Just looked it up, Pam Geller is 57. Apples and oranges to compare her to the younger babes.
Grapefruits and cantelopes? Am I the only one who thought this should have had melons?
As titillating as this thread is tonight, with all this well-rounded discussion, I must nip off to bed.
Good night, Gracies!
bebe's boobs destroy: ...He gave the girls a cursory glance after hearing my name, then kept his eyes above my collar.
In all fairness, your handle is asking for it. Cursory only, of course. It's not always easy.
"Like looking at the sun!" -Jerry to George
I'll take your word on Ace's gentlemanliness, naturally, so I'll take my eye-rolling attempted joke over here and dump it in the barrel.
(Joke screams in death agony)
Cloyd Freud: Norman Schwarzkopf has died. RIP.
Again? Hard to keep a good man down.
Soona: Cable is out. Y'all are my last resort.
I dunno. Of all the things I've seen this place called, "resort" is not one of them....
Rain has ceased for a while, but it's really windy now.
We were in town and started getting repeated, frequent brownouts. Right after I left my previous comment, the modem or router quit working. Folded up and headed home instead of bothering to reset them with the power continuing to fluctuate.
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The Ace-Geller meeting: Maybe it was one of those "I didn't just say that out loud, I hope" moments?
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Col. Angus: Kohler makes a $6300 Crapper, with all the bells an whistles....
Oh, yeah? Did it have the ballzac support post featured back a few ONTs? If not, it's just not worth it...!
Milady got faithful and no kids (except the ones we had together). And saved $1.
Unless by "funny" you don't mean "haha..."
Yay! I didn't make the top socks list this week.
Thank you, all those who socked more.
Evening, folks!
Short but sweet post tonight, Maet.
For those who need even more amusing panels, here's the Reaganite Republican's Sunday Funnies. Mostly good, as usual, but the Joseph and Mary one is all wrong.
I think I've discovered the true source of velveeta.
The floor in here seems to be covered with it.
Except, it's moving.
I only have to stay here until the next thread, right?
Right?
Insomniac: Nutloaf for Thanksgiving? You are not of the body...
Christmas, not Thanksgiving!
We had bacon with the brunch. Does that get me reinstated?
Wait... I don't want to be of the body.
Late to the party: The "Animorphs" series were what finally got him interested again. Kid heroes (boys and girls), crime fighting, low-level sci-fi. I read 'em too, just because, and they weren't bad. A couple were actually kinda good.
All three of our kids enjoyed the series, and Milady and I read them, too, "just to see what they were reading," and because, yes, there was some good stuff.
Avoid the final book, though. Looks like the author either resented being told to end the series, came to hate the characters, or just gave up on it. In any case, we all wished we'd not read it. YMMV
Greetings, food threadies!
For Christmas dinner, our son decided he didn't want to bother cooking a turkey. Instead, our daughter tried out Milady's "nutloaf" recipe. topped with Milady's first-ever mole' sauce. Side dishes of potatoes, and beans, home-grown sweet potatoes, and son's mulled wine rounded it out.
So, we actually had a vegetarian Christmas dinner. You might think, where's the beef? but the nutloaf was really hearty - we were quite stuffed.
Reminded me of a big family reunion many years ago. My sister came to Milady, saying, there was some kind of mystery-meat BBQ on the grill she wouldn't touch. Milady said, no, that's my BBQ Tofu. So, my sister ran back to have some ... only to find that the rednecks and cowboys had already consumed it all.
We don't do tofu anymore - I concluded soybeans are not meant for human consumption - but, a good BBQ or mole' sauce, you can make almost anything taste great.
Milady has handed me the nutloaf and mole' sauce recipes, so I guess I'll pass them along. The nutloaf recipe came out of some health food store magazine 30 years ago, hence the kelp and other oddities. :-)
Nutloaf
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Process together until finely chopped:
1 medium onion
1 carrot
2 stalks celery
2 Tbsp chopped parsley
Remove to a large bowl.
Process together until coarsely ground:
1 Cup pecans
1 Cup walnuts
Add nuts to vegetables.
Add 1 & 1/2 Cups dry crumbs
(bread,cracker, or tortilla chip).
In a small bowl, beat
3 eggs.
In a larger bowl, mix:
1 Tbsp kelp powder
2 Tbsp liquid aminos or soy sauce
1 & 1/2 Cups plain yogurt
Add the eggs to the yogurt mix.
Mix liquids into the nut mixture.
Mix very well.
Spread into a greased loaf pan, ring mold, or muffin pan.
(Or make into burgers and cook like burgers.)
Bake ~1 hour until loaf pulls away from sides of pan.
Warm a platter while you let the loaf cool for 10 minutes in the pan. Use a damp knife or spatula to loosen the edges if necessary. Invert onto warm platter.
Serve with lemon parsley sauce, mushroom gravy, or...
Mole' sauce
Lightly adapted from The Gluten-Free Gourmet. (Milady highly recommends all the Gluten-Free Gourmet cookbook series.)
Saute together until translucent:
3 medium onions, chopped
1 clove of garlic, minced
Remove pan from heat.
Combine:
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp chili powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp dried oregano
1 & 1/2 tsp salt
2 & 1/2 tsp rice flour
Stir spices into the onions.
Add:
1 16oz can tomato puree
1 Cup water
1 to 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 tsp cinnamon
Dash or two of ground cloves
Adjust the last 3 ingredients, and the salt and sugar, to your taste as you cook.
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, stir occasionally for 30 min.
There y'go. I often tell Milady she should share her recipes and cooking experience on the food thread. Hope this was okay. (And that I didn't mess up copying the recipe!!)
DynamiteDan, sounds like your book is a great idea. Good luck with that, and on the job search. I suppose some interim magazine articles could help fund the book writing as well.
This book thread has taken some very strange turns.
Heh.
I make no claim to be any good as a theologician nor scriptural scholar, but I've read the Gospels. Also, I sure don't want to argue either about the Pope's latest mumblings, nor argue with those on here who Absolutely Know the Truth Without Question. And FenelonSpoke seems to have the Catholic question under control, so I leave that to FS.
Yet I can't help chiming in with my 2 mites' worth on the question of salvation and Jesus.
Jesus plainly said, no one comes to the Father except by him, but he wasn't long on explanation of exactly what that meant. Some folks believe it means you have to "believe in" Jesus in this life in order to be saved. And by "believe in," they mean this, that, and the other. Okay, that's one interpretation.
However, I notice that when Jesus was asked, what must one do to be saved, he gave a proper Jewish reply: keep the commandments. Nothing in the commandments about how one has to "believe in" Jesus, much less the other basics of Fundamentalism. That top commandment is pretty clear, though.
Talking about judgment, though, Jesus said things like, by their fruits will you know them, and we are forgiven as we forgive, and we are judged not by our words or deeds but by what's in our hearts.
In the confusion in which so many children of God on this out-of-kilter earth are trapped, who will judge the heart of another? Who can say what it really means to be a believer? Most of the atheists with whom I've talked, when they explain why they don't believe, I have to agree, I wouldn't believe in that God either.
There may be true, unsalvagable atheists who don't want to know, who don't want to go, and who thus suffer the fate of the grave, but many, perhaps most, may be more what we would call agnostics, could we see their true heart - people who might believe and follow truth and righteousness if they only heard it presented to them clearly, with all their confusing sophistry somehow kept at bay.
Salvation, seems t'me, is a choice given to God's free-will children, but in this life, many must not be able to make the clear, fully-informed choice of eternal salvation - they simply haven't been presented with the truth in a clear way to make their full-hearted choice possible. What loving, forgiving parent would eternally condemn the child for being, not willfully iniquitous, but sinning and erring in confusion of understanding?
This brings up a necessary kind of purgatorial afterlife, where that maximal question can be properly presented to a surviving soul, and the final choice be freely made. That would also mean the candidate for Paradise is not in Paradise yet, but some lesser "heaven" where the errors of mortal life can be ironed out. There's the reason for the conjecture of a transitional stage.
Frankly, I hope there's some post-graduate level, because for all my belief, my own faith seems less than a quark, much less a grain of mustard seed. I can't say I've qualified - indeed, with all acceptance of forgiveness, I seem to myself grossly unworthy. I need more training-up. If you don't, well, good for you.
Rather than searching for some grand conclusion to these armchair noodlings, let me just quote from the Book of Only the Punchline:
"Shh! They think they're the only ones here."
Finally wending my way through the nigh book-length post.
Did "M-W editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski" really call him "Bernie 'You kids get off my lawn!' Sanders"? That's funny.
Back from reading the morning thread, feeding the pests, and other chores.
Some folks are apparently still trying to get me to read dead tree editions again, despite my web-induced attention disorder. I got lots of print for Christmas.
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My late cousin's daughter, who is my daughter's age, gave me a copy of Time magazine's Abe Lincoln, His Life and Times: An Illustrated History. I'm sure it's the kind of pro-Abe stuff I grew up on. I've had a hard time moderating my admiration for the old rail-splitter nation-saver, but I've come to recognize a lot of our overbearing federal problems stemmed from his Presidency; not totally convinced it was his fault as much as the times, but then today we have examples like, say, Gowdy, as look like one thing do another Con-servatives.
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She also got me what looks like it might be a fun read: Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese - Wisdom from Our Elders, by Kathryn and Rosa Petras
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Daughter bestowed upon me an interesting-looking volume: A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History from the Center of Military History, United States Army. This may take a while to absorb, but how cool!
She also gave me some old, raggedy Classics Illustrated (Junior), Disney, and Gold Key comics. Don't have to worry that they're not in mint condition, anyway! Barely "readable condition." But, Dumbo!
Milady loves books, and thrift stores, and I got the benefit of the combination this Christmas. To wit:
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Holy Humor: Inspirational Wit & Cartoons by Cal lll & Rose Samra from the best of The Joyful Noiseletter. I may be able to compete participate with FenelonSpoke in spiritual humor using this.
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Clay in the Master's Hands, the story of John Frank, ceramic artist and founder of Frankoma Pottery, as told by Donna Frank. Frankoma is a locally-famous Oklahoma business. His wares used to be available at Wal-Mart, back when Sam was alive and insisted on American-made goods. Now the stuff is only available online, I think.
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The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven - A remarkable account of miracles, angels, and life beyond this world - a true story. Not sure about this one, but I'll give it a look. On the plus side, it's not Colton Burpo. On the downside, the authors are Kevin & Alex Malarkey. What an ironically unfortunate name for such a work!
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A copy of H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, in edge-worn paperback. This may be the one I dive into first. I don't think I've ever read it.
Milady also got me a "Comic Note Book," a shirtpocket-size "blank book" with blank pre-drawn panels and a word-balloon stencil. Kind of confining, a little impractical, but a cute idea.
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And I got a real prize from one of my sons: A first-printing edition of The Urantia Book, a little yellowed but otherwise in good condition. No paper cover; that would've made it perfect. A true collector's item.
I haven't seen a first printing UB since I ran across the copy my brother donated to the local library. I mentioned it to my neighbor and friend, the old librarian (RIP), and he put it on protected Reserve, because sometimes UB-haters (or maybe it's UB-overenthusiasts) tend to abscond with them. Alas, the new librarians apparently ditched that one years ago.
I should be set for winter reading!
Hey, wait, I haven't even finished reading Vic's news yet...!
But I do have bookish stuff. Back in a bit. (You've been warned.)
Any point on continuing to comment here, when the horde has wandered over to the book thread? Probably not.
siiigh My timing sux these days.
Vic: 1927 Show Boat
Vic a historical tidbit is always a good way to ease into the current headlines. Thanks.
Morning, Glories! Lots of rain, flood stage, here in NE OK. Could be worse. Coulda been snow. Coulda been naders. Coulda been Dallas, God bless 'em.
Gonna pack up and head for the old corral... or something. Before the quarreling starts.
Good night, Gracies.
