CT 177: Strong Like Bull

[wfudkn]

I mean, it will bother me because lately i've been carrying grudges like whoa, but I think I'll just let it go and be extra annoying/doing math at the register next time.

Welcome to getting old

 

[wakephan09]

lol The Faerie Queene at #11 oh boy here we go. Has anyone here actually read a significant portion of that poem?

I mean, outside of the Red Cross Knight, the archaicness of the language, and Spencer's indebtedness to Chaucer and his ilk (and perhaps what little influence he might have had on his contemporaries--I don't really buy it), not a lot else you need to know about it. Shepherd's Calendar​ is much better.

 

[buckets]

Oh, talking ad nauseum about a standardized test is intellectualism?

 

[wakephan09]

Oh, talking ad nauseum about a standardized test is intellectualism?

We're talking about the ENGLISH CANON, bro.

 

[TownieDeac]

I have a theory that the anti-science/anti-intellectual bent in some political circles can be traced not just to climate science, but to 20th/21st century advances in understanding how bad processed food is for us or that tobacco causes cancer or that pesticides aren't great for humans. Hurts the bottom line of massive industries.

Not #groundbreaking as an idea, but I do think anti-science folks act as though it's science vs the bottom line.

 

[wfudkn]

I know for sure that I have read 14 of the books on that GRE suggested reading list. There are a few more that I am unsure of, but I probably haven't. I could speak intelligently about only 2 or 3 of them. I have always had a hard time enjoying classic literature.

 

[buckets]

I've read every single book on the list

 

[TownieDeac]

I mean, outside of the Red Cross Knight, the archaicness of the language, and Spencer's indebtedness to Chaucer and his ilk (and perhaps what little influence he might have had on his contemporaries--I don't really buy it), not a lot else you need to know about it. Shepherd's Calendar​ is much better.

oh sweet can you also give me 1 sentence on:

Dover Beach
Arms and the Man
Tom Jones
All for Love
Howard's End
Don Juan
Everyman
The Rivals
Lucky Jim
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Hard Times
Ode to the West Wind
She Stoops to Conquer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lol keep it to one sentence, pls)
Biographica Literaria
The Duchess of Malfi
The Man of Mode
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Major Barbara
Adam Bede
Tartuffe
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Way of All Flesh
Sir Patrick Spens
The Country Wife
The Critic as Artist
A Description of a City Shower
The Ballad of the Dead Ladies
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Caleb Williams
All My Sons
Adam Pos'd
Ae Fond Kiss
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself
The Defense of Poesy
The Dolls

 

[wfudkn]

I have a theory that the anti-science/anti-intellectual bent in some political circles can be traced not just to climate science, but to 20th/21st century advances in understanding how bad processed food is for us or that tobacco causes cancer or that pesticides aren't great for humans. Hurts the bottom line of massive industries.

Not #groundbreaking as an idea, but I do think anti-science folks act as though it's science vs the bottom line.

We're less than a century away from Idiocracy.

 

[Kory]

Oh, talking ad nauseum about a standardized test is intellectualism?

two pages on a message board isn't ad nauseam. i'm so tired of you tl;dr teenagers with your voice messaging software and your snaptexts. when are we going to step up as a society and READ again. it's disgusting how low we've fallen. i don't need my news in list format. i don't want to know how long it's going to take me to read a news article BEFORE i read it. where has the sense of adventure in our youth gone? where is our dedication to progress? to self-reliance? it's 2015. we should be exploring the next frontier and instead we're just complaining about whether or not the online pizza order went through like c'mon fam.

 

[leftcoastdeac]

Does anyone have a really good dirty rice recipe? wfudkn? townie?

 

[TownieDeac]

i've got red beans and rice (from future inlaws trips to new orleans)

NOLA Red Beans & Rice ala Miss Juanita (the real deal…as learned from Buster Holmes)

Light Red Beans (1 lb/ 1 gallon of water)-this is a lot, I syphoned juice off to make the rice.

Rinse and sort beans by hand

Add 2 bay leaves

Hamhocks

Cover and cook on medium heat

1 ½ hours, slow boils, not hard boil

When tender (test by mashing w/ a spoon)

Then separately:

1. Onion – green onion (1 large Spanish and 2 bunches of scallions)

2. Garlic – 4 cloves

3. Sauté with butter ( 1 stick)

4. Cook till onions are translucent

5. Lots of celery and maybe a green pepper

Then add:

Tablespoon of sugar

Lawsons and Black Pepper

Then 2 tablespoons of Liquid Smoke

Salt and pepper to taste

Cajun spice

Then: Combine the whole deal and simmer until the ham falls off the bone and serve over basic white rice…

“If you have questions , you just call me honey, we can talk some beans….”

Miss Juanita 504 242 0500

 

[Biff Tannen]

oh sweet can you also give me 1 sentence on:

Dover Beach
Arms and the Man
Tom Jones
All for Love
Howard's End
Don Juan
Everyman
The Rivals
Lucky Jim
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Hard Times
Ode to the West Wind
She Stoops to Conquer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lol keep it to one sentence, pls)
Biographica Literaria
The Duchess of Malfi
The Man of Mode
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Major Barbara
Adam Bede
Tartuffe
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Way of All Flesh
Sir Patrick Spens
The Country Wife
The Critic as Artist
A Description of a City Shower
The Ballad of the Dead Ladies
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Caleb Williams
All My Sons
Adam Pos'd
Ae Fond Kiss
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself
The Defense of Poesy
The Dolls

Some of these would make for great porn titles.

 

[leftcoastdeac]

i've got red beans and rice (from future inlaws trips to new orleans)

NOLA Red Beans & Rice ala Miss Juanita (the real deal…as learned from Buster Holmes)

Light Red Beans (1 lb/ 1 gallon of water)-this is a lot, I syphoned juice off to make the rice.

Rinse and sort beans by hand

Add 2 bay leaves

Hamhocks

Cover and cook on medium heat

1 ½ hours, slow boils, not hard boil

When tender (test by mashing w/ a spoon)

Then separately:

1. Onion – green onion (1 large Spanish and 2 bunches of scallions)

2. Garlic – 4 cloves

3. Sauté with butter ( 1 stick)

4. Cook till onions are translucent

5. Lots of celery and maybe a green pepper

Then add:

Tablespoon of sugar

Lawsons and Black Pepper

Then 2 tablespoons of Liquid Smoke

Salt and pepper to taste

Cajun spice

Then: Combine the whole deal and simmer until the ham falls off the bone and serve over basic white rice…

“If you have questions , you just call me honey, we can talk some beans….”

Miss Juanita 504 242 0500

Thanks man.

 

[wakephan09]

oh sweet can you also give me 1 sentence on:

Dover Beach - Never read it.
Arms and the Man - Never heard of it.
Tom Jones - Never read it.
All for Love - Never heard of it.
Howard's End - Read it in college. Boring. Women in Love and ​The Rainbow are better. WiL with possibly first gay sex scene in literature?
Don Juan - Never read it.
Everyman - Great! Medieval allegory. Mankind is better.
The Rivals - Fine. Read it for the GRE.
Lucky Jim - Good. I prefer David Lodge for my academic satire though.
Le Morte D'Arthur - Which one? Malory was a badass -- rich bro who kept going to jail for stealing other people's shit. Quintessential romance. All of the T.H. White / King Arthur stuff is based on this. The Alliterative version was earlier -- mid-fifteenth century -- and much better writing.
The Vanity of Human Wishes - Never read it.
Hard Times - Never read it. I'm meh on Dickens, but I do like some of them.
Ode to the West Wind - Never heard of it.
She Stoops to Conquer - Never heard of it.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lol keep it to one sentence, pls) - The most important and best romance in English. Very difficult language (alliterative ME from the midlands)
Biographica Literaria - Which one?
The Duchess of Malfi - Good. Read it in my seminar in the major with Valbuena. Most Jacobean/non-Shakespearean drama is ignored.
The Man of Mode - Never heard of it.
In Memoriam A.H.H. - Never heard of it.
Major Barbara - Never heard of it.
Adam Bede - Meh.
Tartuffe - Never heard of it.
Mourning Becomes Electra - Read it in college on my own, but remember nothing about it other than the basics.
The Way of All Flesh - Never read it.
Sir Patrick Spens - Never heard of it.
The Country Wife - Never read it.
The Critic as Artist - Never read it, but should. I like Wilde.
A Description of a City Shower - Never heard of it.
The Ballad of the Dead Ladies - Never heard of it.
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum - Which one? Assuming it's Bede, this is the most important English chronicle after Geoffrey of Monmouth. Where we get the history of Anglo-Saxon kings.
Caleb Williams - Never heard of it.
All My Sons - Never read it.
Adam Pos'd - Never heard of it.
Ae Fond Kiss - Never heard of it.
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself - Sounds lame.
The Defense of Poesy - Lame
The Dolls - Never read it.

haha, great choices.

 

[TownieDeac]

Thanks man.

haha, great choices.

 

[Biff Tannen]

NSFW

 

[TownieDeac]

NSFW

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

Also, it seemed if anything to maybe be a slightly harder SAT. The time crunch seemed a lot tighter, especially on the math stuff.

Time crunch + adaptive difficulty on the questions made it harder than the SAT, but otherwise pretty similar.

 

[cookoutdeac]

Time crunch + adaptive difficulty on the questions made it harder than the SAT, but otherwise pretty similar.

yeah, for sure. it probably also made it worse that I hadn't practiced/done any of that math in almost 10 years on a regular basis.