What made you smile today?

gustavratzenhofer wrote:

Does everyone here know that the Canary Islands were named after the large dogs which inhabited them?

I'm sure the A2K regulars know that little tidbit, but surely a newcomer will come along learn something new.

Me! Me! I knew that! My dad was in Tenerife and he brought back that useful bit of information (and a pile of lava rocks). Nothing more.
From 'canis', apparently. Not from 'canary'.

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The thought of seeing G again tday (3rd evening in a row)

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really Prince? Who's G?

Nice to see you, Mapleleaf!

Yes, the background to that article I posted is awful and the commentary below is, at times, hideous!

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*fingers crossed for Prince*

I made mayonnaise in the blender today and it emulsified perfectly!

Very Happy

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being able to get back in the swimming pool and swim more than a kilometre each morning, after about 6 years of not swimming

feels sooooo good

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ehBeth

ehBeth wrote:

being able to get back in the swimming pool and swim more than a kilometre each morning, after about 6 years of not swimming

feels sooooo good

No pool swimming for six years?

Er, ehBeth, didn't anyone tell you to fill the pool with water---then you don't have to wait six years, dahlin.

BBB :wink:

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I am sure that this is not at all amusing to the people involved, but for the rest of us (courtesy of NPR news this morning):

TEDDY BEARS AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

A children's museum in England had almost a million dollars worth of rare teddy bears .... It was so valuable that the insurance company required guard dogs.
Bad idea. One of the Dobermans went ... on a rampage, shredding hundreds of teddy bears ....

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realjohnboy wrote:

I am sure that this is not at all amusing to the people involved, but for the rest of us (courtesy of NPR news this morning):

TEDDY BEARS AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

A children's museum in England had almost a million dollars worth of rare teddy bears .... It was so valuable that the insurance company required guard dogs.
Bad idea. One of the Dobermans went ... on a rampage, shredding hundreds of teddy bears ....

I believe Reyn posted this is a separate thread in the Human Interest stories category.

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Still, I smiled too, when I saw the photo of the dobie in the playroom...

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Beth, I'm envious. Baby needs a lap pool....

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Sorry for duplicating Reyn's post. I checked out "New Posts" but didn't see it there. Didn't search far enough, perhaps.

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Bear with me, folks, that second gin and tonic was a doozy! I guess we like to complain about the bad moments more than we praise the good moments..... t's been 5 days since the last post here.

I took the kids on an impromptu blueberry hunt today. After picking up the girls from camp, we stopped on the Lexington-Winchester line to visit a blueberry patch we discovered last summer. We hiked and picked, we used poland spring water bottles and used sammich baggies to collect the deliscious fruits. After many blueberrries had been eaten and stowed, I discovered that the girls had put unknown berries in their bags - those berries were undistinguishable from the blueberries so we dumped our loot and started again. Meanwhile, I got to commune with my gods of nature. Blueberry patches, sweetfern, bearberry, exposed bedrock, incredible views - deep breath - ahhhhhhh. We started picking anew, but the girls decided that it was too risky to eat wild blueberries when they might be contaminated with unknown blue-colored berries that could potentially make you sick. So, they dumped their loot again and returned home happy. Lovely time.

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Cake!
I made a super delicious lemon cake with lemon icing yesterday, which I served with perfectly ripe sliced strawberries. (I wanted raspberries, but the organic strawberries were less than $4 for a pound, and the raspberries were more than $4 for a half pint. So I went with strawberries.)

I served it after a lemon basil pesto pasta salad with roasted mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes, tomato salad with fresh basil and balsamic vinaigrette, three kinds of sausages, olives, cheese platter, and sliced baguette. I grew the basil I used in the pasta and tomato salads.

I had extra cake so I sent a whole lot of it in with Taylor today. He's sharing it with his coworkers as I type. Sharing yumminess always makes me smile.

Smile

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Wow, sounds like a wonderful meal, marycat.

I'm smiling because it's Friday.

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It was a wonderful meal! And with wonderful company. A great evening.

I forgot to mention the locally grown green and purple peppers, which I sauteed with onions and garlic. Yum!

Yay Friday!

I'm going out for a walk. It's a beautiful, sunny, fallish day here. It's only in the 70s. Crazy weather! Not long ago, it was over 100.

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Reyn, with his eye open for quirky stories, may already have noted this.
Sunday is National Left-handed People Day. And, according to a story today on NPR, a university research study (your tax dollars at work) found that left handed men with college degrees earn 21% more than their right handed counterparts.
Did I mention that realjohnboy is left-handed? So why is my checking account always overdrawn?

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the nice old lady behind us in line at the grocery store yesterday gave us a coupon for our cherry tomatoes...

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I'm in round two of the class with the teacher from.... hmmmm.... from somewhere unfamiliar to me. It is aweful, but the 1/2 bitch session I had with several classmates made me laugh.

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I went to Sziget yesterday. Summer festival that for one week takes over a Budapest island in the Danube. It's like a cross between Campingflight to the Lowlands (Dutch alternative music festival), and the Avignon theatre festival.

Random items that made me smile:

- Crowdsurfing ska Santa at the Pannonia Allstar Ska Orchestra concert. Guy dressed up in Santa costume, all red coat, white fluffy collar, and Santa hat. Plopping up over the dancing crowd, thrown and carried left and right.

- The girl who walked up to me, when I was staring at some guy juggling with luminous balls in the dark, embraced me, and walked on.

- The guy who calmly came walking into the huge box that's the Wan2 stage when Yonderboi was playing, edged his way to the back where we were listening and dancing, looked around, nodded, neatly rolled out his mat, carefully swept it clean, spread it out on the wooden floor, laid down on it & went to sleep.

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realjohnboy wrote:

Reyn, with his eye open for quirky stories, may already have noted this.
Sunday is National Left-handed People Day. And, according to a story today on NPR, a university research study (your tax dollars at work) found that left handed men with college degrees earn 21% more than their right handed counterparts.
Did I mention that realjohnboy is left-handed? So why is my checking account always overdrawn?

Imagine just how bad your account would be if you weren't cack-handed!

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