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[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
My grandfather, H, used to tell me there was black blood in the family *wink wink, nudge nudge*
I finally got a toe hold into his ansestery. His great-grand father (fathers, mothers, father) was a slave merchant. so maybe he wasn't pulling my leg, after all.
But then, he also said we were related to jefferson davis, and I haven't found anything to substaniate that at all. Unless it goes in side ways, via a marrage, that i haven't found yet. |
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| Limerick #59036 on city chicken, mock chicken by Chris J. Strolin |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
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http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?VerseId=299941 Cut some pork, as a substitute meat,
Into cubes for this tasty deceit.
Spear the meat on a stick
(That's the "bone"—a neat trick!)
And add breading, then bake it and eat.
This recipe for city chicken dates back to the Depression era when pork was often cheaper than poultry. The pork (or sometimes veal) would be molded around a skewer so that it resembled a drumstick. Frying was also an option.
Sometimes called mock chicken, this dish is still eaten today, but, oddly, if you use actual chicken, the name city chicken no longer applies. |
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| Limerick #58461 on crown cap, crown cork... by Bob Dvorak |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
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http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?VerseId=303672 This bottle's been capped by an imp,
Or a beastie who thinks I'm a wimp.
The crown cap won't twist
Without spraining my wrist.
I need help; it's attached with a crimp.
The crown cap was long the method of choice for the mass sealing of bottles for carbonated beverages. Supplanted in the 1960s and 70s by twist-off caps for soft drinks, it remains the choice for beer bottles. Disregarding the bottle in the limerick, some brewers have gone the median route with crown caps crimped to threaded glass, providing the seal and economical-assembly advantages of the crown cap while reducing business for the makers of bottle openers.
The "bottle sealing device" was patented in 1892 by William Painter of Baltimore. At the time his product was called a crown cork, a name still used in some places. |
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| barcelona |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | All The World Is Green - Tom Waits | ] |
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| Limerick #59033 on diplodocus by Celia Warren |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
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http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?VerseId=300791 I'm a herbivore: plain and succinct!
To an era long gone my name's linked.
North American classic,
I'm simply Jurassic:
A diplodocus, huge and extinct.
(dip-LOD-uh-kuss, as here, but sometimes dip-luh-DOH-kuss) With four sturdy legs and a tail, and a long neck supporting a tiny head, the diplodocus was a classic dinosaur of the late Jurassic period. |
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| Amazing video: Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Team (All Japan Championships) |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:32 am] |
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Had a fantastic time at the NCS holiday party last night but a report will have to wait until after I’ve finished NaNoWriMo. I still have 6,000 words to write before the end of the month!
Meanwhile, enjoy this mesmerizing performance by the Aomori University men’s team at the 2009 All Japan Championships. Not surprisingly, they took the gold.
Mirrored from Debbie's Blatherings. |
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| Help? |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|02:42 pm] |
1, My computer is giving up this message whenever I plug in my external hardrive - "Administrator has restricted this computer to access USB/1394 mass storage device'
I'm running on XP, any help?
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2. Is it possible to apply to a better university at clearing even if you have an accepted place somewhere else?
All sorted, Thanks! |
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| Limerick #59023 on Dignitas by timon |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|07:49 am] |
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http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?VerseId=303763 Though I'm aging, my dear, I'm still game
For your little Swiss trip. All the same,
I'll need somewhere to rest;
You say this place is best?
Called Dignitas? What an odd name!
WPSI
Dignitas is the Swiss clinic offering medically assisted suicide (also to non-Swiss residents). Its strict checks on (inter alia) full and informed patient consent mean that the person here addressed would not in fact be able to achieve his/her sinister design. |
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| Game Night |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
We played charades with the kids tonight. Our own version. I've never laughed so hard! Between Peyton not being able to act things out withing TALKING (or at least HUMMING) and Mabry making up her own "song title" for us to guess (along with a syllable count that NEVER matched the word)... it was just hysterical. At one point, she was trying to get us to guess Dragon Tales... and so she had spent a bit on dragon before moving on to "tail" and using her hand to motion a tail behind her. Peyton exclaimed, "She's pulling something from her BUTT!?!" Poor Parker couldn't breathe after that one cause he was laughing so hard. I love my kids. :D |
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| I thought today was "it"... |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|11:29 pm] |
Around 5:30 or so I started having really strong contractions. The kind I had to breath through and couldn't really talk. Jeff wasn't home, so I texted him in between two of them and told him he needed to come on back from the store. Neither of us had gotten ready today, so I told him to go ahead and take a shower so that if we did have to go, we'd be set for the next day as well (picture wise... gotta think ahead!). By the time I got my own shower, things had slowed down to nothing... so I guess it was a false alarm. This was the first time I had really felt anything while RESTING, so it had me a little more on guard. Typically, they'll happen if I'm doing something, and stop when I stop. But not this time. Anyway... no labor... no baby. It's amazing how this feels like it's my first time. I didn't have contractions with Peyton and Mabry, so it's been 14 years since I've had to guess at this stuff! Insane! |
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| Time Files |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|10:42 pm] |
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| | Genesis 'Cul-De-Sac' | ] |
Photographed in a barn at an abandoned citrus packing plant near De Land, Florida.
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| Wow... I loved the movie this came from... |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|01:50 pm] |
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Who's gonna be the first to tell me its name? lol
I'm not really in the mood to work today... can't seem to actually get anything done... but You Tube is certainly keeping me company! I'm constantly being surprised by some of the clips I'm finding on there... lol |
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