Random Acts of Kindness: another feel-good video! Keep ’em comin’, Nighthawks!
(BTW, I try to do my part, as well! Last night, I spent almost an hour trying to fish out a small frog from the pool. I knew that if I didn’t, he’d be dead by morning. But, WOW! Are they FAST!!! I finally got him, though, and watched him hop away! A lot of critters, especially baby critters, end up in the pool, and I’m constantly on the look-out!)
episode: “The Rothman Disintegration” (The Big Bang Theory)
“Sheldon and Kripke go to the gym and try to play basketball. The first one to hit a free throw wins.
Forty-five minutes later no one has made one so they decide whoever bounces the ball highest gets the office.
Sheldon wins and gets the office.”
Young Girl is just another disgusting blame-the-victim song about underage temptresses. The 60s have a lot to answer for. And yet this kind of song continues to get played on 60s radio stations.
A few weeks ago I remarked about “Travelin” Man… with a “girl” in every port,,,
The other night we had “Leaving on a Jet Plane” …
lyrics, basically: “I’m going to go off for an unspecified period (possibly on tour) have a wild time, and have numerous …um… let’s call them romantic exploits…
you wait here faithfully to marry me, if and when I come back.”
…
The misogynistic era of male rock gods and their macho lyrics.
And if, as a woman, you said anything about it…
or about having to make the coffee and listen to crude remarks about your physical assets,…
you weren’t being a good sport.
…
Sometimes it’s still that way.
I’m absolutely no prude…
but when it comes to that aspect of the “free” lifestyle…
Had you asked me where I thought a Late Stone Age cave person would have placed a rock, in order to have cleave it by pounding it with a stronger rock…
I might have imagined a stone ledge, maybe even a Flintstones style rock work bench…
or maybe on the ground, or on a flat tree stump.
—
Tough piece of leather notwithstanding…
I think last on the list would be in his lap.
Yikes.
…..
Also… I see from this how easily a flint or obsidian blade is split and worked by the craftsman’s stone tools…
I wonder how long it holds up in a Neolithic grocery store…
MMM and I celebrated 59 years tonight from the night we met! I had played volleyball with the CYO club in Van Nuys, CA, every Wednesay night in the summer, and MMM was new here from Pittsburgh as a rocket scientist. His room mate brought him to the game, and the rest is history…… Turns out his room mate was chosen to be the best man 2 years later.
Fats Domino came to the plains of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming when we
were making Any Which Way You Can. He started playing one of his songs,
“I Want to Walk You Home,” on a grand piano. All of a sudden everyone
stopped and looked over the side of the hill and there were about ten elk.
They were all standing there with their heads tilted to where the sounds
were coming from — as soon as Fats stopped playing, they left. They
were fascinated.
Clint Eastwood
“THE HOUSE OF CHAN COOKBOOK”
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N. Y.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-5543 Copyright, 1952, by Sou Chan
PORK CHOP SUEY
3 tablespoons cooking oil
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 pound pork shoulder, cut in small cubes
2 1/2 tablespoons soya sauce
3 cups celery, cut in 1-inch lengths
2 big onions, each cut in 6 pieces
1 tablespoon molasses
2 cups boiling water or stock
(stock recipe inside {{{ ……. }}} below
{{{ Bones of 1 chicken, Seven cups water, salt (to taste, but it’s better to go light and add extra
later, if wanted) Cover bones with cold water. Cover the kettle and cook slowly, over
low heat, 1 to 1 ½ hours. Let it cool; skim fat from top. Reheat stock and use with rice or noodles, or in other recipes. Makes 4 to 6 cups. Note: Leftover turkey bones may be used in
place of chicken. }}} )
1 can or 2 cups fresh bean sprouts, rinsed and drained
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water
Have ready a large, heavy skillet or pot. Heat the oil, salt, and pepper together. Add pork; sear. Stir 5 or 8 minutes. Add soya sauce; mix. Add celery and onions; stir and cook 3 or 4 minutes. Mix molasses and boiling water or stock and pour over the mixture; stir. Cover and cook over low heat 20 or 30 minutes. Add bean sprouts; stir and cook 2 or 3 minutes. Mix cornstarch with cold water; stir into the Chop Suey; mix and cook till the sauce is thickened. Serve with hot rice. 4 to 6 servings.
SHRIMP CHOP SUEY
Substitute 2 cups chopped cooked or canned shrimp in place of beef in the Beef Chop Suey recipe. BEEF CHOP SUEY
Substitute beef for pork in Pork Chop Suey. Cook beef in the hot oil 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the meat. Add celery and onions to oil, soya sauce, molasses, and boiling water or stock; stir and cook 10 minutes. Add sprouts; stir and cook 2 or 3 minutes. Add beef. Mix cornstarch and water; stir into the Chop Suey; mix and cook till the sauce is thickened. Serve with hot rice. 4 to 6 servings. FISH CHOP SUEY
Substitute fillet of pike or sea bass, cut in small cubes, for the beef in Beef Chop Suey recipe. Add 1 or 2 thin slices green ginger, if you have it, to the oil, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet. VEAL CHOP SUEY
Substitute veal for pork in the Pork Chop Suey recipe.
From the book’s introduction: “When I landed at Seattle, Washington, in 1928 from China, all my aim was in hoping someday I can run a restaurant of my own somewhere in this country.”
His New York Times Obituary / He succeeded
SOU CHAN, FOUNDER OF RESTAURANT, 69
Feb. 25, 1978
Credit…The New York Times Archives
Sou Chan, the founder and owner of the House of Chan restaurant in Manhattan, died Thursday of cancer. He was 69 years old.
Born in a small village in Canton, China, Mr. Chan arrived in this country in 1928 at the age of 19. He found a job as a dishwasher in Conquille, Ore., where he met a schoolteacher who taught him English.
In 1935, Mr. Chan came to New York City and worked as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant on Fourteenth Street for $1.50 a day and tips. Then he purchased a rundown truck and sold meat to Chinese restaurants.
By 1938 he had used all his savings to start the House of Chan at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 52d Street, where it is still situated. A warm, friendly person with an engaging smile and way of speaking, Mr. Chan
soon built his restaurant into a popular and successful dining place.
Life Story Presented on Radio
Deeply grateful to his adopted land, Mr. Chan spoke out often on what America meant to him, and his life story was dramatized on a national radio network program in the late 1940’s.
In 1949, he received a Freedom Foundation award for “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.”
In an interview in 1951 in connection with an address he gave at a Brooklyn College function, Mr. Chan said:
“Americans take too much for granted. They do not appreciate what they have. Everything here is as free as the air, but nowhere else is it like this.”
After a year-long search. Mr. Chan located the schoolteacher who had taught him English 20 years earlier and brought her to New York City to spend Christmas with his family.
Mr. Chan is survived by his wife, Viola; son, Stanley, and a daughter, Beverly.
Mr. Chan had asked that, instead of flowers, donations be sent to the Citizens Campaign for New Approaches to Cancer, in Quogue, N. Y..
You got me curious so I searched Chop Suey recipes. Yow, they can get very complicated. I like this video for the detail on prepping the veggies, but I don’t think I will make it unless I can hire a prep cook.
Random Acts of Kindness: another feel-good video! Keep ’em comin’, Nighthawks!
(BTW, I try to do my part, as well! Last night, I spent almost an hour trying to fish out a small frog from the pool. I knew that if I didn’t, he’d be dead by morning. But, WOW! Are they FAST!!! I finally got him, though, and watched him hop away! A lot of critters, especially baby critters, end up in the pool, and I’m constantly on the look-out!)
Brava!
great stories. Thanks!
Woohoo! Well done
I posted this late on Puzzle Day, so some of you may have missed it.
He’s adorable, cuddly and funny and his family will have many years of joy with him, as a Wombat’s life expectancy is a good 30 years!
I wasn’t able to open it yesterday, so I am glad you reposted it! What a funny little pet!
…
…and here’s a link to the same Sam Kass and his game variation mentioned in the video:
http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html
I vaguely remember the following scene in which they are playing some sport that they both are bad at. Ping pong? Basketball?
@Dennis: I found this to answer your question:
episode: “The Rothman Disintegration” (The Big Bang Theory)
“Sheldon and Kripke go to the gym and try to play basketball. The first one to hit a free throw wins.
Forty-five minutes later no one has made one so they decide whoever bounces the ball highest gets the office.
Sheldon wins and gets the office.”
from: https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rothman_Disintegration
And, I also found this very weird depiction of the Kass Variation:
extremely creepy is what that is
And,THAT, from the King of Creepy!!!
Yes, I remember it now! Thanks.
Young Girl is just another disgusting blame-the-victim song about underage temptresses. The 60s have a lot to answer for. And yet this kind of song continues to get played on 60s radio stations.
A few weeks ago I remarked about “Travelin” Man… with a “girl” in every port,,,
The other night we had “Leaving on a Jet Plane” …
lyrics, basically: “I’m going to go off for an unspecified period (possibly on tour) have a wild time, and have numerous …um… let’s call them romantic exploits…
you wait here faithfully to marry me, if and when I come back.”
…
The misogynistic era of male rock gods and their macho lyrics.
And if, as a woman, you said anything about it…
or about having to make the coffee and listen to crude remarks about your physical assets,…
you weren’t being a good sport.
…
Sometimes it’s still that way.
I’m absolutely no prude…
but when it comes to that aspect of the “free” lifestyle…
No thanks.
My mama raised me better and dad enforces it.
King of the Misogynist songs: _Lightning Striking Again_
i never paid attention to the lyrics until you mentioned it several weeks ago. good call!
I went looking for the lyrics to “Young Girl,” because I didn’t really remember them. While looking I came across…
…THIS,…
…I kind of think the author agrees with you. —
OMG….. just too, too much!!! thanks for the enlightenment!
Think so?
That was a hammer stone.
Not having really studied the neolithic period,,,
Had you asked me where I thought a Late Stone Age cave person would have placed a rock, in order to have cleave it by pounding it with a stronger rock…
I might have imagined a stone ledge, maybe even a Flintstones style rock work bench…
or maybe on the ground, or on a flat tree stump.
—
Tough piece of leather notwithstanding…
I think last on the list would be in his lap.
Yikes.
…..
Also… I see from this how easily a flint or obsidian blade is split and worked by the craftsman’s stone tools…
I wonder how long it holds up in a Neolithic grocery store…
ie, a herd of cattle.
…
Thank you for the JB again. 🙂
MMM and I celebrated 59 years tonight from the night we met! I had played volleyball with the CYO club in Van Nuys, CA, every Wednesay night in the summer, and MMM was new here from Pittsburgh as a rocket scientist. His room mate brought him to the game, and the rest is history…… Turns out his room mate was chosen to be the best man 2 years later.
Wow, a happy celebration for you two! MMM is a lucky guy!
Congratulations!
Gosh.
One of the hardest things for me is realising that 59 years ago it was already 1962.
Noting in my lifetime should be 59 years ago.
In a few years I will have have graduated from high school before I was born.
My baby brother was born in 1962. I won’t say how old I was then…
Congratulations, Montana Lady.
Grats to you both!
That’s great! Wonderful memories to share!
thanks for ALL your good wishes! i’ts been a wonderful time
Hey!
You can easily answer that movie tagline.
“I was dating my future husband in Van Nuys” (or some variation thereof).
Congratulations.
And, I bet those 59 years have just flown by, too!! I wish you both many more wonderful years to come!
love to both of you ♥♥♥
Stel
Fats Domino came to the plains of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming when we
were making Any Which Way You Can. He started playing one of his songs,
“I Want to Walk You Home,” on a grand piano. All of a sudden everyone
stopped and looked over the side of the hill and there were about ten elk.
They were all standing there with their heads tilted to where the sounds
were coming from — as soon as Fats stopped playing, they left. They
were fascinated.
Clint Eastwood
very nice.
Hah! They even seem to enjoy the sour notes, as well! Love it!!
Great video!
great story!
If I had watched Cleo demolish a table in front of me with a big rock….
I don’t think I’d be bringing up the damages just right now, Claude.
It’s Bam Bam!
Good point!
Gotta love it. Rock always wins….snerks
Good morning Cleo maniacs!
Quick hit the smallest little is here.
Y’all be safe. (((((HuGz!)))))
From:
“THE HOUSE OF CHAN COOKBOOK”
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N. Y.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-5543 Copyright, 1952, by Sou Chan
PORK CHOP SUEY
3 tablespoons cooking oil
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 pound pork shoulder, cut in small cubes
2 1/2 tablespoons soya sauce
3 cups celery, cut in 1-inch lengths
2 big onions, each cut in 6 pieces
1 tablespoon molasses
2 cups boiling water or stock
(stock recipe inside {{{ ……. }}} below
{{{ Bones of 1 chicken, Seven cups water, salt (to taste, but it’s better to go light and add extra
later, if wanted) Cover bones with cold water. Cover the kettle and cook slowly, over
low heat, 1 to 1 ½ hours. Let it cool; skim fat from top. Reheat stock and use with rice or noodles, or in other recipes. Makes 4 to 6 cups. Note: Leftover turkey bones may be used in
place of chicken. }}} )
1 can or 2 cups fresh bean sprouts, rinsed and drained
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water
Have ready a large, heavy skillet or pot. Heat the oil, salt, and pepper together. Add pork; sear. Stir 5 or 8 minutes. Add soya sauce; mix. Add celery and onions; stir and cook 3 or 4 minutes. Mix molasses and boiling water or stock and pour over the mixture; stir. Cover and cook over low heat 20 or 30 minutes. Add bean sprouts; stir and cook 2 or 3 minutes. Mix cornstarch with cold water; stir into the Chop Suey; mix and cook till the sauce is thickened. Serve with hot rice. 4 to 6 servings.
SHRIMP CHOP SUEY
Substitute 2 cups chopped cooked or canned shrimp in place of beef in the Beef Chop Suey recipe.
BEEF CHOP SUEY
Substitute beef for pork in Pork Chop Suey. Cook beef in the hot oil 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the meat. Add celery and onions to oil, soya sauce, molasses, and boiling water or stock; stir and cook 10 minutes. Add sprouts; stir and cook 2 or 3 minutes. Add beef. Mix cornstarch and water; stir into the Chop Suey; mix and cook till the sauce is thickened. Serve with hot rice. 4 to 6 servings.
FISH CHOP SUEY
Substitute fillet of pike or sea bass, cut in small cubes, for the beef in Beef Chop Suey recipe. Add 1 or 2 thin slices green ginger, if you have it, to the oil, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet.
VEAL CHOP SUEY
Substitute veal for pork in the Pork Chop Suey recipe.
From the book’s introduction:
“When I landed at Seattle, Washington, in 1928 from
China, all my aim was in hoping someday I can run a
restaurant of my own somewhere in this country.”
Feb. 25, 1978
Credit…The New York Times Archives
Sou Chan, the founder and owner of the House of Chan restaurant in Manhattan, died Thursday of cancer. He was 69 years old.
Born in a small village in Canton, China, Mr. Chan arrived in this country in 1928 at the age of 19. He found a job as a dishwasher in Conquille, Ore., where he met a schoolteacher who taught him English.
In 1935, Mr. Chan came to New York City and worked as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant on Fourteenth Street for $1.50 a day and tips. Then he purchased a rundown truck and sold meat to Chinese restaurants.
By 1938 he had used all his savings to start the House of Chan at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 52d Street, where it is still situated. A warm, friendly person with an engaging smile and way of speaking, Mr. Chan
soon built his restaurant into a popular and successful dining place.
Life Story Presented on Radio
Deeply grateful to his adopted land, Mr. Chan spoke out often on what America meant to him, and his life story was dramatized on a national radio network program in the late 1940’s.
In 1949, he received a Freedom Foundation award for “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.”
In an interview in 1951 in connection with an address he gave at a Brooklyn College function, Mr. Chan said:
“Americans take too much for granted. They do not appreciate what they have. Everything here is as free as the air, but nowhere else is it like this.”
After a year-long search. Mr. Chan located the schoolteacher who had taught him English 20 years earlier and brought her to New York City to spend Christmas with his family.
Mr. Chan is survived by his wife, Viola; son, Stanley, and a daughter, Beverly.
Mr. Chan had asked that, instead of flowers, donations be sent to the Citizens Campaign for New Approaches to Cancer, in Quogue, N. Y..
Nice simple recipe. but I think these days we can find more interesting veggies for this dish.
You got me curious so I searched Chop Suey recipes. Yow, they can get very complicated. I like this video for the detail on prepping the veggies, but I don’t think I will make it unless I can hire a prep cook.
.
tomorrow nite’s dinner
Claude, pick up that rock and see what it can do to Cleo’s food bowl.
good idea.