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Re: THE HIGHLAND FLING OR THE BOSTON FANCY
« Reply #180 on: July 05, 2013, 07:06:33 PM »

We have a variety of Dragonflies at the pond.  We only have one Common Whitetail male that I only occasionally see.  I think it is beautiful.  I pulled this off the internet.


It is a beaut.

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« Reply #181 on: July 05, 2013, 07:06:48 PM »

I love sitting outside on summer evenings.
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« Reply #182 on: July 05, 2013, 07:06:54 PM »

'night
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« Reply #183 on: July 05, 2013, 07:22:17 PM »

Went out with friends after work and ate too much. The last course was something called a Nutty D'Angelo: a scoop of ice cream wrapped in white chocolate. Then the server sauteed butter, brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon and nutmeg together before adding brandy and setting the sauce on fire. Then he poured it over the ice cream. Quite dramatic. Onlly problem: He did it too quickly and the sugar wasn't dissolved. So it was a little gritty.

Did you explain what he did wrong?

No. He had disappeared as soon as he finished his flame throwing act. I just ate the ice cream. It was enough for four anyway.
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« Reply #184 on: July 05, 2013, 07:23:03 PM »

He'll hear about it in the review. I also want to find out if my friends' tasted the same way. You could only do two in a pan at a time, and three of us ordered the dessert. (It was included in the price.)
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« Reply #185 on: July 05, 2013, 07:31:17 PM »

Improve The Mood vibes for DR VIXMOM.

Must be the Mercury Retrograde!
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« Reply #186 on: July 05, 2013, 07:31:26 PM »

Time to Eat!!!
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« Reply #187 on: July 05, 2013, 07:44:16 PM »

Back from a three-mile jog.  Pleasant out and while I was jogging I got the house cooled down so it's pleasant inside, too.
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« Reply #188 on: July 05, 2013, 07:47:32 PM »



And here's the little beauty.
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« Reply #189 on: July 05, 2013, 07:59:58 PM »

Most people don't know that the original Funny Girl lyric went something like this:


"If a girl isn't pretty
Like a Miss Atlantic City,
Then her ice cream will be gritty..."
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« Reply #190 on: July 05, 2013, 08:09:01 PM »

And she'll get nobody's pity or a pat ...

Is a cone with deviation
Such a crime against the nation?
Should I throw her into jail
Or melt the fat?

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« Reply #191 on: July 05, 2013, 08:19:16 PM »

Very good, DR John G.!      :)
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« Reply #192 on: July 05, 2013, 08:19:51 PM »

The lovely Sisters Callaway, for your listening enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rSa_5QrS8&feature=player_embedded#at=25


(And is that Dino at the piano?)
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« Reply #193 on: July 05, 2013, 08:22:30 PM »

Well, now that I''ve seen both German and French versions of "Threepenny Opera," I can say the director missed the point. Entirely. But they're both still fascinating museum pieces. And it's great to see Lenya sing "Pirate Jenny."
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« Reply #194 on: July 05, 2013, 08:23:03 PM »

Maybe I can watch something a little less socially relevant tomorrow.
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« Reply #195 on: July 05, 2013, 08:27:03 PM »


You want irrelevant?  Or maybe this is just random:

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« Reply #196 on: July 05, 2013, 08:32:40 PM »

I'm in something of a dream rut.  Fortunately, I haven't been bothered with negative dreams lately (knocking wood as I type that), and indeed most of them seem to have something definitely positive or at least interesting about them.  But I can't quite bring them back, once awake.  At best, I get only a brief image of them through the day, which refuses to flesh itself out and reveal itself.  And there's ALWAYS something about whatever the activity is that plays out in some kind of abstraction, that I can't even remember well enough to describe to myself, let alone anyone else.



Answer:  Pen and Paper on the nightstand.
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« Reply #197 on: July 05, 2013, 08:33:24 PM »

Most of my posts are kind of random.  I'm sure you haven't even noticed.      :P
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« Reply #198 on: July 05, 2013, 08:35:58 PM »

The lovely Sisters Callaway, for your listening enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rSa_5QrS8&feature=player_embedded#at=25


(And is that Dino at the piano?)

That was fun.
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« Reply #199 on: July 05, 2013, 08:34:34 PM »

Pen and Paper on the nightstand.


Wouldn't that make a good title for a memoir?
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« Reply #200 on: July 05, 2013, 08:36:51 PM »

Most of my posts are kind of random.  I'm sure you haven't even noticed.      :P

Song Sung Blue, I never would have guessed.
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« Reply #201 on: July 05, 2013, 08:35:35 PM »

OK. Maybe now I can fall asleep.  (I've tried once already).   G'night all!
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« Reply #202 on: July 05, 2013, 08:37:13 PM »

And I am off for bed. Good night, all.
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« Reply #203 on: July 05, 2013, 08:47:38 PM »

I'm in something of a dream rut.  Fortunately, I haven't been bothered with negative dreams lately (knocking wood as I type that), and indeed most of them seem to have something definitely positive or at least interesting about them.  But I can't quite bring them back, once awake.  At best, I get only a brief image of them through the day, which refuses to flesh itself out and reveal itself.  And there's ALWAYS something about whatever the activity is that plays out in some kind of abstraction, that I can't even remember well enough to describe to myself, let alone anyone else.



Answer:  Pen and Paper on the nightstand.

Normally, that would help get the job done.  In most of these recent cases, it wouldn't.  By the time I'm actually awake, the dream is already leaving the building.
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« Reply #204 on: July 05, 2013, 09:08:00 PM »

As for "9 to 5"...

Oy!  and OMG.

I think the fact that this was a low-budget local production worked in my favor.  It wasn't flashy.  They did about as well with it as you could ask, so what you had was a "cute" show.  But what a horrible piece of material.
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« Reply #205 on: July 05, 2013, 09:50:19 PM »

That's a long slow slog DR DRUXY.

I will let you know.

So we watched this tonight.

It was okay; more interesting than good.

I like films based on historical events...even if those events are somewhat fictionalized.  And, except for knowing his name and his thwarted betrayal, I really didn't know any of the story surrounding Benedict Arnold.
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Re: THE HIGHLAND FLING OR THE BOSTON FANCY
« Reply #206 on: July 05, 2013, 09:54:42 PM »

Attention, DR Doug R:   

First Look: Shake Shack Opens Today in London

http://goo.gl/g60CJ
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« Reply #207 on: July 05, 2013, 10:05:38 PM »

Oh, TCB, there you go again.  What in the hell would DR John G. want with a quarter of a million dollars?

Can I just get the money and not have to do the work?


NO.
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« Reply #208 on: July 05, 2013, 10:23:33 PM »

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Oh please, Jane, it sounds exciting to me.  I went to Safeway.

LOL Didn't you have some action with people walking past your home heading to the water?

No, actually it is a ghost town around here on the Fourth.  The Freedom Fair and the place where the fireworks display is launched are in another part of the city waterfront.  It is a couple of miles from me, and normally the road is completely closed off from this end of town.
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« Reply #209 on: July 05, 2013, 10:38:04 PM »

DR Jennifer,  across the river from us is South Dakota where fireworks are legal for a certain time period.  So, people just have to go across the river an buy them.  There are really too many for the police to enforce.  They don't really even try, which everyone knows, so no one is afraid to get them and shoot them off

We have the same problem in Washington.  All of the tribes are considered sovereign nations so they can sell fireworks legally on tribal property.  It would be impossible to stop all of the people who buy them on the reservation.  For example, my sister, brother-in-law and I went down to one of the casinos for lunch on Tuesday.  Now mind you, this is one of the smaller tribal nations, and yet there had to be 40 to 50 stands directly across the street, and they were all doing a huge business.
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