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Showing posts with label Eggs and Ham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eggs and Ham. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
I'd Celebrate That!! May 27 to June 3: Love Them Pink Flamingos
MAY 27, SUNDAY-- Grape Popsicle Day** 102nd Running of the Indy 500** We sure celebrated that!!
MAY 28, MONDAY-- Memorial Day I don't celebrate this, I commemorate it. I saw the traveling Vietnam Wall in McHenry, Illinois, after we got back from Indianapolis. Bought a lot of drinks for Veterans at Sunnyside Tavern in Johnsburg.
MAY 29, TUESDAY-- Pink Flamingo Day.** I gotta get me one of these.
MAY 30, WEDNESDAY-- Hole in My Bucket Day** Is that where my money goes? Mint Julep Day** Isn't that supposed to be on Kentucky Derby Day?
MAY 31, THURSDAY-- Macaroon Day** Love those cookies. Save Your Hearing Day** Get those loud pods out of your ears. Speak in Sentences Day** Still can't conjugate one of those suckers.
JUNE 1, FRIDAY-- Hurricane Season Begins. I don't celebrate it. Leave the Office Early Day.** Just don't get caught.
JUNE 2, SATURDAY--
JUNE 3, SUNDAY-- Chocolate Macaroon Day** Cancer Survivor Day** Egg Day** Don't Throw Them, though.
I'd Celebrate Most of Them. --RoadDog
REAL LABELS - REAL PRODUCTS: On a packet of juggling balls: "This product contains small granules under three millimeters, Not suitable for children under the age of 14 years in Europe or 8 years in the USA. Must be smarter kids in the US?
Friday, April 10, 2009
This Being a Time of Eggs-- Part 2
Continuing with Mark Jacobs' ode to da eggs.
6. In golfing slang-- a ball half-buried in a bunker is called a "fried egg." In diner terminology, scrambled eggs on toast is "Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em." (My grandmother used to make me "Eggs in a Nest" which would be a fried egg in a piece of toast.)
7. No one seems to know who the Benedict in eggs Benedict was. One legend has it that LeGrand Benedict asked the chef at Delmonico's in NYC to invent a new egg dish. Another that Harry Benedict at the NYC Waldorf Astoria wanted something to help him get over a hangover. (Either way, I really like 'em.)
8. In Feb. 2006, in Tumwater, Washington, residents awoke to find Nazi-leaflets attached to plastic eggs in their yards. (Jackboots on chickens?)
9. Joseph Coyle ran a small newspaper in British Columbia until he quit to go into business after inventing the egg carton. (News to Eggs to Me.)
10. Birds lay eggs that are from 1 to 10 % of their body weight. New Zealand's strange kiwi bird lays one that is 25%. That would be like a 120 pound human woman having a 24 pound baby. (Ouch!!)
No mention about Green Eggs and Ham, though.
Where Does Mark get All This Stuff? --RoadDog
6. In golfing slang-- a ball half-buried in a bunker is called a "fried egg." In diner terminology, scrambled eggs on toast is "Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em." (My grandmother used to make me "Eggs in a Nest" which would be a fried egg in a piece of toast.)
7. No one seems to know who the Benedict in eggs Benedict was. One legend has it that LeGrand Benedict asked the chef at Delmonico's in NYC to invent a new egg dish. Another that Harry Benedict at the NYC Waldorf Astoria wanted something to help him get over a hangover. (Either way, I really like 'em.)
8. In Feb. 2006, in Tumwater, Washington, residents awoke to find Nazi-leaflets attached to plastic eggs in their yards. (Jackboots on chickens?)
9. Joseph Coyle ran a small newspaper in British Columbia until he quit to go into business after inventing the egg carton. (News to Eggs to Me.)
10. Birds lay eggs that are from 1 to 10 % of their body weight. New Zealand's strange kiwi bird lays one that is 25%. That would be like a 120 pound human woman having a 24 pound baby. (Ouch!!)
No mention about Green Eggs and Ham, though.
Where Does Mark get All This Stuff? --RoadDog
This Being a Time of Eggs
Eggs get kind of popular about this time of the year for some reason.
Good old Marl Jacob had another one of his highly informative and interesting "Ten Things You Might Not Know About" EGGS articles in the April 5th Chicago Tribune. I felt compelled to mention some of the things. Parentheses my words.
1. When the Bulls' Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were in their prime, Jordan liked to say they were "ham-and-egging." This meant that one would start strong and the other would finish strong, and the opponents were toast. (They sure were.)
2. President Woodrow Wilson drank two eggs at breakfast every day. (Guess that's the original raw chicken.)
3. Japanese artist Hokusai sometimes paints with eggs. (Very egginstring.)
4. The Beatles song "Yesterday" was called "Scrambled Eggs" before it was finished. (Wonder what "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" was called.)
5. In the 30s and 40s, a common numbers racket (before we had lotto) was called "butter and eggs." You could bet on the closing commodity price for eggs and butter. Before that, a "butter-and-egg man" was slang for a visitor with a lot of money, a yokel ready to lose his dough. (Interesting history lesson.)
More Eggciting Stuff to Come. --RoadDog
Good old Marl Jacob had another one of his highly informative and interesting "Ten Things You Might Not Know About" EGGS articles in the April 5th Chicago Tribune. I felt compelled to mention some of the things. Parentheses my words.
1. When the Bulls' Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were in their prime, Jordan liked to say they were "ham-and-egging." This meant that one would start strong and the other would finish strong, and the opponents were toast. (They sure were.)
2. President Woodrow Wilson drank two eggs at breakfast every day. (Guess that's the original raw chicken.)
3. Japanese artist Hokusai sometimes paints with eggs. (Very egginstring.)
4. The Beatles song "Yesterday" was called "Scrambled Eggs" before it was finished. (Wonder what "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" was called.)
5. In the 30s and 40s, a common numbers racket (before we had lotto) was called "butter and eggs." You could bet on the closing commodity price for eggs and butter. Before that, a "butter-and-egg man" was slang for a visitor with a lot of money, a yokel ready to lose his dough. (Interesting history lesson.)
More Eggciting Stuff to Come. --RoadDog
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