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General Discussion, Sunday, December 10, 2017
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AHA! A picture of Red Square…Moscow…RUSSIA! We support Trump! Proof incontrovertible to Mueller that there is a direct Trump/Russia connection!
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To me, St. Basil’s is the stuff of fairy tales.
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I only remember it from Soviet days, boarded up and drab, but even then it was a sight. You could spend two weeks in the Square and its buildings and still not see it all.
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Did you see Dr. Zhivago (the movie)? The country home in “Varykino” (probably in Finland) has that same Asian look, with the onion domes. Not as intricate, of course.
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A quick check showed it was shot almost entirely in Spain, an interesting project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)#Filming
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Winter scenes in Finland and Canada. Although you are right that Varykino was filmed in Spain.
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‘almost entirely’, but I liked the frozen beeswax and marble dust.
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Very inventive.
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My excuse or the FX?
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The beeswax and marble dust.
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Phew….
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We went to see it when it came out at a drive-in in Key West. A terrible thunderstorm moved in and cut off the power. People started to leave after a while. We just waited instead of getting in line. So, a large part of the movie was watched under a t-storm. Unforgettable.
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I was sorta busy in ’65 and didn’t get to see it until years later but we bought a VHS and then a CD so whenever we want to it’s there.
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I saw it in a movie theater, but it was my first date with my ex-husband! It was the first movie that I had seen with an intermission.
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Interior shot. I think this is one of the most beautifully filmed movies I’ve ever seen. Musical score is first class too.
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Totally in agreement there…I also like the cinematography in Reds.
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Have you ever seen Sharif in The “Tamarind Seed” with Julie Christie? Wonderful film from every aspect.
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Juie ANDREWS!
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Man, I can neither think nor type this morning! JULIE!!!!
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They are both marvelous actors.
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Especially when frosted with snow, Beautiful!
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That marble dust ain’t bad either.
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tastes gritty
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Ya ain’t cookin’ it long enough.
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“Gaudete”, sung by Libera, all-boys’ choir (2008):
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Gaudete, gaudete, Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete
Gaudete, gaudete, Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete…
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Such a wonderful boys choir. I have many of their cds.
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Russian week?
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Good writing, right here, by Wright, right?
https://www.dangerous.com/37930/wright-not-just-decor-left-truly-hates-christmas/
That’s Milo’s new site, a’ight?
G’night. Turning off the light.
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Good article, Wooly. Thanks for linking it.
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He was only 21 then….and already knew he would be a major star. The lightness of foot and that wonderful ability to appear to be levitating still brings a “wow!”
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Amazing isn’t he?
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Hi Lucille! Thanks and May the Lord Bless You Real Good!
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Thanks, Lburg! “Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside.”
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What a beautiful greeting, Lucille! I hope your Sunday is blessed, too.
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Thanks, sand. “Showers of blessings, showers of blessings we need, mercy-drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead.”
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Good afternoon Lucille 🙂 .
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Afternoon, lovely. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
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Catering was fun today, and challenging for all of us. 130 people eating and partying. Excellent crew, and even former Bossman came and helped me and Chef, and brought his head line cook (19 years old!) in to help us. FOH crew was also incredible, because all of them have also been doing that side for years and are pros.
Another kid came over from current Bossman’s other restaurant, who didn’t even have foreknowledge of this event at all. He thought he was just coming in to work in his place for a shift. He is now more knowledgable regarding cooking, catering, plating, being a mule, and every other thing that the customers need.
4 days of prep, we fed them all in less than one hour. Bread plates. Salads, dressed with balsamic at the time they go out. (three of us, me and two teens, made 130 salads in 20 minutes, all the same) A whole speed-rack full of carefully-constructed salads. Gone in 20 seconds. And we’re washing 130 plates. And that’s just the salad plates. Restocking the buffet with hotel pans full of carved beef and carved spinach+incredible mix, mashed Yukon Golds by Wooly, and steamed green bean & carrots. Creating 6 dessert trays with 6 different desserts.
The 19 year-old was a pro at designing the dessert trays. Some were 3-level chrome trees, some were chrome trays. Absolute genius. I should have taken pics. I had arranged a couple, with the brownies covered in a shining ganche, the lemon-squares, and the wonderful little cheesecake cupcakes, all unique. He took my work apart, right in front of me. And made it better.
Every restaurant owner in this town will do anything for any other restaurant owner in this town. Including come and help. And donate butter. And steak knives. And Sternos. All of ’em.
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Congrats on a successful event, Wooly.
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Wow, Wooly, that is so neat. 😀
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It’s great to watch planning evolve in a success. I’ve helped caterers a few times and I salute you, I find war much easier to deal with.
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That’s great, Wooly!
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Nice! It’s cool to hear that all the owners will pitch and help each other when there’s a need. i would have thought there would have been more competition between them then willingness to help, so it’s great to hear that it’s the other way around.
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There is competition, but it’s not cutthroat. The way I see it, this town is a cruise ship that doesn’t leave port. Whatever business you own, retail or food, you’re all on the same ship. Need tomatoes on the fly? Or dish soap? Send someone over to that other restaurant, and invariably, they will donate and “pay it forward”. They know we’ll do the same sometime in the near future.
The business owners in this town hang out at each others’ bars with the other owners, go to each others’ church functions, are part of each others’ golf leagues and social clubs.
It really is pretty cool.
And, like Czar noted, it is really fun at the end, knowing that a plan came together.
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/939254525025767424
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Good Morning, Wee!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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They’re bikinis. To remind you of summer.
Hilarious!
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Oh, and Good Mornin’, Weed!
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Mornin’ Wooly!
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LOL
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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I’ll try to be brief: I hope the decorations are protected from electrical shorts, of corset looks strange but it’s Europe so whoever drawers conclusions should consider that.
I had more but it’s verging on moderation and it is Sunday.
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👍 🍺x4.
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The best of the four puns there is the southron pronunciation of “Draws”.
Almost had to change mine when I read it. 🤣
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The off-color ones were probably even better but one has to know where to drawers the line.
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Heard.
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Oh, I bite my tongue. This ain’t AoSHQ, this is Stella’s living room.
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Yup…gotta rein it in.
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Good day, WeeWeed! I hope the city doesn’t throw the decorations out at the end of the season because of the adverse publicity. They should use them year after year and become known as the Holiday Bikini City.
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Afternoon Luce!
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Maybe the town was welcoming Tom Jones? Good evening WeeWeed 🙂 .
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Nutella Hot Chocolate With Wild Turkey Spiced Bourbon
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Doog Mroingn Ynet! Thass a wsell b(rup) brake fest! Halooo Schtelaers.
“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.” ~Carson McCullers
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Was Carson McCullers a Priest?
😜
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That breakfast looks so yummy. Can’t wait to have some. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Beautiful breakfast!
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Good morning Nyet! Everyone!!! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Thank you for the awesome breakfast! Traveling a ways for church today, so I’ll check back later. Have a beautiful Sunday!
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Just 86 proof??
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I’ll take a serving of those items in the wok plate, Nyet. Is your restaurant one of the satellite locations for the Disney World Character Meals?
“Character dining is an important part of the Disney experience when traveling with children… or children at heart 🙂 . There are eleven different character meal venues at Walt Disney World proper, plus a few others in satellite locations.” http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/disney-world-character-meals/
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Good evening Nyet 🙂 .
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Fashion Media Attack Melania Over White House Christmas Decorations
The media is attacking First Lady Melania Trump for her White House Christmas decorations, comparing Mrs. Trump to an evil “ice queen” and criticizing her for wearing a coat while she helped decorate a tree.
The fashion world had a different reaction to the Obamas final Christmas decoration display at the White House, which included giant stuffed animals of the Obama dogs and puerile snowmen…
http://freebeacon.com/culture/fashion-media-attack-melania-white-house-christmas-decorations/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ffbd77db52-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ffbd77db52-46270129
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and you expected what? Just part of that ongoing attack campaign, just wait until Easter.
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What I ‘expect’ and what I share are two different things. I won’t ignore it and will continue to point it out.
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I expect to have you point it out, I’m just pointing out the reaction I have is indignation at the breadth and depth of the ongoing attack and the danger it poses to all of us.
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Sorry if I snapped, but I thought you were suggesting that I might be ignorant.
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Happen all too frequently, maybe I should start prefacing my potentially misunderstood posts. Seem to be, once again, having the same problem next door.
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I hope this isn’t that Vogue trollop trying to go on the attack again.
Liberals have no self awareness.
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When the fashonistas put out items like these useless-in-real-life trousers, you know they just haven’t got any sense. They want women to spend a lot of money to look goofy and trip over their feet.
The Wide-Leg Silk Trouser – Ralph Lauren Collection, £1,090 at Ralphlauren.com: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/d7/a7/48d7a7f69cb4bd3baf78662c1d2e6d45–classic-wardrobe-wardrobe-staples.jpg
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well…Hillary DOES have REALLY wide legs…..jes sayin
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She makes me think of Buckwheat from the Little Rascals.
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I used to call the trollop from Vogue a strumpet.
Then I looked up the definition of strumpet and had to change words.
That’s probably meaner of me than I really ought to be. But I don’t bother to help it sometimes.
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a trollop playing on a strumpet is like a baguette playing a bagpipe.
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So I’m supposed to believe that Michelle Ma’ Belle putting out stuffed toys of her dogs is hard to top?
It is Vogue on the attack again. Holy cow. Didn’t they learn their lesson after the fashion trollop who insulted Melania’s shoes got publicly embarrassed by having her picture spread all over the Internet?
I was under the impression that Melania being “cold” had more to do with the culture she’s from. Don’t liberals respect other cultures anymore? Why do they only respect things when those things work for them and toss the respect when those things begin to work against them?
The pictures I have seen of the White House so far tell me that Melania has an impeccable classical taste, which doesn’t surprise me. I’ve seen what she wears.
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In the gestures of our President (and, hey, lefties, your gal still ain’t President! Hahahaha!)…
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Michelle was probably wearing some sort of weird Lineman’s tool-belt-as-Couture paired with a dress that was made from my dear, departed grandmother’s couch-covers from the early 70s, and the press probably fell over themselves praising her for it. While decorating the tree with Mao Tse Tung ornaments.
Melania has class and taste, in spades, that normal people can appreciate.
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Tucker just came in from a play session in the back yard – feet and legs coated in mud. Apparently digging a hole was his idea of fun.
ADD: Kitchen floor is now also coated in mud. Sort of cleaned him up (he needs a bath) and crated him before he jumped all over the white cabinets.
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Didn’t he roll in it afterwards? My dogs always would. 🙄
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I think I interrupted him before that happened – fortunately.
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How coincidental, I’m going through that as we blog…times three. Mop’s getting a great workout.
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Watch Man Pull Over to Rescue Rabbit Trapped by California Wildfires
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-pulls-rescue-rabbit-trapped-california-wildfires/
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Oh, goodness – it seems that in the opening seconds he was just helplessly falling back on those motions and things we say “Here doggie” “Here, kitty, kitty”…..and then he focused on something else.
What a good effort on his part.
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Bwaaaahaaahaaaa…evil Grandpa Santa strikes again. Just bought GGDs a DJ noise machine with keyboard, electronic drums, sound synthesizer, scratchy records and a microphone. Bwaaaahaaaaahaaaaaa……….they won’t be playing it here.
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My cousin bought her nephew a real drum set when he was about 4. He wanted to be just like his uncle. I’m not sure how long she and her sister went without talking.
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I would have told the boy it had to stay at his aunt’s house and he could play it there when he was visiting her.
I don’t play well with relatives who do stupid things.
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You sound like my parents.
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My two sons always understood me. And, on occasion as they approached their pre-teens, would have a secret laugh at other “adults” who would looking at me with shock when I made certain parenting decisions – – – and I made a lot of them, seeing as their Dad and I were divorced for six and half years of that very key time…..then we married one another again, having learned a thing a three – we hoped. We had. We had thirty years more before he left us four years ago.
But yeah, my sons thought I was a hoot…especially when they hadn’t crossed me. If they HAD crossed me, they knew exactly what was going to happen, how long it would take, and when it would be over. Saved me a lot of handwringing. I obviously made mistakes, but excessive handwringing wasn’t among them.
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Radio Shack used to have a yellow plastic helmet with a flashing red light on top and a loud siren that made a lot of different irritating sounds. That used to be a fav of mine.
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My friend had two sons. The youngest had children when he was young. The older brother gave them all kinds of noisy presents. Then, about 10 years later the older one started his family and, as they say, paybacks a bitch. 🙄
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Moot in my case, I’m working strictly on revenge and irritation.
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Can’t wait for soon-to-be-born GGS is old enough for a TRUMPET! Or maybe a clarinet!!!! Get ready for payback, youngest.
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I vote for the clarinet. Aside from the vuvuzela, or the duck-call, the most annoying instrument to hear someone learn to play. It’s like the opposite of a full-size harp in beauty.
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yeah, great fun to listen to a drunk playing the clarinet too. Soon as the GGS has the lungs for it I’m gonna do it…clarinet vengeance is best served cold.
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Just get them a guitar. And YouTube College of Music.
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Where’s my personal fun in that? Already bought the 10-year old GGS a violin…that stays at his house.
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My younger grandson goes to School of Rock. He started on regular guitar, but has switched to bass. They recently gave a concert. It was great!
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Give ’em just the reed and mouthpiece first. Tell them the rest of the clarinet is on order, and is a few weeks out, but to practice on that.
John Zorn did exactly that on Mr. Bungle’s album Mr. Bungle, which is completely not safe for work, and is insanity put to audio. It sounded real ugly. It was supposed to.
Didn’t realize he was adept at guitar until just now. That above is musical genius.
I think if I gave a kid an instrument, I would first show them all the critically-acclaimed, best performers on that instrument. Drums? Neal Peart, etc. Bass? Victor Wooten, etc.
Then I would show them Walk off the Earth, and tell them that everything is a potential instrument, including their voice, and tables and chairs, and whippy tubes.
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That’s a really complicated way to go to irritate some kid’s parents.
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My dad bought us all kinds of things like that.
We had M-80’s, air horns, headlight bands for our heads and on and on. Though the best was when he came home with 4 puppies in a box that lady said she was going to turn loose in a field in WI.
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Yeah, we used to celebrate Christmas with the New Years fireworks, in Germany we had access to REAL fireworks, the kind we used to have in the US. Make a joyful noise unto…
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I forgot to mention he once bought a waterproof radio for us and then proceeded to throw it into the lake while we were swimming in the “deep hole” of course it wasn’t a floating radio just a waterproof radio. Us kids thought it was hysterical, my mom not so much.
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when I was a young father of boys, my brother gave one a set of drums for Christmas, age about 10….I gave the other boy a pocketknife, age 7, and asked him if he knew what was inside of a drum.
then left everyone alone for awhile…
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😯
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I’ve never tried it but I’ll take it for granite you have. If we ever meet you can dolomite out and I’ll try it.
It’s early…blame it on my getting a cold and sleeping in.
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I think @Imperator_Rex3 was at the same party as me 🙂 .
https://twitter.com/Imperator_Rex3/status/939973804779905024
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Her parents have to lug that thing around. LOL! Good on them.
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The Morons at AoSHQ have made and published a cookbook.
The reviews are as funny as any Ace thread.
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Yeah, looks like the Morons cut loose on reviews, there are nothing but 5s, and near as I can tell, no one actually reviewed the cookbook.
I downloaded a sample and it looks pretty good. The commentary with some recipes is hilarious.
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Hey Wooly, I finished The Heretics Of St. Possenti.
I’m really glad that I did, I absolutely loved it. I almost quit reading it about a third of the way into it, but I hung in there. Thanks for telling me about it. I wish that he had more books in this time frame, rather than the sci fi books. I would definitely buy them.
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Can somebody tell me what the little thingamadoodle that looks like a pair of scissors is that is right next to the adblock stop sign thingamadoodle at the top right hand of the page is? It says “Firefox screenshots”.
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Firefox won’t let me use their browser since my MiniMac has been updated as far as possible and that’s not good enough. So that notification doesn’t show up next to my AdBlock hand.
What does it do if you click on it…hopefully not blow up your computer?
One of these days no browser will work for me and I’ll have to give up surfing and posting unless I win the lottery.
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Well, I did click on it and screen came up saying “screenshots”. I am not sure what that means.
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mine has three balls clustered together, red, white, and blue, and clicking on it brings up a download of the websites that are posted on this thread that I have looked at, and a host of optional download formats for me to use if I want to.
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Nope, don’t have one of those.
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Finally found the clip of Judge Jeanine with Neil Sroka when he acts like he has lost his mind he is so angry.
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Neil has a face that looks like it needs to be slapped.
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Neil became so angry it appeared that his flaring nostrils might open up large enough to swallow his entire face.
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LOL
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
And, Lord, if it is your will, we pray that Judge Roy Moore will win his bid for the Senate.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Thank you for posting the prayer each night, auscitizenmom. 😊
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❤
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Amen.
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Amen
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