Yanti & Salty MAD MANATEES Part 2 -- Full Pod (Page 19)

1. Amount of Food

   • Scientists have estimated an adult manatee eats approximately 10 percent to 15 percent of its body weight in food daily. That means the average adult manatee consumes 100 to 150 pounds of food per day.

   Conserve Heat

   • Scientists believe that the manatee's large size and metabolic rate requires it to eat a lot of plants to conserve heat. It needs a large amount of food to help keep it warm in the cool winter waters.

   Digestion Energy

   • Since manatees spend so much time eating, they need to consume large amounts of food to replace energy spent on digestion. Their food intake helps fuel their continuous-eating regimens.

Firstly, whats the point of a food that doesn't taste of anything?

Secondly, i think the run section should have it's finish line back at the KFC so the actual end of the race can be on completion of the fourth DD. If we are going to do this, we may as well do it right.

Ah yes with the neon sombrarro and billboards that start about 100 miles out, the always classic tourist trap:

http://www.thesouthoftheborder.com/

As for grits it is all in how you make them, fresh not instant and with milk and butter not water.  I used to hate them until I went to a restaurant that made them correctly now one of my favorite dishes.  As for boiled peanuts, it is an aquired taste I will give you that but you get the right kind of cajun or ham flavored ones, with the ham bone in the pot while they are cooking, on a hot day after being out doing yard work and they are fantastic.

D'ya think Yanti knew all this when she decided to call mentorees manatees, or is that just a lucky co-inkeedink?

Yes, yes. Do this and take pictures, please

I just spent the last two hours trying to get (wheedle, bribe, blackmail, write large signs, cajole, yell, and finally outright beg) my mom back in bed. It's now 4:30am.

I should have just given her a light sedative. But I'd feel really bad about that.

On the other hand, her helper and I are totally worn out, we can't spend half the night running around after her while she decides to, I don't know, COOK something in the kitchen (she was trying to carry dishes around and take stuff out of the fridge), and at this point she should NOT be running around.

I feel really badly for her because she's so confused (I think I've mentioned she's deaf, has some hearing with these whizzbang new hearing aids and has Alzheimer's) and she doesn't understand why, in her perception, I'm being so mean to her and refusing to tell her what's going on. (I have. About a hundred times. No exaggeration). On the other hand, she's not going to remember any of this.

I need to keep that in mind ... regardless of what I do, she's not going to remember any of this, and really, she shouldn't be tearing around. So I can't decide wrong.

Oy vey. I don't think I can go to sleep now so I'm just going to stay up for the American Idol finale live.

Dude, she's just keeping you on your toes. No relaxing for you!

Oh and eff Phil Phillips one Dave Mathews is enough, thank you. 

Holy Crap!  My email said I had 107 new messages, but I didn't believe it (you know how computers lie) until i checked the forum - you guys were certainly on a roll. 

I must add that grits are yucky, I think I would die if I ate a double down; but am game for any challenge, when i first read "double down" my mind went some place completely different from KFC, i will be using the term "slapper" as often as possible, and dofers have their place.

Carry on.

That is exactly what I thought and I don't even like Dave Matthews that much. Like, yes. That much, no.

He's going to do well whether he wins or not, though. And I do think he deserves to do well, as he's very talented and hardworking and blah, blah, blah. I don't think he deserves to NOT win ... he just doesn't deserve to win as much as Jessica does ... because ...

Jessica can actually sing

Agreed. 

I actually did shots of coffee creamer with Dave one time, I know, weird.

Both of them will do well. I think Jessica has that Beyonce-swag going for her, too. 

Coming from you, not at all. But I would like details on this normalcy from you.

Well, my cousin was a rep for red bull at the time and they were doing a promo with sky vodka for a special backstage party for Dave and his friend and family. I was invited to tag along.

The problem was, there was NO FOOD back there and we weren't able to leave. It was vodka, coffee, red bull and that is IT. I was starving so I resorted to drinking the little cups of creamer (although I must admit, I do this under regular circumstances)

Dave walked in right when I was drinking one and I felt like a total idiot. He could tell I was embarrassed and grabbed one too then we did a little cheers and drank them. 

1. I am talking about Dave Mathews, not AI. There is just a guy on AI that sounds A LOT like Dave. 

2. You would be a fool to think I wasn't also capitalizing on that vodka 

Oh and eff Phil Phillips one Dave Mathews is enough, thank you. 

If the occasion ever occurs where some of us manatees can get together I propose a Double Down challenge. 

A double down followed by a swim, followed by a double down, followed by a run

Charlotte not Charleston, had to check because I was going to be disapointed if it was near me and I hadn't done it...

Man you're tough.

Thanks for the set up Yanti. It was irresistable. And you looked so innocent whilst you posed for the piccie.

That is exactly what I thought and I don't even like Dave Matthews that much. Like, yes. That much, no.

He's going to do well whether he wins or not, though. And I do think he deserves to do well, as he's very talented and hardworking and blah, blah, blah. I don't think he deserves to NOT win ... he just doesn't deserve to win as much as Jessica does ... because ...

Jessica can actually sing