David,

I think you're going to love these:

http://trongs.com/

=R=

ronnie_suburban wrote:David,

I think you're going to love these:

http://trongs.com/

=R=

Very inspirational. I'm now working on "World-Class Asses: Trong-Lickers"

Mysore Woodlands also has a sink in the dining room.

I've got no problem with licking fingers if you're using them as utensils, like someone upthread mentioned. But I don't touch communal things afterwards unless I wash or use a Wet One. Anyway, at a lot of these LTH gatherings, don't we have some eats, then go back for seconds, often with our hands or used utensils? I've often been asked to try a bite of someone's whatever, so I try to use the handle of my utensil to transfer the food but eat with the other end, but often I'm told not to bother with that. What's the difference between that and licking your fingers after eating ribs?
I went to Addis Abeba not long ago, and four of us shared a communal tray of food, with nothing but a thin piece of bread over our fingers. I tried not touching my mouth, but that doesn't mean my spit didn't travel.

David Hammond wrote:

ronnie_suburban wrote:David,

I think you're going to love these:

http://trongs.com/

=R=

Very inspirational. I'm now working on "World-Class Asses: Trong-Lickers"

Thought I saw Thong for a moment. (where is the 'green in the face'/sick icon when you need it)

David...I found your world-class ass finger licker. The president himself, Barrack Obama.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/01/31/bolduan.dc.renaissance.mxf.cnn
*It's just before the mid point in the video where you see 'the most powerful man in America' lick his thumb!

WARNING: You may not want to watch this video if finger licking makes you sick.

Call me a prude, but "Asses" and "Finger-Lickers" are two phrases that should never appear side-by-side.

Hobble the White Horse of the Apocalypse; Forego Finger-Licking!

Swine flu spread could be diminished if people would just try to keep their hands out of their mouths. Is that too much to ask to save the world?

REPENT! And suck digits no more.

David Hammond wrote: Is that too much to ask to save the world?

Hammond, I think your stringer was full in this thread before the end of 2008. High comedy!

Fresser wrote:Call me a prude, but "Asses" and "Finger-Lickers" are two phrases that should never appear side-by-side.

Prude!

Richard Roeper weighs in on finger-lickers in today's column.

...Beyond that, whether you're a contestant on "Survivor" savoring your first real meal in a week, a hunter chowing down your kill or a 9-year-old at KFC, you should know better than to take the whole "finger-lickin' good" thing literally.

aschie30 wrote:

David Hammond wrote:I always use a paper towel when opening the doors of public lavatories,

Slightly OT: What do you do with the paper towel after you use it to open the door to exit the lav?

I yank the door open and toss back the paper in one move..I aim for the garbage can if it's close but most on the time it ends up on the floor.

Finger Licking Proud for more than 50 years!

Just curious...what do you think you did as a small child?

hoppy2468 wrote:Finger Licking Proud for more than 50 years!

Just curious...what do you think you did as a small child?

You still do everything you did as a small child? Suck thumb? Diapers? Cry a lot? Really?

hoppy2468 wrote:Finger Licking Proud for more than 50 years!

Just curious...what do you think you did as a small child?

I sure as hell didn't lick my fingers. That's gross!

David Hammond wrote:

aschie30 wrote:

David Hammond wrote:I always use a paper towel when opening the doors of public lavatories,

Slightly OT: What do you do with the paper towel after you use it to open the door to exit the lav?

This takes practice, but my technique is to open the door with towel-protected hand and then as the door closes I flick the paper towel into the wastebasket or, if the wastebasket has a lid, I hold the door with my foot or elbow and open the lid with my other foot. Alternatively, I take the towel with me and dump it into a wastebasket in the dining room (not desirable, but sometimes the only way to go). It's not easy being obsessive-compuslve.

I saw a door handle that you'd love. When leaving a men's room the other day I was surprised to see this thing mounted on the door:



This is the Pūrleve Hygienic Door Handle, the first such device I have encountered. After consulting the instructions to be sure I wasn't about to set off any alarms, I pulled on the handle to open the door and emerged into the hallway with my hand still pristinely clean.

I was so impressed with the device I went back in so I could observe the Pūrleve in operation. The handle is sheathed in a thin plastic covering, similar to that used on automatic toilet seats. When the handle is pulled and released it activates a motor that pulls a length of fresh sheath up through the hollow handle while rolling the used portion down into the mechanism. It's the mysophobe's dream come true.

This Pūrleve was at Milwaukee Ale House. Most of their beer isn't anything special, the burgers aren't worth getting excited about, but they sure do have clean bathroom door handles.

Milwaukee Ale House
233 N Water St
Milwaukee WI
414-226-2337

Pūrleve Hygienic Door Handle
http://www.purleve.com/

David Hammond wrote:

aschie30 wrote:

David Hammond wrote:I always use a paper towel when opening the doors of public lavatories,

Slightly OT: What do you do with the paper towel after you use it to open the door to exit the lav?

This takes practice, but my technique is to open the door with towel-protected hand and then as the door closes I flick the paper towel into the wastebasket or, if the wastebasket has a lid, I hold the door with my foot or elbow and open the lid with my other foot. Alternatively, I take the towel with me and dump it into a wastebasket in the dining room (not desirable, but sometimes the only way to go). It's not easy being obsessive-compuslve.

Pic taken today in bathroom at Shaw's:

I'm definitely a no-shoes in the house (try that one at my house and I might spit in your tea, did you want mint with that?), avoid touching the lavatory door handle, flush with my shoes, wash hands often kinda guy. Eating with my (right) hand, however, is a privilege and a skill I enjoy and take pride in.

I grew up in a house with a dad who would probably get along well with Mr. Hammond. This guy had the audacity to make us eat our hummus from our own plates instead of communally dipping from the bowl. This is sacrilege. Blasphemers in Palestine would be shot dead as collaborators, their bodies hung from olive trees as a warning to would-be hummus partitioners. In America, however, anything goes. The only way to eat hummus in a manner befitting civility, is to eat it from a communal bowl, dipping from your own side only please. Assholes that smoosh their bread around the bowl willy nilly and reach all the way across the bowl for a dip may also be shot.

And there is no greater pleasure than eating eating biryani with your (right) hand. Here, I am still a student. Far too many grains leave my claws before a scoop enters my mouth. I'm working on it. If anyone cares to join me, I'll be practicing at Ghareeb Nawaz the next chance I get.

Habibi wrote:I'm definitely a no-shoes in the house (try that one at my house and I might spit in your tea, did you want mint with that?), avoid touching the lavatory door handle, flush with my shoes...

Then how do you flush in your house?

I never tried eating biryani with just my hand, I have trouble enough keeping it on the fork, but after all the good things I've heard about Gareeb Nawaz, I'll have to make the trip very soon.

Habibi wrote:I'm definitely a no-shoes in the house (try that one at my house and I might spit in your tea, did you want mint with that?), avoid touching the lavatory door handle, flush with my shoes, wash hands often kinda guy. Eating with my (right) hand, however, is a privilege and a skill I enjoy and take pride in.

I grew up in a house with a dad who would probably get along well with Mr. Hammond. This guy had the audacity to make us eat our hummus from our own plates instead of communally dipping from the bowl. This is sacrilege. Blasphemers in Palestine would be shot dead as collaborators, their bodies hung from olive trees as a warning to would-be hummus partitioners. In America, however, anything goes. The only way to eat hummus in a manner befitting civility, is to eat it from a communal bowl, dipping from your own side only please. Assholes that smoosh their bread around the bowl willy nilly and reach all the way across the bowl for a dip may also be shot.

And there is no greater pleasure than eating eating biryani with your (right) hand. Here, I am still a student. Far too many grains leave my claws before a scoop enters my mouth. I'm working on it. If anyone cares to join me, I'll be practicing at Ghareeb Nawaz the next chance I get.

You seem an eminently reasonable person…except for the no-shoe policy

I was reminded of the finger-licking issue the other day when I was watching Pie Paradise. The proprietor of Dooky Chase was showing off her sweet potato pie recipe...there she goes pouring in like 8 pounds of sugar...now time for a taste...wait, no spoon?...nooooooooooooooooooo

Hammond,

I have no problem rubbing my filthy soles all over someone else's home, just don't try it at my own!

Ha - "my house is a mosque, motherfu**er" bibi.

Habibi wrote:Hammond,

I have no problem rubbing my filthy soles all over someone else's home, just don't try it at my own!

Ha - "my house is a mosque, motherfu**er" bibi.

Went to a party about three weeks ago, and everyone was taking shoes off, but it was cold, so once again, I kept my shoes on and just stood on the carpet in the hallway. Idiosyncratic? Probably. Obnoxious? Perhaps. But I have principles I'm ready to fight for, and keeping my warm feet is one of them.

David "Don't tread on me by not letting me tread on your floors...with my relatively clean shoes on" Hammond

PS. I would never ask a person to take off their shoes when coming into my house. It's everyone's perogative to run their homes the way they wish, but at my place, you can keep your shoes on.

David Hammond wrote:

Habibi wrote:Hammond,

I have no problem rubbing my filthy soles all over someone else's home, just don't try it at my own!

Ha - "my house is a mosque, motherfu**er" bibi.

Went to a party about three weeks ago, and everyone was taking shoes off, but it was cold, so once again, I kept my shoes on and just stood on the carpet in the hallway. Idiosyncratic? Probably. Obnoxious? Perhaps. But I have principles I'm ready to fight for, and keeping my warm feet is one of them.

David "Don't tread on me by not letting me tread on your floors...with my relatively clean shoes on" Hammond

PS. I would never ask a person to take off their shoes when coming into my house. It's everyone's perogative to run their homes the way they wish, but at my place, you can keep your shoes on.

Idiosyncratic? Probably. Obnoxious? Perhaps. WUSSIFIED? Absolutely!!!

This would have been a good time to bring bunny slippers.

Family visiting my house usually do bring their bunny slippers! I never asked them to do it. Maybe it is a sort of "country" thing. Works for me.

Hi,

Somewhere, sometime, perhaps I can hope it never happened. I watched someone mixing a bowl of potato salad with their hands. I was cool with that until they decided to taste their creation: whole paw inserted into mouth. Instead of washing their hands to resume mixing, they went back to mixing with this same licked clean paw.

Maybe I ate the potato salad or not, though I lived through the ordeal.

Regards,

A new book that may appeal to David, or to the LTH Scrabble players:

Gourmet Game Night
Bite-Sized, Mess-Free Eating for Board-Game Parties, Bridge Clubs, Poker Nights, Book Groups, and More
by Cynthia Nims

Description: "Have you ever accompanied an evening of game-playing with a bowl of salty chips or slabs of pizza? If so, you know that greasy fingers can be a distraction, with players interrupting the game to grab napkins or even lick their fingers--immediately before grabbing the communal spinner. Gourmet Game Night has the solution: instead of relying on conventional convenience snacks and standbys, you've got imaginative, homemade options; instead of greasy hands and game pieces, you've got mess-free, bite-sized snacks."

Available as an ebook from the Chicago Public Library downloadable media website.

http://trongs.com/

Free up your fingers for texting!!

Hi,

I don't like my fingers getting wet. If I am eating something mess in a restaurant, guaranteed there is a pile of napkins collecting at my location.

I wonder if I will see them on shark tank someday.

Regards,