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I started putting this together right after the bloggerpalooza back in March, but with the PC crashes and much electronic drama, I am only getting to post it now. Brace yourselves. If you don't know the original song, I feel better. If you do, please be gentle with me. I went to a marvelous party With Cubby and Java and Spo
It was in the fresh air and we went as we were
And we stayed as we were for the show.
Jay started talking at daybreak and didn't stop talking til four.
We knew the excitement was bound not to bore
when Sassy got blind on Cosmos & more. And scratched his veneer
like a cheap common queer - I couldn't have liked it more!
I've been to a marvelous party. We played some wonderful games.
Anne Marie disappeared and returned in a hat we all had to guess "who is that".
Someone arrived wearing armour, shells and a black feather boa.
He must have been warm in that armour for soon he had opened the door.
Poor Mark wore a surrealist comb, made of bits of from St Peters in Rome
but the weight was ungodly almost ruined his photography - well I couldn't have liked it more..
I've been to a marvelous party. I must say the fun was intense.
We all had to do what the people we knew might be doing 100 years hence.
We talked of growing old gracefully and Ron, who's 70, and more out of brevity
said if you're supple you're not such a bore then before we could laugh or sneer
he swung upside down from a large chandelier - and I couldn't have liked it more..
It was the most wonderous excitement, I've never seen such carrying on
it couldn't occur anywhere but Delaware it was most peculiar.. one had to stare.
You know people's persona who's from Arizona would make you quite shocked and aghast.
So much variety watching society scampering happily past.
You know if you had any mind at all, Gibbons divine 'Decline and Fall'
well it sounds pretty flimsy no more than a whimsy by way of contrast on Saturday last.
I went to a marvelous party we didn't sit down until six.
The food was so tasty, a few got too hasty and ate til they almost felt sick. And I couldn't have liked it more..
I've been to a marvelous party -
Ron made an entrance quite Gay. With bags that were part of the play.
You'd never have guessed as he set up the rest that his brain had been whittled away.
Fred almost got fried on some wine and talked about esprit de corps.
Everyone filled up their glasses And saluted ourselves as they clinked
We meeting this way made us all want to stay and enjoy some more talk and more drink.
We made our retreat back up to the suite enjoying great fun that would never be done
But done we were as the Cajun did stir wrenching his back and twisted his truss
he hated to go but knew that he must - HA HA! I couldn't have liked it more!
By Kerri-Ann Jennings, M.S., R.D., Associate Nutrition Editor at EatingWell MagazineRead the rest here. And start your own tradition using cast iron cookware.
Cast-iron skillets may seem like an old-fashioned choice in the kitchen. But this dependable cookware is a must in the modern kitchen. Cast-iron skillets conduct heat beautifully, go from stovetop to oven with no problem and last for decades. (In fact, my most highly prized piece of cookware is a canary-yellow, enamel-coated cast-iron paella pan from the 1960s that I scored at a stoop sale for $5.) As a registered dietitian and associate nutrition editor of EatingWell Magazine, I also know that there are some great health reasons to cook with cast iron.
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1. You can cook with less oil when you use a cast-iron pan.
That lovely sheen on cast-iron cookware is the sign of a well-seasoned pan, which renders it virtually nonstick. The health bonus, of course, is that you won’t need to use gads of oil to brown crispy potatoes or sear chicken when cooking in cast-iron. To season your cast-iron skillet, cover the bottom of the pan with a thick layer of kosher salt and a half inch of cooking oil, then heat until the oil starts to smoke. Carefully pour the salt and oil into a bowl, then use a ball of paper towels to rub the inside of the pan until it is smooth. To clean cast iron, never use soap. Simply scrub your skillet with a stiff brush and hot water and dry it completely.
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2. Cast iron is a chemical-free alternative to nonstick pans.
Another benefit to using cast-iron pans in place of nonstick pans is that you avoid the harmful chemicals that are found in nonstick pans. The repellent coating that keeps food from sticking to nonstick pots and pans contains PFCs (perfluorocarbons), a chemical that’s linked to liver damage, cancer, developmental problems and, according to one 2011 study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, early menopause. PFCs get released—and inhaled—from nonstick pans in the form of fumes when pans are heated on high heat. Likewise, we can ingest them when the surface of the pan gets scratched. Both regular and ceramic-coated cast-iron pans are great alternatives to nonstick pans for this reason.
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A man met a beautiful blond Cajun lady and decided he wanted to marry her right away. She said,'But we don't know anything about each other.' He said,'That's all right, we'll learn about each other as we go along.'
So she consented, they were married, and off they went on a honeymoon at a very nice resort.
One morning they were lying by the pool, when he got up off of his towel, climbed up to the 10 meter board and did a two and a half tuck, followed by three rotations in the pike position, at which point he straightened out and cut the water like a knife. After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on the towel. She said, 'That was incredible!' He said, 'I used to be an Olympic diving champion. You see, I told you we'd learn more about each other as we went along.'
So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing lengths. After seventy -five lengths she climbed out of the pool, lay down on her towel, and was hardly out of breath. He said, 'That was incredible! Were you an Olympic endurance swimmer?'
'No,' she said, 'I was a hooker in Thibodaux but I worked both sides of Bayou Lafourche.
Watching him cycle around the streets of the Quarter did my heart good tonight. Tomorrow evening the plan is to whip up the shrimp and chicken etouffe and this will get me in the right frame of mind.
Back in the day everyone from age 8 to 80 loved Soupy Sales. His schtick of slightly off-colour jokes and innuendo was priceless. Here's one last pie in the face:DETROIT – Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.Read it all HERE.
Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.
"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.
At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.
"He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and now owns Detroit-based Marine Pollution Control.
Sales began his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then moved to Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.
The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.
"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.
