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"In which we attempt to agree on a dinner option but end up having nothing and liking it"

2008-10-09 - 12:34 p.m.


The great dinner email debate. The following is an actual email exchange between me and several friends trying to decide where to go for dinner. Names of participants have been changed in order to protect the identities of the insanely dorky.

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Stuart:

I will start the dinner selection process....Idiot-Milk feel free to tabulate, and if need be, rig the election to get what you want. Here are my top three:

1- Mexican
2- Chinese
3- Apollo's

Yay for voting!

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Penelope Sue:

My vote:

1. The lemon kind of cookie
2. Mexican
3. Chinese
4. Pizza
5. Fish Sandwich

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Idiot-Milk:

FISH SANDWICH! NA NA NA NA...NA NA...NA NA...FISH SANDWICH! YAY!
The polls are now closed. We are all having FISH SANDWICHES!
YAY!

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Chaka Khan:

Cuthbert is here eating lunch with me now and our vote is:

1. Qdoba
2. Mexican
3. Chipotle

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Idiot-Milk:

YOU WILL ALL EAT FISH SANDWICHES AND LIKE IT! I HAVE SPOKEN!

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Stuart:

Right, guys, I have to take the fall here. I am the one who told her to rig the voting to get what she wants....sorry.

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Chaka Khan:

We should all get together and have a Town Hall style debate.....

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Stuart:

Only if everyone obeys the rules...I want full opportunity to respond to the ridiculous allegations that I only picked my three because they matched the vegetarian persuasion of my running mate. It's simply not true (I just like Mexican and Chinese food....yum).

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Idiot-Milk:

What you all fail to understand is that my years of experience as a procurer of take-out food have given me the experience necessary to lead this group with a cool hand on the tiller to a successful dinner. I am a MAVERICK, damnit, and my maverickiness tells me that FISH SANDWICHES are the way to go to get this discussion and this group back on track. Anyone who disagrees is CLEARLY a terrorist, or at the very least, UNPATRIOTIC!
FISH SANDWICHES `08!!!!!

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Cuthbert:

Fish Sandwiches say I'm an American.....Damn you all with your immigrant foods.....give me a fish sandwich fresh from the New England states....yes....where America was born.....COUNTRY FIRST!

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Frances:

*vomit*

I'm for DINNER WITH DIVERSITY! Chinese food! Now that's change we can all believe in!

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Penelope Sue:

You know, Frances pals around with terrorists like Tiny Kitty and Ted. He is also left handed, so he hates America. You all need to find out who the real Frances is and vote for Fish Sandwiches.

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Idiot-Milk:

My friends, we are faced with a serious dinner crisis, and as a result, I have decided to suspend my fish sandwich campaign and focus on this issue. For the American people, and the children, and rainbows, and kittens, and dolphins. I'm going to go all mavericky on this problem's ass and get `er done for Jesus! Amen.

To that end, I'm putting together a proposal, a dinner rescue package designed to resolve this dinner crisis and get us back on the right path to American freedom. And puppies. And the Iraq. My friends. Having said that, I don't believe this proposal is a good idea at all, and I strongly encourage you all to vote against it. I'm going to vote for it, mind you, but you shouldn't because it's the wrong package. Unless it turns out that it's the right package proposal, in which case I'm totally for it. Or not. So vote for it! Or don't! Although I am voting for it, but you shouldn't, and I'll deny having done it. Unless it works, then it was all my idea! My friends!

So here is my proposal: Mexican
And here are your Mexican-ish options: El Vaquero, Chipotle, Qdoba

So vote and help us resolve this issue! I am, however, reserving the right to deny any involvement with this decision and completely change my mind 74 more times. Amen. The Iraq!

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Penelope Sue:

Frances doesn't seem to understand that Chinese food hates us. He supports sitting down with General Tso's chicken without preconditions! His suggestion of Chinese food is just another example of his inexperience and naivete about foreign policy. I admire Idiot-Milk for putting aside partisan arguments about Fish Sandwiches, especially when we all know they are yummy and correct. I strongly support Mexican food over Chinese food and I'd like to nominate Qdoba because I've only ever had it once and I'd like to try it again. I'm open minded. So there.

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Frances:

I'm sorry, but Idiot-Milk's "fake suspension" of her fish sandwich campaign is little more than a political stunt. Just this morning, I received an email from her campaign, praising the value of fish sandwiches and questioning other food options as "foreign," "untested," or even "unpatriotic."

As far as the Chinese goes, I think that we have to open negotiations with Peking Duck and General Tso soon, before our isolationist policies lead us into an unavoidable conflict. We need U.N. inspectors to be let in to see if they're developing MSGs. Negotiations are essential to ensuring that the Happy Family isn't a dream for future meals, but a reality for diners today.

Maybe it won't be a meeting with me, and maybe it won't be this evening, but someone needs to enter into a real, open, and honest dialog about crab rangoon and spring rolls before it's too late.
Like my opponent, I, too, believe we need to act on this dinner crisis quickly, so that we can stop the rumbling in Chaka Khan's stomach and feed this hungry nation. To that end, I move that we put aside our partisan bickering. I am open to Qdoba, but I want to move cautiously, thoroughly reading the menu before making a decision. Only with careful, thoughtful action—and an order of queso and chips--can we see our way through to put America on the right path to dinner.

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Idiot-Milk:

GODDAMNIT, MY FRIENDS! TERRORISM AND JESUS AND FUCK YOU I’M A MAVERICK AND YOU WILL DO AS I SAY! FISH SANDWICH FOREVER! MAVERICKS! MY FRIENDS! MAVERICKS!! MAVERICKSMAVERICKSMAVERICKS!! @#&$(@#&$@&#$@# *head explodes*

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Stuart:

Whoa. Um, so, maybe pizza instead?

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