Lola at the Coffee House

NEW ULE. If you use a piece of jargon that isnt common to several languiages, why not just explain them as Tico requested. No need to get all belligerent there Izmael.

Blown away, over here means

1murdered , brutally so. as in: Cjicken Man Testa was blown away by several hit men using 12 gagae shotguns
2 Exceedingly impressed , as "I was blown away by her beauty"

No - we use both ADD and ADHD as separate terms, attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Or at least we did last time I paid any.. any... any.... attention. What?

As long as they'll be making red-eye gravy, i might as well have a ham steak, too.

Ill have a cannoli ( a cannoli is an Italian pastry tube filled with a sweet bakery creme made of riccotta cheese, vanilla flavoring and lotsa sugar and dried fruits) Some bakers use chocolate bits in the creme but this impoarts a flavor that is less agreeable to cannoli lovers who appreciate the delicate flavor of the creme filling . Some bakers use a custard filling in the tubes. We are rounding them up for reeducation camps or ultimate execution.

I find it hard to believe you don't know what "drank the Koolaid" means.

I have no idea what "pablum" is.

Bump

As I understand it, Pablum, or what I know as the Pabulum I was fed as a toddler, is or was a Canadian product. Pretty out of fashion here, I think, by now, even if it does still exist as a packaged product.

I'm only on my second cup of coffee, but the dog is fed, and I've had my slice of reheated ricotta and roasted zucchini torte. Diane and I are going out in a couple of hours to make trouble in the city.

Fm has an unhealthy fixation with cannoli. We need to get him to eat a real man's breakfast . . . like maybe a half-dozen eggs, fried to order, and about eight or ten ounces of bacon.

ll have that for lunch. Today Im having scrapple, fried crisp and covered with molasses. (Real molasses).Three eggs (not to be a pig), crispy fried taters with onion bits and a big super sized lapsang tea. Whole wheat toast buttered to dip my eggs.

Sounds good. That biscuits and red-eye gravy was just second breakfast . . .

I remember hearing about Pablum as a particular brand of baby cereal which was marketed in the U.S.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablum

Now I think the term "pablum" is often used generically to refer to any cooked mushy cereal intended for infants and babies.

I've already had a repairman here. He was supposed to show up Wednesday, but unexpectedly turned up this morning instead, before I'd even had my coffee and was still rather bleary-eyed. Anyway, he got the problem resolved sooner rather than later, so that was great.

Wassau, some coffee please, and a bagel with melted sharp cheddar cheese to go with it.

I get it, a little Bilbo reference.

Ive heard Pablum used as something that was easily accepted or understood. Sort of "baby food" education.

I just checked to be sure--Pablum was invented in Canada, not the United States. Until 2005, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto received a royalty on every package sold (the things you learn at Wikipedia!). Pablum has the generic meaning of anything bland and of no value, not simply foods that can be described that way.

I'm a devout cannoli lover, although not particularly for breakfast, and I must say, if it's going to be chocolate, go all the way. The bits add little, but a true chocolate cannoli, if you can manage to find one, is a taste treat.



That's an absolute abomination! Definitely round them all up!

I've seen it used as a term for mushy thinking, I think - or perhaps "lightweight thinking".

Ah, here's a single urbandictionary entry -
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pablum

Since it's rather warm here, I would like to have a cassata instead of a cannolo, please.

You've some room to talk Setanta. There are people you won't speak to. You claim, as well you might, that it is because they spout drivel but actually it is because you are scared of their point of view. You only feel comfortable with the sky-Daddy types and the boy Jesus and wittering about what you're not going to eat.

Having a lot of dough in the bank has some downsides. And after Cyprus it might be sky-money.

You shouldn't confuse vigorous debate with hate. That wittering you do is deadening. I suppose "strong coffee" and "red-eye gravy" is some sort of claim to have more hair on your balls than most.

I'll have some cow-pie Washup.

Anyway folks--is an accusation of having ADD a compliment or an insult?

That's disgusting.


In no conceivable way is it a compliment.

PS--Dough means money and not what bread is cooked from. Some people call money "bread".

I hope that's clear.

Every chap in Jane Austen is judged on how many thousands a year he has. When a servant is mentioned he is judged on how many thousands a year his master has. Madonna was a bit behind Jane on the Material Girl stuff and quite a bit street cornerier.

I dunno about that..

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/02/08/adhds-upside-is-creativity-says-new-study.html

That's just the first link that showed up on google - I've read about a connection with creativity and add or adhd before.