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What the fuck is “fire eagle”? what is it good for? why did i bookmark it? why did i sign up?

- Chris

FireEagle is Yahoo!’s version of DodgeBall. You remember DodgeBall, right? No, you don’t remember DodgeBall? Well it was an early entry to social media that came out in like 2005. Basically you text your location and it tells everyone you know with it a certain radius where you are.

Essentially it is cyber-stalking meets microblogging meets fail concept from 3 years ago. Why you signed up is anybody’s guess. Maybe you liked DodgeBall but hate the fact that it is owned by The Google.

The only thing I think of it being useful for is mass texting your friends to let them knoe that you are lonely and drinking in their neighborhood.

Why can’t you get a tossed chef salad? Pile of lettuce, pile of ham, pile of turkey, couple eggs. Can’t they mix it up?

- Ginny

First bit of history care of Epicurious;

Though nobody has ever stepped forward to claim the title of the chef in “chef’s salad,” the dish has been attributed by some food historians to Louis Diat, chef of The Ritz-Carlton in New York City in the early 1940s. He paired watercress with halved hard-boiled eggs and julienne strips of smoked tongue, ham, and chicken. (The concept of the chef’s salad dates still earlier; one seventeenth-century English recipe for a “grand sallet” calls for lettuce, roast meat, and a slew of vegetables and fruits.)

Yes, Ginny, one can physically toss a Chef’s Salad but it gets messy. Also there was an agreement made in 1978 that strictly what types of salads that may be tossed . On a more serious note you should be careful who you ask to toss a chef’s salad; it could end badly.