Word Association!!

[Sentinel]

How'd you take your aubergine, the king of vegetables to whom the fruit is affectionately termed ''brown jolly'' in the Indies, of that I'm sure @Sentinel would vehemently call it ''the brinjal'' [I wonder what is it called in the mother of all tongues, Sanskrit?]?

I had to check that up. No i don't know any vegetable names in Sanskrit !
Seems it was called "Vrin taa kum"
Whatever.
In Hindi, we call it baingan or baigan. A friend's wife once told me that baigan means "bay-goon" which means without any benefits. So she suggested that eggplant has no nutritive value.

I had one left over piece of the small eggplant with my breakfast. My maid had made cutlets with red pumpkin which is kinda sweet. I had two of those and they were good.

 

[stringertom]

When there’s frost upon the pumpkin
Then it’s thyme fore Dicking Trumpkin.

 

[Vcore89]

Andy Dick gropes Ivanka Trump on Kimmel.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Unsolicited and unwanted touching.

 

[stringertom]

Touching the net in an RG SF by Joe Kovic led to the infamous finger pointing reaction by The Nadal to make sure the chair umpire saw the infraction and awarded the point to him in his comeback from 3-4 down on the Serbian’s serve.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Point Reyes

 

[stringertom]

Breezy Point is located at the extreme southwestern tip of geographic Long Island, although it is politically part of the city of New York. Clear days allow a vista looking further south and west past the mouth of the greater NYC harbor to the shores of Sandy Hook NJ north of the very popular northern Jersey beach communities like Asbury Park and Point Pleasant.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Breezy Point is located at the extreme southwestern tip of geographic Long Island, although it is politically part of the city of New York. Clear days allow a vista looking further south and west past the mouth of the greater NYC harbor to the shores of Sandy Hook NJ north of the very popular northern Jersey beach communities like Asbury Park and Point Pleasant.

I used to refer to "Greetings From Asbury Park" as "Greetings From Ashbury Park" before being corrected.

Haight-Ashbury can be quite breezy and pleasant.

 

[stringertom]

Asbury Park 4th of July is one of The Bawss’ most popular early tunes and one he sang when I first saw him as a warmup act for the band Chicago in 1973. Most refer to the song as Sandy, as it is written as a plea for love from a girl named Sandy.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

The 4th of July is celebrated in Aalborg.

 

[stringertom]

On July 4, 1981 John McEnroe became Yankee Doodle Dandy in mostly white with blue trim and a bright red bandana as he ended Björn Borg’s 41-match win streak on the green grass of SW19’s cathedral of tennis for the AELTC title in men’s singles.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

As a kid, I had no idea that would be Borg's final Wimbledon. Was that the last Wimbledon final played with wood?

 

[stringertom]

As a kid, I had no idea that would be Borg's final Wimbledon. Was that the last Wimbledon final played with wood?

In an oddity due to the shift to Sunday playing of the Wimby men’s final the very next year, July 4, 1982, was the date for an all-lefty Yank final that J.S. Connors won over J.P. McEnroe in five sets.

 

[Sentinel]

When there’s frost upon the pumpkin
Then it’s thyme fore Dicking Trumpkin.

I've been dreaming of eating a slice of pumpkin pie for over 30 years. I believe the only time i have tasted one was in 1984 and it was one of those cheap store bought ones.
One day I shall make one with our red pumpkins. @Dedans Penthouse used to have a nice joke about pumpkin, but i wont spoil it for you.

 

[Sentinel]

As a kid, I had no idea that would be Borg's final Wimbledon. Was that the last Wimbledon final played with wood?

I did start the Borg McEnroe movie on Netflix the other day. It had too much of foul language spouting out of Mac the Mouth's mouth, so i switched it off. Strange that I used to be a Mac fan back then just for his potty mouth.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

I did start the Borg McEnroe movie on Netflix the other day. It had too much of foul language spouting out of Mac the Mouth's mouth, so i switched it off. Strange that I used to be a Mac fan back then just for his potty mouth.

The WTA is much nicer.

"Hi, Genie!"

 

[stringertom]

Mack the Knife interests me more. The song was made popular by the great rendition of it by Bobby Darin and became quite popular with bar crowds on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the 70’s. It was written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for “The Threepenny Opera” all the way back in the Roaring 20’s.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Mack the Knife interests me more. The song was made popular by the great rendition of it by Bobby Darin and became quite popular with bar crowds on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the 70’s. It was written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for “The Threepenny Opera” all the way back in the Roaring 20’s.

The same is true of "Alabama Song."

 

[stringertom]

The same is true of "Alabama Song."

Sean Connery once got a kick out of Lotte Lenya:

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Pussy Galore is more fun.

 

[stringertom]

Pussy Galore is more fun.

“I must be dreaming!” was the peRFect response to her introduction.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

 

[stringertom]

KISS’ first live gig happened on a winter of 1973 night in a small club in Queens. Three people attended the gig. Three years later they were a national success and they played to SRO crowds in major arenas.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

When the Beatles were starting in Hamburg, they were playing for small drunk crowds and hookers, and taking speed to help them play late into the night, and often hooking up with the hookers.

 

[stringertom]

The fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe helped change hairstyles for a decade and more when he copied the mop top look of his German friend Klaus Voorman. Photographer Astrid Kirchherr became his girlfriend and she was responsible for introducing the stimulant Preludin to help them get through their long nights playing at Der Kaiserkeller in Hamburg’s wild Reeperbahn District.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Revealed: Dentist who introduced Beatles to LSD

Few of those many momentous nights enjoyed by the Beatles at the height of their fame were to have more profound consequences than one spent at an unprepossessing two-bedroom flat near London's Bayswater Place in April 1965.

It had been an inconsequential evening of socialising shared by George Harrison, John Lennon, their wives Cynthia Lennon and Patti Boyd and George's dentist, who had just drifted over their social horizon. Then the five, accompanied by the dentist's wife, adjourned from the small dining room to the lounge, where the dentist slipped LSD - a substance then as little known to the Beatles as to most in Britain - into their coffees.

The details of George and John's introduction to the sense-enhancing drug have, until now, remained one of the most enigmatic aspects of the band's history, despite 1,000 books on the subject, as has the name of the man described only as the "wicked dentist" by George in the one interview which relates a sense of the event for the Beatles Anthology. In a new book the music writer, Steve Turner, reveals the dentist to be John Riley, the son of a Metropolitan Police officer who, after training as a cosmetic dentist in Chicago, became a dentist to the stars.

The experience spawned the surreal lyrics of Help!, which went to number one in September 1965 with declarations such as "Now I find I've changed my mind, opened up the doors" (after Aldous Huxley's LSD-inspired Doors of Perception and "My independence seems to vanish in the haze." From the Revolver album to the acid-induced "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD?) track on the Sgt Pepper album and later rows with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who disapproved of the substance, the experience shaped the band's destiny.

A little Help?
* 'HELP!' (1965)
Some see the song as the first LSD-induced Beatles single. Also an expression of the stress John Lennon felt at the band's rapid rise to fame
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone and I'm not so self assure[LSD brings an altered state; self-confidence goes]
Now I find I've changed my mind, Opened up the doors
[LSD changes the mind, as in Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception]
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
[floating, in an LSD-induced haze]
Won't you please, please help me
[helplessness, loss of control]
With grateful acknowledgment to Michael S Hoffman.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...st-who-introduced-beatles-to-lsd-6231654.html

 

[Sentinel]

Sean Connery once got a kick out of Lotte Lenya:

Takes me weigh back to childhood. We did have an album/s of Lotte Lenya. My dad's collection.

I find it a bit difficult somehow to be taken back so many decades. I wonder how you guys manage it. I don't know the feeling. Maybe nostalgic, slightly sad. Something you have lost and can never get back.

 

[stringertom]

Takes me weigh back to childhood. We did have an album/s of Lotte Lenya. My dad's collection.

I find it a bit difficult somehow to be taken back so many decades. I wonder how you guys manage it. I don't know the feeling. Maybe nostalgic, slightly sad. Something you have lost and can never get back.

My days are filled with thoughts of yesterdays. Just about every conversation with customers gets to some era I’ve lived through, especially the summertime when I meet so many Brits and I share stories with them about my summer/fall of ‘72 in London and around the U.K.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

No matter where I roam
I will return to my English rose
For no bonds can ever tempt me from she
I've sailed the seven seas
Flown the whole blue sky
But I've returned with haste
To where my love does lie
No matter where I go
I will come back to my English rose...

 

[stringertom]

One of the better rock ballads from the glam metal era is Poison’s Every Rose Has Its Thorn, released at Christmas time 30 years ago. The song reached #1 for three weeks and is regularly included in critics’ lists of greatest 100 rock tunes.

 

[Dedans Penthouse]

I've been dreaming of eating a slice of pumpkin pie for over 30 years. I believe the only time i have tasted one was in 1984 and it was one of those cheap store bought ones.
One day I shall make one with our red pumpkins.

@Dedans Penthouse used to have a nice joke about pumpkin but i wont spoil it for you.

still does : )

Why is Halloween a hillbilly's favorite holiday?

Because they get to pump kin.

.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Iceland has a small founding population, with many female involuntary contributors to the gene pool coming from Ireland, England, and Scotland many centuries ago courtesy of the Vikings. Nevertheless, they have been getting it on with each other ever since, making them an interesting population for genetic studies.

 

[stringertom]

Parents named Poole should never name their sons Gene or daughters Jean to avoid jokes about behavior that concern the child(ren) lacking depth of character or substance.

 

[Sentinel]

Parents named Poole should never name their sons Gene or daughters Jean to avoid jokes about behavior that concern the child(ren) lacking depth of character or substance.

Parents named O'Toole should never name their daughter "Plenty".

And I won't start about parents named Galore.

 

[stringertom]

Parents named O'Toole should never name their daughter "Plenty".

And I won't start about parents named Galore.

Do you have a black leather kit you wear during Bondage sessions such as this???

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Bonds' bondage escapades with hot enemy spies, and attention-getting chases, explosions, and general mayhem wherever he goes would get a real MI6 officer, or any other real spy fired. If only actual spies had so much fun!

 

[stringertom]

Much fun can be and has been derived from marathon rebroadcasts of Bond films. TNT Network had a tradition of providing their airings over the holidays but I haven’t seen them do that for years now.

Last holidays I remember holing up and watching “Dexter” marathons with a complete season aired on Showtime every day. I told our good friend @vive le beau jeu ! about my experience and got him intrigued enough to stream the series and he recently reported he watched the finale after getting through the entire series.

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

Much fun can be and has been derived from marathon rebroadcasts of Bond films. TNT Network had a tradition of providing their airings over the holidays but I haven’t seen them do that for years now.

Last holidays I remember holing up and watching “Dexter” marathons with a complete season aired on Showtime every day. I told our good friend @vive le beau jeu ! about my experience and got him intrigued enough to stream the series and he recently reported he watched the finale after getting through the entire series.

tonight's the night
and it's going to happen again, and again
it has to happen

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Derry in the 1980s.

 

[Vcore89]

No love for my pre-teen Guess Girl crush?

 

[stringertom]

No love for my pre-teen Guess Girl crush?

Keeping us in suspense as to her identity and how she associates with “free” and/or “Derry” or something happening all the time???

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Keeping us in suspense as to her identity and how she associates with “free” and/or “Derry” or something happening all the time???

He may have been thinking dairy.

 

[stringertom]

He may have been thinking dairy.

Care to share London Jean’s full handle???

 

[Vcore89]

I blame @Mike Bulgakov for the intensity [w/o even trying--hard] of these brilliant, scintillating, and mesmerizing femmes fatales! And thus . . .

In the film, Arbitrage which stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Laetitia has appeared in several films. A Russian friend once gave me many quality DVDs of questionable copyright background, which included some of Casta's films. Her acting is really quite bad, but she does a nice job in the nude scenes.

 

[stringertom]

I blame @Mike Bulgakov for the intensity [w/o even trying--hard] of these brilliant, scintillating, and mesmerizing femmes fatales! And thus . . .

In the film, Arbitrage which stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.

Three celebrity women (model Casta, actress Milot and alt rock singer Sadier), all French, share the name Laetitia, which is derived from the Latin “laetus” or happy. I am hoping Mademoiselle Casta et al are having “laetitious” holidays with their families (Casta has three children now) and friends.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

A croque madame is a croque monsieur with a poached egg on top. It is called this because the egg was said to resemble a woman's hat.

Unfortunately, if you order a croque madame at a Paris cafe, you won't get this,

and if you don't want the fried egg (hat) on top and order a croque monsieur, you won't get this either.

 

[stringertom]

Denis’ preferred nickname is Shapo, the first five letters of his surname. It is pronounced very similarly to the French word for hat but his headgear on court is pronounced in English identically to the French word for a geographic land mass separating two bodies of water.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

"Joyeux Noël! J'ai trop chaud!"

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[stringertom]

Confused non-bilingual English speaking visitors to France wonder why the “C” on bathroom sinks is on the left of their faucets and get a surprise when the water comes out hot.