CHRISTMAS IS COMING

And no gift says "Peace On Earth" like this gift.

(Thanks to Claire Martin)

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[Jeff Meyerson]

Overheard:

Man: When I look up at all these buildings and I think about the people who live in them, I only have one question, 'where do they all barbeque?'

--Times Square

European tourist: This Time Square... Does it... Does it... Exist?

--42nd St & 7th Ave

Yuppie, to McDonald's cashier: Do you have French vanilla capuccino?

--McDonald's, 34th & 10th

Yuppie: It was the most intense Hava Nagilah I'd ever seen.

--43rd & Lex

Teen girl: I'm not saying I wish I had a penis. It would just be nice to be able to pee standing up.
Teen guy: Peeing standing up is a lot like eating grapefruit... One wrong move, and you could squirt yourself in the eye.
Teen girl: Oh my god... seriously?

--Famous Original Ray's Pizza, 7th Ave

[Sarcasmo]

Wolfie, How do you catch a TAME rabbit?

Also, a brief heinz at the previous moat begs the question, do you still have that cheerleader uniform, and if so, can we see some more cartwheels?

[Jeff Meyerson]

Kibby, I know that Meat is HUGE (no pun) in Germany, so maybe he'll perform closer to Prague.

[wolfie]

Sarc ~ I have no idea. How do you catch a tame rabbit? And yes of course I do, but I've lost the shorts that go under it. I hope you don't mind. Now I just need an occassion that requires cartwheels. I think my pasty white flesh made Lab go blind tho cause he hasn't spoken since.

*sighs and slinks off to make appointment at tanning place*

[Kibby F5™]

I'd drive to Germany for the concert! England's just out of it, even though there's REAL CHEAP flights there.

REAL CHEAP = sometimes 1 British Pound + taxes

[Kibby F5™]

*tries to sign wolfie up to be his FF team's Cheerleader*

[Susan]

Jeff...I guess if Jackie's not up to the concert tonight, it would be a little impractical for me to use her ticket, hmmm? Oh well...tell her I said Hi! and I hope she feels better. Enjoy the show!

*sneaks back to the shadows for a while*

[Mrs. Loaf]

I really hate when we're not in Germany. :(

[Susan]

Now I want to go to Columbia tonight.

Def Leppard and Journey.

Oh well. It's over an hour and a half away...and a week night.

Not happening...

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

Good morning!

rita, BNL are a terrific group. I have one of their CDs. Are you able to listen to Susan? Maybe she could play one of their songs today??? Susan???

kibby, let's play "Paper, Rock, Scissors' to see who gets wolfie to be their FF cheerleader, OK? ;)

On one, on two, on three - go!

[wolfie]

*ducks flying scissors*
heyyyyy!

*grins happily* peoples want me.

Can I hear Another Postcard from BNL? of Maybe Katie? Susan? Purdy please?

[Sarcasmo]

This joke goes best when paired with your original joke, so I'll repeat it for other's sake:

Q: How do you catch a unique rabbit?
A: Unique up on it.

Q: How do you catch a Tame rabbit?
A: Tame way, unique up on it.

Also, no shorts is fine with me. If you need help with the "tan in a bottle" application, just let me know.

Also, also, Another Postcard is one of my FAVORITE BNL songs.

That is all - for now.

[rita]

I wish I could hear the show, but I'm in the main office from 11:45-1:15 and I don't know if I'd be able to listen. Also, the stoopid server blocks music sites.

Just in case, what's the url? I took all my personal stuff off this laptop because it was eating up all the hard drive.

[wolfie]

I shoulda known that answer.

*scribbles on yellow sticky note and sticks ~I lust Sarc~ note to my forehead*

*cartwheels around the Moat.. misjudges dismount and slams into the wall*

I soooo meant to do that.

[Sarcasmo]

Needs some ice there wolfie?

*slinks into the shadows for a 'nap'*

[wolfie]

Yes please.

*takes ice and limps off into the shadows to 'recover'*

Nothing says attractive like a good limp and a slight concussion.

[Mr.Fisher]

"on one, on two, on three" ........ sounds like the dream I had last night.

[Higgy]

I love BNL - I used to see them all the time in Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Great stuff!

[Susan]

*peers around the shadows*

Ooooh...wolfie and sarc!

*goes looking for Bare Naked Ladies...the musical variety in this case...not actual bare nekkid females...*

[Sarcasmo]

*emerges from the shadows somewhat disheveled*

Did someone say bare-naked ladies?

[Eleanor]

www.wcreradio.com

[rita]

Thanks!

[rita]

It won't let me connect. ☹

[rita]

Sh!t. That was supposed to be a frowny face.

[wolfie]

*covers herself up*
bare naked ladies? *gets all perkie* Where? Can I have one too? Please?

*adjusts Sarcs shevels* There.
Now you aren't so dissheveled.

*tosses a :-( up for rita*

[rita]

Thanks, wolfie.

[rita]

God. One of our kids went home after school and found her mother dead. No word yet as to what happened. Several friends were with the daughter when they found the woman.

Can you imagine?

[MOTW]

*making no attempt to heinze*

Hi, y'all. Anyone having a bad hair day ? And an unrelated question: did anyone bring the deviled eggs?

[MOTW]

*urg* *digs foot from mouth*
Bad time not to heinze. Sorry to hear about that, rita!

[Susan]

Rita! Oh my.

No...I can't imagine.

I'm speechless.

[slyeyes]

rita, just awful!

MOTW!! Welcome back

Posting here can sometimes be like Scott Bakula on Quantum Leap; you never know where you are going to land.

[Susan]

*channeling Jeff*

You can tell everyone I tried to post THREE MORE TIMES and Pypetad just won't do anything.

I hate those b@stards!


Jeff

*ends channeling*

*hopes this goes through*

[convenient landing pad]

*lays on Moat floor*

[rita]

Heavens, MOTW, I've done that so many times myself. That's the beauty of the MOAT. We all eventually stick body parts into our mouths.

*reconsiders that phrase*

*hits "post" anyway*

*or thought I hit "post"*

[Leetie]

Am I the only one who wants to call The Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten, by the nickname "Vag?"

[rita]

She annoys me, but then most of the food show hosts and hostesses annoy me.

EVOO my @ss.

[Crash]

Oh my. Wow Rita, that's awful.

*Considers the body parts in mouth statement, and decides to just keep mouth shut about it.*

I love deviled eggs. One Christmas, all of them disappeared. We're talking about at least 40 eggs. A half hour later my young cousin was projectile vomiting EVERYWHERE. He had eaten them ALL, give or take 5 that I ate as soon as they hit the counter.

[Leetie]

She's nowhere near as annoying as Perky Rachael Ray.

[Kafaleni]

Rita.. that's just awful... I can't even imagine. Totally unexpected, I presume..

Wolfie, do you need more cartwheel celebration opportunities? Because I could make crap up, if you'd like...

The world's tallest mohawk? And it's green.. like he used snot to plaster it into place.
Question is, how often does he have to duck to get through doors, or is he just really short?

Pssst.. just in case it hasn't been said.. Ladies only is sexist. Bare-Naked Men. Please.

I shouldn't check my email during the request hour... it makes the signal all jumpy and the songs keep cutting out. This time I started it during the ad break.. still missed bits of the start of Hootie. I used to adore them..

Now off to clear my inbox....

[Kafaleni]

ooh.. I love the Food Channels. I'll even watch shows about stuff that I can't eat, just to see what they do with it. I'll watch tbe Contessa, Rachel Ray and pretty much anyone. When I'm staying somewhere (usually my parents' or sister's house) that they have cable, I just kinda get lost in the Food Channel. It's wonderful.

I *heart* watching other people cook.

[wolfie]

wooohoooo Susan!

*dances around the office*

[rita]

I hate Rachael Ray. I start screaming at her.

Wine helps.

[Eleanor]

I like Rachel Ray's 30 minute meal show. I haven't watched her new talk show but I read that it has a Perky Factor of 10 to the 23rd power (whatever that means, I just made it up). But the other day my daughter was here talking about cooking something or other and I asked her if she ussed EVOO. She looked at me like I was crazy, even after I explained.

Great S&G song Susan.

rita, that's so awful, but at least there were people with her....

[Eleanor]

I like the part where she piles all the ingredients in her arms at once and carrys them to the cooking area. I keep waiting for her to drop them....:)

[Susan]

I was at the University of South Carolina for a year...and the guys from Hootie were there then. They just weren't Hootie yet. I have an old phone book that has them listed.

There is someone in the Cheraw High marching band that has a mohawk. Not that big though, and I've only seen him with it up a few times. He's my daughter's section leader, so I hear his name...the Tribe is on the front of this week's Cheraw paper...and I think he's in the picture.

[Crash]

I saw RR make a 60 second snack, and all I kept thinking was why bother? Just eat the ingredients, they're stand alone!

[Susan]

I could cook like Rachel if someone would come to my house before I started cooking and stocked my kitchen with just what I needed for that meal...

A lot of the recipes on the 30 minute meals sound good...she's just a little bit too perky.

And I get annoyed with the EVOO...especially when she says that then says it's extra virgin olive oil...say one or the other. Not both.

[Leetie]

I like the part where she piles all the ingredients in her arms at once and carrys them to the cooking area. I keep waiting for her to drop them....:)

Me too!!! There must be a big pile of Rachael Ray bloopers somewhere.

[Kafaleni]

I like the programme where she goes to different cities and visits all the restaurants and markets. Food droolage AND a geography lesson at the same time...

[wolfie]

I want her magic pantry. It's always stocked with exactly what she needs. Unlike mine that is usually missing 1 key ingredient. Or all of them.
But it is oddly filled with a million cans of cranberry gel. I don't know why I keep buying it when I know I have it already. Why can't I remember that when I'm in the store?
I want to be Ina's friend. They get some d@mn yummy meals. I could be her friend and praise her cooking really really well.
Also, I want to be rich.

*skips around the moat tossing out cans of cranberry gel*

[Susan]

*ducks the flying cranberries*

Eeeek! I'll have to give some thought to Thanksgiving dinner at some point!

My mother will say we should just go out...

But that doesn't leave the leftover stuffing and gravy!

And also the greenbean casserole (ty Sly!) that she has been hinting not-so-subtly about wanting.

Does anyone know if the turkey brining recipe on the Y! would work on a chicken?

Although...it just occurred to me. I may not plan to buy a turkey...but I may have one anyway. I get a certificate for one every year...or at least I have for many years now...

[Jeff Meyerson]

{{{rita}}}

That is awful. I know a couple of people who died overnight and were discovered by their spouse the next morning but no one who went through what that girl went through, though I've read stories of course.

I never watch The Food Network. I know a couple of people (guys, of course) who have a major thing for Rachael Ray, but while I admire what she's made of herself from humble beginnings she is WAY too perky to watch for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

Programming note: it's difficult to listen to the All-Request Lunch Hour and Bat out of Hell II at the same time. We will buy #III this afternoon, but unfortunately Jackie also wants to buy the new BM CD.

And speaking of Barry: the last few days he has simply been EVERYWHERE. In fact I've seen his ugly mug nearly as often as those hideous "Bob Menendez is a crooked gangster who wants to give your social security money to illegal aliens" ads. Jackie was channel surfing this morning and there he was, again, with Martha Stewart!

I mean, WTFBBQ?

I know there are some science fiction & fantasy readers here. Anyone read James Tiptree, Jr.? My friend Jeff is her literary executor and will be coming to town next week for a reading from the new biography.

--> The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
and the
South Street Seaport Museum present <--
A Tribute to James Tiptree, Jr. / Alice B. Sheldon
with
Julie Philips -- author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Barry N. Malzberg -- writer, editor, and Tiptree correspondent
Jeffrey D. Smith -- editor and literary trustee of Tiptree's estate

[Kafaleni]

The scary thing is there's a lotta stuff on the food channel (and why has no one mentioned Mr Bourdain yet?) that looks like a lotta hard work, and I wouldn't touch it with a forked stick. I saw a guy (I can't remember his name or the name of his show) who made French toast.. I thought, okay, sounds good...
Then he cut doorstop-sized pieces of bread, slit them to create a pocket, stuffed it with a cream cheese/marmalade mix, added allspice and liquorice seed to the egg mix, when it was cooked, drowned it all in blueberry maple syrup.. waaaaaaay too many flavours for my taste. Blech. I was fine with the cream cheese and marmalade OR the spices, OR the syrup.. maybe even any two of them, but all of them together was just waaay too much. However, it has ensured I've remembered the dish to this day.

[rita]

RR's recipes are good usually, and I'm betting that there's a whole season's worth of bloopers somewhere. Tom was talking about that recently. He loves food shows and has used some of the recipes. He does all of the cooking for us.

It's all I can do to sit through RR's shows, but I do like the travel shows. But just once I'd like to see her take a big bite of something and make a face or spit it out. Not everything is yummy!

EVOO and sammies drive me up the wall.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Susan, since Jackie's parents moved to Florida and she has had her problems with her sisters, and my family is all out west, we've had problems deciding what to do Thanksgiving too. It's my birthday (Friday this year) and my favorite holiday, so for a couple of years we made a turkey just for the two of us.

For the last 2-3 years, however, we've gone out. The first year we thought it was pathetic but you'd be amazed at how many people are out in the restaurants that are open that day.

Of course, there is the problem you pointed out: no leftovers. In my food pantheon there are few (if any) things better than leftover cold stuffing.

[rita]

Jeff, you and Jackie should come to Rehoboth Beach for Thanksgiving. Tom's family is getting together there for their Christmas holiday (Thanksgiving is when they all get together) and we'll be there for a couple of days.

[Susan]

Jeff...there are indeed lots of restaurants open...including, I believe, a former lunch hour sponsor. And for the many many many years my family went north at Thanksgiving, we ALWAYS ate Thanksgiving dinner out. I remember a number of meals at King George's. (I think that was the name...it's no longer there.)

Got to have the leftovers!

My daughter (and likely my aunt too) will want the monkey bread, which I'll probably do at Christmas too...my mother has been pestering me about the green bean casserole...she's still sulking a bit because I didn't make it last Christmas. Just because the kitchen drain was stopped up...and the dishes had to be washed in my parents bathroom...and I was told to skip the casserole because of the dirty dishes it would cause....

Eeek! (again)

Forgot the playlist yesterday...so here it is with today's.

Wednesday 11-01-06 All Request Lunch Hour
News
“Hotel California” Eagles
“Like A Rolling Stone” Bob Dylan
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“Baby Hold On” Eddie Money
“I Need A Lover” John Mellencamp
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“I Would Do Anything For Love” Meatloaf---Jeff
“Walking In Memphis” Marc Cohn
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“Kokomo” Beach Boys---Kaf
“Love You” Jack Ingram---wolfie
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“People Get Ready” Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart
“A Matter Of Trust” Billy Joel
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“Shadows of the Night” Pat Benatar

Thursday 11-2-06 All Request Lunch Hour
News
“A Day In The Life” Beatles
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“Be Good To Yourself” Journey
“Hysteria” Def Leppard
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“Only Wanna Be With You” Hootie and the Blowfish
“Turn The Page” Bob Seger---Jon
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“Another Postcard” Barenaked Ladies---several people
“Kodachrome” Paul Simon
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“Because the Night” Patti Smith
“To Be With You” Mr. Big
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“Party All The Time” Eddie Murphy---Vicky
“Take The Money and Run” Steve Miller Band
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“Will You Go With Me?” Josh Turner

[Eleanor]

*snork* at Crash*

I like the travel shows too. I always wondered if it was true that she goes to places that the "locals" frequent. But then she came to San Diego, and it was true!

*zips out*

[rita]

There's a travel show on Fine Living or something that goes to a lot of places in Europe, but it's all about the hostess' cutesy quips and rarely shows more than a glimpse or two of the area.

[Kafaleni]

I *heart* . I even own one of his cook books

[wolfie]

I can't watch RR's travel shows without wanting to reach thru the screen and slap her for seriously undertipping.
Kat ~ I haven't mentioned my Tony yet because I was showing much restraint *overstimulates herself in 1 sentance*. Also, he isn't really a chef anymore on tv. He's a travel guy.
Green bean casserole scares me.

*whispers* you can always make some stuffing in a container other than a turkey if that's all you miss from leftovers. Cook it, along with a pie and you get the yummy house full of smells without all the hassle of the rest of the meal.

[Susan]

*whispers* I like leftover turkey too. I just tend to really make the stuffing from scratch only at Thanksgiving...and the leftovers are always good. And I never ever make it in the turkey, I just stuff rosemary and onion and such in the bird itself. Pie...my mother will make a pumpkin pie. I prefer pecan, but she's allergic to nuts, and my daughter would eat all of it...so I'll be with out pecan pie once again.

Why am I still whispering?

[slyeyes]

wolfie, this green bean casserole is WONDERFUL. No canned soup, etc. Fresh green beans, fresh mushrooms, yumminess to the max.

My sister, who doesn't like to cook, practically slapped me the first year I served it. She complained that I took a dish that was purposefully made for the "canned crowd" and made it complicated.

All I can tell you is that my mom ate half of the casserole herself.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Thanks for the offer, rita, but we have tickets to see A Chorus Line on Friday afternoon.

Maybe next time.

I keep forgetting to mention this: Jackie watches the British mystery series "Rosemary and Thyme" on one of our PBS stations (we get 3) on Tuesdays. It ends after 45 minutes or so and for filler they show a parody of a cooking show called Posh Nosh (it runs 10 minutes a show), starring Richard E. Grant as an incredibly snotty yuppie (talk about obvious casting!) and Arabella Weir (the co-writer) as his wife, Minty.

It is quite amusing. She was doing avocado, mozzarella and tomato drizzled with EVOO and he kept making snide cracks about her choice of tomato ("they don't want FAT tomatoes, they want flat-chested tomatoes with no hips!"). Then he lectures on the proper wine choice.

Watch out for it; it's a hoot!

Susan, "Turn the Page" is a favorite early Seger song. We saw him 10 years ago (already!) and I was happy he did it.

Oh, what I meant to say was check out Jake Shimabukuro doing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the ukelele.

We saw him with Jimmy at Jazzfest and he was amazing.

[BigD®]

Susan, these are pretty good. You get 2 slices per box so you can get your fix but not buy too much. Look in the frozen section.

[rita]

I love green bean casseroles! My sister has to make them for all family get-togethers or it just isn't right.

RR does seriously undertip. I couldn't enjoy travelling if I had to watch every stinking penny I spent on food. Although, until I married Tom, that's pretty much the way I travelled.

There the time that I came home from Florida with about 37 cents.

[Kafaleni]

oops.. sorry about the link.. it's to Ainsley Harriott's website.

Jeff.. I've heard this before, but I never knew who the player was. It's just lovely.

[rita]

My sister's casserole is all canned stuff, and we love it. I can't imagine a holiday without it.

Dammit. We'll miss Thanksgiving with my family. And we'll be in Florida at Christmas (poor me) and will miss the family Christmas.

[Kafaleni]

I'd eat the green bean casserole if it wasn't for the mushrooms. Blech..

[wolfie]

I never even saw that casserole thingie until I was an adult and someone brought it to my house. It's probably for the best else I would have had many many more years of therapy.
Thanksgiving is not a real holiday until the chocolate pie hits the table. Then I'mma happy wolfie.

And I just squished a spider so large it crunched under my shoe. Now I must go heave in a corner someplace.

scuse me.

[DDi]

I have a strange addiction to RR. I can't stand her, I dont ever make her recipes, and yet when her shows are on, I HAVE TO WATCH THEM. *smacks self* It's insanity at its finest!

We're catering dinner this year for Thanksgiving. One of the vendors I use here at work has a great special going for the holidays and it just didn't even make cooking an option. When I can get all the food cooked, delivered hot and set up in stainless steel chafing dishes for the same cost as what it would be to make it myself, there's no question!

AND! The best part, wait for it...

They clean up for me too! I dont have to wash the chafing dishes, just leave them for the driver who will come pick them up later that night. WAHOO!

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Some time ago I thought about doing a MOAT version of -Another Postcard. I was going to ask everyone to send me the funniest, craziest, moatiest post cards from their respective locations and make a slide show to that song. I know I mentioned it to Mike, but I don't think I ever posted the idea here. Oh well.

[Sarcasmo]

DDi, that is AWESOME! I wouldn't cook either. Although, I usually DON'T cook, I DO usually end up doing most of the clean up.

[slyeyes]

Reminder, prepare yourselves. We're getting close to the time that I tell my Annual Thanksgiving Day Story.

[Crash]

Oh man... My parents are coming up here for Thanksgiving.
They're gonna go to Disney World, then eat food at my Aunt's, and then on Friday we all go to CRASH-A-RAMA. They race boats and trailers on a figure 8 track.
I hope it is fiery and awesome.

Best Thanksgiving ever.

[Meanie the Blue]

Reason no. 2038 to heinz more often: so as not to miss something SNORKworthy like Rita saying "EVOO my @ss." In or out of context, that is funny.

[Jeff Meyerson]

I [heart] string bean casserole.

Mushrooms Rule, Kaf!

[Marie in Kourou]

Rita, sorry to hear about that student's loss. Have you found out what happened yet?

I had to google this Rachael Ray person because all of you were talking about how annoyingly perky she was.

Yes, she is perky. I was annoyed just looking at ONE photo. She sounds pretty bad.

I used to watch a French cooking show more or less regularly, Carte postale gourmande, hosted by Jean-Luc Petitrenaud, a very round, jolly man who drinks massive amounts of wine but never seems to get the least bit tipsy.

Nowadays all I really watch on TV is Thalassa and sometimes Des racines et des ailes (both travel shows).

I agree with Kaf about the overly complicated French toast recipe. All those ingredients together? Yuck.

Awww! The cat is in my lap, purring. I like it when she keeps me company like that. (Of course, she's usually hyper in the mornings, which I like much less...)

[Susan]

Sly, that is the story I'm thinking of, right?

*giggles*

BigD...I'll have to look for those. They sound yummy.

The first year I attempted the casserole, the canned/packaged version...frozen green beans were used. They were not cooked or anything before hand. The casserole was vile. I couldn't see why people ate this stuff.

I think I may have tried it with canned beans at some point...a little better. Then I tried Sly's version. A good bit of work...but yummy.

*shudder* Quick review to remember what else I wanted to say and I saw wolfie's crunchy spider comment. Blerg.

Ah yes. Turn the Page. Way back when I worked at a classic rock station I had calls for that alllll the time. Not that we had it, but I got calls for it.

Last night at choir practice we were going through a newish hymnal that we have...just singing various things. The choir director kept saying turn the page...I realized I hadn't heard that song in a long time...so I decided to play it. (Yes, I will play songs for odd reasons.)

[Crash]

Speaking of jolly round cooks, I still buy Chef Paul spices and stuff.

Susan, that may explain why the Classic Rock station seems to always be playing Turn the Page. I could never understand...
My mom has Bob Seger's Greatest Hits at work. I'll make her dance with me to Old Time Rock and Roll, even if there are customers waiting on us.
I don't work there, I don't care.

[Susan]

*steals Kaf's mushrooms*

Jeff, I looked at the link for Posh Nosh...I know the name David Tennant. My daughter, I should say, knows the name...and I know it because she does. She thinks he is wonderful. She loves Dr. Who. And David Tennant.

[BigD®]

I was home sick last week and my wife was channel surfing. She came upon Rachael Ray's new talk show - AAAAGGG. She bounces of the wall even more than on her other shows. She has taken "perky" to new heights. Recommendation: Unless you like to watch really perky hyper people bounce off the walls, do not watch it.

[Marie in Kourou]

Is the green bean casserole on the Recipe MOAT? You've all made me curious. I like beans in general.

Thanksgiving is... the second Thursday? Friday? Of November... right? I've been out of the States for so long that I no longer remember. Not that my family really celebrated it much. My mother sometimes cooked a chicken or a turkey, but it wasn't a big deal if there was no more of either at the supermarket.

I don't think she ever made pumpkin pie, either. I'd like to try that someday. If someone sends me canned pumpkin.

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

MIK-4th Thursday

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

uggh please don't use canned pumpkin to make pie. Fresh gourds are soooo much better. Yes I know they probably don't have pumpkins or squash in Korou. I'll send you some seeds and you can grow your own.

[Annie Where-but-here]

BigD - I would like to see a RR show with subtitles by Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Mr.Fisher - thanks for enjoying my blog. I can relate on the oddities in the family closet angle - surprise aunts, etc. Apparently this wild stuff is more common that you'd think.

A couple months ago, my manager bolted out of here. Her sister had just called to say a man was in their grandmother's house! She had heard a man's voice in the back room when she went to deliver some stuff that grandma needed. So you're thinking intruder, robber, etc., right? Oh, nooo....grandma, who is nearly 90, had a visitor in the bedroom....a married visitor. And my boss walked right in on them! Caught them in the act!

So....be forewarned about your relatives...

[Annie Where-but-here]

one more comment - this blog reverts to food like the MB reverts to potty humor. Just an observation. But you're making me hungry, so I'm off to lunch. :)

[Marie in Kourou]

Gourds do grow here, but not pumpkins. If you sent me seeds and I planted them, they'd die pretty soon.

[KDF]

Whoa.

*standing ovation for Grandma*

[slyeyes]

At that age, if Grandma had a standing O, it would be wise to use a walker.

Don't want to fall and break a hip.

[KDF]

But what a way to go.

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

*snork @ slyeyes*

Speaking of food I think I am developing a food allergy. I am fairly certain is dijon mustard doing the trick. If I put the mustard on my sammich I end up in red splotches all over my hands. So far it is confined to my fingers and hands and is very itchy. I hope it doesn't get worse.

*itch itch itch*

[Jeff Meyerson]

At that age, if Grandma had a standing O, it would be wise to use a walker.

*snork*

Go, Granny, Go!!!

And with that, I'm gonna go...and as my late friend David used to say, don't let your meat loaf.

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Overheard in my lunch room:

CW1: Do you want to try some of my Carob bar?
CW2: Carob? What is that like chocolate?
CW1: No. It doesn't tast like chocolate. Chocolate comes from the Cocoa plant, carob comes from the carob plant.
CW2: Carob plants? Where do those grow?
CW3: in the Caribbean of course

[BigD®]

*bangs head on desk* 'cause of Mad's overheard conversation.

[Susan]

*eyes roll across the floor*

[Marie in Kourou]

*shares her padded desk with BigD* (Yes, I know how that sounds. It's for banging our heads, nothing else. And yes, I know that sounds bad, too.)

Wikipedia has this interesting litt fact about carob: The term "carat" or the units by which diamond weight is measured, is derived from the ancient practice of weighing diamonds against the seeds of the carob tree.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Sly - that's what I thought - go, granny, go!

Mad - groan....

overheard in lunchroom here-
coworker 1 - what's that writing on the bottom of the tv screen?

coworker 2 - that's closed captioning for the blind.

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

*wishes she had a lunch room to hear stupid funny banter*

[DDi]

Eleanor dont you see that you're even luckier? You get to hear us discuss the stupid/funny lunch room banter!

There's a girl who always has lunch in the kitchen.. she laughs. LOUDLY. It sounds... like a goat. We've often wondered how her s.o. can deal with that laughter on a daily basis.
That is all.