New food item in South Africa???

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:53 pm

That's a lot of batanats!

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:56 am

I usu carve a few butternut squash fro a "Shmoo " tableau for Halloween.

yrs,
rubato

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:01 am

Did Dan Quayle make that sign?

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:43 am

rubato wrote:I usu carve a few butternut squash fro a "Shmoo " tableau for Halloween.

yrs,
rubato

Jarl? Nothing?

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:03 am

Nice. Let's just invite more shit. Because there isn't enough here already???

So "Christian" of you.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:05 pm

Jarl has me on ignore.

rgds
Usufro

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:28 pm

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:38 pm

It was a joke at jarls expense.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:40 pm

Again, if you have to explain a joke, it isn't one.

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:35 pm

Good Grief?! How many on this board followed the original adventures of the Shmoo? Hard to imagine now that a very popular comic strip became even more popular as it examined the social and philosophical implications of having all the food one wanted provided at no effort on your part.

Recent Jeopardy question about Sadie Hawkins day, so Al Capp still has some lasting influence. The rise and fall of Al Capp makes a nice background for study of the Donald.

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Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:23 pm

I well remember Al Capp and the "Lil' Abner comic strip as a kid...

And the family that was from HighDealsPort....(which was a take off on Hyanisport )

And Fearless Fosdick...(who was a parody of Dick Tracy)

And who could forget Stupefyin' Jones...

And Julie Newmar's immortal portrayal of the role in the film adaptation of Lil' Abner

(I had a crush on Julie Newmar when I was 9 years old back in her Cat Woman days...)

Julie Newmar is one of those women who just oozed sensuality...

She just naturally smoldered...

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:59 pm

Guinevere wrote:Again, if you have to explain a joke, it isn't one.

It is if I think it's funny. You don't have to get it.

dales · Post by **dales** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:17 pm

Cockroach milk, anyone?

The Pacific beetle cockroach, which is native to Hawaii, gives birth to live young.

Pour out that almond milk — the new hip thing cockroach milk.

Well, kind of.

The female Pacific beetle cockroach is one of a kind. Unlike other insect species, this Hawaiian native gives birth to live young. And she feeds them a pale, yellow liquid "milk" from her brood sack.

The nutrient-rich milk crystals of the Pacific beetle cockroach are prettier than they sound.

But the craziest thing: Cut open an embryonic beetle roach, and they're guts will spill out nutrient-rich milk crystals that shimmer like glitter.

"I discovered that these little embryos at a certain development were able to drink," recalls Barbara Stay, a professor emerita at the University of Iowa who was among the first to study the insect's crystalline milk. "What they were drinking was a liquid substance," she explains — but further along in the embryos' development, the liquid from their mother concentrated inside their guts to form tiny crystals.

Stay also found that she could extract the roach milk — in either liquid or crystal form — through a process she calls "milking a cockroach."

"You substitute a filter paper in the brood sac for the embryos and you leave it there," she explains. After a while, "you take it out and you get the milk."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/201 ... that-right

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:26 pm

Cockroach milk, anyone?

I assume that's a rhetorical question...

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:50 pm

Hey Joe Bob! After y'all are done givin' the hogs their slop and waterin' the horses, don't fergit ta milk the cockroaches...

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:50 pm

Hmm, Julie Newmar... is this good for 80 years old? My arrested development always skews my judgement.

“I am Catwoman. Hear me roar.”

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 7:57 pm

Julie Newmar was hot, and an inspiration for a lot of tall shapely brunette white girls, but Eartha Kitt was the sexiest catwoman, ever.

Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world

image deleted because you would go blind.

Consolation:

yrs,
rubato

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 9:18 pm

Julie Newmar was an early hottie. But Daliah Lavi did it for me

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 10:40 pm

Israeli, not interested in pork.

And not a candle to Eartha Kitt.

yrs,
rubato

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