TPBM 89 - The ISBN group identifier for books published in Korea

TPBM has a book published in Korea (so can check this thread title)

'Fraid not.

The person below me has a book published in Korean.

Nyet!

TPBM takes it on faith.

Naw, mostly I'm a fact-checking skeptic.

My late husband had a book pirated in Russian, if that counts for anything.

TPBM knows what counts.

My two year old nephew. He loves to count. He refers to his Mom as "one" and his grandma as "two".

Actually, I was born in South Korea...does that count?

TPBM counts something else.

The hours until the weekend starts.

TPBM's favorite fairytale is ___________.

The one with death rays, Jack Daniels, skinny dipping, and happily ever after.

TPBM prefers the one that ____________.

I do not "have to see". Like all the TV soaps friends tell me to watch as "you would like it". I never do, with limited exceptions.

TPBM is reading a very special book.

I am listening to The Goldfinch on Audible and am reading H is for Hawk and while I don't know if they're special, I think they're both good.

TPBM has a BFF.

My sister. The older we get, the closer we get.

TPBM is excited that one of their authors has a new book coming out.

I am currently reading By its Cover by Donna Leon. That is the penultimate book in the Commissario Brunetti series with her latest, Falling in Love, just out and waiting on the shelf. I think her writing is super, great characters and a wonderful sense of location (Venice). She is getting on a bit but shows no sign of flagging: long may she, and Guido and Paola Brunetti, continue.

TPBM has another favourite series they will tell us about, unless they want to take us Off-Topic!

I liked the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, but as a rule don't usually read too many series (well I did start the Rabbit Run series, but after reading first one am waiting awhile to continue- not sure if I like Rabbit).

TPBM is having trouble getting back into the work groove after an extra day off.

>12 morningwalker: //You are clearly not alone in respect of Rabbit Angstrom - see the LT stats I found here - https://www.librarything.com/topic/195241 //

Just read the David Kynaston's Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem about my own boyhood Britain. Each volume is around 850 pages so they were difficult to pick up and impossible to put down!

TPBM is also difficult to put down.

Hmm...well I've pondered this, and I believe, with gravitational pull and all that, it would be easier to put me down, than to lift me up.

//>13 abbottthomas: My problem is, while I was reading Rabbit Run, I happened upon Rabbit at Rest at a book sale and I bought it thinking it was next in line, only to discover Rabbit Redux is next - so do I now continue the series because I own the 3rd one?Even though I don't like Rabbit I am curious about what happens to him. Should I just put Rabbit Redux in the things to get rid of pile and forget him?? I don't know.//

TPBM solves mysteries.

>15 morningwalker: // Don't forget Rabbit is Rich - Rabbit at Rest is actually number 4. My feeling, for what it is worth, is that if you are curious you should probably stay with it. I don't much like Rabbit myself but is that a criterion for enjoying a book? Thinking about it, I suppose that I like the central character(s) of most of the books I like...... A mystery I'm not solving! //

Do I?

//>12 morningwalker: I think Updike is unreadable. More's the pity, he seems like he'd be fun to hand out with.//

TPBM has a clue.

No, I have >16 abbottthomas: telling me to continue and >17 SomeGuyInVirginia: telling me to stop...ooohh what to do?

TPBM will make the decision.

Stop for this moment in this book, put it away for a long while. Go to read other books, and when you are still curious about the rabbit after that, continue, otherwise stop.

TPBM knows what to read next

Almost never, my TBR list is a joke.

TPBM has gone over their shelves and thought 'I don't have anything to read!'

Are you kidding?? Never. I feel guilt when I look at my shelves because I keep slinking off to the local library and getting the latest, greatest, prettiest books, while the patient classics and other books on my own shelves sit gathering dust, waiting, sighing, w a i t i n g...:(

TPBM waits patiently.

Whatever, I'm going out. Text me when it starts.

TPBM is a perfect speller.

Nobody's perfect, not even those who graduate from my spellcasting classes. But I do make them use a spell-checker, hahahahahah...

TPBM laughs less manically.

Maniacal laughter is the best!!

TPBM sighs wearily.

I did yesterday because I have been pulled into a project at work that my boss should have been successful at but hasn't been. HIS boss was getting pressure so roped some of us into a full court press. Two days last week with more coming up. Weary sigh.

TPBM has had a completely problem-free week.

HaHaHaHaHa.

My lawn mower started blowing smoke out the carburetor, so I loaded it into the van to take to the shop. It jumped the wheel block and smashed through the rear window. The temporary wrap failed in a rainstorm... Those are just the highlights.

TPBM has a sane perspective.

SANE!! What's sane??? Not completely INsane yet, but getting there as I prepare for a garage sale with a lot of accumulated junk AND good stuff that I just stand over and wonder why I kept this, and how I can give that, away because it evokes so many memories.

TPBM remembers ________.

Oh yes. Having "Decluttered and Downsized" just two months I remember that feeling very well, particularly my books (clutter!?!). However some went to my sons, and as my youngest pointed out, I have now space to buy and shelve some more.
I call whats left my 'core' (SGiV calls his the "Travelling library".

TPBM can explain the current phenomena of "Too much Stuff".

It certainly seems related to the "Paperless society" myth.

TPBM will give us more of an explanation for "Too Much Stuff."

//Everything that >27 morningwalker: is offering in the yard sale.//

We've been indoctrinated into a consumer mindset where more stuff = better and happier. However, we are instead terrified that we either don't have enough stuff or we don't know what we're supposed to do with the stuff we have.

Cleaning out a loved one's possessions gives you a whole 'nuther perspective on stuff. The moment a person dies, their treasured possessions become just stuff someone else has to deal with. Or you can not deal with it and add to your own accumulation of stuff that someone else will deal with when you die.

TPBM has something cheerful to say on the subject.

Yes, I completely agree with >31 PhaedraB:. I am very careful about bringing more "stuff" into my home (books excluded of course) these days and am trying to be kind to survivors when I die and they have to get rid of everything.

TPBM would really like to buy a baby blue never been used set of left-hand women's golf clubs.

Goodness! No, thank you. Although they would match the way I play "Gof".

TPBM however has already contacted >32 morningwalker: and made an offer.

No. I am unfamiliar with left-handed golf.

TPBM can explain the how it is played.

Left-handedly?

TPBM knows more about golf than I do.

Nope. Can't tell you squat about golf.

The person below me is slacking off.

That depends on your definition of "slacking off". I got home from work about an hour ago and am having a salad while my frozen dinner is cooking. Other than catching up on stuff online, I'm not doing anything "useful".

TPBM is a busy bee today.

My Gods, I did dishes before I needed to, and then washed a floor. Because I was bored. Something is very wrong with me.

TPBM gives things a good cleaning every year or so whether it needs it or not.

Whenever company is coming. Company doesn't come very often...

TPBM keeps up with the housework, and never has a mad scramble to get things tidied up for company.

I used to. Not so much anymore, but my sister and I are planning on Italian dinner for rest of family this weekend with homemade pasta and all the fixins, so I suppose I will have to make a mad scramble and make sure the cats have left no hairballs behind the chairs. Oh, what I do for my family...

TPBM appreciates __________.

Caprese Salad.
Good Job Morningwalker!

TPBM is expert in making___

Reservations.

TPBM has no reservations.

About dressing up as a rhinestone cowboy for Halloween. But even fewer reservations about reading Midnight Cowboy.

TPBM thinks midnight is the best night.

I'm more of a "morning" person myself.

TPBM will describe the view from their desk, living room, wherever they spend most of their time.

I look at a yellow wall over my monitor at work. I don't really like the color, but have no say in the matter.

TPBM found they are classic.

Wiki says "A classic is an outstanding example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality."
So yes ... except for the Timeless bit!

TPBM thought it just meant old.

I'm not old, I'm classic. Or is that "vintage?"

TPBM knows.

Speaking for myself "wizened" comes to mind. Especially after this week.

TPBM is a spring chicken.

Not really. (And neither is that last post, by the standard of the thread.)

The person below me is picking up the pieces.

Trying to. Working crazy hours, wanting to visit sister who's in crisis mode in California but can't, just figured out that all the Playmaker's Repertory tickets I have between now and April are for the first Sunday of the month..... which, coincidentally, is when we always have bookclub. Busy Sundays.

Pieces everywhere.

TPBM has a much more relaxed schedule.

Retired now, so my schedule is very much my own. Of course, I did retire because of illness, so much of the time I don't want to do much anyway.

TPBM has it just right.

Hardly, 'life in balance' means nothing to me.

TPBM watches the clouds roll by.

Yes. They were very beautiful this morning.

T PBM has a decision to make.

Yes, and it's a whopper. Which is why I won't decide today.

TPBM relies on the kindness of strangers.

I wouldn't say I rely on it, but I appreciate it!

TPBM has been kind to a stranger lately.

I'm always kind to the strange.

TPBM inserted frog DNA into the mix.

Is that why they put so many hops into the local beer?

TPBM can explain.

Well I could explain, but then I'd have to bore you to death.

TPBM never explains.

I would, but it's sooo complicated.

TPBM is hungry for _________.

Ice cream. Not too fussy - - can be
maple walnut, orange sherbet, or
pineapple-coconut.

TPBM has had the sad experience of
telling the customer that she/he (TPBM)
does not have the requested flavor* of ice cream.

*after being under strict orders to answer
the customerʻs question "what flavors do
you have" with "ALL flavors!", whereas the
truth was "chocolate, coffee, strawberry,
and vanilla."

I have never worked in a food service job of any kind. I do live fairly near a very famous gelato place with 518 flavours of gelato including wasabi, curry and pesto. I usually stick to cappuccino or tiramisu.

TPBM has a favourite weird flavour combination.

No weird combinations come to mind, but I do like a lot of ethnic foods and flavors.

TPBM has tried one or more of the weird new Lays potato chip flavors.

My favorite is the red curry, but I'm not sure if that was Lays or not.

TPBM thinks it's better with bacon.

Would that be BWB in today's language?

TPBM tweets a lot.

My favorite candy store (Senoia, GA) sells bacon fudge. Chocolate fudge drenched in dressing of crushed real bacon. They think it's better with bacon. My favorite weird combination is homemade pickled beets and Roquefort cheese sandwiches made with homemade whole wheat bread.

TPBM has invented an original sandwich seen nowhere else outside his/her own home.

>65 Limelite: //that sandwich sounds WONDERFUL. My version was dill pickles and any kind of cheese on any kind of bread that was around.//

I don't think I invented anything, but my ex husband used to make peanut butter, American cheese food product, mustard and lettuce sandwiches. I swear, I couldn't even watch him eating them.

TPBM has a good one.

Ever eaten cornflakes with orange juice? Much better than with milk for me.

TPBM has an even better one

>67 PhaedraB: //hold the lettuce, add bologna and pickle relish, sometimes switch the mustard for mayo, and ya have sandwiches I eat sometimes.//

The Elvis special, peanut butter, mayo, bananas, and drizzled with honey. That's good eating.

TPBM is beguiled again.

Yes, beguiled by your definition of "good" eating!
So that's what happened to Elvis!

TPBM will offer us a healthy alternative.

>71 John_Vaughan: //Boy, you don't know what you been missing.//

>72 SomeGuyInVirginia: // Surely that's Buddy Holly, not Elvis.//

>73 abbottthomas: //Psst...they're the same guy, like Clark Kent is Superman with glasses. Don't tell the others.//

Grilled mozzarella cheese with thinly sliced tomatoes on whole grain bread. Butter, not margarine. Tomatoes fresh from the garden if at all possible. Sloppy and wonderful.

//as a teenager, I babysat for a family from Birmingham, Alabama. they were the first Southerners I remember meeting, although I'm sure other neighbors and schoolkids in my life prior to that were from the South. One day I came over to babysit while the girls (ages 3 and 4) were eating dinner - peanut butter, mayo, and banana sandwiches, open face. I was appalled and the cleanup was worth much more than my $.50/hour rate. I had never heard of anything so strange in my entire life. Mind you, the grandmother who lived with us ate a wedge of lettuce with Miracle Whip and sugar every night with dinner, but to me that was normal. :) )

TPBM has another ingredient they put on a grilled cheese sandwich.

Naw, I just do the fresh tomato thing. But back in the '70s I used to lunch at a restaurant that had a peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich (on toast) on the menu. Pretty good.

//Also back in the '70s I used to know a gal from a very small town in Alabama who ate pineapple rings (canned) with mayo on white bread.//

TPBM has another inspiration.

Yes, even though the weather has been very pleasant and warm for fall, I'm going to make chili this week. Hmm...maybe some roasted butternut squash with sizzling sage to go with it.

TPBM recently got a new electronic gadget and has it all figured out.

I haven't even figured out everything about Word yet. Arrgh.

TPBM is a 'go-go-gadget' kind of individual.

// >77 morningwalker: Your address, please? I'll be there - just tell me when (sic)//

I like gadgets but they must serve a purpose - my latest is an internet radio of sorts as long as my line stays up!

TPBM has a good recipe for Delecota winter squash. I had to buy mine as the ground hogs love them as well as everything else in my garden.

I had to retire from that hobby 3 or 4 years ago after over 30 years due to all the predators eating everything. When there were 20 gardens in the area they took a little here and a little there. I was the last one around so they all ended up in my garden no matter how tall or deep the fence.

Just split it, bake it flesh side down with olive oil. Sizzle some fresh sage in browned butter. Slice squash and drizzle butter over it and salt and pepper.

//>79 ulmannc: sorry but made Italian dinner with homemade pasta for 11 people last weekend (which was great time for one and all) and had garage sale this weekend and just can't fathom any entertaining this week. I'll catch you next time. I too had pesky groundhog problem so moved veggie garden to different area and turned old garden into perennial flower garden.//

TPBM is eccentric.

So they tell me. I wear it as a badge of pride.

TPBM is proud of ____________.

Never resorting to cannibalism.

TPBM also believes in setting realistic goals.

i remember to change my socks and underwear every single day!

TPBM also has a realistic goal.

Being fully awake by ten a.m. Do not, I admit, always completely achieve it. But then, its only a goal.

TPBM scores goals.

//SGiV: The Survival At Sea course I took 50 odd years ago included a section "Food Tips".//

Oh yeah, otherwise they're just nagging suggestions.

//>84 John_Vaughan: I do know that drunks don't take like Kobe beef. Don't ask how.//

TPBM has achieved enlightenment.

Hardly, otherwise what's a heaven for?

//taste like Kobe beef. Drunks don't taste like Kobe beef. I've heard.//

TPBM is burning to read a recently purchased book.

Haven't purchased one lately, but there are many on the bookshelf that I'm burning to read (if I could just stay away from the library). Today is first cool fallish day and days are getting shorter so it's just a matter of time before I can devote more time to reading and maybe get to them.

TPBM wonders ________.

Who wrote the book of love?

TPBM ponders ________ .

...my TBR shelf. It's already double-stacked. I spend so much time cataloging stuff I'm too tired to read.

TPBM is too tired to _________.

To do anything, but there's no one else to do it. *sigh*

TPBM will recommend an over-the-counter sleep aid.

A book.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. But reading myself to sleep is my only aid.

TPBM last stayed up all night to finish this book. . .

>90 Thwaite: Benedryl, or a shot of Nyquil. Both do wonders.

I'm sure there were some that I stayed up late to read after The Stand by Stephen King, (when it was first published) but that is the one that I remember consuming and even remember that my hand got sore from holding the book for such long periods of time.

TPBM remembers when_____.

I read Christie's And Then There Where None under a shade tree at college and being absolutely chilled by it. Ditto Nineteen Eighty-four but that was a different college and in the desert.

TPBM knows that ______________.

I should never start reading a novel after 10:00 pm because I have no self-discipline and will not put the book down at a reasonable hour and turn off the light. I can read essays or short stories before bed.

TPBM has more self-control than I.

Hardly. I was up till 3 am playing games on my phone because I was too tired to concentrate on reading.

TPBM knows insomnia is a __________.

Melon cauliflower.

TPBM knows nothing - for sure

Absolutely, ask anyone.

TPBM is all ______________.

_ set to get the down jacket and heavy gloves out. Brrr!

TPBM knows what tomorrow will bring.

If I knew that - I'd be buying a lottery ticket right now.

TPBM ______.

Que sera sera.

TPBM lives in the moment.

What else do we have? I hate to get all philosophical, but it's true.

TPBM lives in, lived in, or wants to live in a yurt.

As with so many things, they were romantic in my youth, but now I need an indoor bathroom with grab bars. Plus, somewhere to put all the books.

I did have a friend whose dad used to live in a tepee with Timothy Leary. Ah, those were the days!

TPBM has another story of housing brushes with fame.

The closest I get is working in the museum where the Wyeths visited with Chris Sanderson long before I started volunteering there. Haven't slept there other than maybe dozing off once.

TPBM actually did brush with fame while awake!

Does smoking dope with Jimi Hendrix's drummer count?

TPBM knows.

I "nose" that when a toddler, I lived next door to 40s crooner Peggy Lee's sister. My own aunt was a "B" actress in several 3 Stooges classics and her boyfriend was a famous California artist known mostly for his pin-ups (my aunt included), Ted Withers. I slept in both their houses before I was school age.

TPBM has an "A" lister celebrity in his/her family tree.

If I do, I don't know about it.

The person below me has a tenuous claim to possessing A-list status.

So tenuous - it's A- (that's minus) list status.

TPBM has met someone famous.

Best I can think is that I've exchanged emails with Tom Bodett.

TPBM can do better than that.

I have a cousin who had her own tee-bee show on Showtime and did a bunch of movies.

I know TPBM is famous.

A legend in my own mind! I have had several brushes with "celebrity-types"however. I’ve met and chatted with Farley Mowat, Louise Penny and Jeff Lindsay, and had lunch with John Waters. I was a guest at a small reception where the guests of honour were one of the UK princes & wife. Also, while having dinner at a nice restaurant with a bunch of friends one evening, in walked Daniel Craig who was seated at the table across from us but, since I didn’t know who he was, he doesn’t really count.

TPBM eschews celebrity types.

HELL no! I am a devoted follower of celebrity culture. Oh my gawd, John Waters?!

//Shameless plug: Please feel free to post your favorite, less know, shockers to Exceptional thrillers that deserve a wider audience, a list I'm working on.//

TPBM eschews celebrity types.

Well, where I live I don't have to, as the celebrities are few and far between.

//>112 SomeGuyInVirginia:, hmm, interesting list so far. If I come across any I think would be worthy, I'll add them.//

TPBM is impressed with >111 Jenni_Canuck: and all the hob-nobbing she does. (who is Daniel Craig?)

>111 Jenni_Canuck: Jenni. John Waters. The beans. Spill them.

//
>114 SomeGuyInVirginia:
John Waters, party of 4, your table is ready
The annual International Festival of Authors is a major literary event which runs over 10 days at the end of October in Toronto. I’ve been working at this event for almost 20 years. The last 16-17 years, my job has been to take care of the Hospitality Suite. In 2010, John Waters attended to present Role Models. Shortly after the lunch rush on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, my nephew dropped by because he’d just lost his job and my colleague and I were consoling him while we cleaned up and prepped our own lunch. As we were about to sit down, John Waters arrived. He was hungry. I prepped some food for him. We sat around a coffee table, he sat on the floor, chatted with us and told stories for at least an hour. It was a slow afternoon, no one else came in during that time. That was the day I had lunch with John Waters.

If you're ever in Toronto at the end of October, drop by, we can have lunch and you never know who else might show up :-)
//

Ermagerd! I've heard he was approachable but I had no idea.

>113 morningwalker: Daniel Craig is the actor who is currently portraying James Bond.

I've met two Doctor Who actors: John Pertwee and Patrick Troughton. Also met George R.R. Martin before he was famous, and a bunch of actors -- John Malkovich, William H. Macy -- before they were famous (my second husband was an actor). However, I'm somewhat prosopagnosic, so it's difficult for me to recognize famous people, especially actors not in character.

TPBM has a cool story about _____________.

Nothing I'll put into writing.

TPBM, however, is more relaxed, has more forgiving overlords or a better legal team and does have a cool story about __________.

I went to see CATS on Broadway for a milestone birthday and it was awesome. My first Broadway play. The CATS would come out and roam around the audience, rubbing on you or prowling in the aisles. I was surprised how small the theatre was too. Nothing like NYC!
//>117 PhaedraB: thanks for keeping me informed. I don't watch much TV so I don't know what's going on in entertainment anymore.//

TPBM has observed _____________.

That neighbors, like revenge, are a dish best served cold.

>119 morningwalker: I'm going to NYC early next year to catch a bunch of shows, first time for me, too. I'm really looking forward to it.

TPBM is all about the bass.

Yeah, and I'm bringing booty back too!

>120 SomeGuyInVirginia: Wow! Hope it's magical for you.//

TPBM doesn't look back.

You saw the back of my van, eh? So full of stuff that still needs to be put in the ground that rear view mirror is pretty worthless temporarily.

TPBM digs it.

Yes, I've just dug up all my potatoes and stored them safely for the winter.

TPBM digs deeper...

Not in this town, I don't.

TPBM dug out.

I’ve been digging out my basement, does that count? I’m about to abandon that project and head out to the country for an extra-long Canadian Thanksgiving weekend with my family. Looking forward to our annual apple picking adventure. The kids I used to lift up to reach the apples are now taller than I am! *sigh*

TPBM is feeling ________________

Sympathy for @Jenni_Canuck. Are you using the shovel and bucket method? Lord love you!

TPBM is thinking "Pie season!"

I should; the farmers market is so lovely this time of year. But as a household of one, cakes and pies are more than I can consume in a reasonable time.

TPBM can eat _____________.

// >126 2wonderY: LOL, a backhoe would be really useful! //

No fat. Just call me Jack Sprat.

TPBM will recommend a delectable dessert to take to a Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh, so many ways to go with that. Fudge, cheesecake, and snickerdoodle or gingersnap cookies are my favorites.

TPBM will help narrow it down.

I suggest either pumpkin bundt cake or pumpkin cake bars, recipes for both of which may be found on my now-abandoned food blog:
http://www.neopagan.net/files/tag-pumpkin.php

TPBM blogs about _______________.

// >129 SylviaC: If you want something really really simple, try sliced persimmons drizzled with a little lemon juice and honey, then sprinkle some finely chopped mint leaves over the top making sure the star shape shows through. Add a little whipped cream on the side and stick a whole mint leaf in the cream. You can peel the persimmons if that's how you prefer to eat them. Pretty and pretty delicious :-) //

No, I don't think I'm that interesting. I did look at your abandoned one >131 PhaedraB: and the black bean soup with sweet potatoes looks good. I'll have to go back again and look around.

TPBM has a favorite blog.

I don't, which is weird because I'd think that I would. I had a blog for a while, Held Prisoner by a Japanese Camera Club. I stopped because it wasn't that funny and everyone said I was doing it wrong. Reading it was like reading my diary though, I forgot a lot of that stuff. (Also, Wayne T. Hurley is a nom de guerre.)

TPBM has been in front of the cameras.

Not for a long time, and just for the news. I had a couple of jobs for which the local news wanted to do a short interview. And, of course, the family loves to take pictures. I spent a lot more time in front of a radio mic.

The person below me has good intentions.

XOR!

Yes, but it rained.

TPBM has another excuse. (Don't blame it on the dog!)

Laziness and disinterest.

TPBM has more commitments than they can meet.

I did (the aforementioned Canadian Thanksgiving with my various families) but some things got cancelled so I actually have time for cuppa this afternoon.

TPBM understands that an afternoon is not complete without a good cup of tea.

Neither are mornings and evenings. Nights can sometimes be fine without a good cup of tea, but there are exceptions.

TPBM still appreciates Christopher Columbus.

Nope. Happy Bartolome Day.

TPBM is enjoying this fall weather with a bonfire.

Enjoying the beautiful fall weather today because rain and cooler temperatures predicted for tomorrow. I love looking up through yellow and orange leaves at a blue sky. Also like the night (or early morning in my case) sky and saw 2 shooting stars on my walk this morning.

TPBM enjoys fall by ________.

Baking and roasting. In the summer, it's too hot to turn on the oven.

TPBM loves autumnal ______________.

Visits to the graves of mine enemies.

TPBM is grounded.

Well, I did move a lot of clay soil and gravel yesterday. And it still shows around the fingernails. Is that how you knew?

TPBM would rather not sweat.

//Goodness >145 2wonderY: you dig SGiV's graves for him?//

Do not have a lot of choice, living in Florida, unless we travel.

TPBM would rather not be an enemy.

I'm getting too old for savage joys.

//>146 John_Vaughan: 2wY knows where all the bodies are buried.//

TPBM loves others as meat loves salt.

Hmm...I was confused by this until I went in search of internet references (just one of many - http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014/04/as-meat-loves-salt-folktale.html). What did we do pre-internet??? I guess I love some that much.

TPBM takes advantage of all things pumpkin this time of year.

Gah! No. I don't like the taste at all. It's pretty big, I guess, at least as far as coffee goes. Either that, or Starbucks has turned up the PR bubble machine. I did try their Christmas coffee and would rather be tired.

TPBM has seen the Great Pumpkin.

Nope, that would ruin the magic. I don't even go looking.

TPBM likes to walk in the woods.

Yes, following Bryson's footsteps. (in mind)

TBPM has a story about getting lost in a forest

The only time I've been lost was when I had a map and a compass. And I was very lost. Fortunately the US Army was there to show me the error of my ways.

TPBM is a force to be reckoned with.

Like the Mighty Mississippi, buster!

TPBM counts.

...his blessings? Usually.

TPBM takes things with a pinch of salt.

Sure, as long as it's on the rim of a margarita glass.

TPBM always takes an umbrella.

I have three in the car. Of course, if I have to walk from the apt to the car, they don't do me any good.

TPBM knows what does do good.

Eating all your veggies.

TPBM is going to see a movie this weekend.

Probably not. I'm supposed to be packing for a river cruise only the river doesn't have enough water. Now I'm deciding if I want to bus tour instead. Decisions are for the decisive!

The person below me walks on the wild side.

SGiV: I know I've been pretty absent. No excuse, just not much online time lately.

// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9Or8rE_Dc
I just have to put this clip up - possibly the best work of the peerless Saul Bass. He overcranked the shots of the cat walking, making it slow down to look like a leopard's walk. The cat fight was built up from a couple of roll-overs when two cats were thrown together, with shots of each cat as the other was waved over it (No animals were injured in the making of this credit!). //

I don't walk, no. Well, to the car. "If the good lord", said a friend from Maine." had wanted us to walk he woudna have invented cars".

TPBM knows why >145 2wonderY: fights squirells and did not share her German Chocolate Cake (Black Forest Gateaux) with the rest of us.

I'll hazard a guess it's because German Chocolate Cake and Black Forest Cake are two different confections. I'll pass on the former; German Chocolate Cake has coconut in the frosting, which is a good way to ruin perfectly good chocolate.

TPBM would settle for recipes.

But would prefer books on North Korea like the one I'm reading now, Without You, There Is No Us, which kinda closes the loop on the thread topic. 978-0-307-72066-5

TPBM has a new idea for us to play off.

//>161 PhaedraB: That was just an instant translation of US and English Phae. The true gateaux, unlike the US version has BOOZE in it, in fact Wiki says "German statutory interpretation states Kirschwasser as a mandatory ingredient, otherwise the cake is legally not allowed to be marketed as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte."//

///>163 John_Vaughan: Yes, I knew that. I follow that same thread. :-)///

Okay, let's go with bad Jokes for Monday. I'll start.

What do you call an alligator wearing a vest? An In-vest-igator. Ha Ha (do I hear mild laughter out there??

TPBM will continue.

teehee!

I just got off the phone with a friend now living in Nunavut. She said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature has dropped way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. Her husband has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. She says that if it gets much worse, she may have to let him in.

TPBM will continue.

Bwahaha!

Did you hear about the guy who invented Lifesavers? He made a mint.

TPBM will continue.

Read the obituary of Angus McGill today. He was a British journalist and comic strip creator and liked Tom Swifties. In his memory here is one:

"I seem to have mislaid my buttonhole," said Tom, lackadaisically.

TPBM will continue in the vein of his or her choice.

According to the scientific evidence conducted by researchers of LaughLab at the University of Hertfordshire, led by Richard Wiseman, this is the world's funniest joke:

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says "OK, now what?

//>169 Limelite: Nice one, where's da kicker?

A guy was driving in a car with his blonde girlfriend. He told her to stick her head out the window and see if the blinker worked. She stuck her head out and said, "Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes..."

TPBM will carry on.

///>170 SomeGuyInVirginia: Well, I thought ya'll would die laffin'.

A man on his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, God said, "Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish." The biker pulled over and said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want." God replied, "Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind." The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, "God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women; I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing's wrong, why she snaps and complains when I try to help, and how I can make a woman truly happy." God replied: "You want two lanes or four on that bridge...?"

TPBM has another one.

>169 Limelite: //sorry, but this is the worlds funniest joke. It's so funny you'll die laughing. (Well, at least if you're a German soldier in WWII.)

"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"

And here's the video to go with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U //

A young Texan walks into a bar and orders a drink. "Got any ID?" asks the bartender. The Texan replies, "About what?"

TPBM has another.

>174 SomeGuyInVirginia: *giggle/snort*

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started." Her boyfriend asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?" The blonde says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster." Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster." He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep sigh "Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."

TPBM has another.

he he..*snort*

Okay, 2 guys walk into a bar.

You would have thought at least one of them would have seen it!!!

TPBM has another.

In honor of Halloween- There was a knock on the door in the early hours. The man went downstairs, opened the door, and a voice said "Will you give me a push, buddy?" The man was very angry, saying that this was a ridiculous hour to be knocking on the door and waking people up, and he slammed the door and went back upstairs to bed. When his wife asked who it was, he told her some lunatic asking for a push. She said "You shouldn't have refused him; don't you remember when we broke down and had to ask for a push?", so he went downstairs again, opened the door and said "OK buddy, where are you?" And a voice said "Over here on the swings.”

//Oh to be in Las Vegas now that Halloween's there. I have a jones.//

TPBM has another.

///>173 rastaphrog:

I yield to Monty Python in all things funny. Thank goodness I'm unable to read the joke! Otherwise, you'd be posting the video of, "Bring out your dead!"

TPBM carries on.

Two guys walk into a bar. The third guy ducks.

TPBM has a good one.

Courtesy of one of the Vlogbrothers joke videos:
♫ Billy was a chemist's son, but Billy is no more: ♪
♪ What he thought was H₂O was H₂SO₄ ♫

The person below me has another one.

Dyslexic man walks into a bra

TPBM can do better

A rabbi, a priest, and a bishop walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"

TPBM will continue or find something better to go with.

How many Freudian analysts does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change it, and the other to hold the penis. LADDER! I meant ladder!

TPBM carries on.

The past, the present, and the future all walk into a bar. It was tense.

The person below me will keep going.

Snort!

Happy Back to the Future Day, everybody!

Oops. I forgot to refresh and ended up being behind the times. My apologies!

>186 xorscape: When were you?

TPBM has a clue.

I haven't, you can ask anybody. Clueless.

TPBM plays Clue.

Not for years. Although I find the answer "Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick" an irresistible, but probably annoying, answer to "who did it"?

TPBM plays Monopoly

Not for years. But I did know a Colonel Mustard back in the 70's. He was in the Catering Corps.

TPBM plays mind games.

I'm behind again. When was I? Who knows.

So, for the puns: If you can't choose between an angry psychic and a sad psychic, you'll have to find a happy medium.

Now on to 190. I try never play mind games. If your mind is clouded or in a fog you may have mist some opportunities.

The person below me looks for opportunities.

Edit: I love Clue!

Yes! It's a world of wonders, I tell ya!

TPBM has a secret to tell.

No, my life is an open book.

TPBM has an open book nearby.

Besides my life? The stack of books closest to me are closed.

TPBM reads more than one at a time.

I used to, one fiction and one nonfiction, but got out of the habit.

The one I'm reading now is Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling

TPBM collects something unusual.

I used to collect murder mysteries with occult elements, but they became so common it wasn't worth the effort anymore. Just sold a bunch of them a few days ago.

///I've read a couple of the Galbraiths and enjoyed them very much.///

TPBM has way too many _________________.

Well what do you think if I'm here! So we went booking yesterday and brought some more home. First time I've been to these shops in Central PA.

TPBM found some new shops in ______.

Nothing! I need more books like I need to split a time-share with my ex. Although I may have to go out and buy a sweater at lunch because I ran out of the apartment this morning without one and it's cold and stuff.

TPBM is sure.

Does reasonable assurance that I took an auditing midterm yesterday count?

The person below me got the reference.

The old 'reasonable man' gag?

TPBM knows why the spelling autocorrect on phones think I didn't really mean to swear when I clearly did.

Because spellcheckers "know better." That's a reasonable guess you made (just to beat a dying horse), but not the reference intended: the official hint is in just what kind of a midterm I took.

The person below me is bonkers.

No! And I have the paperwork to prove it.

>201 AnnaClaire: Sorry I haven't a clue.

TPBM eschews entanglements.

Whenever I can. I also eschew crowds, turnpikes, people who babble about nothing, and donuts ( I don't know why, I just don't like them).

TPBM eschews ______.

Violence.

TPBM however LOVES a good punch-up.

For the record, I eschew anything that looks edible as long as it's not moving.

A good punch, up to the lips and past the tongue, look out stomach here it comes is fine by me, especially as the temps cool down.

TPBM even enjoys dusting his/her books. EsCHEW!

Well, most of them are so crowded on the shelves, double- and triple-stacked, and crammed in willy nilly (but without hurting their little spines) that they don't need to be dusted per se. Perhaps a row or two on the top, dusted VERY occasionally. Any cleaning activity, when actually undertaken, is enjoyable when one can get instant gratification.

TPBM has some fantastic shelves with glass fronts to prevent having to dust the books.

Not really, although I've seen LT profiles where people do have them. I've got an old secretary with two shelves that have glass doors over the writing area. I keep older or fragile stuff there.

TPBM's library is entirely in an orderly, clean, well lighted place.

And I know a person who would be glad to sell you a bridge! I keep my books that are like that in a 2 shelf barrister cabinet but I do have to leave them propped open a bit at the bottom to assure air circulation! 100 year old books need to breath!

TPBM has another bridge to sell!

No, just one to cross, when I come to it.

TPBM hates when work at work takes up LT time.

Snort, yeah. I mean NO! I never LT at work!

TPBM buys it.

I'll swear to it in court.

TPBM has our back.

Oh yeah. And I'm on your side too.

TPBM has a favorite scary movie they will be watching tomorrow night.

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. Ahmoan bea awt. However, my favorite scary movie of all time is Black Christmas. God I love that movie.

TPBM plays music while ___________.

Driving.

TPBM drives while __________.

Cursing the traffic, the road construction everywhere, the pedestrians texting while slowly crossing the street...

TPBM drives with more equanimity.

Mostly, since where I live, there is very little traffic.

TPBM drives a hard bargain.

Naw. I'm pretty squishy, and a former boyfriend told me that I was a retailer's dream.

TPBM will drive out of their way to get a better price on gas.

We had some English friends visiting Florida and he would actually drive up to the Georgia border to save 35 cents a gallon!

TPBM only drives golf balls.

Nope, that's why I had a brand new set of left-handed women's golf clubs at my garage sale...unfortunately, they didn't sell.

TPBM is having a hot beverage right now.

Well, it's tepid now after a furious bit of actual work.

TPBM has the leisure to sit and savor.

Gah, not today! I've been running like mad since 4 this morning.

TPBM is celebrating the Royals win today.

No, though an AL team fan,# I was for the Mets
(though not too zealously),*
on the grounds that I donʻt hate the NY fans,
(if I did hate any NY fans it would be the
Yankeesʻ. I agreed, btw, with Yost, not
with Collins ("itʻs part of the game!") on
the Syndegaard "high"-throwing controversy.)
I suppose, too, that the KC fans deserve
a championship.

TPBM is sure of a funny WS matchup next year:
Like CUBS vs. INDIANS, or (which would be
HILARIOUS) ANGELS v. DOdGERS.

# Member of Red Sox Nation

*Not sure I could name a current Met, other
than Wright and Cespedes (who was briefly a
Red Socker).

One does not joke about the Cubs. One does not. It is too cruel.

And if I hear one more thing about how the Mets fans have been waiting "so long," I shall scream.

TPBM would scream at ___________.

a prediction of a Tigers vs. Nationals
WS for 2016; (it sounds almost
as dull as a Royals/Mets repeat.)

TPBM would like to change/retain*
the baseball topic

*TPBMʻs choice

Aak! Lept!

I choose not to choose. Happy Monday!

Pretty much everything. But especially a spider. Man I hate spiders.

TPBM is sentient.

On occasion.

TPBM is sensible.

Oh, I think so, which is more than I can say for a lot of my fellow men and women. Senseless seems to be the norm these days if you can believe the news.

TPBM has un upcoming book sale and is excited about what they might find.

Ooh, ooh! I went to the first day of a weeklong booksale last evening and came away with multiple treasures. Perhaps the best is Silent in the Land. And I expect to attend a couple more times - there are always more books than time to see them - some still in boxes under the tables.

TPBM will come for the last day, when a bag of books costs one dollar!

Wow, I wish I could. Our Friends of the Library sale charges $5/bag on the last day. Still a wonderful deal, but $4 can buy a used book on Amazon or 4 hardcover books at the local thrift store.

TPBM has seen an interesting bird in their yard recently.

Nopper. I live on the top floor of a high rise and the only birds I've seen are flocks of ducks honking past. Which is kind of cool, actually.

TPBM lives close to the land.

Apparently, and word has gotten around too. I went to our annual Halloween parade on Saturday and while the kids were getting candy thrown at them and the politicians were handing out their propaganda, I received an envelope with kale seeds from the middle school community gardens project. He just walked right over and handed it to me like he knew how much I love kale. Life is funny like that sometimes.

TPBM believes in Serendipity.

I do believe. I do believe. She's pink and long and nice. Serendipity

TPBM is mor familiar with The Grumpling.

Not that Grumpling, but myself when I get up Monday morning :(.

TPBM is dreading _____________.

Getting rid of the ants that have cropped up in my kitchen. Tiny little blighters and I hate poisons.

TPBM has no pests.

Not right now, but the mice will probably be making their presence known sometime soon. EVery year I tell them if they'd just stop leaving their "calling cards" around and about I could see my way to helping them get thru the winter, but they don't seem too agreeable about that.

TPBM has dealt with larger pests.

Several years back a skunk nested inside my house foundation. The house is 100+ years old and the foundation isn't well done anyway. My plan was to wait till after dark when the critter was theoretically away from home before sealing the entry point. But how can one be sure? The temporary odor of dead beast is still better than a house permanently reeking of skunk.

A happier skunk encounter earlier was when a family nested under an outbuilding. All I had to do that time was leave a hose running water into the space. They promptly packed up and removed the whole family. Raising the shed up another 8 inches kept them from returning, as the underneath was now too exposed for their preference.

TPBM has another tale to tell.

Short and pungent: Avoid being within 100 yards of skunks making baby skunks. They find the scent attractive, but it's even worse than regular skunk. And the yowling is a surprise, considering how placid they usually look ambling across our yard.

And don't get me started on the dratted groundhogs who climb my chicken-wire-enclosed vegetable garden and eat the green beans.

TPBM has another tale to tell.

I had possums that lived in the foundation in my place on Capitol Hill. Freakin' possums! In the middle of the city?! And oh man they were leprous looking things. Still, I'd rather have them than rats.

TPBM has rats.

No, just squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, opossums, skunks, deer, voles, mice, raccoons, and red foxes.

TPBM is thinking about a favorite Thanksgiving recipe and salivating.

Including squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, opossums, skunks, deer, voles, mice, raccoons, and/or red foxes? No thanks, sounds disgusting.

TPBM has recipe idea to share.

Yes, it's not Thanksgiving necessarily, although it could be for Thanksgiving breakfast. It's very simple. Make toast, butter lightly, slice ripe avocado and spread on toast, salt and pepper. Mmmm, delicious.

TPBM made a new friend recently.

No, but I'd like to hear from someone who did.

TPBM made a new friend recently.

Will you be my friend? I'm kinda weird, I don't have many friends. *sigh*

TPBM has lots of friends.

// >241 morningwalker: Add a little brie and it will be even delicious-er! Brie and avocado love each other :-) //

//Snort. Weird for the rest of the world or weird for us? Friend request has been sent.//

No, I just have a couple good friends who understand me. That's all you really need. I'll be your friend, I like weird people best.
//>243 Jenni_Canuck: thanks for brie suggestion. I'll try it next time.//

TPBM doesn't like day light savings time.

Not so. I would be happy to go through the year on British Summer Time: I hate it when it is getting dark at tea-time. Of course I am old and retired so I don't worry about dark mornings. The UK is stuck with the consequences of daylight saving, at least until the Scots decide to leave the Union. England and Wales might just ditch Greenwich Mean Time.

TPBM is more bothered by the different time zone just down the road.

I was at an event once in a rural area that was near to a time zone line. The organizers kept telling people not to use their phones to check the time because it would be an hour either way depending upon which cell tower it pinged off of.

TPBM never really knows what time it is...

True. Nor the date. Nor the President of the USA. Nor where I am. Call me crazy.

TPBM knows the name of the last book s/he read w/o hints.

Matter of fact I do: It was The Landscape
Comes and Goes by Elizabeth Gunn.
Concurrently Iʻve been reading a book that
is worlds apart from "Landscape" but is also
by (presumably another) Elizabeth Gunn:
Seventh Inning Stretch: a Jake Hines Mystery

The Gunn of "Landscape" might be described
as "James Joyce minus the terrific command of
language; or Virginia Woolf minus whatever it
is that attracts hordes of readers and critics.

TPBM has a favorite pair similarly- or same-named
writers or other celebrities.

Yikes! Not that I can think of.

TPBM has twin stars.

I'm a Gemini, so yes.

TPBM has twin sisters. (which is how I first read the above)

No, just 2 sets of twin nephews (fraternal at that).

TPBM likes chickpeas.

I like hummus - does that count? Tinned chickpeas always come in a rather disconcerting viscous gloop and cooking dried chickpeas seems a step too far.

TPBM feels worthier for getting down and dirty with dried pulses.

// >244 SomeGuyInVirginia: Just normal weird like us here :D
*Note to self: whining wins friends...* //

>253 abbottthomas: Dear Abbott I know just what you mean about that snotty 'viscous gloop'. I just rinse them in the tin. I no longer bother with dried pulses although SWMBO does still make her fantastic Ham and Lentil soup from 'scratch'.

TPBM knows why Americans us that word in reference to home made food.

I do now, because, y'know, I always wonder Y. It's a lovely explination.

Scratch was the beginning line in the dirt for races. If you cook from scratch, you begin at the beginning, without advantage of pre-mixed ingredients.

TPBM just opens a can.

I've been very lazy lately and so these days, I adhere to the four basic food groups: box, bag, can and carton.

TPBM is busily cooking up something.

No, just finished eating dinner, it's already dark here y'know..

TPBM will also eat 'Pasghetti' this week, (citating Cliff Huxtable)

No, just warmed over tomato pie. I still have left over potato leek soup with no cream, milk or other dairy added. It tastes better!

TPBM found something interesting in the ice box for dinner tonight!

Not yet, but I suppose I should go and look.

TPBM plans all their meals for a week ahead.

I wish. I look in the frig and hope there is actual food.

The person below me experiments with his or her cooking.

Constantly. And I mostly don't measure, either. A little of this and a little of that and let's use of the rest of this -- and then I can never duplicate it again. Yesterday I made baked beans from scratch and they came out great. Now if I can only remember what I did the next time.

TPBM likes it the same. Always.

I eat whatever they put on my plate, or hand me in a box or bag. When I move the only thing I'm going to have to do to my stove is dust it.

TPBM belongs to the clean plate club!

No, I tend to leave the unused mustard on the edge of the plate.

TPBM remembers Jack Sprat's solution.

Yes, but nobody follows that anymore. GLUTEN FREE is the way to go baby!!!! Who knew you could get gluten free tea?

TPBM thinks this trend has gone too far.

Yes, definitely. And I say that as someone who does follow a gluten free diet. You should not need to label your meat as gluten free.



TPBM loves labels.

Labels like labeling vegetables and vegetable products "cholesterol free"? You bet. Marketing is an art form.

TPBM has another word for it.

If it ain't gluten, it's Fodmaps. I make my own bread the old-fashioned way -- let it rise twice and complete fermentation (breaks down gluten proteins). Is it a disease if it isn't diagnosed?

The person below me goes to restaurants that serve gluten-free meals.

Bullfeathers!
And that reminds that sadly, as my eldest was posted to Africa and my youngest got a professorship in Seattle, we will not be catching Amtrak to Washington DC (what SGiV calls the Nations Blah) this year. So no Guinness and corned beef hash in Bullfeathers. (http://bullfeathersdc.net/)

TPBM has yet another term for Sales & Marketing.

People behind desks because they don't have the guts to do retail?

TPBM will explain.

I could, but as someone who's worked in the supermarket biz for 31 years, I've seen and dealt with a lot of corporate (and management) stupidity, and it would probably turn into a novel.

TPBM knows of what I speak

Yes, unfortunately corporate stupidity is not restricted to Sales & Marketing. I think it can be found anywhere there is a hierarchy.

TPBM is a veteran, for which I thank you!

No, but I second that emotion. Thank you for your service!

//>269 John_Vaughan: I was in the old stomping grounds last night!//

TPBM is a veteran.

Still no!

TPBM fell down a rabbit hole.

Only after I'd been drinking. I felt very small.

TPBM keeps on an even keel.

Not when I've been drinking. That's why they call it "getting tipsy."

TPBM prefers red wine. "hiccup"

I do. Unless there's champagne...or gin...or single malt...or Guinness...or ... ... Too many choices!!!

TPBM knows exactly what s/he prefers.

I do! A nice pint of Guinness! I never turn one (or more) down! No Guinness then I pray for some other stout!

TPBM likes other kinds of beer and/or related beverages!

I like European beers and many East Coast microbrews. Unfortunately, I am in Oregon where they grow hops, and for my taste most of the regional brews suffer from over-hopping. Dear PNW brewers, it's not a competition!

I went into one liquor store and asked about European beer: "We don't get much call for it." Oh, for my Bardonia NY beer store where I could get beer from dozens of countries!

TPBM knows whether or not they still export Old Peculiar.

//#271 and #272 I have noticed that they're taking maximum strength stupidity pills at the company I work for again...... layoffs and brain-dead decisions. Sigh. Mostly it's a case of The Peter Principle, I'm afraid.

"In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties"

and the corollary

"work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."

//

Looks like you can get it here http://www.ratebeer.com/p/goto/10710/.

//>280 karenmarie: Wise words.//

TPBM is old and peculiar.

I'm not old!

TPBM has new shoes.

No, but I just bought some new socks. Nice warm ones for winter.

TPBM needs something new.

// >281 morningwalker: I suspect that listing is outdated. They used to export to the US, but then stopped. *sigh* //

I could use new fluffy slippers. My feet are cold.

TPBN feels _______________.

A bit guilty for procrastinating on my list of chores for today.

Getting up and going any minute now!

TPBM believes that.

Of course I do. Or, at least after I finish my coffee I'll believe it.

TPBM holds ______________ dear.

France

In its writeup of "9-11", a major French
newspaper said "We are all Americans
today". And I can feel that today, 11/14/15,
we are all French.

TPBM holds ________ dear.

Revenge.

TPBM is a cooler head.

Not really. Geography does not promote that (or more precisely, geography in 2001 doesn't promote that).

The person below me would rather be somewhere else.

Oh My God!, Yes! it's MONDAY morning at the office - There are so many other places I'd rather be...

TPBM would rather be _________.

In a cabin by the lake. It's just that sort of beautiful fall day.

TPBM would rather be ___________.

Right now, there's nowhere I'd rather be than right here.

TPBM is going to travel somewhere.

Just a little to the south for Thanksgiving with family. It will be nice to get away for a few days though.

TPBM has read a GREAT book recently.

This has been a really good year in reading. Probably my favorites are

fiction - Stray Souls by Kate Griffin
non-fiction - The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown.

I would call them both great.

TPBM, however, would nominate ___________

India File by Trevor Fishlock
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (Paul Theroux's new book.)
Both non-fiction.

TPBM will decide if we continue this theme or not.

I finally saw a movie that I've known about for the past 50 years but never sought out, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Makes me wonder what else I've missed.

TPBM finally read/watched ______________.

Men In Black.

TPBM finally read/watched _________

Watched Chinatown. Love Jack Nicholson.

TPBM read/watched_____.

The Accomplice. As good as the hype.

TPBM read/watched _______.

Crash Course Astronomy. Hosted by Phil Plait.

The person below me read and/or watched ___________.

Watched The Shining again. It was a Jack Nicholson binge. That is one creepy movie.

TPBM has a movie they watch annually.

I try to watch Groundhog Day on the correct date, but I usually miss.

TPBM would rather be ________________.

In the Antilles. Did I mention that I'm spending Christmas in the Antilles? The Dutch Antilles. Those Antilles. If you're having trouble picturing it, I've included a picture. Of the Antilles.



TPBM is going skiing.

Skidding perhaps. Or tumbling - i do that rather well now.
Why would ANYONE go to the Antilles? Crystal clear water, sunny days, charming Dutch (extract) people, a good tradition in food. Strange thing to do SGiV. You'll miss all the hype in the stores, the crowds ...

TPBM is also avoiding consumer obligations for Xmas this year.

Going to try.

//>303 SomeGuyInVirginia: I'm so jealous I could spit...I think I will.//

TPBM is never ________.

Likely to go to the Antilles. And really, who would want to? (Well, besides SGiV?) (And maybe one or two others who like warmth...and sun...and relaxation...and...and...I think I'm going to cry...)

TPBM will describe their favourite holiday place.

Sitting on a snow bank above 7000 ft. eating my lunch on the 4th of July while checking out all the alpine flowers around me!

TPBM has a holiday place that is a little lower so one does not have to pant to get up there(sic)!

//In case you missed my earlier Antilles pic.//

//Or in case that's too small to see.//

Stop!! It's just too much water!

Warm salt water. Sunshiney warm salt water....

//Hehe. Actually, it's going to be weird doing Christmas on a tropical island. I'll miss the snow and lights, for real. I'm also glad I don't live there because I'd be useless.//

//you're a cruel man, Larry.//

My holiday place will be in my living room...(I will not comment on or encourage >309 SomeGuyInVirginia: anymore. You're right >312 karenmarie:, he is cruel.)

TPBM is flabbergasted that the Oxford dictionary designated an emoji is word of the year.

It makes sense, I guess, if you look at it as the dictionary being a record of an evolving language. Although I really hope that 'flabbergast' made this list at lease once, awesome word.

//>312 karenmarie: >313 morningwalker: I know. Thank you.//

TPBM eschews pumpkin this and that.

Pumpkin is a warm taste. So pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread are lovely. But pumpkin milk shake? No thanks!

TPBM disagrees.

Blame my ignorance. I have no opinion. My favorite milkshake flavors are because I lived in Miami until last year. They are :

Key lime
Mango
Mamey

TPBM looks for exotic flavor in foreign films, of which ________ is his/her favorite.

For me, as an Englishman, I suppose that US movies are 'foreign'. They certainly seemed so when I first started to visit the cinema in post-war Britain. Everyone spoke funny and had big shiny cars, or horses. The Wild West and the mean streets of NYC or LA were certainly foreign countries. But assuming that you mean foreign language films, how about Alexander Nevsky ...or The Seven Samurai ...or Jules et Jim ...or, well, lots!

TPBM has subscribed to Sight and Sound or Les Cahiers du Cinéma

Can't say that I have. Well, I could say it, except I'd mangle the French words; plus it would be a lie, and I don't like to do that.

TPBM feels similarly.

Whole! You dog! It's great to have you back where you belong!

I'm American. No parlaying the francais is a badge of honor.

Ack! Leaped!No, I have no no magazine subscriptions at all; delivered or online. Pathetic.

TPBM is well connected.

TPBM sent contraire.

//This person below is also SO GLAD to see you again WHL!!! Tell us a story, please.//

// Yeah! Welcome back, WHL //

À moment, SomeGuy, nous sommes toutes Français, non?

TPBM has worked out how they would personally deal with exposure to a terrorist attack.

Sure, and executed it, too. I got a lawyer and divorced ThiMs about seventeen years ago. It just took me over twenty-fours years to get the gonads to do it.

Greetings, my friends SGIiV, 2WY and Abbot. It's nice to see you both again.

TPBM has a Plan B.

Run like hell.
Oui, Msr. la Abbott, J'parle le Francais, nes pas? Of a sort.
TPBM has a much better plan od defence (or counter-attack).

It's hard to have a plan for the unimaginable.

TPBM is complacent.

Yes, I am quite sure that neither a terrorist attack nor a zombie apocalypse are likely events in my neighbourhood.

TPBM is not so sanguine.

I do think that ISIS has horrible plans for the US and other countries, and I worry some. Zombie apocalypse, not so much. Nothing in my neighborhood regardless, because of where I live, but still. You never know.

TPBM is tired of extremists, regardless of what they're extreme about.

Sure, but if we could make them all suddenly disappear, we'd be stuck with a one-party system. Boring!

TPBM states his/her opinions after thoughtful research of at least three sources from both sides of an issue.

Depends who I'm stating them too. If it's my husband or brother, I don't bother with research. If it's my children, I do plenty of research, because I want them to learn to make informed opinions themselves. If it's a stranger, then I probably won't express my opinions at all. Not the ones that matter, anyway.

TPBM is opionated.

You talkin' to me?

TPBM hides their light under a bushel.

I try to make sure the light is on
before I hide or display it.

TPBM knows of one book that they would
trade a bushel of other books for.

Yes, and I would guess we all own it too. It is on my self help shelf - The Book Thief or How to Increase Your Collection.

TPBM wants to know what a bushel is.

A bushel equals 4 pecks. You know as in the Doris Day song, I love you a bushel and a peck. So I guess it's a measurement of affection.

TPBM has learned something from a song.

//>332 morningwalker: as a "peck" is also slang for a kiss you MUST be right. How clever!//

Whal sir ma'am, the second movement from Beethoven's piano concerto No. 5 has very often saved my butt from the fire, to coin a phrase, by taking me far away outside of the moment, so I guess I could say that the music has taught me that "ooh baby, do you know what that's worth? Oh heaven is a place on earth."

//>321 abbottthomas: Oui , nous sommes tous dans l'armée Française .

TPBM learned ____________ from a song.

Well, I consider it an affirmation rather than something I learned outright -- You can't always get what you want ... but if you try some time, you just might find, you get what you need.

Truth be told, I learn more from watching Pop-Up Videos.

Keep it going.
TPBM has __________ from a song (or, perhaps, a poem).

Love is all you need. That includes loving yourself enough to extract yourself from a situation.

TPBM has another gem of musical wisdom.

You gotta' know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run and you never count your money when you're standing at the table, there'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin' is done.

TPBM has other messages for life from the Grand Ole Opry.

Is that country? Yep. My favorite line of all times is "I ain't broke, but I'm sorely bent."

It has been an apt descriptor at times.

TPBM is particularly pleased today.

I am. I finished the first of three quilt projects I want done before Christmas, and the second is coming together nicely.

TPBM is also not stressed about the holiday season.

As soon as all my Christmas concerts are over, I plan to relax and enjoy myself. The next two weeks will be crazy with rehearsals.

//A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints (9.09 (UK) or 8.81 (US) liters). Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.//

TPBM is planning some holiday baking.

I'm not planning on it, but you never know.

I will, however, be cooking up a 28+ pound turkey for Thanksgiving for 21 adults, 5 older kids and three who I'll have to prepare thee bird in a blender if they're going to have any at all.

Two years ago, I spent three days and nights (ending late Thanksgiving Day) in a fetal position in my bedroom closet with the worst migraine (full bore - flashing lights, super-sensitive hearing, feeling like I was giving birth to a giant child through my skull.) I hate it when that happens. For a month or two later, I wasn't able to control my body temperature.

TPBM doesn't have to do anything for Thanksgiving except show up.

Well, I have to show up, but I know I will be put to work immediately. I'm okay with that because I love the kitchen camaraderie, and catching up.

Welcome back >341 WholeHouseLibrary:!!

TPBM always gets stuck with the dishes.

Hey, I gladly volunteer to be stuck with the dishes. Dirty plates and pots give me the woolies. AND, I make my volunteer status even louder when someone suggests using disposables.

TPBM always uses the best dishes.

What else are they for if not to be used?

TPBM longs for ___________

Nothing. I've got MrsHouseLibrary.

TPBM gets short at _________.

I can't drive down Rt. 1 south of Alexandria any more. There's the bughouse crazy drivers, of course, turning the street into something like a 1 ton roller derby, but there's the judge's order to consider as well.

TPBM dohn need no steenkin' badges.

I kinda like my LT Helper Badges!

TPBM will refresh our memories about on SGiV's vacation plans since there have been no reports for a few days :D

He is going to Barbados. Or Willemstad. Or Alex.

TPBM is jealous.

No, not jealous, king WA lives here round the corner.

TPBM likes Typically Tropical

Only when The weather outside is frightful.

TPBM is SGIV bragging about his Christmas in.....some warm place....who cares?

FAR be it from me to be one of those annoying people who go someplace marvelous and won't stop talking about it.

Oh, here's a good shot



I mean, it's not like I'm going someplace special like the moon or anything, just take a right when you get to heaven and voila'!

I like this one especially.



And it's going to be a working vacation. And yes, buy 'working' I do mean 'working on my tan'! Haha.



Anywho, I'm sure you all will be someplace nice, too, and it won't at all be like this...



TPBM believes in not tempting fate.

Not a big believer in fate, actually. Coincidence, though, you can't deny that!

TPBM is, generally, an optimist, but finds the new of the world depressing -- and has a solution.

What Iʻve studied of History convinces me that
the "OLD of the world" is even more depressing
than "the new (sic) of the world".

TPBM believes that "The Good Old Days: they were Terrible!"

Better and worse, just like today. Only the technology changes.

TPBM is wondering which relative will rant about current events tomorrow.

I wonder every day which relative will not rant about current events.

TPBM really really needs ______________

An LT function that will put ALL of
"Profile" on the screen, subject
to correction (?!)

TPBM is very up-to-date in updating
and correcting her/his LT Profile.

Yeah, sure. Read my disclaimer at the top of it.

TPBM remembers what TPBM means.

Y'all people bend more.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

TPBM knows that TPBM means something else.

Turkey Peripheral Blood Monocytes

TBPM knows better

Maybe yes; maybe no; maybe maybe.

// Happy Thanksgiving to all our American TPBMs //

TPBM is allergic to _____________

Apples, cherries, peaches, and birch pollen - but not very much so, and not at all when the fruit are cooked. I used to get a lot of hay fever symptoms in early spring but I seem to have grown out of that.

That's more than enough information for TPBM who would never say anything but "Fine, thanks" when asked how they were.

Actually, you've got me curious. What recipes call for birch pollen?

I get hives from cantaloupe, myself.

TPBM says this is quite enough, thank you. (I have to say "thank you" on (American) Thanksgiving Day.)

//You don't eat it, just sniff it!//

Yes, I've had quite enough Thanksgiving food (pie, stuffing, etc.). Have just enough time to start that diet before Christmas food rolls around. HA!

TPBM had a great Thanksgiving with friends and family and ate too much.

I did, thanks, have a wonderful Thanksgiving with my Dad. These are the first holidays without Mom so my brother and I are keeping him in the game. I swear, I have to beat the widows off the guy. At least I was, but then I thought 'so what?'.

//>358 SomeGuyInVirginia: That was supposed to read 'Tall People Bend More'. Damn auto correct.

TPBM has a hard-won life philosophy and will spill the beans. Mine is; Don't lick old paintings. (It's a long story.)

Don't should on yourself!

// >365 SomeGuyInVirginia: Story?!?!? I've got time. Just give me a minute while I make some popcorn and settle into a comfy chair. //

TPBM also wants to hear SGiV's story.

Yes I do. Old oil-paint had an extremely high lead content. The story could offer an explanation for ... a lot of things.

TPBM will join the (quite) clamor for SGiiV's story

I Love stories about paintings,

TBPM want to read, as a true story loving LT-er, SGiiV's story too

You betcha, as does TPBM.

YEP! If for no other reason than to see if it's any crazier than reasons why I've done strange things.

TPBM is ready to sit back and hear the tale

I'm laying odds on Larry's story being stranger than fiction.

TPBM will take some of that action.

//Aak! Swamped at work. More later.//

Well, I'm going to take some action since SGiV is draining the swamp ... or whatever he means.

We're going to start his story for him.

SGiV's Old Painting Licking Story (by all of us)

It began innocently enough on a Tuesday. I was ...

TPBM will continue the story.

separating the black feathers and the red ones into different piles, while...

TPBM will continue.

Leonardo was lovingly painting SGiV's toenails a brilliant poppy red when, from out of nowhere ...

TPBM will continue.

...a blank canvas flew in the window. So, not completely out of nowhere, since it definitely came through the window, but...

//I have a new popcorn popper, so I'm waiting for SGIV's tale//

TPBM continues...

... it took me by surprise, none the less.

It startled the penguins as well, as they tend to be ...

Your turn, TPBM.

solemn asses. The canvas wasn't actually blank, and close scrutiny revealed _______.

Take it away TPBM.

a tiny signature in the lower right corner, obviously written by a left-handed, one-armed, blind, gesso-sniffing ___________. . .

. . .TPBM continued. . .

___ Yankee arsonist who always picked on Larry's family properties__

TPBM continues...

And what he picked was ________.

TPBM continues

Cotton. However, Cotton was in a bad mood that day and not feeling amenable to incursions on his person, personal space, or goods and chattels so he __________ the Yankee's a) __________ b) ____________ then drove to the lake for some fishing.

//Under advice of counsel and in the interest of making a dull story seem interesting, I stick to my story about not licking old paintings and decline further comment other than to say the guards at the National Gallery have no sense of humor whatsoever and J_V owes me a dollar.//

TPBM knows what Cotton did.

possibly "Stole the Yankeeʻs a. rod
and b. reel"?

TPBM knows the best fishing sites
of New England.

Never fished, but my educated guess would be rivers, lakes, and coastlines.

TPBM may be of better service to rolandperkins by being more specific.

Yes! Northern rivers, lakes, and coastlines.

TPBM is pretty sure the cat is plotting their doom.

The cat is making me say 'no'.

TPBM has a story to tell about 2wonderY.

I do, but I'm sure she wouldn't want me to tell it here. It' ...um...a little risqué (I know you all think she is so innocent, but in her youth...urgh...)

TPBM wonders if SGIV's cat now has total control.

//Thank you, morningwalker! I can now breathe again.//

// @2wonderY currently lives in a well-proportioned library and spends much of her time observing her neighbours, Dick and Jane. Her co-conspirator in this effort is her granddaughter who has been overheard saying, “Does anybody really know what time it is?” to which 2WonderY replies, “Does anybody really care?” Hmm, one wonders why this surreptitious observation and commentary has not yet been noticed and investigated by Homeland Security ... //

Hey SGiV! I gave your cat that $1 I borrowed and he charged me interest.

//>389 Jenni_Canuck: Dick and Jane are from Homeland Security.//

TPBM knows what HS actually do.

I think they are just another government agency created to cost taxpayers more money (and think they are safer for it). But, what do I know???

TPBM is Dick and Jane's neighbor too.

On a galactic level, aren't we all?

TPBM has shpadoinkle computer skills and can crank out relational databases correctly the first time, every time.

//I'm attempting to figure out which medical bills go with which appointments we've had, and which have already been fully vetted by the insurance company -- not nearly as simple as one might think! //

I have no idea what correct relational databases are, but sure! Why not?

TPBM writes on the walls.

I didn't think anyone saw me. Darn...

TPBM has called a number they found on a wall.

No, but it sounds like a great opening for a slasher movie.

TPBM knows how hard it can be.

//When Sammy Dutz, philosophy major, avid diver, smoked when he was drinking, called the number he saw scratched into the paint on the subway wall, he didn't know that he had just two days to live. Almost exactly. A line after the number read 'For a good time, call 555-1212. No, a great time. A great time.' It didn't say who was supposed to have the great time, and that's where Sammy fell into a trap.//

YES!!! But it's Friday, so I may be okay.

>396 SomeGuyInVirginia://Who's Sammy Dutz???//

TPBM is weary.

I am, but if I don't do laundry tonight I will have to buy all new clothes.

//Sammy Dutz is a fictional character who doesn't know the mortal peril he's in. He's called a number scratched on a subway tile, and a very dangerous person will answer the call. Ack-shully, I think the idea of starting a gory suspense novel with the premise sounds pretty intriguing. I think I'd read it.//

TPBM has decorated the tree.

Every night. It keeps the coyotes away.

TPBM knows another nonviolent way to keep those varmints away.

Live in England?

TPBM doesn't feel dressed in the woods without a rifle.

I can't go into the woods with OR without a rifle in these parts at this time of year. Deer hunters can be trigger happy people...besides I just can't seem to accessorize anything with that florescent orange.

>398 SomeGuyInVirginia: I agree, good novel premise. I would probably read it too. However, as current news events get ever more bizarre, I tend to shy away from the gorier stuff these days. Still like a great mystery and thriller, just less gore).

>388 2wonderY: You're welcome.

TPBM wants __________for Christmas.

Someone to start a new thread.

TPBM will.

I never have, so don't look to me to fix this one.

TPBM will take the matter into hand.

Oh, very well. If I must ...