Thanks, EOD! My handle, as you so aptly have pointed out is uniquely EI's bit from 'Dressed To Kill'. Can I threadjack my own thread? Sure. I love history, especially served with irreverence and topped with cheeky monkeys. Recently, Ms. Cake and I were watching a series called 'Bits of Her'. To our surprise, EI plays a heroin addict/lawyer in the series. Ms. Cake asked me if I thought EI's
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In the late 1970's I served a mission to Chicago. During the course of many visits to the mission home, the Commisarian would sell us our usual stock of BOM's and pamphlets, nothing high tech here except for a film strip projector that I carried in a rucksack (this is before backpacks came out of the camping closet). Anyway, every now and then there would be talks or hymns overheard on a single s
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Mormonism in my family starts about in the 1930's and '40s. Missionaries came to Northern Florida and converted my GGGP's. These folks were a combination of Baptists, racists, poor farmers who kept being lured into the city. My GP was a mechanic on my Dad's side. My GP on my mom's side was a cop and died at 35 of a heart attack. My mom raised her siblings until she married my dad. My dad was an o
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Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Al Dimeola, Jaco Pastorius, and Paco DeLucia, Peter Manau, Jean-Luc Ponty were major influences on me during the 1980's. Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Carlos Devadip Santana. Many more to name but Holdsworth is HOF.
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I tried to keep a level of decorum that is long lost on people of this man's ilk. while at the same time trying to not give any quarter to this attack. I took a defensive posture in order to maintain the 'social distance', prior to this COVID horse shit. I'm not a small man and I have a barrel chest and strong legs and hips. Upper body is shot due to dual rotator cuff repairs to the shoulders. I
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Recently I had a relative pass away in another town. On the day of the funeral, the family greeted friends, LDS Church members, and others who had made time for our relatives memory. One of the guests has been a long-time personal friend to my parents. Whenever he would visit our home, see us at church, or in town, he'd always make it a point to tell me that I was his 'little buddy'. These trite
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I spent this past week watching my mother and father reach the end of their physical existence void of the constant care of others. My dad is subject to his diabetic condition and age. My mother is prey to osteoporosis, bed sores, heavy sedation for back injuries in the last two weeks. Happily, I was able to enlist the help of two of my 3 siblings in taking care of diapers, showers, food, hygiene
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babyloncansuckit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, how drinking rests the weary. > Beer will change the night to day. This is brilliant prose. Cake
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...And propane accessories. Sorry not Hank Hill.
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They may soon be the same but, until then, it's booze. Cake
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Recently, I had an influx of out-of-town customers who I ring up and get them on their merry way. A lot of the OOTC's usually ask if I sell ice, coolers, smokes, lighters, mixers, and other items associated with my own product. To which I direct them to the local C-Store or grocery vendor. It's that time of year when the local university sheds it's thin veneer of youthful education-types and gets
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I'll leave it to the Legal Eagles here to provide functionary information of the law. Legal and lawful mean two different things depending on the subject matter and the law. It may be legal to marry someone at the age of consent (say, 18 years old), however, it may be illegal to cohabitate with a minor or 18 year old without consent of a parent or guardian. You must check your local laws as to wh
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I once heard a friend suggest that the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses were sister companies owned by the same CEO. I'm guessing that's rhetoric but, Scientology is a lonely beast. It can't be explained in simple terms but for one thing: Tax Exempt Status. I would hope that every security measure that needs to be taken is by A&E. Remini and Rinder are striking hard and fast at the lifeblood
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How about the statues of Albert Pike and Brigham Young in Washington D.C,? I think Young's is in the Capitol building and Pikes is along a median strip downtown. The leader of the KKK and Freemasonry and the leader of the Mormons are in full honor in DC. If I remember correctly, Freemasons revere Pike and his achievements, as do Klansmen. While in Utah, I don't have enough information to know
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DON'T JUST DON'T RELAX; DON'T DO IT WHEN YOU WANT TO COME. C A K E
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How about Green and Gold Balls (dances)? How about Rebaptism? Brigham Young, JD How about the altar in the locked room at the top of the steps on the third floor of the old 5th ward (Mormon) chapel (on Park Street) in Jacksonville, Florida? Now defunct. How about requiring Deacons to be married? JD How about tithing being taken off of your INCREASE? D&C How about barley for man? D&am
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Recently saw her interviewed on MSNBC and really liked her answers and thinking. Cake
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For me, that our planet is hurtling through space, having our own sidereal rotation, add a moon, and another rotation around the sun, add other planets near/far from ours which make up a solar system. That system rotates around a another system (I'm not sure what that is called), that system of stars is rotating in a helical pattern heading toward Andromeda to become a new star/galaxy system many
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You know friends, we put a lot of needed pressure on Mormonism. From making fun of the quirky beliefs, unyielding requirement of faith in believing the 'Brethren', to showing the real damage that it has done to generations of families in the US and the world. But, I somehow think that the people who end up becoming, or being born into Jehovah's Witness, have been dealt a hand off the bottom of th
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When he and his family were still living in Willard, Utah, I stopped there and got gas from him a few times. Before his troubles started... Cake
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I attended two semesters in 1981/82 and loved a few of my classes (biology, drawing, first aid/EMT prep). On the first day during orientation, a student who sat in front of me had a braided strand of hair, which ended with a glass bead, hanging off of the left side of an otherwise short missionary haircut. Straight-leg jeans, Vans, and a Val Surf t-shirt. Yep, California skater kid. I overheard s
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I believe from my studies that the Jay-Dubs and the Mawmons are the double-ugly twins of Freemasonry and Protestantism. And Scientology is the two-headed baby from Mars that Elvis promised to Priscilla when she saw Michael Jackson on a UFO. Cake It's been a long day, OK?
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It's been years since I studied my way out of TSCC but, there was a book I read that had photographs of a cornerstone for a temple in a Pennsylvania town. The books author was sanctioned by TSCC to do limited research 'back east' to uncover anything that might influence popular opinion. I wish I could remember the author and the name of the book. But, the photograph in the book clearly shows a co
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scmd1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen a little but not a lot of Alton Brown. > Would you mind explaining how thinking like Alton > Brown can make powdered ilk palatable? If Mr. > Brown is truly capable of a mindset or of anything > else that would make powdered milk palatable, he's > second only to Jesus, who turned water into wi
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As much as I rail against milk, I still love the flavor and consistency. My point above was simply to make powdered milk palatable one must think a bit like Alton Brown (Good Eats, Food Network USA). The same is true for most food stuffs that have been suffered by generations of folks along the Wasatch Front. My TBM parents, hung out with people of other faiths because we did not live in Utah
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There is a way to make powdered milk, when it is reconstituted properly, taste perfectly fine. Keep in mind, (cow's) milk is designed to make a relatively small animal become a huge industry commodity for beef or milk. Why humans are drinking cow's milk still baffles me. We can't figure out why we gain weight year to year but, for gawd-sakes, keep that two gallons of milk in the icebox for cookie
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Similar surgery to yours recently, I am still not 100 percent on mobility and confidence in the joint. Lot's of weakness and discomfort, a lack of balance, and proprioception. The doctor assessed that I was weak due to lack of recovery. Whatever. Which means that he did the best he could with the insurance money he was given. All you Bernie Sanders haters out there listen to a voice of reason.
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The merit badge I remember the most is the "Survived Initiation" badge. As a Tenderfoot, I recall being made to drink some liquid that had been warmed by the campfire. Along with 5 other plebes we were forced to drink some concoction of fluid which later made us wretch. Then the deluge. It rained for 2 days of the weekend retreat in Northern Florida. No fires, no warmth, no food, ju
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I love reading all of your passions for a good drink. As a purveyor of libations, I often wonder what the hell some of you are thinking. OTOH, I am always amazed at the quality of drinking most of you are attached to. For instance, someone who focuses on a good Scotch. Or, another who is impressing a friend with a special red wine. Or the DIL who wants to make sure her FIL has a happy heart o
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Maynard Ferguson, small high school in southern Georgia (first circa 1977). JJ Grey and MoFro, Eccles Theatre SLC (latest).
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