Immature. But which hawk? Sharp-shinned?
Impulse led me to check the Internet Archive to see if Brillat-Savarin’s oft-mentioned 1826 (I think) work, Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste) was there—and it was!
Deep within the text I found a couple of jokes (adapted by me):
Hey, have a raisin.
No, thanks. I don’t like wine in pills.
That cracked me up. Here’s another:
Monsieur (said an old marquise to me one day), which do you prefer: Burgundy or Bordeaux?
Madame (I replied), I have such a passion for contemplating this matter that I always postpone the decision for a week!
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Temp was 21°F at dawn. Is this a frozen version of clay’s hydrostatic pressure?
North America’s non-organic maize crop has been fingered as causing the big dead zone along the northern Gulf of Mexico. The maize fields are fertilized with tons of nitrogen fertilizers, which wash out of the fields and down the Mississippi drainage.
If you exercise your green impulses, you avoid non-organic maize products (which also means avoiding many prepared foods, including fast foods), thereby contributing less to the dead zone—and other environmental nightmares.
So, I now await the widespread call for organic ethanol at the pump. Yes, I googled it and it’s available, but apparently for medicinal uses, not as biofuel.
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Even transplanted Southerners make sure they work the magic available on New Year’s Day. The Magnificent JPB conjured up pots of collard greens (to bring money in the coming year), black-eyed peas (to bring luck in the year ahead), and mashed potatoes (’cause you just gotta have them to round out the meal), along with cornbread (not shown; included because all true Southern meals have a side of quickbread).
BTW, I haven’t written enough here about my talented BIL, JPB. Among other impressive undertakings, he composes a weekly comic strip you ought to check out. He calls it Grumbles, and it’s outstanding.
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Best wishes in the coming year*!
May all the distortions you experience be filled with sunshine!
Weather: sunny, breezy, cool (high around 50°F).
* Even though it’s an artificial, culturally determined construct—well, the year part, but maybe the wishes part, too!
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