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...uh I don't know why but everyone's doing this, so let's do it.

Just to get this behind us:

Why again don't you like to be adressed as "frosty susan"?

(No, really, let's get this behind us so we can get to the REALLY interesting questions...)

(btw: sooooooooorry...)

Do you use any kind of musk to attract ze ladies?

Calleja said:

...uh I don't know why but everyone's doing this, so let's do it.

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Peer pressure anyone?

Andi said:

Just to get this behind us:

Why again don't you like to be adressed as "frosty susan"?

(No, really, let's get this behind us so we can get to the REALLY interesting questions...)

(btw: sooooooooorry...)

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Cause it was all I heard, all the time, from everyone, on anything for at least a month and a half. You know me, I can take banter and teasing graciously, even laugh at the good ones... but once one of the places you hang out in the most starts taking EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING you say, do, think, imply or fucking breathe and throws it back at you with a overplayed pun on semen in the eyes over and over and over and over and over again.. it gets tiring. Fast. And then it gets annoying. And then you just stop logging in.

Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me.

North_Ranger said:

Do you use any kind of musk to attract ze ladies?

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Heh.. no. Do you really want to know what my "secret" for getting to meet girls is?

I treat them like they're one of the guys. I don't go in with a hot chick and instantly act like she shits gold... I just talk to her like she was a dude I like and have something in common with, just friendly chatter, letting her know you consider her your peer, not an object of lust or a prey or whatever.

Basically just imagine how you would like to be treated by a girl and treat girls that way. That's what I do.

Of course, if it's sex you're after, it's easier if you live in a latin society that doesn't demonize sex to the point that it's more "accepted" to see someone get cut in half, guts everywhere in a movie than to see a man and a woman lying naked together and enjoying themselves.

Girls have needs too, y'know?

Calleja;258975][quote=Andi said:

Just to get this behind us:

Why again don't you like to be adressed as "frosty susan"?

(No, really, let's get this behind us so we can get to the REALLY interesting questions...)

(btw: sooooooooorry...)

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Cause it was all I heard, all the time, from everyone, on anything for at least a month and a half. You know me, I can take banter and teasing graciously, even laugh at the good ones... but once one of the places you hang out in the most starts taking EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING you say, do, think, imply or fucking breathe and throws it back at you with a overplayed pun on semen in the eyes over and over and over and over and over again.. it gets tiring. Fast. And then it gets annoying. And then you just stop logging in.[/QUOTE]

Actually...

I can understand that.

Ooookay...

Now, to the real questions...

If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or Shakespeare... Which one would it be?

Philosopher B. said:

Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me.

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CAUSE YOU HAVEN'T EVEN VISITED THE KIDS SINCE YOU LEFT, YOU SELFISH BASTARD!! TIMMY TURNED 10 YESTERDAY AND YOU COULDN'T EVEN CALL TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS!? NOT EVEN A HALLMARK CARD!?

I HATE YOU!!

Calleja said:

*snip*

Girls have needs too, y'know?

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Now THAT comes completely as a surprise...

Andi said:

Actually...

I can understand that.

Ooookay...

Now, to the real questions...

If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or Shakespeare... Which one would it be?

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Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.

shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.

Calleja;258986][quote=Andi said:

Actually...

I can understand that.

Ooookay...

Now, to the real questions...

If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or Shakespeare... Which one would it be?

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Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.

shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.[/QUOTE]

And I guess he would look waaaaaaaaaay worse than adams if he were brought back from the death....

I need to study so I can test out of intermediate Spanish I and II. What is up with commands in Spanish?

What is up with them how? I mean... they're just conjugations of the normal verb form, are they not? Unless I don't get what you mean with "commands"? Like.. imperative sentences?

Do your eyes ever itch?

Do you remember on Twitter telling me about a Mexican food I should try sometime? Sort of looked like a sloppy pizza...kinda. I don't remember the name of it.

Crone said:

Do your eyes ever itch?

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They've been known to sting on occasion when approaching your general vicinity, yes, but I'm sure that's just cause of the stench.

WildSoul said:

Do you remember on Twitter telling me about a Mexican food I should try sometime? Sort of looked like a sloppy pizza...kinda. I don't remember the name of it.

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Oooh.. was it a tlayuda?

Do you ever worry about cataracts?

Calleja said:

WildSoul said:

Do you remember on Twitter telling me about a Mexican food I should try sometime? Sort of looked like a sloppy pizza...kinda. I don't remember the name of it.

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Oooh.. was it a tlayuda?

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YES! Thank you!

I've got one. If "Tex-Mex" (I hate that word with a passion) really isn't authentic, how come nearly every employee at every Mexican restaurant is Mexican, along with about half the patrons? For that matter, what defines Tex-Mex? Is that different than a Mexican restaurant? Sure everybody in the US knows that a crunchy taco is American, but what about the other stuff?

Again, like I said to Adammon, I don't mean any of this as an attack. I'm genuinely curious. I actually have the same questions about Chinese food, which half my Chinese friends tell me is not authentic, and the other half tells me is not exactly right but pretty close. Yet Chinese restaurants always seem to be staffed by Chinese people and full of Chinese patrons.

Dude, if you're a restaurant owner trying to put mexican vibes out, even though your food isn't really authentic, what better way than staff it with mexican people?

Now, I don't know if by "Mexican employee" you mean actually born-in-Mexico Mexican or Mexican American... but if it's the former.... do you really wonder why they'd be working in the states...as ANYTHING? If it's the latter... that's precisely why it's tex-mex.

Seriously, the leap between a Mexican and an American of Mexican ancestry is a huge one.

Tex-Mex is the weird quasi fusion that happens in the border... music, language, food... burritos, for instance, aren't really Mexican... here in the Mexico City vicinities, for example, you won't find a "burrito" anywhere UNLESS it's a pre-packaged microwaveable one... but you'll find microwaveable pizzas and bbq wings too, y'know?

Basically... the only "mexican" food I'd say is "authentic" that I hear mentioned a lot in American media and the boards and stuff are Quesadillas. What you guys call "tacos" are... well... anything but, really.

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Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?



This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.

Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.

Calleja said:

Dude, if you're a restaurant owner trying to put mexican vibes out, even though your food isn't really authentic, what better way than staff it with mexican people?

Now, I don't know if by "Mexican employee" you mean actually born-in-Mexico Mexican or Mexican American... but if it's the former.... do you really wonder why they'd be working in the states...as ANYTHING? If it's the latter... that's precisely why it's tex-mex.

Seriously, the leap between a Mexican and an American of Mexican ancestry is a huge one.

Tex-Mex is the weird quasi fusion that happens in the border... music, language, food... burritos, for instance, aren't really Mexican... here in the Mexico City vicinities, for example, you won't find a "burrito" anywhere UNLESS it's a pre-packaged microwaveable one... but you'll find microwaveable pizzas and bbq wings too, y'know?

Basically... the only "mexican" food I'd say is "authentic" that I hear mentioned a lot in American media and the boards and stuff are Quesadillas. What you guys call "tacos" are... well... anything but, really.

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Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?

This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.

Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.

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The turning grill-thingy, that looks exactly like the the turning grill thingy that they use for kebap/döner/donair/gyros.

Looks like we can consider your tacos as some kind of mexican döner?

Looks like the stuff they have at Lebanese restaurants.

Looks like heartburn.

Cajungal said:

Looks like the stuff they have at Lebanese restaurants.

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Yeah, it tastes nothing like it though.

This is actually flavored pork meat, all tenderized and soft and unrecognizable. Heaven in a tortilla, really.

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This is what the end result is sorta supposed to look like:



The yellow stuff on the bottom rightish, under the cilantro, is a chunk of pineapple. The really good taco places have a big chunk of pineapple above the trompo I posted above, and they make a spectacle of lopping off a bit in a ninja-like motion and having the bit of pineapple land on the already-made taco in his other hand.

Now I want one of those... *hungry*

Calleja said:

Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?

This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.

Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.

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We have that kind of stuff here though. I'll agree that Tex-Mex (which you don't find a lot of here in southern arizona) isn't authentic. Like all food different regions change through time. So Mexican American food is obviously different.

Back to Trompo de pastor, that shit is great. There aren't stands everywhere since our cities are distributed differently than Mexico City or Puebla, but they are there. You just need to find the right place.

I does disappoint me though when Mexican restaurants here in the states gringo it up for everybody with their burritos and taquitos and shit.

I'd love to try authentic Mexican food. Still... I do enjoy the inauthentic American stuff.

To be fair though, no one with half a brain considers Taco Bell Mexican food.

Now another legitimate question. Are your Mexican food examples specific to your area of Mexico, or are there things more like Tex-Mex in other areas? I know that in the US, you'd really have to define food by sectors, because the style, ingredients, and even cooking methods vary greatly by region. I know that's true of many countries.

I just had "Mexican" tonight, and it certainly was at nowhere like Taco Bell. It had things like carne asada and chile relleno and mole, and various jalisco dishes among many other things (I'm not Mexican, but Wikipedia says they're eaten in Mexico). Are those Tex-Mex? The thing is that these types of places are extremely common in the US--almost as common as taco bell in a lot of places. These are actually the places I was referring to.

Again, I'm not arguing, just legitimately curious.

Taco Bell is about as Mexican as Pizza Hut is Italian :-P

Calle, you just made me want some Tacos pastor for lunch.... Thankfully we have a small restaurant nearby that does them phenomenally (all mexican staff), and maybe a buneulo for desert.... mmmmmm I need to get out of work NOW!

How does it feel to wield such power over Shego's digestive system?

If I were him, I wouldn't get used to it, I don't indulge often.

Calleja;258986][quote=Andi said:

Actually...

I can understand that.

Ooookay...

Now, to the real questions...

If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or Shakespeare... Which one would it be?

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Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.

shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.[/QUOTE]

If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or John Lennon... Which one would it be?

Damn.... I.. I..I DON'T KNOW!!!

Calleja said:

Damn.... I.. I..I DON'T KNOW!!!

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Do I win?

She won, apparently.

But I'm reviving the thread cause I'm bored and these things seem to be fashionable again. So.. ask away.

how was cancun?

Oh man... it was awesome incarnate. Seriously, it was such an awesome vacation that I was bummed out the whole trip back and even a couple of days later. Post-vacation/back-to-reality blues and shit.

I barely even touched the beach, it was more of a partying all night vacation. And I wish I could go back, like, yesterday.

tell us more. what about the tourists of female and hot gender?

Well, there were lots. Mainly Canadians, everywhere, drunken and wild and hawt.

And I know you're gonna end up asking specifically so.. yeah, I hooked up with a couple. A brunette from Toronto who loved to rub my shaved head and ended up taking me to her hotel room, and an American blonde that ended up in MY hotel room.

The main squeeze, though, was a local waitress that I consider an ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED to have been able to successfully hit on. While she was working. Do you have any idea how often drunken tourists hit on waitresses? Let alone HOT ones? Her name is Danea and we ended up shacking up together for almost 3 days... even traveled together to Playa del Carmen.

So yeah, awesome vacation from all angles.

Okay so I'm gonna be crass. And this isn't judging you or picking a fight. But, this is ask ANYTHING.

So, how many sexual partners all-time?

I don't carve notches on my headboard or anything, so anytime someone asks me that question (it's usually a girl I'm flirting with, though, you weirdo) I literally have to go over the list in my head.

Cancun brought the number up to a very DC-y 52.

Considering I lost my virginity at 16, that's an average of less than 6 a year.

I... didn't get laid much before 21.

well done, man. sounds like you had a great time !

fifty-three!

and im still kinda drunk. and it's like 2pm. i woke up like this. i have no idea at what im went to bed, but i was butt naked when i woke up, what the hell?

Mister Calleja! Tell me about a big turning point in your life.

What are the biggest misconceptions you see here or elsewhere about how Mexico really is?

Cajungal said:

Mister Calleja! Tell me about a big turning point in your life.

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Huh.

Well, there are a few.. mostly to do with my decisions at schooling and whatnot... but I guess the biggest one was my Carpe Diem turning point.

Before 12th grade I was your stereotypical nerdy geek, who was shy around girls, didn't have a lot of friends and would pine over the girl I had a crush on from a safe distance and what not. Unhappy.

Every time I tell this story I wish there was a clearer more defined catalyst, but I think it was more of a string of unrelated events that made me wake up one day and say... what the crap are you doing, you moron? You spend your life hoping it'll be better in the future... when you MAY NOT EVEN GET A FUTURE. I realized that the most precious commodity we get in this life is time.

I made "Carpe Diem" my personal philosophy. Which I know is trite and probably even cliche'd... but it was still better than the runner up: Hakuna Matata. tee hee.

Since then I made it a point to stop worrying about looking bad, or being rejected... I stopped caring what people thought about me and just did what I felt the most happy or comfortable doing. Living each day as if I may get hit by a bus the next. What I most feared... rejection, embarrassment, all those things... turned out to be way, way, way better than the FEAR of them. I spent WEEKS torturing myself about having a crush on a girl I couldn't even talk to... while the alternative, walking up to her and being rejected, stung for a few hours, maybe in extreme cases a few days. And that's it. I stopped being afraid when I realized the fear was much worse than reality.

Pretty soon after this, other unexpected side effects started to pop up... girls started paying attention to me, my confidence stopped being at sea slug levels and got to "I can talk to girls while LOOKING AT THEM!" levels. I started to make more friends, my social life exploded... little by little the shy, apprehensive and, yes, cowardly persona started to recede into...well, what you know now. Happy.

So I guess that sort of counts as a turning point, no? Heh.

Ever poop yourself

Dave said:

What are the biggest misconceptions you see here or elsewhere about how Mexico really is?

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Well, Hollywood has really, really soiled the image Americans and lots of the world have of Mexico. You have no idea how many people come down here expecting to see nothing but drunken, short men with pathetic little mustaches and a huge sombrero, sleeping against a cactus while eating beans while a bullfight arena looms in the background. I blame the Looney Tunes for this, too.

Ricardo Montalban, whom you know as Khan and that guy from Fantasy Island, was born in Mexico City, and he was very outspoken about this during the latter part of his life. I remember recently reading an interview where he complained that if he wanted to play the romantic interest, he had to play it Cuban or Puerto Rican, never Mexican. Mexican parts were only bad guys or drunken idiots who could be bought with a bottle of tequila. It's movies, it's fiction, right? You would think so, but think how much time this image has been broadcast all over.... people come here expecting it.


Another trivial and irrelevant misconception that's still a pet peeve of mine... Americans always consider Mexico Central America.... it's not!! It's NORTH AMERICA, Canda, USA, Mexico. That's North America. GRAB A DAMNED BOOK DAMMIT!

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Gilman Chatsworth said:

Ever poop yourself

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I've sharted a few times... does that count?

i guess

MORE QUESTIONS!!!

Why won't you just have sex with those poor cougars?

Cause they're wrinkly and ugly and have yellowed-by-tobacco teeth. And their too-tight jeans and tubetops show cellulite THROUGH THE CLOTH

That's an excellent reason.

Ok, say you had to go an entire day only using 10 words to communicate. You can use them more than 10 times, but only those 10. You have no idea who you're going to encounter. Which words do you choose?

Um.. Spanish or English?

Both!

Also... I'm bored at work. Wanna help me out with some preguntas?

Ok, I think I'm too distracted by the table of hotties to think of the 10 words question, I'll get to that one later, ok?

any simpler questions I can answer while pretending to me working all important-like? aranoid:

Hmm... what job would you never ever want, no matter how much it paid?

Which one at that table do you like the most?

What exactly are you doing to flirt right now?

What's your favorite part about each season?

Any type of job that had me dealing with idiot customers will soon have me at the 10 o clock news after being shot to death in the middle of a murdering rampage.

I like the girl with the blue eyes and black hair. I've always had a weakness for that combo. Plus... those LEEEEGS.

Right now, I'm being quiet and "busy" and "mysterious"... a few minutes ago I was making eye contact and smiling when it was maintained. A few minutes before that I asked them if they could watch my laptop while I went to the bathroom and then asked them their names when I came back and thanked them using them.

And the only season I like is WINTER!!! COLDNESS PLEASE!!!

So what's next, "Can I buy you a biscotti, blue eyes?" ;P

What color is your favorite winter coat/jacket/sweater?

I don't think I have a favorite one, actually. It's probably black, though. Most of my jackets are black.

Haha, me too. That way they go with everything.

Calleja, do you miss chatting with me on vent? Because I miss chatting with you. :'(