My grandmother, who lived with us when I was growing up, actually would ask me this. Of course, it sounded idiotic and embarrassing to me then, but now that I think back it was a more interesting and probably more accurate term than “dating.”
What’s In a Name?
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264 responses to “What’s In a Name?”
The current pair show promise. I talked them through wall papering and wall prep and changed paper to an easier one. And by gosh they did it and can paint decently, sand and fill holes. I can teach, I know how to do most repairs, so if they admit I can teach simple methods.
Goal for tomorrow, I teach them simple pergola and bird feeder post design. Wisteria can take down telephone poles and one is a wisteria pergola. There were rumors kudzu could survive this far north.
Is there anywhere with water and soil kudzu can’t run over everything? I thought it was like herpes. Good for you if you’ve never been introduced, But once you’ve got it, you’ve got it.
Sometimes I don’t like the metaphors in my head.
I once questioned whether had Jimmy had minions who read all our comments and gave him a daily précis. Jean dear promptly linked me to a video of three cute little yellow critters singing and dancing and engaging in tomfoolery. Not being a moviegoer in recent years, I had never seen them before. (I have since watched their movies on TV.) Yes, there is much to be learned in the village.
Not a native, but my impression is that the term “NOLA” is widely used within the Crescent City, at least by the local media. But what do they know?
It is also my impression that kudzu is no longer as ubiquitous in the Deep South as it was a couple of decades ago, and neither are armadillos. I have no theory to offer as to why, although a friend swears the recession of the armadillo population is due to fire ants killing their young. Perhaps the ants are killing the kudzu as well.
Interesting article, and not just for science-geeks…
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a19164/the-hardiest-fungi-on-earth-could-survive-mars-like-conditions/
Wonder if they’ve tested the survival potential of kudzu?
Jackie, Jefferson was on the $2 bill, Andrew Jackson is on the $20.
Kudzu’s overrunning of the South is more evidence of what can happen when you introduce a species to a suitable environment with no natural enemies. In England, the big problem seems to be American Gray Squirrels, which are pushing the native Reds to desperate levels. Maybe the armadillos are destroying the kudzu, since they dig everything up in a search for food.
They used to say cockroaches would survive a nuclear war. With kudzu’s reputation, it might make it too. I’ve seen a videogame called Plants VS Zombies. Maybe somebody could do Cockroaches vs Kudzu. Could be a million-dollar hit.
Was channel-surfing and landed on the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction. Saw a 1953 Corvette convertible go for $485,000.
Thanks, Ghost. I’ll loosen up about NOLA, those San Francisco purists always seemed a bit touchy about it. Along those lines, I’ve known from a young age that NEW or LEE-ans (damn yankee) could be a single, two syllable word. But the one that gets me every time I hear is Louisville, KY. First time I stayed, the evening news was on, but I wasn’t watching. I had the vague idea it was a report on a wolf attack, but I didn’t know people in KY/TN used the word lobo for wolf. Once I looked at the screen, I understood it was local weather, _and_that’s_how_they_say _it_. (with a mouthful of marbles) I really felt like an outsider.
The Crescent City is nice. Feels somehow more lyrical than their City by the Bay, too.
Armadillos live just fine in southeast Texas.
Kudzu can create impressive landscapes. Remember driving in Mississippi twenty years back marveling at the undulating kudzu artwork.
Those of us on limited budgets can buy a day pass to Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction fit around $50.00. It allows you access to all the indoor displays, all cars under tents, and a seat on the auction floor. No worry about an accidental bid, you have to be precertified to get a bid paddle. The average man auto auction, Silvers, is usually held in Phoenix at the same time.
Well, my late husband was a huge fan of Andrew Jackson as well. Along with George Washington and yes, I own museum quality prints of all three presidents that once hung in my office so perhaps that anecdote involved Jackson. There were once advantages to a husband who worked his way through high school, college and first year or so of marriage as a custom framer and art gallery manager.
Unfortunately I ended up having to do my own framing until oldest daughter “borrowed” all my framing tools which I discovered were REALLY expensive to replace.
Don’t have any $2 bills so it must have been Jackson. Native Americans hate him. He isn’t hung in my house now.
Mark, Plants vs Zombies is a delightful game, of the class known as a “Tower Defense Game.” The zombies try to get into your home to eat your brain and you have to use various plants to block them or fight back. (Conceptually, the plants are defensive platforms, hence the term “tower.”) And, the music for it won an award the year it came out.
Kudzu has been around long enough for natural selection to have altered the genetics of whatever native plants it competes with, enabling them to compete more successfully. It has also been around long enough for natural selection to occur in species of herbivores, perhaps particularly plant-eating insects, better adapting them to using kudzu as food. Many plants produce substances that discourage herbivory, but many insects are able to feed on this or that protected species of plant. Milkweed’s latex is such a deterrent, but monarch butterflies can handle it, and are themselves protected by the latex incorporated in their bodies. A naïve bluejay will upchuck if it gobbles a monarch caterpillar, and thus learn to leave them alone.
That happened in Hawai’i, perhaps over just a century or two centuries ago, in a native species of leaf roller moths in the genus Hedylepta. The species that originally fed on the only native Hawai’ian palm, genus Pritchardia, gave rise to several new species of Hedylepta that feed variously on wild banana and coconut palm, both introduced by the original settlers of Hawai’i some 1500 years ago, and on ‘improved’ banana trees, the commercial kind. This info was first published in a two-volume encyclopedia on Hawai’ian insects, and later summarized by its author in a profession journal I subscribed to at the time. I wrote a couple or three articles on that sort of thing for The Bemidji Pioneer years ago.
‘Deo gratia.’ Thank you, c x-p.
About $2 bills. I think during or after WWII, there were complaints in a town / difficulties with troops from a nearby army base. Supposedly, one month the army paid them in $2 bills, and the complaining at least lessened.
Peace, emb
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emb, I lived on Oahu as a guest of the US Navy for two years and loved it. The only drawback I ever found was the size of some of its spiders. I have highly developed arachnophobia and seeing huge spiders in webs the size of basketball nets (or largers) really gave me the creeps. And then there is this one, which moves like greased lightning: http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?Animals.cane
Mark I can’t remember seeing spiders anywhere on any islands but with spider phobia I’ll believe you. What years were you there?
April 1974 to April 1976. I was at the Naval Communication Station near Wahiawa, past Whitmore Village in the middle of the pineapple fields.
https://www.google.com/maps/@21.5157312,-158.003532,2482m/data=!3m1!1e3
“In England, the big problem seems to be American Gray Squirrels, which are pushing the native Reds to desperate levels.”
True enough. I was in England 8-9 mo. in ’52-’53, and never saw a European red squirrel. BTW, don’t confuse them with our red squirrel and chickarees, genus Tamiasciurus. Their red squirrels are a tad larger, a somewhat more orange color, and are smaller members of the same genus as our gray and fox squirrels, Sciurus. Monica Shorten wrote a book in the ’50s, “Squirrels”, in the Collins New Naturalist Series. Good, readable lay level introduction to the critters.
Is natural selection what led to the love of Spam* many Hawaiians have?
*The food product, not InterWebNet ads
Debbe 😉 I really wouldn’t be able to help myself…I’d have to dance to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dhqJG4qSu0
Good Morning Villagers…
TR, I’m 62, and I think we’re about the same age, are we? And you’re right about Airplane, it was from the mid 60’s to about ’72 they played under that name…..I just dragged them around with me through the seventies….along with the white rabbit 🙂
Thank you Old Bear for the prayers…going to be rather warm here the next three days…that means windows get open more and more fans running. And the virus is airborne. I still feel it’s here…but I pray I am wrong.
Mark, will keep your Mom in my prayers. And that group did an outstanding job on ‘Time’. Have you seen either perform, Pink Floyd or Black Jacket Symphony?
Running late…
Oh, and GR 😉 thanks for the lesson on ‘bare boobs’ 🙂
Have a blessed Lord’s day…..
GR 😉 you know what I need…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOntQocGWk
I’ll be singing that one all day now.
Feline March madness
http://cheezburger.com/8745973248/funny-animal-gif-of-cat-catching
Ruth Anne….did Arlo sing ‘Alice’s Restaurant’?
Gal 🙂 come out, come out, where ever you are…..
Miss Charlotte, you doing ok?
Indy Mindy…how is Thunder doing?
Debbe: Yes, this tour is celebrating the 50th (!) anniversary of Alice’s Restaurant. Opening the show was his daughter Sarah Lee, who has a lovely voice and the family sense of humor. Will definitely be looking for her music, especially her children’s albums.
GR6: ‘Is natural selection what led to the love of Spam* many Hawaiians have?’
No more than my love of sardines on toast, or my late wife’s of ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ But it probably has something to do with a unique feature of the human female figure, and of our tendency to ‘like them’, as Janis says.
Peace, emb