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Ohh... (Reply to this comment)
by vein
You have a *very* smart wife.
Something gross in these suckers? Toss.
Something that's too hard to clean out in them? Toss.
Smelly? Toss.
My boyfriend rescued 5 of these from the trash and I told him for the .30$ each one cost, he could cut more coupons for me.
Of course he'd rather do that over his dead body. =)
Great review!
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Mar 20 '01
10:56 pm PST
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Re: Amazing Sloucho.. how sweet the sound (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Mark,
Always a pleasure to hear from you, even when your proposals lead to serious bloodloss. My friends and I have an easy enough time injuring one another with conventional darts. If we brought out the heavy artillery, we would doubtless find a way to blow up the water heater.
The next time I'm near wherever you are or you're near wherever I am, we should get together for a few beers in the basement. There's nothing like the smell of mildew to bring out the nuances of a beer buzz.
C-ya,
Mike
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Mar 15 '01
8:06 am PST
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Re: Ah! But does it.... (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Your forgiveness is much appreciated, particularly considering the point you made concerning Deuce.
When it comes to keeping the snacking propensity from the wife, I find it's safest to eat everything left in the container and then claim you had to dump it down the garbage disposal because it was stinking up the fridge. She won't believe you, but she won't be able to prove anything to the contrary.
I'm always thinking . . .
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Mar 15 '01
8:03 am PST
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Re: As anal as I can be (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Incredible! Mrs. Sloucho and I just posted this ad in the local paper:
WANTED
A live-in book reviewer capable of removing tomato stains from plasticware. Must have own wool hat and parka. We'll do the cooking if you'll take care of the stain removal. Send a letter of application and three references to . . .
Thanks for your gracious comments. Come on over this evening. We're having Russian pork chops and spinach salad.
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Mar 15 '01
8:00 am PST
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Amazing Sloucho.. how sweet the sound (Reply to this comment)
by annexation
I am amazed!
I'm amazed that someone was able to write about plasticware and keep my attention throughout.
I'm even more so amazed that you, like myself, have a fridge in the basement stocked with beer.
But when my friends come over, rather than play darts, we play yard darts.
Yard darts in the basement. Though the darts merely ricochet out of the ring, it's truly an engaging past time. After 10+ empty cans of Miller High Life and a stupified buzz, no one seems to care when one of the darts lands in their thigh.
-Mark
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Mar 15 '01
7:50 am PST
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Ah! But does it.... (Reply to this comment)
by NFP
...find a way to automatically disguise the spoon marks from your wife's prying eyes long after you've secretly eaten from the container at 1 a.m. by the glow of the solitary fridge lightbulb!
I have found that no matter how carefully I try and smooth out the food and reposition the remaining food in the container, she knows the moment she opens it.
Now THAT would be something worth crowing about.
Good post, and you're forgiven for Waterboy....for now.
nick
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Mar 14 '01
12:40 pm PST
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As anal as I can be (Reply to this comment)
by jrk
in terms of NHing for off-topic reviews, I didn't feel so much as an itch in VHing this. What better place could there be for this review? You can cook (okay, microwave, but for most folks, that is cooking) in it. It's full of advice. And anyone not already familiar with these handy-dandy containers qualifies as a beginner. So it's on-topic to me. Apart from which, it was thoroughly enjoyable to read.
Now, I have a proposition for you: can I come live with you and your wife? I promise not to eat out of the containers (I'm sure I can break myself of that habit if I really try), and I'll even scrub the stained ones if your wife will just cook for me. I'll even supply my own parka and wool hats, anything to get out of cooking.
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Mar 14 '01
12:16 pm PST
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Re: From The "Indolence Has Gotten A Bad 'Wrap'" Dept. (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
I used to pride myself on not being a transparent consumer. But the more lids I pried off the GladWare containers, the more transparent I became. It's plain to see there's something in the makeup of the containers that makes their transparency contagious. Where there used to be a flesh-and-blood Sloucho who was frozen with terror of being nuked, there is now only a walking vegetable in baggie pants. Perhaps things would have been different if the seal on the containers had turned green to let me know that it was done. Then I wouldn't have been so spoiled by exposure to the conaminants.
Save yourself, sir, and your excellent wit. True happiness can only be found in a spiritual sort of freezer-burn.
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Mar 13 '01
12:02 pm PST
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Re: Where do you buy them? (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Thanks so much for the clever comment. I've made my way over to your profile page and checked out your very enjoyable reviews.
As for where to get them, we get them from BJ's a wholesale club confined (I think) to the East Coast. But I assume they would be available in most wholesale clubs and in larger supermarkets. Hope that helps.
Oh, and the people at Gigglesnickerholics Anonymous recommend putting a plastic bag over your head to solve that gigglesnickering problem once and for all.
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Mar 13 '01
11:54 am PST
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Re: Glad about Gladware (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Are you in the market for a 24-year-old paramedic in Austin? That's my brother-in-law Omar. You have to promise to like Stevie Ray Vaughan and golf. Oh, and you also have to agree never to ask him to leave the city of Austin, which he's convinced is the most perfect place on earth.
He's almost as good a cook as she is, though. So maybe you'll think he's worth it.
In any case, thanks for the read.
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Mar 13 '01
11:51 am PST
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Re: Helpful hint (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Hehehe.
You've p*ssed off my wife. She says that if I want to take the time to scrub out the stains, I can do so. But she figures that it's not worth bothering over for a 35-cent container. Of course, I'm not willing to scrub them because the stains just don't bother me. But something tells me she won't be able to bring herself to the next stained one away.
You rock, Melissa.
Thanks for the read.
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Mar 13 '01
11:48 am PST
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Re: Too much useful information. (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Yeah, that's the weird thing about epinions. At the time of writing and posting, everything feels so natural. But then comes that post-partum depression as our little review-babies make their way into the world and we end up feeling as if we have shared perhaps a bit too much.
I find that a quick look at writtenbyme or themestream quells that feeling right quick, though. It turns out I wouldn't know how to begin sharing too much.
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Mar 13 '01
11:46 am PST
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Re: mmmmmmmm... tupperware (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Egads! What's this? Words from the repulsemeister himself? I had begun to think you had abandoned us. Color me heartened and relieved to know that you still walk this road from time to time. Thanks for bringing that special kind of repulsemonkey humor to my comments section.
C-ya,
Mike
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Mar 13 '01
11:44 am PST
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Re: Erase this, you comment-eating wh@re! (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Thanks loads for the generous comment. I've tried to oblige with a homey, hearthy yoga review that I've been too embarrassed to post.
In the neck? Why hadn't I thought of that? The epinions folks are so busy applying pressure to a certain part of my anatomy that I had only considered responding in kind. Now I see that the proper tactic is to make a conjugal move on their jugular.
Thanks for the read, dearest Tangy!
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Mar 13 '01
11:41 am PST
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Re: Lawdy! (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
I'll admit I have an extraordinary talent for convincing people that I'm a movie star--right up until they ask me which films I've appeared in. But I appreciate your comment (and of course I always appreciate Sundogg's comment) nevertheless.
Come see the softer side of Sloucho!
Thanks for the read, gracious lady,
Mike
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Mar 13 '01
11:38 am PST
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Re: This is as basic as you can get . . . (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Have you considered putting the extra freezer inside your GladWare? I guess that isn't a very helpful solution. Sorry about the small kitchen. We rent a house with absolutely no insulation and a leaky basement and radiant heat that manages to do little more than keep the pipes from freezing. But we're happy because the kitchen, the most important room in any house, is enormous. We've actually been walking around all winter wearing stocking caps because it's simply impossible to keep the house warm, but we won't consider moving until we can find a comparably capacious kitchen.
Thanks for the comment,
Mike
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Mar 13 '01
11:35 am PST
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Re: GladWare, who'd a thunk it (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Fiona,
I should appreciate the importance of keeping foods separate, since the first truly HUGE argument Mrs. Sloucho and I ever had was about how I had allowed her toast to touch her eggs when I prepared breakfast for her one morning. She seriously went what I would have to call nuts about it. I learned that fish and eggs are never allowed to touch anything at all (though they're allowed to touch each other in tuna fish salad).
Thanks for your generous comment.
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Mar 13 '01
11:31 am PST
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Re: Wait! (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
David,
Well, if my review didn't give him the idea, then your comment certanly did. I hope you're satisfied, since the world just sacrificed 7 million manhours of productivity to Freezer-Tetris.
Thanks for your kind remarks,
Mike
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Mar 13 '01
11:27 am PST
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Re: THANKS! (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Thanks for the comment.
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Mar 13 '01
11:25 am PST
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Re: Some wives (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Yeah, but if she lets me do it when we're alone, then I'll form the habit and do it in front of company, perhaps even my mother. She's got this hang up about the kinds of things that she can't stand having my mother think she allows me to do. In-laws. What are ya gonna do? Thanks for your kind comment.
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Mar 13 '01
11:25 am PST
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Re: You're reviewing plastic containers... (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
If being strapped means I can look forward to more reviews of Hooters, I'm all for being strapped.
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Mar 13 '01
11:23 am PST
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Re: LOL (Reply to this comment)
by Sloucho
Thanks for the encouragement.
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Mar 13 '01
11:10 am PST
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From The "Indolence Has Gotten A Bad 'Wrap'" Dept. (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
I have found that "laziness" seems to be the first attribute that people of our perpetually-wrapped up in ourselves, convenience-motivated society seem to "bag"-on! But I put it to you, Sloucho, as someone I trust (wot!?) and pray, is not the typically transparent consumer; as one who has broached this plastic dialogue into which I now deposit my verbal scraps, who has unzip-locked his mouth and sealed his frost-protected, commentary fate into the text of this opinion, thus storing his ideas here for all to observe and read: Is not "Laziness" the imagination's most productive friend?
I'm sorry, *yawn* that was all I was motivated to write. One... more... thing... I'm inclined to ...communicate: this was a ...very ...imagination-provoking ............. .....review. sir.
Just Some Anonymous Poster Posting On Behalf Of The Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Society's Slouches Association
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Mar 13 '01
9:31 am PST
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Where do you buy them? (Reply to this comment)
by nobody_knows
Okay, I didn't read this review for the info, but for the entertainment. But where do you buy them? My freezer needs a game to keep it occupied.
BTW - you mentioned that you and Mrs. Sloucho were childless. Is that perhaps due to one of you being a "Child of God" while the other is one of those straight-from-hell Darwinian evolutions? Just curious. :-)
Thanks for another giggle. (Yes, sigh, I'm one of those weirdos who snicker at plastic containers. It's not easy to confess this on a public forum, but it's one of the 12 steps I must take to recover: Hello, my name is Judy and I'm a plasticcontainergigglesnickeraholic.)
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Mar 13 '01
5:10 am PST
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Glad about Gladware (Reply to this comment)
by prettyinpink
Oh, I laughed so hard at the Tetris reference! Oh ho ho ho! That was inspired.
I have been able to get tomato sauce stains out by filling them with water and adding a generous splot of bleach.
My dilemma: I know where to buy Gladware, but how to I find such a lovely, accomplished cook to fill them with delectables? Does Mrs. Sloucho have a brother? A young grandfather?
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Mar 12 '01
9:16 pm PST
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Helpful hint (Reply to this comment)
by prfstars
Tomato sauce can be a real b-i-t-c-h to remove from plastic storage containers, but soaking them for a while with a little bit of dishwashing detergent (not soap) or a bleach-based scouring powder and hot water helps.
I'm embarrassed that I know that.
Melissa
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Mar 12 '01
8:36 pm PST
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Too much useful information. (Reply to this comment)
by Arazim
I was completely engrossed and entertained with the review; then the comments set me off my last rocker. Wonderful piece, but I suddenly feel like I know you way too well.
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Mar 12 '01
7:28 pm PST
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mmmmmmmm... tupperware (Reply to this comment)
by repulsemonkey
I usually just eliminate the middleman and eat the Gladware itself. That's a money saver. Gladware abuse is another matter altogether. If I could only show you some of the bruises those fiesty devils have given me...
monkey
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Mar 12 '01
6:50 pm PST
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Erase this, you comment-eating wh@re! (Reply to this comment)
by mptang
Dearest Mikey,
While I love your in-depth analyses of films and their cultural and global significance on Hitchcockian warlocks, I much prefer your home and hearth stories. They do give us a peek behind your Wizard of Oz-like curtain where you manipulate all your magic knobs and dials.
And who cares if you're off-topic. Excuse me, but f*uck 'em in the neck!
God bless GladWare! Excellent review, sweetie. More "At Home with Mr. & Mrs. Sloucho" stories, please.
Tang-O-Matic
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Mar 12 '01
6:22 pm PST
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Lawdy! (Reply to this comment)
by kellydeal
Dear Slouch:
We love to see the domestic side o' slouch. Let's the people who read you know you are the down to earth guy that you are rather than Sloucho: Movie Star.
I was trying to think of something witty to post about your fab review of plastics. But I kinda hafta say, I enjoyed sundogg's comment as much as I enjoyed your review.
It got a literal 'laugh out loud' god help me.
In Awe Per Usual,
kelly
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Mar 12 '01
5:57 pm PST
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