Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?

Anya ,'Touched'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2005 6:13:34 am PDT #619 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Happy Birthday to Ouise, jengod and Paul!

I had forgotten that the big drawback of booty calls is crashing hard after you do the Walk of Shame home in the am. And no coffee in sight!


Trudy Booth - Jul 17, 2005 6:15:57 am PDT #620 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Something occurred to me last night and while I realize this will likely re-open the pecAn/pecAhhhhn discussion I posit the following theory:

Regardless of ones general pronunciation proclivities regarding the nuts them selves, pies, danish, etc. the respective pronunciations of the ice cream and the cookie are "Butter Pecahhhhhn" and "PecAn Sandies".

Discuss.


tommyrot - Jul 17, 2005 6:16:05 am PDT #621 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'd guess no since the article refers to chitosan as the second most ubiquitous substance on earth

I was confused as to what they meant by "substance." It can't mean "element" or "compound," so I'm guessing they mean "organic material."


Trudy Booth - Jul 17, 2005 6:20:32 am PDT #622 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Organic material was my assumption. Carbon-based band-aids already exist.


Trudy Booth - Jul 17, 2005 6:33:47 am PDT #623 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

That sounded snarkier than I intended it to. Sorry.


brenda m - Jul 17, 2005 6:35:31 am PDT #624 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

So which category would the gummi and chocolate bandaids I saw in the store yesterday fall under? Besides Ew.


tommyrot - Jul 17, 2005 6:41:47 am PDT #625 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Visigoths used gummi to heal battle wounds after the fall of the Roman empire.


DavidS - Jul 17, 2005 6:48:15 am PDT #626 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday Juliana! Happy belated birthdays to Jengod and Paul and Ouise!

Beth, those are called cut-in records. They started in the 50s with the most famous one being "the martians are attacking" and then all the breaking news reports being song snippets. The most famous ones were done by a duo, one of whom was name Goodman. I can't remember the other guy. They usually did one topical record a year, which is why they had Watergate themed ones in the early 70s. I've seen collections of their stuff, but it's tricky to find (maybe semi-bootleg? I doubt they got clearances for all those clips).


DavidS - Jul 17, 2005 6:50:22 am PDT #627 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Here you go, Beth. From a music Q&A board:

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Question 186: (posted June 14, 2005)
In the early to mid 70’s I recall songs that had political questions or interview type questions and they were answered by playing sound bites from songs that made the target of the interview sound silly – any idea who put these out? – It could have been a local radio station thing but I do know it was funny at the time and had the sort of sound like the Streak song by Ray Stevens, serious voice over questions and then a strange lyrical answer.

UPDATE June 19, 2005: Joe S e-mailed ...
These kind of novelty 45s began in the 1950s with Flying Saucer by Buchanan and Goodman. Serious interviews intercut with pop songs of the day as "answers" to the questions. Dickie Goodman did this in the 60s and early 70s also with some political answer 45s. They were called "cut-in" records. There were copycats of this genre well into the 80s.


meara - Jul 17, 2005 7:56:38 am PDT #628 of 10002

OK, I'm trying to do a meara, but it wont' let me freakin' copy and paste??? Why does Safari hate me???

Go Matt with the booty call! Whoot! Just make sure the walk of shame includes passing by a coffeehouse, see...