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  1. Viola

    Miss USA Pageant?

    Beyonce's hardly porn?
  2. Viola

    Miss USA Pageant?

    I guess real women don't wear bikinis? Or something.
  3. Viola

    Miss USA Pageant?

    I always liked pageants as a kid, which is odd because I was never the sort of girl who'd do well. I liked the outfits (where else does one see evening gowns cut down to there in that range of colors, etc) and the theatricality of it. I don't think its become porn; its not even associated very...
  4. Viola

    American atrocities in Normandy

    More? Like its a difference of momentum and not intentional policy? Like even the truly heinous things the Allies did, and there were some, were comparable?
  5. Viola

    American atrocities in Normandy

    That's not slippery. At all. If you joined the party for convenience and your job, you were a Nazi. If you didn't join but you supported the "worst aspects" you are equivalent in every meaningful way and you were a Nazi. I fail to see how that first group has any "not a real Nazi" defense...
  6. Viola

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    It's mostly just my brother specifically likes the idea of the self-winding ones, and found one in a catalog for $70.00 and he still talks about THAT as a "someday" purchase. And my brother is a great guy easily worth a thousand dollar watch but I don't have it and honestly my bro thinks a...
  7. Viola

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Not vintage but a classic style: My brother, one of my favorite people, needs a gift. Specifically, he needs a mechanical, self-winding watch, as that is something he's wanted a long time. In the same about-a-hundred-dollars price point, which is the more credible brand, Seiko or Kenneth...
  8. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    Bacon kugel? Wow. Somehow that blows my mind. Probably tastes good though, if you like bacon.
  9. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    Pratkes = Prakkus if you are a word-smashing slurring Philadelphian I guess. Oh Lolly I'll love you forever for solving that for me. Thanks!
  10. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    Yes! That's the same thing, but that's the Polish word for it, I think, and I am wracking my brain for the Yiddish word! Prakis? Prakus? stars with a p. AAAAHH sure call them holishkes. :) My paternal grandmother made these. My maternal grandmother made mostly brisket.
  11. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    Well, the Ashkenazi Jews certainly do roast beef brisket, (yum) and corned beef, but this one I am trying to think how to write - having only ever heard it - is more like meatballs stuffed into cabbage. Its basically cabbage being used as a vehicle for meat and sauce. Its better than it...
  12. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    L'chaim, Silver Dollar! I raise a bowl of chicken soup with matzo balls to you. :)
  13. Viola

    Energy self sufficiency - 1930's style

    The thing that slays me about the stoves is you know that little jadeite green Magic Chef was expected to be used at least for a breakfast and a dinner, for four or five people, every day. Way more total cooking than these "commerical" grade ranges. For myself I am attacking energy use from...
  14. Viola

    MEAT in the Golden Era

    I think chicken was big in my family. I don't think anyone cooked pork at home, even if they ate it out sometimes. Maybe, I think I recall my maternal granddad eating scrapple. Chopped chicken liver, chicken soup, chicken pretty much anyway you want it. I don't know how to spell the...
  15. Viola

    Scouting anyone?

    Went to my cousin's Eagle Scout ceremony today. What a handsome and hardworking man my "little" (he's ridiculously bigger than me) cousin has become.
  16. Viola

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    I meant like a leather jacket I don't have a windbreaker that would cover that kind of massive change to body contour? I mean maybe a guy's windbreaker that's more square-cut? A shoulder holster is pretty much inherently not concealed by any standard I am used to on myself.
  17. Viola

    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    Can anyone recommend a good brand of the integral holster leather jackets? Or brands to avoid? Yes, its a terrible time of year to ask. But I am stymied for summer concealed carry options so I might as well contemplate the other seasons. Summer is just... I don't know. I don't think I can.
  18. Viola

    Robin Hood

    I like Cate Blanchett and I like the idea of a cool Maid Marion but there's more than one flavour of cool, or even dangerous, and sword-swinging is not necessarily what I would have gone with. I like Crowe, though, so I am tentatively interested. Still like Flynn, though, but what girl is...
  19. Viola

    Edumication

    Persistence and drive can't do what you can't do. I had plenty of drive but I couldn't get above 15:15 for running on a broken foot. (I didn't know it was broke at the time...it irritates me to this day that I fell down in the middle, because I was so terrified I was making GOOD time...) Also...
  20. Viola

    Annoying phenomenon

    Junoesque should mean curvy, or tall, or plus-sized. One of those. Not necessarily all.

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