Oct 25th 2012 08:09 am Some things gotta give
I’ve enjoyed the food discussion; we might get back to it, those of us who were talking about food. Today, however, I’m going to sing about an unsung hero if ever there was one. I was cutting drawing paper for the comic strip this morning, something I’ve been doing for over 27 years, when I thought of the paper cutter I was using. It’s a Boston 2624 that I purchased in 1985, after I had contracted with United Media to produce Arlo & Janis but before the strip actually began its run. I bought it from an office supply store in Jackson, down the street from the newspaper office where I worked. Almost every A&J comic strip I have ever drawn started out on that paper cutter, dailies and Sundays. For all its bulk and weight, it sits on a table in my office, virtually invisible. It still works like new. The paper cutter in the photograph is not mine, by the way. I borrowed the picture from an auction site. For my paper cutter, I paid what seemed like an exorbitant amount of money to a young man, something like $75 in 1985 money, as I recall. I notice the one in the auction sold for $16. I should have bought it.
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170 Responses to “Some things gotta give”
norm on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:21 am #
Excuse me…..what photograph of what paper cutter?
Nodak Wayne on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:23 am #
norm, click on the words “a boston 2624″ above
flossie on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:42 am #
That is a beauty. Wish I had one, even if I would use it only once a year. If I had one, perhaps I would make my own greeting cards – and envelopes, too!!
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:54 am #
It would also be great for decapitating chickens. What? Oh. I’m just sayin’…
norm on 25 Oct 2012 at 9:20 am #
Mindy, Mindy, Mindy……”ok that’s for another time”
Sheila in NB on 25 Oct 2012 at 9:47 am #
Ah great memories – the paper guillotine! Every school I went to had one – I love the sound it makes as it decapitates the paper, I got to use the one at my juior high school often as I was the school paper editor (what a nerd), and despite the school secretary’s worries I never once took off a finger. That was back in the days when we did up the paper on triple carbon paper lined sheets, loaded them onto this archaic old Gestetner printer and had to hand crank it to get it started. All to runout a three page rag about school dances, who was dating whom and sports team glories.
Once you use one of these, scissors just don’t “cut it” anymore!
Lost in A**2 on 25 Oct 2012 at 10:10 am #
The rolling-knife versions don’t make quite the same sound, do they? With either one, you have to experiment to see how many sheets you can stack before it pulls and tears instead of cutting all of them neatly. One sheet at time avoids the problem, though, doesn’t it?
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 10:32 am #
What?
Maggie in Michigan on 25 Oct 2012 at 11:37 am #
We had a paper cutter like that when I worked on my high school newspaper–worked like a dream–and regularly devastated the guys’s ties. About one sacrificial tie a week until he learned to take the darned thing off, or tuck it out of the way. Never stopped or dulled the paper cutter.
Symply Fargone on 25 Oct 2012 at 11:44 am #
Neal in Bahstawn,
Thanks for the recipe list…any porportions? Method or just do to taste and toss it all in a pot and heat?
Mindy,
I await with gusto and patience…….good things come to those who…..kept reading and saw that you are ready so send it to: SymplyFargone@hotmail.com don’t mind you folks knowing it, we’ve been friends long enough now
John,
I bemoan the preacher’s behavior (it’s gonna take longer to get the recipe now{written before I read it is ready to send}) AND rightly feel that the lord made us want to have a little temptation or he wouldn’t have given men eyes.
To all,
My best friend since childhood cut hiw arm on a commercial hydraulic paper cutter at a summer job when we werre teenagers. Scary things!
Ruth on 25 Oct 2012 at 11:50 am #
My department still has a paper cutter like the one in the picture but ours is green. It was older than dirt when I got here 25 years ago but it still cuts like a charm.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 25 Oct 2012 at 1:00 pm #
The amazing thing is that scissors and kitchen knives are constantly being sharpened, but if you buy a quality paper cutter, they seem to last for a lifetime. One place that I worked bought a cheap one and it barely lasted a year. Someone bought an older one at a bancrupcy auction for $10 and it lasted forever.
Neal in Bahstawn on 25 Oct 2012 at 1:18 pm #
Symply, I think proportions are less important than your own esthetic of what gumbo ought to be: wet (soupy) or dry (like an etouffe)? Meaty (one or more pieces of chicken, sausage or shrimp in every spoonful) or predominantly rice (like a risotto)? One thing that I agree on with other participants in this free-for-all is that okra is an essential part of a gumbo. It acts as a flavoring and a thickening agent without resorting to flour, agar, etc. And, for the skeptics out there, we get a wonderful crop of okra every year in Massachusetts, using a 80-day selection from Johnnie’s of Maine. Frozen okra works perfectly well, by the way.
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 2:24 pm #
The bamboo wars were down to hand-to-hand today, truly vicious. But here it is, the 25th day of October…and I got sunburned! The preacher would have gotten an eyeful today, for true! Simply Fargone, I have not forgotten ye, will get the gumbo in the [E]mail to you not later than Sunday. I just realized that what is so easy to put together without thinking when I’m actually is truly difficult when trying to put it down on paper or the virtual equivalent. Wonder why that is? Anyway, it’ll be coming your way. And did you like the “ye” thing? For some reason the song “Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye” was thumping around in my brain pan.
Sunburn? In October? And I wasn’t even on the water sailing!
Ghost Rider 6 on 25 Oct 2012 at 2:59 pm #
May be a little while before I can post my gumbo recipe. I’m out of town, and it’s in three parts…roux, seasonings and soup. IMHO, it will be worth the wait. Got it from a genuine Cajun chef.
Ghost Rider 6 on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:04 pm #
Mindy: Fevered imaginations want to know what the preacher would have seen. And we won’t be judgmental. “Ye ha!”
Ruth on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:15 pm #
Mindy, A suggestion for getting the recipe: Set up a recording device (tape, digital, whatever you have) then go ahead and prepare the dish but say out loud the ingredient and how much of it you are using, and what you did at each step so the recording device picks it up. When you’re done, sit down and transpose the recipe from the recording to the computer and you should have at least a baseline recipe to give out.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:17 pm #
Different subject: Mt. St. Helens is now completely snow-covered, probably at least a foot in the higher reaches. Most times I’ve looked over the last two weeks it’s been completely cloud- or fog-bound.
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/java-highdef-medium.php
CW in 617 on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:32 pm #
Anyone else remember the World Series?
Having lived in the Bay Area, and having seen a few games at Candlestick (haven’t been to the new place yet, nor have I been to whatever they call the new Tigers place), I’m mildly rooting for the Giants, who, as of this writing, are up 1-0.
I recently came across a photo of one of my great-great-grandfathers, and his beard immediately made me think of the Giants’ Brian Wilson. However, my g-g-g-pa looks much scarier. I’m told that this is because back then (mid to late nineteenth century), the long exposure times (this was a studio photo) meant adopting a pose that can be held. Try holding a smile up to a whole minute.
I’m told that this is also why family photos including children are fairly rare from that period.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:33 pm #
From yesterday: “Our pastor was arrested for sexual misconduct with a young girl. He denies it but he has been arraigned… trial to be in Jan. He has three young sons. We are all heart broken. This may sound horrible, but our biggest concern is not so much for him as for his family.”
It does not sound horrible. We are to be concerned for everyone involved in complex messes like this, as I suggested here on 14 October:
“An interesting sidelight that showed a real ‘Christian’ response. When I learned of the [heterosexual] abuse of the then high school student, I was personally concerned because I was adviser to the college UMC student group, and wondered about the girls in it, ‘Horace’ having been half time assoc. pastor at church and half time minister of said group. I contacted as many as I could, and happily all came up negative. Lovely. But one, who had by then become a clinical psychologist, asked ‘What about Horace? Is anybody seeing to his needs?’ I didn’t know, but she understood ‘WWJD?’, that you don’t just punish, you try to salvage and reform.
Mary in Ohio on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:39 pm #
CW in 617 – The Tigers’ new park is Comerica, after the bank. I am enjoying the Series being Anybody but NYY and StL, and I hope it goes 7 games, because its a looooong winter. There are interesting folks on both teams, including the managers. In some cases, photos like your g-g-g-pa’s involved the use of head clamps, and in some pictures they weren’t too picky about positioning them so they didn’t show. Hurrah for digital.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 25 Oct 2012 at 3:47 pm #
Whoops! “. . . and reform.”
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 25 Oct 2012 at 4:03 pm #
The record and transpose method of capturing a recipe works great – if the cook actually measures things. We have a couple of recipes from Bob’s grandmother that were more of a group project. She dispensed an ingredient, someone grabbed it and measured it, someone watched what she did with it, and someone else wrote down those descriptions.
Wish they had done that with her sweet potato souffle. That and her lemon meringue pie were on the menu the first time I met her. The souffle had been cooking for a while when she added something else to the oven. She decided the souffle didn’t look right, so she pulled it out and stirred in a couple more eggs. So much for souffles being tricky to make – it was perfect!
Tom (somewhere in Georgia) on 25 Oct 2012 at 4:08 pm #
Mindy- why don’t you consider a Youtube recipe demonstration. You could wear your A & J apron over your clothes (Clarification) What a fun video!
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 4:19 pm #
emeritus, I’m afraid I’m more of the WWTDD school of whup-up on authority figures who take advantage of their female “subordinates” [for lack of a better word right off the top of my pointed head], be they adult or minor.
Ghost Rider 6 on 25 Oct 2012 at 4:19 pm #
Your Youtube cooking demo wouldn’t work for me, Mindy. I’d be like a friend of mine who says he has been watching Giada on the Food Network for years, but he gets so distracted by how good-looking she is that he still hasn’t learned how to boil water.
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 4:21 pm #
A sweaty sports bra, Ghost, nothing else.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH boy, I caught that just in time! A sports bra and nothing more revealing that that which is not very revealing in any case. Otherwise fully dressed, including gloves, which all Southern ladies wear often. You have no idea how close I was to clicking ENTER when I realized what a monumental booboo I’d almost committed.
Mark in TTown on 25 Oct 2012 at 5:28 pm #
Good save Mindy. No wonder you got sunburned! And bothered the “minister”. But when you work hard you need comfortable clothes to do it in.
Symply Fargone, or anyone who may be interested. Just saw an ad on the Birmingham, AL Craigslist where someone is selling a room full of records. 33′s, 78′s and 45′s all genres. Looked like library type shelves overflowing to the floor.
Dennis Ewing on 25 Oct 2012 at 5:47 pm #
I miss my Challenge 305 fairly often. Once you use a full sheet guillotine cutter you will hate anything table top for the rest of your life. I still find myself thinking I’ll cut something at work tomorrow. I keep forgetting I don’t have work to go to anymore.
Tom (somewhere in Georgia) on 25 Oct 2012 at 5:59 pm #
Oh, back on task- the Boston 2624 (and other such cutters) are also great for cutting vinyl squares when installing (budget) flooring.
Mindy from Indy on 25 Oct 2012 at 6:09 pm #
Love the paper guillotine. I remember the ones from middle- and high-school years. If my memory serves, we (high school paper staff) would cut each other’s hair with it. The one in middle-school sat next to the mimeograph machine, and the cutter was always covered with purple ink.
Ghost Rider 6 on 25 Oct 2012 at 7:59 pm #
Mindy: “A sweaty sports bra, Ghost, nothing else.” I kinda grayed-out for a while, liked I’d pulled too many G’s, when I read that lead sentence. By the time I recovered, I didn’t even mind that you qualified it. Much.
Lady Mindy: I thought for a second I’d figured out the source of your fondness for “non-standard” hair colors. But then I realized the purple cutter blade was in middle school and the hair trimming took place in high school.
Wasn’t high school great?
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:13 pm #
Simplyfargone, your gumbo recipe is in the email. You owe me, big guy!
sandcastler on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:20 pm #
My ears perked at the mention of guillotines. The French model 1872 was very efficient at head removal and an excellent persuader for those with incorrect thoughts. Many still exist in SE Asia, not sure how they are used. The Republic of Vietnam, the south, truck mounted some 1872 for use in attitude correction as late as 1965.
Now I see only chickens and reams of off-size paper are being terrorized by guillotines.
Mindy from Indy on 25 Oct 2012 at 9:12 pm #
Ghost – I believe my fondness for “non-standard” hair colors stems from too many hours of Saturday morning cartoons and Jim Henson’s Muppets. If Oscar could have green fur, I should be able to have green hair.
And high school was well, different, but then so was I. 
TruckerRon on 25 Oct 2012 at 9:15 pm #
Mindy, I’ve read up a bit on how to kill bamboo. If it starts sprouting new shoots in the spring, here’s a summation of the best advice I’ve found:
For each each new shoot, one at a time:
1. Lop it off about an inch or two above the ground.
2. Immediately, within 15 seconds, paint the top of it with RoundUp or any other powerful herbicide of your choice.
The painting with the herbicide must be done before the sap at the top of the shoot dries and protects the plant.
The other advice is to contain the root system with a concrete or other impermeable barrier.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 25 Oct 2012 at 9:20 pm #
Mindy/Indy & Blinky/WW: There is significant hope that we will be able to contact each other directly and chat about genealogical matters. With any luck, it’ll be soon.
Stay tuned.
(Mindy/Indy, considering your past Saturday mornings, “stay tooned”.)
David from Austin on 25 Oct 2012 at 10:53 pm #
Mindy,
Don’t the rest of us get to share your gumbo recipe?
Mindy on 25 Oct 2012 at 11:15 pm #
David from Austin, would love to share it but it’s far too big to be posted in here. Simply had a hotmail address I could send it to, though, so that worked out. Not being difficult, you see?
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 5:11 am #
TruckerRon, sorry to be so late responding…I also ready that bamboo “fix” but I got to it far too late. The bamboo has been cut to ground level the method you gave me won’t work until next spring when the stuff begins to sprout again. What I’m doing now is digging up the entire root system…one complex at a time. That means taking out the pivotal segments with vertical root systems which seems to be a nexus for the stuff as well as digging up the horizontal runners from which more of the stuff can sprout vertically. I have the Roundup in storage plus animal hypodermics obtained from our local farm supply, sans needles, to actually inject the stuff into the cut stalks rather than “painting.” It appears that not only is the drying process a defense mechanism but the stalks are compartmentalized. Cut one segment and the top of the next stalk close not unlike watertight hatches in a naval vessel. As much as I hate the stuff, I have to admit that Mother Nature made the stuff quite ingenious. I do appreciate the information, though.
Shelly on 26 Oct 2012 at 6:02 am #
Nexus? Wasn’t that an Arthur Miller novel? Or play? That was banned in Boston? Or maybe it was Arthur Godfrey. Whichever one did not play the ukelele. Wow! I spell that right the first time! Mindy, I was out late last night shopping…actually just looking…and I thought of you when I came upon that woodland pattern camouflage bra and pantie set. Now that you don’t have the preacher to freak out, you could really go to war on the evil bamboo. And I bet John would take an interest in the proceedings as well! Just watch out for police helicopters doing an overflight. They’d run out of gas hovering.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 26 Oct 2012 at 6:37 am #
About that recipe – since Symply Fargone was willing to share his email address (above), perhaps he would be willing to forward it to those of us who contact him. How about it, SF?
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:07 am #
Ruth, if you set up a Yahoo email account for the gumbo, I’ll send it directly to you. Same for anyone else that wants it. I’d like to see what kind of recipes I get in return since I do believe you can always improve on the existing formula.
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:08 am #
And, Shelly, John bought me a cammie set once. It was tacky, yeah, but we had some fun with it. Was tempted to use the outfit to make a different sort of Christmas or Easter card for close friends but chickened out.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:31 am #
I thought a Nexus was some kid of small car, no? Oh, and Shelly-seems like ukeleles are making a comeback in popular culture.
I’m in if we’re doing a recipe swap.
Yes, Mindy, that was a good catch! As for the sunburn, we have gone from a week of low 40s morning temps to 60 today. Hot spell?
We have a paper guillotine in the garage. Not sure what model it is, but the grid is dark green. Works great, though!
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:35 am #
If I get emails from folks wishing to get in touch with each other, I will as long as I get an email from both parties requesting same and confirmation seen in a post..I’ll look for them….Looking forward to some Symply Fargone cooking!
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:38 am #
Mindy,
The recipe
unfortunately has not yet arrived…did you spell Symply with an i? Hungry stomachs are creating digestive juices in anticipation…..just saying….
Ghost Rider 6 on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:55 am #
Ready for a snow storm, Mindy?
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:09 am #
cxp, Mindy from Indy, and Blinky,
Am onboard.
SymplyFargone@hotmail.com
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:49 am #
Symply Fargone, I sent you yours last night. Check your mail! It was sYmply…
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:50 am #
Ghost, the snowstorms are expected further north in the NY area, New England. The worst Virginia weather isn’t supposed to come further west in Virginia than Lynchburg, I think.
Galliglo in Ohio on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:53 am #
OK – I’m in…
walkmail2000-gal@yahoo.com
Ghost Rider 6 on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:05 am #
Mindy, keep an eye on your local forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Of course, I was using the Deep South definition of “snow storm”…two or more snowflakes seen falling from the sky on the same day.
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:14 am #
For your information, Ghost, we get some fairly decent snowfalls here in the wilderness. I recall 39 inches in 24 hours once, but, admittedly, that was a thankful exception. It was in Lousy Anna where one snow flake caused 2,000 car wrecks. Truth! It snowed there in either ’72 or ’73, just enough cover the ground with white and mostly ice. NOPD had 2,000+ accidents in one shift!
Gal, yours is in the mail as we speak. Lord, that sounds like one of John’s “7 Famous Lies,” doesn’t it?
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:15 am #
This is the last one for today. I think. I hope.
Ghost, try this link: http://news.yahoo.com/noaa-east-beware-coming-frankenstorm-171317994.html
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:22 am #
Mindy have checked repeatedly and no recipe….Symply Forlorn
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:27 am #
Okay, I’ll do it again, Symply Pitiful.
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:32 am #
Symply Stupid more like it, has not arrived on iPhone, but went on PC to hotmail and it is in the Junk folder…you are hereby in the list of safe contacts,,,Thanks Mindy. Net week is gonna be fun in the kitchen!
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 10:33 am #
Symply Typical. Now if only Galliglo got hers…Symply, you’re going to get it at least one more time.
The email! The email!
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 26 Oct 2012 at 11:55 am #
Mindy/Indy & Blinky the WonderWombat: See Symply Fargone’s note at 9:09 a.m. Send him an email with the expressed desire to have your email address forwarded to me and he will do so!! I have already sent my email address to him with permission to send it on to you two.
Thanks, Symply, for being the middleman.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 26 Oct 2012 at 2:57 pm #
c ex-p:
Thanks, I sent my note to SF,
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 26 Oct 2012 at 3:01 pm #
Getting nervous for Frankenstorm. More and more projections have it literally passing overhead. The Delmarva peninsula has been lucky in that we always seem to be side-swiped by hurricanes, but even then the damage can be terrible. I am not looking forward to being in the bulls eye. Fortunately we are on relatively high ground and not near any large bodies of water, but we are surrounded by lots of poplar trees that still have most of their leaves.
CW in 617 on 26 Oct 2012 at 3:11 pm #
Regarding unaccustomed snow:
Many years ago, in the San Francisco area, snow was rare, only falling occaisonally at higher altitudes (Mt. Diablo for those familiar with the turf).
Mom was working at a Day Care school, practicing to be a grandma, and it snowed one day, about a quarter inch. The kids wanted to go out and play in the snow, and when one picked up a handfull to make a snowball, he started crying; he didn’t know that snow was cold.
I college, I had a friend from Guam who had never seen snow. We took him up to the mountains, and he had a blast.
CW in 617 on 26 Oct 2012 at 3:36 pm #
“In college”, of course
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 26 Oct 2012 at 4:39 pm #
Mindy – Symply already has my email from a previous exchange regarding Frank Zappa so please tell him it’s OK to share. Usually we satisfy our gumbo cravings by going to nearby Tibby’s New Orleans Kitchen. I’m more apt to make etouffee and my recipe is more of a general outline.
For those in the path of Frankenstorm, you have my sympathy and good wishes. It’s grey and gusty in central Florida today. Like I told my nephews in DC, start freezing blocks of ice, make sure there’s plenty of propane for the grill, stock up on stuff that’s easy to cook on said grill and doesn’t require lots of refrigeration, and don’t forget the adult beverages
We learned/were reminded of several things when the hurricanes of 2004 caused us to have multiple lengthy power outages – keep the things that thaw fastest in the front of the freezer where you can grab them quickly and eat them first; that frozen stew, chili, gumbo, etc, also works to keep the temperature down; things will stay frozen longer than you think as long as you resist opening the door, even in August. It also helps if you have ever spent much time camping and have a stove and its accessories.
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 4:51 pm #
Dear Symply:
Yes, dear male person, it is okay for you to share with Ruth Anne.
Mindy
And guess what!!! I did a number on the bamboo today and in the process I found a 2-3/4 inch really sharp fang! I told you all there were demons in that bamboo!!!!!!! And just in time for Halloween if I can find another one! John is in the dog house now. He said if I’d stand still he’d check to see if I’d lost one of my baby teeth.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 26 Oct 2012 at 5:03 pm #
Okay, I’m in for the recipe swap: trapperjean@hotmail.com
I don’t think Frankenstorm will have much of an effect on us, but for those of you who are closer, batten down and stay safe!
I remember my freshman year of college; the first time it snowed all the girls from Florida were running around like crazy in barely enough snow to cover the ground. They had never seen such a thing.
sandcastler on 26 Oct 2012 at 5:11 pm #
Jean, you had be breathless for a moment with the “barely enough,” at the word snow I started breathing once more. Freezing our bums off down here, only 56 with forecast low of 52. Need our winter clothes until weather gets more reasonable next week, forecast calls for mid-eighties by then.
Jerry in Fl on 26 Oct 2012 at 5:53 pm #
Earthquakes in the Northeast. The worst storm in history, a snow hurricane, to hit the east coast and last all of next week! Put your heads between your knees and pucker up. I can’t believe that I agreed to go to Nashville for a couple of days in December. To those of you downriver I’ll try to wave as I float by. Btw Bostonians, I really enjoyed dinner in Hennessees (sp?) as I watched FSU and Boston College. I seemed to be the only person cheering, but everyone was friendly.
Galliglo in Ohio on 26 Oct 2012 at 5:59 pm #
Got mine Mandy – thank you! Sounds delish!
Fargone – I forwarded it to you…
Galliglo in Ohio on 26 Oct 2012 at 6:09 pm #
Sorry Fargone! I forwarded the gumbo before I saw that you have found the email in your junk drawer.
My Floridian granddaughter was about 8 the first time she saw snow. The flakes were big, beautiful, floaty… I watched her play – catching snow flakes on her tongue… cavorting like a puppy… ah, me – good memories…
Robin in Fl on 26 Oct 2012 at 6:17 pm #
Mindy and John
(Mostly John). Need your professional advice. If I send my e-mail to Symply Fargone (and he agrees), can he forward to you to contact me?
Thanks
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:06 pm #
Robin in Fl, advice may be worthless, but sure. Fire away. Trapper Jean? On the way…
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:22 pm #
If you like your gumbo accompanied by some good blues, be on the lookout for a guy who calls himself the Sauce Boss. In between musical numbers he makes gumbo, which he serves to the audience at the end of the evening. He also has a charity effort called Planet Gumbo that goes to homeless shelters or food banks and feeds folks there. Google the name and you’ll find more info, including his recipe. He’s a good guy. I was impressed the first time I saw/heard him, even before I discovered that he graduated from the high school where I work (before I got there).
On a completely unrelated note, a guy has discovered 140 “mint-condition Spitfires buried in 1945″ – http://www.businessinsider.com/one-british-farmer-is-about-to-unearth-140-world-war-ii-spitfires-buried-in-their-original-containers-2012-10
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:13 pm #
Mindy,
John leads an exciting life I can read…..this male has passed on your recipe where directed.
cxp, have done as directed where I have been directed.
l8r all,
Fargone now in Maine
Robin in Fl on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:32 pm #
Thanks for being so Fargone!
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:33 pm #
Robin in FL no problem with me….Fargone
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:34 pm #
Robin you have not yet sent me the address right or are you in junk mail too?
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:36 pm #
Robin,
Found you in Junk…you have been reinstated and forwarded…
Fargone
Robin in Fl on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:39 pm #
Mark in Boston on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:58 pm #
Predicted temperatures for Boston: Sunday high 55, low 50; Monday high 59, low 55; Tuesday high 64, low 50; Wednesday high 63, low 48. We may see plenty of rain but I don’t expect snow.
Jerry in Fl on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:30 pm #
Mark, They’re talking about 24″ of rain. Since a lot of Boston is built on what used to be water what happens then? I would think a lot of flooding to say the least.
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:44 pm #
Symply, you gotta do something about all that junk.
Mindy on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:49 pm #
Robin, received and responded to. And I just realized how pitiful Arlo looks in the retro. Poor thing, no pun intended.
Symply Fargone on 26 Oct 2012 at 9:52 pm #
Mindy,
At my age junk trails you like a new puppy. As far as Arlo’s face I know that look, but I pull that stuff on the poor woman all the time.
Fargone
Ghost Rider 6 on 26 Oct 2012 at 11:22 pm #
Gee, Mindy, you never tell me to do anything about my junk.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 26 Oct 2012 at 11:23 pm #
Jerry in Fl, about 10 years ago my husband and I found ourselves with a week just before Christmas with nothing that had to be done immediately and our kids off with my sister, so we packed up and drove to New Orleans. It was cold, damp, and windy, and we had a great time! May your trip to Nashville be as good!
Thanks, Mindy! I just checked but it hasn’t arrived yet, and unless you put Get Your Free Viagra in the subject line it isn’t in the junk drawer either.
I’ll check back later.
sandcastler, sorry to shock you like that! Did I pull a Mindy?
Mrs. sandcastler on 27 Oct 2012 at 8:03 am #
What have you done to my hubby? He is just staring at his tablet, south agape.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 27 Oct 2012 at 8:09 am #
Sorry Mrs. s…he’ll be okay in a bit, I promise!
Mindy and Symply Fargone, I did get the recipe! Thanks! It looks good, do I think a trip to the grocery store is slated for sometime the next few days.
Mindy on 27 Oct 2012 at 8:59 am #
Ghost, if you want me to do something with/about your junk, bring it on down and I’ll take care of it. You may find the process both humiliating and excruciating, but I’ll work with you there. I could even put it in my journal, if I kept one, that the time was spent playing doctor: Mengele. Robin, at least he didn’t say “junk drawers.” Never mind, that was tacky. John is sitting in the corner trying to compose his response to you; he’s taking that one seriously. I have a few hours before the rain starts, it’s really bleak outside, so I’m going forth to do battle on a limited scale. I hate this. Just when I was making real process the weather is going to shut me down. I’ve come upon a new method that makes it easier to kill, kill, kill in dry ground than it is in wet. Yes, Ghost, sandcastler and Symply, dry beats wet in certain cases. [Ha! Beat you to it!]
Robin in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 9:17 am #
Mindy
Many thanks to John, and to you for making me happy that I now live in a condo (now there’s a word that ought to spark some comments) and don’t have to battle the yard.
Ghost Rider 6 on 27 Oct 2012 at 9:29 am #
No, Robin, I’m sure everyone is aware that “condo” is not British slang for a birth control device.
Geez. Ask Mindy a simple question and you might get your, ah, head taken off.
Robin in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 9:44 am #
Ghost
Even funnier, you know what the British term for an eraser is?
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:04 am #
Robin: My wife is a Christian Romance author and her Christmas themed book this year was set in England. She had the Brit use the term “Buggers”. Through Facebook & networking, she had a friend in London read the first draft and she told her that this was definitely not an appropriate word for her to use in this genre.
Ghost Rider 6 on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:05 am #
Ghost is blushing, Robin. Especially when he remembers that’s also what people used to wear on their feet when it rained.
Hey, Mindy, if it’s going to be raining there…
John in Virginia on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:11 am #
Robin, I’ve just sent you a long email that may seem like I’m trying to lecture but I’m not. I hope the information helps. I can’t and didn’t make any promises, just offered guidelines, analysis and a couple of options. Let me know how it comes out one way or the other.
Ghost, Mindy is out back hacking away like a woman possessed. If the preacher came around now he’d be skeered of hanging around and peeking! Lord! She looks evil! I love it! There’s always an excess of adrenaline when she finishes in a mood like this which leads to a hot shower, a massage…and venison stew.
Bob, near Mark on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:38 am #
GR6 and Robin in Fl,
But “condominium” is slang for a very small British birth control device.
John in Virginia on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:43 am #
Does that mean the British are very small?
Mindy on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:44 am #
Sorry, I said that, not John. Never mind. Pretend he said it.
Robin in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 11:07 am #
Mindy et al
I am married to a Brit and just in case we ever all get together one day, I am NOT entering into that discussion. No way, no how.
John: thanks very much. You are being very very helpful, and deserve a second helping of…venison stew.
Robin in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 11:11 am #
Steve from Royal Oak
indeed! I can’t tell you how often I insulted or shocked my in-laws when I was first married and living in England. They eventually shrugged it off as funny American ways.
Was on a dive trip once where an American was flirting with two not-quite-so-young-but-trying British women. He kept saying bloody this, bloody that. I yanked him aside (no pun intended there!) and explained that proper ladies don’t use that term. Well, turns out they weren’t really proper so he was OK!
Mindy on 27 Oct 2012 at 11:42 am #
Robin, John says he’s always glad to help and now he’s trying to convince me that “a second helping of venison stew” is a British term for…well…never mind. He told me about being in a certain country in the British Commonwealth that shall remain unnamed and making reference to Rotor Rooter when a drain got stopped up. Apparently he caught hell for that. He says he could never make amends and therefore didn’t “score” even once during his extended stay there. I believe that like I believe that steers give milk. The second “language” difference came when he jokingly flashed the American peace symbol. When he caught hell for that he wanted to know how Winston Churchill had gotten away with using the very same sign a dozen times a day all through World War II. Fortunately the people he associated with did have a decent sense of humor and forgiveness which makes me doubt all the more his no scoring assertions. I may take pity on him and pretend to believe his venison stew line.
Ghost Rider 6 on 27 Oct 2012 at 11:56 am #
Wow, John. If bamboo fighting has such a marked effect on the female psychology and physiology, I think I’ll set some out when I get home. I too like venison stew.
John in Virginia on 27 Oct 2012 at 12:28 pm #
It seems to bring out the animal at times, Ghost. But beware! The animal can turn vicious and demanding and you’ll wish your venison stew was hasty pudding. [Robin and her GB ties was the inspiration for that pun. It was a pun, right?] Actually, Mindy is a spirited lady in her own right and needs no bamboo as a stimuli. Stimulus? But sometimes…and here I plead a Mindy.
Jerry in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 12:45 pm #
What a coinkydink! I have for years thought of marketing large size naturals with the brand name Pachyderm with a picture of an elephant on the package.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 27 Oct 2012 at 1:03 pm #
Robyn a few years ago my brother-in-law brought home a cute Brit for Christmas. I enjoyed talking with her and mentioned how much that liked (at the time) Garfield- A Tale of Two Titties. I meant Kitties but she thought that I was hilarious. She then mentioned how she had to correct my brother-in-law as he kept referring to her as a “tart” She pointed out that a “tart” was a prostitute or a woman with loose morals. She had had several glasses of wine, so I volunteered “So which one are you?”
A few weeks later he called to say that they had broken up. It turns out she had a husband in England. So I guess he was right after all. P-)
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 27 Oct 2012 at 1:35 pm #
Blinky, please reply.
Mindy/Indy, please send your email address through Symply Fargone to me. He already has my permission to send mine to you.
Ghost Rider 6 on 27 Oct 2012 at 2:48 pm #
John, I’d call that a pun. But I’d maybe not let Mindy think about it too much.
To me, the ultimate example of how UK English can differ from US English is the title of the Robert Burns poem (and I am not making this up) “Cock Up Your Beaver.”
John in Virginia on 27 Oct 2012 at 3:19 pm #
I can’t recall who said it, but the United States and Great Britain have been accurately described as “two countries separated by the same language.”
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 27 Oct 2012 at 4:00 pm #
Sounds like Bernard Shaw, but I’d not put money on that.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 27 Oct 2012 at 4:03 pm #
Now I’d put money on it, except that I don’t gamble.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/897.html
Robin in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 4:13 pm #
I know my beloved says that often, about being divided by “a common language.” Of course he celebrates the 4th of July as the day we got rid of those pesky colonists. To which I remind him one of them captured him back! Yes, he does get asked if a) England celebrates the 4th of July and b) if England has a 4th of July.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 27 Oct 2012 at 5:28 pm #
Robin: That’s like “How many months have 28 days.”
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 27 Oct 2012 at 5:33 pm #
Whoops: “. . . have 28 days?”
John in Virginia on 27 Oct 2012 at 6:51 pm #
Up the Irish?
Mindy on 27 Oct 2012 at 6:52 pm #
That was me, not John. Did I do good? Or bad? Blame it on the venison if I goofed.
Ghost Rider 6 on 27 Oct 2012 at 8:10 pm #
Down the Scotch. (The liquor, not you, sandcastler.)
Enjoy the venison, Mindy?
Anonymous on 27 Oct 2012 at 9:13 pm #
c ex-p:
I sent my info to SF.
Jerry in Fl on 27 Oct 2012 at 9:42 pm #
I’m in Fl so far west that you can throw a mullet and hit Alabama. We’ve had gusty winds all day and the temperature dropped like the aforementioned fish. It was 55 over three and a half hours ago.
Mark in Boston on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:18 pm #
A couple of British usages that mean more over here in the States than over there:
“For once I’m at work on time because my neighbor knocked me up this morning.” (Knocked on her door until she got up.)
And from “Trial by Jury” by Gilbert and Sullivan:
Edwin: “Is this the Court of the Exchequer?”
Chorus: “It is!”
Edwin, aside: “Be firm, be firm, my pecker! Your evil star’s in the ascendant.”
Chorus: “And who are you?”
Edwin: “I’m the Defendant.”
(Pecker = chin, as in “Keep your pecker up.”)
Bob, near Mark on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:23 pm #
eMb,
All of them.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 27 Oct 2012 at 10:39 pm #
A couple of years ago I was quite happy to get a set of Harry Potter books from England. An English friend didn’t get it until I explained that-at least in the early books-there were a number of “British-isms” that had been changed in the American publications, as though American children wouldn’t know what a Philosopher’s Stone was, or that one put on a jumper when cold. On second thought, maybe not, but I had a good time rereading the books and finding the differences.
I know, not quite up to the preceding conversations, but it’s late and that’s what you get for tonight!
TruckerRon on 28 Oct 2012 at 12:12 am #
Here’s a question for this knowledgeable group: Which cell phone plan would you recommend for a family needing 4 phones, without anything silly like unlimited texting, Internet capabilities, etc.? We just need PHONES, the simpler the better. We talk on them. Would we be better served with prepaid phones since we use them less than 1,000 minutes per month between us? We’re on a fixed income and need to cut back from our current plan.
Mark in TTown on 28 Oct 2012 at 12:55 am #
Mindy, I am sure someone explained the difference between Winston Churchill’s V for victory and the peace sign. The V for Victory is done with the palm out. When the Brits do it with the palm toward the person making the sign, it is the same as our one-fingered salute.
Mrs. sandcastler on 28 Oct 2012 at 1:31 am #
Robin and GR6, the Scots will have their independence day once they vote it in sometime in 2014. Elections, the civilized why to revolt.
Debbe59 on 28 Oct 2012 at 4:07 am #
Trucker Ron, I am in the big ‘V’s plan and have been for several years. My monthly bill runs $113, and that is for three lines, with mine being the main one. The only reason I keep it is because I have my mother in a nursing home and she is on my plan. One line runs $16, that includes mine (I am giving up the unlimited texting for $10 because my son doesn’t use it any more), the base charge is $55 a month then you add all the surcharges, government bs, and it comes to $113. My contract is up in April, and I too am interested in a less drain on my pocket book, because we too are on a limited income. Oh, and Verizon charges a deposit but you get it back in a year. Back then it was $400, but that was when I had a good job and could afford it. I think it’s $200 now.
Mindy..thought of you the other day and your comment on what you would use a paper cutter on…decapitating a chicken. I was walking through the hen house (7 aisles at 600 feet long each, with 16,600 cages total),and I looked up at one of the top 4th rows, and there was this regal, big ‘hen’? Naw, couldn’t be a hen, his comb was a brighter, deeper pink that stood straight up, and he was enormous, he was beautiful, solid white and stout. I told my boss that I had found rooster, he looked at me, grinned and asked if I had ‘wrung’ and pulled it’s neck. (he even went through the motions). The girl I worked with teased him and said are you kidding, you’re talking to Debbe. He told me to take him home. But my dog would eat him, and he replied that it was part of the food chain. I’m trying to find a home for him because on election day they are to be euthanized…they’re spent hens. Then there is a two week period of scraping, cleaning and pumping the pit to get ready for a new batch of pullets
I will keep all who are in the path of Sandy in my prayers…it doesn’t look good, found this website, it’s overwhelming.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html
Mindy, you and John stay safe there in Virginia.
His blessings on all
OH, and good morning GR6 (insert smiley face here)
…speaking of chicken…made the best chicken and dumplings ever yesterday, and no it wasn’t the rooster, I just love Bisquick.
=^..^=
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:23 am #
Bob: Very good!
Mark: Are you a fan, or do you just happen to know that exchange from “Trial by Jury”? I’ve been a [spectator + sing in the shower] Savoyard since first hearing G&S on WQXR in Greenwich Village in the ’40s. Attended at least three on Broadway in late ’40s, when D’Oyly Carte [R.I.P., sniff] did its early postwar US tours, and have seen all 14 [some only on TV], + Cox and Box. Also saw three by D’Oyly Carte when stationed in England in ’52-’53. Best G&S done around here is the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Co., which does one four weekends each March/April at the Conn [sp?] Auditorium next to the Plymouth Congregational Church on Nicollet in Mpls. They have a website. They’re doing Yeomen of the Guard spring ’13, the only G&S attempt at grand[?] opera, and nowhere near their best. I may go anyway.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:32 am #
Why good morning, Debbe!
Was there any particular reason why you thought of me after telling of the rooster in the hen house? If so, I hope it wasn’t the neck wringing part.
and smiley face right back at you.
Debbe59 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:39 am #
GR…no..just a good morn, but come to think of it….naw just teasing…but we did separate the rooster from his cage with four other hens…alas, he lost his harem…my son named him Foghorn.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:46 am #
If this episode needed a name, it could be “The Almost Short But Busy Life of Foghorn.”
Mindy on 28 Oct 2012 at 7:22 am #
John can definitely keep his chin up. Debbe59, I don’t know about roosters and “spent hens,” but come euthanasia on Election Day, I do know that we have a lot of turkeys heading that way. Thanks for the “stay safe” for John and me but it seems that we’re too far west to get the brunt of the storm in Virginia…at least the weather guessers so that…and on the other hand run around screaming the sky is [literally] falling. Reminds me of the chant in either “The Caine Mutiny” or “Tales of the South Pacific” where the Navy guys started with “When in danger/or in doubt/run in circles/scream and shout.” I think our officials in DC and Richmond [as well as other States] adopted that as their unofficial mantra. Right next to “spend, spend, spend!” Ghost, I could comment on Debbe thinking about you while simultaneously thinking about the rooster, but I don’t think you would appreciate what I came up with so I’ll be nice and plead a Mindy.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morning, A&J People!
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 7:45 am #
John in Virginia on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:52 am #
Much more silence than is usually seen here on a Sunday. Must be sunny everywhere but here and the rest of the tribe has gotten out of the house. I’m looking forward to bringing in some wood, eating some more venison stew with salmon patties on the side {Mindy’s spiced up and edible recipe} and then keeping my chin up. I’m afraid to ask her what was running through her fertile and somewhat perverted mind about the rooster, Ghost, but I have to think it would be interesting and unique if nothing else.
Jimmy, has anyone commented on the truly pitiful look on Arlo’s face in the latest retro offering? I’m a fairly decent graphic artist, doing both accident diagrams and realistic structural renderings, sometimes, even, a face or figure study here and there {insert pleading a Mindy here}, and I’ve tried cartooning, which was a disaster to rival the Hindenburg, but it amazes me who deftly you can do expressions like that, often with nothing more than the slant of an eyebrow or the size of an eye. I’ve heard some idiots and pretentious boobs declare that cartooning is “childish” and other negatives. I think, and your fans here will agree, that what you do is definitely an art. It’s not just an art form, it is ART. I definitely find your work more appealing and far more understandable and informative that a wilted Picasso watch or some of the Expressionistic junk. I’m tempted to say that Expressionist Art comes from people who really can’t draw or paint, but I won’t since someone here may like that. I prefer the Old Masters…and Jimmy Johnson. Seriously. Now to go get wood and shut up.
Shelly on 28 Oct 2012 at 2:07 pm #
Mindy, I may have somehow inherited your insolent voyeur preacher. Walked outside for a breath of fresh air … it’s cold and wet and raining slightly … and looked out toward on old silver maple tree that I wish had never been born and saw … are you ready? Caucasian male, approximately 40 years old, maybe five-ten, 200 pounds with a mucho big belly, black hair receding male pattern baldness, some white/gray, hair too long and sticking out in tufts on the sides, no facial hair, glasses but a wide eyed crazed look. Guy was wearing a stripe pattern pair of boxer shorts, no shirt, bare feet, waving his hands above his head, jumping from one bare foot to another and shouting, “The end is here! The end is here!”
Does that sound like your pervert? If so, the local police now have him, after a minor fight, in case you want him back.
Why do these things happen to me? I’ve been a good girl, quiet, unassuming, keeping my fetishes and perversions hidden in the privacy of my home…no, wait, that sounds like somebody else.
Mark in TTown on 28 Oct 2012 at 2:15 pm #
John in Virginia: Re: artistic talent. Yes Jimmy definitely has it. As for those who criticize comics, remember the old saying: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, criticize. I am very grateful for all the comic artists who have made my life better, whether they worked in animation, strips or comic books. Tip for the day, try to thank someone whose work you enjoy. If you find they have a website, drop them an email. I remember reading that Carl Barks never had an idea how popular he was until a couple of his fans managed to get his address and write to him.
Bob, near Mark on 28 Oct 2012 at 2:49 pm #
John in Virginia,
It’s been a more silent Sunday because we’ve been outside tying down loose odds and ends ahead of the coming storm, all while taking time to watch the New England Patriots play their Sunday game in Old England.
We also celebrated Mother’s 90th birthday last night. It’s actually tomorrow, but with concerns for the oncoming weather and the traveling safety of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, we celebrated last night. Too much food and dessert was eaten by all.
John in Virginia on 28 Oct 2012 at 2:56 pm #
Bob, near Mark, I hope you and everyone else threatened by this confluence of storms weather them safe and well, no pun intended. If the weather prognosticators are even halfway right, we’re going to be very fortunate and miss the brunt of it all, one reason I moved back to the mountains. What we get, bad though it may be, will be minimal to what the coastal areas get. Mindy and I do extended our prayers and best wishes to you all.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 2:57 pm #
Shelly, send your visitor to Gal. She said she thought boxer shorts were sexy.
John, there are too many ways a rooster comment could go, so let’s just let it lay. Oh, wait…roosters don’t lay, do they? And hens don’t lie. I hear venison is a really good for you, so get all of it you can.
To paraphrase a music critic who said that, as a song writer, John Fogerty could say it all in three minutes or less, Jimmy can say it all in four panels or less.
Mindy on 28 Oct 2012 at 3:09 pm #
Shelly, he wasn’t mine so you get to keep him. Or your police do. It must be something in the air that brings out the weird ones…or else it’s because you and I are so darned sexy. I’ll let you decide and, no, you men do not get to vote so let’s but that horse back in its stall before it even starts to run. Ghost, as I recall, Gal said that after seeing Val Kilmer in boxers she did NOT think they were sexy, I may be wrong. But, of course, that would be the first time. Hmmm, two different kinds of sexy in one paragraph. Must be a new record.
Do you remember, back in the mid-80s, when Fogarty was doing his singles act? I heard some kids talking about that “new cool dude singer that just came out,” meaning the expatriate CCR alumni. They wouldn’t believe me when I said he’d been around for twenty years, just lying dormant. What fascinates me is how many kids keep “discovering” the Stones.
Galliglo in Ohio on 28 Oct 2012 at 4:52 pm #
Yes, Ghost & Mindy (and others!) – I DID say boxers are sexy. However, one must consider the context… Shelly, I want no part of that guy! Oops – just pulled a Mindy! Ah well… we sexy babes have to stick together…
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Oct 2012 at 4:52 pm #
John:
“. . . a wilted Picasso watch or some of the Expressionistic junk.” The wilted watch that I know of is Salvador Dali’s. The original used to hang in NYC’s Mus. of Modern Art, and may still. Dali is widely derided as a charlatan, but at least he could draw. St. Petersburg FL [or a nearby enclave] has a S.D. Museum, which is an interesting visit. Some may still regard him as a phony, but he was a superb draftsman and a shrewd businessman, I think. Many in the art world also regard Andrew Wyeth with disdain. For my money [I have some, but not enough to bid on his originals], he is one of the 20th century’s greats.
Are there Expressionists, or did you mean Impressionistic? Lots of Impressionists were neat. One initial test of artists who claim to do artsy things with real scenes, objects, or bodies is, “Can they draw?” What do their sketches look like, or their initial realist work before they went Impressionist, Surrealist, Ashcan, etc.? Picasso was no slouch. We have three Picasso reproductions from his early periods and have seen a video of him at work; when he put a line on paper or canvas, he knew what he was doing. Lots of sketches by artists who painted impressionistic, cubist, etc. interpretations of the real word show they could do superb realistic scenes and such. Our house is full of reproductions [+ originals by some "locals"], + some neat pots. They range from realist through various other “-ists” and I find them a nice mix. De gustibus . . ..
TruckerRon on 28 Oct 2012 at 5:22 pm #
IMHO, if you have to attend a particular kind of university and take particular courses to truly appreciate an artist’s work, said artist is a fraud of the worst sort. Great art moves you all by itself, be it painting, sculpture, dance, or music.
TruckerRon on 28 Oct 2012 at 5:26 pm #
Oh, and as I commented last week, look at how many were moved to express themselves by JJ drawing an arc below Janet’s lowering garment:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2012/10/18
Mark in Boston on 28 Oct 2012 at 5:27 pm #
eMb,
I was a Savoyard; specifically a member of the Savoyards at Boston University around 1971. I played tympani in three shows we did with full orchestra: “Yeoman of the Guard”, “H.M.S. Pinafore”, and “Ruddigore”. I also played the piano for a low-budget “Trial By Jury” we took on tour — no orchestra, just me on piano.
Bob, near Mark on 28 Oct 2012 at 5:32 pm #
Dali’s melting timepieces are “Persistence of Vision”. His work may be more appreciated if you look at it in a Miro. Juan would do.
Mindy on 28 Oct 2012 at 5:38 pm #
What’s the old saying? Different strokes for different folks? Whatever that means. I guess John and I are just simple country Plebeians who like what we like and pay not attention to those who mock us.
I am what I am and that’s all what I am. What does that different strokes thing mean? Is it dirty?
You’re right about us sexy ladies, Galliglo! We hang together or we perish.
Robin in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:06 pm #
The Stones are celebrating 50 years. 50. years.
Lost in A**2 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:39 pm #
“Those can, do; those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, criticize.”
I’ve always liked Picasso’s “Horse.” Unfortunately, I never remember the photographer who immortalised the light drawing.
Lost in A**2 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:41 pm #
The second word, the first “who,” elided itself.
Lost in A**2 on 28 Oct 2012 at 6:52 pm #
BTW, if you can find it, the short story, “Those Who Can, Do” is worth the time to read. I first saw it in Judith Merrill’s 1965 “World’s Best SF” anthology.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 28 Oct 2012 at 7:25 pm #
A different, nasty version is: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; those who can’t teach, teach education.
sandcastler on 28 Oct 2012 at 7:50 pm #
Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution called teachers the Stinking Ninth. They were on the lowest rung of Chinese intellectuals, in China an intellectual was any one who did not soil their hands working. This lead to terrible abuses.
Remember what you have seen for what is forgotten returns to the swirling winds.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 7:50 pm #
Just remember, Mindy. My memory is at least as good as my imagination, if not better. So, careful what you say.
What worries me is that you, Shelly, Jean, Gal and others are getting better than I am with the old double entendre. But I guess that’s just part of your sexiness.
And you are correct about the Stones still being discovered. As by my 20-year-old godson.
Mindy on 28 Oct 2012 at 8:00 pm #
Ghost, just accept the fact that your out numbered, out matched and out gunned. Women have always run things, we just have the mercy to let you men think you are. And wait until we unleash out TRIPLE entendres. Then you’ll really be at our mercy.
Lost in A**2 on 28 Oct 2012 at 8:05 pm #
Inconceivable!
sandcastler on 28 Oct 2012 at 8:07 pm #
Ghost Rider 6, you are cleared to run hot and select targets of opportunity.
Ghost Rider 6 on 28 Oct 2012 at 8:08 pm #
Bring it, babes!
TruckerRon on 28 Oct 2012 at 9:53 pm #
This looks like a good time to duck and cover. Let GR6 take the arrows!
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 28 Oct 2012 at 10:11 pm #
At this point all I’m going to say is, does anyone remember The Sandwich Island Savoyards? That was the Gilbert and Sullivan theater group on Magnum, PI, led by the redoubtable Higgins.
Tonight was a gathering at a friends’ house for Halloween, Samhain, All Hallows-whatever you want to call it. Much fun was had and way too much good food consumed.
Bob, near Mark-Happy Birthday to your mother!
Jerry in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 10:46 pm #
Mandatory evacuations of millions of people. Living in Fl we are accustomed to weather people and polticians downplaying the danger to avoid hurting the tourist business and avoiding panic. They are now showing empty grocery stores and telling people if they have not yet evacuated plan on staying where you are without power and water for several days and expect 90 mph winds in NYC for the next couple of days. It got my attention when they said that every state east of the Mississippi will be affected. States further north can expect very heavy snow along with high winds and where it doesn’t snow they can expect 24″ of rain within 48 hours.. Most of you know that hurricanes are usually accompanied by tornados. If you are in the danger area but you still have power, use your computer to read how to sterilize your water with bleach, fill your tub with water, if you have empty milk jugs or anything similar that will hold water fill it up and put it in your freezer now in order to help keep your food cold if you lose power as well as providing additional drinking water if neccesary. Get your icemakers to making as much ice as possible and fill plastic bags with the ice and put it in the freezer. Brace garage doors and windows with lumber, furniture or what have you. Don’t bother putting putting tape on windows. We realized years ago that doesn’t do anything, but when high winds hit stay away from wibdows and shelter in small room in the center of your house. If that is a closet take down heavy items that are above the floor. Use pillows or mattresses to protect yourself. Do not go outside during winds to watch the storm or take pictures. Cook up some food tonight and put it in your freezer and shower and shave tonight. It could be your last for awhile. If you lose power use no kind of generator, gas or kerosene heater without proper ventilation. If you plan on going to a shelter tonight you can call your local emergency management service for locations and rules. We have found in Fl that shelters are not always in a safe area so use your own common sense re that. Take in hanging plants, outside furniture, etc. I’m no expert, but I will be up for awhile if you have any questions. Don’t shrug it off. This is not a movie.
Mark in TTown on 28 Oct 2012 at 10:57 pm #
Jerry in FL, thank you for the storm survival tips. Everyone needs to hear those from the people who have lived thru it and know this is no drill!
It blew my mind when I came back to Alabama after 14 years in TN, to find hurricane evacuation route signs on the interstates. In the northern part of the state, no less. Guess Katrina really made an impression.
Jerry in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:03 pm #
Re sandbags and plywood. Both exhaust you for little gain. If I am expecting heavy winds I put some boards or small pieces of plywood inside the house along with a hammer and nails to cover a window if it is broken. Sandbags can be used to brace a weak door or cover small openings. Also, if you have any kind of plastic, shower curtains , trash bags, whatever you can use them to cover anything that you wouldn’t want to get wet.
Jerry in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:08 pm #
Ivan made houses disappear and people died 3-4 miles south of me. I neglected to mention some of the obvious things such as a battery radio, flashlight, etc. DO NOT use candles under any circumstance.
Jerry in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:23 pm #
Think that it can’t happen to you? We barely missed hitting a fullsize deer a couple of hours ago. If you don’t know this already that can total your vehicle or kill you. Now, get off the computer and go make your preperations.
sideburns on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:35 pm #
EMB, back in the ’50s the Bell Telephone Hour put on a one hour (less commercials) production of The Mikado. I’m sure that all of the artists were very well known and highly regarded at the time, but the only one who is still well known is the man who played Koko: Groucho Marx.
Jerry in Fl on 28 Oct 2012 at 11:46 pm #
The boss has ordered me off the computer. Tomorrow is another day.
TruckerRon on 29 Oct 2012 at 12:03 am #
One last thought concerning deer: I hit several during my driving years, but I’ll always remember the yearling that leaped in front of my rig in northern Utah about 2 a.m. while I was cruising at the posted 65 mph. The impact destroyed my evaporator, radiator, and shattered the bumper (fiberglass). I barely had time to pull over before the engine shut itself down (out of coolant!). It took over a week to get all the parts to the shop I was towed to… Luckily I was able to hitch a ride to the terminal where my car was waiting and get home.
Debbe59 on 29 Oct 2012 at 3:46 am #
Oh, Mindy….I do have to plead a ‘blonde moment’ to your statement:”I don’t know about roosters and “spent hens,” but come euthanasia on Election Day, I do know that we have a lot of turkeys heading that way.”
I first thought there were a lot of turkey houses down there, and with Thanksgiving coming up it seemed logical…..but it went over my head and came swirling back…then it hit me…too funny!!!!! Thanks for a monday morning grin.
Prayers to all in Sandy’s way.
…and GR, I will keep you up to date on Foghorn, maybe he’ll get a raw egg today for a treat….cannibals!!!!
Ghost Rider 6 on 29 Oct 2012 at 6:41 am #
Thanks, Debbe. Even though I know Foghorn misses his harem, I’m sure he needs some rest and some extra protein to replenish his, ah, bodily fluids.
And blonde moments can be adorable!
Dave in MA on 29 Oct 2012 at 7:20 am #
Hitting deer in most car has the potential to kill you and can often total your vehicle. Hitting MOOSE on the other hand is a sure death sentence in almost all cars. You knock the legs out from under more than 1,000 pounds and it rolls across your hood, through your windshield and through you. Mini-vans and larger have been known to have survivors because they hit higher up on the moose, but even then it’s not assured.
As for storms, this one is starting to hit here in MA and there are some small power outages in the area, but the electric companies have been out in force for several days trimming trees around all power lines and also gathering supplies and personnel to deal with outages as they happen and are responding quickly. They may not be able to do so later on as the storm gets worse.
This storm is huge! Mid-Altantic states all the way up to the arctic circle for the cloud cover!!!! And all the way inland to Chicago and it hasn’t even HIT the mainland yet!
BTW, as an aside, there were several days last week where this website got blocked at work. Apparently they use new “reputation filters” based on content for sites they don’t explicitly list for blocking or allowing, and this one hit -5.8 on the reputation filters, presumably based on the discussion.
Got a kick out of that. I just kept clicking the “report misclassification” button and within 3 days it was back to unblocked mode. 