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No salad???
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 1, 2020
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 , and added some mushrooms and zucchini we had. Threw some processed cheese on top. Not classy, but tasty.
No salad???
Askadodilges (hides His Foot) Posted Apr 1, 2020
Sounds good...I was looking at my friends list on my old h2g2 site and you are there.long time no type...
No salad???
cactuscafe Posted Apr 1, 2020
(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.
Wizards and wizardesses can get a bit involved with cauldrony cackle legends. Strange isn't it, the cauldrony cackle legend.
No salad???
cactuscafe Posted Apr 1, 2020
Of course, its the way you tell it, Mister D. You can almost make a vegetarian drool.
(sips brandy flavoured water and considers many things)
No salad???
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 1, 2020
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???
Askadodilges (hides His Foot) Posted Apr 2, 2020
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???
Askadodilges (hides His Foot) Posted Apr 2, 2020
Then you show up as a follower in the researcher's space?
Prodigal in Pliny
cactuscafe Posted Apr 2, 2020
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.
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.
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
cactuscafe Posted Apr 2, 2020
Oh, Brunel was listening. Pred just turned to Prodigal.
Damn, there goes my novel. Prodigal in Pliny (and all the other skins also) doesn't sound so good.
Prodigal in Pliny
cactuscafe Posted Apr 2, 2020
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?
On a completely higher literary level, , 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!
I am wondering about this now.
Bunny Miracle!
cactuscafe Posted Apr 2, 2020
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. . I was wondering if he is a big robin.
Lovel darlin. Thanks as always.
The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies
SashaQ - happysad Posted Apr 2, 2020
"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
"Could this be the power of lyrics/poetry. They're real, but they take the subject to another place. "
That video is lovely - very calming The birdie is a big robin! http://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103889499/94186470 - a member of the Thrush family
The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 2, 2020
Thanks, Sasha! 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. 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. What a great spring experience.
The Incredibly Depressed Cockroach and the Bunnies
Willem Posted Apr 2, 2020
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
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 2, 2020
The Roach, the Bunnies and the Robins
cactuscafe Posted Apr 3, 2020
Yay! Morning all!
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.
There's this one lad, I now call him Big Robin. We do shy smiles.
Who's Online?
Askadodilges (hides His Foot) Posted Apr 3, 2020
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
Askadodilges (hides His Foot) Posted Apr 3, 2020
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"...
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