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the Great Spirit (or one of them) told me to tell you to enjoy your bird, and your day.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:06:48 AM EST
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and you, CH!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:48:26 AM EST
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Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 8)

A lot of Lego building, listening to Bo Kasper's Orkestra, and a quiz game called Etiquette till the early hours.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:55:16 AM EST

Woala nen!!! (Spanish phrase to indicate I am impressed)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 07:35:08 AM EST
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It was supposed to have a tapas theme. This was proposed by we cooks so that everything could be shoveled onto the table and then we cooks could sit down and enjoy.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:52:48 AM EST
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How did you fit all that wonder in the sauna? Wow!

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:07:33 AM EST
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Smoke saunas are where the ham gets cured ;-) (and the hangovers)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:53:29 AM EST
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What's that with the eggs ? Lettuce ? Mushrooms ? and .. ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:45:46 AM EST
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S'my standard salad.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:49:46 AM EST
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Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 10)

Not quite 4 A.M. Just me and my cat. A quiet day of reflection on the joys of organic and biochemistry, my bibles next to my bed.

Cold day but I still need to go for a walk ... good for the attitude in these gray times. And I don't mean the weather.

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:57:46 AM EST

Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 8)

Merry Chirstmas. Mr Jerome and family...

And blog too!!!

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 07:35:35 AM EST

Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 6)

best holiday wishes to all ETers, and many thanks to Jerome and the gnomes for keeping up the quality another year!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:18:39 AM EST
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You know what? (4.00 / 6)

"No Twank, what?"

(Sorry for the delay. Had to hand-feed my cat ham. It IS Christmas, after all.)

Anyway, it's so odd and refreshing to be immersed in science without all of the BS of ... whatever.

Example: Reading in my org. chem text, the section on alkanes, and it just mentions in passing that methane is a greenhouse gas that adds to global warming and climate change. Very matter of fact, no big deal.

While the world screws around! Religion here. "Climate change is a hoax" there. Nonsense.

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 07:51:14 AM EST

The Loot Thread (4.00 / 5)

So did anyone score a great haul, or a wonder of a gift? This is the place to share your favorites. And of course, you can also share the feeling of the best gift you gave.

My first surprise was my ex-wife at the door, with a straw box of goodies not to be opened 'til this morning. Since she lives 3 hours away, wow. But after all the sweets and ayurvedic teas, the Darjeeling Limited film and Moby Dick and marzipan... there was my long lost Stickman, a book of poetry from John Trudell. (CH) peace to you he scribbled, with a gentle reminder of something in Lakota.

Just the exact moment the ex-wife was angling for an invitation to stay, comes an sms from a young wonder from Berlin, telling me she'll be here in an hour. even though she's 20 cm taller than me (and probably still growing!), she became the second wonderful surprise.

That surprise has to be at least as good as the exquisite table settings by J or Sven, nah? We laughed and danced and lovingly watched Across the Universe.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:34:54 AM EST

Re: The Loot Thread (4.00 / 3)

Decided to separate this poem out of the lead comment, because i didn't want to dampen the holiday spirit. Just now when i first opened Stickman, this is the poem i opened to...

FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE

The winter purification has returned
the cold and the snow
the crispness of the air
it is a time for rejoicing and prayer
ceremonies, sacrifice
humble ways to show we care
respect and concern for our relations
are the ways it's always been

the invader starts his winter purification
with Christmas
allegedly he says to honor Christ
who he killed, the prince of peace
is now honored with the sacrifice
of the Trees
the assassins with their axes
will kill you my relative
and then electrify you with lights and decorations
you will stand over
their gifts and presence
of the confused
they do not understand
you are spirit
you must not be abused

(... ending with)

maybe someday they will learn
purification

John Trudell

Well, ndns have a different view of xtian religions, i guess. even so, i wish you all an illuminated holiday.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:38:37 AM EST
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Mitakuye Oyarsin (none / 0)

Trudell means ALL my relations, when he says relations. How strange, then, to find this in the NYT about plants today.

"Plants are not static or silly," said Monika Hilker of the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin. "They respond to tactile cues, they recognize different wavelengths of light, they listen to chemical signals, they can even talk" through chemical signals. Touch, sight, hearing, speech. "These are sensory modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals," Dr. Hilker said.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 10:43:32 AM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (none / 1)

I got the special boxed set of Blade Runner. No surprises there...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:00:25 AM EST
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Is that because you haven't seen the special added features yet?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:05:01 AM EST
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I have seen the Final Cut, but there's 6 discs in the box, so I have some serious cinematographic research ahead ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:44:28 AM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (none / 1)

i'll be there tomorrow to assist in the process.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:48:27 AM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (4.00 / 3)

Santa Claus brought my wife one of these:

and me one of these:

We are doing our part to revive the American consumer economy, that's for sure... :-)

by asdf on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:24:38 PM EST
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Two comments.

Why is the dragon eating the piece of metal?
Where's the razor blade to make the 16mm film cut?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:31:45 PM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (none / 1)

It is a Morse code key.

by asdf on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:33:30 PM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (4.00 / 2)

So you can logon to the Unix kern in an emergency?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:36:37 PM EST
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Re: The Loot Thread (4.00 / 2)

So I can practice to do this:

after there is an Android version, and after I have an Android...

by asdf on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:59:29 PM EST
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When i grow up (if) i want to be a nerd.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:05:18 PM EST
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Jerusalem (4.00 / 3)

Entrance to the Menahem, er, Begin highway

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:37:23 AM EST

No big deal here. We open presents, more tokens than anything, later in the afternoon. Dinner is delayed as the oven is taking its time. No hurry as we're not going anywwhere.

I hope you all have a lovely relaxing day.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:41:02 AM EST

Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 6)

Still a couple of hours of obligatory visits to do here. Driving all around North Dublin. Then when we get home put the turkey on and have a nap. Then dinner and lots of trains to play with. I may even let C play with them!

Proper reporting later!

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:54:44 AM EST

And I hope everyone is enjoying their solstice linked celebrations!

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:56:50 AM EST
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A proper DoDo xmas. But you should let C have some time with the trains. You never know where they might end up.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:58:17 AM EST
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If you can get BBC2 then you have to watch James May tonight at 7:00. He builds 10 mile long model railway.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:11:06 AM EST
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Sharp NDN Eyes (4.00 / 2)

Would someone please explain me what's in the lower right corner of J's photo? Is that an overexposed chair weave up close? Secret writing from the Illuminati? Code-stealing hackers?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:10:55 AM EST

Re: Sharp NDN Eyes (4.00 / 3)

It's one of the corners in the fabric of the universe that gets turned up to let the Christmas magic in.

Now you've seen one, you'll notice them everywhere. then a special elf journeys around on the storke of midnight and irons them back flat.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:14:09 AM EST
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Re: Sharp NDN Eyes (4.00 / 2)

After all, if you leave the corners turned up, someone might trip over it. So it needs a special elf for an elf and safety issue

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:22:10 AM EST
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Re: Sharp NDN Eyes (none / 0)

just the sun on a chair...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:21:56 AM EST
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Re: Sharp NDN Eyes (none / 1)

We know that's just a cover explanation. Plausible deniability.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:34:03 AM EST
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Counting down another 4 hours to our annual Christmas Day dinner. Hours and hours of good food and drink with our friends. :))

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine - Patti Smith

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:14:02 AM EST

Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 7)

Mercifully, it rained last night. Apparently, from the time I left for NYC until my return, it hadn't rained a drop. I came home to a semi parched yard, a fallen plantain tree (it happens when it doesn't receive enough moisture), etc.

Christmas not a big deal here in a household of one. Bought some lamb and made attu erachi kari. Might get a ph. call from Colombia.

Wish all of you the best. Enjoy the break, and...

May your life be as clear as water drawn
quite early in the morning

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:30:18 AM EST

what a beautiful thought, maracatu. clear morning water, and a great link underneath. Danke. N'yahweh.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:36:03 AM EST
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Thanks/Obrigado/Gracias. ...and since we are a boisterous lot, here is the Son of Obatala:

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 10:18:29 AM EST
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Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

hey maracatu, we have heavy rain here in italy today too. proper, water-table-filling midwinter weather!

sorry about your plantain, good that a new baby tree will grow, if the root is still good.

i'd especially like to thank you for the caribbean coverage this last year, we are really fortunate to have your journalistic talents reporting from that part of the world.

clear water, yes that is really what it's all about...

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 10:37:38 AM EST
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Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Thank you and thanks to all. It doesn't feel like a one person household, anymore. I will continue with the "reporting" from my region.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

by maracatu on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 02:11:16 PM EST
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The Alcohol Thread (4.00 / 3)

Since i'm on my fifth mimosa (in this house organic OJ and stellar Crément) which equals half a bottle, here's the thread to describe your liquid holiday.

to which i say, as always, play it loud and watch the subtle acidic feminine wisdom

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:47:19 AM EST

Re: The Alcohol Thread (4.00 / 2)

Hands-on Handel, as it were. I like it.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine - Patti Smith

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 10:54:37 AM EST
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Re: The Alcohol Thread (4.00 / 2)

We've graduated to a pedestrian Cru Bourgeois Médoc, evolving the original ecstasy into a more sardonic xmas mood. if you've missed this on ET photoblog, stop here and watch.

For all those ready for the truth about Christmas, if you're strong enough, if you're committed enough, if you haven't yet eaten and are still capable of explosive laughter, this docu from the Men of Finland who hunt the rare wild Father Christmas.

h/t ATinNM and Sven

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 12:08:42 PM EST
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Re: The Alcohol Thread (4.00 / 2)

I love them SO much; "The Hammond Song" is a particular favorite, but there's nothing like the hallelujah chorus done acapella.

Karen in Traunwalchen

Thence comes our true nobility by grace, It was not willed us with our rank and place. Chaucer

by Wife of Bath (priceluda at grandecom dot net) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:45:02 PM EST
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Re: The Alcohol Thread (none / 0)

"If you go down to Hammond.... you'll never come back."

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:59:36 PM EST
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Re: The Alcohol Thread (none / 1)

and of course youtube

man i love these sisters

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 04:02:34 PM EST
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Re: The Alcohol Thread (none / 1)

If anyone needs an introduction to these wonderful women

we better get outta dere before the shit hits the fan

sometimes our voices give out, but not our ages and our phone numbers

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 04:10:37 PM EST
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Well, here in Oslo, NRK2 - one of the public channels - is currently showing a seven hour film mainly taken from the cab of the Bergen - Oslo train, plus periodic side views and the odd interview.

As it's less than two hours from Oslo now, I dunno what happened at the stops along the way such as Voss.

A beautiful early summer day, and countless trees in amazing shades of green.

DoDo eat your heart out.....

...talking about eating we are about to commence a buffet of cosmic proportions.

Traditional dinner was of course yesterday, and Akvavit one again had its usual narcotic effect on me. The only alcohol that ever does...strange that - might be the beer chasers.....

Modern conservatives engage in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.Galbraith

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:48:52 AM EST

Stick with Caol Ila, good friend, and best to you both. (When in Rome do as the Scots.)

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 09:57:59 AM EST
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Good morning & Merry Christmas everyone

Running out of the door, off for coffee and drinks at a friends

No one could have predicted

by ATinNM on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 11:29:34 AM EST

Merry Christmas to all.

by shergald on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 12:40:30 PM EST

The Man Upstairs posts another perception trick - and then how it's done.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 12:55:17 PM EST

Across the Universe (4.00 / 3)

Are you implying there's no Santa, that the great Finnish hunters of Father Christmas is just a film trick? Thanks for taking my special effects virginity, big guy.

PS have you (or anyone) seen Across the Universe? That was the great present Ms. Sarah brought me. (Or has everyone already seen it, and i'm back to being an old fuddy geezer who don't know nothin.) Whether this film was successful or not i don't know, but i do know Julie Taymor is friggin brilliant, and this film will last. right LEP?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:14:54 PM EST
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Re: Across the Universe (none / 1)

and i'm watching it again right now, and i thought Frida was a pretty brilliant movie, but this is friggin brilliant, and if any of you has Julie Taymor's home number (the director) please pass it along, and i will cancel holiday leave for my flight crew.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:07:59 PM EST
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Re: Across the Universe (4.00 / 2)

Looks like I want to see this one; thanks for the tip. And happy "winter festival" to you CH.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:35:47 PM EST
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Here is my present to Dodo:

Lots more at http://www.youtube.com/user/CumbresToltec

by asdf on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:32:13 PM EST

The deed is done. Prezzies exchanged: a PC each for the granddaughters who will now go on Internet; I got sheepskin slippers, warm, mmm, zzzzz.

Last week we poached a whole foie gras of over 900g in the cauldron of duck fat where the confit was simmering. Half an hour at the top of the cauldron, then placed in a large bowl and covered with hot fat to gently finish, before placing in the fridge. We attacked it today (no way of finishing that amount, come on round! ;)). It's the best-cooked foie gras I've had. The tough bit is how to salt and pepper it, and at what moment. This one wasn't seasoned enough. Now to wait for next year's biggest foie and try a different salting method.

Then a stuffed roast capon, perfect. Fruit salad (no fresh, ripe papaya, grr) and chocolate log. Chocolates and table games all afternoon. A four-mile moonlit walk. A certain somnolence all the same...

And a Merry Christmas to one and all!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 01:49:12 PM EST

The wiki quiz (none / 1)

Played our version of a familiar game: quiz questions (invented by the assembled) asked of whole group (eg. was the stratocaster guitar introduced in a) 1944 b) 1954, c) 1964 or name four African countries beginning with 'G'.)

If everyone gets it right, interlocutor gets no points, all correct answers get one point. If everyone gets it wrong, interlocutor gets -1 point and nobody else scores. If only one person gets it right, the interlocuter gets 2 points, and the correct answer gets 1 point. If only one person gets it wrong, then everyone else gets one point. Interesting tactics.

Wikipedia used for checking afterwards if there is an objection.

We had to check the answer to "where did pasta originate". I objected to the China answer and we discovered that pasta is by definition made of durum wheat (not millet for noodles) and that Arabs bought pasta to Italy 3 centuries before Marco Polo's journey to China (the answer everyone thinks is correct).

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 02:09:39 PM EST

Re: The wiki quiz (4.00 / 3)

Ridiculous game, to use Wiki as an authoritor.

Pasta did not originate, it was handed down by Ayers Rock Woman to the aboriginal people of what became a penal canoli (the original people called it Ayers Rock because they had a hard time transcribing from the english attempt to describe the lifeforce which surrounds the planet containing oxygen, with which they had even more trouble saying.) it was this hot red climate which gave birth to red pesto, which made it easier to swallow primitive pasta, or in the original toungue pah ah ahh stah.

From australia pasta moved to Russia, which had already inve3nted basseball and pizza-ah, from where the arabs stole it. by the time dissident russians took the alleged Marco Polo to their favorite underground restaurant on the Silk Road, strangely called Road Silk, pasta had even been mixed with spinach, leading to the rumor that Popeye had something to do with its development.

The evolution finally continued in Yurp, speedily, concurrent with the development of fazoul boat technology. Etymologists deciphered this from the rock writing in lakeside caves, translated as 'nothing goes pasta fazoul." (It is this mistake that Wiki takes to completion, because the original word is fazool, not the Arab fazoul.)

From there pasta moved to my kitchen, where it is currently attempting to soak up the Fougeres 2007, way too young for my sensitive palate.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 02:35:52 PM EST
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Re: The wiki quiz (4.00 / 3)

The 2010 Reality Games begin...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 03:27:59 PM EST
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Re: Christmas Day Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Christmas in Provence with children, parents, brothers, sister, niece, nephews...
The wines (and the chapons) were local, but the foie gras came from Toulouse, of course.

My sister got a complete 18 CD set of the Beatles, so we've all taken a trip back in time...

Heavy rain all of yesterday but gorgeous sunshine this afternoon and temperatures much higher than up North around Paris.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 04:12:42 PM EST

18 CD set of the Beatles, wow, then your next task is Across the Universe. (Film, rent,go gagaa.)

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 05:02:04 PM EST
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Merry Christmas, everyone. And, remember, things ARE getting better...

from Sketchy Santas:

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 05:39:15 PM EST

Even though i had to regurgitate first, thix is the best xmas photo i've ever seen.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 05:55:53 PM EST
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You're very welcome - always happy to spread a little holiday cheer!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:03:57 PM EST
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As a shoe maven, yu should see that's the disturbing part.

I will still polish your shoes if you ever deign to come back to Yurp.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:30:36 PM EST
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Of COURSE I noticed! The flats, the aggressive puff balls -- it's like the republiwife's version of the bow tie. <shudder>

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:45:35 PM EST
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sorry - i meant pumps... see how shook up I am? I can barely look at them - I'm squinting at the screen.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:48:34 PM EST
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Do you know the circumstances of this amazing photo?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer at eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:29:02 PM EST
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I seem to remember it was part of Nanacys Just say No campaign, but this probably will make as much sense as anything else you will read on the subject. ;)

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:39:40 PM EST
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I remember it from the time (the scar remains), but don't recall exactly... I have a feeling it was something to do with the Just Say No campaign. You can probably google nancy and mr. t and it'll come up.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 06:43:38 PM EST
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Thereby raising the question of to what she was just saying no! But Mr T seems relieved.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer at eurotrib.com) on Fri Dec 25th, 2009 at 08:05:11 PM EST
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I pity the fools who just say no!

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 06:05:00 AM EST
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Morning After (4.00 / 3)

In case anyone's wondering, i appear to have survived xmas. Strangely, before i was even half awake, i was already singing...

"Is there anybody going to listen to my story
All about the girl who came to stay"...

Thank you John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Scientists say that the music you love when the hormones first flow will remain etched in your brain 'til the end of time... even if your musical tastes become a bit more evolved and intelligent.

I wish i had the copy of Norwegian Wood sitting in a garage in Frisco right here right now.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 06:18:23 AM EST

Re: Morning After (4.00 / 3)

I don't exactly know what we fish-city people have done to deserve this, other than being the center of the known wind universe, but...

after a grey morning, it is absolutely crystal clear blue sky afternoon. Walking along the Weser is brilliant. Even if i have to do it alone.

Though the sun is low on the horizon.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 09:42:48 AM EST
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Re: Morning After (none / 0)

me no big xmas fan, but when the girls do it (haven't seen or heard this before) why not share with the ET family. It's the second day of xmas here in Deutschland, is that normal elsewhere?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 09:49:31 AM EST
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Re: Morning After (none / 1)

As many of you know, methinks The Band is quintessential amurkan gospel. Imagine my surprise to discover this video today, with the girls i've known from the 70's as they are now.

here's the original, i'll look to find a Roches version i've never heard

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 10:00:20 AM EST
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Re: Morning After (4.00 / 3)

Watch CH's off the radar mind in action now.

What's weird about this brilliant song to me, now here on a blog begun by a guy living in Paris, reaching a country where French is synonymous with surrender, is that it was the French who first came in contact with Mohawks. Preachers, Jesuit preachers, loads of them. How they got down the St. Laurence rapids we never figured out, but it must have been they were as hardy as we. (Now i'm going to have to find out what Mohawks called those rapids.)

They were afraid we were going to eat them. We didn't, as we found it hard to force feed them to engorge their livers. So we let them survive and prosper.

Which caused our communities to split along French or English lines. To this day.

So when me hears The Band singing about the Acadian diaspora, somehow i can relate.

Merry 2nd day of xmas all, and to all a very good night.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 10:16:10 AM EST
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Re: Morning After (none / 1)

hahaaaaar I've got those two songs etched but really etched into whatever brain I have left. Life and breath and sex dawning. Bingo.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Dec 26th, 2009 at 04:43:07 PM EST
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