Ask and you shall receive…. though I think it was more of a surmise than a request…
Somebody… JP Steve, I’m pretty sure… guessed that this would be the next puzzle.
Careful what you ask for… or suggest…. Steve.
Cos… Voila!
…
Oooh… that reminds me of something….
Ok, I try not to correct people’s spelling or grammar online. After all, there are no educational requirements for posting.
I do think everyone should have a voice, and people shouldn’t mock…
Blah blah and all that pious stuff…
….
But gosh darn it…. There are times I am sooooo tempted.
I have to bite my knuckles and hold myself back…. especially over a few words and phrases that get murdered with great regularity on the internet.
……
Not so much on GoComics or Cleo. I’m actually surprised by what a literate bunch of people posts on the comics.
Obviously, all those teachers and educators were dead wrong…
Reading comics made people grow up to be better writers, not illiterate, as they warned.
…
But to get back to the point… Yes, I have one, I do…
A new entry has joined my list of “favorite” internet spelling and grammar horrors…
Along with “Hugh” being used for “huge” on eBay, and worse, “defiantly” seeming to have replaced the proper spelling of “definitely” in YouTube forums and the like.
I’ve now found at last half a dozen examples of an inconsistent spelling…
So inconsistent that it took a couple of instances for me to even figure out from the context what actual word was meant.
Some examples: “Wallah” …. “Wah lah” …. And a few days ago… maybe my favorite… “waaalaaa.” Six A’s!
I do have phun occasionally misspelling some stuphph, but it’s intentional and no, I’m not putting a (sic) after every one.
Just consider me a spelling rebel. Why not? Peepses are making up stupid words all the time. One I saw today on the national days page? … summersgiving even my spell check doesn’t know what it is.
I was trying to figure out if those target circles remained the same size in both pictures (maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, this isn’t a spoiler). It’s like those optical illusion pictures where the background tricks your eye’s into seeing things the wrong size.
On this day in 1998, Windows 98 was released to the public.
Windows 98 requires the following specifications: Processor: A 486DX2/66 MH2 based PC or better is the minimum hardware required for Windows 98,although the more advanced technologies (e.g. video streaming) will not be available. Microsoft strongly suggests that you have a faster processor to insure a more dependable installation. Size: 275 MB of free space on your hard drive. Monitor: VGA or higher-resolution monitor. Drive: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.RAM: Developers of Windows 98 strongly recommend more than 16MB of RAM on your computer.(Although in our experience, using 32MB is required for sanity’s sake.)
I hope y’all have upgraded your computers for such incredible features now available to you.
I’m baaaaacccckkkk! The family has been gone for a full 24 hours. What a fantastic visit! The good news is everyone is planning to come out for Christmas! WooHoo.. Needless to say, we are EXHAUSTED!!! A 2 year old and a 4 year old do me in. Big time. See y’all in the morning. xoxo
Good music tonight! Reminds me of summer at the Jersey Shore. Once a week we had dance night on the tennis courts by the bay. 10 cents or a quarter, I don’t remember. We guys all waited for the slow songs so we could ask girls to dance.
I have nothing against beets.
My diet may not be (read isn’t) the most healthy in this world, but the only major health issue I’ve had in my life occurred about 20 years after I became a recovering smoker (they booted me out of the cancer treatment centre in I think 2007 just because I got better; can you believe that? 🙄 ).
As to:
“Almost all your recipes seem to be long-cooked and loaded with sugar, which is worrying.”
The long-cooked part is a function of the times the cook books themselves were published, so there’s nothing I can do about that
The selection thereof, when I look at them, is probably a function of my sub-conscious combined with my sweet tooth (do you remember my cocoa recipe from back in the “GoComics” days? — and as I said, in part, of Saucy’s fudge: “(I like sweet, and this is at my outside limit)”.
I do try to select the recipe to make at least a tenuous connection with the comic I’m commenting on or someone else’s comment, and, if I’m correct, my sub-conscious tends toward the sweet.
Too, if I don’t specifically say I’ve made the recipe, I haven’t; they’re just part of my comment and, as you know from “GoComics,” some liked them, some detested them, and most were indifferent to them; such is life.
Overall, my health is good.
And seriously: Thank you for caring.
I went back and looked at the recipe and Susan’s comment.
First it is a standard sweet/sour beet recipe from anywhere between the mid 1800s and mid 1900s when all veggies were boiled to death. And they often swam in a sauce like this.
Can easily be made healthier by shortening the cooking time to fork tender and decrease the amount of sauce by half or third just keep that equal parts sugar to vinegar for the right sweet/sour flavor balance. Thickening could also be done using cornstarch or arrowroot – the latter is gluten free if that’s an issue for you. Also has a tad more fiber than the other two. You need to use roughly double because it’s not as strong a thickener but it doesn’t need to boil as it thickens at a lower temp.
.
It’s not good when you see them at that angle.
Who’s a nice kitty?
Milt Kobayashi
Ask and you shall receive…. though I think it was more of a surmise than a request…
Somebody… JP Steve, I’m pretty sure… guessed that this would be the next puzzle.
Careful what you ask for… or suggest…. Steve.
Cos… Voila!
…
Oooh… that reminds me of something….
Ok, I try not to correct people’s spelling or grammar online. After all, there are no educational requirements for posting.
I do think everyone should have a voice, and people shouldn’t mock…
Blah blah and all that pious stuff…
….
But gosh darn it…. There are times I am sooooo tempted.
I have to bite my knuckles and hold myself back…. especially over a few words and phrases that get murdered with great regularity on the internet.
……
Not so much on GoComics or Cleo. I’m actually surprised by what a literate bunch of people posts on the comics.
Obviously, all those teachers and educators were dead wrong…
Reading comics made people grow up to be better writers, not illiterate, as they warned.
…
But to get back to the point… Yes, I have one, I do…
A new entry has joined my list of “favorite” internet spelling and grammar horrors…
Along with “Hugh” being used for “huge” on eBay, and worse, “defiantly” seeming to have replaced the proper spelling of “definitely” in YouTube forums and the like.
I’ve now found at last half a dozen examples of an inconsistent spelling…
So inconsistent that it took a couple of instances for me to even figure out from the context what actual word was meant.
Some examples: “Wallah” …. “Wah lah” …. And a few days ago… maybe my favorite… “waaalaaa.” Six A’s!
….
Got it? I did give you a big hint when I started.
Of course…. it’s “voila!”
Aaaaaggghhhh…..
…
Don’t worry…. I’ll be all right…..
Autocorrect! That’s my excuse! XD
Loved the ‘Nurse Bunny’!!! Thanks.
My pleasure. 🙂
I’ll send the chi walla over with something soothing.
That was my first thought too!
And Walla Walla onions.
I just learned today that Walla Walla Onions exist.
A picture link to a short article on, and one thing you can make with, Walla Walla onions.
They are very sweet.
Especially alongside a good rib eye steak!
I went to hit the like button, and I missed. Anyone know how to undo the unlike button?
I don’t know whether it always works, but a couple of times I “fat-fingered” the thumbs down button, and immediately gave a “like”….
Both buttons were zero again.
It wouldn’t allow me another “like” after that but at least it negated the down vote.
You could still try it and see whether it works after a wait.
It worked!!!! Thanks, Susan.
The weird thing is, I had already “liked” it…
You gave it a thumbs down…
So there were, when I looked at it, one of each.
Now there are zero of each.
If I try to like it, it says I’ve already voted.
Where did MY “like” go?
Ft
sorry. best of intentions………………
I don’t think you did it. Some other weird WordPress thing.
Good to know.
Do they have any connection to Walla Walla, Wash? Or Kalamazoo?
They’re from the Walla Walla valley in Washington.
Around the same time, we get sweet onions from Vidalia, Georgia.
Some day I have to do a taste comparison.
Quoting (bolding mine):
“I’ve now found at last half a dozen examples of an inconsistent spelling…”
Noone spells leased properly anymore either. —
I do have phun occasionally misspelling some stuphph, but it’s intentional and no, I’m not putting a (sic) after every one.
Just consider me a spelling rebel. Why not? Peepses are making up stupid words all the time. One I saw today on the national days page? … summersgiving even my spell check doesn’t know what it is.
I know what you mean. My grammatical pet peeve is “and also.” And it appears everywhere! Even in the NY Times.
Or viola (sigh).
One of my favorites is saying a piece of furniture has 2 draws (drawers).
I saw Martha and the Vandella’s perform that song live…
At a big outdoor concert, among lots of other, newer acts, long after their bandstand days, and supposedly long past their prime…
And I have to tell you… They were electrifying!
Nobody. in a long line-up held the stage or the audience with greater power, and the crowd went nuts.
I got ten so far. I’ll look for eleven tomorrow.
I got ten also. I wonder if they’re the same ten?
I missed an obvious one and mistook a cut-copy-artifact for the eleventh one.
10 for me,too. When I got nine, I thought I had them all……then I noticed we need eleven. Gahhhhhhhh!
So you hope to find 21 altogether?
Had to go back and look at what i said. 😀
I got nine yesterday. Never made it back to look for the other two.
Tuned in today and all 11 were obvious!
And last but not least…
I was actually just stopping by to leave off the solution for any of you early birds who don’t want to wait till after my (yes, rather late)dinner.
Just because it’s here…. It doesn’t mean you don’t have to try.
Do your best… And then…
first time in three weeks I got them all!
I was trying to figure out if those target circles remained the same size in both pictures (maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, this isn’t a spoiler). It’s like those optical illusion pictures where the background tricks your eye’s into seeing things the wrong size.
I think I’ve spent more time checking the sizes of identical objects than I have solving the puzzles!
Got ’em all in record time! (I must have an in with the artist…)
Is there something you want to tell us!
great minds thinking alike
I did! I DID find them all!
On this day in 1998, Windows 98 was released to the public.
Windows 98 requires the following specifications:
Processor: A 486DX2/66 MH2 based PC or better is the minimum hardware required for Windows 98,although the more advanced technologies (e.g. video streaming) will not be available. Microsoft strongly suggests that you have a faster processor to insure a more dependable installation.
Size: 275 MB of free space on your hard drive.
Monitor: VGA or higher-resolution monitor.
Drive: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.RAM:
Developers of Windows 98 strongly recommend more than 16MB of RAM on your computer.(Although in our experience, using 32MB is required for sanity’s sake.)
I hope y’all have upgraded your computers for such incredible features now available to you.
I’m baaaaacccckkkk! The family has been gone for a full 24 hours. What a fantastic visit! The good news is everyone is planning to come out for Christmas! WooHoo.. Needless to say, we are EXHAUSTED!!! A 2 year old and a 4 year old do me in. Big time. See y’all in the morning. xoxo
Glad it went well. But wouldn’t you rather go to San Diego for Christmas?
I’m afraid my long travel days are at a minimum.
Besides, the kids were hoping to ski up here.
Now, if we can find an Airb&b we’ll be fine.
Wow…. San Diego to Montana is a long trip on skis!
…..especially for the children.
Hahahahaha & LOL.
You are in fine form today. Thanks for the laughs!
Nighthawks gave us cranky fans an easy one.
Yes, 2 minutes and 17 seconds. The minutes weren’t minute minutes, by the way, they were the full sized ones.
Good music tonight! Reminds me of summer at the Jersey Shore. Once a week we had dance night on the tennis courts by the bay. 10 cents or a quarter, I don’t remember. We guys all waited for the slow songs so we could ask girls to dance.
(from yesterday)
I have nothing against beets.
My diet may not be (read isn’t) the most healthy in this world, but the only major health issue I’ve had in my life occurred about 20 years after I became a recovering smoker (they booted me out of the cancer treatment centre in I think 2007 just because I got better; can you believe that? 🙄 ).
As to:
“Almost all your recipes seem to be long-cooked and loaded with sugar, which is worrying.”
The long-cooked part is a function of the times the cook books themselves were published, so there’s nothing I can do about that
The selection thereof, when I look at them, is probably a function of my sub-conscious combined with my sweet tooth (do you remember my cocoa recipe from back in the “GoComics” days? — and as I said, in part, of Saucy’s fudge: “(I like sweet, and this is at my outside limit)”.
I do try to select the recipe to make at least a tenuous connection with the comic I’m commenting on or someone else’s comment, and, if I’m correct, my sub-conscious tends toward the sweet.
Too, if I don’t specifically say I’ve made the recipe, I haven’t; they’re just part of my comment and, as you know from “GoComics,” some liked them, some detested them, and most were indifferent to them; such is life.
Overall, my health is good.
And seriously: Thank you for caring.
I went back and looked at the recipe and Susan’s comment.
First it is a standard sweet/sour beet recipe from anywhere between the mid 1800s and mid 1900s when all veggies were boiled to death. And they often swam in a sauce like this.
Can easily be made healthier by shortening the cooking time to fork tender and decrease the amount of sauce by half or third just keep that equal parts sugar to vinegar for the right sweet/sour flavor balance. Thickening could also be done using cornstarch or arrowroot – the latter is gluten free if that’s an issue for you. Also has a tad more fiber than the other two. You need to use roughly double because it’s not as strong a thickener but it doesn’t need to boil as it thickens at a lower temp.
let me say that I welcome your recipes and anything else you feel would be a cool post.
keep ’em comin’, Alex!
Keep those recipes coming!
congratulations on your recovery, just had a friend pass from uterine cancer
Good morning, Cleo Army!
Looks like a phun time to me. Not so much for the EWC.
NATIONAL BARCODE DAY
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE PUDDING DAY
NATIONAL COCONUT DAY
NATIONAL BEAUTICIAN’S DAY
Y’all get your hair done. (((((HuGz!)))))
COCONUT cream pie
Got them ALL!
(I need to check Susan’s answers to make sure. Last time I found the correct number, but some apparently weren’t supposed to count).
Maybe this one will do…
I got eleven! Thanks for giving us an easy puzzle, NH. Fun.
I finally got the last one.
Yay!