Why I only order Chinese food over the phone . . .

[Eric the Grey]

The OP is much nicer then me.

Me: Look, you clueless git, I do not work here. I don't. It's just that simple. I'm waiting just like you. So, leave me alone.

I think I would have opened up with "Listen, Moron..." and gotten worse from there. Nothing I hate more than rude SOB's.

To the OP, sorry you feel you have to avoid actually going to the place, but don't feel bad about having delivery done. Restaurants actually plan for delivery so it shouldn't be an issue, especially if you tip the delivery people well.


Eric the Grey

[Jester]

I get 10 hours of Community Service for breaking SC's jaw.

And what sentence did the racist asshole SC get for his physical and sexual assault on A and his physical assault of you?

[RetailWorkhorse]

all Germans are violent warmongers.

Uh........zeig heil? Can we heil donuts instead? What's the German word for donuts?

Granted, perhaps you wouldn't expect to find excellent Chinese in a smallish city in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, but it's here. We also have excellent Mexican, Thai, Jamaican, Greek, and Indian, among many other selections.

I'm heading to Sam's Club tomorrow (I live a couple cities south-east of Asheville), can you suggest a good Thai place? I've been wanting curry for ever so long.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I'm heading to Sam's Club tomorrow (I live a couple cities south-east of Asheville), can you suggest a good Thai place? I've been wanting curry for ever so long.

There's a place in the Grove Arcade downtown that I've heard good things about. There's also a place on Hendersonville Road and another on Tunnel Road. I can vouch for the one on Tunnel in that the food was okay even though the service sucked big time.

If you want curry, you can also try the two Indian restaurants. There's one downtown on Lexington Avenue, and another on South Tunnel across from the mall, in the Books-a-Million shopping center. Both are very good, and they have my ex-boss' (who was from Ahmedebad, Gujarat) seal of approval.

[RetailWorkhorse]

South Tunnel across from the mall, in the Books-a-Million shopping center. Both are very good, and they have my ex-boss' (who was from Ahmedebad, Gujarat) seal of approval.

Most likely that one there ^. Why, you ask? Because I know how to get there.

[Geek King]

Uh........zeig heil? Can we heil donuts instead? What's the German word for donuts?

Berliner. Don't you know your history according to Snopes?

[Jester]

Berliner. Don't you know your history according to Snopes?

I do. Poor Jack!

[AdminAssistant]

JFK: Ich bien ein Berliner!!!

Germans: Did he just say he's a donut? Yeah, he just said he's a donut!! Geez, those Americans ARE crazy!

[Jester]

You folks DO realize that Kennedy did NOT in fact say he was a jelly donut, right?

I thought this seemed a little preposterous, all things considered, so I did a little research.

"This is truly The Gaffe That Never Was, notwithstanding reports to the contrary in venues as prestigious as the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Experts say Kennedy's grammar was flawless when he uttered those words in German near the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963. The phrase had been translated for him by a professional interpreter.

It is true that the German word Berliner can denote either a person who is a citizen of Berlin, or a particular kind of jelly-filled pastry. But look at it this way: if I were to tell a group of Americans that my editor is a New Yorker, would any of them really think I've confused him with a certain weekly magazine of the same name?"

And more from the same article:

"Linguist Jürgen Eichhoff laid decades of misinformation to rest in 1993 with a concise grammatical analysis of Kennedy's statement in the academic journal Monatshefte. "'Ich bin ein Berliner' is not only correct," Eichhoff wrote, "but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."

An actual Berliner would say, in proper German, "Ich bin Berliner." But that wouldn't have been the correct phrase for Kennedy to use. The indefinite article "ein" is required, Eichhoff explains, to express a metaphorical identification between subject and predicate. Otherwise, the speaker could be taken to say he is literally a citizen of Berlin."

I can only hope that one day this misconception, which even I believed for a long time, will finally be put to rest.

[Exodus212]

The SC got like 13 yrs in a county jail I think.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Berliner. Don't you know your history according to Snopes?

Nope~! I'm a backwoods gun-toting hillbilly that buggers the Tourists about using "May I" rather than "Can I". Just ask Flea-bit. He makes fun of all the blasted time.

The SC got like 13 yrs in a county jail I think.

SC got what was comin' to him, then. I wonder if he met a "nice" inmate named BUTCH and became "friends". (I'm horrible to even suggest that, but I'm probably one of the few people who would locate someone to shag in the first 15 minutes of ever being in the slammer )

[Exodus212]

The manager was busy apologizing up and down to both me and A. Before he was sentenced I saw the guy again near the restaurant. He started running at me, A and the manager recognized him instantly. I dive out of the way, sending him headlong into a car. A knife falls out of his pocket, A screams, the manager runs out and like chokeslams the guy. A has the coolest manager evar.

[JustADude]

The manager was busy apologizing up and down to both me and A. Before he was sentenced I saw the guy again near the restaurant. He started running at me, A and the manager recognized him instantly. I dive out of the way, sending him headlong into a car. A knife falls out of his pocket, A screams, the manager runs out and like chokeslams the guy. A has the coolest manager evar.

Ouch. That could've ended... badly. Glad that psychotic asshat's upence came.

[XCashier]

SC grabs the front of A's shirt and pulls her. The uniform shirt buttons up all the way, so this opens A's shirt somewhat. She yells at SC to let her go. He had grabbed onto her bra as well, so she was covering herself and screaming her face off....And SC does the unthinkable. He actually PULLS DOWN A's pants, and snaps her thong.

What the hell was going through what passes for his mind?! Who could honestly think that was acceptable behavior? Even the standard SC would never stoop to that level.

The SC got like 13 yrs in a county jail I think.

Good, it's the least he deserves. Maybe he's got a cellmate who gives him the same treatment he gave A.

And thank you for standing up for A. I shudder to think what would've happened if you hadn't been there for her.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Regarding all the stereotypes, I am 1/8th French. Fortunately, I got the baking genes, not the rude ones.

As for barbeque, the best I have had, and I grew up in north Florida, is at the The Corner Stable in Baltimore, MD.