So beautiful and majestic I want them to keep it running forever. Yet so smoky and noisy that it should be retired. I can see hiking the pristine mountains and watching the train pass below. The joy it would bring with wind blowing the smoke away and the misery of soot in the the eyes and the lingering stench over the camp if the wind is light and towards you. Wow, such mixed feelings.
I already cut it out. Thanks for the …um… warning?
You wouldn’t mock me… I mean, would you?
…
You’re right, The landing gear is tricky to put together…
but the worst part is that “Cleo and Company” is leaking out all over my laptop keyboard, from the big holes I now have in the screen.
Do you have any monitor tape?
…
The hardest thing to cut out, btw, isn’t the landing gear, I think, but that gun, the one that says “Lewis MG”…
They printed it way up by the picture of the plane, at the top of the page.
I think you’re supposed to fold it in half and attach it where the arrow shows.
I haven’t tried to cut it out yet, though, cos I don’t think I really want a weapon on my model, so why make more holes for the Cliffords to fall through?
That yellow background is getting all over the place, as it is.
I’m glad there’s no syrup yet in the strip.
What kind of bacon is usual in Canada now, if not streaky?
I didn’t think everybody there ate back bacon.
In the US, pretty much all the bacon is streaky… you kinda have to look for the leanest package. But we don’t call it streaky here… just “bacon”.
We call back bacon “Canadian bacon”. It’s just the round, loin part… and very expensive. We don’t have the peameal kind.
Come to think of it I haven’t seen any for a while… but then, I haven’t actually looked.
…
Anyway, I hate to say it, but no two of those ingredients, above, seem to belong in the same recipe.
Bacon cooked in lemon juice?
…
A prawn would be completely ruined, put in the oven for the time it takes to cook a rolled up slice of bacon, and the bacon, itself, would be boiled, instead of brown or crisp, if “baked” in all that liquid.
Curry powder is usually cooked first in a little hot fat, like ghee or oil, then the other ingredients are added to the pan, for a curry.
It’s not used dry as a coating. and enough of it to coat all the prawns would be way too much anyway..
Sometimes I wonder whether these cartoon guys ever test or taste the ideas they come up with.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen back bacon or peameal bacon in a standard supermarket.
I’ve never purchased either at a butcher shop either (I use butcher shops for lamb chops….mmmmmm / I’ll have to re-post my favourite recipe for that / I made it at Christmas)
This quote….
“Canadian bacon” or “Canadian-style bacon” is the term commonly used in the United States for a form of back bacon that is cured, smoked and fully cooked, trimmed into cylindrical medallions, and sliced thick.[3][4] The name was created when this product was first imported from Toronto to New York City. “Canadian” bacon is made only from the lean eye of the loin and is ready to eat. Its flavor is described as more ham-like than other types because of its lean cut.[4] The term “Canadian bacon” is not used in Canada, where the product is generally known simply as “back bacon” while “bacon” alone refers to the same streaky pork belly bacon as in the United States.[4] Peameal bacon is a variety of back bacon popular in Ontario where the loin is wet cured before being rolled in cornmeal (originally yellow pea meal); it is unsmoked.[3]
Reading the recipe over, it is a “per-serving” recipe.
A romantic appetizer for two would need sufficient curry powder to coat 12 prawns, 1 lemon cut in half, six rashers (slices) of bacon cut in half, and twelve ounces of wine.
It will also require being put on the top oven rack so the bacon cooks in the time alloted.
The wine keeps the prawns from overcooking.
I don’t know what your source was, but I was using the internet.
Given the conflict in our definitions I went to another respected source.
Its definition corrects both of ours.
From:
The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Published by: Oxford University Press (1998)
ISBN 0-19-861263-X
rasher ► noun a thin slice of bacon.
— ORIGIN late 16th cent: of unknown origin.
Thanks for the memories of mom. There is another memory associated with this march as well. When I started grade school in Ardsley, NY this was the music they played when they ushered us in for assemblies. I’ve like it ever since. We moved between 3rd & 4th grade and I rarely heard the tune again.
When I hear a song with good voices, a great melody, and powerful instrumentation, I like it, regardless of the words. Sweet did an awesome sounding song with perhaps the worst words ever (excluding hate speech). Check out Wig-Wam Bam. I admit I have it on my i-Tunes playlist, but can’t bring myself to link it here. 🙂
I, a full grown adult male, was giggling by the first chorus.
I’ve put the video and lyrics in this spoiler box because I can see that others might find ‘Wig Wam Bam’ ( wam deliberately mispronounced in the song so it fits with’ ..…thank-you……’) a bit uncomfortable.
But I didn’t see anything truly untoward; even the outrageous costuming in the video is comparable to ‘The Village Peoples’ stylings.
As I see it the Sweet song spoofs a famous poem, and a late fifties pop hit composed, I find, by The Big Bopper. Anyway, here it is (I agree that the music is great!).
Wig Wam Bam
Song by Sweet
Hiawatha didn’t bother too much
About Minnehaha and her tender touch
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
Then she whispered words like he’d never heard
That made him all shudder inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam
Running Bear never cared enough
About Little White Dove and her tender love
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
She told him all about what he couldn’t live without
And made him all weak inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam
Hiawatha didn’t bother too much
About Minnehaha and her tender touch
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
Then she whispered words like he’d never heard
That made him all shudder inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam, and she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
My daughter laughs at me when she catches me listening to that. 🙂
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
At my “Wellness Check” recently, they gave me an address to remember, then asked 4 or 5 other questions, then asked for the address. I think Claude would have failed that one.
,,
,
For a moment thought that it was one of those photo mutants that electronic photography sometimes makes. Have you seen the centipede cat meme yet?
For just a wee moment, I thought, with some horror, that it was a REAL mutant, like life sometimes makes.
My “whew” was almost audible!
two NOSES!
Large ones too!
.
Here it is in action.
So beautiful and majestic I want them to keep it running forever. Yet so smoky and noisy that it should be retired. I can see hiking the pristine mountains and watching the train pass below. The joy it would bring with wind blowing the smoke away and the misery of soot in the the eyes and the lingering stench over the camp if the wind is light and towards you. Wow, such mixed feelings.
Well put.
you are a poet
I’m so mentally messed up by cartoons that I expected that train to split and come back together farther down the line.
Is it the Midnight Express??!
Oooh, is the Midnight Express coming back?
only if you want it to
I always want it to.
And all the other series… er… serieses(?)
magnificent!!
.
Looks like he’s asleep, like my grandkids. He’ll feel incredibly heavy in a short time.
To me, he already looks incredibly heavy right now.
Ooooff!
Sometimes even a tough-looking bulldog just needs a hug.
,
good luck with the landing gear, Susan!
I already cut it out. Thanks for the …um… warning?
You wouldn’t mock me… I mean, would you?
…
You’re right, The landing gear is tricky to put together…
but the worst part is that “Cleo and Company” is leaking out all over my laptop keyboard, from the big holes I now have in the screen.
Do you have any monitor tape?
…
The hardest thing to cut out, btw, isn’t the landing gear, I think, but that gun, the one that says “Lewis MG”…
They printed it way up by the picture of the plane, at the top of the page.
I think you’re supposed to fold it in half and attach it where the arrow shows.
I haven’t tried to cut it out yet, though, cos I don’t think I really want a weapon on my model, so why make more holes for the Cliffords to fall through?
That yellow background is getting all over the place, as it is.
I’m glad there’s no syrup yet in the strip.
Its real life specifications and history.
LINK
cool stuff!
You too can be a World War I flying ace.
Ya realize, that’s just paper dolls for boys. 🙂
of course! always loved those things though, can’t help it.
,
,
,
Yes! I have a package to nom tomorrow!
Yes!
It may still be so in Britain, but no longer in Canada, that everyday bacon is “streaky”.
A rasher is one or more strip(s) of bacon.
MY CURRY POWDER MIX IS STILL HERE / AND YOU CAN STILL BURN YOUR TONGUE IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT.
Again: What a waste of good ingredients.
What kind of bacon is usual in Canada now, if not streaky?
I didn’t think everybody there ate back bacon.
In the US, pretty much all the bacon is streaky… you kinda have to look for the leanest package. But we don’t call it streaky here… just “bacon”.
We call back bacon “Canadian bacon”. It’s just the round, loin part… and very expensive. We don’t have the peameal kind.
Come to think of it I haven’t seen any for a while… but then, I haven’t actually looked.
…
Anyway, I hate to say it, but no two of those ingredients, above, seem to belong in the same recipe.
Bacon cooked in lemon juice?
…
A prawn would be completely ruined, put in the oven for the time it takes to cook a rolled up slice of bacon, and the bacon, itself, would be boiled, instead of brown or crisp, if “baked” in all that liquid.
Curry powder is usually cooked first in a little hot fat, like ghee or oil, then the other ingredients are added to the pan, for a curry.
It’s not used dry as a coating. and enough of it to coat all the prawns would be way too much anyway..
Sometimes I wonder whether these cartoon guys ever test or taste the ideas they come up with.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen back bacon or peameal bacon in a standard supermarket.
I’ve never purchased either at a butcher shop either (I use butcher shops for lamb chops….mmmmmm / I’ll have to re-post my favourite recipe for that / I made it at Christmas)
“Canadian bacon” or “Canadian-style bacon” is the term commonly used in the United States for a
form of back bacon that is cured, smoked and fully cooked, trimmed into cylindrical medallions, and
sliced thick.[3][4] The name was created when this product was first imported from Toronto to New
York City. “Canadian” bacon is made only from the lean eye of the loin and is ready to eat. Its flavor is
described as more ham-like than other types because of its lean cut.[4]
The term “Canadian bacon” is not used in Canada, where the product is generally known simply as
“back bacon” while “bacon” alone refers to the same streaky pork belly bacon as in the United
States.[4] Peameal bacon is a variety of back bacon popular in Ontario where the loin is wet cured
before being rolled in cornmeal (originally yellow pea meal); it is unsmoked.[3]
…. COMES FROM HERE (there’s pictures too).
Reading the recipe over, it is a “per-serving” recipe.
A romantic appetizer for two would need sufficient curry powder to coat 12 prawns, 1 lemon cut in half, six rashers (slices) of bacon cut in half, and twelve ounces of wine.
It will also require being put on the top oven rack so the bacon cooks in the time alloted.
The wine keeps the prawns from overcooking.
But the prawns’ delicious taste would be ruined.
Toss that recipe.
As I said…
I seem to recall that the official definition of “Rasher” was four slices.
I don’t know what your source was, but I was using the internet.
Given the conflict in our definitions I went to another respected source.
Its definition corrects both of ours.
From:
The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Published by: Oxford University Press (1998)
ISBN 0-19-861263-X
rasher ► noun a thin slice of bacon.
— ORIGIN late 16th cent: of unknown origin.
Thanks for the memories of mom. There is another memory associated with this march as well. When I started grade school in Ardsley, NY this was the music they played when they ushered us in for assemblies. I’ve like it ever since. We moved between 3rd & 4th grade and I rarely heard the tune again.
Wow, Little Willie too. This is a favorite too.
Wafles! With fried chicken!
I’ve liked this one from the first time I heard it (YouTube seems to be building advertisements into everything these days).
Great song. The Sweet made a lot of good music.
When I hear a song with good voices, a great melody, and powerful instrumentation, I like it, regardless of the words. Sweet did an awesome sounding song with perhaps the worst words ever (excluding hate speech). Check out Wig-Wam Bam. I admit I have it on my i-Tunes playlist, but can’t bring myself to link it here. 🙂
I’ve put the video and lyrics in this spoiler box because I can see that others might find ‘Wig Wam Bam’ ( wam deliberately mispronounced in the song so it fits with’ ..…thank-you……’) a bit uncomfortable.
But I didn’t see anything truly untoward; even the outrageous costuming in the video is comparable to ‘The Village Peoples’ stylings.
As I see it the Sweet song spoofs a famous poem, and a late fifties pop hit composed, I find, by The Big Bopper. Anyway, here it is (I agree that the music is great!).
Wig Wam Bam
Song by Sweet
Hiawatha didn’t bother too much
About Minnehaha and her tender touch
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
Then she whispered words like he’d never heard
That made him all shudder inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam
Running Bear never cared enough
About Little White Dove and her tender love
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
She told him all about what he couldn’t live without
And made him all weak inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam
Wig-wam, bam sham-a-lam
Wam bam, bam sham-a-lam
Wig-wam, bam sham-a-lam
Wam bam, bam sham-a-lam
Hiawatha didn’t bother too much
About Minnehaha and her tender touch
‘Til she took him to the silver stream
Then she whispered words like he’d never heard
That made him all shudder inside when she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam bam, and she said
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
Just try a little wig-wam
Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man
Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can
Wig-wam bam, wanna make you understand
Try a little touch, try a little too much
P51Strega: “…but i can’t bring myself to link it here.”
Alexikakos: “Challenge accepted!”
Thanks guys! 😀
My daughter laughs at me when she catches me listening to that. 🙂
At my “Wellness Check” recently, they gave me an address to remember, then asked 4 or 5 other questions, then asked for the address. I think Claude would have failed that one.
LOL, at no point in my life would I pass that test.
me too!
I still remember it! I must have put it in a special place in my brain.
Be kind to your web footed friends…
for that duck may be somebody’s mother…
Somehow I missed Taco. Tough to compare with Young Frankenstein.” As for Little Willy, I won’t touch it.
Sad news about Plods and Patsnozzle. Sorry to hear it. THAT”S ENOUGH! The rest of you take care of yourselves!
Hey, how about StelBel’s address?
A long time ago, she invited us all for pancakes… she even put a banner in the street so we could find her house.
I think that sounds good right now…
Hey, Stel… how’s Thursday looking for you?
Sure…..I’m still waitin’ for everybody! The griddle is hot and there’s plenty of maple syrup!
I’ll be there!
The flags of the United States combined with Sousa’s Life.
The flag at his birth in 1854 (31 stars)
The two versions extant in1880 when Sousa became the leader of the Marine Band.
Adopted in 1877 (38 stars)
1889 (4) and 1890 (1) saw the 1890 flag as this (43 stars).
The 1891 flag which held until his retirement as leader in 1892 (44 stars)
The 1896 flag was the one that replaced his “retirement flag” and the flag under which Sousa wrote “The Stars and Stripes Forever (45 stars)” .
The flag at his death in 1932 (48 stars)
RESEARCH AND IMAGE SOURCE (for flags only / birth and death researched elsewhere)
Claude shouldn’t use ‘food association’ when trying to remember anything ~ he is easily distracted.
such a simple address to remember, Claude. we know your mind was elsewhere, but come on!!!
That’s pretty neat. How come no one is on the bridge. My grandson lives in Portland.
Okay ~ went back and saw a bus and someone jogging.
Cleo is all over that pancake idea. And I mean literally. Like white on rice.