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    Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb

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    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    Martha is Nyarlathotep? Wow, it's Cthulhu Day on Gawker...or is it Cthulhu Day every day, and we're just now finding out?
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    09/22/09

    @raincoaster: The existence of monsters is always endorsed by Gawker Media. In fact, many monsters exist solely for the benefit of Gawker's editorial staff. Cthulhu had better attack Montauk if he wants his own post, though.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    the link to AA got me.
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    Image of NigelAstydameia NigelAstydameia
    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    The best part of Martha's interview with Serena was when Martha taunted, "I'm going to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat--a delicious rum ball from my new book of favorite holiday recipes!" Serena forced a smile, but after the show took a spatula to Martha's head.
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    09/22/09

    @NigelAstydameia: I almost spit up my food from this. Thanks.
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    Image of vampirebris vampirebris
    09/22/09

    In reply to Yes, Justin Timberlake Is Actually This Dumb
    but salt does lower the boiling point of water, right? So if the boiling point is lower it will boil more quickly than if no salt was added, no?
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    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: No, salt raises the boiling point.
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    09/22/09

    @sarrible: huh. just goes to show you I'm no Tommy Flay in in the kitchen.
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    Image of booge booge
    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: No, the opposite. Adding a solute to a solvent will raise the boiling point. You put salt in the water to make the boiling point higher, not lower.

    So the water is hotter, which will cook some things faster. But it will take longer to boil; it will not reach a boil faster. It will have to get to a temperature hotter than 100 degrees C.

    Boiling-point elevation describes the phenomenon that the boiling point of a liquid (a solvent) will be higher when another compound is added, meaning that a solution has a higher boiling point than a pure solvent. This happens whenever a non-volatile solute, such as a salt, is added to a pure solvent, such as water. The boiling point can be measured accurately using an ebullioscope.

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    [www.chem.purdue.edu]
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    Image of Ron Draper Ron Draper
    09/22/09

    @vampirebris: Also, if you want to know how to cook, do not ask a man who is a jack of all trades, master of none.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/22/09

    @booge: I knew there was a reason when I was a kid working in the kitchen of a falling-down tavern that I added salt to the water when I was cooking pasta. I knew it wasn't just taste and no working cook would try to slow things down.
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    09/22/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: Oh, it's completely a method, not madness. But everyone has their quirks that they jump at: some people pick at typos, or metathesis ("foilage"), or straighten picture frames. I don't like shit like this.

    Don't get me started on losing our littlest toes or wisdom teeth to natural selection/evolution.
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    08/24/09

    In reply to Twittering By Dictaphone
    It may sound complicated, but it's still easier for Harvey Pekar to have someone Twitter his thoughts than to get R. Crumb to draw him thinking them.
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    02/23/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Tear Up Over Tuna Melts, Men, and Coffee
    Oh shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up! All of you fucking twisting, sniveling worms! No one cares about you (except, maybe, for Kimmel, a little). So shut your goddamned mouths already. Real Things are happening. The Real World has crept into this technological circle jerk and your goofy thoughts don't mean a goddamned fucking thing to anyone on the face of the earth anymore. So shut your fucking goddamn faces!


    We're trying to pay our fucking rent, you wads of fucking ass. We don't care about what the hell is on your minds, you rich, little, tiny babies. Just shut your fucking mouths and be happy we don't drag you out of your homes and straight-up murder your rich fucking asses.


    We need to hear from you like we need to hear from fucking Denton. He doesn't talk so much anymore because he'd get his huge humorous head lobbed off. Take the hint, rich dicks. We WANT YOU TO SHUT UP AND GO AWAY.


    Do it already! DO IT!

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    02/24/09

    @ian spiegelman: Ian, this comment makes me worry about you a little bit.


    If talented writers like you are coming unhinged, it makes me think I'd better be in full-on, declaiming-in-the-marketplace freakout by now.

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    02/23/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Tear Up Over Tuna Melts, Men, and Coffee
    How can you trust someone who doesn't like tuna melts?
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    Image of Fishnets and Cigarettes Fishnets and Cigarettes
    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    "...staring at my dead iphone, wondering why owen is so fascinated by Twitter....."
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    What happens when the water in the fish bowl freezes?
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    01/15/09

    @FracturedAcetabulum: Fishsicles.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    It's 83 degrees right now.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    I'd feel for that woman staring at her dead iPhone if the iPhone were a child and Twitter a Pearl S. Buck novel.
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