Today, another sleeping-cat Sunday from the archives of Arlo & Janis. And more about wine. Prohibition understandably was hard on vintners. Many vineyards ripped out vines of grapes more suitable for wine and replaced them with grapes good for eating or for juices and jams, such as Concord grapes. This practically destroyed a long-established wine industry in the Ozarks and in New York. These regions relied heavily upon “my” grape, the Norton, said to be the only native North American grape that will produce a decent dry wine. Just now are the Norton wines really coming back in Missouri and Arkansas. My favorite prohibition story, true or not, is about desperate grape growers who would ship their produce to consumers with instructions such as, “Do not mash these grapes into juice, add yeast and store for several months in a cool dark place. It will turn into wine!”
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According to the San Jose Mercury News, “…California’s earthquake early-warning system, which is still being tested, worked. It gave a UC Berkeley lab 10 seconds of warning.” Wow. Yeah, I know, some warning is better than none at all. But what would YOU do with a 10-second warning? Back in the Cold War days, there were these suggestions about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.
http://pixcdn.posterrevolution.com/pr/1/545185f.jpg
So, Lilyblack, in your world are all men disgusting and all cats dangerous?
TruckerRon, all men can’t be disgusting to Lilyblack. She shows great respect for The Boss in Her Life’s husband, The Man in Her Life.
I don’t think all the depictions of a half-naked Cleopatra were intended to be stimulating. If I recall correctly, the histories say she placed the asp to her breast. Consider this, the nearer the bite is to the heart, the faster the poison works to bring on death.
Sideburns: Pretty much, with some notable exceptions among the men 😛
Mark: also consider that Egyptian women went topless most of the time
I’m late today, but Ghost, don’t you know we want VIDEO of the stripper in action! I too wondered what to do during that 10 second warning. Is it like the duck and cover they taught in civil defense in the sixties and early seventies at elementary schools? In my nuclear targeting classes for Uncle Sam’s Army we joked it was time to bend over and kiss your rear goodbye. I guess it would be enough time to jump under the bed and hide.
Lily, did you get the stain out of your scrubs? Was it demanded? 🙂 Has there ever been a painting of the death of Cleopatra that even had Egyptian women?
David: ‘Has there ever been a painting of the death of Cleopatra that even had Egyptian women?’ Well said. emb
David, how about
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Death_of_Cleopatra_by_Rixens.jpg
OK, by popular demand (well, from enough of you, anyway), a stripper routine worth watching. (Possibly NSFW, depending on where you work). (And Lily, again, this is not a link to a “dumb band”. 🙂 )
Ignore her skimpy outfit. (You can see skimpier on any public beach. Or in some classic paintings.) Marvel at her athleticism. Admire her performance.
http://www.myvidster.com/video/23586462/Video_Killed_It_When_Strippers_Get_Bored_They_Do_Things_Like_This
NOTE: This was the best quality video I could find, but it may pause a few times. If so, be patient; it’s worth the wait. If it gets too annoying, you can of course wait until it nears the end and click the left side of the progress bar below the video and pretty much see it straight through. Some of you may want to watch it again, anyway. Be sure and use “full screen”, too. 😉
I really think the Olympic Committee should seriously consider making this an Olympic event. (Don’t laugh…women’s beach volleyball is an Olympic event, and believe me, I’ve seen many of those women wearing even less. And being less athletic.) I’m still not sure how she made some of those moves, and I’ve watched the video, ah, more than once.
Ghost: Did you *really* think I would click a link to see a woman taking her clothes off? Silly, silly Ghost 😛
Just for the record, Lily, she didn’t take “her clothes off”, and she was wearing much more than Cleo in the picture you posted.
Cool, Ghost. You should watch it, Lily. No clothing removal involved, but incredible strength and acrobatics.
Serious earthquake damage suffered by Napa Valley wineries. Much product lost. The horror.
All kidding aside, a very negative effect on their businesses and many livelihoods there.
Thanks, Nancy. I’ve always said I enjoy seeing someone do anything they are very good at, even if it’s working on the back of a trash truck.
NK:
Hahahahaha 😛
Lily’s mind is made up; don’t confuse her with the facts.
My mind might not be made up, but videos don’t work at work and the speakers on my laptop are too puny for me to make out words elsewhere. So I just skip the frustration
Smartphone=oxymoron. Lily, unless someone else is using your name you can actually write when you put your mind to it. I would like to see that side of you more often.
Which reminds me, whatever happened to Denise?
Or is it cutting and pasting that you do well? I follow an unprinted rule hereabouts, that is, give the original author credit.
I can write on my phone (when I remember the darned thing), my laptop, or my computer at work. But The Boss Of My Life has the latter hocussed so that videos won’t work, and laptops and phones are forbidden during office hours. And she isn’t kidding about that last one,let me tell you. She has put more than one employee on probation ffor violating that rule (not me!)
So that wasn’t you at 12:52 today?
Oh, I see what you mean. Nope, I wrote that poem myself. Google away after it if you don’t believe me. I posted that to my dA site. I write poetry a lot. Always have
As far as the 12:52 post, that was taken from the link in the post above
As far as the 12:52 post, that was taken from the link in the post above