It’s Kentucky Derby Day
at the Froggy Bottom Café
at the Froggy Bottom Café
Post time is 5:00 p.m. CDT so place your bets now.
Your host today is Maryb.
Your host today is Maryb.
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Racing forms are next to the door where the newspapers usually are
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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4’s are awarded for particularly fine hats
Hope the ladies all have their hats on.
George will be serving the mint juleps through the afternoon.
Remember to unrecommend the last cafe and recommend this one.
So which horse are YOU placing your money on today?
Don’t gamble so I couldn’t tell ya.
George is in his tux and ready for duty.
Here’s the official site if you want to check out the horses. Or tune into NBC.
I’m going with Cause to Believe….50-1
I’m attracted to the name “Sinister Minister” heh.
I was thinking of PastorDan.
You think he’s sinister?
What about “Flashy Bull”?
Hey they’re showing the barns — I think I see Family Man mucking out the stable.
Yes mam that’s me. George get to dress up and I get to shovel, well you know. 🙂
that’s million dollar poop you’re shoveling mister.
Wanna buy some?
I barely check into the last cafe, and then every one’s off to the races.
the TV stations set the schedule 🙂
Especially if the Derby party comes with beer. Fat Squirrel maybe?
Fat Squirrel? Are you talking about beer, or something to munch on?
I’ve never heard of. I’m betting we don’t have it behind the bar — certainly not on tap.
I googled fat squirrel and all I got was pictures of squirrels.
http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/ and click on the fat squirrel. Lovely stuff. But hey I’m easy. A Stella Artois would go down nice. Or an Orkney Dark Island.
So I guess Bud lite would be out. Not that we carry that in this cafe.
Only if it’s at 32.5 degrees – or too cold to taste.
I haven’t drank beer in years, but when I came back from Germany, there was no American beer I could stand.
One time flying back from Germany, I was sitting by an old German couple who were going to visit their daughter in FL. The stewardess ask if the wanted something to drink. They didn’t understand and I translated the best I could. They got and American beer and said it tasted like water. Then they pull out a bottle of homemade snapps and share with me. That was one flight I won’t forget.
My German grandmother used to keep her beer in the linen closet. She loved it warm.
There were very few German beers I met that I didn’t like. The snapps was a different thing though.
Garmisch/Partenkirchen, we had a local beer dist. who came by the house once a week, just like a milkman….very cool!
They carried something like 350 different German beire’s (of about 3500 total at that time) and I did my best to sample everyone of them. Met a couple I didn’t care for, but they were few and far between.
Boy, what a $ maker that would be if you could do something like that here…the mind boggles.
more or less by ordering and having it delivered. There are distributors who will do that for you for wine, I bet you can do it for beer. They just don’t come to your house with everything and let you pick.
I loved Garmisch/Partenkirchen. Skiing the Zugspitz. Oh such good memories.
I mighta taught you…:{)
Twice. Once from 81-83 and then from 85-89. I learned to ski there around 82. I never lived there but we went there a lot.
my expert instruction…Ha!…I was there 80-81.
Great place, many fond memories…close to Munchen, Austria, etc. too, which is a great place.
What I miss is having a couple of Gausthauses near and Jager schnitzel and Ziegeuner schnitzel and pomme fritz mit mayo and a good half liter of beer. The festivals, volksmarcking, skiing and traveling.
Just give me a time machine or let me win the lottery and I’d be over there in a second.
do they sell it outside of Wisconsin?
I’ll have to ask my cousins in Madison about it. If there’s a beer, they know about it.
That’s Mary’s cafes. They fill up fast.
We have the famous chocolate bourbon pecan pie
and mint juleps in a collector’s cup
OMG…that pie! Mary, I hate you.
Can’t help tradition. <evil smirk>
How’s this? I couldn’t find it in green, though.
Nice!
I’m going with blue to match my eyes:
Ooooh — I love that one!
Hey us guys get dressed up too.
It think it goes well with my dress coveralls.
Nice, FM! You could be in the winner’s circle with that chapeau.
I would feel more like I should be in a Dickens novel wearing that.
Major hat last for that one.
Must be all the Orkney Dark Squirrel
Major hat lust for that one.
It’s only $85.00. I’m thinking of buying two or three just for lawn mowing.
FM is really
Gadfly’s doppleganger…who’d a thunk?
Wrong. The band around the hat is a different color. Ha.
to throw us off…:{)
Yes your right you caught me. I really have to hold myself back and use smaller words and bad grammar when I write as family man. 😛
wow, you’re really, really good.
I’ll need a little proof that you’re qualified to make that statement before I feel able to start a really good rumor.
Ain’t going near that one. Proof enough?
Looks vaguely like Elton John if he were straight.
I wonder if O heard that the Stanley Cup is at the race and if Flashy Bull wins, the owner is going to drink mint juleps out of it.
George is whinning to go out and I’ve got to check on Mom.
Be back in awhile.
Everybody ready for the race?
That turtle commercial always cracked me up, but after last night it REALLY made me laugh.
wow Barbaro ran away with that. Won by 7.
I’m back. I take it Barbaro won.
What time’s your party?
7:00
It only takea about 15 minutes to get there.
A Saturday night without Mary. What will we do? George is in the kitchen crying right now. 🙂
maybe you can find somemore hard shell porn to watch.
Just depends on what Andi has found out in the woods.
I guess I just have to expound my theories on the GG.
Nothing but a may apple flower to show IVG. No dirty doings going on.
Do you think you should close this cafe before you go and I should open a froggybottom one?
Have you ever thought you responded and found out you didn’t?
One more time …
I’ll close this one and open a froggy bottom before I go. It’s not a problem, I just showered and dried my hair so I’m practically good to go.
After that you guys are on your own.
though I’m not to be trusted on my own or so my mother repeatedly told me, generally with some cause.
I’m not your mother, I trust you.
But you gotta watch out for dada … 😉
I meant it warmly.
he’s still on his own — I can manange my own being bad but I’m not taking on someone else’s.
check in with the late, late shift when you get back…:{)
Got to run an errand, so check ya’ll later.
Mary enjoy yourself.
I’ve opened the lounge.
Please leave your mint juleps for George to clean up and head on over.