I don't know if any of you have ever worked with a former nurse's aide but seems to me, it's my impression that they tend to look for health problems in other people. Chef at work has a small lump, probably a cyst on the back of his shoulder. He's not working shirtless of course so I probably would never have noticed until she told me about it. Dishwasher somewhat overweight and she says she walks funny and told her she has the wrong shoes. One day she said I have dry hands and bought me a small bottle of Jergen's which is fine but maybe you don't have enough to do we can put more on your plate. My late aunt God rest her soul was a retired RN and once told an Amish woman her socks were too tight and was cutting off her circulation so there's a trend here. Now nobody's coming to work with a tumor on the side of their face the size of a basketball like you see in those infomercials for Mercy Ships. We all have something. An imperfection, health ailment or problem that's not life hreatening that we live with or manage or even totally ignore. Some may see a doctor some may not. Most of us are not Rockefellers with endless funds. I work alongside a young Spanish guy with a deformed ear. I'm sure he's aware of it I could care less. To be filed under mildly annoying.
Or we can discuss Kate Middleton:)
Was at Dr. a couple days a go for annual Medicare check-up. Being 83,
ReplyDeleteI received instructions like "What is today? What time is it? List the months backwards from December and count backwards from 20 as fast as you can." Clearly an Alzheimer probe. And I missed August in
the month questions. RN said that was OK, a lot of younger folk do to.
Self medication: had a bright red spot about a quarter inch circle on my shoulder. Figured spider bite. But it just stayed like that for a couple months. Like everyone would, I googled quarter inch circular skin lesion and found five or six things, only one of which was a peculiar cancer. Last week I decided to put a drop of calamine lotion on it, that being an astringent which would absorb any spider venum and discourage germs. Whatever it was is now shrunk to a tiny scab
and another week of calamine should eliminate it. Hey, where does
August fit in a backward calendar anyhoo?
Spanish chef I worked with said flip the questions back to the doctor. If he asks you how are your bowel movements ask him how are his bowel movements.
ReplyDeleteFound an idiot on YouTube who deliberately provoked a black widow spider into biting his arm just to prove the widow can't kill a human being. Ah YouTube!
The woman I work with, the ex-nurse's aide maybe fancies herself the unofficial health advisor to the staff. Although she now works in the food industry mentally she hasn't left the health care field. She makes people uncomfortable like I have a small cyst on my cheek, same size for years and she gets up closr to me one day and says I have bumps on my face. I don't know what to say it's my cross to bear and told her not to worry about it. Then we had a young chef and she made an issue with him why doesn't he eat on his break. I think she should go back to being a nurse's aide honestly.
ReplyDeleteShe needs entertainment. I bunked with a kid in Army basic training who wheezed and snored. He had been a sand-blaster for a few years. Silica
ReplyDeletedamages the lungs. You might mention this condition and see if she promptly and correctly diagnoses his problem as....as
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. if she does, she's a keeper.
Lmao.
DeleteThank you BB. Decided to get some calamine. Good thing to have in the medicine cabinet. Used to get poison ivy a few times doing yard work. If a spider did get you I'm guessing brown recluse.
ReplyDeletePeople say don't go to YouTube for medical advice. Maybe about three months ago I had horrible sciatica in my left leg. You know you wake up at 3 in the morning and you have to go to work the next day and it's just hellish. Decided to YouTube the problem, did some simple stretches and the relief was almost instant. Able to work the next day and it never came back. You don't always have to pad a doctor's income.
ReplyDeleteEclipse on April 8. Shades of 'Little Shop of Horrors'. you gonna celebrate somehow, or just call Yonger Ghostbusters?
ReplyDeleteWhere do I have to travel to see the spectacle?
DeleteOver to Buffalo for total eclipse. It should get pretty dark in Yonkers, though. It is at 3-3:30 PM, you will probably be at work discussing
ReplyDeletemoderate to severe plaque psoriaisis with with whathsername. Totality for me will be 1600 miles south in the Pacific off Mexico. All according to NASA (who did lose two space shuttles). Don't look directly at the eclipse or you may turn into Pee Wee Herman.
Few years back we had an eclipse. Not a total one but a good part of the sun was blocked out. Road signs along the highways warning motorists to turn their lights on when it happens. Nothing happened. Buffalo has all the fun. 3 feet of snow blizzards and now an eclipse.
DeleteYeah, Buffalo even has Wild Wings On the bright side, Tom Brady left.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is a constant source of motivation. Discover fan theories and discussions about Aviator on our blog.
ReplyDeleteAmelia Earhart is still alive?
ReplyDeleteBB I was reading about blog monetizing or having ads on your blog. I remember reading back in the day a blog around these parts and the blogger was talking about his lack of sex and said he'd probably even have trouble getting gay laid and voyeurism is his sex life now. I did have a good chuckle or two but I'm thinking advertisers not so much. Did some calculations and you could earn anywhere from 5-7K a year from your blog. You might need that money someday. What good is a couple of sex jokes if you can't pay the rent?
ReplyDeleteGoogle won't let me type my own words or even make up words. Ever text someone and it's not what you wrote?
ReplyDeleteMy Google gave up and lets me have mai own typos. Hooply Fer m!
ReplyDeleteSpam ads: got one for an APP that evaluates your spending and gives you a print out of where your money went- eating out, car insurance etc. But I've had a budget spreadsheet for years. And I know darn well that I buy 13.5 cans of Prince Albert pipe tobacco each year AND 26 fifths of Christian Bro brandy over the same time period. (That comes out to 5.1 gallons, so party on Christian Brothers. Do they smoke pipes?
ReplyDeletePipe smoking. Got two nice pipes at home and tried taking up piping again. My main issue is keeping the tobacco lit. Too much work. They make it look easy on TV. Googled the problem. Too much to remember. Looks elegant though.
DeleteRe using your blog as a side hustle at the end of the year or rather at the beginning of the following year after you've run ads on your blog for tax purposes do they send you something similar to a W-2 form in the mail?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you ever watch Star Trek or any of its spinoffs but do they ever have a dress down day when they don't have to wear the uniforms? Captain Picard in denims and a polo shirt.
ReplyDeleteRE: pipe smoking: its all in the tamping of the tobacco. Too loose and it will keep going out. Too tight and you get little draw. I may re-light once even while doing stuff like writing in a blog. It would suit you: sort of Sherlock Holmes, comtemplative, and you can get zany and blow smoke rings. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteOr I could just stick it on a snowman.
ReplyDeleteI recall you used to fish upstate in a row boat. Ever hear the tale of
ReplyDeletethe two Norwegian fishermen? Out in rented rowboat, they hit on a
big haul of perch and walleye. Bjarni says to Olaf, "Vee better mark
dis here spot. And he painted a large red X on the floor of the boat.
Olaf says, "Bjarni dat is yust dumb: vee might not get der same boat next time". Ever run into them upstate?
Lmao
DeleteBeen feeding a feral cat on my porch for some time now. Big tomcat. Yesterday he came by with a horrible wound above his right eye. Today he came by after I came home from work. I put on some vinyl gloves and used these antiseptic wipes I had in my medicine cabinet from a previous vet visit and cleaned his wound. Not easy. Then I put a good dab of antibiotic ointment on it and let him eat and be on his way. A challenging task but he's used to me enough. That's my good deed for the day.
ReplyDeleteDaughter in Kansas has a couple of feral cats. Cleo, a calico, has her own heating pad in the garage. Julius, the orange one is friendly, but she has been trying to take him in to get him neutered. Ferals hate that and he is still on the prowl. Her housecat Millie, has no teeth. Our cat Mikey, has only one eye.
DeleteTalk about nine lives. I watch the guy on TV that is an expert on cats, but can you trust a guy that has rings in his nose and ears?
Jackson Galaxy. Lol.
DeleteFerals are a judgement call. This particular one has snuck in the house before and because toms have a habit of spraying I carried him out a couple times so I know I can handle him. Also you might have a couple local cat rescue groups in your area who know what to do. Then again maybe not. You're lucky to have cell phone service.
Several years back we had a skunk family that lived in a culvert at the end of the pasture next door. Kind of a cute black and white family, but not the sort of neighbors we preferred. Fish and Game had traps, but they were all in use and gave us a Good Luck. Read someplace that skunks hate mothballs and threw a bunch into the culvert. Skunk family was disgusted and left in a big smelly huff. Question: do they
ReplyDeleteget those mothballs offta boy moths?
Lol.
DeleteMy old HS class of 1959 has a huge active website. I've reconnected with a few and look at it quite often to see what other old people are doing. Today, I looked at the Jr. Prom. We had a small group of guys that had a band: bass, sax, drum and guitar. Forget their band name, but the odd thing is they only knew ONE song. 'Sentimental Journey'. They had a lot of gigs with Sentimental Journey because they could play the dang tune in hip-hop, waltz, polka and jazz. KInd of wore on you, though.
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered about one hit wonders. That's all they could muster up out of their combined creativeness? Wha' happened? Frankie Goes to Hollywood and "Relax". They may as well play the one song over and over what else have they got? Billy Joel could write a hit in his sleep. C'mon guys.
DeleteSo I sometimes watch "How To Survive" with survivalist expert Creek Stewart. Ok so the guy is cool. He can figure out how to make long johns out of car mats. In one episode if you're lost and starving in the woods he shows how to kill and then roast a Diamondback Rattlesnake. Isn't that kind of advanced though for the average person with his family who took a wrong turn in the canyon? What could go wrong?
ReplyDeleteEver post a comment on a blog with moderation and you're like any day now.
ReplyDeleteGot kicked off a couple blogs. One for being condescending with too
ReplyDeletemany references. Political blogs are notorious. Got kicked off one when the lady's husband agreed with me. But on the bright side, I quit several conservative blogs with mutual respect: had nice things to say about each other.,just no common ground.
I try to mix up the topics here. It's like I think the best stand-ups stick with mostly non-political stuff. If only some of these political blogs would talk about something else once in a while instead of this binary view of the world. Does anyone have a pet out there?
DeleteI'm far from Bear Grylls, but used to canoe rivers for several days, camping on the way. One time a big thunderstorm blew up from the west. We went up the bank and took shelter under the overturned canoe. So did a big water snake. We stood out in the rain and wind.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid growing up I was a kind of amateur herpetologist. Had the snake and reptile books. My understanding of water snakes is a cranky disposition and while non-venomous if they bite you they have an anticoagulant and so you bleed for awhile. You made the right decision.
DeleteKind of odd. I've been bitten by more cats than dogs. And I don't even have ear rings like the cat psychologist. Dogs are people oriented, it's a
ReplyDeletepack thing. Cats are...well, cats, ya know?
On the other hand, I prefer a cat over a pit bull any day.
ReplyDeleteThey also don't like messes. Unless they're mental most cats will use the litter box. I don't trim their nails so as they can catch mice but sometimes you pay the price.
ReplyDeleteYou got a big family Easter tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteThey're making me work tomorrow. Dad passed away in 2020. He was 98. My mother had a major stroke the following year so now I'm her caretaker so basically when I get off tomorrow it's a small affair. Myself, my Mom, my sister who's coming over and the home health care aide. Will smoke my cigar later on the porch and am off Monday. A lot has changed in my life in the past 3-4 years. Happy Easter to you and Dave and Stay.
DeleteCouple weeks ago I went to my car and noticed minor damage to the hood. You try to keep your car nice but I can live with it. Showed my friend yesterday and said my working theory is somebody in an SUV was probably trying to park but my friend did a Columbo and examined the nature of the minor damage and said looks like some fat ass sat on your car. Stranded in civilization. Ever think of becoming a recluse BB?
ReplyDeleteRecluse? It is on my bucket list.
ReplyDeleteWith occasional forays into town for the Christian Brothers.
ReplyDeleteMrs. claims that an old guy running trains in the basement day after day
ReplyDeleteIS a recluse. Christian Brothers: I figured my choice donated alms to
the Church. Found out the Christian Bros. sold out to a place in Kentucky quite awhile back. CB Vinyards in Bardstown KY. About 20-25 miles east of Ft. Knox. Gone are the Brothers chanting matins as the oak casks did their thing. I suspect the Kentucky outfit is the progeny of the White Lightning fellas, Dukes of Hazard types. Kind of a fire/ice, oil/water transaction. Got enough on hand for another couple of weeks if the one-eyed cat stays out of it.
My late Dad liked the imported Robert Burns Black Watch cigars. He got me liking them too now they don't make them anymore. Already had the hole punched in. Came in a nice tin. Nice cigar box too. Can't Elon Musk bring them back?
ReplyDeleteWon a foot long fat cigar at the county fair when i was 19. Smoked the whole thing. Tasted like it was made from hamster droppings, banana peeling. It was colored gray and smelled of old socks. Hint: never smoke one before going on the tilt-a-whirl.
ReplyDeleteJudge Judy- I guess she retired. I waited for a long time for an episode where both the plaintiff and the defended would rush and vault the bench and slap the potty mouthed sarcastic old coot around, while the black bailiff applauded. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom would watch her a lot. I never cared for the bitch but I'd come over she'd be on. Judy had a thing about cats. Whenever there was a cat case she'd say keep your cats inside at all times or put 'em on a leash. I don't know how to describe her actually. She's like the personification of a hemorrhoid.
ReplyDeleteI ran a check on the thing called "Grammarly". Pros & Cons. I think it would make your blog more flowery and boring. Like "She is the penultimate quintessence of vascular structures of the anal canal" or
ReplyDeleteone may choose the popular tongue-in-cheek " She never smiles due to her piles". AI = Artificial Ignorance. Grammarly - only $144 a year
$144. That's a water bill for me.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I worked in the deli an elderly woman in her 70s came up to the counter to place her order and said "what's up with this fucking weather?" I feel like that now.
ReplyDeleteBoar's Head woman used to help us sometimes. Bit of a Chatty Cathy. Said she's due for another colonoscopy. A touch oversharing. Noted one day I have dry hands. Might be a former nurse.
Picked up a prescription down at the drug store. Got purple pills instead of pink. Took them back, said the amlodipine part was off by 10 mg. Now they pharmacist and clinic are arguing over whose fault it was.
ReplyDeleteI may have to go on Judge Judy. &^$*
My local pharmacist since retired I'd go to get my BP pills and it was always 20 minutes he's next door getting a bagel.
DeleteOur pharmacist graduated with our middle daughter from college. Kind of personal service. While she was arguing with the clinic over how many mg of amlodipine, went and checked out with a bag of beef jerky. I like beef jerky. Makes me fell like part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Here, Sacajewea, have a buffalo chip. Where was I?
ReplyDeleteNames you can never pronounce.
DeleteMrs. gets upset when people pronounce especially as ec-specially. Our financial planner did that and her plan has left us with the same amount we put in 23 years back, paying us $1100 a month the whole time. I Ec-specially liked her set up.. Inside chemistry joke: chemist goes in drug store says "You got any sodium acetyl salicylate? Pharmacists says, "You mean aspirin?" Chemist- "Oh yeah, I can never remember that"
ReplyDeleteWatched Jackie Vernon's 'Gotta Git A Guide' on You-Tube. Total deadpan, liked to make fun of himself (I called Dial-A-Prayer and they
ReplyDeletehung up on me). Odd, some of the short heavy funnymen died young:
John Candy, Chris Farley, John Belushi - 43, 33 and 33. Overworked heart and plenty of street drugs are a bad combination.
Street drugs - yet Richard Pryor lived to make fun of himself.
DeleteBeen sampling the stand-ups. Don't care much for Ricky Gervais. It's like he's lecturing you.
Has the medical lady at work performed any miracles for the crew yet?
ReplyDeleteNo but she was talking about doctors today. I kind of agreed with her. You go to the doctor for one thing and they're sending you to the 5th floor for something else.
DeleteFlip Wilson lived to 65. "What you see is what you get" became a code
ReplyDeleteamong computer engineers WYSIWYG. I still on occasion use his 'The Devil Made Me Do It' - or TDMDI. That was in the 70's, you were probably in kindergarten.
I watched Geraldine.
ReplyDeleteI like Brit humor. Ever see 'Doc Martin'?
ReplyDeleteI like "Keeping Up Appearances."
ReplyDelete"Bouquet residence, Lady of the house speaking. On my coral colored slimline once used by the Vicar" Doc Martin bedside manner - "You mean I have myasthenia gravis compounded by liver failure?"
ReplyDelete-"Shut up and bend over"
You must have Brit Box.
ReplyDeleteBetter and cheaper - PBS
ReplyDeleteYeah. Maybe they can have Suze Orman debate Tom Selleck over reverse mortgages.
ReplyDeleteThat would take a lot of Christian Brothers to watch.
ReplyDeleteI think experts are ego-driven and want you to respect their expertise. Make mine a double.
ReplyDeleteI'm no Freudian, but according to him, everyone is driven by the ID, Ego and Super Ego, Or perhaps just Freud was. Me - I prefer experts to
ReplyDeleteclairvoyants. (With the exception of two firearms experts at a trial
with diametrically opposed expertise)
Experts. I found myself un-subscribing from cat guru Jackson Galaxy's YouTube channel because I started finding myself disagreeing with him. In one video he said it's a common myth that dogs and cats are natural enemies. Many years back we had a couple stray dogs killing cats in the neighborhood. Guess they don't follow Jackson.
ReplyDeleteThey say Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher was an expert in the field. Even current philosophy experts debate his classic 'Either-Or" study. Heck, one is either pregnant or not pregnant, right?
ReplyDeleteWell there used to be just male and female now there's something like 32 genders. Does this run afoul of the ad policy?
ReplyDeleteIMO, there is just still male and female. Who knows what goes on in their noggins?
ReplyDeleteIf I want to become a philosopher how much does it pay? Work from home?
ReplyDeleteUsed to comment on a woman's blog. She was a PhD philosophy that
ReplyDeleteran a book store. For a philosophy expert, she had a good sense of humor.
Not the solipsistic type?
ReplyDeleteOh no. I think she took ibuprofin for that. I visited her today and complained about being banned from a couple of Tumpist blogs.
ReplyDeleteShe simple observed that rationality is an unacceptable position.
Hadn't been there for a couple years and she was delighted to hear of my upcoming 4 score and 3 birthday. More than me for sure.
Solopsistic is kind of like paradigm or deipnosophist: fills out a sentence. BTW if you are looking for big$$$ and can work outside the home, the Japanese superstar Ohtani is looking for a new interpreter.
George Will type words which makes reading his opinions too much work. I really don't carry around a pocket dictionary with me.
ReplyDeleteA habit of watching 'Jeopardy' is becoming a trivia addict. So mea culpa, there are around 170,000 english words in most dictionaries. But 3,000 are used 95% of the time and the average person knows about 20- 30.000. The one that confounds me is that quite a number of Christmas carols are written in 3/4 waltz time...as is the 'Beer Barrell Polka'. Trivial = petty, inconsequential, piddling and of little value. I've seen George Will on TV. He talks like he writes. William F. Buckley could convince you with a tornado of polysylables whlle
ReplyDeletesucking on his pencil.
He loved pencils and leaning back on his chair. Him and Will should've gotten together.
ReplyDeleteHad a chemistry professor would lean back in his chair. "Whats up, Bob?" "I accidently sucked up some tri-valent arsenic in hydrochloric acid with my pipet!!" He reached into his desk. "Here, have a cough drop" Smith Brothers - Wild Cherry. It worked, I'm still here.
ReplyDeleteTry that question on the nursing expert turned deli worker.
DeleteProbably reply "Colon vacuuming and lip gloss"
Worked in a public library once. Village historian came in and leaned so far back in his swivel chair he fell.
DeleteNever understood why an iPhone should cost more than a laptop.
ReplyDeleteRight. Why should bottled water cost more than Christian Brothers brandy
DeleteThe importance of staying hydrated. I said to my sister-in-law who works in health care I thought that referred to water but she said juices too are good for staying hydrated. Does soda count?
DeleteFalling is funny, unless it's us. As a younger fellow, i went to Wednesday night night Lenten Serivces. Episcopal Cathedral, midwest's version of Westminster. They had a guest from some seminary, old white haired guy in white chasible and a thick stack of notes. Climbed the curving steps to the towering pulpit and began an hour long lecture on the ins and outs of theological philosophy. Was dozing when I finishce. He turned around and fell down the steps, head over theological shoe, rather acrobatic for an old guy. Can't laugh in church, but boy your nose runs like heck, stifling the guffaws.
ReplyDeleteBeen to circus tents that were less traumatic.
My brother one time when we were growing up was joining the line in the back of the church to go to Communion and he fell into the candles. Usher came over all concerned. Christian Brothers?
DeleteSo several months back I purchased from an online pet supply store some food grade diatomaceous earth for different reasons. It has benefits for pets and people and is bad for roaches. I simply ordered too much of it. Can you use it for masonry work?
ReplyDeleteThinking about solipsistic again. Means extreme ego centricity. While Trump comes to mind, most people try to avoid it. Alexander Pope, the English poet/essayist addresses the topic. Pope is much quoted. For example in his Essay on Criticism -
ReplyDeleteNay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead,
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Good nature and good sense not ever join
To err is human: to forgive, Divine.
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Even his essays rhyme (and he apparently liked Christian Brothers
Set that one to Rock music. Maybe Fall-Out Boy.
ReplyDeleteOr P. Diddy?
ReplyDeleteYou know this might be one for Sting. He was big on literary allusions. Kind of intellectual for a rocker.
ReplyDeleteFriend of mine has a cast iron stomach. I was driving him home recently and he was eating sushi in the car and downed it with a bottle of chocolate milk. I'd wind up in the ER.
ReplyDeleteIs that even legal? He probably mixes Budweiser with his Christian Brothers and calls the drink 'Christian Buddy'. And i thought eating a snickers and washing it down with brandy was gauche. Wonder if it is an attention getting device..you know, like "Waitress, can I have some ketchup for my salad?"
DeleteIt's a wonder we weren't pulled over.
DeleteI will say this. Turkey Hill Pomegranate Lemonade is to die for. I could have Level 10 cancer with not much longer and I want that. Hook up an IV. That and Baskin Robbins chocolate fudge.
Bobcat spotted in residential area of Yonkers the other night. Not one of mine.
ReplyDeleteYonkers? Bobcat? Has the National Geographic film team showed up yet?
ReplyDeleteYa never know it might be somebody's pet. Some people like the exotic species. You see them on YouTube. Somebody owns a wolverine. "Nearly chewed my arm off. He was only playing."
ReplyDeleteThe vet in "All Creatures Great and Small" walked around with a badger on his shoulder. Bobcats are famously shy. You might try opening a can of tuna.
ReplyDeleteHope I never encounter the Tibbetts Brook Sasquatch.
ReplyDeleteWe ponder whether they show up on our genetic testing - like many
ReplyDeletepeople have a low percentage of Neanderthal genes. Had a squat hirsute guy at work, figured he was about 50% Neanderthal.
Upper Management.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter in Topeka is a biology professor. Went to the zoo there
ReplyDeleteand the girl in the cage with the bobcat looking down was a former student. Saw a lynx up in the mountains crossing the road. Really long legs. Had a mule deer jump our fence and a moose run down the street. But have never been to the wilds of Yonkers.
We had a deer in our back yard a few years back. Took videos. Probably lost. Afraid one might come in the kitchen and make a cup of coffee.
ReplyDeleteWe got a bird feeder. Mostly Oregon Juncos all winter. One time they were hopping around in the snow diving for seeds and a large hawk dove done from somewhere and grabbed himself a Junco. Wife was horriefied. Told her she was the one that likes to feed the birds and
ReplyDeletedifferent birds feed on different things. Mom Nature is neutral.
Junco aka the snowbird. If you see a few on the ground they usually harbinger snow. Some flurries might come two days later but they know. More trustworthy than Al Roker.
ReplyDeleteI guess they spend Summer up in the Yukon territories. The little guys will take a peanut up on the porch railing and peck the heck out of it and swallow the pieces. They get pretty tame, like the local squirrels. Told the wife I get bored with Juncos and sparrows and once in awhile a rosy finch. She says 'What do you want?" I said a penguin
ReplyDeletenow and then would be interesting.
Sometimes the painter Bob Ross would have a baby squirrel in his pocket. Ross took the edge off a rough day. They call it the Bob Ross Effect. He's the king of ASMR. They've done studies on this. What it must be like smoking a joint with a glass of Christian Brothers.
ReplyDeleteYou remember the old "Most Interesting Man In The World" TV ads?
ReplyDeleteDistinguished gray bearded guy pushing Dos Equis beer - He once parallel parked a freight train - He discovered The Fountain Of Youth, but didn't drink because he wasn't thirsty - A rattlesnake once bit me. After five excruciating days, it died - I can speak Russian and French and can French kiss a Russian girl - etc. He always ended hoisting
a Dos Equis and said "Stay thirsty, my friend" Good ad. I spent a couple years ordering Dos Equis when we dined Mexican.
I like Dos Equis.
ReplyDeleteI was never much on beer until a CEO kept his cool during affairs and parties by sipping beer rather than a martini or black russian. Went through some various brands -Leinenkugels, Fat Tire, Moosedrool,
ReplyDeleteBlue Moon etc and ended up mostly sipping lite lagers..kind of like
bitter SevenUp. At El Sombreros, I order Estrella Jalisco and other places Stella Artois. Tee totaling nerd through college, began the habit in Army officer training. Introductory affair in dress uniforms and a free bar. Didn't have a clue. Bartender suggested a martini. Ten
martinis later, I accosted the post commander with some suggestiongs. Woke up in a cold shower in the student officers
quarters. Army 1 - BB 0.
I like a good ale but you can't always find it.
ReplyDeleteThere's hundreds of them. I had Blue Moon several times.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad got me going on Ballantine. My local stores are mostly beers. I'll check out the Blue Moon.
ReplyDeleteOur old neighbor, since deceased, owned a tavern. Had a huge vegetable garden. He would bring home cans of the cheapest, worst beer and pour in around the plants. Never had a bug problem. I never cared for Budweiser. Now they own half the market including craft beers. Never know what you're guzzling or where it was made.
ReplyDeleteSome beer looks like piss and tastes like piss. Bear Grylls craft lager.
ReplyDeleteWas web surfing the other day. Came across eczema vs. psoriasis. Sounds like a Japanese monster movie.
ReplyDeleteI get a lot of mongoose vs. cobra videos on You Tube.
ReplyDeleteDoes Jackson Galaxy claim they are natural enemies?
ReplyDeleteImagine you make an appointment for him to come to your house over a cat issue but you don't know what he looks like.
ReplyDelete"Mom there's a hippy on the porch."
Meanwhile, the cat is clinging to the top of the curtain.
ReplyDeleteSo the feral came back with another face wound probably from a cat fight. Put on my vinyl gloves and cleaned it quick with an antiseptic wipe. When he came back the next day put some antiseptic cream on it. I heard the growling. That's it for me did my part so texted a cat rescue lady that helped me once and attached an image of the cat for informational purposes. Lost me as a contact so said who I was. My sister said when I come home from work call her so she knows I'm home. Why? The cat ain't here. I texted her as a kind of FYI because they've done rescue work in my neighborhood. Beyond that what am I supposed to do invite her over for coffee and donuts and the cat is two blocks away? How does this work? Do they have this in Idaho?
ReplyDeleteDo I see the potential for a TV series there? " Keeping Up Appearances".
ReplyDeleteFuddy-duddy cat rescue lady can't figure out whether the cat of the rescuer are feral. Feral cats in Idaho? It is the state animal.