Since you had this huge discussion about chocolate and chocolate fountains, i've got a little story for Amanda Steinstein...
Firstly, the Shangri-La hotels around Asia (and more specifically, here in Malaysia) have wonderful buffets in their cafes (so, so good) and on their dessert selection, there's a HUGE chocolate fountain that you can actually do the dipping! It's GREAT. And it's high quality chocolate too...

And second story, I went to this concert last year in Malaysia called Forces of Nature (was a charity concert to raise money for the Tsunami that happened in '04) and had great acts such as Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Black Eyed Peas... and Backstreet Boys (i screamed like a little girl)...
I had a VIP pass that gave access to this wonderful marquee where free drinks were served through the night to all the celebs and important people for free... then after the concert finished at about 1.30am, a second part of the tent opened up which was the 'dessert' end with couches and models flaunting about holding chocolate and coffee. But there was a chocolate fountain! I was pretty much there for most of the night dipping strawberries, spongecake fingers, melon, jelly sweets and whatever there was there... and burning it all off dancing my booty off.

ok, so that's my story about chocolate fountains.

man that was long. good show. love!

Said by: Jau at November 28, 2006 01:38 AM

Oh Jau...you're describing my dream come true...and my worst nightmare. An unattended chocolate fountain? Ooof!

All the chocolate fountains I've seen have been carefully attended by the catering staff. You don't even get to dip your own goodies. You point to a piece of something on a toothpick, and they dip it for you.

However.

I saw a teeny chocolate fountain (about a foot high) for sale and I just might buy it...not for me of course. A friend of mine has a 12-hour holiday party and eat-fest at her place every year. Extremely casual affair. I might get the fountain for that and bring a large amount of sliced up fruities and other stuff. Plus plenty of replacement chocolate of course.

Really bad idea of course...but that's not stopping me!

Kisses,
-AS

Said by: Amanda Steinstein at November 28, 2006 09:21 AM

I can see that chocolate going everywhere in your friends house.

Said by: Daryl at November 28, 2006 09:26 AM

Amanda,
My sister and I both had 2XLs. He was a cool robot that asked muliple choice questions. He had 4 buttons across his chest and his eyes would light up. I remember one game where he would ask if you were a boy (press button 1) or a girl (press button 2). My sister and I would always push either 3 or 4 and 2XL would tell us we were confused and to ask our Mommy and Daddy what we were.

Said by: Cliff at November 28, 2006 09:39 AM

Do you know how many drag queens have wigs because of me!?! Take a guess! :) And i am still eating thanksgiving dinner! You can never have too many leftovers!

XoXO
shannon

Said by: shannon at November 28, 2006 02:36 PM

Hey Boyz, great to hear you again "live." Good show, flowed very smoothly and seemed natural. I enjoy listening to the show while walking the beaches in St Petersburg, FL.

Your red t-shirt hasn't gotten me laid yet though.....

Said by: Mike Hunt at November 28, 2006 07:19 PM

I don't know, guys. I think if they discovered a gene that made people gay the next step would be them trying to genetically modify gay fetuses to try and "repair" the, what did Dr. Laura call us, "biological errors". I don't think that proving homosexuality is natural would stop the hate mongering right wing religious nut jobs. They're gonna hate us no matter what. The only thing we can do is act out in love and show them that we can be loving caring people. Sooner or later they'll have to get the message.

Said by: pup don at November 28, 2006 07:27 PM

Amanda -

Try looking on ebay for some chocolate fountains because i know that they have them (my sister looked for them - you can get popcorn makers, hot dog stands... anything!)

if you didn't want the mess of a chocolate fountain, you could bring a huge fondue set with melted chocolate (it's the chocolate minus the oil!) and you can have people dip their goodies into the pot... a friend of mine did that for a party she had a while ago.

but a fountain is way cooler. Guess the best way to prevent mess is to use that really tacky plastic table 'cloth' to protect the area around the fountain... or just line the table with garbage bags...

Said by: Jau at November 28, 2006 09:26 PM

Thank you Cliff! I was starting to wonder if I made the whole 2XL thing up. My brother and I used to play with that thing for hours.

We also tried to confuse it by pressing buttons that were not offered as options...it always had some smart-ass answer for that. When you think about it, that tape was an amazing product of non-linear editing in a pre-non-linear world! I mean, wow!

Jau, I was thinking of bringing my own small table and covering it with tin foil, rather than subjecting my friend's furniture to chocolate wars. I like the fondue idea, but it's not as much fun as a fountain. Would it be healthier if I used flax seed oil or something like that?

-AS

Said by: Amanda Steinstein at November 29, 2006 11:47 AM

F.Y.I.: When a male lion and a female tiger have a cub, it's a liger; however, when it's a male tiger and a female lion, their cub is called a tigon. Oh, these useless facts that are stuck in my brain...

Said by: Mike Puskas at November 29, 2006 06:14 PM

Would foil really do the trick? I'm thinking the plastic wrap sort of idea would work - or if you can't be bothered going through all the trouble then use gladwrap!
Not sure about the oil type that you should use. But i know that peanut oil isn't good (because people may be allergic). Flaxseed oil or perhaps even a good vegetable oil might work. I wonder if you could use olive oil... that'd be mad.

Said by: Jau at November 29, 2006 07:39 PM

Olive oil? I might as well use 10W30!

Said by: Amanda Steinstein at November 29, 2006 11:51 PM

10W30? whassat?

olive oil is a tad much... so yeah, ok, vegetable oil...

but isn't a chocolate fountain in itself extravagant? hehe...

Said by: Jau at November 30, 2006 04:23 AM