How to Make Decisions
Issue 24

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Impressing your guests

How to Make an easy Gourmet Meal

I’m going to provide 2 simple yet elegant recipes for y’all this week. You can impress out of town guests, your mama, a chick you’re trying to bang, whatever you want. Now, I’m only providing two dishes, so it isn’t quite a full meal.

I can’t do everything for you.

But, given the nature of the fish and potato portion which I will provide, I would suggest that baklava might be an appropriate dessert.

Fish a La Grecque

Cooking time: 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Ingredients:
2lbs Fish filets.
1 red onion (thinly sliced)
1 teaspoon dried dill ( 1 Tbsp fresh if you can get it)
black pepper
1 Tbsp fresh parsley (chopped)
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (Hand squeeze the lemons)
1 tomato (chopped)
1/2 cup feta (grated)

Oil a large casserole dish (9 x 13 works).
Place fish in dish.
Top the fish first with the onions, then the dill, as much pepper as you’d like, the parsley, lemon juice, tomato and cheese.
That’s all the ingredients right?
Just pop it in the oven for 1/2 and hour and you’ve got yourself a nice main dish. (The fish should flake with a fork when done.)

Serve with rice. (I’m not going to tell you how to make rice. It’s on the bag.)

Tzatziki
This is a sort of palate cleanser deallee. I don’t like this stuff personally (I’m anti-cucumber) but the chicks dig it.

Start this about an hour ahead of time.

Peel and grate 2 cucumbers. Salt them a little bit. Put them in a colander and leave them there for a half an hour.

Pass the time.

All right, combine your cukes with 2 cloves of garlic (minced), 2 cups of PLAIN yogurt, and 3/4 tsp dried mint. (If you use fresh mint, up it to a full TABLEspoon.)

Chill it for 1/2 an hour.

There you go. Two things that look super fancy, but take minimal effort on your part. Lucard would never let you off that easy. Just warm up some pita, and you’re pretty much set.

Random Quote of the Week

You guys hear the one about the guy who’s eating in a fancy restaurant with a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table? The guy has been checking her out since he sat down, but he doesn’t have the nerve to talk to her. Suddenly she sneezes and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the guy. He reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back. The woman says, “Oh my, I’m sooo sorry,” and pops her eye back in place. Then she says, “Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you.” They have a great dinner together, and afterwards the woman invites him to the theater, and out for drinks. She pays for everything, and then she asks him if he’d like to come to her place for a nightcap . . . and stay for breakfast the next morning. Next morning, she cooks him a gourmet breakfast. The guy is amazed! Everything’s been incredible. He tells her, “You know, you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?” Woman says, “No, you just happened to catch my eye.”

–Joe Bob Briggs
PUZZLE (difficulty= tricky)
A riddle:
The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer doesn’t use it, and the user doesn’t see it.
What is it?

Last Week’s Puzzle (Difficulty: Depends on your background)

Imagine a baby swing-set at a playground with three swings. Each seat is .6 meters off of the ground and suspended by a 2 meter long chain.

In the first seat, seat A, Bill places a 10 pound bowling ball. He then pulls the seat back such that it is 1.5 feet (not meters) from its original position.

In the second seat, seat B, Jill places a 13 pound bowling ball. She then pulls the seat back such that it is 2 feet from its original position.

In the third seat, seat C, Phil places a 20 pound bowling ball. He then pulls the seat back such that it is 1 foot from its original position.

Three poles are placed in the original positions of all three swings. Bill, Jill and Phil, all let go of their swings at the same time. Whose swing hits its pole first?

ANSWER
Most of this info isn’t needed. Basic pendulum motion says that each of the swings will have the same frequency, and thus each should reach the middle at the same time. BUT since the seat and the pole have a bit of width, it would make sense that the slowest moving swing would reach the pole first. So SEAT C.

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