It looks “empty” ‘compared to American pizza, but hey, they invented it.
Everyone I know who’s been to Italy has said it’s absolutely delicious. Very fresh sauce, fresh mozzarella, and just-made dough.
They do have some other toppings, but they think the way we do it, piled with different things, is weird. They’ve never heard of the pepperoni we get… Pepperoni in Italian are little hot peppers, not sausage.
You get your own pizza, on your own plate. It’s not cut up to share.
In spite of the poster the other day, in most places in Italy you don’t walk around eating a slice of pizza, or any food. Street food means you go sit some place and eat it, often at a table, on a plate, with a fork.
And not in historic locations like the Spanish Steps or a famous plaza or fountain… you get a ticket.
Aah, where’s the imagination? Pizza’s such a blank canvas. I’m sure there are some Salvador Dalis and Antoni Gaudis out there to push the boundaries instead of just burning some bread and putting some squashed tomatoes and a little bit of string cheese on it. Where’s the escargot? The calamari? There has to be some pineapple in there somewhere…. {^¿*}
Okay, it almost got me… I’m pretty gullible, and the Ad Council logo looks legit… but I couldn’t believe a legitimate anti drug poster would mention Satan.
Then I noticed something else that makes no sense.
In tiny print I can barely make out it seems to say, “If you or someone you know is addicted to marijuana, call Domino’s at 215-712-1000, rent a tape and enjoy!”
Addicted to marijuana?? I wasn’t sure it said Domino’s… But ??
So I googled the phone number… And it’s still the actual number of a Domino’s Pizza in Philadelphia.
But there was also a link mentioning that very quote, which led to a Reuters Fact Checking site… they were talking about a different poster, so apparently there’s more than one.
But they all have that line, with Domino’s phone number, and the logo of the Ad Council.
My English friends… my age, but I suppose we’re considered “older” these days.. call every cookie and cracker a biscuit, whether savory or sweet.
But I’ve noticed that some imported packages that used to say biscuits now say cookies or crackers, accordingly.
I’ve wondered whether that’s because they were packed for the US market, or because they’re called that now in the UK.
I’ve also heard younger English people say cookies in YouTube clips… so far never crackers.
You probably know that over here, cookies are sweet, and most crackers are savory… with the odd exception of animal crackers, which are actually cookies, and graham crackers, which were originally sold as health food.
I think no one ever wanted to admit that either were actually sweets. When I worked in a preschool, we gave the kids animal crackers or graham crackers at “snack time”, but they wouldn’t have dreamt of giving them chip cookies.
Over here, too, cupcakes are sweeter than muffins, which they resemble, and have icing, which muffins don’t. But we also have “English muffins”… unknown in the UK, but a bit similar to scones. Sort of.
English Muffins are a bread item, unlike scones, which are a cake. I like English Muffins, I used to be able to get ‘Oven Bottom Muffins’ which were larger and softer than traditional EM’s, and really good. Sliced in half, toasted, and spread with (Real) butter and either peanut butter or Marmite, great for breakfast 🙂
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Fun Fact!
Here in the UK, the legal definition of whether an item is a cake or a biscuit; is when it goes stale, a biscuit will go soft, and a cake will go hard.
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I’ve noticed a lot of American definitions creeping into UK English, mainly due to the popularity of YooToobe, and it’s domination by US content creators. It’s a numbers thing.
Traditional recipes for. American English muffins and British crumpets and scones involve “baking” all of them in metal rings, set on a griddle, which you may call a girdle, on the stove top.
We also have biscuits, which are breadlike, baked in the oven, but raised with baking powder, not yeast.
I have to admit that we almost universally buy commercially made English muffins in a package.
I’ve never seen our biscuits for sale in a store. They’re home made and don’t keep well.
Oh… Yeah… except fried chicken places do make and sell a fresh version.
My English friends came here 50 to almost 60 years ago, and none that I ever discussed it with had ever heard of an English muffin. It did come up in conversation, because they thought it was funny.
I don’t know what’s going on in the gif (nothing new for me) … Maybe some kind of AI or projected AR exhibit?
But I looked up Luoyang. It’s a historic city, famous for being “one of the cradles of Chinese civilization”, full of museums, parks, and ancient architecture.
But the real-life pictures of them, and also the film, I think make it look longer ago than it was.
Their escape over the border was in the early 20th century, and the “safety bicycle” with a chain and pneumatic tires was a new fad.
Part of the plot was that they were.old fashioned outlaws, becoming outdated
I remember reading that they used a vintage bike… I don’t know whether it was actually from that time, or a bit newer… and Newman was actually better at riding it than his stunt double, so he did most of it himself.
Dick Van Patten,Erik Estrada,Jimmy Walker, Dan Haggerty Valerie Bertinelli, Melissa Gilbert, Scott Baio, Kristy McNichol Gary Burghoff, Joyce DeWitt, Cloris Leachman & Dick Clark
I tried to get here a little earlier, but I was having a weird problem with the site… though I think there’s a good chance it wasn’t caused by WordPress (not something you’ll hear me say very often!) but by my tablet or my Internet.
The page would open, and show the top part: strip, or in this case, puzzle, and the videos… but no comments, and no way to post.
I kept coming back every so often… And here we are!
Just in time, too!
Sam Basset has a gun pointed right at Miss Behave!
What has she ever done to deserve that?
Oh… wait… I remember!
Yeah, he’s right.
He’s gonna send her up.
And she deserves it.
While we wait for the police to arrive, try looking around his apartment. I could swear things are changing right in front of us!
Two panels, not quite the same.
I bet you’ll see nine differences!
Took a bit of double checking and triple checking, but I got them all. The last one I found was tough because the logical reference was also one of the differences!
No, it isn’t attached. The rider is pushing the front wheel against the bar at the back of the ‘Pacing Motorcycle’ by standing on the pedals so the photograph can be taken, you can see the calf muscle defined on the rider’s right leg as he’s pulling up against the clips. It looks like an early pace bike for speed training.
It looks to me as if the guy at the front is just doing the steering, and the one at the back is controlling the speed.
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“Hey, Bernie! Long time no sniff.”
Shouldn’t he be sniffing the other end?
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The location looks good, the pizza, not so much.
It looks “empty” ‘compared to American pizza, but hey, they invented it.
Everyone I know who’s been to Italy has said it’s absolutely delicious. Very fresh sauce, fresh mozzarella, and just-made dough.
They do have some other toppings, but they think the way we do it, piled with different things, is weird. They’ve never heard of the pepperoni we get… Pepperoni in Italian are little hot peppers, not sausage.
You get your own pizza, on your own plate. It’s not cut up to share.
In spite of the poster the other day, in most places in Italy you don’t walk around eating a slice of pizza, or any food. Street food means you go sit some place and eat it, often at a table, on a plate, with a fork.
And not in historic locations like the Spanish Steps or a famous plaza or fountain… you get a ticket.
That’s the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Margherita
I make it often myself. Absolutely delicious!
Simple is good.
Aah, where’s the imagination? Pizza’s such a blank canvas. I’m sure there are some Salvador Dalis and Antoni Gaudis out there to push the boundaries instead of just burning some bread and putting some squashed tomatoes and a little bit of string cheese on it. Where’s the escargot? The calamari? There has to be some pineapple in there somewhere…. {^¿*}
Don’t forget the anchovies!
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I’ll toke to that!
Okay, it almost got me… I’m pretty gullible, and the Ad Council logo looks legit… but I couldn’t believe a legitimate anti drug poster would mention Satan.
Then I noticed something else that makes no sense.
In tiny print I can barely make out it seems to say, “If you or someone you know is addicted to marijuana, call Domino’s at 215-712-1000, rent a tape and enjoy!”
Addicted to marijuana?? I wasn’t sure it said Domino’s… But ??
So I googled the phone number… And it’s still the actual number of a Domino’s Pizza in Philadelphia.
But there was also a link mentioning that very quote, which led to a Reuters Fact Checking site… they were talking about a different poster, so apparently there’s more than one.
But they all have that line, with Domino’s phone number, and the logo of the Ad Council.
And they’re all a hoax.
Reefer Madness!!
…
Thinking: “How does he do that? That’s so cool!”
♫”But I guess I’ve seen about everything when I see a Labrador fly…”♫
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Chips — crisps
Desert — pudding/afters/sweet
Stores — Shops
A/C — Air con
University — Uni
The second one looks a bit dry…
oops!
Not exactly correct about the ‘Cookie = Biscuit’ thing, they are two separate things, the same as with Muffins and Cupcakes.
My English friends… my age, but I suppose we’re considered “older” these days.. call every cookie and cracker a biscuit, whether savory or sweet.
But I’ve noticed that some imported packages that used to say biscuits now say cookies or crackers, accordingly.
I’ve wondered whether that’s because they were packed for the US market, or because they’re called that now in the UK.
I’ve also heard younger English people say cookies in YouTube clips… so far never crackers.
You probably know that over here, cookies are sweet, and most crackers are savory… with the odd exception of animal crackers, which are actually cookies, and graham crackers, which were originally sold as health food.
I think no one ever wanted to admit that either were actually sweets. When I worked in a preschool, we gave the kids animal crackers or graham crackers at “snack time”, but they wouldn’t have dreamt of giving them chip cookies.
Over here, too, cupcakes are sweeter than muffins, which they resemble, and have icing, which muffins don’t. But we also have “English muffins”… unknown in the UK, but a bit similar to scones. Sort of.
English Muffins are a bread item, unlike scones, which are a cake. I like English Muffins, I used to be able to get ‘Oven Bottom Muffins’ which were larger and softer than traditional EM’s, and really good. Sliced in half, toasted, and spread with (Real) butter and either peanut butter or Marmite, great for breakfast 🙂
.
Fun Fact!
Here in the UK, the legal definition of whether an item is a cake or a biscuit; is when it goes stale, a biscuit will go soft, and a cake will go hard.
.
I’ve noticed a lot of American definitions creeping into UK English, mainly due to the popularity of YooToobe, and it’s domination by US content creators. It’s a numbers thing.
Traditional recipes for. American English muffins and British crumpets and scones involve “baking” all of them in metal rings, set on a griddle, which you may call a girdle, on the stove top.
We also have biscuits, which are breadlike, baked in the oven, but raised with baking powder, not yeast.
I have to admit that we almost universally buy commercially made English muffins in a package.
I’ve never seen our biscuits for sale in a store. They’re home made and don’t keep well.
Oh… Yeah… except fried chicken places do make and sell a fresh version.
My English friends came here 50 to almost 60 years ago, and none that I ever discussed it with had ever heard of an English muffin. It did come up in conversation, because they thought it was funny.
The world gets smaller every day!
I ran across this explanation today:
Love it!
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Dabbling in water colors?
I like her explanation: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
It covers a few pretty special people that I know.
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Looks fun.
Yecch!
I don’t know what’s going on in the gif (nothing new for me) … Maybe some kind of AI or projected AR exhibit?
But I looked up Luoyang. It’s a historic city, famous for being “one of the cradles of Chinese civilization”, full of museums, parks, and ancient architecture.
No mention of whatever this is!
,.,
Looks like a mixed breed. They’re tastier than the purebreads.
Yeah, sometimes they even make them from a mix.
Um… eek?
If that’s supposed to look like what I think I’m supposed to think it looks like… It’s even spookier cos it has three eyes.
Huckleberry Hound?
,..,
The “good” in the good old days was relative.
This is in an unsupervised playground in Dallas Texas, about 1900.
This is what they were like in Montreal.
I remember wearing dresses in grade school and wearing shorts underneath so I could play
Me too.
Mostly cos my sister insisted… she was much more inclined to do things like climbing and tumbling, and also more worried about modesty.
There was a low bar or pole, I can’t remember what it was called… you hooked your knee over it, and tried to spin around, or at least turn over once.
That and the monkey bars (a sort of overhead ladder) were the main reasons for modesty.
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Hmmm. That bicycle might be a bit newer than I would expect during their outlaw reign.
Maybe, but not by much if so.
But the real-life pictures of them, and also the film, I think make it look longer ago than it was.
Their escape over the border was in the early 20th century, and the “safety bicycle” with a chain and pneumatic tires was a new fad.
Part of the plot was that they were.old fashioned outlaws, becoming outdated
I remember reading that they used a vintage bike… I don’t know whether it was actually from that time, or a bit newer… and Newman was actually better at riding it than his stunt double, so he did most of it himself.
It may look sunny… but I’ve heard that raindrops keep falling on their heads.
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Dick Van Patten,Erik Estrada,Jimmy Walker, Dan Haggerty Valerie Bertinelli, Melissa Gilbert, Scott Baio, Kristy McNichol Gary Burghoff, Joyce DeWitt, Cloris Leachman & Dick Clark
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There’s something in between cold, which to me means refrigerated, but without ice, and room temperature, especially if the room is warm.
Let’s call it cool, or cool room temperature. Not refrigerated but not at all warm to the touch.
I get the feeling that “warm” on this chart means heated. I could be wrong.
I prefer my rare soft drink or fruit juice cold, but water cool. If there’s no cool water and the room is warm, I still don’t want ice.
I’m with you.
Now beer, on a hot summer day after I’ve been working in the yard and sweating a lot, wants to be just a few degrees above freezing!
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Not fair! All the usual differences aren’t!
You mean…. Nighthawks didn’t round up the usual suspects??
To this point, I have found only (I hope) seven differences. Not okay.
Only one spot of color on the whole canvass, and it is the color that must not be named, lest Nighthawks be driven raging into the darkness.
I just hate being driven raging into the darkness.
Good evening, Cleo Pals….
I tried to get here a little earlier, but I was having a weird problem with the site… though I think there’s a good chance it wasn’t caused by WordPress (not something you’ll hear me say very often!) but by my tablet or my Internet.
The page would open, and show the top part: strip, or in this case, puzzle, and the videos… but no comments, and no way to post.
I kept coming back every so often… And here we are!
Just in time, too!
Sam Basset has a gun pointed right at Miss Behave!
What has she ever done to deserve that?
Oh… wait… I remember!
Yeah, he’s right.
He’s gonna send her up.
And she deserves it.
While we wait for the police to arrive, try looking around his apartment. I could swear things are changing right in front of us!
Two panels, not quite the same.
I bet you’ll see nine differences!
Are they
Took a bit of double checking and triple checking, but I got them all. The last one I found was tough because the logical reference was also one of the differences!
That one is hard to see.
I finally
I needed to compare how close it comes to the “crook” of the arm of the chair, not to the gun.
It looks like it’ll be an easy puzzle, but it has its moments.
That’s exactly how I managed to spot it.
Yesssssssss!!!
The two I missed should have been obvious. I’m so ashamed.
Aww.
Interesting contraption.
Contraption indeed
It looks like the guy on the left photo bombed it
Yes… I was trying to figure out whether his bike was actually attached… But i don’t see any place it could be.
No, it isn’t attached. The rider is pushing the front wheel against the bar at the back of the ‘Pacing Motorcycle’ by standing on the pedals so the photograph can be taken, you can see the calf muscle defined on the rider’s right leg as he’s pulling up against the clips. It looks like an early pace bike for speed training.
It looks to me as if the guy at the front is just doing the steering, and the one at the back is controlling the speed.