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Faux jungle setting, fake animals pop up, you shoot them
with fake rifle that uses a light beam to hit the target. If you
hit the animal, it's brought to your table prepared.
The animals would be fanciful Dr Seuss style beasts like the
"tacodile", the "burritopotomus" and "pizzasaur".
Take
one of my favorite restaurants to the next level. (see
link)
Rainforest Cafe
https://www.google....st=1471819964982190
Like this, only you grab a gun and go hunting for dinner. [doctorremulac3, Aug 20 2016]
One of the dining areas.
https://i.ytimg.com...M/maxresdefault.jpg
The animatronic animals come to life making noise and moving every 5 minutes or so. [doctorremulac3, Aug 20 2016]
[link]
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No croissant for you today, sonny boy ... |
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Re. link. I am not, ever, under any circumstances,
eating at an establishment that features a man-sized
fibreglass frog. |
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<addendum, post-Googling> Not am I eating at a
place whose menu items include "Rainforest Burger",
"Tribal Salmon", and "Amazon Fajitas". What the
coition is tribal about salmon?? |
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Trust me, you guys would love this place. Food tastes better
in a room full of jungle animal robots. |
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WTC is tribal salmon? Maybe it was a misprint. |
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I also suspect that Amazon Fajitas may not be
entirely identical to the authentic fajitas which are
the staple food of so many indigenous Amazon
natives. This is, however, only a suspicion. |
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On the other hand, if //[t]he animatronic animals
come to life making noise and moving every 5
minutes or so.//, then that is an improvement on the
service in many restaurants in Paris. |
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<mumble mumble> 1870 siege of Paris menu <mumble mumble mumble> |
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Baked, grilled, or fried ... ? |
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I can't seem to get any further than a rum-ball with a silver dung-beetle holder. |
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(I've been to one of their franchises... apart from the seriously impressive aquarium it was depressing) |
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The one in San Francisco is fun. |
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I'm pretty easily amused though. |
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Everything in SF is more fun. It's the people. I believe. |
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When I was a kid Dad took us to an indoor rimfire rifle
range, where one of the targets you could buy had a bunch
of pizza images that you could shoot. It was something like
3 hits on any image and you would win that for free at the
pizza joint next door, or some buy 1 get 1 free deal or
whatever. |
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I remember being charmed by the novelty at the time. But
then again I was about 10 years old... |
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// It's the people. I believe. // |
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And I always thought it was the sourdough. Must return and see. |
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Is the funth of SF perhaps due to the fact that has
equal density of fun compared to other cities, but in
the case of SF it has all been crumpled up into a
smaller area, as viewed from above? Or is it that fun
runoff from neighbouring areas accumulates in all
those crinkles? |
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Is that Metric or Imperial funth? |
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Let's see, neighboring area funth factors. Marin
across the bay, pretty high on the funth scale,
Berkeley also across the bay if awesome of you're a
foaming at the mouth Bolshevik. Oakland next to
that is great if you like getting murdered. To the
south is the Peninsula, a lot of boring cities until
you get to glorious Palo Alto, all hail the might
dollar! Fun if you like listening to assholes in two
hundred thousand dollar cars angrily honking at
anything they see. |
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I think San Francisco's appeal comes from its
acceptance of various approaches to life. For one
thing, it's the center of the gay universe, (I respect
gays but I'm not going to use that dumb initialism
that adds a different letter every couple of years
to see of you're still obeying the rules.) and it was
a famous center of the counter culture in the 60s.
I believe this comes from it being a port city where
for hundreds of years people came from all over
the world to make money and get laid no matter
who they were. So pretty much what's going on
there today. |
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It is one of the prettiest cities in the world. Worth
visiting for that alone. If you ever come out this
way Max, let me know. I'll tell you what to check
out and what to avoid. It is one of those cities like
Paris or London where you have to see it at least
once. |
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I shall bear that in mind, thanks, [Doc]. As it
happens, my oldest daughter* is currently at Berkely
for a few weeks, and initial reports are favourable. |
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(*Also youngest and only.) |
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//my oldest daughter* is currently at Berkely for a
few weeks// |
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Uh oh. Well, on the other hand, U.C. Berkeley has
one of the top science programs in the country.
Lawrence Livermore lab is just up the road and
they
design hydrogen bombs and laser weapons systems
up
there so it's not all left wing fun and frolic over
there. |
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Tell her to stay out of Oakland (except for Jack
London Square which is nice) and ESPECIALLY to
stay out of Richmond. |
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She'll be at UC Berkeley (unless she decides to build a
nuclear bomb). |
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Sandia Labs is better. They can pull totally awesome boules of monocrystalline HMX ... different propagation velocities depending on which crystal axis is initiated. |
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Basically, "bomb porn" .... |
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Everyone needs a hobby... |
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More of an unhealthy obsession, but fun nonetheless ... |
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Quite so. How's that broken arm of yours, [8th] -
have they found it yet? |
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Dunno. Gave up and replicated a replacement. At least it was insured third party, fire and theft ... managed to claim under the "fire" clause, eventually. |
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In the end, they agreed to pay out - OK, so it wasn't exactly "fire", but it was definitely a rapid and highly exothermic chemical reaction, liberating large amounts of hot gas. |
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Yeah, I've had those too. Sturton's home-brew can do
that. Never blew an arm off, mind. |
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