Marc Dion: Dying for a Living (Creators Syndicate)
Sherpas are the people who live at the foot of Mount Everest. You hire them to take you up the mountain. They carry the tents and baggage and, if you make it back down, you pay them and then you write a book about your "conquest" of the mountain.
Marc Dion: Rise, Sir Knight (Creators Syndicate)
I'll turn 57 in a couple of days. If life can be compared to an eight-hour day at work, I'm taking my 2 o'clock break. And it's so not bad. After all, I'm still a knight.
Jason Bellows: White Death
As for Häyhä, he was awarded five medals after the war, wrote a book about his service, and was occasionally invited to appear at events honoring military service. Described as quiet and congenial, when asked the secret of how he accumulated 505 confirmed sniper kills, he would smile and reply, "Practice." Simo "The White Death" Häyhä died of natural causes in 2002 aged 92.
Adam Todd Brown: 5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About the Midwest (Cracked)
I grew up in the Midwest. I was born in Peoria, Illinois, and lived there until I was 19. Go Bears. From there, I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, for a few years, and then to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for way too long before finally fleeing the region for good in 2011. You can probably tell from the wording in that last sentence that the Midwest wasn't my favorite among the places I've lived.
Emma Brockes: What happens when a riot grrrl grows up? (Guardian)
Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill inspired a generation with their wild, women-to-the-front gigs. Now she's formed a new group, made a movie - and is looking back on her days as a weed-dealing, part-time stripper with some amazement.
Tomato ketchup was sold locally by farmers. A man named Jonas Yerks (or Yerkes) is believed to have been the first man to make tomato ketchup a national phenomenon. By 1837, he had produced and distributed the condiment nationally. Shortly thereafter, other companies followed suit. F. & J. Heinz launched their tomato ketchup in 1876. Heinz tomato ketchup was advertised: "Blessed relief for Mother and the other woman in the household!", a slogan which alluded to the lengthy and onerous process required to produce tomato ketchup in the home.
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99 Bottles Of Lois Of Oregon On The Wall was first, and correct, with:
Sad to say, but to some, "Blessed relief for Mother and the
other women in the household!" comes in a bottle. Yes, a
KETCHUP BOTTLE! Ha ha! Sure it does! Heinz 54 (proof)
Ketchup to be exact! Introduced in 1876 (the year Custer
bought it at the Little Big Horn) Heinz Ketchup proved to be
nature's perfect food. Seriously, we never ever needed to
invent anything else ever again! Why for the love of god
didn't we stop there!?! Dad was satisfied just leering at
the long, hard bottle he griped in his manly hand, waiting
patiently for it to spurt out delicious, thick sauce. And
mom, well, she had Captain Morgan and Sailor Jerry!
P.S. to D.J. Useo: LOL @ your nuts yesterday! And Dale's
existential smut! And BttbB...Grossbeaks live in
harmony...why can't we?
Charlie said:
Heinz ketchup - referring to the difficulty of making ketchup at home.
Alan J wrote:
Heinz Ketchup
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
Adam answered:
Jameson's? Bushmill?? No...Heinz Ketchup.
Sally said:
We have had rain for 3 days, and now rolling T-storms. My Internet connection keeps cutting off, so I am skipping the quiz today. I did want to wish all the mother's:
Pet mommies too!!
Have a good one.
DJ Useo answered:
To the uninformed passerby, that question sounds like it should be about hemorrhoid cream. Lol.
To us french fry lovers, the answer must be Heinz plastic squeeze bottle.
I do remember long ago when I would eat in public, the ketchup users would
gripe, and grumble, and whack the glass ketchup bottle to get the lump inside moving.
Sadly, the ketchup was much better back then,
I wonder when they replaced much of the tomato with corn fructose?
Hmm, I checked, and Hunts brand ketchup can also be purchased in the upside down packaging.
( I don't like that brand at all )
@Lois. Thanks for the neat selfie shot. I must try that soon.
The only risk seems to be photoshoppers. Ha!
( see pic of me, and wife, seemingly watching the Beatles famous rooftop concert )
ps. Hey' y'all - Here's a link for my unreleased family guy medley -
Griffin & Quagmire Acoustic Medley (DJ Useo Remix).mp3 - File Shared from Box
Dale of the Springs of Diamonds, Norcali, took the day off.
BttbBob, responded:
Mother's Little Helper Rolling Stones W/ Lyrics - YouTube ????
Er... Sorry... I couldn't resist... Forgive me, Mothers out there whose day this is. (An' I hope it's the dagnabilly best-est day fer ya that ever was! Seriously...)
But, that tune was the first thing that entered my warped and/or demented
mind after reading the question. Please blame Mick and company... an' AM transistor radios.
~~~~~
The answer is Heinz Ketchup... which, for me, has only one application: i.e. dunking crispy French Fries into before eating. Note that I said "crispy".
There is nothing much worse than soggy, limp French Fries, dontcha know...
See? Even my agent agrees... P.S. Heinz Ketchup is 'The Best' by far.
(My agent told me to say that. He's tryin' to pick up some endorsement work fer me an' he wants me to practice... I have the 'fame' thing and now comes the much deserved 'fortune' part. Be nice and I might share... might)
MAM wrote:
Heinz Tomato Ketchup ~ produced by the H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, PA. First introduced in 1876.
And, Joe S replied:
Heinz ketchup was introduced in 1876 as a "Blessed relief for Mother and the other women in the household!" That's all I can find on that subject. We use ketchup quite a bit. When I was young my parents made our own ketchup. We grew most of our own vegetables and fruits and preserved them by canning, drying and later on, freezing. We hunted and fished for meat. We always had deer, partridge, rabbit and many varieties of fish, mostly perch, whitefish and trout.
So my folks made ketchup, sauerkraut, apple butter, maple syrup, pickles, wine and cider. As time went on the home made stuff diminished.
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Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page speaks during the commencement of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Saturday, May 10. 2014. Page was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Berklee College of Music.
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Most consumers are not fond of their cable companies, but comedian turned US Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, really doesn't like Comcast.
Since winning his Senate seat in 2008 in what turned out to be one of the closest elections in Senate history, the former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer, who in his previous profession rarely shied away from stinging political satire, has kept a relatively low profile in his new job. But two issues that have gotten the senator fired up are big corporate mergers and Net neutrality.
Franken's strong position against consolidation of the media market stems from his days as a writer and performer when he says he witnessed leaders of the major broadcast television markets manipulate Congress to rescind the so-called Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, or fin-syn rules, which were established by the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1970s to prevent the big three television networks from monopolizing the broadcast landscape by prohibiting them from owning any of the programming that they aired in prime-time.
Starting in the 1980s, broadcasters began lobbying Congress and the FCC to relax the rules. After a decade and a half of chipping away at the foundation of these rules, they were finally rescinded entirely by the FCC in 1995. Franken has argued that this became the death of independently produced TV shows.
Singer Conchita Wurst representing Austria who performed the song 'Rise Like a Phoenix' celebrates with the trophy after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in the B&W Halls in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, May 10, 2014.
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One U.S. Supreme Court justice referred to Netflix as "Netflick." Another seemed not to know that HBO is a cable channel. A third appeared to think most software coding could be tossed off in a mere weekend.
These and other apparent gaffes by the justices during oral arguments have became a source of bemused derision, as tech aficionados, legal experts and others have taken to social media, blogs, YouTube and other outlets to proclaim the justices black-robed techno-fogeys.
"Everyone who's anyone inside that courtroom is most likely an incompetent Luddite," Sarah Jeong, a 25-year-old Harvard Law School student, wrote on her personal blog following a recent Supreme Court argument dealing with a copyright dispute over TV online startup Aereo.
Parker Higgins, a 26-year-old digital rights advocate who works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, spliced together audio of the Aereo argument for comic effect and posted it on a sound cloud and at YouTube.
"Sometimes it's just amusing and sometimes it's really troubling," Higgins said. "The justices are just unfamiliar with how the industry works. (They) don't understand how software comes together."
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Open Road Films is nearing a deal for U.S. rights to Jon Stewart's directorial debut "Rosewater," an individual familiar with the project told TheWrap.
Stewart took a hiatus from hosting "The Daily Show" to shoot the movie, which is based on Maziar Bahari's book "Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival."
Gael Garcia Bernal and Shohreh Aghdashloo star in the movie, which Scott Rudin produced with Gigi Pritzker of financier OddLot Entertainment.
Story follows BBC journalist Bahari as he leaves his pregnant fiancee in London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential elections. He's quickly taken into custody and interrogated by a man whose defining trait was the faint scene of rosewater. Bahari's ordeal lasted 118 days.
Israel's best known writer, Amos Oz, says that Israelis behind a wave of hate crimes against Muslims and Christians are "Hebrew neo-Nazis," Haaretz newspaper reported on its website Saturday.
It quoted the award-winning author as saying terms such as "price tag," widely used to describe attacks on Palestinians and others by Jewish extremists, are sanitised euphemisms.
They are "sweet names for a monster that needs to be called what it is: Hebrew neo-Nazi groups," Haaretz quoted Oz as telling guests Friday at an event marking his 75th birthday.
He said there was a difference between perpetrators of such events in the Jewish state and elsewhere.
"Our neo-Nazi groups enjoy the support of numerous nationalist or even racist legislators, as well as rabbis who give them what is in my view pseudo-religious justification," Haaretz quoted him as saying.
Perhaps taking some inspiration from Pope Francis, who has called the 1987 Danish film Babette's Feast his favorite, the parties wrestling over ownership rights to the Oscar winner have settled an international dispute.
The film concerns a political refugee from France who repays the kindness of two sisters living in an isolated village in 19th-century Denmark. It was directed by Gabriel Axel, who died this past February.
A year before the film was released, Axel assigned rights to his screenplay to a production company owned by Just Bester. For that, Axel got 5 percent of the revenue generated by the film. For his directorial services, Axel was given an additional 10 percent of net income.
Bester died in 2003, and four years later, the producer's estate sold rights to Babette's Feast for $100,000 to a Cuban-born film producer named Josi Konski.
Konski, who lives in Beverly Hills, had big plans for the film, licensing it to be reissued as part of the "Criterion Collection," but then came an objection from the Danish Film Directors trade association asserting that Axel -- not Konski -- owned the copyright. The basis of such a claim stemmed from some "moral rights" provision of Danish copyright law that potentially allowed a film director to reclaim a movie upon one film company's transfer of ownership to another.
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Procter & Gamble has apologized for "any false connotations" after stirring anger in Germany for unintentionally placing a neo-Nazi code on promotional packages for its Ariel laundry detergent.
Outraged shoppers had posted pictures online of Ariel powder boxes featuring a white soccer jersey with a large number "88." The number is sensitive because far-right extremists in Germany often use it as a code to skirt a ban on the use of Nazi slogans in public: since "H'' is the eighth letter of the alphabet, "88" represents the phrase "Heil Hitler." Similarly, "18" is used to stand for "A.H." or Adolf Hitler.
"We very much regret if there are any false associations and distance ourselves clearly from any far-right ideology," company spokeswoman Gabi Hassig said in a statement. The number "88" was intended to show how many loads of laundry buyers would be able to do with one package.
Haessig said the company has stopped shipping the offending powder, as well as a liquid detergent that was being promoted as "Ariel 18." The number also represented the number of loads that could be done, the company said.
Actress Jessica Alba accepts her Mother of the Year award as her husband Cash Warren and their daughters Honor Marie, left, and Haven Garner look on at the 85th Helping Hand of Los Angeles Mother's Day Luncheon, Friday, May 9. 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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The Vatican on Saturday said it will beatify the late pope Paul VI on October 19 following the Catholic Church's recognition of a supposed miracle attributed to him, which will leave him one step from sainthood.
The apparent miracle identified by the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints was the healing of a foetus from an otherwise incurable illness.
Italian Giovanni Montini reigned between 1963 and 1978 and presided over reforms from the Second Vatican Council, which aimed to modernise Catholicism.
He was praised for his efforts to seek closer ties with other Christian denominations but his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae was controversial for spelling out a ban on all forms of artificial contraception.
A model presents creation by designer Zainb Chottani during a Bridal Couture Fashion show in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, May 10, 2014.
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Montana wildlife managers on Friday backed off a plan to allow ranchers near Yellowstone National Park to kill elk as a disease prevention measure, after the plan sparked criticism and a lawsuit by hunting groups, an official said.
State wildlife commissioners last month approved the pilot project designed to lessen risks of elk infecting cattle in Montana with brucellosis, which can cause cows to miscarry.
The plan to target elk from the area of Yellowstone National Park was backed by the state's influential livestock industry, which fears wild herds of elk and bison exposed to the disease. The wild animals seasonally migrate from Yellowstone into Montana, and ranchers worry that could threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, which allows their cattle to be shipped across state lines without testing.
But the proposal to allow ranchers to kill as many as three elk each during a period when many elk cows are pregnant drew the ire of sportsmen, whose hunting licenses and tags provide the bulk of revenue for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and who have traditionally been the agency's staunchest allies in battles with conservationists over wildlife management.
People wearing masks and traditional Jarramplas costumes from Piornal, Caceres, Spain, parade during an international Iberian mask festival, in Lisbon, Portugal, Saturday, May 10, 2014. At the festival, regional groups from Portugal, Spain and Italy showed their pagan traditions and promoted local handicrafts and products.
Photo by Francisco Seco
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