Hi Fellow Boomers!!
Well now is the time to vote on the name of our brand new commnuity center, just built by all the loving hands of Booman Tribune. Isn’t it lovely, look around you notice all the amenities. Pool Table, ping pong, frog pond to take a dip in, snack bar over to the side and every Friday the Happy Hour will be running with Cabin Girl as host and Dammit Janet behind the bar with her trusty blender at the ready.
Of course Friday will be dance night as well, so bring your dancing shoes, we will be led in a ‘square dance’ by Shirlstars, I am sure.
Now we need sign ups to Host the diary of the day at our community center.
So far we have
Cabin Girl: Friday
Diane101: Wed
Kansas: Thur.
babaloo: Mon.
I don’t remember who else said they would host a day, we lost all that in computer glitch, so you will have to sign up again, we now have 5 days open for hosting.
Later on when this gets going we may change that or substitute names for different days, let’s see how it goes.
If you do sign up for a day and can’t do it every week you can always ask someone else to host for the day.
I am trying to think of everything to put in here, but I am sure I have forgotten something.
Aloha wants a once a month Birthday theme, and I am hoping she will volunteer for that one, it could be on a Wed. and then can subsitute for my Wed. diary.
So let’s discuss, but meanwhile come on in and have some fun and have some good visits with your friends gathered here.
Now all we need to do is name this place. Following is a list of names suggestions as posted on the previous diary. My personal favorite is Froggy Bottoms Cafe, and I think the tie in with Foggy Bottoms, a la Washington, DC, is very apropos.
So lets vote and by the way, the joint is open for business.
Don’t forget to Recommend this diary
Get on over here and vote everyone and have some fun. Grand Opening Party will be tomorrow after we get this place named. Meanwhile have some fun at the pre-party..
Darwins Pad or Senior Frogs?
I see we have a write in, well folks consider that name too, if enough votes come in for the write in candidates, that could end up being the name.
I couldn’t add any more names to the poll as that was the exact number of spots for poll.
I went to a place once in Mexico called Senior Frogs…great drinks…that was how I came up with that. Maybe Darwins girlfriend opens up a place called…”Lily’s Pond”. Just having so fun.
Oh, been to Senior froggy’s in Cozumel. Thank God I don’t drink cause that place is really wild and dangerous. I volunteer to be friday night’s designated driver…lol!
Thanks aloha, it will be good to know tribbers won’t have to drive themselves home on Firday night after a night of song and dance and drink. Of course lemonade and ice tea will be served as well. I don’t drink either, so I can be another designated driver in case you have too many to drive yourself. After all the trip may be long, long way to Europe to pick up passanger, or we could just drop them off at Euro, Trib.
…and so…ribbit..burp..cus me…I had…ribbit..burp..hiccup…I thought you had the keys..burp..hiccup…ribbit ribbit..cus me…burp..good try there my friend..I have to get back to my pad now..burp…hiccup…ribbit..
“Pull up a Toad Stool” and chat awhile
I must have missed the discussion about this. Exactly what is it, Diane? Sounds a litte like the Welcome Wagon diaries…..right?
See the community Center diary on Rec. list, that is where we talked about this yesterday and today, of course a lot of comments and names were lost in the glitch.
The idea of this was based on many folks were just talking back and forth to each other on the WW diaries, and this one will be used for talking to each other etc. as disucssed in previous diary. we love to talk to each other so I thought this would be a good way. Seems like everyone agrees so far.
I was thinking of keeping the WW diaries for just the welcomes…..That way it is easier to grab up the bio data for preserving, etc.
I also suggested the Cafe’s be used for conflict resolution if the need arise, rather than fighting something out on a thread as we sometimes do on the rare occasions we fight.
That sounds like a lot of fun!
Here are a few write-ins:
–It’s a Frog’s Life
–Amphibiously Yours
–The Watering Hole
I’ll be hopping by often, I’m sure.
Hi get me out of dixie! I didn’t know you were around these parts, but I’m glad to see you. I just wandered over during the pie wars and never left. I haven’t given up on dKos completely, but I’m not spending much time there, and I would have missed your comments. God bless and see ya around!
nice to see you! I got sick of pie, too.
It’s gonna take a pantload of Midori to supply this bar! 🙂
Green Eyes (Frog Eyes(?))
23ml (3/4oz) MIDORI
30ml (1oz) Rum
15ml (1/2oz) Coconut Cream
15ml (1/2oz) Lime Juice
15ml (1/2oz) Pineapple Juice
This is so WRONG (so of course I had to share)
Squashed Frog
10ml (1/3oz) MIDORI
10ml (1/3oz) Coffee Cream Liqueur
10ml (1/3oz) Grenadine(sink)
Top with Apple Juice
Method: Layer
My blender could grind gravel… but I ain’t making any Frogreritas, oh-tay!??
Frog Eyes it is….but don’t we need a lily pad umbrella to go with it?
Janet you always make me smile – we have ourselves a first rate bartender!
I’ll find a sandy pond bank to nap on after one or two of those frog eyes!
For you darling, a lily pad drink shader AND a green gummi worm.
Two of my Mango Passion Daqs and one becomes a “Horny
Toad” 🙂
I have tried and tried to make Frozen Midori Margies… after a hockey friend introduced me to Henry’s Hi-Life midori margs. I can not for the life of me make them right.
But (butt) I make damn good frozen fruit daiquiries
I can tell you’re going to fit right in on Friday’s diary!
…anything with Midori is okay in my book… 😉
Hi, Diane101!
I said I’d be delighted to host now and then, but can you tell us what a host does? Wears green? Eats flies? Croaks? I hope not croaking. . .we’d go through hosts awfully fast!
Does it take any kind of computer skill beyond what it takes to diary or post a comment?
kansas, hosting just means to do the diary and takes no special skills, other than what posting a diary does. so would you like to do one day of the week or be on a floating basis where if one is needed you will do it.
Once you are the host, you can wear green if you wish, but I don’t know about croaking, I suppose some will croak, but I hope it is the good kind.
BTW, Cabin girl is down for Fridays
I am down for Wed.
5 days are still open….who wants to pick a day..
Thanks, Diane! Okay, I’d like to try it. I’ll take Thursdays if nobody else snags them.
Will we have a “time” that officially opens every day? And an official closing time, too?
Ok you are down for Thurs….As to opening and closing time, I would say just post in the morning, whatever is convenient for you and then you don’t have to worry about closing time….it will close by itself.
Of course and stragglers might have to be 86’d. LOL
I am watching Connected coast to coast on Msnbc and I am just furious with Monica Crowley. She is such an idiot and shut down any discussion of this “illegal war” with the statement, “that’s blowing smoke, there is no truth to that and you just can’t say that on air”…. I wonder how much Bushco is paying her to speak untruths to people.
who else was on in this discussion that she was trying to shut them down?
Gee I can’t remember the man’s name but he was trying to say things about downing street memo, about illegal war, how we needed to get out of Iraq because of that and because US being there was fueling the insurgency. Another guest said no way, we are not fueling the insurgency, it’s really winding down, and that guy she let speak and didn’t interrupt. she is always on the defensive about Bush and was involved somehow in his campaign I believe, she is avowed Rep.
I cannot stand anything about her, neither the way she speaks or thinks. Makes me mad because I like Ron Reagan, and would like to hear him, but not her. He has even gotten into it with her as he did today, but she talks more and faster and wouldn’t shut her mouth..Yucks to her!!!!!!!!.
Sounds like an Anne Coulter Jr. huh? I am so sick of the right wing pundits that have no manners and can only talk over the guests when they disagree with the pundit. Shows lack of respect for others opinions. Why do they even bother to have opposing point of view guests on? So they can say fair and balanced? What a load of BS.
Without the ‘s. I believe the Washington district is called Foggy Bottom. And the excessive use of apostrophes nowadays drives me nuts. or nut’s?
LoL
Yes I agree about the apostrophe, I had copied that from someone else’s list and didn’t notice it.
I kind of like Bottoms tho, we’ll see what others think if that name wins which looks like it will so far..
Froggy Bottom it is then?
Me, too. I voted for the plural up above, but I’d like to officially change my vote. You could say I voted for froggy bottoms before I voted against them. /sorry for that – unavoidable
Yes, I agree that we ditch the apostrophe.
And thanks to Diane101 for all your hard work these past couple of weeks!
I can’t commit to a once-a-week hosting — but, Kansas, maybe I could help you out and fill in once in a while?
Excellent! I’m a little nervous about the idea of committing to EVERY Thursday, so it’s really nice to think you might hop in every now and then. Thank you, Owl of Minerva!
Well Diane, you are gonna get me to write a diary yet. I just hate to commit bercause my summer is so busy right now. If no one else wants it I can hop in. maybe switch hosts every month? This will be great fun. love you guys!
I Love the name. Anything Froggy will do.
Bob Dylan, Prophet or Song & Dance Man
It includes an original watercolour painting of Bob Dylan for your viewing pleasure.
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The café name,
“The Lily Pad Café”
“BooMan Tried & True Café”
“Ribbet/ribbet Café”
that’s all folks!
I made the mistake of going to dkos and commenting on an “abortion” thread.
Is logic dead?
Where is the forum for those of who are the “I’ll blow your damn revenooer butt off my porch if you keep trying to take my stuff” type of feminist?
I’ll try to come up with a drink that will enable you to blow people off your porch with your breath after a shot 🙂
I noticed that once the pie “dismissal” happend – more are free to openly put women and their thoughts down.
poeople giving out ones to women who state their opinion too strongly.
Bam101 told me he didn’t like my attitude and so he was giving me 1s. ROFL. Then he said he was an avid reader of abortion threads and that is why he kept happening to be on the same threads (where he never commented) where I was posting to give me the 1s.
But I knew he is full of crap because he did the same thing on my diaries that had nothing to do with abortion. He basically hates strong women.
Don’t even get me started on the right to privacy debate. What is so hard to understand that in a woman’s clinic on the day they are doing abortions, your right to have your boyfriend in the group recovery room with you, is trumped by the privacy rights of the other women next to you? What if your loved one is some one they know from work?
Some some guy says basically “well maybe if they are ashamed they should reconsider having the abortion”.
and the people telling personal stories that never happened to them……
ugh
Sorry about that. As I always said over there, “Keep your bible out of my vagina”. I really wished Kos had stood up for all. United we stand… divided we ALL fall.
Hey, I’m not sure it’s a drink but how about a shot of tequila and tabasco sauce?
Ignitable breath… I’m working on it 🙂
I’ll have one….shot and some tabasco please. = )
Teresa – If you want to start the forum, I’ll volunteer to play mediator, diplomat or bouncer. I’ve just told someone that I’m armed with an olive branch, and I’m prepared to use it – (‘don’t make me smack you with this thing’). Given the never-ending-ness of the topic, it would be interesting to see if we could develop a way to discuss it here without ugliness, anger and foul play with ratings. A ratings-free diary – ‘in order to play, you must turn off ratings’, or trips to the community center for penalties….. hmmm…
can I ask what the female frog bathroom is called as opposed to the male frog one…you know our bladders are getting old here and must empty frequently or rupture in embarresment….just asking is all…:o)
what to call it, but I can imagine what the line outside would look like.
I once led a mutiny in a quick shopper coping with traffic leaving the beach.
It was the first stop after construction delays. The line to the women’s room snaked all the way around the store. The men (sigh) zipped in and out.
Talking to the very pregnant woman in front of me about the ridiculousness of the situation, I moved to wait outside the door to the men’s room (and she followed me). When the last of the men came out, we cheered! And took our turns. (I invited the very pregnant woman to go ahead of me!)
Men coming into the store had to wait in line – behind us – the surprise on some faces was priceless.
Now if we could have agreed to share “flushes,” that would have been even better.
How about generic, no flush, composting toilets? And everybody cleans up after themselves!
Good for you–but I can’t believe anyone, male or female, was making a pregnant woman wait to go to the bathroom!
We have friends that live in an intentional community and have a composting toilet. It takes getting used to when you’re acculturated differently, but I definitely believe in the concept.
Love that screen name, btw! Tampopo is such a wonderful film.
-Alan
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Glad you’re here – Dood inspired me to mess with a Rice vs Coulter pic – but I can’t come up with any kind of a brilliant title… ideas? Anyone?
<ducking for the second time tonight>
to do better than that….
It’s coming together – I want it to look movie poster/fight poster, but …. No great brilliant ideas yet..
ha ha sisterhood!!!!
LMAO
So, is it really super female, the tide of newcomers? Seems like you’ve been watching the Welcome Wagons, that your take? Seems the logical thing…but then I’d hope it wouldn’t be just women who were offended by Markos’ dismissively insulting attitude. I certainly was (no, really–I was :P), though that doesn’t mean I won’t ever post there again.
Hey, did you see that picture of Rove getting frogmarched? That had to be the greatest thing ever!
-Alan
P.S. Send me an email sometime, would ya? 🙂 (Make up a yahoo account if you want to keep your main one private.)
Great minds think alike… it was the Rove pic that started me tweaking tonight…
A lot of the exodus was women, but plenty of gay men too, lots and lots of lurkers of every gender, many, many academics, hmmm – let’s see older people, um – everyone except that cherished white, male 18-30 demographic… now that I think about it….
So that’s where you’ve been! 🙂 My stalker trail had gone cold–I was ready to hang it up. 😉 Glad I caught your post.
I wish I had Photoshop, you guyzzzzzz…! <whine>
-Alan
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let me get what I have so far up – maybe you’ll feel inspired to help me… one sec
first draft
suggestions? ideas?
I literally LOLed at that! Good stuff. Who’da thunk the Rice pic would be more snarling and scary than the Coulter one?
Oh, and speaking of Coulter, this Kansas City DJ named “Afentra” did such an awesome phone interview with her. She started out lulling her into complacency, and pretty soon she was asking “Ann, do you really believe your own rhetoric?” and “Ann, let me read you something, and you tell me if it was written by you, or David Duke.” At this point, Ann wisely saw that she needed to get out of there ASAP, and mumbled some lame sarcastic quip and hung up. As she did so, Afentra was screaming, “wait, Ann, I didn’t get to ask you about that Adam’s apple, you trannie bitch!” I couldn’t believe I was listening to corporate radio, especially considering they replayed it over and over, LOL. It was so so good–I can only hope she later heard about the last bit.
Hey, come play.
but it won’t be funny without a great caption…. come on…
I just found a fabulous pic of her looking stunned and stupid that will definitely be a background pic…
grrr – oh, she just makes me… <snarl>
Rice vs Coulter
Next week – cat fight…
and dont forget me. the cleaning lady.. isn’t this place closed yet? :::grin::::
… still floating around in here…. looking for ideas for a pic that I’m working on…
first draft – ideas for a title?
scared straight comes to mind
church of the undead… plan nine from outerspace… could do a sci fi theme .. blood sucking ghouls.. hmmmmm death vixens from mars..
“Death Vixens from Mars” has a nice ring. <g> The only thing I could think of was fairly obvious and lame: “Right Hook”.
-Alan
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yeah. condi has the evil eye thing going like nobody’s business.. i mean look at her in that pic.. scary.. almost have a churchlike feel.. give us your souls! we will eat your souls!
…This joint’s empty… what? ::checking my watch::: my gawd it isn’t even 4:30 a.m. yet oh. you kids don’t let me get in your way.. just pull up a table over there.. i’ll be finished in no time at all
:::looking around::: hey. wouldya look at that? this place isn’t hardly even trashed out. must be a classy crowd in here…yeah, hey. i can live with that…high toned, yeah.. i like that..I just hope they don’t trash it up bad this weekend, I got plans.
That place I was workin last week was worse than a damn frat house. whew, i tell you those boys were bad, passed out all over.. they made such a mess i hadda scrape it off both my shoes, i did… it was bad…
oh well, ferget them, eh? :::getting my broom::: this looks like a better establishment…yah.. high class…yeah. thats what it is…a high class joint..
now lets just see about gettin this place cleaned up…
that was hysterical – oh, OK, maybe that’s just me..
I think Death Vixens from Mars has a nice ring to it – you may have just named my pic…
the “Ally McBeal” unisex restroom…anyone besides me remember that?
I think I may need a drink now, even tho I don’t drink.
Jambes de la grenouille
Do they have frog’s legs?
If so, they can just wear long pants and no one will know it.
Sorry, ancient groaner of a jest, but couldn’t resist it.
Honestly, tho’, in my carnivore days I did sup upon Frog’s Legs à la Parisienne, which most Americans have a bit difficulty managing not because of the taste (which is scrumptious if prepared properly), but rather because of the rather eerie resemblance between a frog’s leg and a human limb (once the flipper bit is removed of course).
Now I’m a vegetarian and have a deal with the animals: don’t try to eat me and I won’t eat you. The only way I’d eat a cow is if I had to kill him in self-defence…and the cows in Switzerland are notably placid and don’t tend towards the homicidal. Although there was a milk cow in a pasture who was eyeing me with what appeared to be malicious intent not so long ago….
plenty to oportunity for you to hit me with some zeros. Click on my name, then comments…. oops, you already know that.
I made lots of comments on dkos too. Go have a blast.
I never gave you any 0’s or 1’s…have you confused me with someone else? We’re on the same side!
And don’t fret about those ratings; I took a good deal of stick and got plenty of zeroes and ones on that “pie fight” diary on DKos when I took the “Kos is a butthead” side. Those ratings are the tools of bullies who use them to try to wipe out the comments of people with whom they don’t agree.
Theres Froggy Bottom Pub in Foggy Bottom, Washington D.C. its a local bar for George Washington University students, lol.
Diane, I’ll host on Mondays. The weekends sound like a lot of fun — guess I’ll have to stock up on icepacks and aspirin!!
Ok you are down for Monday….Thanks….
So Zander if you are around, what about you????
Days left, sat. sun, Tues.
was distracted looking for an appropriate decor – I think the one I provided below is nice – it’s a damn sweet place in Jackson Hole that is one of my favorite places on earth, but … I’m open to suggestions.
About committing to host a day? Um, er ….I usually don’t know what day of the week it is. That could present problems….
Zander thanks for the lovely decor below. Now you are not going to get off that easy. Pick a day, dear, and I will remind you when it is the day, k.
I have just been watching condi on Hardball, and I am in need of some restful place to gather with my friends, game of pool anyone.
I had another idea, (soon all will say oh no she has another idea), but this is it: The person who has a day of the week assisnment can designate others to take his/her place, whenever she/he chooses. So that would spread this around and allow others to do the hosting on occasion. As usual looking for feedback. In addition Zander, we can use the site I linked you to last night for coordination if necessary…
but… I’m totally impulsive – I could just leave town for weeks without mentioning it to anyone. Or spend days in a book or researching something without checking my mail or popping in here…in fact, I haven’t even checked my email today, and with the addition of yahoo last night, I don’t know if I know where all my mail is….
shirl? shirl, you understand, right?
I know the theme is “frog” -but I would have really loved to visit “Toad Hall”
meow…run kids,, it is the cat again…:o)
suggest the visual?
well, maybe zander..but to me it looks a litte to masculine in gender you know…:o)
Yeah, it needs some plants, some couches, cabana boys.
Yes – definitely cabana boys…
No offense to all those who submitted names, but to tell you the truth I actually liked “Booman Tribune Community Center”! So I voted “write-in candidate” with that as my choice. Too bad you didn’t include it in the poll, Diane–I think you had a winner! 🙂
Alan
Maverick Leftist
the decor… ^
When I think of community center, I have these images of smelly old buildings with hockey rinks, and teenagers doing donuts in the parking lot….
A poignant description zander (I’ve spent a lot of time in smelly hockey rinks lemmetellya) … I like your pic above much better.
be a Canadian thing…..
You forgot the warming hut! (I actually don’t think your “hockey rink” association would work with most Americans, but I used to live in northern Minnesota.)
Alan
Maverick Leftist
Last night he started talking about saunas….
I love a good sauna. There are about seven million things I’ve planned to buy When I Become a Teacher (hopefully, in about a year), and I surely won’t be able to afford all of them. But a sauna is definitely high on the list, especially since it will (one hopes) raise my property value and not be just an extravagant expense. But boy, I loved the saunas I took when I was travelling through Sweden and Finland. They just don’t get hot enough here in the States (except, again, in some parts of northern MN). Right around 85-90 Celsius (185-194 Fahrenheit) is mahvellous for me, though I know some Finns in particular like them as hot as 100!
Alan
Maverick Leftist
Me too – around 80-85 is good. When you throw the ‘löyly’ on the stones, the temperature goes up anyway. But I’ve also been in 100 C many times – you need really controlled breathing in order not to burn the inside of your nose!
I was once in a sauna with a Finnish general who had stoked it up to a hundred, and was trying to demonstrate how tough the Finns were compared with these ‘foreigners’. He threw a lot of water. I beat him by about 3 seconds. He ran out and jumped in the lake first. After that he was my pal and insisted in the evening on drinking vodka to excess, his English language skills deteriorating rapidly in the process, while my Finnish seemed to improve. We sang the Finnish National anthem together in the yard as the sun came up.
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Prefer the sauna in Suomi – Finland to the North Pole destination?
Sure, let me find a photo to attach to Sven’s invitation. OK I got it – see comment below.
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They can even swim … I guess not Finland, sorry Sven.
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Oh, I know just how she feels. Personally, I can’t bear the cold either.
(pronounced sow-na – as in female pig) We have contributed so few words to the English language that at least the correct pronunciation could be retained. Don’t get me started on Björn Borg and all the other mis-pronunciations. But I digress….
The sauna, like the native american sweat lodge, is for the cleansing of the body and the mind. It is also a place without shame. All Finnish kids grow up going naked to the sauna with their family. Most family saunas are mixed. Nakedness is nothing special. It leads to openess.
Mixed saunas are not common from pre-puberty onwards, but not unheard of among close friends and relatives. Even if men and women do not sauna together, they may run naked to the lake for a swim in view of the others.
I don’t know what women talk about in the sauna, but with men it’s usually very open. If you have a problem, the sauna is the place to talk about it.
My mom, who is of American Indian (Omaha) descent on her mother’s side, has used sweatlodges with the Anishanabe of northern MN, and gone naked into the snow after. I have only used saunas, and only done the cold shower bit (often followed by another session in the sauna).
I remember a Swedish truck driver I hitched a ride with, whose family’s house I ended up staying at, had a great sauna. (He reported not being able to keep up with the Finns, though, unlike you.) Now, his perfect English came from having a British father. What about you? As a few people have noted, you’ve got a pretty good sense of humour, and that amazes me if English is your second language. I think of myself as pretty good at French, for instance, but I am so far from being able to make someone laugh (intentionally, that is) in French, even though I think I’m reasonably droll in my native tongue.
I had a Swedish brother-in-law for a while. Kinda weird, how you can “lose” family members without a death occurring, LOL.
Okay, I’ll stop rambling about Scandinavia now…
-Alan
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I’m English, arrived here in Finland 1974. I always tell people I got frostbite of the brain the first winter and I’ve been too stupid to leave since.
As you can detect from my comments, I love Finland. The people, the closeness of Nature, the hi-tech, the women. No volcanoes, no earthquakes, no poisonous spiders, no crime, gender equality, salary equality (about 1:15 max). High taxes of course, but we get our money’s worth. Unlimited clean water. Broadband everywhere (I’m actually in the garden now with the airport upstairs)
And in Finland a handshake is still a deal.
Oh, somehow I thought you were in Sweden, sorry. I guess because you referred to going mano a mano against a Finn (actually suomilainen right?) in the sauna.
I never saw any other part of Finland, but I loved the week I spent in Helsinki, staying with a couple of brothers I met my first day there. So true about the high tech, and the really cool way they design all that compact kitchen stuff. Pretty wild, too, that the cop cars and taxis are, IIRC, Porsches and Mercedes.
They definitely beat the world hands down on the whole gender equality stuff (isn’t the parliament actually more than 50% female?). And it’s the heritage of radical socialist Finns in northern Minnesota that gives that region such a great left wing tradition for a rural white area.
Something else I thought fascinating about Finland (I was there in 1990, at a transitional point) was how it had that unique status of being more or less a Warsaw Pact country in its being part of the Soviet military sphere, yet it was the only such country that was totally left alone to pursue a Western, free democratic society.
-Alan
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I’m often in Sweden. My two daughters are perfect in Swedish, English and Finnish. And I work mostly with Finland-Svensk (People in Finland with Swedish as their first language)
Parliament is not quite 50/50 more like 60/40 though rising at each election. I would have to check the figures.
Soviet military involvement ended in the Sixties – they had a military area on a small peninsula west of Helsinki as part of War Reparations. Since then, until early 90’s, a very neutral policy toward East. Now much more independent. Lot of bonding going on nowadays with Baltic States – they are great vibrant places to visit. Finns not so keen on joining NATO, but are staunch UN supporters and provide proportionately a lot of peacekeepers. We try to be friends with everyone, but the US is getting a very bad press of late.
You reminded me, mentioning the “handshake is a deal” thing, of something else I thought really cool about Helsinki. When there’s some kind of construction or other traffic foulup, they are all so damned polite and selfless, it makes the rest of the world look bad, LOL. They just seem to feel it would be better to let someone else go than to try to grab their chance. So the opposite of the NYC area, where I lived for a while–there you’ve got to be aggressive and stick the corner of your car into the smallest gap, or you’ll never get in. (Though I do think New Yorkers and northern New Jerseyans are garrulous and friendly in their own way. People in Atlanta not only won’t let you in, they’re assholes about it.)
-Alan
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We’ve got some very nice community centers in this neck of the woods…the spouse and I had our wedding reception at one of them! 🙂
yesterday when I asked for names. No one even said they liked that name then. Well I may have a run off vote tomorrow with 3 names, and we’ll see. But you do see the tie in with Wahington DC, Foggy Bottom, don’t you..
So how are you doing today, Slacker, you don’t want to host a day do you? Zander is giving me probs. with comittment. She has issues……
So what were you doing during the blackout last night???
Ahhh…no, the F(r)oggy Bottom thing was too subtle for me, but now that you say it–isn’t that the CIA HQ?
Probably best not to assign any regular duty to a slacker, KWIM? 😉
I was actually asleep last night, believe it or not. I had been up for almost two days, other than an hour nap, and I crashed hard. (I tend to go in cycles that way.) So I missed all the excitement, though I did lose some posts from before the blackout. Hope it didn’t hurt BT too badly (in terms of newbies etc.).
KWIM whaat does that mean slacker….I wonder if the loss of data did hurt newbies mojo tho, they may have earned a lot of 4’s (of course not from you slack) and then lost them…
Know what I mean? I think…. Slackers, slackers everywhere – what in the world are you going to do with us, diane?
Je ne sais pas quoi dire à vous de cela, oui slackers est partout, mais quelque slackers que j’aime juste, ….does that make sense. Ask Slacker to see what it says, I think he is one who knows French.
Thanks for the translate on Kwim
Je peux comprendre juste un peu, si vous parlez lentement et en tant que vous à un enfant.
and then I butcher it – slacker? You’re gonna’ help me work on that right? My spoken french is just barely adequate to survive western Switzerland….
C’est tres cool que tu parles francais aussi. Tu es pleine des surprises! 😉
Alan
Maverick Leftist
Je parle seulement la français d’un élémentaire école dans Canada. Je me rappelle certains des 4th catégorie, mais pas beaucoup autrement.
Oh, and World Lingo helps a hell of a lot with the spelling, if nothing else….
Qu’est-ce que c’est “4th categorie”? Mais oui, j’ai oublie qu’au Canada, tous les eleves apprennent francais, n’est-ce pas? Je souhait que nous l’aurions ici–j’enseigne francais a mes enfants chez nous, mais d’avoir le renforcement de l’ecole serait preferable.
Oh, and for those not following along with the French, I will aid your understanding by taking the above to AltaVista, and translating it (through waystations in Portuguese and Russian):
Hope that clears everything up! <ducking>
Alan
Maverick Leftist
C’est vrai. Francais a l’ecole pour tout. Ici chacun peut faire un desordre avec la langue egalement.
4th ‘degre’? C’est ca? Peut-etre je ne veux pas rappeler – tros horreur.
Your statement:
“”I can understand just a little, if you speak slowly and in so as you to a child.”””
And my answer::
Je parlerai lentement pour ne pas pour vous confondre
Je suis beaucoup confondre plupart de la temps en anglais ou francais – ne vous inquietez pas.
Surely, zander, after all we’ve been through together, you can call me “tu”. 😉
Alan
Maverick Leftist
oh – I was afraid of this, of course I’ll get subject pronouns confused…. but if you could hear me roll an ‘r’…..
Diane, did you use that translation site for that? It looks pretty good to me (other than the singular “est” instead of plural “sont”), though Melanchthon or Jerome might disagree: “I don’t know what to tell you about that, yes slackers are everywhere, but I only like some slackers”–is that what you meant? (“Juste” has so many meanings, I wasn’t sure about that part.)
Alan
Maverick Leftist
I said some Slackers I just like!!!!!!!
Je ne sais pas quoi dire à vous de cela, oui slackers est partout, mais quelque slackers que j’aime juste,
and that juste, would be just,,,, yes I got this from translation site….
Shouldn’t you guys take this conversation over to the Euro Trib…I bet you would be a big hit over there with this parle vous Francais..I took it in HS and don’t remember Jack…Although I do go to France every Jan. It seemed like you guys might have been involved in a steamy manage a trois..Does Catnip parle vous Francais? I am also glad you didn’t use the name Community Center in the title Diane…reminds me of when I used to visit my grandma at the old age home. Community centers are for the most part….Nasty.
Oui, Chamonix. I am 100% French. 🙂
So that’s why we get on so well (er, sometimes <cough>). I kinda sensed you were giving off the same vibe as I felt vis-a-vis the hosting duty. Yet we can both post voluminously, as long as it’s not assigned. <g>
Alan
Maverick Leftist
responsibility-phobic????
Yep, I tried to warn diane about me being that way, but she is persistent….
LOL! Diane, I did not realise you had such a rapier wit! (“of course not from you slack”) ZING!! Good one.
Alan
Maverick Leftist
You call that a rapier wit? in person I do think I might have one, but it is somehow much harder to convey on sites. In real life I tend to make sarcastic statements with humor, a subtle mix of wit and a dash of elan, which I think is the correct word, but could be wrong. lol
You are after all Slacker….Inc…. are you not…what ‘rapier’ wit could pierce your armor.
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http://ets.freetranslation.com/ try this site
got it, but for anyone interested, the link is…
freetranslation.com
the one above is internal and doesn’t work…
lord knows the political and cultural situation makes me want to drink.
thank you very much….
you’re not trying to get me drunk, now, are you?
It does make it easier to laugh a little.
Though my liver is now a casualty of the GOP.
The Green Zone
Hip Hopper’s Cafe
Dragonfly Cafe
The drinks are politically themed.
Drink #1: The Schwarzenegger. It’s 2 ounces of vodka and 30 milligrams of anabolic steroids. You get drunk, but when you wake up in the morning you have washboard abs. Oh, and if your friends fall down in the pub, you’ll be strong enough to pick ’em up.
Drink #2: The Joemomentum (after Senator Joseph Lieberman). It’s carrot juice mixed with prune juice with a garnish of sauerkraut. It’s awful to look at and leaves a bad aftertaste in your mouth–and wildly unpopular.
More drink suggestions, anyone?
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I always get crossed when I’m confused like this.
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