Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
krijn
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:56:35 -0700, Hatunen <hatu...@cox.net> wrote:
> >On 17 Nov 2009 11:56:49 -0800, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net>
> >wrote:
>
> >>Kurt Busiek filted:
>
> >>>The list of foods mentioned in the article includes tortillas, tamales,
> >>>biscuits, bizcochos, fried chicken, pork chops, pig's ears, trotters,
> >>>jowls, salumi, charcuterie, lardo, pizza, chicharrones and French
> >>>fries. I don't think any of those dishes originate in the United
> >>>States
>
> >>Foods that *did* originate in the United States: chop suey, chimichangas,
> >>English muffins....r
>
> >At least the first two were originated by a Chinese and a
> >Mexican-American lady.
>
> Chop suey and fortune cookies were invented by Chinese-Americans in
> California, which makes them American, not Chinese.
Wikipedia seems to disagree with you with regard to chop suey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey .
Krijn
Quadibloc
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey.
This is a recent discovery. It had generally been believed not to have
been an authentic Chinese dish until recently.
John Savard
cryptoguy
Discovery? To us round-eyes maybe (it was new to me). But over the
past century, tens of millions of Chinese presumably regarded chop
suey as familiar, down home cooking.
pt
Alan J Rosenthal
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey .
When I was of single-digit age, a friend attempted to tell me a joke.
You know how to make chop suey?, he asked. This is suey, he explained,
scooping up a bunch of snow, flat on his hand. And you chop it! He chopped
up the snow with his other hand.
Since I hadn't ever heard the term "chop suey" before, I didn't really get
the joke. Such as it was. Actually I'm not sure it qualifies as a joke
except in some purely structural sense.
-- aj "memory lane" r
Mike Ash
Children of that age often don't have exactly what you'd call a sense of
humor. (Not to say that adults always do either....)
Once I was riding in a car with my dad and a friend. I said, "I'm
thirsty." My dad, ever the jokester, said, "I'm James*, nice to meet
you." My friend thought this was hilarious, and insisted that we let him
do one. So off he goes: "I want a drink!"
* Name changed to protect the guilty.
--
Mike Ash
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Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon
Lawrence Watt-Evans
wrote:
>Since I hadn't ever heard the term "chop suey" before, I didn't really get
>the joke. Such as it was. Actually I'm not sure it qualifies as a joke
>except in some purely structural sense.
My daughter refers to those as "jokelike objects." It's a useful
term.
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R H Draney
People much older brought us this equivalent:
Me: "What's the capital of Wyoming?"
Cow orker who knows the bit: "Uh, W?"
Another cow orker: "I want to do that one!" (calls someone over from across
the office) "Hey" (to me) "what's the capital of Cheyenne?"
....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
R H Draney
>
>On 25 Nov 2009 02:25:09 GMT, fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
>wrote:
>
>>Since I hadn't ever heard the term "chop suey" before, I didn't really get
>>the joke. Such as it was. Actually I'm not sure it qualifies as a joke
>>except in some purely structural sense.
>
>My daughter refers to those as "jokelike objects." It's a useful
>term.
I seem to remember Johnny Carson referring to things "the same shape as a
joke"...the particular example he gave was one a writer had submitted for his
monologue: "it was so cold in New York City today that Mayor Lindsay was
wearing buckles on his shoes"....r
David Scheidt
See, he did it wrong. It's supposed to involve sticking the snow down
your back while hititng you with a karate chop. It's the pinacle of
second grade humor!
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Howard Brazee
<dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
>See, he did it wrong. It's supposed to involve sticking the snow down
>your back while hititng you with a karate chop. It's the pinacle of
>second grade humor!
If you have to entertain second graders, there is one word you need to
remember: "underpants".
--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
Lon
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:31:05 +0000 (UTC), David Scheidt
> <dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> See, he did it wrong. It's supposed to involve sticking the snow down
>> your back while hititng you with a karate chop. It's the pinacle of
>> second grade humor!
>
> If you have to entertain second graders, there is one word you need to
> remember: "underpants".
>
William December Starr
fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) said:
> When I was of single-digit age, a friend attempted to tell me a
> joke. You know how to make chop suey?, he asked. This is suey,
> he explained, scooping up a bunch of snow, flat on his hand. And
> you chop it! He chopped up the snow with his other hand.
>
> Since I hadn't ever heard the term "chop suey" before, I didn't
> really get the joke. Such as it was. Actually I'm not sure it
> qualifies as a joke except in some purely structural sense.
When I was young -- much too young to realize that Allen Funt needed
to be repeatedly set on fire -- I sometimes watched "Candid Camera."
Once, in introducing a segment showing kids telling jokes that they
thought were funny, Funt said "Did you know that your sense of humor
changes when you grow up?" Only I heard it as "throw up" and was
very puzzled as I was unable to conjure up a linkage between the two
events.
(Note: this anecdote has no point.)
-- wds
Ralph Jones
Starr) wrote:
They did an amusing segment on joke telling once. They would ask a
passerby to listen as a professional comic told a narrative joke, and
then the subject would retell it for the camera. Most of them
rendered the joke incomprehensible, even though they'd laughed
heartily at it.
I actually intersected with that show once. I was coming out of a mall
bookstore in my grubbies when an attractive and expensively dressed
young woman walked up to me, greeted me effusively, and gave me a big
kiss. I said something reasonably gracious, whereupon a man came over
and announced I'd been taped for Candid Camera and asked me to sign a
release.
The show was off the air at the time, apparently preparing for another
run, but as far as I could tell it never happened.
rj