Worst: Superman. He's invincible. He's powerful. He's the Man of Tommorrow. He's boring. There's nothing he can't do, there's no humanity to identify with. He's an alien who sees human as to childish to take care of themselves.

Next topic:

Web comics.

S*S · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2009, 10:02:48 AM »

Quote from: goo on September 30, 2009, 06:09:41 AM

Best: I kid you not, this one time I ordered a pizza from Dominos and by some weird random chaos theory series of events, it was the most awesomely perfect pizza ever.

Dominos pizzas seem to get twice as tasty every time if you just cook them some more. I swear reheated Dominos tastes better. Maybe they just don't cook them for as long as they should.

Best: Christ, I dunno. OOTS or Digger or Penny Arcade. Or XKCD. Umm. >_<

Worst: There was this one that I can't remember that was called something like "Mallrats" that was written by a couple of ignorant college-age racist morons, and it was bad because it wasn't so obviously crappy that you just dismissed it as bullshit immediately.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete is bad for the same reasons. At least Random Shitty Sprite Comic #134537 doesn't trick you into reading more then three strips.

Best and worst DATES.

Narcissa · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2009, 12:04:53 PM »

Best: October 2, 1869.
Worst: April 20, 1889.

Best and worst computers you've owned.

toolazytoworktoobusytostop · « **Reply #16 on:** September 30, 2009, 02:57:56 PM »

Best: A tie between:
1. My current rig. It is astounding. Faster than the blue blazes and worth every penny of the £1000 it cost to upgrade to it's current state.
and:
2. My very first computer, The Sinclair Spectrum +3, purely because it had the first ever disc drive, and you could control every aspect of it, without needing to have a degree.

Worst: A ridiculous piece of sh** my mother bought us way beack when called an Amstrad PWC500 or some such thing. Little more than a jumped up word processor that would do very little else (although, if you tried really, really hard and had grown using spectrums*...). It's main use was the transference of 250years of handwritten parish records from my nana's parish church to printed records*.

*Stories for other times, or never.

Best and worst childhood memories.

Crystal · « **Reply #17 on:** September 30, 2009, 09:41:25 PM »

Best: Going with my moms up to the White Mountains and playing in the tree fort my step-mom's parents had while it was snowing.

Worst: Running out of my house screaming and crying with the dog when my step-mom flipped her shit and started throwing everything she could grab (including a butcher knife) at me.

Cups of coffee or espresso beverages.

Gudy · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2009, 10:48:40 PM »

Best: The homemade coffee on Rancho Esmeralda near Tonina, Chiapas, Mexico. I am not normally a coffee drinker, but this was so wonderfully mellow, flavourful and all around awesome that I forwent any other beverage for this coffee as long as we staid in that place.

Worst: McDonalds. Closely followed by Starbucks.

Teachers/Professors.

fixer · « **Reply #19 on:** October 01, 2009, 01:19:39 AM »

Best: Doug (that's all he'd let us call him, and thanks to my recall problems I can't come up with his last name). Calc I & II at Boise State. Amazing instructor, brilliant mathematician, incredibly talented pool hustler. It was the first math class I got a B in on the first try...now that's a good teacher.

Worst: Mrs. Nihill, 5th grade, Sacred Heart School. A displaced Southern belle who called my parents weekly to complain that I was playing sports with the *gasp* boys. (My mother ended up laughing in her face.) Also had no clue what to do with an above averages child, so three or four of us in the class were bored to tears.

Since I just had a beatific experience with KLM: best and worst airlines.

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