Minchia! Every year I dread Columbus Day. I dislike Columbus Day for the same reasons that all decent people dislike Columbus Day -- but I dread it because of the inevitable op-ed written by some cafone claiming that we should continue celebrating a genocidal maniac
Yeah, well, I guess that kind of parade was pioneered here by the Irish.San Francisco has some weird thing where someone wades ashore pretending to be Columbus. Isabella gets in there, too, somehow. Which, at least, is kinda random and wacky. Which can happen on Indigenous Peoples' Day, as far as I'm concerned.
My grandfather, married in the 1920s, so growing up in the oughts and teens? was targeted by the boys in the german neighborhood next to the Polish neighborhood if he crossed the line. It's the same old story...
Pesto hit in the 80s, didn't it? And Salami is wonderful. Landjagar, also, too. I like hard sausage. I like sausage. I find the idea of haggis distasteful, even though it's basically sausage. Go figure.
In my mother's time, they weren't *really* Catholic. The Poles broke away from the Catholic Church and founded the Polish National Catholic Church--with the mass in Polish (this was well before Vatican II.) Buffalo, and other rust belt cities to be.
I don't remember when pesto first became popular, but I didn't run into many people who made their own until the late 90's, and now practically everyone I know makes it. I can't eat haggis. I can't eat anything that looks as if someone else has already eaten it once already. Corned beef hash is like that - it's very tasty as long as I don't look at what I'm eating. My cat throws up stuff that looks just like corned beef hash or haggis.
They have a lot of delicious hard sausages in Spain, but I can't get any of them here.
Lady MS is directly descended from a guy who is mentioned in MD's state song. Neither proud, nor ashamed. Rather, uninvolved, if you catch my drift. Entitled to join DAR/DOC, chose to do neither, but plowed on to make my own history. Do understand Robyn's ambivalence, but it is anyone's choice to embrace or reject the behavior of their forebears. Have never believed in collective/ancestral guilt. You are accountable only for what you accomplish in your lifetime. Any other construct appears, to me, as an adaptation of original sin, which I also don't accept. Rest of you Wonkers are entitled (by virtue of our 1st Am.) to your own opinion, and we'll fight for your right to defend it:)
That's good, I'm going to steal that. It reminds me of a story I read about a woman who loved to garden, but who was annoyed by show-offs who always had to use the Latin names for plants. When they would ask her for the name of some flower she was growing, she would reply "It's No-namicus In-a-poticus."
Yeah, well, I guess that kind of parade was pioneered here by the Irish.San Francisco has some weird thing where someone wades ashore pretending to be Columbus. Isabella gets in there, too, somehow. Which, at least, is kinda random and wacky. Which can happen on Indigenous Peoples' Day, as far as I'm concerned.
What's the difference between a violin and a viola?
A viola burns longer.
My grandfather, married in the 1920s, so growing up in the oughts and teens? was targeted by the boys in the german neighborhood next to the Polish neighborhood if he crossed the line. It's the same old story...
Think of how many Berlusconi regimes you would have had to live through.
Pesto hit in the 80s, didn't it? And Salami is wonderful. Landjagar, also, too. I like hard sausage. I like sausage. I find the idea of haggis distasteful, even though it's basically sausage. Go figure.
In my mother's time, they weren't *really* Catholic. The Poles broke away from the Catholic Church and founded the Polish National Catholic Church--with the mass in Polish (this was well before Vatican II.) Buffalo, and other rust belt cities to be.
I expect you'll come out here some time in your life, and then you can see for yourself.
I don't remember when pesto first became popular, but I didn't run into many people who made their own until the late 90's, and now practically everyone I know makes it. I can't eat haggis. I can't eat anything that looks as if someone else has already eaten it once already. Corned beef hash is like that - it's very tasty as long as I don't look at what I'm eating. My cat throws up stuff that looks just like corned beef hash or haggis.
They have a lot of delicious hard sausages in Spain, but I can't get any of them here.
Why don't you guys have a day honoring Marco Polo? He seemed like a pretty okay guy.
Lady MS is directly descended from a guy who is mentioned in MD's state song. Neither proud, nor ashamed. Rather, uninvolved, if you catch my drift. Entitled to join DAR/DOC, chose to do neither, but plowed on to make my own history. Do understand Robyn's ambivalence, but it is anyone's choice to embrace or reject the behavior of their forebears. Have never believed in collective/ancestral guilt. You are accountable only for what you accomplish in your lifetime. Any other construct appears, to me, as an adaptation of original sin, which I also don't accept. Rest of you Wonkers are entitled (by virtue of our 1st Am.) to your own opinion, and we'll fight for your right to defend it:)
Happy Birthday, John Lennon. Sorry about all the guns in the US, sir.
Well, there's always prosciutto for unobtanium.
That's good, I'm going to steal that. It reminds me of a story I read about a woman who loved to garden, but who was annoyed by show-offs who always had to use the Latin names for plants. When they would ask her for the name of some flower she was growing, she would reply "It's No-namicus In-a-poticus."
So, if you run upon a place, and the people who live there are staring at you, I don't think you discovered it.
What, the dude from the swimming pool game?
Repeal and replace with statues of Joe Pesci!!!!
Also too, Pesci can replace the Duhnald for the remainder of his term?