I cook these noodles every day.
Oh, the noodle analogy. You guys are gonna love this. [Kent glares] I will leave.
They need to be heated at 800 watts for 3:35. Any more and they'll dry out, any less and they will be flaccid and damp like...a lady's hair in the rain.
Why are we talking about noodles?
No, let me rephrase that. Why the fuck are we talking about noodles?
I'll tell you why. Hostage crisis, noodles, same principle. Both require precision timing, neither should be rushed. Inaction only becomes untenable when more than 65% of Americans support intervention even with casualties.
So you'd like me to tell the Vice President we do nothing until then?
Waiting is not doing nothing. I choose to wait for my noodles even though my salivary glands are crying out to me like newly hatched birds. But they will thank me because I waited until... [snaps his fingers at the exact same moment as the microwave dings]
...You just timed out that whole shit analogy for your little ding? That is fucking pathetic.
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