Brutally Honest

The Anchoress has a run in with fruits

I kid you not:

Against all sense, and my own better judgment, I today took a trip to the local Costco in order to buy hamburgers, chicken legs and marinade in the mass quantities needed in order to entertain guests on the Fourth of July.

It was there, in the teeming, steaming rotisserie chicken section of the store that my senses became heightened and my consciousness got raised. I had an epiphany.

The problem with the whole world, and everything in it, is fruit. Specifically strawberries and pineapples. And melons of all variation.

But mostly, it’s the strawberries.

Just a teaser... go read the rest and enjoy a much needed rest from politics and/or religion.

Father's day memories

Oh yea... been there, done this:

What am I, chopped liver?

Melissa Clouthier has a list of the 10 hottest new media guys on the right... she must've missed my own set of stud-muffin pics...

Just sayin'.

Rumor Central: Republican named to Obama post?

Food taster?

A US "taster" tested the food being dished up to President Barack Obama at a dinner in a French restaurant, a waiter said on Sunday.

"They have someone who tastes the dishes," said waiter Gabriel de Carvalho from the "La Fontaine de Mars" restaurant where Obama and his family turned up for dinner on Saturday night.

"It wasn't very pleasant for the cooks at first, but the person was very nice and was relaxed, so it all went well," he said on the Itele news channel.

Hot Air chimes in:

In medieval times, royal courts employed food tasters to ensure that the kitchen staff hadn’t conspired to commit a coup d’etat through poison.  The practice continued for heads of state until modern times, and also for novels and Hollywood movies. 

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Sacre bleu! What an insult to French cuisine!  Why, this is unprecedented … except that it’s actually not.  From November 2003:

AS if the Queen hasn’t got enough on her plate accommodating all President Bush’s security demands, the Secret Service have put a food taster into the Buckingham Palace kitchens.

Nothing is being left to chance by the Americans, who have assembled the largest security operation seen in London for the three-day visit.

According to sources, everything that is destined to be served up for the President has to be tasted first.

Granted, Bush was a lot less personally popular in Europe than Obama even in the best of times, but it was also Buckingham Palace. The Secret Service apparently decided to leave nothing to chance, and I suspect that they have made this standard operating procedure when the President dines outside the US.  I wouldn’t be surprised if this hasn’t been SOP for more than just Bush and Obama, too.

Overly paranoid?  Perhaps, but then again, the Secret Service doesn’t get paid to roll the dice unnecessarily.

Odd nevertheless... after all, God doesn't need a food taster does He?  Couldn't he simply smite the poisoner?

Just sayin'.

Future hostess for The View

Omphaloskepsis

Had a luncheon with members of my team today at a nearby Mexican place and of course, there were televisions there and a number of them were tuned in to the spelling bee.

Watching a spelling bee isn't the usual fare for the fellers when we have our luncheons at Plaza Azteca but at times we were actually pretty spellbound.

One word that came up was Omphaloskepsis.  The speller went through the normal gyrations in the attempt to figure out how the word is spelled and I remember that the definition had something to do with navel gazing during meditation.

No... really... it did.

And so I thought we should come up with a definition of a similar sounding (and similarly spelled) word.

Obamaskepsis.

Please leave your answers in the comments.

This should be good.

Proof of Obamavinity

 

With props to my sis-in-law Verna.

Heh.

Laugh and the world laughs at ya

If you're not smiling once this is over, then you might just need medical attention.  Hell, you may just laugh until you cry:

Thank XtnYoda for that sidesplitter.

Ya say it packs a bit of a punch mate?

Umm... yes, I say it does:

Via S, C & A.

Would you shop there?

XtnYoda with a good'un:

A NEW SUPERMARKET OPENED IN NEW HAVEN, MICHIGAN.

It has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain.

When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and you experience the scent of fresh cut hay.

In the meat department there is the aroma of charcoal grilled steaks and brats.

In the liquor department, the fresh, clean, crisp smell of tapped Miller Lite.

When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying...

The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh baked bread & cookies.

I don't buy toilet paper there any more.

Heh.