I have a video you need to see Betty. About the hazards of owning backyard chickens: http://youtu.be/Ll187f27Pxg
2.
the Conster
I haz a cornfuzzled about that sign. Where do I vote? How does one use Jesus? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
3.
FlyingToaster
Somehow I don’t think they remember the people going from church to early voting*.
* Because they’re black &/or Democrats, so therefore not legitimate voters, nor legitimate Christians.
4.
lamh36
I’m in an ER room with my sister. she was having extreme chest pains. they’ve drawn blood & got some urine from her.
They did some blood work and the results came back that showed irregularities that may be attributed to having a blood clot present in her chest. They’ve ordered a CAT scan to make sure. Now waiting for the results.
I am hearing it in the voice of Jay Robinson as Caligula in The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators (I tried to find a YouTube clip, but failed). He always said it in a voice dripping with contempt. “Chris-tee-ahns!” Just before he fed them to the lions.
@lamh36: Ack! I jumped in with a taco link before reading the comments, now it seems so frivolous. Hope your sis is OK.
18.
Chris
Random question; anybody know where to find an authoritative source (e.g. more academic than the Huffington Post) with the list of social mobility by countries? I’m searching now but thought I’d ask here anyway. (Arguing with a relative – ironically not an American but one who’s totally bought the American Dream bullshit – who flat out refuses to believe that we have the lowest social mobility in the developed world).
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different-church-lady
Happy as heck because one of my local liquor marts is now carrying 375s of Antica Formula Carpano Vermouth. All the luxury cocktail porn books have at least 38 recipes that call for the stuff. Always wanted to try it, but $30 for a 750 was too much for someone saving pennies for a new roof.
@lamh36: Hugs and noodles.You’ll be in my thoughts.
22.
lamh36
@lamh36: update on my sister. Scan came back and they did not find a blood clot!!! just think that it may be an extreme case of muscular discomfort or something not embolism related.
thank goodness. they’re sending her home with some strong pain meds and instructions on heating treatments for her muscles.
23.
Yatsuno
@lamh36: That must be a relief. I’d keep a close watch on her for the next day or so.
Someone on a thread in the past few days asked about using up some habaneros. I used a dozen of them with a couple peaches and etc to make a very tasty hot sauce.
Phew! I had to go to the ER one time for what turned out to be pleurisy, which sounds very Victorian novel but is actually an inflammation of the membrane between the lungs and the chest wall that’s very painful but not dangerous. But they reassured me that any kind of chest pain is worth a trip to the ER just in case it’s not “nothing,” so don’t let your sister be embarrassed.
29.
Mnemosyne
On this end, I’m doing laundry while I wait for Ikea to deliver my new bookcases sometime after 5 pm (it’s 4:15 pm now). Dinner will be flank steak with a coffee rub, side veggies, and these potatoes from Pioneer Woman. Yum.
@lamh36:
That sounds much better than the first post.
That ER moved pretty fast.
Last time I was in one, almost doubled over, barely able to walk and the only patient there I waited an hour and a half just to see anyone. Time before that I spent 4 1/2 hours and never saw anyone. And that was after going completely blind for 15 minutes so one might have thought there was something wrong.
I think you and she need to do an in-home grrrrls film festival this weekend, with lots of good snacks and a delicious mocktail for her (Rx, Rx). You get the real stuff.
Really glad I didn’t get here till your second post. So happy for the good update.
40.
SuperHrefna
@lamh36: so glad! Now she has a cleanish bill of health make sure that the two of you go out to do something you’ve always wanted to do together. Happy times with our loved ones have to be seized with both hands.
The problem I seem to have with E-rooms is that I don’t act badly enough hurt and then after they finally get a good look or in this case x-ray they’re all, “we didn’t think it was that bad” and I’m saying, “well hell, I told you…”
Adventurous child of an RN… As long as I’m breathing I don’t panic and that hasn’t happened yet and seems kinda final like…
I do love the “poor persecuted Xtians theme” going on in this country.
45.
Dead Ernest
@Mnemosyne:
Well Heart & Brain both get the “time is (heart or brain)” because as the minutes pass, tissue dies.
Of course the same is true for intestine caught (strangulated) within a hernia but this is far less common as heart attack or strokes.
Still, sounds like Ruckus was not treated well.
46.
Dead Ernest
@lamh36:
Glad she’s not in serious condition.
That she gets to go home.
The intertubes advised me to use the Starbucks instant coffee packets so I don’t have to try and figure out how to grind down the coffee I have. (Yes, we’re philistines and drink pre-ground coffee rather than grinding it ourselves.)
I think four years of college and one year (going on another) of grad school have hammered “Wikipedia is not an academic source!” into me so much I sometimes forget that it still links to plenty of good data.
I just discovered a new drink I’d never heard of before, I think because it had fallen out of fashion: rum and ginger ale (or ginger beer). I’ve seen it called a Dark & Stormy, but it’s been easier to order it as “rum and ginger ale.”
It’s so basic that I don’t know why I hadn’t heard of the combination before, which is why I’m thinking it was one of those 1950s classics that fell out of favor for no particular reason.
I wanted to thank anyone who sent well wishes for me and my sister in the last open thread. All in all we spent about 5 hours in the ER from the time she arrived to the time I left.
She refused to come over to my house or her grandmother’s house, she’s young, stubborn and independent (sometimes, she doesn’t always have enough money to be fully independent). She wanted to go back home to her apartment. Oh well, I told her to keep me in the loop and I expect her to come over to my house tomorrow and spend the day and Labor Day.
Yeah, once I got past a little bit of snobbery, I found it surprising how good many—not all—Wikipedia articles are, and they usually link to better sources anyway. Sometimes it’s a better place to start than the undifferentiated mass of the Google, especially for a quick overview of a topic I know very little about.
There are styles and trends with drinks, as with everything else. My theory is that a lot of ’50s and ’60s drinks—Mad Men era drinks—went out of style, or were rejected, in the post-hippie era and were forgotten or had a hard time making a comeback until the “Ultra Lounge”/“Hey, Sinatra is actually pretty good!” revival of the ’90s.
About once every six months I think, “Hey, I should have a whiskey sour,” but unfortunately the thought never comes when I am in a bar, which is rarely anyway. There are some drinks that are just too complicated for me to want to make at home, or they contain ingredients that I don’t typically have on hand. I bought this small bottle of vermouth a few weeks ago only because I was going through a period of gin lust and I find that a really dry martini (i.e., just show it the vermouth bottle or whisper the word) is too harsh. I just picked up what was available at the state liquor store. I think the choice was either Martini & Rossi or Culo del Cane. Pretty sure that was the name. (Note: joke.)
Sometimes simple drinks are the best, like rum and ginger ale. My mom was not a big drinker, but on a summer evening on the patio she would have vodka with Fresca and orange juice. Sort of weird but good. I guess Sprite or some other uncola would be the thing now. (Do they even still make Fresca?) She called it her “health drink.” Good times. Well, she’s 83 and still going strong, so maybe there’s something to it, although I don’t think she has had one in years.
Jeez, sorry for going off into the Proustian weeds here.
Video note: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan almost skinnydipping in pre-Code Tarzan, the Ape Man at 6:00 a.m. EDT tomorrow on TCM, followed by a full day of Hitchcock starting at 10:00 a.m. The usual big hits, but also a lot of early stuff.
Here’s hoping all works out okay. As a person of the dude persuasion I can note at least she’s not too stubborn to actually go to a hospital (“What, on a weekend?!?”) A dude would “Suck it up and see how I feel on Monday, no, wait that’s a holiday…on Tuesday.”
Again, all the best.
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Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack: Whiskey sours aren’t hard to make and are well worth the effort! Here’s my version:
Actually, the (near) skinnydipping scene is in Tarzan and His Mate, the sequel (which was also made Pre-Code). I don’t want anyone to tune in and be disappointed that Maureen O’Sullivan is wearing too many clothes. ;-)
The infamous nude swimming scene was originally filmed in three different versions: with Jane wearing her traditional costume, with Jane topless and with Jane fully nude. US states were empowered at that time to enact individual censorship laws, and three different versions of the scene were filmed in order to allow individual states to select the version of the scene which best conformed to its laws. All three versions were eventually removed from the film due to protests from conservative religious groups, particularly the powerful Catholic Legion of Decency. The nude version of the scene was discovered in the vaults of Turner Entertainment during the late 1990s following its purchase of the MGM film library, and was restored to most subsequent versions of the film on the direct orders of Turner Entertainment chairman Ted Turner. In the restored version of the scene, Tarzan is depicted wearing his traditional loincloth while Jane appears fully nude, her costume having been torn off when Tarzan playfully tosses her from a tree to the water below. The scene as it exists today is approximately four minutes in duration.
Sadly for Maureen O’Sullivan fans, the nude scene is doubled by professional swimmer Josephine McKim, so it’s not actually her.
The nude version of the scene was discovered in the vaults of Turner Entertainment during the late 1990s following its purchase of the MGM film library, and was restored to most subsequent versions of the film on the direct orders of Turner Entertainment chairman Ted Turner.
LOL. Way to go, Ted. That almost makes up for the colorizing atrocity.
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Ben
Late to the party here, but that sign’s been up for over a year at least. I drove down in August 2012 for a job in FL and saw it while driving down I-75 (along with numerous pro-life billboards and a message to RNC delegates to nominate Palin at the convention in Tampa). That part of Florida=muy crazy.
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RoonieRoo
I have a video you need to see Betty. About the hazards of owning backyard chickens:
http://youtu.be/Ll187f27Pxg
the Conster
I haz a cornfuzzled about that sign. Where do I vote? How does one use Jesus? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
FlyingToaster
Somehow I don’t think they remember the people going from church to early voting*.
* Because they’re black &/or Democrats, so therefore not legitimate voters, nor legitimate Christians.
lamh36
I’m in an ER room with my sister. she was having extreme chest pains. they’ve drawn blood & got some urine from her.
They did some blood work and the results came back that showed irregularities that may be attributed to having a blood clot present in her chest. They’ve ordered a CAT scan to make sure. Now waiting for the results.
raven
@lamh36: Hang in there.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@lamh36:
Wow. My prayers are with you and your sister.
SuperHrefna
@lamh36: fingers crossed.
Jay C
What on earth does this idiotic sign even mean?
Of course, any outdoor billboard which heads its message with an appeal to CHRISTIANS! is probably not likely to make much sense anyway, but RLY…..
gogol's wife
@lamh36:
I hope she’s okay.
chopper
@SuperHrefna:
ditto.
Zam
@Jay C: I’m gonna guess these people believe all those secular humanists intend to outlaw christian voting.
gogol's wife
@Jay C:
I am hearing it in the voice of Jay Robinson as Caligula in The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators (I tried to find a YouTube clip, but failed). He always said it in a voice dripping with contempt. “Chris-tee-ahns!” Just before he fed them to the lions.
jeffreyw
Fish tacos!
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Whoa. Hope she’s okay! Must be scary for you both.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@gogol’s wife: Do you recall where it was in the movie?
Baud
@lamh36:
Well, that’s not a fake problem.
Best wishes.
jeffreyw
@lamh36: Ack! I jumped in with a taco link before reading the comments, now it seems so frivolous. Hope your sis is OK.
Chris
Random question; anybody know where to find an authoritative source (e.g. more academic than the Huffington Post) with the list of social mobility by countries? I’m searching now but thought I’d ask here anyway. (Arguing with a relative – ironically not an American but one who’s totally bought the American Dream bullshit – who flat out refuses to believe that we have the lowest social mobility in the developed world).
different-church-lady
Happy as heck because one of my local liquor marts is now carrying 375s of Antica Formula Carpano Vermouth. All the luxury cocktail porn books have at least 38 recipes that call for the stuff. Always wanted to try it, but $30 for a 750 was too much for someone saving pennies for a new roof.
No, I don’t have a point…
hildebrand
@lamh36: Prayers for you and your sister.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@lamh36: Hugs and noodles.You’ll be in my thoughts.
lamh36
@lamh36: update on my sister. Scan came back and they did not find a blood clot!!! just think that it may be an extreme case of muscular discomfort or something not embolism related.
thank goodness. they’re sending her home with some strong pain meds and instructions on heating treatments for her muscles.
Yatsuno
@lamh36: That must be a relief. I’d keep a close watch on her for the next day or so.
Chris
@lamh36:
Phew, good news. Glad she’s OK!
Dee Loralei
very happy to hear that honey. I’ll still keep you guys in my thoughts.
jeffreyw
Someone on a thread in the past few days asked about using up some habaneros. I used a dozen of them with a couple peaches and etc to make a very tasty hot sauce.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
Hope sis is OK.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Phew! I had to go to the ER one time for what turned out to be pleurisy, which sounds very Victorian novel but is actually an inflammation of the membrane between the lungs and the chest wall that’s very painful but not dangerous. But they reassured me that any kind of chest pain is worth a trip to the ER just in case it’s not “nothing,” so don’t let your sister be embarrassed.
Mnemosyne
On this end, I’m doing laundry while I wait for Ikea to deliver my new bookcases sometime after 5 pm (it’s 4:15 pm now). Dinner will be flank steak with a coffee rub, side veggies, and these potatoes from Pioneer Woman. Yum.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
That sounds much better than the first post.
That ER moved pretty fast.
Last time I was in one, almost doubled over, barely able to walk and the only patient there I waited an hour and a half just to see anyone. Time before that I spent 4 1/2 hours and never saw anyone. And that was after going completely blind for 15 minutes so one might have thought there was something wrong.
Elizabelle
@lamh36:
Best wishes to your sister.
I think you and she need to do an in-home grrrrls film festival this weekend, with lots of good snacks and a delicious mocktail for her (Rx, Rx). You get the real stuff.
How scary. Glad she got checked out.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Chris: Will the AEA do?
Corak, Miles. 2013. “Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3): 79-102
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@lamh36: Whew. Second on the grrl night.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne:
Those potatoes look awesome. Bookmarked recipe.
What’s in the coffee rub? (D’uh.)
YellowJournalism
@lamh36: My thoughts are with you. Hope she pulls through okay.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
Anything that’s potentially heart-related gets shoved to the front of the line. Everyone else gets to wait, unless there’s arterial bleeding.
YellowJournalism
And now that I read the rest of the thread, it seems she did.
Aimai
@lamh36: i am so sorry! My thoughts are with you. Thank goodness you are there with her and not still living far away.
Jebediah
@lamh36:
Really glad I didn’t get here till your second post. So happy for the good update.
SuperHrefna
@lamh36: so glad! Now she has a cleanish bill of health make sure that the two of you go out to do something you’ve always wanted to do together. Happy times with our loved ones have to be seized with both hands.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
I’m probably going to combine a couple of different recipes, but it will be some combination of coffee, chili powder, and smoked paprika.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne:
Thank you. Have done spice rubs, but never with coffee (yet).
Enjoy.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Mnemosyne: just the mention of paprika makes me want to make a goulash tomorrow.
Chuck Butcher
The problem I seem to have with E-rooms is that I don’t act badly enough hurt and then after they finally get a good look or in this case x-ray they’re all, “we didn’t think it was that bad” and I’m saying, “well hell, I told you…”
Adventurous child of an RN… As long as I’m breathing I don’t panic and that hasn’t happened yet and seems kinda final like…
I do love the “poor persecuted Xtians theme” going on in this country.
Dead Ernest
@Mnemosyne:
Well Heart & Brain both get the “time is (heart or brain)” because as the minutes pass, tissue dies.
Of course the same is true for intestine caught (strangulated) within a hernia but this is far less common as heart attack or strokes.
Still, sounds like Ruckus was not treated well.
Dead Ernest
@lamh36:
Glad she’s not in serious condition.
That she gets to go home.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
The intertubes advised me to use the Starbucks instant coffee packets so I don’t have to try and figure out how to grind down the coffee I have. (Yes, we’re philistines and drink pre-ground coffee rather than grinding it ourselves.)
MikeJ
@Chris: http://www.pewstates.org/projects/economic-mobility-project-328061
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@lamh36: Very glad to hear everything is OK.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@lamh36: Very glad to hear everything is OK.
Steeplejack
@Chris:
You can start with Wikipedia. Also some good references there.
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
You have just prompted me to go make a martini with my cheap-ass Martini & Rossi vermouth.
Chris
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Absolutely. Thank you! I found an OECD source, but I like yours better, actually.
@MikeJ:
This too. Thanks!
@Steeplejack:
Uh… derp.
I think four years of college and one year (going on another) of grad school have hammered “Wikipedia is not an academic source!” into me so much I sometimes forget that it still links to plenty of good data.
::Gibbs-slaps self on the back of the head::
Woodrowfan
@lamh36: whew
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
I just discovered a new drink I’d never heard of before, I think because it had fallen out of fashion: rum and ginger ale (or ginger beer). I’ve seen it called a Dark & Stormy, but it’s been easier to order it as “rum and ginger ale.”
It’s so basic that I don’t know why I hadn’t heard of the combination before, which is why I’m thinking it was one of those 1950s classics that fell out of favor for no particular reason.
lamh36
I wanted to thank anyone who sent well wishes for me and my sister in the last open thread. All in all we spent about 5 hours in the ER from the time she arrived to the time I left.
She refused to come over to my house or her grandmother’s house, she’s young, stubborn and independent (sometimes, she doesn’t always have enough money to be fully independent). She wanted to go back home to her apartment. Oh well, I told her to keep me in the loop and I expect her to come over to my house tomorrow and spend the day and Labor Day.
Again, thanks for the well wishes.
Steeplejack
@Chris:
Yeah, once I got past a little bit of snobbery, I found it surprising how good many—not all—Wikipedia articles are, and they usually link to better sources anyway. Sometimes it’s a better place to start than the undifferentiated mass of the Google, especially for a quick overview of a topic I know very little about.
Chuck Butcher
@Steeplejack:
that is a particularly good piece of advice especially since the original source material frequently leads to more discoveries.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
There are styles and trends with drinks, as with everything else. My theory is that a lot of ’50s and ’60s drinks—Mad Men era drinks—went out of style, or were rejected, in the post-hippie era and were forgotten or had a hard time making a comeback until the “Ultra Lounge”/“Hey, Sinatra is actually pretty good!” revival of the ’90s.
About once every six months I think, “Hey, I should have a whiskey sour,” but unfortunately the thought never comes when I am in a bar, which is rarely anyway. There are some drinks that are just too complicated for me to want to make at home, or they contain ingredients that I don’t typically have on hand. I bought this small bottle of vermouth a few weeks ago only because I was going through a period of gin lust and I find that a really dry martini (i.e., just show it the vermouth bottle or whisper the word) is too harsh. I just picked up what was available at the state liquor store. I think the choice was either Martini & Rossi or Culo del Cane. Pretty sure that was the name. (Note: joke.)
Sometimes simple drinks are the best, like rum and ginger ale. My mom was not a big drinker, but on a summer evening on the patio she would have vodka with Fresca and orange juice. Sort of weird but good. I guess Sprite or some other uncola would be the thing now. (Do they even still make Fresca?) She called it her “health drink.” Good times. Well, she’s 83 and still going strong, so maybe there’s something to it, although I don’t think she has had one in years.
Jeez, sorry for going off into the Proustian weeds here.
Video note: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan almost skinnydipping in pre-Code Tarzan, the Ape Man at 6:00 a.m. EDT tomorrow on TCM, followed by a full day of Hitchcock starting at 10:00 a.m. The usual big hits, but also a lot of early stuff.
trollhattan
@lamh36:
Here’s hoping all works out okay. As a person of the dude persuasion I can note at least she’s not too stubborn to actually go to a hospital (“What, on a weekend?!?”) A dude would “Suck it up and see how I feel on Monday, no, wait that’s a holiday…on Tuesday.”
Again, all the best.
Betty Cracker
@Steeplejack: Whiskey sours aren’t hard to make and are well worth the effort! Here’s my version:
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/cocktail_corner_whiskey_sour/
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
Actually, the (near) skinnydipping scene is in Tarzan and His Mate, the sequel (which was also made Pre-Code). I don’t want anyone to tune in and be disappointed that Maureen O’Sullivan is wearing too many clothes. ;-)
gogol's wife
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
It’s scattered throughout both movies.
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
Information from IMDb:
Sadly for Maureen O’Sullivan fans, the nude scene is doubled by professional swimmer Josephine McKim, so it’s not actually her.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Okay, okay! Real reason: I’m lazy.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
D’oh! Okay, just so there will be no disappointment . . . That’s filmmakin’!
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
LOL. Way to go, Ted. That almost makes up for the colorizing atrocity.
Ben
Late to the party here, but that sign’s been up for over a year at least. I drove down in August 2012 for a job in FL and saw it while driving down I-75 (along with numerous pro-life billboards and a message to RNC delegates to nominate Palin at the convention in Tampa). That part of Florida=muy crazy.