Restaurant reviewer busted

"Daniel W. Rouse Jr." wrote in message
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Don't kid around. I hear there is just such a law coming down the pike in
the Obama administration to monitor how much "rich" people spend eating out.

Steve
 
On Dec 31, 9:51?am, sf wrote:


"If it fails..." What a safe harbor comment.

No, we won't know. Its failure - if it fails in the near
term - may involve any number of factors, this included.
My wager is that it will survive and flourish. I'm going
to revisit this topic around 12/15/11 and see how the
restaurant is doing. The thread will be called "Red
Medicine Revisited." If the restaurant has failed,
I'll concede error.
 
On 1/4/2011 3:02 AM, Giusi wrote:
I always wear my sunglasses in stores if I'm shopping during the day.
They're prescription and it's easier than switching to my other glasses.
If I take them off in the store, it's surreal. Nearsighted. lol Of
course I have to take them off or slide them down a little to read labels.

And yes, I know you were being funny. :)
 
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:18:48 GMT, Rhonda Anderson
wrote:


Everyone expects grade inflation these days; except these people have
lawyers (not parents) to do their battling for them after they have a
temper tantrum.


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Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
Dave Smith wrote in
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However, right-wingers constantly make a similar assumption about
socialists. Just read the pusillanimous maunderings of your
coreligionaries in response to articles from the Star or the Globe. So, in
the arena of politics where the conservatives' swollen amygdala responses
resemble nothing as closely as Tourette's syndrome, the odd slip in
response is hardly a major faux pas.

It's that hedgehog mindset that does you disservice. But then again, if
you are a true hedgehog, you cannot become a fox, can you?


Hardly. I chose to ignore a childish attempt to formulate an argumentum ad
ignorantiam, by which I am doing you a favour.

--

On the first day God created the sun - so the Devil countered
and created sunburn. On the second day God created sex. In
response the Devil created marriage. On the third day God created
an economist. This was a tough one for the Devil, but in the end
and after a lot of thought he created a second economist!

http://www.blabbinit.com/content/god-created-economist
 
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:54:23 -0500, Boron Elgar wrote:


frankly, he doesn't seem to know much about anything at all.

your pal,
blake
 
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:31:46 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:


as far as i know most restaurant reviewers make it a practice to wait until
a restaurant ha been open a while - so that any opening kinks are ironed
out - before writing a review.

your pal,
blake
 
"James Silverton" wrote in message
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If they got hold of me, it would take the better part of an hour to go
through my wallet and find it. And others, too. Look at how long it takes
some people to produce ID during a traffic stop. The lines would be around
the block, with people still waiting at closing. I believe the policy would
change the next day.
 
"David Harmon" wrote in message
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A childhood friend of mine was named Major. I did not know him into
adulthood, and don't know what sort of situations his name created.
Why not just a name like YourHighness? Or King? Or YourHonor?

Or Potassium? Or Nitrogen? Or some other equally boring element? .........

Reminds me of a girl I once dated named Rainey. Had siblings named Stormy,
Cloud, etc. Mom had had a little too much acid ......................

Steve
 
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:24:42 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:


I stand corrected there and apologize for that point, but she was
attending in an non-professional capacity, so what's the biggie?

What I am investigating from other articles, is whether the actual
call was made by Virbila.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-critic-20101223,0,2330320.story
Virbila, who had booked her reservation under another name, arrived
promptly with her husband and two friends. They waited 20 minutes,
then 30, then 40 ? which didn't much bother her, Virbila said.

"The menu looked really interesting," she said. Besides, she was there
"just to check it out. I wasn't writing a review that night."

Never said he wasn't, just that a lot of folks here do not.

Boron
 
Dan wrote on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:12:11 -0800:



The common medical qualification in Britain is MB, ChB and some
high-flyers also have a PhD. The MD is awarded after several years of
published research altho' that was not the case in the nineteenth
century when it could be gotten by putting together surveys and reports
of varying merit.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
 
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:09:07 -0800 (PST), Lyndon Watson wrote:


this is the stupidest comment in a thread chock-full of stupid.

blake
 
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:08:22 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:


That's because they are post grads and post Docs.

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Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:32:58 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:


I'd say you serious misinterpreted what she said, which you can see
below.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-critic-20101223,0,2330320.story
"The menu looked really interesting," she said. Besides, she was there
"just to check it out. I wasn't writing a review that night."

Even with this written in the article right above my first quote, your
interpretation would be a stretch:

Virbila, who had booked her reservation under another name, arrived
promptly with her husband and two friends. They waited 20 minutes,
then 30, then 40 ? which didn't much bother her, Virbila said.

But they give a restaurant 3 months for their shakedown cruise before
they review.

Russ Parsons, the food editor of the LAT, has written this:

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-editors-note-restaurants-20101230,0,3870239.story
Where will Red Medicine fit in? Only time will tell. We give every
restaurant a three-month grace period to get the kinks worked out
before reviewing. (Virbila was only there out of curiosity when they
booted her.)

So, all indications are that Virbilia was there at Red Medicine as a
private diner, albeit one who has much more interest in restaurants
than the average Joe.

Boron
 
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"Lyndon Watson" wrote

I have to agree with you. NO lies are acceptable. Last Halloween Superman
came to my door. Only later did I find out it was the kid down the street,
not Superman. That lying little bastard will never get candy from me again.
 
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:58:31 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


LOL! Thanks for the comic relief.

:)

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Never trust a dog to watch your food.
 
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