This is an Unhosted Cafe.
Self-serve food and drinks.
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Lewd, rude, and crude — that’s how we grow ’em around here.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Froggy Bottom Lounge CLOSED
New clean cafe. Pull up a chair.
I’m sorry I brought “class” to the last lounge. It was a terrible mistake and I won’t let it happen again.
We’ll need that in writing. Oh, wait…
funny, funny, funny. Are you taking Airborne?
I am! I’m not sure about the taste — it’s almost good, but not quite. Plus, it leaves a weird residue on the glass. Still, I’m not complaining, I’m starting to feel a bit better.
I know what you mean — about it being almost good but not quite. At least the lemon lime flavor is. But don’t get the kid’s grape flavor. NOT good. Not CLOSE to good.
And I just rinse the glass real fast so I don’t have to think about the weird residue.
I’m glad you’re feeling better.
It’s a concoction of vitamins that a kindergarten teacher supposedly invented to help you either not get colds or get over them quickly. People who fly a lot swear by it. There’s a LOT Of vitamin C in them.
I don’t usually get into this kind of stuff but I had a cold when I left for Italy and I took it during the flights and my cold was gone by my first night in Rome. Even after flying.
And they’re fizzy.
And here I thought you meant this:
Well just make sure you don’t. We do have to keep standards here.
Actually I hope the conversation comes over here. I think it pretty interesting.
That’s why we had to shut down the old lounge. Watch it, will ya.
I now must go and see what was happening in the last cafe…
You’d better, you were talked about a good bit. 😛
There’s a bunch of talk about Harry Potter, a book series that I thoroughly despise. 🙂
Then you must have missed my Milton reference.
Why does it not surprise me that you don’t like Harry Potter? Harry — who understands that HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS are more important than school 🙂
PsiFi, I’m seriously worried about the effect that Wharton is having on you, surrounded by so many Republicans as you are. Let me put it in the simplest of terms:
Republicans = Dislike Harry Potter
Democrats = Like Harry Potter
Religious Right = Dislike Harry Potter
Constitutional Church/State Separationists = Like Harry Potter
Regressives = Dislike Harry Potter
Progressives = Like Harry Potter
Phyllis Schlafly = Dislikes Harry Potter
Marion Wright Edelman = Likes Harry Potter
Rick Santorum = Dislikes Harry Potter
Patrick Fitzgerald = Likes Harry Potter.
Dislike = Despise = Only read first chapter = Hate = Skimmed but did not read = Closed Mind = Only read James Dobson Review
[I hope you have a sense of humor. But frankly, considering how you feel about Harry Potter. . .]
C’mon, KS and Mary. Let’s go to Big Orange and help Jane kick Psi. Maybe we can kick some sense in to him. Lighten up, my boy. There are more things in heaven and earth,
Psi, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
In the immortal words of Buffy — that would be WRONG.
In the taped words of a former President, “Let’s get the bastards, (pause) ‘but that would be wrong.’ “
If you’re not nice to me I’m gonna tell Jane where to find you.
That was a bit of a pissing match wasn’t it.
for understanding Harry Potter’s obvious allure. Clearly it is beyond me. 😉
I just watched a DVD of Wanda Sykes at some comedy club in Seattle. My stomach muscles haven’t had such a workout since….well, childbirth.
you’re really broken up about it.
SN you’re back! So you felt like giving birth again?
Wow! That’s quite a positive review (I think).
As for Harry Potter, be not disheartened, o luscious one. As I say, I’ve seen nothing but the adverts & I feel fine.
Thank you, o wench. I feel as if I’ve farted in the church.
Ah yes, but you are Wilderness Wench with magical powers of your own. HP would just be old hat to you. 🙂
That’s very kind of you (& quite a compliment from our own Wizened Wizard of Weather)! Tell you what, though — with any real powers I wouldn’t need a sno-cone!
Good point. 🙂
It is the eternal conflict between good and evil as experienced by three friends who grow up in desperate times. An orphaned hero raised by suburban philistines. A marvelously gifted young witch, born of human dentists. A loyal, funny sidekick from a hilariously funny and warm family. Rich, evil, aristocrats and sycophants aligned with the Dark Forces. Wise and quirky teachers. Complicated, flawed characters. Tragedies and joys. It’s all there. Now Rowling has to end the series well. That’s a big job. I hope she pulls it off.
Bartender! Sno-cone, please.
What flavor Mam! 🙂
I don’t mind — just don’t let George do it.
I take it you learned about him tasting the refreshments before he delivers them?
I have now!
But frankly, I was just thinkin’ about what happens sometimes when a pup sees clean snow.
Not just pups. We men have a reputation for writing in the snow. 🙂
Oh, Lordy! Thank goodness for maryb!
Ya know, there ‘sno cone like the cone in front of you:
Ohh! I’ll have orange!
um, i’ve looked and we only have cherry. sorry!
That’ll work.
Here you go little boy …
Yummy! Sweet and crunchy.
Thank you, maryb! I wanna live again! <sniffle>
SN, were your ears burning??
Better yet do you have hoop skirts on?
They were. Something about wearing hoop skirts and being too high-fallutin to like Harry Potter. 😉
Not exactly. Suggest you read it again.
What is the first book you remember loving?
I’ll start: “Gwendolyn, the Miracle Hen,” by Nancy Sherman , illustrated by Edward Sorel. A subversive classic.
The first book I loved that I couldn’t read by myself was Madeleine. The first book I could read by myself that I loved was Nancy Drew: The Witch Tree Symbol.
When I got older I loved The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
I loved Blackbird Pond, also (and Nancy Drew). Mary, you should look at A Girl Named Disaster, ifyou have any girl of upper middle school young teen age in your family. Great book.
All the girls are in the 6 year old range right now (or 17), but I’ll keep it in mind.
I chewed through the Hardy Boy books, but never thought they were that good. Of course, I didn’t read Nancy Drew because I wasn’t a sissy. I did latch on to Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allen Poe pretty young. I never went back to the Hardy Boys.
were not as good as Nancy Drew.
I guess I started late, but Trinity by Leon Uris really got to me. Still have the book and probably read it about five times.
The Five Little Peppers and how they Grew – by Some Lady a long time ago.
I wanted to be in their family even though they were poor.
In books, poor families were the best. It was even better if they were orphaned. Or at least the mom had to be dead.
Poor families were filled with joy and loyal to each other and fun to be around. Rich families wore prissy clothes and were mean to each other.
I liked Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousins because the heroine, Rose, was an orphan with a wonderful rich guardian. But she, of course, grew up unspoiled. 🙂
And their charades were so much fun!
Now, making poor Rose bake a perfect loaf of bread. . .
I liked when the all the boxes from the Orient arrived and Uncle Alec decorated Rose’s room himself.
Anybody read any guy’s books? H.P. Lovecraft, Lloyd Alexander, swords and horses and bad guys and wars and stuff? “Perfect loaf of bread?????”
uh, Hans Christian Anderson? does he count?
Thumbelina? The Ugly Duckling? Give me a break. Now Robert Louis Stevenson –Pirates, treasure, maps, kidnapping, highland clans doing battle. That’s the ticket.
Mary, don’t believe a word Teach says about Hans Christian Andersen. e.g., he can sing alsmot every word of every song from the movie. One of his favorites.
What kid doesn’t want to be an orphan prince or princess who was adopted by their foolish and/or annoying parents? (I forget that some people had a happy childhood.)
Lots of great orphan books. The Secret Garden was one of my favorites. I was a big fan of British children’s literature even as a kid — my mom must have directed me to it at the library. I remember a book I loved called The Mummy Market that I thought was going to be about Egypt. But it was about these British kids who needed a mummy (which turned out to be a mom) and would go to a magical market every month and pick out a new one to try.
I loved The Secret Garden! The Anne of Green Gables books, too. Orphan books are the best.
I also love that mini-series that they did of Anne of Green Gables a number of years ago. With … Colleen Dewhurst?
The parents were gone in mine, too — the kid was raised by wolves, no less!
Look for the Bear necessities, those simple Bear necessities, forget about your worries and your strife …
oops that was the Disney version. Probably not as good as the original. Was there a bear in the original? And if so … what was a bear doing in a jungle?
Frankly, I have no idea what a bear was doing in the jungle — or the wolves, for that matter.
Yep, the movie was true to the book, inasfar as the animals — though they were (naturally) typically Disnified. They were far less goofy in the book (& far more articulate!).
oh well, it’s all about the willing suspension of disbelief isn’t it?
That’s right — as long as what’s presented is consistent.
Wolves, always a good touch. Have you read “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase,” by Joan Aiken? Her books are very uneven, but for an Anglophile like me, her good ones are terrific.
of Julie of the Wolves and his kids have always really like it, too.
I’ve heard good things about this, and even own some copies for class use, but I haven’t read it either. (I do read a lot, really I do .)
NO, I’m not familiar with her, but always appreciate a recommendation!
It was Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’ for me. I found the animals’ ritual language incredibly fascinating. I can even remember ‘tongue, give tongue to it! Hark, o hark!’
Books that create whole other worlds are special to kids.
Absolutely! Especially if the one we live in is painful to us.
That said, my ‘Jungle Book’ world came with home-baked cookies — definitely a plus.
That, sadly, is where the “Bear Necessities” song came from, the Disneyfied Jungle Book movie.
That’s right.
The only thing I really enjoyed about the film over the book was the voice of Louis Armstrong. I liked him a lot.
Well, it’s hard to say anything other than agreeing his voice was magnificent in the movie. A great stroke of casting.
Right, that’s about it. For me, it was like meeting a kind face in a very weird place.
but I didn’t mention that I considered Mr. Toad a soul mate. He was the first literary character I empathized with completely.
You know,I never read Frog and Toad. I just never came across it at the right time.
(in case you missed it in the earlier cafe, I’m talking about wind in the willows)
Duh. I meant to say that I never read Wind in willows.
Maybe he meant Frog and Toad are Friends. (It’s a good book, too. Just much shorter that WITW, funnier, and really for younger kids. I think it’s a Hoban book.)
Since I’ve read neither, I tend to muddle them up. Aren’t they the same characters?
that my dad tried to read us The Wind in the Willows at least three times and never got through it with us.
my indifference to harry potter.
Is that because you were the disruptive sort?
Of course not. I was ready to be read to at any time. Now my sister … she was disruptive.
You should hear what she has to say about you.
What did she say? I hope you told her that I was perfect.
How does that go, something being the better part of valor. I told her that you were nearly perfect.
The first character I emphasized with was the young boy in “The Rocking Horse Winner.” Oh, and Sherlock Holmes.
he feels very attached to you?
It was more the bit about the house whispering “money” and the boy feeling like he had to do something about it.
The Freddy the Pig series (Freddy is a Detective and he is a pig.)
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Charlotte’s Web (OK, it’s not an odd choice).
Soup books, e.g. Soup, Soup for President, Soup & Me, etc.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Holes
the Phantom Tollboth
You need to bring this list over to the new cafe.
I can remember when I could belly up to the bar with the best of them and last all night. Now a few sips of Baileys has me sleepy.
Night everyone.
BTW two bottle of Bailey in three hours isn’t too much is it? 😀
Night, FM. Sleep well.
Good night, FM!
To each his own — as long as it keeps you outta trouble.
Have a good night, FM!
I think our overly high-toned discussion of literature for the immature has put you to sleep, so sorry!
I wouldn’t take it personally that way, KS. Family Man is our Nap King, after all. Hard to believe we’re boring that often ..
The new cafe is open.