marius

Thanks Baldur and Qsilv. And I just LOVE snopes! They have saved me from passing on silly emails, and (tee hee) have stopped friends from passing those same silly emails to me!

Dragon

marius, I think you'll probably see a lot more athletes from middle eastern countries participating in the summer olympics but I don't think they really go for the winter olympic sports having a dicided lack of winter in their countries I only picked Egypt as an example because one of the doctors at work is Egyptian and we were joking with him about how you don't see an Egyptian team for hockey or curling.
You never know though, don't forget about the Jamaican Bobsled team at the '88 olympics.

AuntieB

Auntie B is not very happy right now, so I'll warn everyone up front that this story is not a pretty one.

On March 1st, as you all recall Diego went on vacation. His destination was Puerto Rico, to vist with family.
This left me without any domestic support and thus it seemed a great idea that I should also take a little trip.
The more I thought of it, and because of the surprising lack of invitations to go elsewhere Puerto Rico became my choice of destination also.

I am concerned here that some of the Radio Baldur audience might suspect my intentions were to spy on Diego. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Indeed there was little likelyhood that we would ever cross paths.
My travel agent found a Spanish Colonial casita for me right on the beach. The quarters were equipped with housekeeping services but no cook. This was quite fine as the area was supposedly awash in fine restaurants.
Upon my arrival this was proven to be quite true, many tempting places were within a brief stroll of my lanai.

Once settled in there was a knock on the door. A young delivery man was there with a large arrangement of exquisite tropical flowers. Many were varieties I'd never seen before, but they were delightful.
As it so happens they were from Theodore, a gentleman friend of mine who was quite distraught at being unable to spend this vacation with me. We last traveled together in 2007 when we dallied for the month of December in his elegantly appointed yacht cruising about the Tasman Sea,... but I digress.

Slipping into a tropical weight silk sarong and wearing a shade inducing wide brimmed straw hat Auntie B meandered down to the beach. There were chaises there, reserved for the use of those who rented the beach houses. How divine, each had a huge gaily colored beach umbrella.
In two shakes of a lamb's tail an incredibly handsome and bronzed waiter had brought me a frozen drink.
In three shakes of that same tail Auntie had a dinner date with an escort to the fabulous Discoteca Bertril.
Anyway....
Left again to enjoy the tropic paradise alone my eyes drifted to a horridly distasteful scene. There through the masses of sun worshippers was a rather pasty woman of a certain age. How she would dare be seen in such skimpy swimsuit displaying all those unsightly rolls of flesh was beyond me. But there she was.
Even worse there was a young bronze man in a Speedo fawning over her!
He was easily less than 1/3 of her age. The disparity was quite apparent even at the great distance that separated us.
Auntie B tried not to watch as he lubricated her acreage with suntan lotion... did this woman have no shame?
In short order the young man got up and started walking towards the bar,ostensibly to get Madame Shamu a drink, which brought him much closer to my chaise.
As he passed my jaw dropped in atypical unladylike shock and I quickly reached up to lower the brim of my chapeau.
IT WAS DIEGO!
Grateful that he did not see me I waited until he drifted by, a dumb sheepish grin on his face.

I needed to know who that woman was. Gathering up my wrap and donning my large sunglasses I casually wandered in her direction.
If I thought I was scandalized already this was a double jolt. Madame Shamu was very familiar to me.
It was Gertrude, my neighbor, confidant, and favourite mah jonng opponent.

Now I was enraged!
Gertrude was lying there, backside up baking in the sun like an albino manatee that had washed ashore.
At that moment something came over me. Feigning a stumble in the sand I flung my frozen drink (a loverly green colored concoction of honeydew melon, kiwifruit and lime) right at her broad naked back.
She shrieked and attempted to roll to her feet as Auntie B made quick her disappearance into the crowd.

sheftali52

Naughty, naughty, Auntie B!

lilalee

Love Auntie B!! Like a Auntie Mame. Would have loved to see her face,when she spotted that neighbor!!

Robindcr8l

Diego is a GIGOLO! Who could have guessed?? SHOCKING!

Dragon

Who knew he would be attracted to albino manatees! Perhaps that would explain him not falling hopelessy in love with his ravishing employer.

Baldur

Thank you Qsilv, why do I always forget to check Snopes about these things first?
Not that Snopes is always correct, but they most likely are in the case of the cellphone popcorn
While perusing random Snopes categories Baldur found something so farfetched that I just refuse to accept it.
Namely, Mr Ed was a zebra, not a horse.
http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp?version=color#toggle

Baldur

Is Snopes playing their own prank?
Compare a zebra and a horse, especially the mane.
Did the owner of the Zebra allow the television studio to cut off it's mane and wear a hairpiece?
Part of the argument maintains that zebra stripes do not show up on black and white television. I would not be surprised if they aooeared blurrier but black and white film does distinguish black from white. That is it's purpose.

Baldur

aooeared - oo + pp = appeared

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Chipotle' Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add 1/2 teaspoon of Chipotle' pepper powder (or to taste).
Chill and serve

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Avocado Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add 1 ripe mashed Avocado.
Chill and serve.
(This is best served the same day it is made)

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Horseradish Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add 1 heaping Tablespoon prepared Horseradish Sauce (or to taste).
Chill and serve

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Wasabi Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add 1 teaspoon of Wasabi powder (or to taste).
Chill and serve
(This is best served the same day it is made)

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Basil Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add a good handful of chopped Basil leaves (or to taste).
Chill and serve

Baldur

Time for another cooking segment.
Here is a wonderful recipe for a dip appropriate fror crudites

Baldur's Dill Ranch Dip
Take one bottle of your favorite Ranch Dressing (low fat is fine for this) and add a small handull of chopped fresh dill leaves (or to taste).
Chill and serve

Baldur

Now back to the Mr Ed story after all of you have argued it out in your heads. It was an excercise contrived by the people at Snopes.
I posted the recipes to give everyone time to mull it over.
Here is the explanation from Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp

Dragon

I must say the thing that seemed most suspect to me (though claiming Mr.Ed was a Zebra is pretty darned far-fetched) was the part where it said that football games were often disrupted by the players running into the refs because their black and white uniforms were hard to see in black and white, or prisoners at Fulsom sneaking by gaurds who only had balck and white images. That did give me and my honey a good laugh though. I don't think I've read such a pile of BS in a long time.

Dragon

Dragon has been busy making Roasted Sweet Pepper Salsa for a house warming party tonight. It always makes me feel good when someone requests that I bring a specific recipe to a party. Obviously it went over well at a previous party if it stuck in someones mind.

Dragon

Here's the recipe in case anyone is interested, it's time consuming but not terribly difficult to make and turns out really very good if I do say so myself. There's just something about fresh salsa.

Dragons Roasted Sweet Pepper Salsa

4 tomatoes
4 sweet peppers
1-2 large onions chopped and barely sautéed
1 small hot pepper chopped and seeded
½ cup fresh chopped cilantro
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste

Chop tomatoes and place in mixing bowl with onions, hot pepper and cilantro. Slice peppers into large flat pieces and remove seeds. Roast peppers under broiler until skins are charred. Seal and let stand for 5 minutes to steam. Peel and chop. Add to mixing bowl. Stir in oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.