Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 26
Attendees: Sarah, Chris, Susan, Greg, Gigi, Sharon
Wise words:
The truth brings out the truth. – Sharon (2/26/07)
The good makes it good. – Chris (sometime in 2006)
Question of the day:
Q: What do they have at KFC?
A: Um...chicken.
Today was an odd day. Chris and Greg went to KFC to pick up lunch. 40 minutes later they come back with many stories.
1) The KFC on Glenoaks is the size of a photo booth. The line extended out the door, with only 2 people inside.
2) We get approached by this guy in a suit and tie selling Scooby doo activity books, colored pens/pencils and something else in a box that would sell at Target for about $15. He claims that it’s a $100 value. First he holds his hand out for me to shake but I put on my full no speak English face combined with Caroline face. He gives up on me then goes to Chris. Gives him the whole sales pitch, all the while I’m thinking I should tell the guy that Chris is my “partner” and we don’t have any kids to give it to.
3) Some lady comes up to the guys behind us and has a KFC bag. She offers the guys corn. Have you ever been offered corn on the street that doesn’t include a shopping cart, mayo and limon?
4) The guy in front of us gets a combo meal and they give him a cup for his drink. The drink dispenser in the front doesn’t work, so he asks the lady behind the counter for diet pepsi. She responds with Dr. Pepper? They don’t even have Dr. Pepper at KFC, why ask?
5) KFC, what does it stand for? Check out what I saw on my receipt.
Kazi Foods Company
6) All we needed to complete the adventure was a robbery or a multiple vehicle accident.
Wise words:
The truth brings out the truth. – Sharon (2/26/07)
The good makes it good. – Chris (sometime in 2006)
Question of the day:
Q: What do they have at KFC?
A: Um...chicken.
Today was an odd day. Chris and Greg went to KFC to pick up lunch. 40 minutes later they come back with many stories.
1) The KFC on Glenoaks is the size of a photo booth. The line extended out the door, with only 2 people inside.
2) We get approached by this guy in a suit and tie selling Scooby doo activity books, colored pens/pencils and something else in a box that would sell at Target for about $15. He claims that it’s a $100 value. First he holds his hand out for me to shake but I put on my full no speak English face combined with Caroline face. He gives up on me then goes to Chris. Gives him the whole sales pitch, all the while I’m thinking I should tell the guy that Chris is my “partner” and we don’t have any kids to give it to.
3) Some lady comes up to the guys behind us and has a KFC bag. She offers the guys corn. Have you ever been offered corn on the street that doesn’t include a shopping cart, mayo and limon?
4) The guy in front of us gets a combo meal and they give him a cup for his drink. The drink dispenser in the front doesn’t work, so he asks the lady behind the counter for diet pepsi. She responds with Dr. Pepper? They don’t even have Dr. Pepper at KFC, why ask?
5) KFC, what does it stand for? Check out what I saw on my receipt.
Kazi Foods Company6) All we needed to complete the adventure was a robbery or a multiple vehicle accident.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Attendees: Sarah, Chris, Susan, Greg, Gigi, Sharon, Tamar, Amy.
It’s been a while since I last wrote lunch minutes. I just lost interest and didn’t feel like writing anymore. It became less fun and more like work. The horror. That is, until today compelled me to write again.
Eunuchs – This began from an article in today’s news about an Indian “woman” runner that failed a gender test.
Indian runner fails gender test, loses medal
Which brings the question, do you know what a eunuch is?
Wikipedia: Eunuch
PSA: When having a potluck and you want to hide the food from us please realize:
a) if your goal is to hide food, you suck at hiding. Putting it in plain view in the refrigerator is not obvious at all except it is obvious.
b) we know you’re not going to eat the leftovers. Why deny the people that will actually eat it?
c) If it is left over the weekend it is now public property.
When you warm up your food, please ensure that you are there to watch over it. Carrie Haigh’s Lean Cuisine magically turned into chocolate cake while she was away. Teresa Ryan had to ruin the trick by finding her real lunch, although Carrie seemed a bit disappointed when her real lunch was found.
Dirty Armenians – While talking about where we should go for Tamar’s lunch either Chris said or someone said Chris thought that if someone has dark hair they are Armenian So does that make Chris Armenian? Then someone said that dark skin also has something to do with it. Chris still qualifies as Armenian. Then it got ugly when Susan make a comment about not being dark but dirty. I’m not sure where she was going with this, but it was funny. And the icy stares from Tamar was amusing.
Once again my zoo school skills came in handy. Gigi was commenting on how Randy is interviewing at Panda Express and Sharon chimed in that Randy should say that he loves marsupials. It was that comment that left us speechless for about 5 seconds. Quite an accomplishment if you’ve ever had lunch with us. Okay, if you haven’t figured it out, a panda is not a marsupial, but a koala is. As Gigi astutely put, a panda is not a marsupial because it has bear as its last name. I had full Caroline face for over 10 seconds while I was running through my zoo school facts in my head. (marsupials are mostly in Australia….only US marsupial is a opossum….no marsupials in Asia…..)
UPDATE: We also discussed toilet paper. Single ply vs. double ply. Quilted Northern vs. Cottonelle. Scott vs. other cheap single ply. My personal favorite: Cottonelle Flushable moist wipes
It’s been a while since I last wrote lunch minutes. I just lost interest and didn’t feel like writing anymore. It became less fun and more like work. The horror. That is, until today compelled me to write again.
Eunuchs – This began from an article in today’s news about an Indian “woman” runner that failed a gender test.
Indian runner fails gender test, loses medal
Which brings the question, do you know what a eunuch is?
Wikipedia: Eunuch
PSA: When having a potluck and you want to hide the food from us please realize:
a) if your goal is to hide food, you suck at hiding. Putting it in plain view in the refrigerator is not obvious at all except it is obvious.
b) we know you’re not going to eat the leftovers. Why deny the people that will actually eat it?
c) If it is left over the weekend it is now public property.
When you warm up your food, please ensure that you are there to watch over it. Carrie Haigh’s Lean Cuisine magically turned into chocolate cake while she was away. Teresa Ryan had to ruin the trick by finding her real lunch, although Carrie seemed a bit disappointed when her real lunch was found.
Dirty Armenians – While talking about where we should go for Tamar’s lunch either Chris said or someone said Chris thought that if someone has dark hair they are Armenian So does that make Chris Armenian? Then someone said that dark skin also has something to do with it. Chris still qualifies as Armenian. Then it got ugly when Susan make a comment about not being dark but dirty. I’m not sure where she was going with this, but it was funny. And the icy stares from Tamar was amusing.
Once again my zoo school skills came in handy. Gigi was commenting on how Randy is interviewing at Panda Express and Sharon chimed in that Randy should say that he loves marsupials. It was that comment that left us speechless for about 5 seconds. Quite an accomplishment if you’ve ever had lunch with us. Okay, if you haven’t figured it out, a panda is not a marsupial, but a koala is. As Gigi astutely put, a panda is not a marsupial because it has bear as its last name. I had full Caroline face for over 10 seconds while I was running through my zoo school facts in my head. (marsupials are mostly in Australia….only US marsupial is a opossum….no marsupials in Asia…..)
UPDATE: We also discussed toilet paper. Single ply vs. double ply. Quilted Northern vs. Cottonelle. Scott vs. other cheap single ply. My personal favorite: Cottonelle Flushable moist wipes
Monday, July 31, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
Attendees: Chris, Gigi, Jehan, Greg, Sharon, Sarah
Today’s lunch has been dedicated as weird word day. Let’s see if it was as interesting in print as it was in person.
Chris: What is the best invention ever?
Reply: The wheel, sliced bread, the toaster that cooks and egg and toast at the same time?
Chris: Nope, the thermos. It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know?
I know the answer, but it’s a lot more fun to just let Chris stew on these things for a while.
• A toaster oven doesn’t toast toast well. That was even hard to type.
• Ice cream cone shaped cupcakes
• Cone shaped cupcake cones.
Okay, it wasn’t as interesting in print as it was in person. Sorry.
Today’s lunch has been dedicated as weird word day. Let’s see if it was as interesting in print as it was in person.
Chris: What is the best invention ever?
Reply: The wheel, sliced bread, the toaster that cooks and egg and toast at the same time?
Chris: Nope, the thermos. It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How does it know?
I know the answer, but it’s a lot more fun to just let Chris stew on these things for a while.
• A toaster oven doesn’t toast toast well. That was even hard to type.
• Ice cream cone shaped cupcakes
• Cone shaped cupcake cones.
Okay, it wasn’t as interesting in print as it was in person. Sorry.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Attendees: Tim, Chris, Gigi, Jehan, Greg, Sharon, Sarah, Theresa
• Due to his unwanted comments about Gigi’s fascination and adoration about the “fabulous ice cream scoop” he has been laid off internally from the group. He may continue to do work(?) but he is no longer welcome to join us for lunch. This is also due to him taking all the leftover enchiladas or mexican jello home and not leaving any for our next day lunch
• Armchair: definition. The arm of the chair. As in, Gigi, why are you wiping your hand on the arm chair?
• So if you get the super-fabulous at the 99 cent store, any guesses on how much it you have to pay for it?
• The ingrate of the day award goes to Sarah. After complaining about how difficult it is to cut the pizza, then proceeding to complain about the doughiness of the pizza, only after receiving “the look” from Greg does she remember her manners and thanks him.
• Overheard in the lunchroom.
Person 1: Where is the ice cream?
Almost everybody else: Um... maybe in the freezer.
• Also overheard. “Do you want to melt the brownies?” So how exactly do you melt brownies. I wasn’t aware that brownies are meltable.
• Thanks to Chris being internally laid off, we will be having a pot luck party. Chris if you are reading this, you can consider yourself not invited, and please do not read these anymore as you have been laid off internally. Go back to your “work”
• For all of those that participated in the pool, Theresa left the lunchroom at 12:37.
• After eating the strawberry ice cream it has been decided that there should be a strawberry level index, or SLI. This index will have specific examples of the level of strawberryness. A real strawberry picked at the height of ripeness will be at the top, and salmon will be at the bottom, because we all know, salmon does not taste like strawberries at all.
• Maybe we need to ease off of Tim, he gave up and left at 12:42. Really Tim, you did a good job at doing the birthdays this year. (was that good, did it sound sincere?)
• Due to his unwanted comments about Gigi’s fascination and adoration about the “fabulous ice cream scoop” he has been laid off internally from the group. He may continue to do work(?) but he is no longer welcome to join us for lunch. This is also due to him taking all the leftover enchiladas or mexican jello home and not leaving any for our next day lunch
• Armchair: definition. The arm of the chair. As in, Gigi, why are you wiping your hand on the arm chair?
• So if you get the super-fabulous at the 99 cent store, any guesses on how much it you have to pay for it?
• The ingrate of the day award goes to Sarah. After complaining about how difficult it is to cut the pizza, then proceeding to complain about the doughiness of the pizza, only after receiving “the look” from Greg does she remember her manners and thanks him.
• Overheard in the lunchroom.
Person 1: Where is the ice cream?
Almost everybody else: Um... maybe in the freezer.
• Also overheard. “Do you want to melt the brownies?” So how exactly do you melt brownies. I wasn’t aware that brownies are meltable.
• Thanks to Chris being internally laid off, we will be having a pot luck party. Chris if you are reading this, you can consider yourself not invited, and please do not read these anymore as you have been laid off internally. Go back to your “work”
• For all of those that participated in the pool, Theresa left the lunchroom at 12:37.
• After eating the strawberry ice cream it has been decided that there should be a strawberry level index, or SLI. This index will have specific examples of the level of strawberryness. A real strawberry picked at the height of ripeness will be at the top, and salmon will be at the bottom, because we all know, salmon does not taste like strawberries at all.
• Maybe we need to ease off of Tim, he gave up and left at 12:42. Really Tim, you did a good job at doing the birthdays this year. (was that good, did it sound sincere?)
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Attendees: Tim, Chris, Gigi, Jehan, Greg, Sharon, Sarah
• Pre-lunch comment: Jehan’s baby will have Filipino traits. No duh, I wonder why.
• Fatnant: Someone that is fat enough that you do not know if they are pregnant or not preganant. Also known as the Booty Do. Because the gut looks like the booty do.
• Jehan refuses to enter her food entry for Tim’s birthday lunch. She claims that its because nothing looks good to her on the menu, but our theory is that she can’t read the menu because she’s Helen Keller.
• Tim came out today. So I guess that means from now on we have to “talk around him”.
• Quote from Greg: “Like it’s that hard to piss them off” I don’t remember what or who I was talking about, but it was really funny at the time. Does anybody else remember?
• Fortune telling. You can tell if you are going to be rich by looking at your hands. Put your fingers together and if you see gaps between your fingers, you won’t be rich. So if you have freakishly bent fingers like me you won’t ever be rich. This prompted the statement that handicap don’t count.
• You know when you know you’re fat……when you are so fat, you can’t reach around and scratch your own ass.
• Tamar and Michelle went to get food for Chris and Jehan. They’re going to Quiznos after they go to the dress shop for Tamar. Big mistake. They claim that they’ll be right back, but my money is on that they won’t come back until after 1pm. Tamar will have some sort of issue, she always does.
• Tim “King Kong” Kim was hitting his chest yesterday. Dude, ease up on the Big Macs, it’s going to give you a heart attack. He claims that it’s pain in the sternum, but nobody is going to doubt that it’s something more internal.
• Chris explained that he hurt Tim’s sternum when they were chest bumping prior to Tim’s outing.
• Gigi “Yoda” Taloma. When asking about how many days we’ve done the time study, Gigi asked “Day 4 am I? “
• Pre-lunch comment: Jehan’s baby will have Filipino traits. No duh, I wonder why.
• Fatnant: Someone that is fat enough that you do not know if they are pregnant or not preganant. Also known as the Booty Do. Because the gut looks like the booty do.
• Jehan refuses to enter her food entry for Tim’s birthday lunch. She claims that its because nothing looks good to her on the menu, but our theory is that she can’t read the menu because she’s Helen Keller.
• Tim came out today. So I guess that means from now on we have to “talk around him”.
• Quote from Greg: “Like it’s that hard to piss them off” I don’t remember what or who I was talking about, but it was really funny at the time. Does anybody else remember?
• Fortune telling. You can tell if you are going to be rich by looking at your hands. Put your fingers together and if you see gaps between your fingers, you won’t be rich. So if you have freakishly bent fingers like me you won’t ever be rich. This prompted the statement that handicap don’t count.
• You know when you know you’re fat……when you are so fat, you can’t reach around and scratch your own ass.
• Tamar and Michelle went to get food for Chris and Jehan. They’re going to Quiznos after they go to the dress shop for Tamar. Big mistake. They claim that they’ll be right back, but my money is on that they won’t come back until after 1pm. Tamar will have some sort of issue, she always does.
• Tim “King Kong” Kim was hitting his chest yesterday. Dude, ease up on the Big Macs, it’s going to give you a heart attack. He claims that it’s pain in the sternum, but nobody is going to doubt that it’s something more internal.
• Chris explained that he hurt Tim’s sternum when they were chest bumping prior to Tim’s outing.
• Gigi “Yoda” Taloma. When asking about how many days we’ve done the time study, Gigi asked “Day 4 am I? “
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Attendees: Tim, Chris, Gigi, Jehan, Franco
Today was lunch with Franco day.
• In preparation for lunch with Franco, Chris drank coffee. I’m not sure if it was cold or hot coffee, but he was on point.
• On the way out Chris noticed that the sign on the Shareholder Services is missing the “L”. Chris wants to remove the “D” so it reads Share ho er. Say it out loud. Maybe you have to be on the stuff that Chris is on to think it’s funny. The rest of us didn’t laugh.
• Jehan has some firm and tone serum stuff in her car. Chris picked it up and though serum read scrotum. Easy mistake. Once again proving that he’s on something, Chris found this extremely amusing.
• Chris on coffee. It should be called his coffee courage. The guy was hanging out the car yelling at people. Sort of like how he is when he’s drunk…….Hmmmmm………
• Proving the coffee courage was in full effect, his new game is pregnant or not pregnant. You look at rather “large” people and make a determination. There is no sure way to figure out, but when you have coffee courage it’s hilarious. We saw this lady in the parking lot that we weren’t sure, and there was mention of not pregnant and comparing her to Sarah. I’m not even going to touch that one. You’re on your own to explain to Sarah what you meant if she reads this.
• In addition to figuring out the sex of the baby, Chris would like a test to determine gay or not gay. I don’t know what he’s going to do with that information, but it’s an interesting idea.
• Franco (the man-whore) has not gained weight as expected by everybody. As a declaration, Franco said that weight loss = great sex life.
• Update: Franco went on a date with a 35 year old, he claimed that he was 25. He needed that to check off one entry on his list of 100 things to do before you die. He said she told him 35 but she looked more like 45. He based this on people he knows. She looked much older than Steph, she looked more like ………..
• When asked if Franco is dating outside of the Asian circle, he proudly stated that he can’t go outside because he doesn’t have much to offer (while pointing down). What a catch.
All in all a very entertaining lunch. There were many more things said which I can not write.
• Research topic of the day: What do you call it when a guy has his enormous spare tire encased inside his pants?
Answer: FUPA or Front Butt
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fupa
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=front+butt
Today was lunch with Franco day.
• In preparation for lunch with Franco, Chris drank coffee. I’m not sure if it was cold or hot coffee, but he was on point.
• On the way out Chris noticed that the sign on the Shareholder Services is missing the “L”. Chris wants to remove the “D” so it reads Share ho er. Say it out loud. Maybe you have to be on the stuff that Chris is on to think it’s funny. The rest of us didn’t laugh.
• Jehan has some firm and tone serum stuff in her car. Chris picked it up and though serum read scrotum. Easy mistake. Once again proving that he’s on something, Chris found this extremely amusing.
• Chris on coffee. It should be called his coffee courage. The guy was hanging out the car yelling at people. Sort of like how he is when he’s drunk…….Hmmmmm………
• Proving the coffee courage was in full effect, his new game is pregnant or not pregnant. You look at rather “large” people and make a determination. There is no sure way to figure out, but when you have coffee courage it’s hilarious. We saw this lady in the parking lot that we weren’t sure, and there was mention of not pregnant and comparing her to Sarah. I’m not even going to touch that one. You’re on your own to explain to Sarah what you meant if she reads this.
• In addition to figuring out the sex of the baby, Chris would like a test to determine gay or not gay. I don’t know what he’s going to do with that information, but it’s an interesting idea.
• Franco (the man-whore) has not gained weight as expected by everybody. As a declaration, Franco said that weight loss = great sex life.
• Update: Franco went on a date with a 35 year old, he claimed that he was 25. He needed that to check off one entry on his list of 100 things to do before you die. He said she told him 35 but she looked more like 45. He based this on people he knows. She looked much older than Steph, she looked more like ………..
• When asked if Franco is dating outside of the Asian circle, he proudly stated that he can’t go outside because he doesn’t have much to offer (while pointing down). What a catch.
All in all a very entertaining lunch. There were many more things said which I can not write.
• Research topic of the day: What do you call it when a guy has his enormous spare tire encased inside his pants?
Answer: FUPA or Front Butt
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fupa
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=front+butt
Monday, May 22, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
Attendees: Sharon (left early), Steph, Theresa, Chris, Sarah, Gigi, Greg
Being that it was initially a small lunch group, I wasn’t planning on taking notes for today’s lunch. However Gigi’s words and actions caused me to bring out the notepad and jot a few things down.
• Apparently there is a Filipino that doesn’t know the difference between evaporated milk and condensed milk.
Please go to these links for additional information and history of milk products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporated_milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk
• Theresa went to a sham wedding this weekend. They’ve already been married for a year and this was more of an anniversary celebration. We were trying to find out the circumstances on why they would need to get married in a civil ceremony not tell anybody, and a year later have it again. I could see having the reception so you can share with all your friends and family, but why keep it a secret that they’re already married? I will never find out.
• Two word phrase of the day: Time Backness Definition: a specific point in time where a delay begins. Ex. The wedding ceremony has to start on time because that’s where the time backness begins. Once the ceremony is late, the lateness of everything else follows.
• Unknown word of the day. Trillectual. When one can sing in 3 languages, that makes them trillectual.
Being that it was initially a small lunch group, I wasn’t planning on taking notes for today’s lunch. However Gigi’s words and actions caused me to bring out the notepad and jot a few things down.
• Apparently there is a Filipino that doesn’t know the difference between evaporated milk and condensed milk.
Please go to these links for additional information and history of milk products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporated_milk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_milk
• Theresa went to a sham wedding this weekend. They’ve already been married for a year and this was more of an anniversary celebration. We were trying to find out the circumstances on why they would need to get married in a civil ceremony not tell anybody, and a year later have it again. I could see having the reception so you can share with all your friends and family, but why keep it a secret that they’re already married? I will never find out.
• Two word phrase of the day: Time Backness Definition: a specific point in time where a delay begins. Ex. The wedding ceremony has to start on time because that’s where the time backness begins. Once the ceremony is late, the lateness of everything else follows.
• Unknown word of the day. Trillectual. When one can sing in 3 languages, that makes them trillectual.
