REALLY United States of America or Not ??? — #PrayForOklahoma

REALLY United States of America or Not ??? — #PrayForOklahoma.

Irish writers, women, and tragedy

Irish writers, women, and tragedy.

May 19th, 2013, some morning silliness.

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Yesterday, I was watching a cooking show and they were talking about the invention of Buffalo Hot Wings.  I only had one question.  Does that mean thousands of chickens are wandering the streets of Buffalo, New York with bandages, begging to be fed?

I posted this on Facebook and my friend, Casey-Lynn chimed in shaking her fist at me.  Well she told me she was shaking her fist at me, as I could not see this and she is across the world.  My lifelong family friend Phil Troy, throws his two cents in the pot to help.  I introduce them, telling Phil, Casey-Lynn lives in some country near Indonesia and New Guinea.  (If you haven’t figured out which country it is, you have a homework assignment.  Find a globe and/or atlas).

Phil had ideas for Thai and Indonesian hot sauces, I thought New Guineans only ate other New Guineans.  (I hear they go great with lemon juice).

Well hopefully, we helped our our Queensland Australia friend.

Allegedly, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was caught smoking crack.  Many of us remember the capture of Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry with crack.  There you have it, a Tale of Two Cities, two mayors and they weren’t all they were cracked up to be.

North Korea fired four missiles, that landed in the Sea of Japan.  Tough way to go fishing and make sushi at the same time.

Related articles

• Former Washington D.C. mayor denies any parallels between himself and scandal-plagued Rob Ford (news.nationalpost.com)
• Mayor Rob Ford around the world (globalnews.ca)
• Intl media cracking wise over Mayor Rob Ford (metronews.ca)
• I am the world. I am Papua New Guinean (asopa.typepad.com)
• Buffalo Wings, Niagara Falls and Neat Architecture (smartercitieschallenge.wordpress.com)

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury. A Silly Look.

English: W. S. Gilbert’s illustration for “Now, Jurymen, hear my advice” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I’m a major Gilbert and Sullivan fan, but cannot help having fun with it.  I will start with Trial by Jury.

The basic story is this:  It’s a civil case, that is a breach of promise of marriage.  The jilted woman, Angelina is suing, Edwin.

The judge has the jury there and his audience.  You can also imagine the Muppet Show doing this.  If you were in West Africa, you would call them “Praise Singers.”

You could have Rumpole of the Bailey defend Edwin, but in this case he should stick with small time crooks like the Timson’s and their ongoing feud, with the Malloy family.

The judge is no paragon of virtue.  He used his mentor, married the mentors daughter to gain his position, then kicked her to the curb.  In another time, there might have been a duel.

Angelina is treated with the ultimate compassion.  What Edwin doesn’t tell you is his mother made him ditch Angelina.  ”What kind of name is Angelina for a proper English girl?”  (Think Dame Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey).

Edwin is just lucky this is the Old Bailey in London, and not the Cochise County, Arizona courthouse (Original one was in Tombstone).  Then, Edwin would have been taken out back, hanged, and Boot Hill Cemetery is nearby.  There are some interesting tombstones in Tombstone’s Boot Hill Cemetery.  What would Edwin’s say?  He didn’t get the girl?  Moral of the story; a Man’s handshake has to be his word?

Edwin lucked out when the Judge married Angelina and Edwin was just written off as a bum.

 

Hits from Serbia.

National Flag of Serbia (Civil Flag) Hrvatski: Narodna zastava Srbije Magyar: Nemzeti zászló szerbia Русский: Народный флаг сербии Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски: Народна застава Србије Slovenčina: Srbská národná vlajka Shqip: Flamuri kombëtar i Serbisë (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thank you to the Serbs who found my blog yesterday.  I hadn’t had hits from Serbia before, therefore I’m happy you came to visit and please return to the blog and comment.

Mona, the body in the bog

Mona, the body in the bog.

The Nixon Homunculus

The Nixon Homunculus.