Suggested wine pairing: an old Spanish.
THE MOUNTAIN TIME HURLY BURLY
is truly a special thing; Despondency the Wonder Pony’s disguise color has finally been revealed! He’s dead now, though.
It’s a Monday-Thursday week again because I’m traveling and only have two episodes ready to go. If you can guess the city I’m in, you’ll win the idea of a sandwich of your choice.
Hmm. I’ll play the odds and say… Bangalore.
And are there any ideas of sandwiches to be won for guessing the authorial voice font? Not that I know anything about fonts, I’d just like to see the typeface aficionados among the Mountain Time readership swoop in and nail that question first try.
As usual, several wonderful multilayered gags.. from their codenames being things that famously don’t fly gud, to that wonderful callback to Three Amigos, to antimetabole with prepositional reversal for comical effect.. Now based on the absolute undeniable truth that lettuce variety is massively overooked (though it’s hard to find one with good flavor AND backbone), I’m going to guess that you’re in Salinas. I will take a pony sandwich on wonder bread.
You know, when it’s time to pee, I like to say ‘urine, you’re in.’ but only in theory.
NAR: You must’ve wanted a big sandwich! But I am not in Bagalore. I only ban spam accounts, so why would I want to ban galore?
(I know that’s a weak joke, but I’m also on vacation from wording things well.)
I’ll give you the idea of a sandwich if you guess that font, but I can’t confirm the answer until I get home because I don’t have the .psd with me. You’ll have to think of your own sandwiches until then.
Cold: I’m happy that the codename joke was caught, and overjoyed to learn the word “antimetabole.”
However, you’re forgetting that I wrote this roughly a year ago, and had no idea where I’d be now (though the assumption is, of course, Portland). But you’re off by at least 100 miles, and by as many 25,000 (the circumference of the Earth, so you might be so wrong it goes around another half again).
While not a city per se, I’m going to go ahead and posit the region of the Ashepoo Combahee Edisto River Basin of South Carolina wagered against the conceptual sandwich of a oyster Rockefeller stuffed portobello mushroom topped with bacon, shallots, and arugula on a Cuban roll.
Bold! I’ve still never been to South Carolina, and the one time I had oysters Rockefeller was underwhelming, but the sandwich you describe sounds good.
You’re thousands of miles off, though.
Aeons ago, when I was playing 7th Saga on SNES, I came across the S.Witch enemy. It’s a big block of stone with a weird face. But the area you encounter them in has this sandy desert-looking kinda vibe, so I immediately thought “Sand Witch!” So I’m going to assume that you are not, in fact, near Patrof. (And if you are, I’m not giving up my runes.) Lovelock, Nevada would be my “I threw a dart at a map” guess.
I remember the 7th Saga. I did my usual thing of over-leveling in the very beginning (like getting to level 4 when you only need to get to level 2, because I’m that kind of dork), and it turned out that was exactly the wrong way to play that game.
Patrof and Lovelock are both misses.