Around The Bend

Thanks and sorry to go off topic. No, she is not Rosemary DeCamp. Her name is Pam and she and Jim are Preppers selling ideas and storage advice at RoseRed Homestead.

My father used the Boraxo hand soap.
You were not off topic. A new topic is always around the next bend.
 

Haha, jaja and wkwk: How People Laugh Around the World.

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"People laugh differently online primarily because the digital environment lacks the physical and vocal cues present in face-to-face interactions. In the absence of these cues, people use text-based or visual expressions such as “lol,” “haha,” or emojis to convey humor."

"Social norms and community-specific conventions also play a role, as online spaces have their own rules for expressing laughter. Additionally, the medium and pacing of online communication affect how humor is delivered and received."

"Anonymity and the global nature of online interactions can lead people to express laughter more openly or adapt to different cultural expressions. In essence, online laughter is a unique form of expression that has evolved to suit the characteristics and norms of the digital world."
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"Meandering Thru is a feature length documentary about love, adventure, and the history of Ohio’s state trail. On the verge of starting a new family, newly wedded Everett Brandt took the summer off from teaching to do one last epic adventure. That adventure: setting a 1400 mile record on Ohio’s Buckeye Trail, will have him face physical, mental and emotional challenges. To complete his solo trek he will need the support and the love of his wife, father and siblings."

Meandering Thru (1:08)​

 

String Theory​

Back in the mid-80s, a friend of mine was at my house one afternoon when he pulled from his jacket pocket a lump of black plastic roughly the size and weight of a brick and began speaking to it as though it were a person.

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"No one will kno-ow"!.........
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"I LOVE this picture of Julia Child filming French Chef back in 1963. There are 5 people - FIVE! - sitting on the floor of the set, crammed behind her kitchen island, hidden from the camera's view. One of the five is holding at the ready a pie tin, which will undoubtedly be magically transported into her hand momentarily."

"One of those people, I think, is my friend Alex Pirie, who was her production manager for years. He still lives in Cambridge."
 
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The Editor Who Fought to Publish Julia Child When No One Else Would
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"It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959 when William Koshland, an executive at the publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, handed a thick, unwieldy stack of paper to Judith Jones. It was a cookbook, he said. Koshland, who hadn’t a clue about cookbooks, asked Judith if she’d weigh in."

“Everybody knew that I had spent that time in Paris and that I did like to cook,” Judith told me. Koshland plunked the hulking thing on her desk, “probably,” Judith said, “because they thought it would amuse me, and then I’d probably reject it.” Judith eyed the manuscript. The book was huge—750 pages long. French Recipes for American Cooks by Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck, and Julia Child, the cover read."

 
"Not much has changed at Julia Child's summer home in France, thanks to Craig Held (Psych'74) and family, who preserve the famed chef's epicurean legacy at their cooking school and vacation rental."

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