Jul 18th 2012 08:11 am Cool is as cool does
I own a tuxedo. I bought it in 1992, coincidentally the same year I bought my Ford truck. They both look good still, but I think I’ve worn the tux three times in all those years. The truck I drive every day. I apologize, but I don’t have a lot of time this morning. Stay cool!
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143 Responses to “Cool is as cool does”
Tom from the Front Range on 18 Jul 2012 at 8:17 am #
Strangely, I can still fit into a car I bought in 1992 but not a suit bought that same year.
Conclusion: Suits shrink, cars don’t.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:11 am #
Buying a tux is a good investment. You can get a nice used one and it will pay for itself after two or three events. I’ve probably worn mine six or seven times in the 15 or so years since I bought it. I’ve been tempted to wear it at unexpected moment- like shopping for groceries.
BTW, even though we tend to think of tuxedos as formal wear, they were created as a casual alternative to wear to dinner instead of the formal tailcoat.
Mindy on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:15 am #
I got John into a tuxedo. Once. He looked spectacular! Perhaps I should have rewarded him better and he’d have worn it more often…like…twice a week?
Gocomics went south this morning, I see.
Bob, near Mark on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:54 am #
The problem this AM with GoComics may have something to do with the fact that they’ve changed the way they number the daily strips. Instead of some long random set of letters and numbers, it is now aj+the date.
billinbossier on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:56 am #
Why did I think that you had retired the old trunk and was driving something newer?
Russel Trojan on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:45 am #
Our host said, “I don’t have a lot of time this morning …”. He seems to say that frequently. Is anyone else looking forward to the day when he says, “I’ve got nothing on my schedule today, let’s chat.”?
John in Richmond Texas on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:50 am #
re: being cool, My favorite line from The Larry Sanders Show is Larry telling Artie “be there or be square” and Artie replies “I can do both!” I know it sounds dumb, but for some reason, it seems applicable to my wife and me. Not a tuxedo, but I have been in my Victorian era top hat, coat, etc in a grocery store in Galveston, we were done with Dickens on the Strand and didn’t want to wear the stuff all the way home, (changed in the restroom, not the produce section or anything like that) but i will put it on for Thankgiving or for the neighbors at Christmas.
Alyre on 18 Jul 2012 at 11:01 am #
I have an older cat. She’s alittle overweight……you’d think she would want to be in the AC. I only have AC in my bedroom…she comes in for a minute or two but leaves to go lay on the rug in the living room…I can tell she’s hot….can’t figure the old girl out……Man, hotter than young love out there, isn’t it?
Jerry in Fl on 18 Jul 2012 at 11:02 am #
Read last night where the expression “seventh heaven” comes from. Anybody know?
Mindy on 18 Jul 2012 at 11:20 am #
Jerry in Fl, I once had a philosophy instructor tell me that 7th Heaven is to diametrically oppose the 7th Level of Hell. Mirror image and all that. But who knows about philosophers? You know what Mel Brooks call them in his “History of the World.”
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 18 Jul 2012 at 1:26 pm #
It is funny that Arlo is concerned about taking pictures all the time not being cool. This strip was drawn WELL before digital cameras and Facebook. I can remember going on vacation with a set amount of rolls of film because I knew that it would be costly to develop them all.
Now some of the stuff posted makes you wonder “Who really cares about that photo?”
Having said that, please look at a picture of my daughter about to do a “Peter Pan” off the Sears Tower. http://twitpic.com/a7c0rv
Dennis Ewing on 18 Jul 2012 at 1:48 pm #
I’ve managed to go 56 years without wearing a tux. I figure I have another 20 max left in me and i can see no reason upcoming to ever wear one. i own several suits and wear one once or twice a week, but just never had cause to wear a tux. Told my daughter when she was getting married that I would not wear a tux, deal with it and she did. My sons’ wives got the same thing. The only one with a surviving father thanked me for it. It meant he didn’t have to wear one either.
Mindy on 18 Jul 2012 at 1:52 pm #
Speaking of weddings, at mine, as the ceremony ended, and it was uniquely informal, trust me, a close friend said, “I’ll see you at the conception.” I had a very difficult time not laughing. And although there never has been a conception, our choice, I keep looking for the little fellow as a harbinger of bad news.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 18 Jul 2012 at 2:31 pm #
Mindy:
You mean that you never constipated the marriage?
Mary in Ohio on 18 Jul 2012 at 2:43 pm #
In today’s (new) strip JJ wisely points out that, when hot, cats DO pant. Most “cat books” say that a cat panting is seriously ill, but in weather such as most of us have been having, they DO pant and are not seriously ill if that is the ONLY sign of distress and they have access to shad (or shade) and water. (You folks farther south than me probably already know this, as JJ pointed out. When I went to Arizona during th Ohio heat wave of 1988, I was surprised to see the birds panting. This year they are panting around here, too. And it’s not a “dry” heat.)
Galliglo in Ohio on 18 Jul 2012 at 2:59 pm #
Steve from RO: Great picture – cute daughter! But…. you ARE joking – right? Please agree with me?
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 18 Jul 2012 at 3:11 pm #
Galliglo:
They put in several glass enclosed ledges on the west side so you can stand right out and look straight down. I had to take a deep breath before I walked out as I have had nightmares about falling off of tall buildings.
But there were 10-15 people standing on it and I realized that it must be rated for a couple of tons. BTW, a bunch of folks were watching my daughter and started clapping after she was done. When we got in the elevator to go back downstairs, someone said “Oh look the Handstand Girl”
Here is a better picture of all of us:
http://twitpic.com/a93hbq
Mindy on 18 Jul 2012 at 3:33 pm #
Steve from Royal Oak, anyway I answer that is going to turn around and bite me. So I’ll take the fifth.
And if John answers, I’ll take more than a pound of flesh.
Mindy from Indy on 18 Jul 2012 at 3:48 pm #
Re today’s “hot cat” strip -my cat HATES to have anything blowing on her fur. Fans or air from the vents are avoided like a bath. Speaking of baths, she has a very dense undercoat (she is super soft, like an angora rabbit) that is ridiculously water-resistant. Giving her a bath (or cooling her down with water) is a bit like washing a Scotch-guarded carpet that fights back. She loves to lounge paws up. I call it her ‘possum pose.” It’s not because she’s hot, I keep it really cool in winter (63-65) and that’s still her favorite way to hang out.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Jul 2012 at 4:46 pm #
Dear Mindy, has John ever mentioned that you apparently utilize a rather far-ranging punishment/reward system?
I’ve always been tempted to wear a tux to work, just to make my all-female office staff wonder what I was up to the night before. (The last time I wore one, I got purchased in a charity bachelor auction.)
But who can forget George Gobels’ classic quip, “Did you ever get the feeling the world is a tuxedo, and you’re a pair of brown shoes?”
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 18 Jul 2012 at 5:43 pm #
Mindy – You’ll take the fifth? I can never manage more than a pint before the evening’s done for me!
I wore rented tuxes for my fraternity pledge formal in the mid 60′s, my wedding in ’68, and then not again until ten years ago for our daughter’s wedding. It was a hot day in August in our back yard, and we all were so glad to shuck them right after the “I now pronounce you” part!
My father, however, born in 1916, bought one when he was 20 or so, and wore it often, so he alleged, for 15 years. Of course, those were the days when a man wore a suit for almost any occasion, so anything special, like a dinner dance, called for a tux. Those were different times.
As far as that goes, when I was a freshman at the University of Michigan in ’64, we dressed up for football games: men wore sports coats and the women (called girls then) wore wool suits. And I don’t mean pants suits. By my senior year, it was jeans and tee-shirts. What a change in four years.
redagainPatti on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:22 pm #
Hey.. darlings… if we are sharing photos, take a look at one I took during church and posted for an online class? http://www.flickr.com/photos/redagain/7579968000/
Hurd in Bay Minette on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:23 pm #
Wore a tux once to get married in. I wore my last tie four years ago at my fathers funeral. I have informed my son that I will never wear one again and to plan accordlingly for his wedding day sometime far (hopefully), in the future.
redagainPatti on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:26 pm #
Steve from Royal Oak, MI
nice looking kid… with a good sense of fun to do the trick.. what fun!!
Anonymous on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:51 pm #
Steve from RO: You and your family are a lot braver than I… No WAY could I do that!
Galliglo in Ohio on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:53 pm #
And, Steve, that is a lovely family pic (if you ignore the background!)
aka Anonymous
Galliglo in Ohio on 18 Jul 2012 at 6:56 pm #
redagainPatti: That is a GREAT picture! Thank you for sharing…
Mindy from Indy on 18 Jul 2012 at 7:26 pm #
redagainPatti, Great picture. (And what a cute little girl.)
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 18 Jul 2012 at 8:00 pm #
Larry, cx-p, CW/617, David, et al.: Thanks for the details and corrections. I didn’t do too badly; the last time I dealt with florins and such was mid-May ’53, when I left Southampton on a troop ship to rejoin my bride after 13 lonely months overseas. [I'm not complaining; I could have been in Korea.] The UK began adopting its decimal currency in February ’71, which we used in trips there in ’83 and ’85. I managed the old system just fine. My first sergeant at RAF Sculthorpe, who had married a Brit, groused about it, but could not comprehend my comparing it to our ounces, pounds, inches, feet, yards, etc. [Neither could Ronald Reagan a few decades later.]
One interesting experience: having tea in Lincoln with a fortyish widow and her bright late teens son [her RAF pilot husband had been killed, not in battle but by a buzz-bomb when he stepped outdoors in London]. When body weight came up in our discussion, she asked and I said I weighed 147 lb. She seemed puzzled, and asked what that would be in stone? Stone? Yes, one stone = 14 lb. Easy: 10 and a half stone. [It's now 11 ½ or so]
I have done the side of a square acre often, but let it go at 208.7. All the contiguous 48 west of the Appalachians has been mapped by the USGS into 36 square mile Townships six miles on a side, each square mile of which is a 640 acre Section. Sections in turn comprise 160-acre quarters. Each comprises four 40s, from which we get the term “back 40″. Forty is not a perfect square, so its acres are 208.7 feet on a side. All this leads to descriptions of parcels as the N half of the SW quarter of section 35, Township 96 N 40 E Pope Co., Minn. [I have a MN county map book where I could find out if that in the middle of some lake, but I won't. That twp is not in that co.] Coincidentally, 10 kilometers is about 6 miles, so if we had gone metric in the early 1800s, the townships would look about as they do now, but the math would be way simpler.
I own a royal Egyptian cubit, actually a ruler with inches on the back. The front depicts the three sides of an actual triangular cross-section cubit unearthed in a dig somewhere. Bought in the British Museum in ’83, but made in Brooklyn, NY. I used it in freshman biology lectures when students told me the old ways were just fine. The cubit’s subdivions are strange.
Bob in Orland Park on 18 Jul 2012 at 8:35 pm #
I wore a rented tux to a couple of my kids’ weddings and retired with a closet full of suits. There must be something wrong in the closet ‘cus they all seemed to shrink.
phil in Missoula, MT on 18 Jul 2012 at 8:41 pm #
eMb;
I used to have to deal with lease descriptions in the ‘awl bidness’ as they say in Texas. All leases are described in terms of a township/range/section/quarter section/quarter quarter section off of a prime meridian somewhere. This does NOT make for easy computer programming. So the coordinates may also be stored as lat/longs (which is the right way to do things) or in some local map projection (which is the wrong way to do anything) or sometimes in multiple coordinate systems. It was a mess trying to find anything.
Any engineer will have done velocity problems in furlongs/fortnight just for sheer contrariness
sandcastler on 18 Jul 2012 at 8:46 pm #
Mindy, recall reading about a bride who was descibed as radiant and wore a large diamond, may I take your wedding was similar?
On the topic of tuxes, usually slip in to one twice a year social events. Otherwise I go casual.
Robin in Fl on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:26 pm #
Patti
Such a wonderful photo!
Mark in Boston on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:30 pm #
So all of the west is laid out in perfect squares with straight lines running north-south and east-west?
The world really IS flat?
CW in 617 on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:41 pm #
eMb, others -
I first encountered the earliest measurements of land in acres in a History of Technology class.
The typical acre was a strip of land, one chain by one furlong, hence ten times as long as wide. Putting ten such strips together side-by-side gives a very clean square, if furlongs are clean.
In a late-night post that might have crashed my browser, I mentioned that I have on a shelf within arm’s reach a text containing the conversion from furlongs per fortnight to meters per second in the endpages. This text has a copyright date of 1992, and also includes me as a contributing editor.
One acre is 37.8 square smoots.
Did I neglect to ask to not get me started on this?
CW in 617 on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:46 pm #
Correction: A square 37.8 smoots on a side is an acre. An acre would contain 1397 square smoots. (Lots of roundoff here.)
My apologies to Mr. Smoot.
Mindy on 18 Jul 2012 at 9:56 pm #
@sandcastler — You make take it as such, if you wish, but that won’t make it true. Just the opposite, in fact. We decided to make it happen, got the license [John threatened the Clerk of Court with various cruel and unusual bodily injuries if he let the word leak out until after the ceremony] and located a preacher to do the honors. Then next day we were wed. The entire wedding party consisted of less than 12 and included a drunk who happened to walk in and applaud mightily when the minister pronounced. Reception and honeymoon details remain classified Top Secret/Code Word. That was not the time he wore a Tux.
@ Ghost — We didn’t actually negotiate the punishment/reward system, it just seem to evolve rather quickly, and I suspect I was far too lenient inasmuch as John, definitely not a masochist [nor a sadist] seems to enjoy both far too much. He could, of course, say the same about me, I suspect.
Speaking of sadism and masochism, I have the perfect definition of the perfect sado-masochistic relationshio [don't panic, Jimmy, it's clean]. The masochist says, “Beat me, hurt me, make me suffer!” To which the sadist replies, “No.”
Am I banned now?
Mindy from Indy on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:25 pm #
@CW in 617 – I’m guessing Mr. Smoot would not be nearly as offended by rounding in mathematical calculation as he would be of rounding of the original smoot. Some standards you just can’t mess with
P.S. Math is NOT my thing, but my inner nerd would love to see that text.
Bob, near Mark on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:33 pm #
I would imagine that Oliver Smoot has grown weary of being flipped end for end.
And back to some earlier posts, I heard the term “winge” used on a rerun of “Doc Martin” on WGBH tonight.
TruckerRon on 18 Jul 2012 at 10:58 pm #
Does anyone else have a concert tux? It’s the only one(s) I’ve ever needed. Yep, my shape has changed, up and down, enough that I’ve acquired two of them.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Jul 2012 at 11:11 pm #
Banned, Dear Mindy, for a joke I first heard before I turned 18? I don’t think so. Plus, it’s kind of a combination joke and IQ test. Like much of what goes on around here, come to think of it.
Sounds as though your marriage, although perhaps starting off in an impromptu manner, has stood the test of time rather well. Certainly that’s preferable to those that are planned to within an inch of their lives, and then last six months or so. Congratulations to you both.
Lady Mindy: Gotten that summer haircut yet?
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 19 Jul 2012 at 12:51 am #
CW/617 – Let us not forget the wondrous Gunter’s links, another of my favorites for conversion practice….
I never had a tux, but got a dinner jacket (if that’s the term: it was white), associated pants, fancy shirt, two cummerbunds, and two different bowties (each to match one of the cummerbunds). That served for what college called “formal dances” and even, a few years later, for my wedding attire. Cannot recall ever using the set again, possibly because of lack of need and a surfeit of size on my part.
sideburns on 19 Jul 2012 at 1:11 am #
One of the newsgroups I infest is a rather offbeat, techie group that’s often referred to as the Scary Devil Monastery. (This is an anagram of the group’s real name, and as close as I’m going to come to naming it. We like our privacy.) It’s an article of faith in the group that all software and hardware sucks. Naturally, we eventually decided that we needed a way to measure how much various things suck, including a unit. Eventually, I named it the Lovelace (abbreviated Ll) and defined it: This is defined as: One Lovelace is the amount of force (measured in dynes) it takes to draw a round ball weighing e Troy Ounces down a tube it fits exactly (in air) at a speed of pi attoparsecs/microfortnight. Like Farads, this is a rather large measurement. Thus, Plan 9 sucks a few mLl, for instance, while your average Microsoft product achieves many Ll.
Please note that in all cases I picked the natural units.
Jerry in Fl on 19 Jul 2012 at 6:33 am #
In a brief teaching experience I assigned students to determine how many fortnights were in a furlong. At next class I found that no one had even looked up the terms. Re tux wearing I have worn a tux twice, a wedding (mine) and when singing with the opera, which I did fewer times than the first occasion. And good morning early risers everywhere. I fed the kitties and will retire until a more appropriate time when I will quote what I read about the 7th heaven.
Dave in MA on 19 Jul 2012 at 8:06 am #
emeritus Minnesota biologist – thank you for the insightful description of all of the non-metric measurements. I didn’t know most of those terms’ definitions, and some of the terms I’d never heard of before. (In fact, for township, the first time I even heard that term was about 10 years ago when I was driving to someplace in New Jersey and kept seeing highway signs for this or that TWP. I asked the people we were going to visit what that meant and they said Township. Had no idea that could refer to a type or measurement….
As for the back 40, my grandfather’s farm actually had a “farm proper”, and a “back 40″, which was in fact 40 acres of land where he didn’t farm, but he owned it. At one point in the past (this is in upstate Maine just outside “Houlton”) the government decided to “buy” (yeah right) a chunk of his land and put route 95 right through the middle of it. So he had his farm on the North-bound side and his now slightly less than back 40 on the South-bound side.
Crossing route 95 to get to the back 40 was interesting as it was a major U.S. Highway, but traffic was so infrequent that in the 1980s we actually could sit down in the middle of the travel lane of route 95.
My biggest problem with going metric isn’t the difference in the math, powers of 10 is (are?) no big deal for me.
My problem is with the accuracy. For example, Centigrade/Celcius has 100 points of measurement between freezing and boiling. Fahrenheit puts that same range into a grid of 180 points from 32 to 180. That’s a more accurate scale.
I can tell you the difference between 60 and 70 is big, but the difference between 15.5 and 21.1 is just as large? Sorry, that doesn’t work for me.
And while 2.54 CM makes up 1 inch, which technically would be MORE divisions in metric so therefore more accurate, I can’t wrap my head around what length 30.5 CM is, but can fairly accurately guess what 12 inches looks like. I’m used to the inches, not the CM.
Practice isn’t going to change it for me.
On a side note, I always wondered how RPM was affected by metric systems. I mean, come on, obviously it must be affected. The strobe on my turntable has one row of measurements for 60 Hz and one for the Brits at 50 Hz. How could that possibly be different since the record still had to turn at precisely the same speed??? (Never occured to me that the light would blink at a different rate….)
phil in Missoula, MT on 19 Jul 2012 at 8:43 am #
Dave, I think that the 60 hz/50hz business is to account for the line frequency of the house current. The trigger on the strobe is going to be derived from that unless it has an internal frequency generator.
As for temperature and precision, most of the time I don’t care about the difference between two temperatures. I just need 4 or five Celcius refence points. 0 c = 32 f (it’s freezing) 20c=68f (it’s nice) 37 (body temperature), 40c=104f (its hot) ,100c=212f (it’s boiling).
I don’t really have reference points for length, weight or volume, since those are straight math conversions I can do in my head. And usually precision is not a factor.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 19 Jul 2012 at 8:45 am #
TruckerRon – Since my husband is a bass player, he has also owned a concert tux. He got the first while he was still in high school (mid-1960′s). The local musicians’ union sponsored an Explorer Scout group, a stage/jazz band; when given the choice between getting Scout uniforms or tuxes, they opted for the latter. Neither that tux nor the one that replaced it fit anymore, but he hasn’t needed one since he swore off playing New Years’ gigs.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 19 Jul 2012 at 9:55 am #
I wore a tux once. Rented it from John Wanamaker’s in Philly, well after their stores in Manhattan closed. Wife and I were staying with a friend [one I've known since 3rd grade and who was best man at our wedding*] and his wife. They were members of the Philly Mus. of Art [I think] and had bought 4 tickets to a banquet to celebrate the opening of a Gauguin exhibit, with the French ambassador as the guest of honor, and evening dress was obligatory. So the rented tux. I believe John tied the bowtie for me. Wife wore a fashionalbe mini party dress; fortunately, she had the legs for it. I no longer do ties, “business attire”, and the like. Dress up is wearing ordinary slax rather than cargo pants.
*We married in ’52, while I was on active duty as a USAF 2nd lt. Neat thing about that was that dress wear for officers was the regular uniform with a white shirt rather than blue, and a black bow tie [mine was clip-on]. Wife wore a nice dress. The least fussy church wedding I’ve ever attended. It worked.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Jul 2012 at 1:19 pm #
Why “Lovelace,” I wonder?
chill on 19 Jul 2012 at 1:59 pm #
GR6-
Really? As in Linda Lovelace……..
Mindy on 19 Jul 2012 at 2:15 pm #
How did Linda Lovelace get into this conversation? Not that I’ve ever seen her movie, of course.
chill on 19 Jul 2012 at 3:14 pm #
ask sideburns…..not need to see movie, just know she actress says enough
Mindy from Indy on 19 Jul 2012 at 4:05 pm #
@GR6, No hair cut yet, this is the longest it’s been in almost 15 years – I’m trying to grow it out. If I make through another month or so is still up in the air.
@Mindy, sandcastler’s unit of suckage (see above).
@sandcastler, Lovelace! Ha! I did not catch that the first time I read that post. Very useful unit of measurement, in my humble opinion.
Oh how I love how these conversation threads wander.
Mindy on 19 Jul 2012 at 4:58 pm #
“Unit of suckage”??????????? Forget it. Never mind. I won’t ask.
sandcastler on 19 Jul 2012 at 4:59 pm #
Mindy from Indy, not I: sideburns mentioned lovelace. Being the innocent country boy, I have no knowledge of the actress Lovelace; besides my dark years spanned the time she made movies. How is it I get blamed for all the things which go bump-bump in the night? Yes, I was involved with the invasion of at least two small countries but, never was the one to start a war.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Jul 2012 at 5:37 pm #
Actually, I did know who Linda Lovelace is, although I’ve never seen her movie, either. Of course. I just wondered what kind of response that question would get from the Wild Bunch here. (It was about what I expected.)
As a historical footnote, I recall reading that Ms. Lovelace was cast by a “film maker” after he saw her perform a certain party trick. Which brings to mind an obvious question…why the !#*@ don’t I ever get invited to parties like that?
Mark in Boston on 19 Jul 2012 at 5:39 pm #
I’ve got a concert tux. I wore it when I accompanied a flute recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. That’s not something I do often, but it’s good to have the tux for when the need arises. I can report that on a warm spring day you can see a lot of young people wearing tuxes in the neighborhood of Carnegie Hall, going to or from some performance.
Jerry in Fl on 19 Jul 2012 at 5:56 pm #
Answer to one question and another everyone relates to Carnegie Hall-Practice!
Jerry in Fl on 19 Jul 2012 at 6:01 pm #
BTW-I can stand on my hands. Can’t everyone?
John on 19 Jul 2012 at 6:25 pm #
I used to raid parties like that, Ghost.
And then there was Choir Practice, but we’ll not go into any detail.
Mindy from Indy on 19 Jul 2012 at 6:29 pm #
@sandcastler Aaack! I DID type the wrong name. Sorry, please forgive me and my erroneous attribution. But since you opened the door, “ALL things?” For an innocent country boy, you must have an impish face.
@Mindy, Yes, unit of suckage. I need to know this formula so I can calculate just how bad I feel when I have just filled my gas tank and find a station with gas 20 cents cheaper.
@Jerry in Fl, Yes I can, but it tends to hurt A lot and I look awfully funny all bent over like that.
Mindy on 19 Jul 2012 at 7:08 pm #
Mindy from Indy, if you can find one 20-cents cheaper than anywhere, camp out there and stake a claim!
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Jul 2012 at 7:14 pm #
Yeah, John, I read that Wambaugh book.
According to an add I just saw on television, if you’ve installed “Chinese drywall” in your house you may be entitled to “monetary damages.” Except in Virginia. Whazup wit dat? And what exactly is wrong with that drywall? Does it cause bamboo or something?
Mark in TTown on 19 Jul 2012 at 7:39 pm #
GR6: apparently it was made with some highly corrosive ingredients that can cause all sorts of respiratory ailments and eat up your metalwork in the house. Insurance companies are refusing to cover claims until stuff is removed from houses where it was installed. And in a nice example of “Catch-22″ they won’t pay for it to be replaced with normal drywall.
Sideburns, your group might like its privacy, but Google will tell you what it means if you ask it nicely. Ever read anything by Charles Stross? Seems like the type of newsgroup he would be part of.
Never wore or owned a tux. Have left instructions not to be buried in a suit either. Like the old saying, I wouldn’t be caught dead in one!
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Jul 2012 at 9:32 pm #
Note to Dear Mindy: From what you’ve said, and what Mark just said, keep the bamboo away from the Chinese drywall…they’d probably fall in love, breed and produce green drywall that would cover the outside of your house overnight.
Lady Mindy: How long is “long hair” for you? As I recall, that could be anything longer than about a half inch.
And I’d have thought you were much too young to have heard of Linda Lovelace.
TruckerRon on 19 Jul 2012 at 10:20 pm #
Jerry in Fl: “Answer to one question and another everyone relates to Carnegie Hall-Practice!”
That raises another question: Who else has performed at Carnegie Hall? I did as a member of a large group in 1971. It was the inaugural tour of Young Americans in Concert; I played bass clarinet in both the orchestra and the symphonic band. We went on to play at the White House on the day President Nixon signed the 26th Amendment, as well as concert venues in Washington DC, London, Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Florence, Vienna, and Rome. I’d love to relive those 4 weeks!
Galliglo in Ohio on 19 Jul 2012 at 11:05 pm #
TruckerRon – a definite WOW!
Rick in Shermantown, Ohio on 20 Jul 2012 at 4:54 am #
The ideas of dinosaurs appear to be evolving.
redagainPatti on 20 Jul 2012 at 5:27 am #
I have not played anything since my first two years in college.. Baritone horn is what I played…so no, never played at Carnegie Hall. .. I moved mainly into other forms of art such as photography as some in here know.
Today I am off to camp just north of Oxford and south of Holly Springs.. and see if I can trigger some rain while I am off camping in that area as that’s one of the rather dry areas of Mississippi.
Yall have fun but be good.
Galliglo in Ohio on 20 Jul 2012 at 7:42 am #
redagainPatti: I played baritone also! Perhaps not a “feminine” instrument, but very satisfying!
RE: Today’s strip… the fourth panel is amazing! JJ must have put a lot of time in that one. The detail and colors are beautiful…
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 20 Jul 2012 at 9:18 am #
I got to sing the National Anthem at a Detroit Tiger game with my High School choir. I went to High School in Fort Wayne and we went on an annual spring tour. When I learned that we were going to Woodstock Ontario (Hey we played Woodstock!), I wrote a letter to the Tigers and we got to sing the anthem. The hotel that we stayed at had a lot of security and we later found out that Frank Zappa and the Mothers stayed at the same hotel.
Mindy on 20 Jul 2012 at 9:51 am #
I can name several dozen dinosaurs. They’re mostly congretated in the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives. They inhabit other venues, of course, but Washington seems to have more than it’s fair share.
Bill in Paducah on 20 Jul 2012 at 12:21 pm #
Interesting to see the quantity of baritone players here. I switched from trombone to baritone my junior year in high school and then majored on euphonium in college. (After a few years of teaching band I went back and became a cpa.) Now playing trombone and, occasionally, baritone for fun.
Four guys from my college fraternity (Phi Mu Alpha) just took first place at the National Convention with a tube euphonium quartet!
Not euphonium, but here’s four girls playing Stars and Stripes on trombone. If you know anything about brass, the lead is lip-trilling the piccolo part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHw8P8NnUvI
sideburns on 20 Jul 2012 at 1:23 pm #
Mark, of course you can find the froup via googlemancy. Did you really think I didn’t know that? Now that you’ve found it, try posting to it; it’s not as easy as you’d think…
Mindy from Indy, if you need to find the best gas prices, go to my website and scroll down to the bottom. There’s a search bar there that links to a site that knows were the best prices are, pretty much anywhere. Of course, you need to be on-line, so do it before you leave home (or work).
Dave in MA on 20 Jul 2012 at 1:39 pm #
sideburns, most smartphones will let you do that while on the road too.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 20 Jul 2012 at 1:43 pm #
Hey I’m on my smart phone in the car right now and ….crash.
My Dad and brother played the baritone and tuba. All my brothers and I sing baritone, which means if you are looking for a tenor or a bass, I can sing it.
Dave in MA on 20 Jul 2012 at 1:53 pm #
sideburns, since you’re in the know, can you recommend someone in the Boston or at least Massachusetts area that is trustworthy to do a cleanroom hard drive disassembly and data recovery?
Client has a laptop hard drive with 500 gb of irreplacable photos on a machine that just quit and attaching the drive to another machine (not as the boot device) stops that machine from booting up. Nothing further attempted on that drive since I don’t want to cause anything to attempt to write to it.
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Jul 2012 at 2:42 pm #
I basically quit watching The Weather Channel a while back, when they apparently decided to become a “reality/entertainment” outlet rather than a weather channel and also got rid of most of their best on-camera talent. But I was in an office this morning where the TV was tuned to it and saw the morning female anchor. She’s obviously had some work done since I last saw her. For some reason I was reminded of the line in “Back to the Future,” when Marty McFly regained conscienceless in Biff’s casino, saw his “future mom,” and said, “…you’re so…BIG!”
Mindy from Indy on 20 Jul 2012 at 3:02 pm #
Re 20 cent cheaper gas – not sure how it happens elsewhere, but around here, it takes a fair bit for gas price changes to get from one side of the town to the other. Really chaps the tail to fill up and find the price is lower on the other side of town. (And is there any better feeling than getting the best price before the hike?)
@Ghost Rider 6 – my hair is just past shoulder-length. I’m shooting for mid-back, but I doubt I’ll last that long. I’ll see how it goes. As for knowing who Ms. Lovelace was, IASFYAD. I’m leaving it at that.
@TruckerRon – What an adventure! I am quite jealous. I play a pretty mean set of air-drums, but that’s as good as I get.
@sideburns – I suppose I should check prices before I go to work, but that would mean leaving enough time to actually fill up before work. (Not a morning person.) And I refuse to have a smart phone. If I can’t survive 8 hours without the Internet, I have problems. It’s bad enough I have to have unlimited texting. (Don’t even get me started on text-speak. Gah!)
sideburns on 20 Jul 2012 at 3:50 pm #
Sorry, Dave, but no. I’m strictly southern California. I used to know a man who was a wizard at data-recovery, but alas, he passed away recently. Maybe you can use another computer to burn a copy of Clonezilla, boot from it and clone the drive to an external one? Then, do all of your data recovery from the clone, keeping the original safe.
Mark in TTown on 20 Jul 2012 at 4:42 pm #
This is funny and not so funny at the same time. I was listening to a talk show (via internet) from Nashville this morning. The host had just finished an intense discussion of the shootings in Denver. Next came the commercial break. The very first commercial was for a reloader’s supply company, talking about how to get more bang for your buck. Wasn’t the person who cued the ad paying attention to the show?
Mark in TTown on 20 Jul 2012 at 4:45 pm #
Mindy from Indy: Here is a link for you
http://www.indygasprices.com/index.aspx?fuel=A
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Jul 2012 at 4:48 pm #
Dang, Lady Mindy. You ladies keep coming up with obviously interesting stories, then classifying them as SFYAD’s. Which never comes. Quite unfair, I must say, to all the fevered imaginations out here.
TruckerRon on 20 Jul 2012 at 5:57 pm #
Our ladies have obviously have heard the advice attributed to Gipsy Rose Lee’s mother: Always leave them wanting more!
sideburns on 20 Jul 2012 at 6:51 pm #
Mark, the search bar on my site is for gasbuddy.com, but puts up a page customized for your zip code. Very convenient when you’re on the road and need to keep your expenses down. What’s weird here in Camarillo, CA, is that there are two stations across the street from one another, and one’s price is always at least $.25 to $.30 more than the other. I gather that the higher priced station gets most of its income from car repairs, not from gas sales.
Mark in Boston on 20 Jul 2012 at 7:19 pm #
I can stand on YOUR hands.
Mindy on 20 Jul 2012 at 7:45 pm #
Ghost, I can think of about six stories for yet another day. I’ll share them with you some other day. I’m sure Mindy from Indy will be glad to do the same. [It's in our genes, you know.]
Mindy on 20 Jul 2012 at 7:46 pm #
Wow! Had to try three times to get that post to post. Now I regret posting. You think it was some sort of omen?
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Jul 2012 at 8:03 pm #
Nah. But yes, it is in your genes, isn’t it?
On the other hand, I had to try twice to get my previous post to go through once. Wonder what’s going on? Do solar flares affect the blogosphere, too?
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 20 Jul 2012 at 8:47 pm #
I would keep my hands in your own jeans…unless you are Fred Willard.
TruckerRon on 20 Jul 2012 at 10:00 pm #
Steve, just whose jeans are you wanting to keep your hands in? And who’s Fred Willard?
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Jul 2012 at 10:19 pm #
Allegedly, Fred Willard is the Pee Wee Herman of the 21st Century.
TruckerRon on 20 Jul 2012 at 10:44 pm #
Here’s something uplifting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 21 Jul 2012 at 9:11 am #
TruckerRon:
Fun. Thank you; it’s now in my Favorites. Metacrawler search tells me Sabadell is the 2nd largest city in a province in Spain. But, even before the choir arrived, the people were singing Spanish words to Beethoven’s tune. Were they a translation of the German “Freude, Freude, . . .”, or do the Spanish have popular or patriotic words that everybody knows? Anyone?
Mindy on 21 Jul 2012 at 9:37 am #
When I saw the news about Fred Willard, at first I could only picture Willard Scott.
Galliglo in Ohio on 21 Jul 2012 at 10:43 am #
Regarding today’s strip: When I saw it, I was amazed by JJ’s understanding of the female’s need to just get away for awhile. And then my thoughts progressed to the male need to get away from the female/home/responsibilities environment also.
Guess we all have to be sensitive to others’ needs… and those who have someone who is that understanding is truly blessed…
TruckerRon on 21 Jul 2012 at 12:35 pm #
Galliglo, you just described why trucking was so good for my marriage! Those days away in the truck were a burden at first since I could be gone up to 6 weeks at a time, but once I got a regular route and was home overnight once during the week and also for a full 36-48 hours each weekend, things were about perfect.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Jul 2012 at 12:42 pm #
Thanks, Mindy. Now I can only picture you picturing Willard Scott with his…well, you know.
Fred Willard is reportedly slated to be in an upcoming movie titled “The Yank.” As much as I’d like to, I will not comment further.
Bob, near Mark on 21 Jul 2012 at 1:02 pm #
Willard Scott wasn’t THAT much of a Bozo!
Mindy on 21 Jul 2012 at 1:18 pm #
Point taken, Ghost. I giggled. At The Yank, not at Willard. And thanks. Just got back from a funeral and I needed a chuckle.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Jul 2012 at 2:54 pm #
Sorry, Mindy. I had to attend one this morning, too. That’s one of those things that never gets easier to do.
Lost in A**2 on 21 Jul 2012 at 7:23 pm #
Actually, I’ve heard that the last one you attend is easy.
Jerry in Fl on 21 Jul 2012 at 8:04 pm #
My wife has ordered that her funeral begin 15 minutes late. Now to get deadly serious, and that was most definittely not a pun! We will not get into a gun arguement, but I must say that mass shootings and mass suicides will happen more frequently this year, so keep your eyes open and pay attention to what is going on around you. I was told many times in firearm training that your best weapon is between your ears.
Mindy on 21 Jul 2012 at 8:22 pm #
Jerry in Fl, “gun control” is 15 of 15 in the 10-Ring. Read of three armed robberies in my area using, of all things, an airgun stolen from a certain major chain store. [No, Ghost and sandcastler, that doesn't mean a store that sells chains!] The irony is that quite a large percentage of the local populations allegedly things the guys who did it should NOT be charged with armed robbery since the “gun” was a “pellet gun.” Under the laws of the Commonwealth, an “implied” weapon is the same as a weapon, defacto and de jure. I know a certain police officer who is very close to me and who shall remain unnamed who came a gnat’s eyelid [surprised, Ghost?] from shooting an idiot who jumped out and pointed a very realistic-looking Uzi watergun at us…in a shopping mall! The aforementioned unnamed police officer was carring a Beretta .40 which came out ungodly fast…but was not fired because said officer recognized the watergun for what it was just in time. El Stupidito with the watergun wet himself and started screaming for the police. Imagine his surprise when the officer in question yelled, “I AM the police, (^&%^))#A^%&#^%845!” Should I mention there there were six other officers with him at the time, all in “soft” clothes? It is a miracle that one of the six didn’t fire at least once. It WOULD have been justified under Virginia law but imagine the paperwork and publicity to follow!
I started on my soapbox again, didn’t I? As Roseanne Roseannadana would say, “Never mind.”
Mindy on 21 Jul 2012 at 8:23 pm #
“That one of the SEVEN…” I meant to say. Sorry. Fell off the box there.
Hello, Wilbur!
Anonymous on 21 Jul 2012 at 8:30 pm #
Only had a gun pointed at me once and I acted like I didn’t even see it until the kid laughed and put it back in his pocket. Fortunately, because I wasn’t carrying. Had one guy, drunk and shirtless, tell me that he was going to kill me. I started to put his lights out, but I decided I wouldn’t unless he actually tried to hurt me, so I just said “un-huh” and walked away.
John on 21 Jul 2012 at 8:56 pm #
There’s an apocryphal story, which turns out to be true, of a transient druggie/robber from Florida heading to California, and, when he ran out of drugs and money decided to rip off a bar just off Interstate 10 in suburban New Orleans. Idiot walked in, pulled a .25 caliber Wednesday Morning Not-So-Special and told the bartender, “This is a stickup.” The bartender then advised his customers, loudly, “This dude has a gun and says this is a stickup.” And then he ducked behind the bar, went down like a homesick brick. Guess what? It was a “police” bar, loaded with offduty officers from more than one agency, plus one or two of the very few federales who were trusted enough to be allowed to drink and socialize with the municipal, parish and State peons. The idiot turned around to confirm the stickup and saw X-number of varied caliber handguns. His last words were, “Oh, [expletive deleted]!” The good news was that not a single officer, when blood tested for alcohol content, was legally intoxicated. Turns out it was a new wave of guys just off duty on their first or second rounds.
Did Mindy ever mention the fact that she often accompanied local officers to the firing range and is actually a near competion-quality shooter in her own right? I feel very comfortable when she’s around to protect me.
TruckerRon on 21 Jul 2012 at 9:01 pm #
My father had to use his weapon just once. Two vagrants (as they were called in the 1970s) approached brandishing a machete and demanding money as he was getting into his car. He retrieved the revolver, pointed it out the open window at them and told them to go away. They did… and dropped the machete in their haste. He retrieved it and gave it to an officer, along with a good description of the men.
Having a weapon doesn’t mean you always have to fire it for it to be effective…
sandcastler on 21 Jul 2012 at 9:24 pm #
15 out of 15? Assume you don’t keep a round in the chamber.
Mark in TTown on 21 Jul 2012 at 9:45 pm #
John, talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. At least for what the thief hoped to accomplish.
Here in Alabama several years ago a fisherman at a state park pulled up to the dock with way too many fish. Too bad for him that a new class of wildlife officers was there on a field trip. I heard that he had enough violations to get a ticket from every one of the newbies.
And gun control laws are mostly pointless. As a lyric in one of Jethro Tull’s songs says,”…it’s not the gun that kills, it’s the man behind!”.
Jerry in Fl on 21 Jul 2012 at 10:05 pm #
Don’t know what happened to my name but that was me in the exciting tales above.
Mark in TTown on 21 Jul 2012 at 10:42 pm #
One more thing, after the discussion of the importance of yearly prostate exams, etc. Google up The PSA Song by Ray Stevens. It’s good and makes the important points very well.
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 1:20 am #
Amen, Jerry. I firmly believe the two words that are most likely to keep you alive and well, whether you are of the armed or unarmed persuasion, and if practiced religiously, are “situational awareness.” It’s not about guns, it’s about common sense and staying ahead of the curve. And amen, TruckerRon. Studies have shown that firearms are used many, many times each year to prevent crimes, but seldom by being fired.
Yes, John, I surmised that about Mindy when she previously responded to my query about her favorite sidearms. Her choices told me she was no dilettante. (And no, Mindy, that’s not the French word for anything dirty.)
From all the hue and cry from certain groups about how easy it is to buy, possess and legally carry handguns, one would think that every other person you meet on the street is armed. But every time some nut perpetrates a firearm atrocity, it seems no one anywhere in the area is equipped to fight back. I know the decision to carry or not is a very grave and personal one, and I wouldn’t try to convince anyone to do so or not, but as for me, the only way I’d walk out my door unarmed is if I forgot my pants.
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 9:05 am #
Mindy Militant likes some things French, Ghost.
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 9:05 am #
Such as Louis XIIV furniture.
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:18 am #
Care to expand that list, MM? Remember, as always, fevered imaginations are at work.
sandcastler on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:41 am #
I see Comics.com forgot it’s Sunday.
Bob, near Mark on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:53 am #
sandcastler, it’s their usual “Sunday service”. Maybe they’re emulating Chick-fil-A, and not opening on Sundays.
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:54 am #
Or gave everyone the day off.
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:54 am #
Oops. Beat me to it, Bob.
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 11:03 am #
comicsdotcom still down? I never have had any luck with that link. I very carefully type http://www.comicsdotcom.com and never get anything!
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 11:04 am #
Well, actually, I do, but it’s poorly drawn and in German, so I don’t count it as a treasure like A&J!
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 11:18 am #
Dear Mindy: I’m guessing you are a linguaphile. (No, that’s not a French word for anything dirty, either.) It just occurred to me that when many people (not moi, of course) think of “French,” their first thoughts seem to be of a couple of things which actually have Latin names. What do you make of that?
Bob, near Mark on 22 Jul 2012 at 12:00 pm #
GR6,
Only by one swift click?
sandcastler on 22 Jul 2012 at 12:27 pm #
Finally, gocomics.com is up. Must be like Texas liquor laws, no sales before noon on Sunday.
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 1:24 pm #
I know very little Latin.
Actually, I don’t even speak English.
And I don’t have a computer. This is all done via telepathy.
There are dozens of other things that I could list and say I’m not, but I won’t.
TruckerRon on 22 Jul 2012 at 2:35 pm #
I know what you mean, Mindy. After volunteering as a chaplain at the state psychiatric hospital, I could safely say that I’m not a paranoid schizophrenic but I could well play one on stage… So I could list many other things: psychotic, neurotic, diploid, dissociative (that’s the hardest one to find or to fake!), and bipolar. In our forensic unit I’ve also encountered many dual diagnoses, a few sociopaths, and numerous borderline personalities. Then in both units there’re also clinical depression and PTSD.
Actually I could plead guilty to one of those… and I’m not telling.
Mindy from Indy on 22 Jul 2012 at 3:16 pm #
You guys seem to have the worst luck getting to see the newest strips. The past few times the site has been down (or rather, I read it was down), I had already viewed it without issue several hours earlier (between 5 and 6am EST). Early bird folks. Am I crowing a bit? Nope. Whingeing – I am not an early bird by nature and my brand new sunburn is yet another reason I prefer to be out and about after dark.
That said, today’s new strip isn’t nearly as funny as it would have been a few years ago. Now it’s just window-peeking.
Jerry in Fl on 22 Jul 2012 at 3:50 pm #
Years ago I interviewed a combative man in the lockdown part of the mental ward or what they call csu around here. He got tired of my bs and told me that the two of us were getting out of there, NOW! I said ok let’s go, follow me. I walked into the breakroom where the staff was getting drinks for some of the patients. I told them that “John” wanted a drink and they said ok what do you want? While “John” was standing there saying uhhhh I walked out. I’m going to give you a link and tell you nothing about it except turn your volume up so you don’t miss any of it while you’re laughing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojwkpd2nAto&feature=share
Ghost Rider 6 on 22 Jul 2012 at 3:51 pm #
Lady Mindy: That gocomicsdotcom thing (really, Dear Mindy?) was refusing to show today’s cartoons much earlier this morning than when you apparently saw them. You must have hit the sweet spot.
Sunburn? If I didn’t already know, I’d be able to tell from that that you’re not from around here. Seems all we’ve had lately is localized rain and extensive cloudiness. Although still not nearly enough rain.
Jerry in Fl on 22 Jul 2012 at 4:09 pm #
OK. I entered the link correctly,but apparently you have to go around your elbw to get there. Do a search for visitrobmillsfamily.com
When you get the list look down the list until you see the link as I posted above. To the right you will see a small “click for video”. That should do it and it is worth the trouble.
Jerry in Fl on 22 Jul 2012 at 4:17 pm #
I’m not giving up, try visit robmillsfamily-youtube
When you click on it you will get six small pictures and click on the first one, or click your heels together and say “There’s no place like home.”
Jerry in Fl on 22 Jul 2012 at 4:21 pm #
No space between visit and rob. that was my fault, otherwise IT WORKS!
Symply Fargone on 22 Jul 2012 at 5:18 pm #
@Mindy,
Had to get a picture of the bamboo type cane here in Portugal to show you…will upload picture when i get back to states in August for you! How’s that for a Symply Fargone picture?
Lost in A**2 on 22 Jul 2012 at 6:39 pm #
TruckerRon, re “hardest to find”: as in diagnose, or occur?
TruckerRon on 22 Jul 2012 at 7:29 pm #
Actually dissociative identity disorder is one of the rarest mental illnesses around, never mind what Hollywood portrays. I’ve only heard of one case of it at the hospital during my 3 years… and I have a friend from high school who claims to have suffered it because of medical malpractice by an Army doctor who failed to test her for pregnancy before giving contraindicated drugs for an injury. She unknowingly carried the dead fetus for weeks before nearly dying of the complications. I don’t know whether her case was formally diagnosed, but it seems to explain many of the weird choices she’s made over the past 40 years.
As for diagnosing it, well, I’m not qualified to make such a diagnosis… but I can see why some mentally ill folk may try to fake it. After all, we’ve all seen Hollywood’s version of it, and it would be so very interesting to the doctor, much more so than what’s really wrong with you–especially if it allows you to manipulate your treatment and try out some really interesting drugs.
Mindy on 22 Jul 2012 at 7:33 pm #
Sounds good, fargone…as long as you don’t brings seeds, runners, rhizomes, leaves, pollen, saplings, starters, stalks or bamboo fairies within 20,000 yards of our property.
How did we get on mental illness? Has John been talking again? I’m as sane as everyone here!
Jerry in Fl on 22 Jul 2012 at 8:26 pm #
Did anyone find Waldo or are you all paying no attention to the man behind the curtain?
John on 22 Jul 2012 at 8:45 pm #
Jerry in Fl, Waldo was picked up on a fugitive warrant from Rhode Island, had something to do with chickens, I think.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 22 Jul 2012 at 9:39 pm #
I heard that Waldo became Vice President…Never heard of him again.
Lost in A**2 on 22 Jul 2012 at 10:00 pm #
I’ve only heard of two actual cases, and the more famous has recently been . . . discussed . . . as overzealousness, for lack of a better term: a doctor, a patient and a reporter all working to please the other two. So ‘rare’ was what I was expecting. Just wanted to make sure.
John on 22 Jul 2012 at 11:36 pm #
News Release: “President Ford accidentally stuck his thumb in his eye while eating grapefruit for breakfast this morning. His thumb was quickly wrestled to the ground by an alert Secret Service agent.”
I used to love those Ford/Clumsy jokes.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 22 Jul 2012 at 11:52 pm #
“Linguaphile”, eh? I suppose it’s from the Greek ‘philos’ (= ‘love of’) and the Latin ‘lingua’ (= ‘tongue’). Put that together the way you like…
As for me, a nice smoked beef tongue, properly cooked, often starred on my childhood dinner table. Cold leftovers were truly superb as sandwich meat, and leftovers also appeared in hash. Maybe it’s ethnic, but cannot recall ever having seen smoked tongue for sale during my adult years – since I left NYCity back in the ’50s.