Baldur

Since everyone here loves contests Baldur thought he would post this.
Lufthansa is looking for a clever name for it's new class of LH A380 jets.
The prize? enough miles for 2 people to fly around the world First Class.
Good Luck
http://a380.lufthansa.com/TAKEPART/#/DE/EN/NAMING

Shanley

that's an easy one: they should definetely name it "Sh'AnLeyopard"!

Baldur

Odd because it appears to me that Baldurflugel is the obvious choice.

matthew

ummm... Mathansa... Duh...

sheftali52

Hmmm....Sheftalia comes to mind...

Baldur

In the muddle of the night inspiration struck me (I hope the bruise fades away quickly) How about: 'Lufthongsa'

Baldur

I could correct my spelling, but in retrospect it is perfectly fine.

Shanley

Baldur, I gotta say...I cant think of one single reason why 'luftansians' would refuse this proposal! you really should go for it

Baldur

Baldur has just returned from his Satyrday morning errands and all is well.

I needed to ship a care package to New Orleans via UPS, and there were no line in front of me, The whole process took less than 2 minutes.

Then I ducked into Target.
Target still fascinates me even after working there for 7 years. It is much too easy to spend money in that store.
Baldur should just never go near the domestics, home accesories or kitchenware. Vases call to me, picture frames are very enticing and I have a very unhealthy passion for anything kitchen related.
If one counted they would find at least 3 dozen collanders in my cupboards.
(Baldur was unsure of the spelling of 'collander', it is not in my dictionary, and online it appears in several different versions!)
All that was on the shopping list was vitamins and to see if season 3 of 'The Tudors' was out on DVD yet.

I found a suitable B complex vitamin and headed off to look at DVDs.
'The Tudors' set was there so it went in my carriage. 'Star Trek', the recent film was on sale for $9 so it soon joined the other discs.
Next came gnome hunting.
Baldur loves the cast iron garden gnomes that Target sells each Spring.
There are 14 here in my gardens during the warm weather. They winter over in the carriage house.
The first year they released 4 gnomes, the second 4 again but 2 were the same as the first season. Years 3 and 4 each had 4 new gnomes so that brought the population here to $14.

I was dreading this season, being out of work. Each gnome is $20 and I really cannot afford this luxury.
Luckily the 3 variants on the shelf were identical to last year's and thus it wasn'y necessary to purchase any.
However I will check in again to see if the 4th one is also a repeat. They seem to always release them in series of 4.
My trip through kitchenware was fraught with longing.
There were some smallish collanders designed by Michael Graves in 3 colors, but they remained where they were.
Grated mozzarella cheese was on sale at a good price so 2 packages went into my cart.
Lastly I went looking for dish scrubbies.
This have become nigh on impossible to find.
The preferred dish scrubby at Chez Baldur is a plasticky/nylon
scrubbing ball. These are reminiscent of the type sold under the name 'Chore Boy', which is a coil of copper-colored metallic wire. However the ones that we have always used are scratch free.
It appears that they are no longer being made.
They were once available just about everywhere, sometimes as cheaply as 6/$1. With care each can last perhaps a month.
'Dawn' detergent is now marketing something that looks similar the has a plastic compartment attached that hold a variant of their soap. These are 2/$5 and no way in hell am I paying that. Sorry 'Dawn'.
It occurs to me that they might have purchased the good scrubby company and discontinued the product.
We are auditioning other products, but if we ever see the proper ones again Baldur will corner the market on them.

Baldur

were - ere + as = was

Baldur

$14 - $ = 14

Baldur

wasn'y - y +t = wasn't

Baldur

hold + s = holds

AuntieB

AuntieB should really go see what Diego uses to wash the dishes.
Offhand I have no idea whatsoever having not washed dishes yet during this century.
If we have those 'scrubby things' you may certainly have them.

marius

marius is finally recovering from whatever it was and has not caught up on the antics of AuntieB, not to mention her nephew, not to mention his notorious group of regulars who call in to chat ... but for some reason she read two jokes her sister sent (and marius usually deletes things without pictures) ... all I can say is: gotta love the Bible AND the written word. : )


WHO DOES WHAT
A man and his wife were having an argument about who
should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, 'You should do it because you get up first,
and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.
The husband said, 'You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.'
Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.'
Husband replies, 'I can't believe that, show me'.
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that indeed, it says 'HEBREWS'

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The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were having some problems at home
and were giving each other the silent treatment.
Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper,
'Please wake me at 5:0 0 AM.' He left it where he knew she would find it.
The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.'
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

Normal

Lufthansa needs a real German word, therefore NORMALERWEISE is the obvious choice!

Shanley

lol, Normal! thank you for the making me laugh! delicious humour!

Dragon

I was actually glad to hear of Baldurs large collection of collanders as it makes mine seem quite ordinary by comparison. I think Chez Dragon must be able to boast at least 6 collanders but nowhere near 3 dozen. Actually the other day we got a whole new set of cookware (free - can't beat that!) so we were clearing out the old pots and pans to make room in the cupboard when low and behold in the very back, unseen for God only knows how long, was another collander. Not only that, but it's a much nicer collander than any of the others and both of us insist it wasn't ours before we moved in together. I think the collander Fairy came!

Baldur

Congratulations Dragon.
There are those that joke about my excess of collanders, but each and every one serves a purpose. Washing the soil off of my homegrown spinach requires an entirely different type than the one necessary for rinsing very ripe strawberries. Then there is the midsized one perfect for washing grapes, my regular pasta draining collander, my extra huge 'pasta for a party' collander.
I have a marvelous old 'chinois' which was named by French chefs because it supposedly looks like a conical Chinese hat. Actually it looks nothing at all like it, but these things are never logical.
I found it at a flea market and paid only $1 for this treasure.
It is made of aluminum, and thus is never used for anything even slightly acidic. Most often it's used for straining the dead chicken parts out of homemade stock.

Baldur

Notwithstanding the number that Baldur owns I am rather fussy about purchasing them.
Not just any collander will do, the shape and construction must suit me.
I generally dislike plastic, so a collander made of that substance needs to be quite extraordinary to make it back to my kitchen.
Many in the collection are constructed of stainless steel, though I do profess a fondness for enamelware.
Back in the days when Martha Stewart was marketing her line of kitchenware through Kmart there existed a very elusive grey enamelware collander that was impossible to find.
The spot on the shelf at each Kmart I visited was always empty.
One a trip to Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada I happened into a store called 'Ziegler''
Lo and behold they carrried the Martha Stewart line in Canada!
On their shelf was 3 of the magical grey collanders!
What a tremendous souvenir.