Stray cryptic thoughts on the last week in OS, sayings, and a mortifying disclosure to boot.
" To boot?" I like it, but it makes no sense to me. That is what some of this post will be about- how some sayings are not too good, and yet we say them anyway.
"Let go and let god," is a good saying. It should not be reserved for Alcoholics.
"You know it when you see it," is a good saying. It should not be reserved for Porno.
"The proof is in the pudding," is just weird. I love pudding, rice, and chocolate, primarily, TMI OR FYI? Isn't rice pudding the best? Nevertheless, I never found any proof in any pudding. Maybe tapioca contains proof , but I doubt it. I don't think I ever ate tapioca pudding, but I could be mistaken. Why am I sounding like a poor man's Andy Rooney to myself? Comments wide open (V--pointing down there)
" Cute as a button" is foolish. Buttons are useful, maybe they are the best thing since sliced bread, but they are not cute. If they were cute then we'd all be too distracted to get any work done because buttons are EVERYWHERE. Zippers are even less cute.
"Add a snakeish sss to words, and you get sssswords," is a fun quote that I just made up myself.
"Untoword" is when you do unto others, with words, what you wouldn't want them to do unto you . I heard that from my mentor, guru, and dear friend, Delmont Klein. Delmont Klein was(RIP) an obscure satirist/poet/raconteur-- who can't be found on Wikepedia.
"I'm anti loss. Is that profound." Is another quote that I invented, and that no one ever uses. Dammit.
Those who are not enlightend by the pudding sayings nonsense or one bit impressed with my observations about sayings in general, might enjoy the mortifying disclosure, I, belatedly, have chosen to share.
Mortifying Disclosure: I have lost much weight since the TROUBLES. This weight loss results from me forgetting to eat on a regular basis. So, when I remember, I feel I can eat whatever I want. Jons Market
http://www.jonsmarketplace.com/
on the well trafficked La Brea Avenue, has amazing specials on vegetables, fruit, tilapia,feta cheese, and ... trail mix. 3.99 for a huge bag of the best and most brightest trail mix. 
As one who loves a special and who enjoys trail mix , I pick up a bag, everytime I find myself there. Mortifying? Yes, because I load up on trail mix , and rarely leave my computer chair . I have eaten about 50 bags of trail mix without so much as having walked briskly, much less gone on any trail.
Also, Reeta Piazza is a psychotic and sociopathic pig who was raised in a sewer.
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I can't.
Well..actually ...I do...and get confused with the GoodYear blimp!
Matt: I was just thinking how they stole so much of my silly . I used to be 100 percent silly. I swear. I'm suing them for making me have to be serious!!! Yes, that is a pretty trail. I should find it. Glad I could provide any silliness to you. LO!
JDSmith: It is a new phenomenom. But, with out going on any trails the dried mango etc, is turning to flab not muscle.
Thebadscot: I don't see that as donning a pedant hat. I see that as you solving a mystery for me(and all who read it) and it is much appreciated. I must admit that i still can't grasp the concept behind it, but I love that there really is a reason and that you know it. So glad you enjoyed! Do you agree that buttons are not cute? They are not vile or despicable but , "cute,"?
This led to a raging internet debate on a different forum about what is the difference between rice pudding and tapioca. And is tapioca a pudding? Is pudding the genus and tapioca the species?
I hope you can end that debate, lost now in the annals of internet history.
I do know that rice pudding and hotdogs is not a sustainable business plan.
Nice to see you in such fine fettle, fernsy!
'cute as a button'. Here's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. Although we think of 'cute' as meaning, pretty, charming, as in 'what a cute baby 'and all that (and 'cute does mean that now), its orginal meaning came from 'acute'--shrewd, sharp, wily, smart. A button is of course none of the above. I think the saying originated as a put down meaning, He's "as shrewd as a button", the old version of our "He's smart...NOT." It was an insult.
This is fun. all because you chose to have fun, and share it with us!
Scanner: I'll take you both to Jons if you come for a visit. Terri will be in heaven.
Aim: That's my next book title, "The short lived store." A rice pudding shop sounds like some surreal bit of heaven ,but then they have to add... hot dogs!!!???!! Tell me about it. L.A is full of stores that sell things like thai icecream and... french fries. It's insane, and it makes me craaaazy. Vegan and organically sourced from happy pigs? Did you ever try one? Hilarious.
Indeed I am here to end the debate: Tapioca is a pudding, pretty much. It's genus is actually a jello. As stated, I dont' remember ever having tapioca pudding so it would appear that it differs from Rice pudding in that it doesn't have any rice. The idea of having a hot dog from a happy pig , and then rice pudding seems like a great business idea to me. But, then again, I am indigent. Do you think I ended the raging debate?
I'm anti loss. Will use it this week..:)
HUGGGGGGGGGGG
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Titled - Exodus.
You made me wish to invite You etc., over for beets, celery, thyme, catnip's wild buds,
and let's know zilch.
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I'd yodel to never`
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personal experienced`
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Instructive hardships`
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Reality and Truth.
I believe in `Speak!
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remind me of Hop Wallop. Hop Wallop was ill. He accidently discovered Ale. Moderation!
Hop Wallop's testimony goes`
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Harrace/ferny etcetera goes`
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he's see gold and get riches.
he spent his gal-friend nickel.
She/who? She hurt severely.
he'd get rich by prospecting.
he's pan for damn fool gold.
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Hop Wallop tossed a few handfuls of grain hops in a pan of H2-0, just pure water that had bubbles.
Water needs oxygen's pure bubbles.
The few fistfuls of grain-hops bubbled.
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Whoa! Mountain Brew. Nat bug Yeast?
Great Nat's fly about summers kitchens.
Thus?
A few fist of juices and tossed barley hops?
Wallop!
Nature!
Recipe!
Simple!
no use '!'
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It's rude?
GG say it!
Wallops!
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Clear Spring.
I am not a MD.
Let's eat kales.
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MD doc no settle.
MD see kale plants.
Doc no make lucre.
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Doc be like lawyers?
Hop Wallop!
Wild barley!
Hops in pan!
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Mr Hop Wallop took a nap on Sunday. He saw his grain hops bubbling wildly.
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Sip? Sleep set in.
He became a hick.
Hop Wallop conk.
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Conk is to go snore.
Hops bubble in pan.
Pan soups nutritious.
It's simply very tasty.
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Concoction. Yummy.
This comment is goof.
Hop Wallop was happy.
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It was innocent`Cheer!
Eaters get so overjoyed!
he'd brew wonderful ale!
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The ale was mild hop brew.
Those grren-gold hops woo.
What a beautiful hop he brew.
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I hope you like hops in moderation.
I hope I no offend sentient beings.
he'd brew mild gold - hued ales.
He's invite fernsy etc., to taste.
That's not snoopy's gin. peace.
I hop. I happy for a perfect hop.
a 'Just another AJ is lovable too.
I hop this is clear as fernsy? Grin.
Dreidel: Snippy would get snippy on me because I'm clinically incapable of grasping punctuation. Thanks for you fine comment. Isn't rice pudding special?
ThebadScot: I adore people who have theories! It is not an insult when I say that you are acute. I support your theory , here, wholeheartedly. Very glad that you have joined OS.
Linda: Anti loss equals pro found. Is that clear? I should add a dash.
'Add a snakeish sss to words, and you get sssswords," is a fun quote that I just made up myself. "
EXCELLENT START. combine words as you wish.
the language evolves.
i mean: who the hell understands or talks like chaucer, or shakespeare?
yo gal how ya think the lingo got laterally spread if not
for the masters of the pen, yo?
use old words newly.
new words oldly.
it is my sincere desire to refigure the english language
in order to take into account all her
(if i may be so bold as to feminize a noun, a la romance languages)
vernacular magic. write as you speak. learn to talk good english..
We really are sistahs, I became titillated looking at the photo of trail mix. I sigh in mortification for you dearest. I weep because I miss the Jon's Market deli.
Snippy: Self entertainment is good stuff.
James: I too love you comment. English is my mother's fourth language and she makes up her own words constantly: " horocious, crinkles, sneezles-- so many more." When I was a teen I learned that the words my family uses for the genitals(too-ee for the lady, mootzoo for the man) was not Hungarian, but wholly invented by my grandmother. Till today, I only use those. Tis-kiss for the bosom btw. Yes, language can be a lot of fun.
Thebadscott: I wish I could hang out with a bunch of Cockneys tonight.
I also am on a fat belly diet from the looks of the monster below my head.....
1)You crazy and you dirty too! I should delete you right quick. You be right about letting go and letting go, though, yo. But, when it comes to buttons: You making an ass out yoself with yo assumptions/guessass. My mama is a button magnate, and I grew up around buttons since I was wee high. They wasn't cute. Like I said, they weren't disgusting ,but if they was so cute than I couldn't concentrate as I have. I'll stop.
2)LOL on your filthy comment!!
Blue: We are sistahs. I know this for a long while now. I knew the trail mix would titillate you. I did.
Loved your explication on tapioca pudding. Do you really know about Jons ,and its grand Deli? too exciting. I bought a pound of provolone for 3.99 a pound, just yesterday, Greek Feta for 2.99 a pound. Fritters, cruellers, and Jons when you come visit.
Yeah I'm a bad man.
Rated.
Cranky! Thanksss
Oh, Alysa: I wrote that I like "to boot," but it doesn't make sense to me. No disagreement there, ;) Cookies, chips, and chocolate bars enter the picture too often, believe you me(another questionable saying?) Glad you enjoyed this post and your cookies.
Liberal progressive: I wish I'd leave the salad days, and make my bread and butter on discussing sayings.
Con Chapman: Rice pudding is wonderful. I wish I knew how to italicize the ," is,"
fernsy, wonderful to visit this philosophical and funny part of you, that you have been defending all this long while in your posts, through trouble and turmoil. It seems you have protected her well.
not drunk either but am (now here's an odd phrase) giddy with amusement , picture that...
Saludos comedian ~
I love tapioca and over the years have found much proof of the mystery of life while eating it. Or maybe I just craved tapioca after
ingesting some special brownies and the subject came up.
I love trail mix too, is this one of those foodie Sunday posts?
Just curious.
rated with love
I pig trail mix......and reap the benefits.......
Rated for looks like everyone took a happy pill.
Jramelle: Yes, Qualadues. What ever happened to those, for pete's sake.
ThebadScot: I doubt any saint shortened his name to Pete.
Lunchlady: Great. Thanks.
Alysa: So glad you came back. I was about to PM you... Alysa ... Nooo I like "to boot". Get some rest, dear.
Jrammelle: Even agnostics don't know why things are done for the sake of Pete. I'd love to hear the real story behind, " curiosity killed the cat."
Inverted I: Beautiful and poetic comment. Thank you . So glad to cause you any amusement. I wish I could favorite you again. Bless.
Fun and refreshing post!
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As a half Scot I can support the BadScots definition of "cute": in my Scottish family, cute was not a compliment. It meant subversive, sneaky, dishonest - as applied to me and my cousins.
Buttons are not cute - I should know since I have about five million of them. On my Yankee/American side, my grandmother collected buttons. And since I have kept everything after my mothers death, I find myself overwhelmed by buttons. A quick internet search led me to the button people, and apparently many people really, really like buttons. There are button conventions. I think that is wonderful...but they also fight, constantly, with each other about buttons.
I have not yet revealed my treasure trove - just bounced around different button sites observing gigantic flame wars erupt about who should have really won top prize at the international button festival. I don't want an angry mob on my doorstep demanding that I give up the buttons.
Does this sound familiar?
(I was thinking - still thinking - that I would donate them to a button museum , but now I'm afraid of the button people.)
on an entirely different note, this little poem came to mind (and might thrill the BadScot and others):
"What is the matter with Mary Jane?
She hasn't an ache and she hasn't a pain,
And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again.
What is the matter with Mary Jane?"
A.A. Milnes
Romantic P: You are going to start a tapioca craze. These are those special brownie musings, you are right. Yes, it is foodie tuesday post. Mypsyche: Long time no see. Thanks.
Mission: heh heh.
Trilogy: Thanks.
Seer: Don't chase that breath too hard!
ThebadScot:Ah ha, that's the story. That neighborhood was filled with kooks- how else to explain them calling Buttons... Pudding. Excellent. Thank you.
JustThinking: My pleasure. Thanks.
Such an outpouring!
Very good to see!!!
Rated!
You'd be the one to ask : what is a "gig" ? Why do we say "gig" ?
While you're there, why does the guy behind the counter say " Not a drama," when I give him the correct change ?
SusieLindau: When the TROUBLES started I said to the awful corrupt detective: At first I had nothing against her, but now after what she's done I have a beef.. and it is stuck in craw. There is now a beef stuck in my craw! He wasn't amused or even effected in any good way that I could see. Thanks.
Aim: I will take you and Badscots word for the cute thing. I wish I had some Scot in me. Scots are cool. More Omg- Why do you have 5 million buttons, woman?? Oh, I see. So, now on internet sites and fearing angry mobs coming to grab your buttons. I'm telling you -- write this book! Possible book titles. "Fear and the button people." " Buttons make me bananas." " Bananas make me bananas."
" Aren't you cute, bitch." I have more once you complete the first draft. Poems always welcome on my blog as our funny and meaty comments such as yours. Carry on. Carry on what? wtf.
J.D: I think it struck a chord because brutal critiques of buttons are too few and far between!
Myriad: How can one hate pudding? So be it, as they say.
Tink: Just loaded up on some to get the energy to make my first coffee of the day.
Kim: Say the word and we will hit the road together, "OS comedy tour," is the unimaginative title coming to mind.
Rita: Excellent. Thanks. I wish their was an app that would allow us to hear that sound.
Becky!! Great to see you back. You've been sorely missed. Intriguing and poetic comment. I hear you, and appreciate it.