Ok ,......I've just had two large bowls of Turkey Soup & Bread & a glass and a half of wine (mamasan got the other half)..........hahahahaha
Now I know many of you must have been feeding on the same diet,.
Care to to say......??? C'mon I know you have........hahahaha
After an hour I'll be Ok to have a drink with my son for the B-day ....
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Les.....The one thing that I miss right now is having a stock pot of turkey bones simmering on the stove. That's the price I have to pay for not having Christmas dinner here at my house......Sigh! We had pork steak on the BBQ for supper! Dianne
Ah Les, I'm with you! :-) Made a turkey noodle soup today with the left overs and had a big bowl for lunch AND supper. My husband had a couple of turkey sandwiches and I guess I'll do a casserole tomorrow. Yes, too much of too much! Good wine but I got into the Bailey's instead and Christmas Eve was rum and coke. On Christmas Eve, I called one of my best friends from Verdun who now lives in Newmarket. She introduced me to rum and coke when I was 16 (my first drink), so after I got off the phone, it was rum and coke for the good ole days. I'm diabetic 2 and can't have that stuff ---- well, not too often but this was special.
Hi HappyDi,......Our roles have been reversed,...you are BBQ'ing,......and I got to enjoy that simmerring pot on the stove...........hahahahah We woke up to a bit of frost,.and your probably sunbathing............hahahaha All in all I'm sure ,a little bit of either is still Great ........ Did you keep hubby ,hydrated (with the good stuff) cause BBQ'ing is tough work you know...............
Ahh Sabby I Remember very well,having the Rum & Coke starting out,.....i had to get a good grip on the bed a few times ,to get the thing to stop spinning..........hahahahah Funny you mention the noodles (Teresa made this batch & it wasn't till we were half through the first bowl) that we had realized that ingredient had not made it to the pot this time,...............but we were still sufficiently suffoncified ( I can't spell that word)............hahahahah
Les_F Suffoncified???? Not sure, but I think that qualifies as a new word for our dictionary, eh? But I'm a bit stymied on how to use it in a sentence. Tonight we had turkey + green peas + dumplings = soup. I think I'm ready to bring on the hot turkey sandwich for tomorrow night's supper (for a change...lol). Guess Mona didn't have a good Christmas. Cheers all,
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Sandy Truth be known, it probably helps the leftovers go down a little easier. Cheers
Linda I think Mona is upset. Someone forgot the mistletoe....and we know what that means. No mistletoe, no messing below!!!!!!
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Oh Winston, Where have you been all my life? Cheers
Linda and Sandy......wine helps everything go down.... Dianne
No Mom45./I didn't invent that one...........hahahahah Cheryl Caesar pointed out that it appears in a passage in Margaret Atwood’s novel, Cat’s Eye: she has two teenage girls living in Toronto in the 1940s who say, “Are you sufficiently sophonisified?”. A Vancouver restaurant reviewer has the pen name “Sufficiently Suffonsified”. We've used it for years,......but as to origin I wasn;t sure,so the above paragraph was found on this link: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-suf1.htm ................................................"I'm Full ",........will do sufficiently hahahahaha
Apparently there's even a Blog on it.////or named it,....i didn't check it out ,but here's the example.......... http://suffonsifiedblog.blogspot.com/ .............................................................
Ok Gotta go for a bit ,the birthday son is here................................... Have Fun
If that's true HappyDi ,....I'm going out to make sure Teresa has a few more glasses,...........and I'll let you know if it works..........hahahahaha From: HappyDi2 in response to Message 10 Sent: 12/27/2006 8:16 PM Linda and Sandy......wine helps everything go down.... Dianne........................I hope your right................hahahahah
Like you said a few times....ya learn something new every day. But I'm a little disappointed to note that the word didn't originate with you....oh well, there's always next year, eh? I'm sure you can invent another word for me then. Cheers.
Geez Les, I'm gonna have to watch how I express myself from now on...LMAO!!! Dianne
Linda. I have been here...just waiting. That is the story of my life....waiting
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Winston, I think I goofed up on the directions.....I heard Vancouver, BC but I guess you meant Vancouver, Washington!!!!! But you know what they say...."Good things come to those who wait" (or something like that). Egads, you know how it is when you get older.....you have to turn the hearing aid up a little louder. Promise I'll listen better next time...... Cheers.
Dianne. Thank you for the wonderful advise about the wine. I will definetly have to try that in Vegas. If it works, that would be wonderful.
Linda. You are listening real good. No need to turn the hearing aid up. Just keep the good thoughts coming!!!!!!
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Sandy. That was a good quiz. I got 20 out of 20......liar liar pants on fire....9 out of 20. Should have taken my time, but nooooooo...like almost everything else...I said almost everything else....I did not take my time. Will try again!!!!
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Sandy. I used the one that said "VIEW ATTACHMENT" It worked!!!!! Thanks
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I got 12/20 the first time around and remembered long enough to get 19/20 the second time.
I got 17 out of 20!!! But this quiz has been around before!! Maggie one thing I did not know is that Saskatchewan is the Heart Break province of Canada! Is that true? Dianne
I can only imagine how many hearts are broken each time someone's son or daughter leaves the province for "greener pastures".
That is so very true. Dianne
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Hi Sandy, the test opened up fine for me,.... maybe when you tried to open it ,you may not have been signed in?? I know I've gone to open an attachment picture or something and if I wasn't signed in I couldn't open it....Just a Thought
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That's the great thinbg about living where you do Sandy,.you can get to the BigApple in notime,...and get to see all those shows,... NYC is definetly an exciting city,.I went there many times ,starting out with family trips,.then of course escaping for a weekend party,with friends,......That's what I liked about montreal,..litereally every Big City,.is withing driving range,...... My daughter has a standing deal ,with one of my sisters for Graduating,..Jill has always wanted to visit NewYork,......and we have friends that lived in the City,until recently (now just outside ,not sure exactly where yet),and will be glad to take my sister and Jill in for a while ,so they can get to go Downtown,.... imagine how exciting for a young girl,just turned 18,.... I never really knew or had heard of NewYork being called the Big Apple ,.when I was growing up,...How did it get that name ,Do you know?
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It's funny you say that Sandy,............I always say I'm from Montreal,..it's the first thing I say,.....then from there if the people know Montreal at all ,I'll then say well actually verdun.etc etc ,......... but if I'm in Montreal,..and someone ask where I'm from I always say Victoria ,.........hahaha I don't know why ,it's just reflex,....... I love the street vendors,....and everyone is a Character,.......
Here's a bit of an answer re the big apple: http://www.salwen.com/apple.html
You just knew I had to look that up,didn't you.............hahahahaha Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? "When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big
Apple'?"
This is by far the most frequently asked question—and the
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Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to
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One fanciful version even links the name with a notorious
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In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put
the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman
circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew
he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all,
Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and
most appreciative in the country.
http://www.salwen.com/apple.html check out the link ,.I haven't read it yet,.....but interesting enough I like the idea of the old Jazz musicians having something to do with the origins,.(if that's true),.......because I got to see an old gal play in a dilapadated bar ,either late late 70's or early 80 ?? and she was a great performer in NYC ...........her name was Alberta Hunter, she sang Blues,..and was quite a lively old gal..........hahahah I thought she was good anyway,,..........blah blah blah .........
The expession for entertainers was, " I want a bite of the big apple." Mayor John Lindsay complained that the city was going broke because everybody wants a bite of the big apple, but visitors do not pay taxes." His book was 'The Ungovernable City." Ed
One of the favorite Mayors of New York was John 'Jimmy' Walker. He was the last of the Tamany Hall Mayors. A pleasant Irish man with an Irish tenor voice, he was loved by all. Then he found out that the people who got him elected (Tamany Hall) were crooked and using him for a front. He blew the whistle and destroyed himself in the bargain. The courts didn't believe he could be so naive. They called him the leader and everyone despised him after. One of the songs he wrote was, "Will You Love Me In December as you do in May." Very prophetic. A movie was made with Bob Hope in the role of Walker. It was called, 'Beau James'. Ed
Well the more we look ,the more the lore: more folklore,..fact or fiction,......you decide, After a lot of work, the researchers found that Fitz Gerald had written in 1924 that he had first heard the term from a couple of black stable hands in New Orleans in 1920, for whom the Big Apple was the New York racetracks that represented the big time, the goal of every aspiring jockey and trainer. Fitz Gerald popularised the name to the extent that it was picked up by others. Walter Winchell used it for the entertainment district of New York in 1927: “To the lonely and aspiring hoofer, the fannie-falling comedian, Broadway is the Big Apple, the Main Stem, the goal of all ambition.” Jazz musicians also used it the same way, which led to the late 1930s dance name, possibly through a New York club also called the Big Apple. The expansion of the term to the whole of New York seems to have become common around the 1940s. read more of this text at : http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-big5.htm .............New York City.................(you know,...where they make the real piquantes sauces).........................hahahahaha
Sandy and Les, I love love love New York. I saw the Jersey Boys sing in Times Square on New Year's Eve on TV. I understand the show has some Tony nominations. Loved their music. Seems like a very entertaining uplifting show. And that's what people want nowadays --- to be entertained. Like Les said, living in Montreal, it was so easy to get to New York. I usually would go on the long Victoria Day weekend. Trick is to know someone who lives in Manhatten. I only did the tourist bit when my husband joined me one year and I finally saw the Empire State building, etc. Otherwise, my friends would show me a part of New York only a native New Y orker would know. My first vist, I stayed with an actor/director/writer friend and his partner, an artist. They lived close to the Dakota (home of John Lennon),overlooking Central Park. Don't remember the year but it was in the day when Carol Channing was playing Hello Dolly on Broadway. My friends blindfolded me and took me to the show. I didn't know until we got there what we would see. And there was Carol Channing singing to me, "Hello Dolly...it's so nice to see where y ou belong..." Ah yes. And I started to bawl my eyes out. We hit Joe Allen's across from Broadway Joe (Joe Namath's bar) for drinks first and who is there but Al Pacino dining with Shelley Winters! Well, when you're in New York, you act like a native New Yorker. I pretended I needed to go to the washroom so I could pass their table. I smoked then and for re-inforcement, I had my cigarette in hand. As I was approaching the table I slipped and almost took out Pacino's eye. I pretended I didn't know who he was and just excused myself and kept on walking --- very fast! I think it was before the Godfather...not sure... After the show we went back to the apartment and changed. The night life in New York doesn't start until after midnight. This was the era of the famous Studio 54. My friend knew the doorman and voila, I was in. Describing the place and the people will take a book. We left just as the sun was rising. To me going to New York always re-energized my creativity. I would pack in a lot of living in a long weekend, 6 shows, restaurants, discos, bars, museums especially the MOMA, Guggenhein, and my artist friend who was a display artist also taught me how to look at window displays, so we would spend afternnons walking and checking out the windows --- Macy's, Tiffany's, etc. I was young then and could live on one hours sleep! People in New York are the most creative, original, provocative humans in the universe and I love them. I was never afraid on the subway or the East Village. It is just such a vibrant place to live and Sandy, you are so lucky to be close by! Dolly
Your right Sandy,...I've done the tourist thing,...and I've done the roamimng around like I live there,........always good with a resident though,..and I never had a problem in any 'borrough'......or area of town........Although I have to say the Port Authority was an eye opener in the early 70's...............hahaha I like walking down the street and having a slice of Pizza (seemed like every 100feet or so...........hahahahah and watching the people running down the street with a rack of clothes,......and if you want a 'Real Rolex' for $8 bucks,.. you can get one..............hahahahahah (Do you suppose those weren't 'real' ones)...................hahahahaha and there seemed to be Nothing you can't get. ..........and the Army of Tow Trucks that the City of New York owns,..... don't park where your not supposed to,.....or it's Gone I think that's where they got the title for the movie: "Gone in 60 Seconds"...............hahahahahah I also can Remember the view from the top of the Empire State building,.....a literal Sea of Yellow Cabs....dotted the streets below,.........many in the 70's were still the old 'Checker Cabs' style............... It certainly was a real 'Alive' place........
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Les, I was a street eater in New York also but I remember eating a big pretzel and the best hot dog on the Staten Island FErry. My friends never did and I wondered if there was something wrong with the food. They'd never say anything but give me this look. Then I read the Confederacy of Dunces by John O'Toole Kennedy. The protagonist, a real slob, sold hot dogs on the streets of New York. You never know where the food has been...so now I never and still do not eat food sold on any street in any city.
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Thanks Sandy for the update on Jersey Boys. Sounds great! Is the real Frankie still performing? Tony Bennett is 80 and he's still at it. I suppose I should change my name to Dolli! :-) Dolly
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