Richardderus thread 6 of 2014

John Maynard Keynes by Duncan Grant

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― John Maynard Keynes

I have a category called Orphans, which will still catch all the other reading I do.

My ORPHANED books ticker:




I want to treat the Short Story collection challenge as a ticker-to-itself thread, thinking 48 reviews as my goal. I'll keep the thread over in the Short Stories forum.

My SHORT STORY collections ticker:




I'm keeping a mystery-genre thread over in Crime, Thriller, and Mystery forum. Way way way too many of my reviews have been, in all forums, mysteries and thrillers, and while I love them, I don't want to get too rut-ified and read only those books while keeping up my self-made review writing census.

My MYSTERY & THRILLER books ticker:




THIS THREAD is the 75 challenge for 2014, which will be non-fiction and non-genre-fiction books published in 2013 and 2014, plus recommendations from other 75ers.

My last thread of 2012.
My last reviews of 2013 in this thread.

My 2014 NEW books ticker:




Books 1 & 2...thread 5.

Books are reviewed in post:

mine. I agree with the quote and love the thread topper. And I have brought a tread-warming gift for you:

Beautiful pic!

Is this a reincarnation of your previous thread #6?

Happy new thread, Richard! 2 numbers 6! ;-))

>3 Crazymamie: Mamie you darling! What a perfect thread-warming gift! Although I notice I've pulled a Joe and not renumbered this thread 7. *sigh*



For being first, you get a spa day!

>4 avidmom: Isn't it? Duncan Grant was an artist capable of imbuing the simplest subject, a man sitting down and writing for example, with so many layers to appreciate. Love his stuff.

>5 kidzdoc: Sadly, yes. I've Joe'd it. Darn.

>6 connie53: Hi Connie! Maybe I'll call the next thread "13" since I've had double-six.

But 13 is an unlucky number!

I'm not triskadecaphobic.

Nice opening to your latest thread 6:)

Yes I'm in Wales and have a reasonable library but they only have 1,2,3 and 5 of the Atticus and Oberon series so I'm going to have to see what I can do about the others.

Rdear, gorgeous opening. I love the painting as well the quote

>7 richardderus: Darn it! I was so close!

>11 calm: Thanks, calm! Oh dear...why DO libraries do that?! So frustrating!

>12 Ameise1: Hiya Barbara! Thanks for the thread-dog.

>13 avidmom: Ah, but the absence of a proppitiatory mess of chili cheese fries is really what made the moment.

Happy New Thread, Richard!

I love the phrase "Joe'd it" for forgetting to change the thread number on a new thread!

>15 scaifea: Thanks, Amber!

>16 rosalita: Well, after Joe gave us what, three?, thread ones I think I'm justified.

Drive by smoochies for the new thread. Hope all is well and relatively pain free.

*smooches*

If you name a third thread 6 then all your Satanic book warbling friends will feel right at home.

>18 BekkaJo: Hi Bekka! *smoochings* right back.

>19 luvamystery65: Roberta me lurve! Lovely to see your Satanic Book Warbling self without bright blue book bullets spewing forth. *smooch*

Compliments on your shiny new thread! Great topper and quote. *smooch*

Duncan Grant's work is impressive RD, as is yours, with another new thread even though you seem to have lost the ability to count, a la Joseph the Cafe Keep.

I want to be one of those bubbles in #7.

>21 Storeetllr: Thanks, Mary! Glad you came by. *smooch* back

>22 PaulCranswick: I know *blush* I know *head-hang* I know...I've decided to call this "the Joe thread" and tell people it's an artistic statement on the insignificance of accuracy and an hommage a Chicago.

Who cares if you forgot to number it Richard? Your threads change so darn fast that in a nanosceond you will creating another one and you can put a number on it. Very few people will even be aware of it.

Happy that I got in on the ground floor of this one.

Besides, I got it right in the Threadbook, so we can find you after all! :)

Haha, I didn't even notice the misnumbering. If it makes you feel any better, I named my first thread Reading More in Twenty Oh Four. Get it? 2004. *eyeroll* Couldn't wait until I could start a second thread so I could name it for the correct year.

>24 brenzi: A spanking pace is set indeed by our over-300-more-posts-than-me league-maker, Paul. January usually hits the soft pedal by the third week, and this year it hasn't happened. Plus we're already over 500 members on 1 Feb!! Wowee toledo!

>25 drneutron: Thank goodness for the accuracy compulsion that breeds engineers, Jim. The modern world wouldn't exist without y'all. And in a non-modern world, I'd've died by age 4.

>26 Storeetllr: ...wait...it *isn't* 2004? Are you sure?

Hello. I'm stopping by to see how you are today.

I love the opening art work.

>28 Whisper1: Hi Linda, thanks for coming by! *smooch* I love Duncan Grant's art, too.

Saturday's dinner was ham steak, zucchini with sauteed red onion, and a baked potato. That, laddies and gentlewomen, is some fine eatin'. I am recumbent, replete, and yet still rebarbative.

Lovely dinner. We had a decadent fattening breakfast this morning of home fries and ham..yum..Lilly was also happy at the table scraps sneaked to her.

Well, Richard, your "Joe thread" looks spiffy even without any numbers.
The Portland meet up was a success, I believe. I let the staff at Powell's fondle my credit card twice, so it must have been.

Look! It's me! Please don't faint. I just happened to be logging a book and saw that your thread was within manageable numbers, so I've popped in for a *smooch*!

Happy Sunday!

I've been gone too long, but am now all caught up from your old thread to here.

Happy Sunday, my friend!

I can't keep up! *whine moan groan complain*

That said, seriously, loving the portrait. Amazed that Duncan Grant isn't as well known as some of the other Bloomsberries today.

Happy new Joeish tread, Richard. Hope your Sunday is great!

Mornin' Richard!

I've never attempted a ham steak - how do you prepare it?

Good morning Rdear! I am learning all sorts of new words on your thread as usual but this comment in #31 made me laugh like a loon.....
I let the staff at Powell's fondle my credit card twice. *Must remember to use that phrase*

Morning, Rdear. Love the painting: very interesting technique and execution.

Trying hard to keep my head above water.

Richard for very different reasons, this is us. We are blessed to have our books and an internet connection to traverse the world.

I'm jealous of your dinner. MrMorphy isn't all that crazy about ham so we don't have it that often.

Love the topper and the quote!!

>30 Whisper1: Lucky Lilly! Poor Stella is adjusting to the fact that Ray, who has been her people-food pusher since he met her, is disallowed from passing scraps to her. (She's getting too heavy.)

>31 EBT1002: I'll be along directly for the Envy List! I'm so pleased y'all had a good time! And isn't Berly-boo something special?

>32 tloeffler: Hi Terri! Glad to see you...wait...TLo?!?! TLO?!? *whump*

>33 katiekrug: Hey Katie, glad to see you, and "too long" is only an opinion. I'm happy to see people! When they're here, it's better for my mood...when they're busy, it's just proof they're interesting.

>34 Chatterbox: Heh, "keep up" for someone who has as much to do as you have is an entirely different thing than it is for most of us. Once a month is a lot when there's so much riding on each day's doings. *smooch*

>35 wilkiec: Thank you, Diana, it has been sleepy so far, and that suits me fine.

>36 scaifea: Hey Amber! Ham steaks are already prepared, unless it says "fresh ham" somewhere on it. Heating them up is a matter of taste...I like ham steak with crispy, bacon-like edges, so under the broiler for ~5min a side is good. I like sauces and fruits and fancyings-up of meats, unlike so many who prefer a blander diet, so I make a glaze of prepared mustard, apricot preserves, and Tabasco fo my ham steaks.

>37 Cobscook: Hiya Heidi! Ellen comes up with 'em, don't she? It so accurately captures the feeling of passing over the ransom money for our little darlings.

>38 Matke: Good morning dear Danvers, it's obvious your head is above enough to come and visit which is what I require from a day! *smooch* Hope it's got some good reading in it!

>39 luvamystery65: Heh, ain't that the truth, Roberta? And I have no idea who Mason Cooley might be, but smart I know Mason Cooley is.

>40 Morphidae: It's among the house favorites around here. No one here doesn't like ham, luckily. Since I reject bird meat, pork is next on the "healthy" list.

>41 SuziQoregon: Hiya Suzi! Glad to see you here, and the photos certainly show you were having a good time at the meet-up!

Great. Now I'm hungry for ham steak ...

Anyway, happy Sunday, Richard!

Hi Richard!

I found your review of The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 8 or 9 threads ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, even if the book is a tad problematic. I haven't explored that series, but perhaps I'll give a try.

I hope you're having a lovely Sunday!

>46 rosalita: Hi Julia! Ham steak gooooooood must buy and eat.



Ain't this the truth.

*waves* What do you suppose the blue triangle is in the book porn picture? Also, I like baths but she is precariously close to lighting her hair on fire. 0_o

I don't understand immersing one's self into a hot stew of one's own body oils, dirt, and sweat. Setting one's hair on fire seems less problematic to me, Tamara.

Ick I need a shower.

I woke up with back pain and allergy schnerkles at about 4am. Watched David Attenborough nature films and couldn't bore myself back to sleep. Took a Bendaryl and slept until noon! Then I decided, since the coffee would need to be reheated, that I'd do without today.

Ha. At 2:10p, I caved and nuked my usual mug of coffee with milk. It is almost 3p and I am finally headacheless and no longer feeling as though they could make a serial-killer movie with me as the star.

Ha! Glad you jettisoned your crazy self that was thinking no coffee. Insanity.

Then I decided, since the coffee would need to be reheated, that I'd do without today.



I'm relieved you came to your senses dear.

>52 jnwelch: I know, right? What the heck was I thinking the benefit of that would be?

I am not enjoying Consider Phlebas. I don't know if it's because the book isn't right for me now, or if it's just not that great. It was the first in the long-running Culture series, so I'm leaning towards book/Richard mismatch.

>53 luvamystery65: HA!! Yes, that's the correct response to a coffeeless Richard!

I googled "expressions of terror". ;-)

xoxo to you and Stella from me and The Devilles.

** waves at RD**

Glad you decided to have your coffee! Live is much easier with coffee!

>55 luvamystery65: Heh, now I know how to find it. It's perfect for so may occasions. *smooch* and *schmoozle* respectively. Stella's asleep or she'd send slurps, I'm sure.

If she's anything like Miss Cleo, she can slurp in her sleep. That dog of mine has the most lively dreams.

Twice in one thread!!! It's probably because I'm procrastinating about writing my economics paper....

Hi :-)

>58 tloeffler: I don't blame you one little bit, TLo.

>59 AuntieClio: Hi Stephanie! *smooch*

Thanks for the tips about ham steaks - I think I'd likely make a saucy sauce, too...

I get bored with the same ol' same ol', but the others are relentlessly boring eaters. Garlic, olive oil, fennel seed...delicious, but not EVERY GODDAMNED MEAL.

No fruit, fresh or cooked, and never ever ever with meat. No spicy-hot. No sauces. No butter. No casseroles, no rice, no this, no that, no the other thing, just no. Oh, and we must also complain about not being able to have chicken (which I detest) despite the fact that we share two meals a week.

I'm weary or I wouldn't be whining.

Happy new thread. Love the Duncan GRant -- we need more!!

Hi Marianne! I saw that Grant and was enchanted. I don't know why, as Suz pointed out above, Grant isn't as celebrated as so many of his fellow Bloomsbury Circlers.

I'm very concerned...even though you apparently recovered quickly, it is difficult to imagine any circumstances that would 'cause you to entertain the idea, even momentarily, of doing without coffee for an entire day, even a truncated one. Do watch carefully for any recurrence of this aberrant thought pattern, and call someone for help immediately in the event.

Oh, I LOVE #45, Richard dear, and I am so glad that your headache is gone. It just took the coffee cure. Wish all your pains were that amenable to treatment.

>51 richardderus: lol
I was just counting my lucky stars this morning. Feb is a stink month for bills in my house, we have to drain the savings for insurance bills, rates, and the winter firewood costs, so we tighten the belts a little. I saw that we had 2 backup packets of coffee in the cupboard and thought "yes- at least there will be coffee!" .

>55 luvamystery65: haha, I was wondering what was googled to get that image, it is a beauty!

Hi RD, coffee is the answer. It doesn't matter what the question was. Be well, and here's to some proper rest for you soon!

Oh, and...I am loving the bacon vortex that was dropped off by Joe on the last thread!! Really- a bacon vortex. Awesome.

I so thought of you when I saw this over at Homesick Texan

http://www.homesicktexan.com/2013/02/banana-bacon-and-pecan-pancakes.html

>65 laytonwoman3rd: I know, right? I was surprised at my aberrant thinking. I put it down to a bad case of dormitus interruptus. I will monitor myself carefully and holler Houstonward should I detect a return of it.

>66 ronincats: Hi Roni! That pin was made by my sister Winter, normally not a source of kindness and positivity in my life. She made up for a lot by calling me out on that one.

>67 LovingLit: Running out of coffee *shudder* is a horrible, horrible feeling. I have a teensy little jar of instant hidden away in case of 1) recipes or b) disaster. I fondle it once in a while, when I need caffeine security.

February sounds like a hound of a month for y'all indeed. I hate it here in the Northern Hemisphere because it's Old Nell's Curse of a month, just cold enough to suck and usually slushy and grim and gray.

>69 luvamystery65: Oh my heck!!! The Mexican Pancake, linked in the post, is one Mama used to make! Her party-trick pancakes were white shoepeg corn in buttermilk pancakes, served with bacon and cinnamon syrup.

*swoon*

xord

*smooch*

Stopping by to congratulate you on thread 67, sorry to see you have been suffering back pains and I hope your Monday is a wonderful day!

Trust that you had a great weekend Joe RD and that pain has diminished to less than nothing.

Morning, Richard!
Hoping that your pain is gone and your coffee is hot!

>73 lkernagh: Hi Lori! The nasty thing is that the back problem came out of the blue: I did something, twisted some shape, that made it mad at me and now the least little thing causes bolts of owwwwww! to shoot up my spine and down my legs. Like sciatica on steroids.

Still and all, it's not like life is over.

>74 PaulCranswick: It was a weekend of bed-rest, and badly needed at that, so yes it was fine thank you. I saw your haul-ette of Friday books, and was inspired to put the Korean one about sunken courtyards in my Amazon cart.

>75 scaifea: How do, Amber, the coffee steameth merrily away as is meet and right that it should.

early bird today... you ok?

A Reader's Call to Arms!

>77 mckait: Morning, dear! Yes, fine, but not working on a novel today. Can't focus well enough for some reason.

Maybe later? Post coffee? Glad you are okay :)

Sure, the Gruesome Twosome leave noonish so then?

OIC, maybe so, maybe so.

xo

Masses of sympathy for the back pain - hateful things, backs. Adding my smoochies to the pile.

Thanks, Bekka! I'm just feeling betrayed...my back has never done this before. I've had sciatica, but this grind*crunch*snick*OOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW is new and most extraordinarily unwelcome.

Oh honey :( I highly recommend high doses of codeine with a side of Brufen Retard. And possibly a tens machine strapped on too. Only things that can get me to walk if my ligaments go. Hope you can get some relief - at least enough to relax and read. XX

Heating pad and isometric body arrangement are doing the trick. So far anyway. *sigh*

Ouch! *smooches* and hoping for speedy pain relief.

Thank you, calm, speedy pain relief sounds amazing. If I ever experience it, I will yodel it from the rooftops!

Hope you feel better soon, Richard.

Back to add I love Duncan Grant's work.

Howdy cuz! Not too bad today, compared to Saturday I'm fleet as a gazelle. I do so love my heating pad.

Heating pads are wonderful. I sometimes have to work with one sort of strapped to the back of my neck ..... I get all tensed up, and it does the trick.

Have you tried those nuke-able buckwheat doodads? I have one for my wrists that worked fine, but nowadays is the rest for my Chromebook when it's open on my belly. (AKA all the time.)

One of the advantages of being a Shorthouse is that the relative low centre of gravity helps to reduce back problems. The few instances I have had of issues though fill me full of sympathy for your plight. Lifting all those boxes of books that seem to be delivered to your doorstep daily doesn't seem to help much does it?

Feel better soon, Richard. Owwies, go away!

>94 PaulCranswick: Lifting all those boxes of books that seem to be delivered to your doorstep daily doesn't seem to help much does it?
Thou shouldst talk, o blackest of kettles.

>95 wilkiec: Thank you, Diana! I'm wishing you the same.

Thank you, Richard.

The White Christmas I ordered has arrived. Predictably it's six weeks late. But wowee toledo is it white! At least six inches so far. Beautiful, since I don't have to go out in it.

immersing one's self into a hot stew of one's own body oils, dirt, and sweat.

Ewwwwwwww

I fondle it once in a while, when I need caffeine security.

Do we need to watch an after school special? *looks over glasses at RD*

Yeah, baths are repulsive, aren't they? And they made an afterschool special about caffeine addiction?! Where was I?

Hello Rdear. What on earth do we have against baths?

So glad you can stay indoors out of the white stuff, Richard. We are supposed to get a couple-three inches tomorrow. It's been death by a thousand paper cuts for us this winter, with no real big snowstorms but lots of little bits on a nearly constant basis. I want it to be over!

Not sure why you're in hot water over baths, Richard, but I'm sure you'll wash it all away with your bubbly personality and dry wit.

So glad (and a little surprised) to know I'm not the only one for whom baths make the skin crawl.

Hope your back is better soon! (Not sure more coffee will help with that, but it sure can't hurt.)

I thought you'd like this, from the Grammarian:
"This sentence, from the 1839 book The Adventures of Harry Franco by American writer Charles Briggs, has been said to contain the first instance of fantods in English4:

You have got strong symptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut your eyes without opening your mouth."

Checking in to wish you a good Monday. Lot's of pretty white flakiness here. Too bad, I'll be driving in it soon enough ...

My kindly neighbor snowblew the drive. It came at the end of an annoying day. Six inches of snow isn't, by our standards, an emergency. People acted the fool, however, and there were consequences.

Anyway, I'm warm and dry and Stella doesn't need to go out until 8p, so this all works.

Have rediscovered the essential truth that yogurt, a thing I don't much like, is excellent for balancing digestive upsets. Two days of having a smallish bowl in the morning has eliminated the yucky tum of the past few weeks. I have to think of it as medicinal. It's not something I like, but it's far from the worst thing I've had in my mouth.

Oh, Richard!!! I'm so sorry to hear of all your back issues. I hope you get some relief quickly!! Love & hugs to you and slurpy kisses to Stella!

I like this one a lot!

I guess I need to change my LT username to Ryia Walter, then.

Thea Golding. "Goddess" for a first name? I'll take it.

As I'm typing this, I'm sitting in my rocking chair with two heating pads - one on my lower back and one under my hunkus. No particular pains right now; they're just permanent installations on the chair because it feels so cozy.

Noticed that the conversation had gotten away from bacon....

Joan de Biville? Sounds a tad too purse-lipped hoity-toity for me.

> 109 - But I don't like Isabel as a name. Cabrera as a surname, I like that but the whole Isabel thing, nope.

Maple Bacon Coffee Porter.... Nope, not sold on that idea, either.

Hi Richard!

>107 richardderus: I recently persuaded my husband that yogurt would re-establish his digestive balance, after a long course of nasty antibiotics had wrecked it completely. He has acknowledged my wisdom in this regard, and even admits he kind of likes it now. (Activia vanilla.)

*smooch*

I've discovered the only yogurt I care to eat and that actually has low milk sugars in it so it doesn't upset my stomach is Greek yogurt. Less than 20 g of sugar per serving for most brands of Greek yogurt is great, and I also can't handle the fake sugars either because again, they either upset my system or give me headaches, so again, win win. I like the kind with the fruit on the bottom. One of the few dairy items I can actually eat. :)

Thea de Biville

Does that come with a fainting couch?

>117 leperdbunny:: Oh, Greek yogurt is wonderful, isn't it? Love it.

Morning, Richard!

Ysmay di Biville. Fills me with dismay and bile, that name. No likee!

I am a fan of the vanilla Chobani - the flavor is very mild. I'm eating some right now!

Ryia Coastillon...

Hi Richard! *smooch*

I hope all ouchies are gone today!

Arabella Greene reporting in from the High Middle Ages (trying to avoid the plague years)...I'd rather be named Anne, but what can one do? Fate is all.

Sorry to learn about the back pain, but glad to know that the heating pad is working well. They are terrific for relaxing tight/cramped/sore muscles.

I managed to convince the late DH to eat yogurt--oh, boy, what a massive effort that took--and it cleared up a difficult tum situation after abx. I should heed my own advice...I hate the stuff too. Tried the probiotics, which are effective but hideously and ridiculously expensive.

A better day to you, Dear Man.

Corner bookshelf. Yes.

Sunstruck day! All kinds of snow, and some lovely black ice. I'd say harm equals benefit.

I watched all of Inspector Lewis season 6 after waking up at 4am. Even Benadryl wouldn't put me back to sleep. I kept hearing accidents on the parkway just as I'd drop off. That black ice...nothing you can do, even driving slowly, once you've hit a patch just wrong.

Walking poochums wasn't any fun in the ice. She's having the time of her life porpoising around in the plowed-up snow. I'm hoping against hope I won't go crunch! I didn't, obviously, but I do so hate ice. Snow is okay, but ice is The Devil!

>124 richardderus: Nice solution for a corner.

>>109 richardderus:, 113 I'm Mary's ostentatious cousin Brom de Biville.

Hope you're feeling okay and have a good one today, buddy.

Josselyn Archer here.

So why don't you like chicken? Is it a taste/texture thing or a you're out of your mind psychological thing?

>101 Thebookdiva: Hi Abby! Baths? *shudder* You mean the bowl of hot water people immerse themselves in, allowing the magic thereof to lift off dead skin flakes, rinse away oils and dirt from the skin, and then...NOT GO ANYWHERE? *shudder*

>102 rosalita: It's wearin' us all down, Julia, this snowy-cold, warmy-slush, snowy-cold cycle.

>103 jnwelch: *appalled silence* Et tu, Josephae?

>104 Storeetllr: Back is a bit better, thanks Mary, but the problem is once you've "thrown your back out" (a phrase I never understood before now) it's easier to do again! I'm paranoid about bending down even a little bit.

>105 tiffin: Ohhh that's wonderful Tui! In English, though? Does "fantods" come from another language?

>106 michigantrumpet: Hi Marianne! I hate to hear of people *having* to drive in ice, but snow should be okay.

>108 TinaV95: Thank you, Tina me lurve. *smooch*

>110 rosalita: "Ryia"? Hmmm that's not one I've ever heard apart from this meme.

>111 scaifea: "Goddess causing gold to cover (something)" doesn't sound like too shabby a name indeed, Midas Ann.

>112 Deedledee: Oh Dee!!! Wherever you found them, I APPROVE!

>113 Storeetllr: TOO purse-lipped hoity-toity? Huh, and here's me thinkin' they got you pegged...:-P~~~~~

>114 lkernagh: "Isabel" is a name with a lot of baggage. It just *shrieks* "my parents were pretentious" doesn't it.

Hi Lori!

>115 laytonwoman3rd: It works a treat, Linda3rd. I know this, I used to spoon it down Vicki after C diff events *shudder* and I ate a metric fuck-ton of it myself in those times. I just have never much liked it. It's okay, just not a last-meal type item.

>116 katiekrug: *smooch*

>117 leperdbunny: I've had the Chobani, mostly as a summertime dessert with berries in it. It's okay, a little sharper than regular yogurt which I like. As for fake sweetners, just NO. Never, ever. I'll eat nothing instead of one of those nasty chemistry experiments.

>118 AuntieClio: It should, shouldn't it?

>119 scaifea: Hi Amber!

>120 sibylline: That one's unusually hifalutin' ain't it cuz? Does NOT suit you.

>121 wilkiec: Hi Diana! I admit I prefer your real name to the hoity-toity one.

>122 mckait: If they *are* ever all gone, I'll think I'm dead and die of fright.

>123 Matke: Arabella is a nice name, Danvers. Anne has the virtue of simplicity, of which I approve. I know, it's easy to say "you should eat this" when one would, in fact, prefer gallstones to eating the stuff one's self. So do your penance and eat hearty.

>126 jnwelch: Hey there de Biville! I like that case. It has style.

>127 Morphidae: I don't like stringy stuff. Chicken is, no matter how it's prepared or how under-over-perfectly cooked it is, stringy. All bird meat is stringy. Turkey is stringy plus it tastes like mold. Chicken doesn't taste like anything at all, the sauces all stick to the skin which I am for sure not gonna eat, and skinless stuff is dry as Arizona blacktop in August and almost as appealing as a dinner item.

xoxo!

An author I know posted this on Booklikes. It's so very true.

>134 luvamystery65: Hiya Roberta! Schmoozle the deVilles' ears from me!

The Snowden Files is an ebook from Faber & Faber via the Guardian newspaper. Considering the source, you can bet it's a leftist view of the subject. It's available now, for any who might be interested.

Luanda? I think not.

Heh...Milady Luanda...ha!!

Luanda on your assa, you calla me that.

*snerk*

Indeeed, Milady. One would never presume, Milady.

*chortle*

Such pretty spines!

Me wants.

I have no memory whatsoever of what my LT password is. If I disappear, it's because I can't reset my password!

Hi Rdear. I hope you do NOT disappear.

For my new name: Well, the surname is definitely historically filled- TUDOR - and the first name, oh well, would be Edith. Something that wouldn't be after my's fancy.

Charlie Chaplin's quote is my today's slogan - otherwise I don't know how to survive.

It does seem a bit strange to have to change passwords. I just hope I can remember my new one.

>144 Ameise1: Ew! Trading Barbara for Edith is definitely a downgrade. Keep Barbara!

>145 calm: Hi calm, well, there was a hacking event, so I understand it. I finally got my password changed. I have no idea if I'll ever remember it....

#141 LOVE!

In the past six months I have become a convert to a locally produced plain yogurt. It comes fresh from their on farm creamery and has completely changed my view on yogurt. I always hated the stuff and never realized how chemically the store bought stuff tastes until eating the farm fresh stuff. I have been eating it every morning with granola I make myself. It has helped tremendously with my anxious tummy problems.

My name would be Alianor Greene…I don't think so. Those books are gorgeous! We own the Narnia one ourselves, but I would like to own that Grimm's Fairytales.

Zounds! So many de Biville's ~ methinks we should have a family reunion!

>131 richardderus: Really, Richard? *giving RD my haughtiest purse-lipped stare*

>141 richardderus: *drool*

Ariana Rolfe reporting for duty. And drooling over 141...stunning!

are you lost?

Skimming through...you are impossible to keep up with (sorry about preposition at end of phrase), but I figure if I pop in twice a week, I can at least stop by for the thread toppers and scroll through book porn. Luv ya, but really...............signed Luella Rolfe

Lovely looking books above RD.
Not playing your name game. I refuse, as a loyal Ricardian, to get lumbered with Tudor as a name even in jest.

>147 Cobscook: Yeah, we have that here too. Yuck. More expensive and just as nasty. I simply don't like yogurt very much. I can eat it, but it's not any pleasure to do so, so I buy the cheap stuff.

>148 Thebookdiva: Hmmm that's a bit on the bland side, isn't it?

>149 Storeetllr: Heh *smooch*

>150 BekkaJo: Ain't it though, Milady Ariana?

>151 mckait: Nope, just been busy today. *smooch*

>152 tututhefirst: Luella darling! *smooch* I'm not one of those who thinks a preposition May Not Ever End A Phrase, because it's a convention from the Latin grammarians of the 16th century that I think is silly.

>153 PaulCranswick: *smirk* *double smirk* *Cheshire grin*

I'm Ellyn Stewart according to the cute pic in #109! Me likes!

And I want, want, want the corner bookshelf in #124!!!!

>156 TinaV95: I do too! *smooch*

Hey RD! It looks like I've been neglecting my Long Island Peep! How are you, my friend? Are you yearning for springtime? You would not be alone.
I think I will finally be starting On Such a Full Sea and then onto fractious Faulkner.

Hi Mark, Faulkner is guaranteed to inflame passions among readers. Faulkner February might be a one-off....

From theantimedia.org:

February 4, 2014
Andrew Pontbriand | Resistance Journals

Justice Antonin Scalia predicted today that the Supreme Court will once again allow for the use of internment/FEMA camps to be used in America, as they were in World War II. During WWII, Japanese Americans were labeled enemies, and many thousands we’re place in what we’d refer today as FEMA Camps.

“You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,” Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.

The local Associated Press report quotes Scalia as using a Latin phrase that means “in times of war, the laws fall silent,” to explain why the court erred in that decision and will do so again.

“That’s what was going on — the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot,” Scalia said. “That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality.”

Justice Scalia seems to be mistaken, as a Supreme Court Justice his job is supposed to be to make sure the Executive, and Legislative Branches are in-line with the Constitution. What he was doing here is basically opening the door, and unofficially telling the already abusive government, they will not over-rule any executive decisions to open up the (at least 6) camps that exist today, and are ready to house any “enemy combatants,” under the NDAA.

Source: Resistance Journals
- See more at: http://theantimedia.org/supreme-court-judge-i-would-not-be-surprised-if-internme...

Huh. Had me up to the last sentence.

I wonder though. Why make such a pronouncement if not to send a signal?

154> Swinging back to the yogurt topic (going to avoid the politics, mostly because there isn't a good sarcasm font in LT, or anywhere), have you tried going the savory route. We like plain greek yogurt mixed with Frank's Red Hot (or some other spicy sauce). Use it to dip chips/crackers/pretzels. The fire masks the less than enjoyable (at least for me) taste of the plain stuff.

Of my #141 - so covetable! I would be plain old Mary Archer, probably farmer's wife and milkmaid - a sturdy woman, practical and no nonsense.

Adding my thoughts on the benefits of yogart, I'm hooked on McDonalds parfaits....For $1.00 and a mere 150 calories, filled with fruit and topped with granola...I tell you it is a great way to start a day!

Ah... Love Inspector Lewis episodes. Even better than the Inspector Morse because I just love the sarcastic wit of Sergeant Hathaway. I also like Dr. Laura Hobson - fun and a bit sassy.

> 141 - WANT!

> 160 - What?!

>141 richardderus:: Whoa. What editions are those?!

I hate yogurt. I eat the nasty stuff ( greek vanilla is the best imo) with cinnamon ....

>141 richardderus: pretty pretty

I suggested that L stay home today and let me have ethe library to myself. I hope she will.... a whole library to myself all day long. Sweet!

Morning Rdear. How are you today?

It is a skating rink out there! Slush, sleet from last night, melt/refreeze/melt/refreeze = hell. A thin coating of ice over slush. Step on ice (gingerly) and crunchsploosh ICK!

Our kind neighbor snowblew again, and I shoveled the area in front of the garage door so I can take Stella down the drive. This process took over an hour for me, and has resulted in a goodly amount of pain. But since going out of the driveway is simply not gonna happen (streets are worse than my piddlin' little drive, of course), I needed to have that space as clear as possible so I don't go bum-over every time I need the pooch to piddle.

Oil delivery man was almost tearfully grateful that I'd scraped off the standpipe and even cleared a bit of the vestibule-door walk for me. He still left a stonking bill, though.

I'm eating my *shudder* yogurt with store-brand Honey Bunches of Oats cereal and that takes the curse off. The belly issues are largely gone, but I'm doing one more week of this to be extra-special certain that the gains remain in place. Medicine medicine medicine.

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

OMG Rdear, you've done a lot of work today. It's so terribly and dangerous when everything is frozen. I hate this situation, too. It's like walking on eggs.

I hope you can recover in a warm cosy place with a lovely mug of latte macchiato


I like the photo of the cuttlefish fence :-D

OOOOO Macchiato is a favorite of mine, so warm and soothing, with a kick in its tail to avoid somnolence.

I'm in the mood for bacon and eggs, but it's lunchtime, so these here will do nicely:

>163 mahsdad: Hi Jeff! I've used plain yogurt and cream cheese whipped together and flavored with Pickapeppa sauce, Tabasco, and a bit of powdered ginger as a cracker spread. It's fine. I'm never going to be a fan.

>164 PrueGallagher: Hi Prue...yeah, that's a sturdy simple kind of a name all righty all right. Cassius Tudor is mine, which rather suits my grandiose personality.

>165 Whisper1: Claudia makes dessert parfaits of greek yogurt and berries in the summer. Light and cooling.

>166 lkernagh: Are you up-to-date on the series, Lori? I've only just vacuumed up the sixth season. An event occurs that will raise your eyebrows.

>167 scaifea: I wish I knew, Amber, I'd sally forth to make my purchases!

>168 mckait: I hope she follows your sound advice. Lovely for you, safer for her. *smooch*

Since we are both Tudors unfortunately, Cassius, I thought I'd let you know that post #173 above was the 2,000th on your threads in 2014. Bravo.

Good gravy! How amazing! And so appropriate that it features food. Thanks for letting me know, Paul. This has been a real takeoff year for the group.

>174 richardderus: Not expecting a conversion. Just a spoon full of peppers helps the medicine go down. To fracture a phrase...

Well, I've found a yogurt recipe that I like. Greek deviled eggs with yogurt, chopped black and green olives, and some thyme. Of course!

>175 richardderus:: Found them!!

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/leatherbound-classics

Hi - just stopping by and waving as I catch up after a couple of days away from my starred threads.

Sincerely,
Morgaine Rolfe

ps I want a bookshelf like #141

>180 scaifea: *studiously ignores the blue type* Hi Amber!

>181 SuziQoregon: Hi Milady Morgaine, don't we all! Don't we all.

*smooch*

*smooch* back!

Perfidious Paul the Tudor struck me with a book bullet recently. My copy of The House with a Sunken Courtyard, a novel of the refugee experience in South Korea after the war there divided the country, has arrived. "Thanks" to His Tudor Lordship.

Anne Tudor here. (Seeing as I was minutes away from being named Inga Regina as a newborn, I'll take it.)

Plain Greek yougurt with a spoonful of a yummy homemade jam or jelly gets my vote.

Am I the only one who thinks Justice Scalia is an oxymoron?

HA! No, Marianne Inga Regina Anne Tudor, you are most certainly not the only one who sees the oxymoron in "Justice" Scalia's title. Or the moron who bears it. Dreadful human being.

One hopes that our Constitution will recover from the drubbing it has taken from the likes of Scalia. (Pardon me I have to take a shower now to get the yucks off.)

Thea Coastillon with a word of caution Richard: 2000+ posts in early February may be harmful to your health. Maybe that's what you're curing with the yogurt;-)

>187 AuntieClio: Leave the bleach in there, I need a decon shower too.

>188 brenzi: Heh, no I'm curing something more...concrete...than that. *smooch* for thinking of me!

Yogurt with Dorset granola and a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds: delish!

>190 tiffin: "Dorset granola" is to being what please?

*smooches*

>192 leperdbunny: *smooch* back!



...and swoon...

wait ... didn't he say something about a book? Where is it?

That picture is ... it's.... oh ... *gasp* *swoon* *thump*

didn't he say something about a book? Where is it?
It's a mystery! ;)

Name game: I would be Ryia Stewart!

Hi RD, Hope your day will be lovely.

>193 richardderus:: Up to this point, that man has not turned my head at all. But that pose and that quote? *ahem*

Just a good morning wish.... day off for me, stuff to do soup to make and please, please please... time to read. :-/

Nothing different here in K-land.

I am officially tired of winter, I can tell you that. My walk to work was on ice. Downhill. Slowly. I was so glad that Dan was there to bring me home, although at that point between temps and plows the roads were better, and the ice mostly gone.

>193 richardderus: Love the quote. Love Benny, actually, But he looks slightly dyspeptic in that photo. Perhaps he read something that didn't agree with him?

Dear Well Deserved Status/Popular Man

Shoveling snow is not a good thing for us. I hope you are feeling better from your toil.

My first week back to work:

Monday -- Lehigh closed

Tuesday-- four hours at Lehigh

Wednesday -- Lehigh closed

Today -- hoping not to fall as I navigate icy driveway, icy sheer sheet of glass on the street in front of our house...and then slipping up hill on the south side of Bethlehem to arrive on campus (narrow streets with cars on each side)...ugh. Walking from car uphill to arrive at my office. Spring cannot get here fast enough.

I hope your day is warm, relaxing, and that you are reading a great book.

OMG what. Great antidote to my Cumberbatch withdrawal!

Careful on the ice... but I think it's pretty nice of Lehigh to close two days for your first weel back :) slow and steady!

>194 AuntieClio: ...book...? *swoon*

>195 avidmom: Ol' Frumious Bandersnatch is one sexy reader all right. Imagine him reading your favorite book to you across the pillow. *bubble machine*

>196 connie53: Thanks, Milady Stewart! From your keyboard to the goddess' inbox.

>197 scaifea: I know, right?!

Oh hi rd!

Richard dear, thank you for the morning pretty! Especially since the new season of Sherlock is already over, almost before it started. *sniff*

>198 mckait:, 202 *smooch* It was a skating rink outside again. Melted snow refroze and puddles turned into black ice. I'd hate to drive in this. Stella walked on top of the frozen snow, three feet off the ground! All 40lb of her. *That* is frozen.

Good-reading *whammy* for your day.

>199 laytonwoman3rd: Dyspeptic? I think that's supposed to be "dreamy bedroom-eyed" not dyspeptic. But hey, even dyspeptic he's got That Attitude.

>200 Whisper1: Hi Linda! So glad Lehigh has canceled so many times in your first week back. All this ice is truly stinko. We won't break freezing today. I fear that means another day of skating while walking the dog. Ick!

I "shoveled" about 6ft of sludge from in front of the garage and am I glad I did! It's dry there. Such a relief. All it taught me was that I am in no way capable of snow-shoveling. Even just shoving the slush aside was exhausting.

>201 michigantrumpet: I know, right?! He's addictive, is our Frumious!

>204 mckait: *smooch*

>205 rosalita: Three episodes! THREE CRUMMY EPISODES!! Of course, they're the length of a movie at 90min, but I'd take shorter and more with a happy smile. It was never more obvious to me that Martin Freeman is playing opposite his real-life wife than it was in "His Last Vow."

And I **totally** did not see the ending coming. AT ALL.

>193 richardderus: My oh my.

Did you know that Sherlock's parents in His Last Vow were actually Benedict Cumberbatch's real parents?? So cute.

I didn't either! The whole plot twist of Mary being a CIA assassin knocked me right out of my chair. I couldn't imagine how they were going to resolve it but I liked what they came up with. And yes, the ending!!!!

>208 norabelle414: Heh! They're doing weird and wonderful things with the in-jokes on this show, aren't they? I suppose it breeds even more loyal fans than it would otherwise.

>209 rosalita: And the bead-reading that John got from Sherlock and Mary was an excellent touch too. I love the fact that he's finally been called out as an adrenaline junky who can't live without his fix, which is why he loves Mary and Sherlock so much.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Hello, Pumpkin. Please try not to do any more shoveling; it's dangerous for you.

>211 richardderus:: Perfect. Also the quote you left on my thread is one of the best ever.

I'm saving the last season of "Sherlock" for an emergency when I'm having a difficult day.

Sunny here but below 40. Erk.

>212 Matke: Hiya Danvers! Trust me, frozen snow is a non-shovelable item even for the hale and hearty. I'm happy I did the little shovel-shoving I did because it means I can get out of the garage without terror. No more!

I thought you'd like that. And the one above is so true!

I'm enjoying the sunshine here, too. So much more satisfying than cloudy AND freezing cold.

#193Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Okay may have drooled on your thread again. I was already a fan, but he's just...well, yummy.

>214 BekkaJo: I don't think he's any great shakes as a looker, but I do love his persona. Very endearing that he loves reading too!

What a gorgeous drawing!

Benedict Cumberbatch . .hmmm. . does anyone have a towel for my drool puddle? :P

Three episodes and I've only seen the first one! We have BBC America here now and never could find Sherlock - they've been playing on PBS under Masterpiece: Mystery. It was my very brilliant son who introduced me to "Sherlock." He requested Seasons 1 & 2 of Sherlock for his birthday last year. :)

>216 connie53: I fell for it immediately, Connie. Apparently the illustrator has done a lot of Woolf books' illustrations. I didn't even know there were illustrated versions of them.

>217 leperdbunny: Heh! I hope that ol' Frumious Bandersnatch somehow learns of his myriad of fangirls here.

Rdear, I wish you a lovely evening. I need some slepp now

Sleep well, Barbara!

Thanks Rdear. I've posted your message on my thread. Perhaps someone will have a brilliant idea why it is so :-D.

Excellent idea! I'm completely bumfuzzled.

smooch

This one's fun:



Death by Flesh-Eating Swamp Beasts!

Curse of the Disco Vampires
Tickets to that please!

RD - You moved quickly with the Sunken Courtyard, impressed of Kuala Lumpur.

Noticed that Amber has yet another male taken to her heart. There will be none left soon (except Raph Fiennes).

The book is inside Bandersnatch's shirt but I don't know how it is going to get read or keep him "infinitely alive" unless he has some way of transmitting braille messages through his chest hair.

Death By Disco Zombies it is. Isn't that a "novel" written by one of those horrid sci-fi jobbies some of our peers love to peer at?

>226 avidmom: Yeah, me too! Two on the aisle, please.

>227 PaulCranswick: I don't think Frumious is among the thoracic follicley gifted. Amber does appear to have a broad-church attitude to male pulchritude.

>228 PaulCranswick: I think you did it backwards....

Ooops you're right RD - Should be Death by Disco Vampires - same writer though surely?

Attack of the Massive Sock Puppets.

Whelp, that seems about right.

Paul: Hey now, I haven't 100% decided that I like Cucumber Sandwich up there...

No middle name so it will have to a live-action short film: Terror of the sock puppets!

Marianne: Oh, I like that better anyway - seems more authentic, somehow.

Also, Richard, I forgot to mention that I had a BACON sandwich for dinner tonight and it was everything that I'd hoped it would be. Yum.

>230 PaulCranswick: I thought so, and yep it's a classic in the making by old Alan Smithee! (The fake name directors are allowed to use when they pull out of movies.)

>231 scaifea: Ha!!

>232 michigantrumpet: I like yours the best so far, Marianne, it's so pithy.

>233 scaifea: Bacon...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Terror of the Hairy Death Bots? Okaaaay, then. From a purse-lipped hoity-toity lady of the Middle Ages to hairy death bots, all in the same thread. Amazing! *smooches*

>235 Storeetllr: Ya know, as I see it, that's not a helluva change. *smoochings*

Haha, funny. :)

#195 avidmom,
It's a mystery!

bwahahaha, I see what you did there.

Monster Movie name: Curse of the Massive Vampires

Beware the Worrying Muffins? I should have known food would figure into it somehow.

Beware the Mutant Muffins!

Death by Flying Boy Bands? NOOOoooooooo!

PLEASE be careful on the ice / snow!!! I'd rather you didn't do any of that at all, but I know sometimes things like that are a necessity. Isn't there a nice neighbor kid you can get to do it? :(

Oh, by the way...

I am

Curse of the Flesh Eating Death Bots That sounds like quite the fun movie, huh?

Hi Richard!

And the sequel to Tina's movie:

"Beware! the Flesh Eating Death Bots". It's a much better movie title than my name from #109 - Muriel Cabrera. Yikes, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?

>237 Storeetllr:, 238 :-)

>239 AuntieClio: *eeeeeek*

>240 rosalita: *snerk*

>241 laytonwoman3rd: ...Mutant Muffins...*scratches head in puzzlement*

>242 ronincats: YIKES!!! Run away run away!!

>243 TinaV95: I just got in from Stella's last walk so no further ice-capades until tomorrow morning. I am certainly not going to shove a shovel around when the snow has iced over, never you fear.

I'll take two tickets for that one, please.

>244 Copperskye: Hi Joanne! Oooh, you got a crummy medieval name indeed. Neither one is good particularly, but together they're really bad.

I like your monster movie, though, it has that certain je ne sais quoi.

Beware the Disco Sock Puppets

I was totally terrified when I hit the word Disco

copyright curiouscatfish, etsy.com

“When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.”

― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

>247 SuziQoregon: No lie! Disco was truly, truly terrifying.

I can't remember who among my friends likes Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series (The Black Echo, The Last Coyote, The Black Box). Whoever it is, go to Amazon and watch Bosch! It's a new filmed series based on the novels and exec-produced by Connelly himself. Titus Welliver plays Bosch very well, IMO:

Invasion of the Muffins is in. Hi Richard!

Morning RD- I love the film Groundhog Day but I hate living it. It will not get above the freezing mark for the foreseeable future. Ugh!

Love #248!

Good morning rdear... I got nuthin' else.

>234 richardderus: I'm glorying in being called 'pithy'. I so rarely am called that! (Occupational hazard, I think.)

Thanks for the tip on the Bosch movie. I've read some of the books and liked them, so I'll check it out. That guy is much better looking than the Bosch in my head, though.

Oh, and the painting and quote in #248 are divine! I just picked up Their Eyes Were Watching God in an e-sale and I'm so looking forward to reading it at last.

>251 wilkiec: Hi Diana! Invade away, muffin.

>252 msf59: That quote made my heart skip a beat, Mark. So perfect. And the painting is beautiful, it's just been waiting for the right quote. Seriously sucky weather to do your job in, sorry old sport.

>253 mckait: *smoochings*

>254 michigantrumpet: Well, when words are the weapons in the daily battles one fights, "pithy" most often gets lost in "victory."

>255 rosalita: I don't have a mental Bosch, so he worked fine for me, and he has a beautiful baritone voice. Plus the pilot was very busy and exciting!

Terror of the Flesh-Eating Muffins

With an evil baker as the villain!

>257 Morphidae: I like that one, Morphy, an evil baker suits my sense of whimsy.

Beware! The Flesh-Eating Death Bots for me. Not bad, but I wish I had an XYZ name, so I could be Return of the Overly Keen Snuggle Badgers. That would be enough for me to see the first, pre-return, one.

The horror movie names just get better and better, eh Joe? Heh.

Terror of the Massive Boy Bands...hmmm...

And ME - I love Harry Bosch!! LOVE him! SO a huge thanks for that from your friend, Millicent Archer. All caught up here now - started at the medieval names, WANT the corner bookcase, loved the octopus gate, enjoyed the photo of the lovely Mr. Cumberbatch, skipped the spoilers of the latest season of Sherlock because I haven't seen any of the episodes yet, and now I'm off to watch that Bosch!!

Wishing for you a weekend full of fabulous, BigDaddy!

Well, I haven't made Bosch's acquaintance, but Titus Welliver... I may have to give it a look.

>261 Crazymamie: Oh good, Mamie, I'm glad you saw that post then. Vote him up on the poll, too, so we can see more episodes!

Fabulousness for your weekend, too!

>262 laytonwoman3rd: Welliver might convert you, Linda3rd. The pilot's a bit overcrowded, but I think that can be put down to a desire to show off so people will vote for them.

257 & 258:



"Battered by his own rolling pin!"

HA!! Wonderful. Netflix here I come!

Oh, Richard, you've never watched Wallace and Gromit?! Wow, you're in for a treat! There's also The Wrong Trousers, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, A Grand Day Out (their first), and A Close Shave. Not to mention their shorts, which are also adorable and hilarious.

>264 scaifea: Jumping up and down for joy here! XD

*waves* I'm not sticked between book covers but in the Olympic Game's opening :-D
Hi Rdear

for the movie- name game.

I don't have a middle name (or would that be your second birthname)

I am Cornelia Catharina Maria Simonis

So that would be: Attack of the disco Suck Puppets

>266 scaifea:, 267 I have a treat in store, obviously!

>268 Ameise1: Hi Barbara, the opening ceremonies must be watched indeed. Sending hugs!

>269 connie53: In US terms, your first name and last name are self-explanatory, and anything in between counts as a middle name. xoxo Connie

Beware the Sock Puppets, could have been worse.

Can't wait to see the Bosch pilot, now that I know you've given it your imprimatur.

Love the Their Eyes Were Watching God quote. What a wonderful little book.

"...when words are the weapons in the daily battles one fights, "pithy" most often gets lost in "victory."

Nice one. I may embroider that on a pillow! ;-P

Useful. Brilliant.

Great! I mispronounce everything!

>271 johnsimpson: Sure could have...see some above!

>272 Storeetllr: I really like it, so I hope you will too, Mary.

>273 michigantrumpet: Not a bad idea. That or a sampler.

They don't tell us how to say Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

I pronounce it "Fred Smith" and explain all the letters are silent.

Hi Richard! Thanks so much for that pronunciation guide. I just "favorited" it. And thanks also for the info on the Harry Bosch show. My husband loves those books. Sending you a big warm hug, warm enough to melt some of your slushy snow.

Hi Pat! Thanks for the snow-melter. It's been icky dealing with the refreezes and resultant black ice. But fortunately the puddles grow smaller with each refreeze due to evaporation.

*waves*

Handy pronunciation guide!

Morning RD! I hope your weekend will be happy!

I got a new fluffy blanky made by 4 of my nieces and their mom in the mail today. I think I'll be spending loads of time making friends with it. Just so you know. :-)

Enjoy, Stephanie, It sounds very comfy!

Good morning Rdear. Due to the help from Paul and especially Jim there should be NO excuse anymore to stop by my thread

Oh, it is Saturday! Lovely!

I am in my home, my wifi is hooked up, and later today (maybe) the last of my "stuff" will also be moved into place. I have no excuses left for not visiting here frequently. I hope all is well with you today.

>281 leperdbunny: Hi Tamara! *smooch*

>282 connie53: Isn't it, Connie? I was impressed that it exists, despite it many omissions.

>283 AuntieClio: Ooo! Thoughtful giftie indeed, Stephanie. Enjoy it.

>284 connie53: +1

>285 Ameise1: Jim messaged me that the problem seemed to result from the link pointing to your German-language thread for no known reason. I'll be by directly.

>286 maggie1944: Hi Karen44! Congratulations on the "stuff"ing of the house. A home again...so satisfying.

>274 richardderus: Wow, have I been getting a lot of those wrong. >277 laytonwoman3rd: Good one, Linda! I hope that gets added to the pronunciation list.

Lethem is LEETH-um? Who knew?

>248 richardderus:: Magnificent combination of art and literature. Well done, Rdear.

>264 scaifea:: You really have a treat in store with Wallace and Gromit. I find them hysterical, but then I am a fan of oddball weird unusual things, including clay-mation. I'll be interested in your take on them.

>274 richardderus:: Oh dear. I find I pronounce about 4 of them correctly. I'm most grateful for the chart.

>Assorted: Thanks for the tip on Bosch tv. I do love my Netflix.

I hope this week-end will remain peaceful for you. xo

>289 jnwelch: A lot of those are commonly mispronounced, Joe, and I suspect Lethem is the most often butchered. It's not intuitive.

>290 Matke: Thanks, Danvers. That would make a nice change.