Our local Danish-Scandinavian community centre often has Nordic-themed festivals. But in a change, they just held a "European festival". Maybe the Vikings are getting ready to role, er row, again.
Nope, Jimenez. He refuses to fly the Mexican flag - but he likes to tease his neighbors. It would be Irish or Italian though. I counted 22 American flags, his tease, the Dane and a Swede this afternoon.
I alwayd duct-tape a dried herring to the mailbox down by the highway. Could use a fresh one but then I won't get any grocery coupons until I take it down.
Hey, when I was a kid in Oklahoma it was Comanche is full war dress and paint.
No kidding.
Now up here in Indiana there is the beer festival as Jasper with the busty ladies in their funny looking costumes and people with accordians drinking and getting rowdy.
The fusion cuisine has its afficionados here. There really is a Chinese restauranteur who puts on a kilt and serves up sweet and sour Haggis on Robby Burns day. And there are at least two Indian Chinese restaurants that I know of, where Cantonese cooking meats Indian spices - I went to one, the clientele was mostly Indian, the owners Chinese via Bombay; it didn't quite work for me. All this may help explain our "European festival", though I fear the motivation may be EU thinking now festering overseas.
I read somewhere that writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Man, that History Channel special on George Washington--just over with--was superb. what a scrapper--and then, ha surrendered power. What other charismatic leader ever has?
And the reason he could surrender power and ride home in retirement, is because the new political system--the people--meant that the next leader would not have to hang him, as a matter of course. Radical.
Skookumchuk, here is a page on last year's Robbie Burns Haggis: I see you also have the choice of plum sauce. And here is the blog of Toddish McWong, the pioneer of this cuisine. The Floata Restaurant is the last big dining house in the old Chinatown.
I think the great Tocqueville had some misgivings about the experiment--that despite all, in the end Paul would be tickled to vote in governments which would rob Peter.
But it was certainly prescient of the French and Spanish crowns to understand what the westward-moving, beholden to no man, whiskey-drinkin' Bible-thumpers were all about. See one such here.
So they saw the latent physical power of the new Union.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Napoleon remarked that the Lousiana purchase would enable an American power that would someday surpass England. That said, I suspect he sold the place because there was no realistic way to keep the Americans out.
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Our local Danish-Scandinavian community centre often has Nordic-themed festivals. But in a change, they just held a "European festival". Maybe the Vikings are getting ready to role, er row, again.
Nope, Jimenez. He refuses to fly the Mexican flag - but he likes to tease his neighbors. It would be Irish or Italian though. I counted 22 American flags, his tease, the Dane and a Swede this afternoon.
I alwayd duct-tape a dried herring to the mailbox down by the highway. Could use a fresh one but then I won't get any grocery coupons until I take it down.
Now that's a little too Finnish for me.
Hey, when I was a kid in Oklahoma it was Comanche is full war dress and paint.
No kidding.
Now up here in Indiana there is the beer festival as Jasper with the busty ladies in their funny looking costumes and people with accordians drinking and getting rowdy.
What the hell is a lutefesk taco? it sounds perverse.
There are places where it is good to remember that taco spelled backwards is o cat.
Terrye,
Ya gotta look in the Mariscos Smorgasboard section of the menu, they're usually right next to the Swedish camarónes.
I sure hope Buddy doesn't get thor about this. Them Norskies can be a bit broodish at times.
First you have to try our Egg McMenudo breakfast sandwich. Saturday mornings only, of course.
Dare I ask what are on those pancakes, Skook?
The fusion cuisine has its afficionados here. There really is a Chinese restauranteur who puts on a kilt and serves up sweet and sour Haggis on Robby Burns day. And there are at least two Indian Chinese restaurants that I know of, where Cantonese cooking meats Indian spices - I went to one, the clientele was mostly Indian, the owners Chinese via Bombay; it didn't quite work for me. All this may help explain our "European festival", though I fear the motivation may be EU thinking now festering overseas.
I read somewhere that writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Man, that History Channel special on George Washington--just over with--was superb. what a scrapper--and then, ha surrendered power. What other charismatic leader ever has?
And the reason he could surrender power and ride home in retirement, is because the new political system--the people--meant that the next leader would not have to hang him, as a matter of course. Radical.
America inspired the French a few years later, but for certain they missed a few of the more important points.
Skookumchuk, here is a page on last year's Robbie Burns Haggis: I see you also have the choice of plum sauce. And here is the blog of Toddish McWong, the pioneer of this cuisine. The Floata Restaurant is the last big dining house in the old Chinatown.
Skook, re your 9:46 pm, a tangent, one wonders if there'd've even been a WWII, had Hitler and Tojo personally studied Gettysburg.
I think the great Tocqueville had some misgivings about the experiment--that despite all, in the end Paul would be tickled to vote in governments which would rob Peter.
But it was certainly prescient of the French and Spanish crowns to understand what the westward-moving, beholden to no man, whiskey-drinkin' Bible-thumpers were all about. See one such here.
So they saw the latent physical power of the new Union.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Napoleon remarked that the Lousiana purchase would enable an American power that would someday surpass England. That said, I suspect he sold the place because there was no realistic way to keep the Americans out.
That was very franc, skook.
"Franc-ly, Monsieur President Jefferserson, je suis sans argent!"
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