Better not drink while you drive! Just pull over to a picnic table.
[list][list]King Henry VI, Part ii Act 4, Scene 10[/list]
CADE: These five days have I hid me
[list] in these woods and durst not peep out, for
all the country is laid for me; but now am I so
hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a
thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,
on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to
see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another
while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach
this hot weather.
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Measure for Measure Act 4, Scene 1[/list]
ISABELLA: He hath a garden circummured with brick,
[list] Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
To call upon him.
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The Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 4[/list]
AUTOLYCUS: He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then
[list] 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a
wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters
and a dram dead; then recovered again with
aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as
he is, and in the hottest day prognostication
proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the
sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he
is to behold him with flies blown to death.[/list][/list]
Re: Num num num
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:37 pm
by bystander
As soon as you mention pick-a-nick table, Yogi shows up.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:44 pm
by owlice
orin stepanek wrote:Better not drink while you drive! Just pull over to a picnic table.
Not my most recent fall, but the one before that was when pulling over to a picnic table. My now-exH and I were biking on a trail, got to a park and pulled off the trail to go to a picnic shelter that had a number of tables under it, some of which were occupied by guys just hanging out (not picnicking, just ... hanging out). We rode over the grass, he in front.
By the time I got to the shelter, I was traveling so slowly that when my front tire hit the concrete pad, my bike stopped absolutely dead and I fell over. It was such a ridiculous fall, I started laughing on the way down (and am laughing now about it)! I lay there in the dirt and laughed my head off. No one else moved a muscle; since I was laughing, I suppose it was obvious I wasn't hurt. Embarrassed, though; zero momentum falls almost always look very silly, and this one certainly did!
Re: Num num num
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:44 pm
by neufer
owlice wrote:
orin stepanek wrote:
Better not drink while you drive! Just pull over to a picnic table.
Not my most recent fall, but the one before that was when pulling over to a picnic table. My now-exH and I were biking on a trail, got to a park and pulled off the trail to go to a picnic shelter that had a number of tables under it, some of which were occupied by guys just hanging out (not picnicking, just ... hanging out). We rode over the grass, he in front. By the time I got to the shelter, I was traveling so slowly that when my front tire hit the concrete pad, my bike stopped absolutely dead and I fell over. It was such a ridiculous fall, I started laughing on the way down (and am laughing now about it)! I lay there in the dirt and laughed my head off. No one else moved a muscle; since I was laughing, I suppose it was obvious I wasn't hurt. Embarrassed, though; zero momentum falls almost always look very silly, and this one certainly did!
bystander wrote:
As soon as you mention pick-a-nick table, Yogi shows up.
Extreme Yogi with his BMX on Cliff Edges:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:19 pm
by orin stepanek
owlice wrote:
orin stepanek wrote:Better not drink while you drive! Just pull over to a picnic table.
Not my most recent fall, but the one before that was when pulling over to a picnic table. My now-exH and I were biking on a trail, got to a park and pulled off the trail to go to a picnic shelter that had a number of tables under it, some of which were occupied by guys just hanging out (not picnicking, just ... hanging out). We rode over the grass, he in front.
By the time I got to the shelter, I was traveling so slowly that when my front tire hit the concrete pad, my bike stopped absolutely dead and I fell over. It was such a ridiculous fall, I started laughing on the way down (and am laughing now about it)! I lay there in the dirt and laughed my head off. No one else moved a muscle; since I was laughing, I suppose it was obvious I wasn't hurt. Embarrassed, though; zero momentum falls almost always look very silly, and this one certainly did!
Your not supposed to fall down! Your supposed to stop at the picnic table for a sip from that bottle of nectar your toting.
bystander wrote:As soon as you mention pick-a-nick table, Yogi shows up.
For those stormy days and nights to come, I would recommend a good Port Wine though I suppose
Any Port in a storm will do
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:36 pm
by Beyond
Speaking of Yogi.... Here is a picture of the 'snacktime skunk' in his imitation Yogi outfit, waiting for pic-a-nic-ers to come by.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:48 pm
by neufer
Beyond wrote:
Speaking of Yogi.... Here is a picture of the 'snacktime skunk' in his imitation Yogi outfit, waiting for pic-a-nic-ers to come by.
Apparently you need reminding that Yogi is a BROWN bear who also eats pic-a-nic-ers
(; so I would cool it the the 'snacktime skunk' remarks).
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:00 pm
by Beyond
Notice that i said imitation Yogi outfit. Sorrynot reallyabout the 'snacktime skunk' remark. I won't post any more about it.unless i find some good pictures The 'snacktime skunk' has been around so long, i couldn't bear it any longer.
Now wait just a bear-flea pickin minute, there's no mention in the Yogi cartoons about Yogi eating pic-a-nic-ers. Or post-ter-ers, for that matter.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:14 pm
by bystander
North American Brown Bears (aka Grizzlies) are noted for their aggressiveness. The American Black Bear (which Yogi most likely is) shares most of the same habitat and are noticeably more docile, except when food is concerned.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:23 pm
by owlice
Orin, the point (I remember now I did have one!) of my relating the tale of my zero momentum fall at the picnic tables was that I'd have been better off not stopping; I should have kept on going! 'Twas the stopping that made me fall!
bystander, I dunno; Yogi definitely looks brown to me.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:30 pm
by Beyond
owlice wrote: 'Twas the stopping that made me fall!
Hmm... I thought it would have been lack of balance followed by a big dose of gravity, and just perhaps, all that laughter on the way down to terra-ferma.
Re: Num num num
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:01 pm
by orin stepanek
I'll bet Yogi loves those ham and cheese sandwiches he finds in those picnic baskets! I know I would.
There's sump'n wrong with the delivery system here. I get e-mail notification this morning a reply's been posted, immediately click the 'read' link, & see the 'pull over to picnic table'....as the latest post. I post my "tonight we ride" snippet, and 'the machine' jumps me back to the thread, where I learn there's 17+ intervening responses!!
So...sorry to be such a Johnny Come Lately, & hope I didn't 'miss the moment' or the mood train (tho my Yogi reference is indeed smeared with mootness due to its now excruciatingly apparent latency).......but t'warn't my doin's, folks. Blame Teh Machinen!!
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Re: Num num num
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:55 pm
by orin stepanek
last night was spaghetti and meatballs; num num num!
For myself, I've celebrated Friday with a super num num num odyssey thorugh the streets of Malmö.
First I went to a chocolateria whose egg liqeuer pralines are to die for! The egg liqeuer ones are the dark roundish ones in the very foreground here. I also bought some beer flavoured milk chocolate truffles! Yummm!
Then I went to another chocolateria to buy rich soft non-sticky toffee pralines in a thick milk chocolate coating, and some pistachio truffle pralines coated in 70% plain chocolate. This is Stefan in the picture, the owner of this chocolateria.
Then I went to a shop which sells locally produced fruit and vegetables. I bought locally produced strawberries, raspberries and apples.
Right next door to the vegetable shop is an organic bakery, where I bought some Danish rye bread, as well as a small jar of whisky mustard and a slightly bigger jar of rhubarb and black currant jam.
Since I hadn't eaten anything yet (or make that, I hadn't eaten much, just a few pralines), I went to this lovely restaurant to have a late lunch. I had a large juicy piece of cod fillet with thinly sliced beetroots and carrots, crumbs of bacon and delicious semi-dried cherry tomatoes on the vine in a mildly lemony sauce. Yuummm!!
And then I hurried home to do the laundry. That's another Friday tradition for me - splurging is another one!
Orin, i see that you're celebrating your 3000th post with desert. Way to go Orin But I'm wondering how a third of the deserts have negative votes Did someone keep eating them up before they could tally the votes ::insert dessert -pig out- smilie here::
OOPS, i just saw that your 3000th post was in the communications forum, so i guess you came here after to celebrate with Dessert. Still, -Way to go Orin-
Re: Num num num
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:38 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:
Orin, i see that you're celebrating your 3000th post with desert.
I have a feeling that a couple of people will catch me before long! Ann and you are moving at a pretty good clip!
Just pull over to a picnic table.
But I'm wondering how a third of the deserts have negative votes