By PatD, a Trail Mix Contributor
Happy Holidays and boisterous Bah Hum Bugs to one and all!
It’s that time of the year again to parody-ize and festive-ize with favorite carols.
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also to same tune, here is my updated contribution of 1st verse. the rest hopefully to be completed by trail mixers:
“the Don we know is off his trolley. Folly, folly, folly. We all are screwed.”
boss, about those excess bananas:
1. they make tasty sammiches. see photo.
2. some folks peel, skewer with popsicle sticks, coat in chocolate and freeze them for handy summer treats.
3. they make great smoothies with vanilla yogurt, pineapple, mango and oranges.
4. and don’t forget from scratch ripe banana vanilla wafer pudding topped with merengue (some folk prefer whipped cream, but i’m a strict constructionist… and tho’ tasty and less work that’s not what the founding fathers favored)
In light of the Latke discussion, here are the Maccabeats with a musical how to.
while googling for sugar plum recipes, i
saw this on cooks.com and wondered if one could add cream cheese without said cheese melting in a pan sticking mess
PECAN – STUFFED DATES WITH BACON
1 lb. pitted dates
1 (4 oz.) pkg. whole blanched almonds or walnuts or whole pecans
1 1/4 lb. very thinly sliced lean bacon
Stuff each date with a pecan. Cut bacon strip into thirds and wrap a piece around each date. Secure with a round wooden toothpick. Put the dates on foil lined baking sheet and bake in preheated 400 degree preheated oven until the bacon is crisp, about 12-15 minutes. Drain on a rack paper towel. Serve warm. Makes 60 hors d’oeuvres.Note: Prepared dates can be frozen in advance and baked unthawed in a preheated 400 degree oven until crisp.
Then there is this internet classic, Ding Fries are Done
Created years ago by some unknown genius as you can tell by the animation.
There is also another version, the Family Guy folks stole it and tried to make it their own. But the original classic is so much more fun imo
Beware, at least for me it is a serious earworm. I’m seating here right now with “Ding Fries are Done” going through my head in constant repetition.
Jack
https://youtu.be/QFQyib5ZQZY
You tube gotta love it. this just poped up in the suggestion list
Snoopy and the Red Baron
My favorite Chanukah song is Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart’s, “Can I Interest You In Chanukah”?
(“What are candles? THEY ARE CANDLES”!) It gets me every time.
From the same Colbert special, his duet with Elvis Costello, “There Are Worse Things To Believe In,” is amazing.
jack, just for you
Don wants coal in hi-is stocking, folly, folly, folly, folly-la.
That means miners must be working, not that he’s been naughty, folly-la.
(Vil karols be zung in zee orighinal Cherman next year?)
more likely in Russian
https://youtu.be/3GaPSBOapTo
https://youtu.be/rFYJM5qGh70
I have always been fond of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” “As for me and Grandpa we believe…”
Here’s the pic:
and here’s the link:
wapo: Russian ambassador in Turkey killed in gun attack at Ankara photo exhibit
“Allah Akbar! Do not forget Aleppo!” said the gunman, according to the widely circulated video. “Do not forget Syria! Do not forget Aleppo! Do not forget Syria! As long as our lands are not safe, you will not be safe!
Just stopping by to wish all of the trailmixers ….the oldies and the newbies a very Feliz Navidad…and a Christmas hug to all…..even those that are not talking to me cause they are a little pished due to my election narratives ….. Pat, a science christmas…yes, thanks for the Bill Nye the science guy vid i opened the link in an……Auttosecond……great stuff….but i only had one little problem….the vid led me to another and another…t.ook me about an hr to get out of it…..enjoyed it all. Ive told the very same things to my very religious family that doesnt believe in science…..the reason that i keep saying that science and religion should be taught at the same time, in the same classroom along with religion….is for the comparisons….i dont know too many people….that have read the bible from start to finish…….if they did…..they would be come atheist immediately……. Science…..thats the ticket…..mind/body connection should be taught in all schools and all levels……how many religions would believe (most people dont know) that we grow a new brain once a year….but if we do/eat the same junk foods all the time….it will remain like the old one….we notice it bey doing things differently and in a more healthy manner…..we grow new skin every few wks……..we grow new kidneys every few months….all science proven………..and the way is mostly in what we eat…….. Here is one way: save all of your egg shells………wash and boil them…..grind them into a fine powder and sprinkle… Read more »
…Oh….an attosecond is a billionth of a billionth second….let the bible explain that one away……but who is counting anyway?…one, two, three, hold on this might take a little bit of time…later <strong>
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We had a pretty good go around on this subject, but this article takes another view of work.
Why the changing nature of work means we need a Universal Basic Income
Monty Python’s silliest HAPPY song from Life of Brian
https://youtu.be/WlBiLNN1NhQ
Lampoon Alert !
The New Messiah’s gotta ban Frosty the Snowman !
It’s all about enticing our children to get hooked on heroine.
Chanukah begins at sundown on 12/24. Light One Candle
40-deg colder here today than yesterday. Surely time Nat King Coool
Blondy gal, from international science news This is for you: Why Science? Philosopher-scientist Herbert Spencer once defined science as “organized knowledge.” But your current shopping list is an example of organized knowledge, and it’s not science. So what is science, really? An interviewer recently asked me just that, and I gave her some kind of answer. Thinking more about it since then, here’s what I wish I had said: Science is the design or conduct of reproducible experiments to test how nature works, or the creation of theories that can themselves be tested by such experiments. Science is also the orderly observation of events that cannot yet be manipulated, and, ultimately, the testing of many different such observations as the basis for theories to explain the events. This makes science the one human activity that seeks knowledge in an organized way. It’s not the knowledge that’s organized, it’s the seeking. Science doesn’t guess, doesn’t hope, doesn’t wish, doesn’t trust, doesn’t believe. Science seeks. It’s the search that makes science so powerful and so exciting. Science does add to our store of knowledge, but some of the knowledge it adds turns out to hurt more than it helps. Science does lead to new products, some of which prove not to be so good, either. It’s the seeking that makes science what it is. Seeking is a uniquely humble human experience. It doesn’t say I know, it says I need to find out. It doesn’t declare one thing better than another, it… Read more »
Love these guys 😀
I get a chuckle looking at my calendar from the Holocaust Museum. For Dec 25th they show:
Dec 25
First Day of Hanukkah
Christmas Day
(Museum Closed)
Then for Monday:
Dec 26
Christmas Day
(Observed)
Flatus
Love that observed. Of course they could have done a day earlier for Australia
https://youtu.be/6Agr3PiPJEM
Solarman…. thanks for the tip on egg shells. I LOVE eggs. I eat them at breakfast everyday. I never believed that crap about the yolk being bad for you. Now science…. yes science… is proving me right. Merry Christmas to you and Judy!
Solar, Feliz Navidad to you and everyone else here, there and everywhere. Your election narratives livened things up. Even an agnostical atheist like me believes it’s fine to wish people good cheer in the vernacular of the season. For those whose season ain’t Christmas, Happy Holidays.
Solar, the Science Channel has been running a bunch of “How the Universe Works” episodes over the past couple weeks. I just love them. Bunch of smart folks like Michio Kaku explain stuff to dolts like me.
So’s I wandered over to WaPo and was treated to this stuff from Kellyann Conway (paid liar) in Kristine Guerra’s article today:
So much gobbldygook. Up is down, black is white, day is night. No on the record sources re: the intelligence assessment of the CIA? Is she nuts? (Oh, sorry… of course)
Attosecond? Don’t blink – you could miss it.
The news media wonders why people treat them with contempt because they interview people like Kelly Ann Condom as though she wsn’t the biggest ‘effin moron on the planet. Anyone can lie their way to success – all the Trumpettes together – water seeks its own level….and their’s is somewhere around the 7th circle of hell.
Pogo,
Also, War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Mrs Cracker,
U R Funny !
Mojo Nixon has always been popular here at the editorial offices. All the terriers agree.
KC, I forget, is first or ninth worst? 😉
Methinks she should get at least one of the Bogias of the 8th if not one of the rounds of the 9th rating. Bolgia 10 (Falsifiers) of the 8th seems to fit her to a T.
It is time for a last minute stonewall defense.
The deadbeat is at 262. Clinton at 166.
Ask your Higher Power for a really huge favor !
Mr. Doodlesdog, welcome. With that kind of humor you’re a great fit for this asylum.
268 -166. I don’t deserve this.
ugh
Pogo
9th is the worst
and perhaps I was too kind
X-R
it is another sad day
Only use I got for a banana is sliced up in frosted flakes………..
And that’s been at least 30 yrs.
I would ask my higher power for dat but ‘cept for already axing for a great number of other type stuffs I’m loath to add to the list……..
Question: How long before Trump instructs the Treasury to put his puss on a $100 bill? Has the NPS scrape off Jefferson to make room for his coif on Mount Rushmore? Might he have charter school kids pledge allegiance to the Trump?
The thing about Kellyanne Conway, besides the odd name, is the way her body language is in complete contradiction to what comes out of her mouth. She will dispute/twist/lie while all the while sporting a huge crooked smile and mouthing “Be nice!” (Watch her sometime.) I’ve only known one other human to do that, smile and nod in agreement while refuting anything I said, and she was certifiable.
One thing’s certain: we are in for a Golden Orange Age of political satire. Where art thou, Smothers Brothers?
Bill Murray and George Clooney for Christmas.
A little Christmas in space tidbit. The iconic “earthrise” image that was taken on December 24, 1968 is the subject of this cute informative video. Amazing story of how someone finally determined who took the picture!
Meanwhile, back on earth…
https://youtu.be/i5P8G_V5v7g
Isn’t it time for Olberman to crawl back into his hole? We got a nation to worry about and he is as much of a nut case as Rushbo, just with a different shtick.
I’m getting tired of the let wing protestors who have demonstrated they are politically powerless but clueless as to how to move on.
Jack
https://youtu.be/jFMyF9fDKzE