View Full Version : Take Bobby Boswell to Lunch!
Hedbal
19 Aug 2006, 08:51 PM
Sunday's "The Washington Post Magazine" has a short item entitled "Save & Splurge" on page 9 featuring our own Bobby Boswell. Nice picture, too. The salient point is that Bos figures that he blows $10-15k a year eating out, because he doesn't cook.
This surely will lead to hundreds of unnattached chicks inviting the Bos to dinner at their place, which will should shortly lead to one exhausted, and possibly overweight, central defender. Like Nickell being named one of DC's 50 Most Beautiful People and probably having his drinks comped for as long as he stays here, the Bos just saved himself about 10 grand and guaranteed himself an active social life by being profiled in the magazine.
I usually see Bobby at the Reserve matches. Maybe I should invite him to dinner.
Th4119
19 Aug 2006, 08:56 PM
So he spends half his money eating meals out?
Maybe it's time he learns to cook...:confused:
Hedbal
19 Aug 2006, 09:10 PM
So he spends half his money eating meals out?
Maybe it's time he learns to cook...:confused:
(Bobby Boswell:"I only eat out. I don't cook; I don't grocery shop." )
Thirty years ago that routine might have worked, but I don't think many modern young women would put up with that helpless a male for very long. So, if Bobby has his long-term interest in mind I agree he should learn to cook. And grocery shop. When/if he goes abroad for big bucks then, and only then, could he really afford to eat out regularly.
shawn12011
19 Aug 2006, 09:38 PM
"Paging Riz. Paging Riz. Please pickup the white courtesy phone." :D
roadkit
19 Aug 2006, 09:43 PM
Boz: I have two words for you: Top Ramen. I bet even you can boil water.
D.C. UNITED #1
19 Aug 2006, 09:49 PM
I'm sure there are great chefs (like myself) within the fanbase..
I'd make a meal for Boswell( or hte whole damn team) if it meant breaking our winless streak!!
elconejito
19 Aug 2006, 10:24 PM
(Bobby Boswell:"I only eat out. I don't cook; I don't grocery shop." )
Thirty years ago that routine might have worked, but I don't think many modern young women would put up with that helpless a male for very long. So, if Bobby has his long-term interest in mind I agree he should learn to cook. And grocery shop. When/if he goes abroad for big bucks then, and only then, could he really afford to eat out regularly.
its not just helpless guys tho. I know a SHOCKINGLY large # of women who can't cook. I think its one of those things that parents just dont teach their kids these days...
Hedbal
19 Aug 2006, 11:20 PM
its not just helpless guys tho. I know a SHOCKINGLY large # of women who can't cook. I think its one of those things that parents just dont teach their kids these days...
Agreed. My mother, who grew up with servants, couldn't cook at all when she married my Dad, a young Army Air Corps officer who had gone to Cooks and Bakers School. Dad did most of the cooking, using the cookbook from the school. A typical recipe would begin "Peel 50 pounds of potatoes...."
I do at least half of the cooking in my home, and my two older boys do so as well. I think they cook more than their wives.
D.C. UNITED #1
20 Aug 2006, 03:48 AM
It'd be one of the MANY things kids aren't learning these days.
It's difficult to learn when you have thousands of video games, the internet, concerts galore, anime, and a bajillion fast food restaurants...
The only thing they are becoming masters of is self indulgence. But that is the american way...
It's a wonder why they should learn anything in the first place when you can just make a band, music group or come up with some website and then sell it for billions of dollars to some corporation, not to mention you can make money just by playing video games, or sports...
I won't go into a lengthy dissertation, but I do agree that kids are not learning the essentials; english and grammar being the worst knowledge they lack.
of course this is all opinion and you know what they say about opinions...
Publius
20 Aug 2006, 05:39 AM
Wow, this became a cranky old man thread in a hurry.
Sanguine
20 Aug 2006, 06:18 AM
Wow, this became a cranky old man thread in a hurry.
Back in my day, we didn't have to go out to eat. The armed forces provided us all the food we needed on that god-forsaken ship, headed to some god-forsaken island in the middle of the god-forsaken Pacific to fight some god-forsaken war...
Hedbal
20 Aug 2006, 08:38 AM
Back in my day, we didn't have to go out to eat. The armed forces provided us all the food we needed on that god-forsaken ship, headed to some god-forsaken island in the middle of the god-forsaken Pacific to fight some god-forsaken war...
Yeah, and that was after a childhood in which we walked miles to school in blinding snow - and it was uphill both ways!
yure323
20 Aug 2006, 08:58 AM
I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night , half an hour before i went to bed, eat a loaf of cold poison, work 29 hours a day, and when i got home my dad would kill me and dance about on my grave.
And you try to tell that to the young people of today and they won't believe you...:)
BigKris
20 Aug 2006, 10:53 AM
I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night , half an hour before i went to bed, eat a loaf of cold poison, work 29 hours a day, and when i got home my dad would kill me and dance about on my grave.
And you try to tell that to the young people of today and they won't believe you...:)
Luxury.
Knave
20 Aug 2006, 10:57 AM
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500664.html
"Paging Riz. Paging Riz. Please pickup the white courtesy phone." :D
:D
A boy after my own heart. :D
URwormfood
20 Aug 2006, 11:14 AM
BOZILLA'S TAKEOUT!!!
http://home.comcast.net/~mmmalone/bozilladinner.gif
:eek:
~worm~
You gotta eat!!! :D
joehill
20 Aug 2006, 12:31 PM
i saw bobby at lauriol plaza last sunday, not cheap
s0ccerm0m
20 Aug 2006, 12:47 PM
The real question is, is Bobby better looking than David Beckham? Check out the Panasonic All Access in mlsnet.com. That question was posed to Gros and Esky. LOL!
nancyb
20 Aug 2006, 08:16 PM
its not just helpless guys tho. I know a SHOCKINGLY large # of women who can't cook. I think its one of those things that parents just dont teach their kids these days...
I have an answer for him:
Cooking School for the College Set (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701360.html)
I have to admit that after reading that article, I made my kids help me chop vegetables for soup today. I haven't done that much cooking with my kids. Mainly things like cookies and pancakes. But, when I realized my 12 year old son was still asking us to cook his Ramen noodles, I sat him right down and instructed him in the fine art of boiling water.