In France, a seafood platter is not unlike this. It’s called plateau fruits de mer, or just fruits de mer, and usually comes on a multi-tiered tower that makes it look like a slimy wedding cake. Needless to say, the best fruits de mer are startlingly fresh. I don’t remember the exact moment I conceived this idea, but I’m pretty sure it was inspired by this French version of a seafood platter. I found a lot to appreciate in my European travels and consider myself a changed and better man for them, but I will admit I prefer our seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. Fried.
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Sex is wonderful in its place, just like fire in a furnace. In a pun, though…
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Speaking of sex, Terrie the Orange Brassiered Housekeeper helped me arrange and organize Jackie’s refrigerator this morning. I now know where everything is, and I do not have to remove half its contents to retrieve something. I literally could not be more pleased if she had performed an exotic sex act on me.
Jackie: ‘… why is it only Ghost and I …’ Haven’t others of us roundly applauded the sex JJ gets away with? E.g., the apparently regular morning routine A&J have of reminding each other of their dalliance the night before. JJ is master of sexual innuendo. Ages back, there was a strip where either he, or a boat salesman, says this boat is the second most beautiful thing in the world, and [if I remember] a balloon from Arlo’s head w/ a 3/4 back view of nude Janis from just above the butt up, perhaps w/ a curve of breast as well. Many of us love that stuff, and many miss it, but revel in others’ enjoyment.
Peace,
TruckerRon, that’s cute. I don’t think I’ve looked at that comic in a while. I’ll have to try it a few more times. I recognized the art, but had to look up Hilburn, to find out it is the Argyle Sweater. I don’t remember why it fell out of my rotation.
Am I working to hard if I am trying to decide that the trombone is actually female, trying in vain to get banjo-boy to see a more mature theme. In hopes of a livelier combo set later? Dixie-rag was never so exciting. Hope she has a chance to feel the tension in those strings.
Wrote too soon. Went to view today’s offering. The ball-and-chain gag falls flat for me, and I think there were several of those that reached for Gary Larson brilliance, but just couldn’t quite make it. Oh well, throw it in the braincase somewhere for future use.
Speaking of fresh, I once read that chefs in Japan barely cooked some fish dishes, so much so that the fish was still attempting to breathe. When the diners saw it, they exclaimed, “See how fresh the fish is!”
Sushi might be raw, but at least it’s dead.
Being a semi-Southerner by birth, I can assure everyone that everything is better deep fried.
Debbe
Let me know from what date to resend.
Adult Truths:
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again.
13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
I love the action in the retro strip above! The fish and other creatures are so varied and lively, worth poring over and figuring them all out. Also extremely well done is Janis’ kind of “what the heck” reaction to what’s going on in Arlo’s plate. Not critical but somewhat surprised.
As for the sex here in the Village, I’d say there is plenty going on, not explicit, but implied. People don’t want to know TOO much about friends and neighbors’ goings on.
Wow, Jackies’ staple scars sure are decorative! It’s encouraging to read about her exercise therapy. I’m having a hard time sticking to the workout — and I have a Personal Trainer coming to the house two days a week. When Doug is here, the therapy feels good, but when I’m alone I just don’t feel like working out. Go figure!
Old Bear, Love the #13. Especially because, true to your title there is an aging process. I remember it being so bad you had to remember to breathe. Then learning that if I KNEW I had made no changes from reading or printing only select NO because any change had been a miskey. Then aging to doubt my own ten minute memory. To go wondering if I knew how to look at the change log.
In Word and a few other programs, having had printed the document causes a repagination process that used to be more obvious when computers were slower. That counts (in Word’s opinion) as a change in the document.
My short-term memory is good enough still to know whether I made any changes in the past 10 minutes. If I can’t remember making any in that short a time, the changes weren’t worth worrying about.
Your mileage may vary!
BTW, tonight was a wonderful night for a backyard telescope, even a low power one (40x) in a light-polluted town. I could clearly see Jupiter with 2 of its Galilean moons. Saturn was visibly distended by what Galileo first called ears.
The half moon was glorious… I saved it until last since my right eye is now shot for night driving. I’m glad my telescope came with a good lunar map with both normal and mirror layouts… my little Newtonian reflector shows everything reversed. I could easily see the larger seas (Mare Tranquilitatis, Seranitatis, Nectaris, and Crisium) and the smallest feature I identified was the Albategnius crater.
Not bad for a little $95 telescope (plus shipping). Next weekend I hope to make it up to a campground at 8,000 feet with a great night sky, weather willing. The roads should be clear by then.
BTW, I meant that after viewing the moon with my right eye, my night vision was shot for the next 30 minutes. The secret of telescopes is that they work primarily by concentrating the light collected by the mirror (mine’s a 100 mm diameter) down to the size of your retina (about 32 mm). I definitely will be buying a lunar filter to make the moon easier to handle.
Ghost Sweetie, not yet, but then there’s been a bit of fuss going on around here. Younger Daughter is soon to present us with our first grandchild (her doctor says it’s a girl. I’ll wait and see.) and Older Daughter has been putting together a baby shower, in which I am in charge of the food, so crocheted blankets, onesies, and menus have been taking up time along with the usual stuff. I really need to move my tush, though, as the knee has been a bit sore lately. š
I really need to make a trip to either New Orleans or Savannah. I am having a severe seafood craving, and need shrimp and fried oysters.
Trapper
Best Fried Clams were at Woodstock Fair in Connecticut.
June 4-7 Battle of Midway
It has been said if this battle was not so decisive D- Day would not have happened
June -6th -1944.
If it had not been won Japan would have gone on to Hawaii & the west coast.
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From a history blog:
On June 4ā7, 1942, American naval and air forces met the Japanese near Midway Atoll in one of the most decisive naval battles of the war. The Battle of Midway would become a turning point in the naval war in the Pacific, as the Japanese losses sustained there proved irreparable.
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Michael K. Bates
June 1, 2017 at 8:56 pm
The Battle that saved America. To the 84 men who gave their lives and changed the tide of battle. The torpedo bombers..
Carrier YORKTOWN VT-3 Squadron Leader Massey 13 TBD Devastators
12 planes shot down.. 1 survived
Carrier ENTERPRISE VT-6 Squadron Leader Lindsey 14 TBD Devastators
11 planes shot down.. 3 survived
Carrier HORNET VT-8 Squadron Leader Waldron 15 TBD Devastators
15 planes shot down..0 survived
The combined torpedo plane attack on the Japanese carriers drew the Zero aircraft covering their carries down to sea level, thus paving the way for our dive bombers to strike and sink three carriesā¦KAGA, SORYU and AKAGI. All in a matter of minutes. America should build a monument to the 3 squadrons VT-3. VT-6 & VT-8ā¦ and their pilots as they saved our country. If we lost the Battle of Midway the Japanese would have landed on Midway and then invaded Hawaii. As a young lad of nearly 2, I most likely would have not made it through Japanese internmentā¦ Good Bless these men and Admiral Chester Nimitz.
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These are the men Memorial Day is about.
Breakfast in bed supplied by Ghost, cottage cheese, blueberries and raspberries, along with English muffin and iced tea. He is off to pickup my pain meds refill, leaving me with my knee iced down.
Today I reopen the Chinese laundry. It is rainy and probably no employees will show up to do tile installing or rock work. My big plan is to work on clean clothes and organize my lingerie.
Turns out the Tasmanian housekeeper is a drawer crammer. Both Ghost and I are a bit more than anal on refrigerators, pantries, kitchens, closets, clothes, bookcases, etc.
This works out really well, believe it or not.
Thanks for the reminder of those who flew, knowing they would likely die that day.
Mine has been a daily reminder of my father Jack Hodgson, who flew daily reconnaissance missions in WWII in a plane loaded with cameras and no guns. His squadron suffered daily losses. He was shot down in Italy by friendly fire nineteen days before I was born.
I know who Memorial Day honors.
As a youngster, probably between 5 and 10, I had a tour of the carrier Enterprise during its stop in New York City – Brooklyn Navy Yard?? Even at that early age, I felt absolutely honored to have had that privilege. True, I did not know the details then, but I was aware of the big battle at Midway and of the role played by the Enterprise therein.
Good reminders about Midway. Thanks, all.
Now to work editing photos and organizing memorabilia from the recent Europe trip. (While watching college playoff baseball and softball and, in another few minutes, Diamondbacks baseball.)
OK history buffs, add this to your “to read” list: What If? The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, edited by Robert Cowley. I just finished it – it had been on my list for years. There was a chapter on Midway, of course, but I learned more from some of those on earlier events. A change in the weather or someone getting a better night’s sleep on a given day could easily have made our world entirely different!
One of our most interesting Villagers is Rusty who lives in Australia. He stays too busy to post here much but I follow him as I can on Facebook.
Just a shout out to a gifted Villager who is playing in Proms in Perth, Australia.
If you don’t know about Proms read here. http://www.experienceperth.com/events?DetailsView=true&EventItem=4f3dbaa8-3eaa-69e8-98b9-ff0000322386
Nancy I would like to single you out as another of our gifted touring and musical Villagers who performs in national and international chorale concerts. You are too modest.
Nancy is another Facebook friend I love following.
Llee or Lora Waring is our gifted artist in residence. She does totally unbelievable work, flowers that leap off the paper at you, specializing in colored pencils. Her nasturtiums I own rivals those out in my garden.