Lola at the Coffee House

OK, what aboot it?

where and how did that originate etymalogically speaking?

I don't know. (How's that for honesty?) But I recall reading somewhere that, contrary to popular opinion, it has an American origin; the word was hardly known in the UK until visiting Americans started using it to seem to be more 'British.'

"Wow," he said picking himself off the floor.

Help you up, Frank? Hope you didn't hurt yourself.

very Ayuntookayish neh?

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bum2.htm

Thanks Wassau for dropping that by. In-ter-esting.

I may need my brolly in the AM. Early morning rain expected.

How old is GordonLightfoot ? I havent heard him make any new stuff in about 2 decades

He's in his 70s, i think . . . maybe about 75?

He was our background music whenever we would toodle around Fundy or Northumberland. We would NEVER play "Edmund Fitzgerald" though.

Had a little superstition goin' on there, Boss?

Sorta like why AIrlines try not to show plane crash movies as their in-flight entertainment.

One of my favorite sculptures,the Ombra della Sera, at the Etruscan museum in Volterra:

Did you see the one at the Oscar's ceremony osso? A chap had to run on stage and move her frock in such a way that more upper thigh was exposed to view but only far enough to make the needle on the neurotimeter twitch slightly. He was on his knees and he had to do it twice to get the effect required. Tough stuff indeed.

It's bad enough being neurotic and raddled with guilt but drawing special attention to how deep-seated it is is the height of vulgarity.

That's why the Victorians hid the piano legs. Once peeling off gets going it can't stop anywhere without revealing where the neurosis and guilt lines are drawn and making a singular personal point of the matter.

The Secretary of State, it struck me, came close at the press conference in the Foreign Office to applying for membership of the EU.

http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/98/index.html

Some reproductions of this mighty work of art are more neurotic than this one, the real one, in that the arrow of the angel has been altered in its direction finding function.

It's surprising how many have learned about the Church from all the wrong people.

You'll excuse me Spendi if I'm looking for something more than God. I like my ecstasy to be in response to something real. But Teresa is welcome to her type too.

Thanks you for that.

What do you like about this sculpture, Osso?

Gordon Lightfoot and rain. Perfect for today. He's about a decade ahead of me in age. I need to get busy.