It’s four months until “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” so I thought it might be a good time for this oldie from ten years ago this spring. I’m back at my desk and easing into the routine again. I’m going to look around and see if I can’t find something different to show you in the next few days. I figure I owe it to you. Meanwhile, at least the doors are open! Come on in.
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242 responses to “Personal Touché”
No edit button. Sigh. The pulled pork DIDN’T turn out the way I hoped.
Mindy: I love your quote/flag!
I was trying to find the source of the “meddle with dragons” quote, and cannot come up with a definitive answer. Anyone know?
Lady Mindy, good to hear from you. I’ve heard the “dragon” quote but cannot at the moment remember where. (See what happens when one comments that one has a good memory?)
Sideburns, I always thought Tux was a rendering of a Rubber Ducky on New Year’s Eve.
Mindy, I’m sorry. I posted a reply but apparently forgot to hit submit. (I was being summoned.) I refer you to Sand’s comment at 8:07 this morning. I had to explain the title of a Little Richard song to my wife yesterday, but I’m guessing that you can figure this out.
Dear emb, a nice Fibonacci display is sunflower seeds, ripening on the (calyx?) when the petals drop off. And no, I didn’t have to look it up.
Our Humble Author surely has carried on with Cutting Edge Technology for easily 20 years or more— he had an AOL email address and everything back in the day. Nowadays he has been a tad preoccupied, but still does unlock the door. I imagine things will eventually settle down a bit and the New And Improved Website will debut, but as usual, he will get little respect from Arlo…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2001/06/01
https://fbcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-0/390813_10152072126995454_1845993848_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=a11fe6d84828633eb80acb737826d9c0&oe=560A2AF5&__gda__=1442899070_695b28826688fa3e3a22711a65b8f649
solo’ed on my first pot of pinto beans since wife died, success in the sense that I can eat them, but each time should be a little better
Cannot find the Briton Riviere painting in Wed. BlogSpot. The smell on those streets must have been something. Peace, emb
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Charlotte: ” a nice Fibonacci display is sunflower seeds, ripening on the (calyx?) when the petals drop off. And no, I didn’t have to look it up.”
Amen, though that might be too much for a small flag. I’ve ranted about bad sunflower paintings here before, where some artist devotes 20″x30″ or so to a huge sunflower, and just crosshatches the center. Argh!
Peace, emb
Galliglo, my guess would be that somebody playing D&D probably came up with that line, and it was so popular that now everybody seems to have heard it. Google does not provide a creator’s name for it, but lists several sources that say they believe it is adapted from Tolkien’s quote about wizards.
There was a comic page in Dragon magazine called “Woimy” about a dragon. Perhaps the artist used this line in the strip.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/haroog/wormy.htm
Perhaps you are thinking about “Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!” which may be a humorous paraphrase of the JRR Tolkien line “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”.
Whoops, got the name wrong. Apparently what I remembered was the way one of the characters said Wormy’s name in the strip.
Gary, for the ultimate in cold smoking, you can always make your smoker out of a block of ice. Morimoto had this done once in Kitchen Stadium when each team had an ice sculptor to make dishes, decorations and so on for their creations. Quite the WOW factor! Later on, we learned that it had been preserved when Michael Simon brought it out and used it. If memory serves, it was used for fish both times.
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!”
I believe it’s a paraphrase of a line from Tolkien:
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
Did the post yesterday thing too
on 20 May 2015 at 9:15 pm #
Rusty
This was 1954, April as it happens, first plane ride, he was pulling some Gs in that turn.
Don’t remember a big rush to deplane (quickly yes – rush no, in fact I think there was an option
to leave or not, as I remember, well it was 61 years ago ) there was no taxi ing -down – stop.
In fact my Mother did not deplane and overheard their conversation (they did not know she was there.) Short took out the batteries and generator. Just enough time to radio we were coming
back. Got met by firetrucks and rescue vehicles.
It was to FL and other than seeing a half sunk camera float purported to have been used to film
some post production shots for The Africa Queen (Wikii says not) there is not much I remember.
Sorry Jerry
emb
Pineapple in early days was a sign of hospitality & welcome.
Many in colonial carvings & decorations.
The Dragon quote I think I saw in
WHAT’S NEW with Phil & Dixie by Professors Phil & Kaja Foglio
These What’s New? with Phil & Dixie strips originally ran in Dragon Magazine back in 1980!
Not that was original with them but That is were I saw it.
Off to the Land Of Nod
The first recorded use of the phrase to mean “sleep” comes from Jonathan Swift in his Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation (1737)
had to share that
“Incubator.” Oh my.
Good morning Villagers….
RE: today’s strip and some of your ”flags’…I use to hang out a small American flag. Brought it in before it became tattered and faded. It now sits in a vase with a string of little American flags draped all around the vase and my “pass through window” from the living room into the kitchen. (Note to self…buy new one at Ben Franklin Friday)
And I do believe it is a redesigned quote from Tolkien on wizards. What was the name of the movie where Sean Connery’s voice was the dragon….Mark?
GR 😉 I thought the same….”incubator”?
Well, The Boss is leaving today for a week or so on a family outing. First to the Carolinas to pick up their mother then onto Florida…..I keep thinking of what Davey said a couple of years ago regarding The Boss’s two week vacations to Canada in June. (He ain’t poor, poor people can’t even afford a one week’s vacation let alone a two week!) But The Boss will let you think he’s poor…but you know what…being frugal can be good, but like I said…the days of duct tape and twine are over at the hen houses….look out charge accounts 🙂
Ian bought me a temperature ‘thingy’…it has a sensor on my front porch and ties in with my router. Mounted on an inside wall is a LED (?) that gives the temp on my front porch, the high and low and forecast (sun with arrow going up showing the barometric pressure) (raindrops with arrow going down) I may have that a$$ backwards…but it’s pretty cool.
Gotta go…
Ya’ll have a blessed day
=^..^h
Sandcastler….so many submits and so little time 🙂
Today’s thought:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/75/63/cb/7563cb76062b2815f2e1928adf916ca7.jpg
My gosh, one needs a magnifying glass to read the above.
Allow me to make up for it…
http://cheezburger.com/8161179648
And Jerry, I’d forgot that Good Golly Miss Molly was one of Little Richard’s songs 🙂