Lunch Minutes

Attendees: Gigi, Sharon, Tim, Chris, Sarah, Jehan, Greg

• The minutes started early today. Technically this should only be for things that happen during lunch, but this was too good to pass up. Michelle asked if eggs are considered meat. I guess they would be if they were made of meat. She tried to explain that she isn’t sure because they come from a chicken. So does that mean milk is considered meat too because it comes from a cow?

• This also brought up the question if eggs are considered dairy. Maybe if said eggs came from a cow’s udder.

• Jehan needs to have more fiber in her diet. Since she was eating pizza for lunch, she will get her required amount of fiber. How does this even make sense? Well isn’t pizza considered fiber?

• The Captain Obvious award has been changed to the Major Obvious award. Gigi is the inaugural winner. Here is what has been said by the winner.
“we aren’t in Florida”
“We aren’t hungry after we eat”
“It’s different when it’s bigger”

• I know they put coleslaw as a hot dog topping in the south, but please be aware, coleslaw is not a very good ranch dressing substitute.

• Chris has been somewhat obsessed with beating meat.

Attendees: Greg, Gigi, Theresa, Stephanie, Tim, Sarah, Jehan, Chris….Janna.

• Today’s lunch was later due to a teleconference that Sarah, Gigi, Steph, Theresa and Greg had to go to. We sent Tim out to get food since he is the king of the value meal. We had a feast of 26-pieces of Pie pie’s chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and biscuits.

• Does anybody besides Filipinos and white people use honey on their chicken? I guess it’s like Japanese people putting mayo on broccoli.

• Today’s minutes are dedicated to Tim since he got our food.

• Tim wins the Captain Obvious contest today. Janna sat down to eat with us and she asked where the chicken came from. Tim wins by saying Popeye’s. Thank you Captain Obvious, maybe she didn’t see the 1 cubic square foot box from Popeye’s right in front of her.

• Everyday is like going to school for Gigi. Today she learned that sometime your kids are like their parents.

• From Tim, while he was leaving to get food he saw Jehan leaving also. Jehan said that she was leaving for her waxing and she’ll be back. Tim heard “I’m going to wax my back”. KELLY CLARKSON!!!!

Attendees: “Taco Bell” Tim, Jim, Gigi, Jehan, Sarah, Sharon, Chris

• Always the food assembler, we studied how Sharon made her peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She went with the 1:1 ratio of peanut butter to jelly as opposed to the favored 2:1 ratio. How do you like your peanut butter and jelly mix?

• There was a long span of diet talk during which the note taker zoned out. All I have during that time is that Filipino people may have a cholesterol problem due to their strict diet of meat and eggs and no veggies. Omega-3 may or may not be good for you, I think it’s one of the two. And brown rice, don’t expect it to be like white rice that’s just brown.

• The crap/fart talk started early. Figures since Jim was there. I was still zoning out from the diet talk so maybe someone else could fill this in.

• Chris’s frozen food took longer for him to warm it up than it took him to eat it. Seems like a lot of work for something where he’s going to be hungry in about a half hour.

• Taco Bell Tim came in later with his dollar menu meal. Tim, for your future reference you had a burrito and two soft tacos. He also ate those in less time than it took for Chris to warm up his frozen “meal”. By my count, he ate the burrito in about 3 bites and each of the tacos in two bites.

• There was a discussion about the minutes. It’s weird to talk about the minutes, then write about talking about the minutes. It’s a circular thing like a mug with my mug.

• We had to bring Jim up to speed with the Make Jehan Ink contest. We have decided that if you pick her up and she inks you will win the prize, although what the prize is, is still unknown.

• Gigi, did you know that owls can turn their heads around?
• http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/students/projects/1996-97/Hillocks96/snowy_owl.html

• The owner of the magic bullet is still unknown. We’ve been thinking that it was Rita, but she came in today and confirmed that it was not her magic bullet. I’m thinking a bullet-tin needs to be sent out. (blame Sharon for that pun)

• Idea of the day: Based on my claim that everyone looks good in a tankini, there should be tankini’s for men. I researched it and couldn’t find anything online. We might be sitting on a goldmine.

• Helen-ah decided to overfill her bowl. I told her that she should take some of it out but she decided to mouth off and say that she was going to cover it and put it on a plate. Which she then proceeded to spill all over the floor and on herself. Gigi then exclaimed “you stain just like me” Take that as you will.

• ALERT: Jehan is uncomfortable. I think I know why……I think she’s pregnant, and that growing thing inside of her is the cause of her discomfort.

• Two word phrase of the day: REGAIN HUNGER. This was in response to Gigi beating Tim in the cookie monster contest. She had 200% more cookies than Tim. AMAZING!!!

• For those of you that still don’t know what the magic bullet is, please go to http://www.buythebullet.com If you act now, you can get 2 complete 21-piece Magic Bullet systems for the price of one. Buy one for a friend. Keep one in the RV. Bring it to work and amaze your co-workers. Act now because this offer is only valid for a limited time!

Attendees: Jehan, Chris, Gigi, Tim, Sarah, Greg,

• Apparently there is only one Filipino dish with curry. It’s made with…gasp…chicken. According to Jehan the color is neon yellow….green.

• Tim set a new record for food inhaled in one breath. 18 minutes is the current record.

• Beware of Chris today. He is on the man-rag.

• According to Tim’s fortune cookie, good things will happen to him in 3 days. You all know that that means. Pile it on him on Friday.

• Crap talk dominated the remainder of the lunch hour. It went from industrial strength toilets that pulls the ass gasket while you are still sitting on it, to the amount of toilet paper one uses per visit. Then it moved on to kid’s poop. Overall, we set a fine example during pooh friendship week.

• What do you call that condition where your spine curves from side to side? They check it when you’re in school? Is it called schooliosis? How about that fried chicken place that specializes in Cajun fried chicken? Is it called Pie pies? Don’t know the answer, please ask Gigi.

Overall a fairly tame lunch. Sorry, no quote of the day and no two word phrase of the day.

Attendees: Jehan, Chris, Gigi, Tim, Sarah, Greg, Maria, Helena

• Beginning before the food came, Maria asked if Alaskan snow crab comes from Alaska. I’m not sure of the answer. Could someone please research it and tell Maria what you find?

• Is this a sign that Sarah has given up? On her latest trip to Target, she contemplated getting a pregnancy shirt. In her defense, she stated “but it was cute”

• Chris’s Gina has give up bread for Lent. Being that she’s Filipino, in order to make a true sacrifice, she should give up rice. To which Jehan stated that you might as well kill a Filipino if you’re going to take their rice. How about cutting off your thumbs?

• Tim’s attempt to make the minutes. He stated that corn dogs are better over a small fire. What?!?!?!?

• Helena. How would you say it? I personally like Helen-ah. Sounds like how a Chinese person would say it.

• Tip of the day: When warming up your corn dogs on the George Foreman grill, it is advisable to plug in the aforementioned George Foreman grill rather than just using the residual heat from the previous user. Talk about lazy.

• OCD alert. Apparently the way Chris tears his ketchup packages right down the middle annoys some people. How should he tear the ketchup packages?

• The ketchup packages that Chris used were old. Out of about 6 packages all but one was dark. He used it all because according to Chris, "The good makes it good". Stragely, I understood what he meant.

• When someone pops microwave popcorn and only takes half of the bag and leaves the rest of it for anybody else to take, it was discussed and decided that it shall be called used popcorn, or pre-owned popcorn.

• During a discussion about sleeping at the office, it was discussed that you have to look out for the onset of OBS, or Office Butt Syndrome. Usually OBS is preceded by the appearance of Secretary Thighs and/or cankles. Symptoms include your chair coming with you when you stand up. Please beware, there will be an office in-service discussing how to avoid OBS and related conditions

• It was a very Chris-centric lunch today. He made a statement that he doesn’t like sitting on balls. Okay. You come up with your own conclusions.

• Two word statement of the day: Playing Bowling. Use it as you see fit.

Attendees: Jehan, Chris, Gigi, Tim, Sarah, Greg,

We had an off-site lunch today at Senor Fish.

• Starting in the car, we came up with ideas for the car navigation voice. Tim wanted a sultry voice to tell him when to turn. Greg wants the urban upgrade where it yells at you when you miss the turn. It was pointed out that Greg already has the navigation voice lady and the 2-year old kid voice backup. “Left turn daddy. Daddy, left turn!”

• One more indication that we are in the midst of the celebration of pooh. At Senor Fish there was a toy dispenser that had peek-a-pooh. I don’t know about you, but I’m not so fond of the peek-a-pooh and when that happens. Turtle turtle.

• There was much discussion about the size of Gigi’s burrito. Apparently Sarah described the length, but forgot about to tell her about the girth. You know, those details can make all the difference.

• Alert of the day: Janna isn’t in. Was Tim the first to find out? At 12:36pm!!!! The guy has laser like vision and focus. In Tim’s defense, Janna’s office isn’t in the kitchen or bathroom, so it’s easy to miss.

• Quote of the Day: Fish are food, not friends.

• On American inventor there was someone that invented invisible tear gas. Umm…I think that was invented already. All you have to do to make Jehan laugh and voila….invisible tear gass.

• Also on American inventor there was a guy that was missing a finger. This prompted Greg to declare that if you don’t have thumbs you might as well kill yourself. This lead to a number of things you can’t do. You can’t shoot yourself to kill yourself because you can’t hold the gun. You can’t do the double barrel thumbs up, Abu Graib style. If you didn’t attend the lunch you might want to stay away from the people that did. I hear lightning might be striking people down soon.

• Equation of the day: No thumbs = Death

• Is it squid or is it squid moment: Gigi in the far back saw an old school Foster’s Freeze. Which she declared, “Look Foster’s Freeze. So that’s how you say it.” Which someone replied, “how did you used to say it?” “Foster’s Freeze” was the reply……

Attendees: Jehan, Sharon, Chris, Gigi, Theresa, Tim, Sarah, Greg, Helena

• Chuck has magic hands. He fixed the lightbulb in the fridge just by touching it. He didn’t twist it or anything. Just touched it.

• Research topic of the day: Why do your glasses fog up when you put them on?

• Please come and meet the executive vice president of cubicle 644B. Apparently the temp for temp Jackie has been calling herself the executive assistant to the executive vice president of Credit and Collections.

• Why do people use the title esquire? According to Chris you use it like Mr. or Mrs. But make sure you don’t use it for something in between. .

• Baby hungry. Creamer gone.

• Jehan got punk’d by Theresa. Theresa comes in with beef bowl and Jehan said that Tim was there too. Theresa said that she just came from there and didn’t see Tim at all…wait for it…right as Jehan was about to curse Tim’s name, Theresa fessed up. The only reason why that worked was because Tim walks so slow. They actually went to Yoshinoya together.

• Apparently Filipino vinegar is the magic sauce. It has garlic and a bunch of other crap and it’s more sour than regular vinegar. But it tastes great on grapefruit and any other food you want to don’t want to taste.

• Octopus, is it like a squid, or like a squid? Only Chris will know the difference between a squid and a squid.

• Idea of the day: Bread bowls need to be made tastier. They should put a spread on it and bake it like garlic bread prior to filling with soup. Another idea, put a string on the bread bowl, then you can bread on a rope. Pure genius

• Greg like to eat his bao upside-down. It was a weak explanation. It wasn’t clearly defined because after his explanation he didn’t say “SEE”

• We would like to request Sarah to make a beanie out of Chris’s hair, while said hair is on his head. This came out of a discussion that Sarah has to know how to do cornrows because she can crochet. How those two things are related is beyond me.

As usual, it was a lively and spirited lunch. Please feel free to add comments of things that I missed or if there is anything you would like to add to the discussion.

Attendees: Jehan, Greg, Sarah, Sharon, Tim Chris came in later

• Always the food maximizer, Tim had 3 Jr. Whoppers and onion rings. Four JW would have been way too much.

• American Idol. Did we really discuss American Idol?

• Vance cut his bicep. Who knows how, we need Sharon to update with pictures

• The owner of the magic bullet is still unknown.

• Sarah demonstrated how to milk an almond or a coconut

• Is coconut water a laxative? Maybe that’s why Jehan inked yesterday. Stay off the coconut juice.

Based on research, it's a diuretic “The coconut water, when fresh, is astringent, and slightly acidic. Later on the water loses its astringency and consists of 95 percent water, holding in solution proteids, sugars, and salts. It is used as a diuretic. It is also said to be cooling in urinary disorders. It is also reported to be anthelmintic.”

http://www.coconut-info.com/aboutcoconuts.htm

• According to Amy, “the young ones are always sweeter”

• We have another person that doesn’t understand that dairy items come from…..COWS. Tim was wondering if you are lactose intolerant, could you have coconut milk.

• Chris wore hair extensions. Who would have seen that? Not only did he have extensions, he wore it in conjunction with a headband.

Attendees: Chris, Gigi, Greg, Jehan, Sharon



We started out strong with Chris announcing that pigs can or maybe can’t get cancer. He’s not sure which one, but it’s one of the two.


Jehan has had experience with pigs so big that “you could totally ride them”


Chris has ridden a chicken before. Hmmm…curious, what kind of chicken could that be?


It was determined that pigs don’t get cancer because none of them live long enough to get cancer. They don’t live long enough because they’re so delicious.


Pigs don’t sweat? Or was it that they just don’t fly?


Indian curry doesn’t have the same curryness as Japanese curry


We still don’t know who brought in the magic bullet, but it has to be a white person. So far Lorraine, Caryn, Chuck, Janna, Sarah and Sharon have been cleared. The only other unaccounted white person is Carrie Haigh. It must be hers.


Did you know that coconut milk is ground up coconut meat? It’s not dairy. They don’t take milk and flavor it with coconut extract.


Alligator. According to Jehan it taste like shrimp……wait no, she had shrimp at the same meal.


Maria came in late in the lunch hour and brought a cha siu bao. Gigi still doesn’t know if it was from dim sum. She’s waiting for an answer.


Gigi enjoys to “self-diagnose myself”