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Sunday I will be conducting a taste test
Topic Started: Aug 7 2007, 06:07 AM (534 Views)
kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
Polish the Waterford.

I'll be serving 3 glasses.
1. City tap water
2. Sparkletts delivered water
3. GE Profile Reverse Osmosis water

Guest will be blindfolded, earplugged and spun around in their chairs before imbibing.

Bland crackers will be served between courses to clear the palette.

Do you guess the guests will guess correctly?
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
they'll get the tap water, I'd bet.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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TomK
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Won't everyone know which one the sparkling water is because it's, well sparkling? :cool:
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kenny
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TomK
Aug 7 2007, 06:11 AM
Won't everyone know which one the sparkling water is because it's, well sparkling?  :cool:

????


Who said anything about sparkling water?
Sparkletts is a name brand.
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TomK
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kenny
Aug 7 2007, 10:12 AM
TomK
Aug 7 2007, 06:11 AM
Won't everyone know which one the sparkling water is because it's, well sparkling?  :cool:

????


Who said anything about sparkling water?

Sorry, must have misread the Sparketts.
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kenny
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Take that eyepatch off. :P
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TomK
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:biggrin:
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
Make sure you give crackers before the first taste and not just between them.


I'd be curious to see how it comes out. Hopefully you could do this with 5 or more people.
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kenny
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FIVE? :hair:

I don't have that much Waterford. :weeping:
Mikasa simply *won't* do.

Tonight my new RO system should be finished with all of the initial cleansing cycles and I can taste the virginal succulent nectar of environmental tree-hugging bliss.

Surely a place in heaven awaits me. :angel: Posted Image
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TomK
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kenny
Aug 7 2007, 10:21 AM

I don't have that much Waterford. :weeping:

I collect that stuff too:

Powerscourt.
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Mark
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I would not be so fast with that "Tree-Hugger" label.

You are wasting two or three times the amount of water you will be consuming in the process.

Water is our most precious natural resource and you are befouling 2 or 3 times the amount of water you will drink just so you don't have to drink your tap water?

Tap water that your GOVERNMENT is providing you and is making safe for your consumption?

You're not being a very good democrat there Kenny.

Trees need water too!


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Mikhailoh
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kenny
Aug 7 2007, 10:21 AM

Surely a place in heaven awaits me. :angel:

Perhaps, but I wouldn't bet the rent on clean water getting you in... :lol: :lol:
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
As I understand it, it takes 3 gallons of water to produce one gallon of water with the osmosis thingie. That's a terrible waste of resources, don't you think?

Kenny - using less gasoline, but depleting the world's water supply.... ;)
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Frank_W
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"Polish the Waterford."

Is that what they're calling it, now? I call it, "hand-skiing off of Mount Baldy."

But.... "Polish the Waterford" works.... :fallenhalo:
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Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Red Rice
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Yeah, isn't water a scarce resource in California? :P

Seriously, you're wasting all this careful preparation on water, rather than on Pinot Noir or this year's vino verde? What's wrong with you?!!
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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kenny
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Hey Einsteins.
I posted about recovering the "waste" for landscape use.
It has only 25% more minerals and will probably be good for the plants.

Don't ya read?

Ah, once again my place in eco-heaven is secure. :angel:
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Red Rice
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Should Californians really be using water for something as trivial as landscaping?

Think of the fish, kenny. Think of the fish.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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kenny
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yeah yeah yeah

Save the planet, Kill yourself.

blah blah blah
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Red Rice
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kenny
Aug 7 2007, 07:18 AM
Save the planet, Kill yourself.

Is that the motto of hyper-milers? :P
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Mikhailoh
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kenny
Aug 7 2007, 10:55 AM
Hey Einsteins.
I posted about recovering the "waste" for landscape use.
It has only 25% more minerals and will probably be good for the plants.

Don't ya read?

Ah, once again my place in eco-heaven is secure. :angel:

I should think, since you live in LA, aka eco-hell.... :lol:
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kenny
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Mikhailoh
Aug 7 2007, 07:26 AM
kenny
Aug 7 2007, 10:55 AM
Hey Einsteins.
I posted about recovering the "waste" for landscape use.
It has only 25% more minerals and will probably be good for the plants.

Don't ya read?

Ah, once again my place in eco-heaven is secure. :angel:

I should think, since you live in LA, aka eco-hell.... :lol:

We're near the beach.

The ocean breeze blows all that yucky stuff inland.

Of course my hybrid car actually filters the air. :angel:
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
:lol:
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Steve Miller
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Red Rice
Aug 7 2007, 08:16 AM
Should Californians really be using water for something as trivial as landscaping?


Why not? There appears to be plenty - they still grow lot of rice in the valleys north of LA.

The water issues in SoCA are ones of political will, not of infrastructure.
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JBryan
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So far there has been enough political will to keep the Colorado River from reaching the Baja.
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kenny
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Wasting water is a legit concern about RO units though.
I wonder if they will be banned from being sold in Souther California, as were many paint formulations.

I don't feel too guilty - I am canceling out Sparkletts deliver service today.
All those big diesel trucks on the road belching exhaust to deliver what every house already has ain't good.

We don't have a Jacuzzi, or a pool.
We keep our "landscaping" pretty brown.
We didn't have kids that gobble up the planet either like many people.

We're pretty green, so we go to eco-heaven. :angel:

Plus we only process drinking water - about 5 gallons a week.

Frankly, I have not drilled a hole in the wall yet to let the water out, so at the moment the sewage treatment plant is getting the contribution. :eek: :leaving:
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