What made you smile today?

In Wayne's World it means something different, though related.

I've got a dirty mind. But I know nothing about Wayne's World.

No, that's "schwing"

I never let the truth interfere with a good story.

Hmm, maybe "schwung" is the past tense, come to think of it. ("Did you see that one chick back there?" "Oh yeah, I totally schwung.")

Ha! Schwung sounds like one of those onomatopaic yiddish words that suggest something that is secreted from an organism--like smegma.

I remember smegma. I don't think it was yiddish.

Schwing, schwung, whatever. hee hee

I smiled when I saw this discussion had hit 400 pages.

Osso, I should have put yiddish in quotes.

JL, my humor is very dry, sometimes dessicant - I didn't need quotes.

Well, it is a substantive in Dutch, German and Yiddish.

I was online, shopping for rubber stamps, browsing really, when I came across a collection designed for cardmaking. It was a collection of quotes by kids. My favorite: "Happy Birthday....How many fingers are you?"

Put that one in the "kids say the darndest things" file.

Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra played in St Istvan Park, midway up the XIII district, today.. where the sort of trendy part merges into high-rise flats. It was a neighbourhood do, they played on a small, knee-high stage, and there were rows of plastic chairs set out for locals, with lots of middle-aged people and old age pensioners attending ... and they liked it!

There was this grey-haired, frail old lady who was at least 80 years old - skin on bones - and she'd just walked to the the front and had mingled with PASO's hardcore band of bouncing fans, and was dancing along with them! It was amazing. I was worried about her for a moment, that she'd fall or something, but everyone was super nice.

By the end of the concert a couple of the 40/50-something year old housewives were dancing too, it was very funny. There were kids too, running around - and now PASO is cheerful music, but it's not like, I dunno, Van Morrison, it's party music - listen to System Connection here, that would be the most typical song of theirs on the MySpace page - so all the fans were jumping up and down and dancing like mad, coupla mohawked punks in the middle, singer all up in his trademark white suit, brass section, tiniest stage - you coulda stepped up and carried off a band member, and then these locals .. it was like living in Berlin or something :-).

Picture me in my tattiest old torn pants, my friend/colleague Cs all trendy looking, this suddenly super happy 50-year old Hungarian housewife, and this really cute and obscenely young girl - I dunno, 18 or something - who'd never seen PASO or any ska band before, and we're all dancing together. PASO makes people happy. :-)

learning about paso made me smile - first I found this:

which is exactly why I love the name Joseph and named my son that and listening further I found this:


That woman's voice is stunning - absolutely the most beautiful, new to me woman's voice I've heard in a long time.

And I like the band too- so two new listening experiences in one morning that made me smile, and fond thoughts of my son whom I'm missing because he's spending the summer in the states- thanks Nimh.

My Logistics Operations Executive Director recently lost a front tooth. He has had a small denture fitted in order to be able to continue smiling with the dignity one expects of such a responsible person.

He has now learned to cheep with it like the meerkat puppet does in the "Compare the Meerkat" advert. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mXUC0cUPg)

It made me smile today although if he keeps it up at his present rate all year I might knock some more of the silly sod's teeth out.

He can also do a budgie that can't find its mum.

I finally ate the last tin of tuna fish!

I know what'll make me smile: a confirmation from rjb that he's coming to Chicago and/or Austin to join in our meet(s).

If he was coming here I would grimace and grit my teeth.

You're on the wrong thread ci. As usual.

Really glad you like them - it's my favourite Hungarian band! and how can one not like them? :-)

DAMN. SOMEONE I KNOW JUST HIRED AN ILLEGAL WORKER.
Well, that is only partially true. Jiri is from the Czech Republic. He is, perhaps, 18 or 20. He got lured into a scam. Come to the U.S. on a summer work permit and make lots of money, meet U.S. girls, and have an adventure of a lifetime.
All he had to do was sell books, door to door. It did not go well for him until he knocked on Mary's door. She is a friend of a friend of a friend. She looked at him and asked "Have you eaten today?"
He showed up at her doorstep again a few days later and spilled his guts out about this mis-adventure he had gotten himself into. Mary and her husband took him in. The church she goes to tried to rearrange his plane ticket home from Sept to now; for some reason without success.
So, today, Jiri met Kevin, who takes care of "someone's" 3 acres. Within minutes they were laughing about something they both found funny. It was, I suspect, the 1st time Jiri had laughed in awhile.