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  1. Aaron Smith

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    WHY DO YOU THINK I NEED VODKA
     
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    If you throw a bottle of Titos in there your guests will finish that before they crack the seal on the others. I sell 6 times as much Titos than any other liquor, vodka or not. 18 bottles a week... 2 cases if it's a holiday week. And it's $20 a bottle wholesale, which means about 11% liquor cost for me.
     
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    Tito's is crazy popular. Weren't they getting sued though? "Handmade" haha but I suppose they never say the "hand" is human...
     
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    Burgers are poorly designed. I contend that if you baked an over-sized burger bun, and carved a pocket into it, you would achieve the same flavor, but the meat, the condiments, and the vegetables would not fall out.
     
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    That would need to be tested. Bread is not very strong, and a large piece with a giant hole in it would just fall apart. You'd have to eat your burger with a fork and knife!
    The idea of a double bun system is actually quite ingenious, because it allows the parts of a burger to be compressed and contained naturally by the human hand as it is consumed. The meat and vegetables in such a system as you have described would be loose, with no containing force other than gravity.
     
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    It will work. Pita bread works.
     
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    Some days I wish I could just plug my brain into the computer and get the story out faster and with the precise nuance that our sloppy human languages can't convey at times.
     
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    You have no idea... damn near 10% market share of ALL alcoholic beverages, at least as far as I can tell. It started as a cheap well vodka that didn't taste like shit, so people started ordering it by name. And it's gluten free, so when that jumped off people ordered it more. Then absolute disappeared (essentially) and Goose didn't adjust their price point to compete. Ketel never stepped up their marketing, Ciroc was too expensive, Hammer and Sickle too small batch... that's just the part I can explain. The rest is a grand mystery.
     
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    Pita bread is not fluffy white bread.
    Good luck, man. Report back when you're successful.
     
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    I've been eating my egg and sausage sandwiches on bagels and I don't think I'm going back. It was a necessity when the local stores were always out of bread.
     
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    Elon Musk named his child X Æ A-12, supposed to be pronounced "Kyle". The reasoning is: X is the greek letter Chi, pronounced "Ki", Æ is a Scandinavian letter pronounced "Ai" and A-12 refers to the twelth letter of the alphabet - L, which then "spells" "Kiail" and is pronounced as "kyle".

    That's where you're wrong. "Æ" is pronounced more like "Ay" than "Ai". In other words you named your child after a type of fucking cabbage you rocket building smartass.
     
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    Furthermore, the greek "χ" sounds like "h" mostly, but more harsh. In no way does it sound like "k". So, it'd be... Hayl?
     
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    Then the kid's name would be Hayl Musk ... hmm maybe he outsmarted us anyway.
     
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    That's almost child abuse.
     
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    Put another shirt on. :cool:
     
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    This dry ass weather is wrecking my hands. Warm up and stay warm, god dammit, Indiana.
     
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    Buy similar reasoning Ghoti is pronounced "Fish".

    GH as in Enough,
    O as in Women, and
    Ti as in Emotion
     
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    Hayl is kinda cool though as a name for a fictional character. They could be the god of harsh weather. ;)
     
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    He's destined to be the first kid bullied on Mars with a name like that.
     
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    In Latin class many moons ago, we learned it as "ai".
     
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    Had a Polish friend years ago who loved Zubrowka so I bought some for myself.

    I've tried, I swear, but it just tastes like lawnmower clippings to me. Still have about half the bottle after a decade.

    Diogenes' favorite brand of wine :)
     
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    - Hail Hayl!
    - Hail who?
    - Hayl.
    - Yeah, I heard that. I mean who?
    - HAYL!
    - Oh, I c. Troll right?
    - *facepalm.

    Hm... I don't know...
     
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    Awww Hayl no!
     
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    Yo @Iain Aschendale ... what's the gameplan for coordinating face masks with our suits? Treat them kind of like ties in the matching scheme? Or more like silks/pocket squares? I'm thinking of some kind of hybrid, but you can't match the mask pattern too closely to the tie or silk or it will look forced. Maybe treat all three as separate entities--tie, silk, mask--and riff them all off the shirt but it a different way? I'm so fucking confused. What about pinstripes, windowpanes, paisley, and glen plaid? Do the inner-outer rules of pinstripe thickness still apply? What about squares on squares and circles on circles? Do those apply to the mask as well?
     
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