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No salad???

Post 7341

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

...leaves briefly to google slumgullion...

sounds a lot like spaghetti...nice name though...smiley - choc


No salad???

Post 7342

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - laugh Must be a Pennsylvania word. Normally, it's just elbow macaroni, ground beef and onions, and tomato sauce. We changed it to Jimmy Dean sausage for the hillbilly version smiley - tongueincheek, and added some mushrooms and zucchini we had. Threw some processed cheese on top. Not classy, but tasty.


No salad???

Post 7343

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

Sounds good...I was looking at my friends list on my old h2g2 site and you are there.smiley - smileylong time no type...


No salad???

Post 7344

cactuscafe

(Sips glass of cold water. Decides to add a shot of brandy)

Heheh. Hmmm. Yes, mvp, I think you're more like culinary wonderlady. mmmm. I'm heading veggie, your way. smiley - rofl

Wizards and wizardesses can get a bit involved with cauldrony cackle legends. Strange isn't it, the cauldrony cackle legend.


No salad???

Post 7345

cactuscafe

mmm I'll go with a slice of Alice B Toklas-y Phreddy style fudge, though. smiley - rofl


No salad???

Post 7346

cactuscafe

Of course, its the way you tell it, Mister D. smiley - drool You can almost make a vegetarian drool. smiley - rofl

(sips brandy flavoured water and considers many things)









No salad???

Post 7347

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

A miracle has occurred, and I managed to get my bunny footage out of the card where it appeared to have disappeared...voila, this year's first bunny video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6yf3P-kzE


No salad???

Post 7348

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

I seem to remember....making a researcher a friend means that when they start a conversation, it lands in your space...right?

Is there anything else, cyberwise, that happens because of that connection?


No salad???

Post 7349

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

Then you show up as a follower in the researcher's space?


Prodigal in Pliny

Post 7350

cactuscafe

Morning all!

That's strange, Prodigal.

You're Prodigal in Pliny skin,but in Brunel skin you still show up as Phred.

Sounds like the title of a strange novel. Prodigal in Pliny.

Could be a masterpiece. Especially if I don't attempt to write it. smiley - rofl

smiley - coffee

Good questions! Friends list! Lordy, I haven't updated mine since BBC days. Going to check that one later. Could explain why no one knows me. smiley - rofl

Yes, I think if you sign up someone as a friend, their journal entries/Guide Entries?? not sure, come up in your space, but not sure what happens in their space. Does the Prodigal wander in? Bearing fudge.

Updating my list will give me clues.


Prodigal in Pliny

Post 7351

cactuscafe

Oh, Brunel was listening. Pred just turned to Prodigal. smiley - rofl

Damn, there goes my novel. Prodigal in Pliny (and all the other skins also) doesn't sound so good. smiley - rofl


Prodigal in Pliny

Post 7352

cactuscafe

I was talking to Phreddy on the other thread about characters, and feelings of disillusionment when you find out too much about their so called real life.

We were thinking about Bluejay, my character who went on the road in my first Guide Entry, who somehow inspired Phred.

When we started wondering who he was behind the scenes of the story, things got a bit depressing, broken marriage etc.

And I realised that, for me, speaking generally now, its OK not to know too much about a character, but to focus on the part of them that draws me.

Flaws and failings in their personal life can be referred to, but they musn't overshadow the focus.

It depends on *how* the flaws and failings are referred to.

Hah! I'm working this out spontaneously, hence the garble. Garble, what garble? smiley - rofl

smiley - coffee

On a completely higher literary level, smiley - rofl, I thought about Leonard Cohen, the hero of my life from the age of 20, for years.

Then when the film Leonard and Marianne came out recently, I, and many others, were so disillusioned, as some of the more raw details came out about Leonard's approach to drugs and women.

A lot of this was the culture of the 60s, of course, and in the context of the time wasn't as bad as it sounds to us now, but it was still a great disillusionmnent.

However, I still listen to his songs, his music and poetry still transport me, although not so potently as in my youth.

He is restored in my mind, not as a god, because I want him to be human, but his flaws and failings as expressed through poetry, speak to my own flaws and failings, but they also help me to rise above them, or feel OK about them.

Could this be the power of lyrics/poetry. They're real, but they take the subject to another place.

Hah!


smiley - coffee

I am wondering about this now.


Bunny Miracle!

Post 7353

cactuscafe

Spring is sprung, the graaas is riz. And the bunny miracle is is is!!!!!

Remind me about the red breasted birdie, big robin? I wasn't calling you Big Robin. smiley - rofl. I was wondering if he is a big robin.

smiley - coffee

Lovel darlin. Thanks as always. smiley - kiss


The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies

Post 7354

SashaQ - happysad

"I get spooked if things feel too big, too chaotic, and I can't regroup within it. I need to find my little corner, my niche, do my things. Wave my feelers. hahaha. "

Yes, that's well put - it is too much to think about everything in one go, even though the brain might be tempted to try to read all the news, etc... Finding a corner means details can be looked at in a more manageable way, without getting swamped smiley - ok

"Could this be the power of lyrics/poetry. They're real, but they take the subject to another place. "

smiley - oksmiley - magic

That smiley - bunny video is lovely - very calming smiley - zen The birdie is a big robin! http://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103889499/94186470 - a member of the Thrush family smiley - ok


The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies

Post 7355

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Thanks, Sasha! smiley - biggrin Yep, that's what we call an American robin. It's a kind of thrush. When we were kids, we didn't know about the 'other' kind of robins, so we thought 'Who killed Cock Robin?' and such were about our thrushes. smiley - rofl This one's staked out our yard for the season. He's fun to watch.

We had a pair in our backyard when I was growing up - they nested in the elbow of a drainpipe, and we sat and watched the hatchlings peek out. One June morning, they learned to fly... The first one flapped its wings until it became airborne, much to its surprise, and floated out of the nest, like a feathered helicopter...

Then it started to fall - oops! Frantic wing-flapping, safe landing. Oh, gee, that was fun. Hopped from bush to bush all morning. The others did likewise.

Alas, it was Sunday morning, we had to go to church. (Didn't want to, but I suspect I was the pianist...)

When we got back, they'd all flown away. Bye, bye, robins. smiley - tit What a great spring experience.


The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies

Post 7356

Willem

All over the world colonists from Europe called the birds 'Robins' that reminded them of the European robins they knew well. Basically anything with a red or reddish or orange-ish breast. Over here, we have numerous birds that were called robins, but are now called robin-chats. They're actually closer relatives to European robins - that is, members of the flycatcher family - than the American robins, as thrushes, are.

Then there are the Australasian robins, which constitute a family all of their own.

In Afrikaans we call a robin a 'Janfrederik' or 'John Frederick'. I have no idea where that appellation came from!

In my own garden, I have the Cape Robin-chat. A very relaxed bird, initially quite shy … I mean some years back as they first started entering towns, they were wary … but these days they show themselves easily. Very pretty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_robin-chat#/media/File:Cape_Robin-Chat_(Cossypha_caffra)2.jpg

And they have very pretty voices too. This robin-chat sings little phrases it invents, but at the start of every phrase it sings its signature note. After the characteristic signature note, the passage itself is unique … I've never heard a bird repeat the same passage. Each one has to be its owner's unique creation!


The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies

Post 7357

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Sounds wonderful! smiley - smiley


The Roach, the Bunnies and the Robins

Post 7358

cactuscafe

Yay! Morning all!

smiley - kiss

Lovely robin writings!

I keep busting up laughing cos when I said to Mister D about Big Robin, I keep seeing Big Robin as a person now.

In the flats opposite, people come to the balconies, to smoke. Or to breathe the air. smiley - rofl

There's this one lad, I now call him Big Robin. smiley - rofl We do shy smiles.


Who's Online?

Post 7359

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

Ok...Robins, roaches, bunnies, kitties...

Non-Sequitur follows:

300+ people online...Who's really online?

Random samples show no activity for many researchers...

I search H2G2 by user name and find seven Hypatias...I went to the house of one Hypatia and cooked halibut for her???

"Fred" is an extreme example...he comes online in 1999...makes 5 posts (with no replies) in 1999...that's it...is he lurking for 21 years?

Is "Fred" really online? Are these just many people that have never logged out or something?

Are there more than 4 people still on H2G2?


Funny Armadillos

Post 7360

Askadodilges (hides His Foot)

I have a family of these under my air conditioning unit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYaXmaoJ5Q

I find Armadillo purses to be in poor taste...

The free trolley in Austin is called "The Dillo"...smiley - tea


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