Oops (spoo, spelled backwards) - should have checked our calendar - we've got two count them two big birthdays to celebrate! The notes have been updated to reflect that very thing.
Jose, as you were posting that I was posting my update! Damn them, damn them all to hell.
I also like eating liverwurst on rye with potato chips mashed into the liverwurst.
I'm very tempted to buy it and wear it to my next netwrok meeting
I'm guessing BK is fond of Who Can I Turn To?
Favorite movie of a favorite comedie teams:
Abbott and Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
NO FAIR - you're professional writer and type faster!
der hates-to-be-second Brucer
Odd food combinations? I mentioned it here before that I love butter and peanut butter sandwiches, but I found out so did several other DRs, so maybe it's not such an odd combination after all.
Killer Bees May Be in Oklahoma
Or mashed potatos with buttery corn mixed in, or peas depending on which vegi you happen to have on your plate.
I support much of the non-traditional casting movement, but isn't this a bit much:
AP Headline: (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130177,00.html)der Brucer (wonder what parts they'll play)
Tuesday Weld marries the son of Fredric March and becomes Tuesday March the Second.
EMERGENCY!
We must do all we can to help this poor beleaguered company. Go out and EAT, DRs!!!
Sour Dough? Krispy Kreme Profits Fall Over 50 Percent
Widely Miss Wall Street Estimates
By PAUL NOWELL, AP
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Aug. 26) - Once the darling of Wall Street, doughnut-maker Krispy Kreme on Thursday reported second-quarter profits that were more than 50 percent lower than a year ago and that widely missed analysts' expectations. (...and so on)
Sorry - I'll take a Winchell's or Dunkin' Doughnut over Krispy Kreme anyday.
Much fuss and ado in todays news about the propriety of women in military combat roles. Now I ask you, if it comes to a shoot out, who do you want by your side:
Matthew Broderick and Joel Grey
or Panni and Penny O?
Sorry - I'll take a Winchell's or Dunkin' Doughnut over Krispy Kreme anyday.
....but you must have multiple Twinkies. But the cream filling tastes different now than it used to....did they change the recipe?
How were Twinkies invented?
Twinkies were developed as an inexpensive treat during the Depression. Jimmy Dewar, manager of the Schiller Park, IL bakery, noticed the pans for Hostess' Little Shortbread Fingers were only used during summer months. Dewar decided to make use of the pans throughout the year by filling them with golden sponge cake and banana filling. Today's vanilla filling was the result of a banana shortage during World War II. En route to show off his new idea in St. Louis, Dewar saw a billboard for "Twinkle Toe Shoes" - and the name Twinkies was born.
What is the difference between a Ding Dong and a King Don?
When Hostess introduced Ding Dongs in 1967, the advertising campaign included a ringing bell: hence the name Ding Dongs. However, the eastern United States Hostess opted to package the cakes as King Dons to avoid confusion with a competitor's product. Hostess consolidated the King Don and Ding Dong name in 1987, packaging the cakes as Ding Dongs in all regions. Six months later, Hostess decided to go back to using the King Don name in the eastern U.S., again, to avoid confusion with a competing product. But, today the issue has been put to rest and only Ding Dongs are sold nationwide.
Ah - lunch time!
Liverwurst and mashed potato chips on toasted rye - really good. Thank you Dan :)
der Brucer (thinking of the years of loss - tossing out chip bags because only fragments were left)
Fave comic movie combo's? Maybe Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. The one with the train and Jill Clayburgh, whatsisname;
der Brucer (try a slice of bacon with the butter and peanut butter - and if you're kosher, put the bacon under the peanut butter so it doesn't touch the dairy product)
... swith the feed from the stream to the clean water!! IT COULD WORK!!! (Gene Wilder reference...)
SCREENING ROOM
Horror with a sense of style
Orson Welles stars in Belgian director Harry Kümel's rarely seen, "Malpertuis: History of a Cursed House."By Kevin Thomas
Times Staff Writer
Aug 26 2004
One of the most elegant horror pictures ever made, Belgian director Harry Kümel's "Daughters of Darkness" (1971) has acquired something of a cult status over the years. The film now resurfaces along with six heretofore unfamiliar Kümel titles — plus personal appearances by the director himself — as part of the American Cinematheque's fifth annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction at the Egyptian.
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A horror picture in the form of a surreal fable, "Malpertuis " is a ravishing and eerie period piece set in the 19th century. Yann (Matthieu Carriére), a slim young blond sailor, arrives in Brussels only to be waylaid in a waterfront café — where Sylvie Vartan, no less, is the chanteuse — and regains consciousness in Malpertuis, a vast, remote mansion that is the home of his uncle, the mysterious, dying Quentin Cassavius (Orson Welles). Cassavius has summoned an array of relatives and retainers who want to become the heirs to his immense fortune — the only hitch is that they must never leave the premises. Of course, there's a bizarre secret hidden in Malpertuis, and Yann roams miles of murky halls and endlessly spiraling staircases in search of it.
Kümel plays against the ominous setting with a lively tempo and a mischievous, even spoofy sense of humor. Yann encounters all manner of strange people and occurrences. Susan Hampshire plays three roles with élan, and the cast also includes veteran French actors Michel Bouquet and Jean-Pierre Cassel. "Malpertuis," which has a wonderfully unsettling Georges Delerue score, is amusingly outrageous yet is also surprisingly poetic, reminiscent at moments of Jean Cocteau's forays into Surrealism.
...
The Bowl is a challenge for early musickers, who like little sounds in little rooms for their often obscure old music and elitist patrons; the amphitheater is a humongous, up-to-date pleasure garden where wine flows freely and some in the crowd are unafraid to do whatever they feel like
What other message board can you find that will tell you how Twinkies were invented? I feel that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.
Well, Ads by Google loves us. Two Ding Dong/Twinkie ads already!
der obviously-has-too-much-time-on-his hands Brucer
Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink....a reference from????
DR PENNYO Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink....a reference from????
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free ;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
The ship hath been suddenly becalmed.
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be ;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea !
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion ;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
And the Albatross begins to be avenged.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot : O Christ !
That ever this should be !
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night ;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.
IF DREAMS CAME TRUE
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BETTER MAN.
IF DREAMS CAME TRUE
YOU MIGHT HAVE SET ME FREE.
BUT GOD IS KIND,
FOR YOU HE HAD A BETTER PLAN
AND SAVED YOU
FROM THE PAIN OF LOVING ME.
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OLD VOICES I HAD THOUGHT LONG SINCE DEAD
WHISPER OF ANOTHER LIFE I MIGHT HAVE LED.
BUT DAYLIGHT WAKES DREAMS AWAY.
DREAMS THAT LEAVE A SLEEPER WHERE HE LAY.
I am beginning to think that peanut butter goes well with just about anything! DR George's mixing it in yogurt sounds quite good!I love the corn in mashed potatoes combo! I've been doing that for years.
I would say that my odd combo of food would be peanut butter and mayo.
Or mashed potatos with buttery corn mixed in, or peas depending on which vegi you happen to have on your plate.
DR George, your name mixes from last night gave me a several good laughs this morning!! (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/grinser/grinning-smiley-047.gif)My pleasure! I've had that on my computer at work for a couple of years and copied it to my home computer not too long ago.
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, D.R. JRAND!![/move];D ;D ;D ;D
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, D.R. JOSE!![/move]
You have them passing like silent ships in the night; these lads need company!
der Brucer
.. Das Barbecu (fantastic LOL funny and produced by.....someone, now who is it?? :)
One word for Jose and JRand on their Birthday:
VIAGRA!
der Brucer
Ah - lunch time!
Liverwurst and mashed potato chips on toasted rye - really good. Thank you Dan :)
der Brucer (thinking of the years of loss - tossing out chip bags because only fragments were left)
In honor of the birthday boys.... I found my diamond earring!!
Thanks, guys! Good thing, too. I priced a similar pair of earrings -- $700. -- at 50% off. So then I looked at some cheap imitations - And guess what? --They looked like cheap imitations. So I told myself to just forget about it. Which is when I looked down at the carpet and saw something shining up at me. I love happy endings.
Der Brucer used to look at me oddly when I put black pepper on my cantalope. (It's a taste I learned from my grandfather.)
Happy Birthday to the Birthday Boys!
In honor of the birthday boys.... I found my diamond earring!!
Thanks, guys! Good thing, too. I priced a similar pair of earrings -- $700. -- at 50% off. So then I looked at some cheap imitations - And guess what? --They looked like cheap imitations. So I told myself to just forget about it. Which is when I looked down at the carpet and saw something shining up at me. I love happy endings.
So what are the birthday boys doing for their birthdays?
Cool Beans! So I guess this means that JRand and I should be expecting a nice "reward check" - a finders' fee of sorts - sometime soon!! What a Birthday!!!
:P
Congratulations on finding your stud DR Panni. I wish the same success for the birthday boys.;D ;D
Congratulations on finding your stud DR Panni. I wish the same success for the birthday boys.
To all DR readers who were pregnant did you ever have pickles and ice cream or was that just a invention of a comedy writer?
I've had today's dose of Vanilla Swiss Almond ice cream over one solitary Ding Dong. Quite yummilicious, but I must be getting ready to be over this particular kick because every time I type Swiss it comes out Swill.
every time I type Swiss it comes out Swill.
Haagen Daaz
You want your nineteen year old daughter to meet the author of THAT poem? You want your nineteen year old daughter to meet a man in his late eighties who is married to someone who is fifty something years his junior? It is to wonder.
In his youth Faludy was quite the romantic poet. My late mother and her sister would swoon over his poems. There was a whole group of Hungarian artist emigres in Toronto who had been political prisoners together. Back in the good old days in prison, Faludy would hold secret philosophy classes at night in the cell and would recite new poems he'd written in his head. The job of his fellow prisoners was to memorize the poems so that whoever survived could bring them out into the world. I assume that's the genesis of the idea of this poem.
I'd be a fool not to want DD to meet him.
Did he get the idea from Fahrenheit 451? (not to be confused with Fahrenheit 9/11)
You're an auntie all right. Yes, by all means, have the darling daughter meet him.
I liked the poem, too, Panni.
Dan TM - Billy Collins is no longer the Poet Laureate. He was certainly a very popular one. One of the few "star" poets today. The new Poet Laureate is Ted Kooser. And I've never read anything of his, I'm afraid.
Oy. I am out of the Poet Laureate loop. When did we last vote on this?