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Post by tzarine on Feb 8, 2023 8:51:00 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2023 7:48:19 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 9, 2023 9:42:20 GMT 2
Well if you must discount your "Black Jaguar Geisha" coffee line, you should expect to run out.
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 9, 2023 9:49:25 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 10, 2023 20:08:34 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 10, 2023 23:44:23 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 11, 2023 8:32:55 GMT 2
Well if you must discount your "Black Jaguar Geisha" coffee line, you should expect to run out. there is something uniquely pathetic bout that name the ignorance is astounding. I thought it odd but then so much is. It is also funny! I learn that the name derives from a coffee growing region in Ethiopia called Gesha I looked up Gesha in wikipedia and the article commences with the wiki standard alert: "Not to be confused with Geisha." ROFLOL Which of course is precisely the problem. In Panama and elsewhere besides Ethiopia it is deliberately misstyled Geisha coffee. Go Figure! I didn't make this up, coz I couldn't!
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 11, 2023 8:37:10 GMT 2
I also learn that John Lewis now possesses a Fashion Director.
Is that similar to a BS curator?
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Post by Voy on Feb 11, 2023 14:59:10 GMT 2
Gesha -- Ethiopian coffee -- interesting ! in Yemen the drink made from the hulls of the roasted coffee ( mildly caffeinated ) is called Geshr.., same as Mocha is from the area on the Yemem coast -Mokka. Normal coffee in Yemen ( and Bahrain and the Emirates ) is called Ghawah. well - I just wiki-ed it and lo !: The word coffee entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve (قهوه), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah ok, I'll now go finish my morning large Iced version !
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Post by tzarine on Feb 11, 2023 19:42:30 GMT 2
I also learn that John Lewis now possesses a Fashion Director. Is that similar to a BS curator? slow perhaps it is similar to a curator?
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2023 11:14:30 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 15, 2023 3:52:41 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 17, 2023 7:20:39 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 17, 2023 10:08:40 GMT 2
ROFLOL
ETA:
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 17, 2023 11:30:35 GMT 2
Gesha -- Ethiopian coffee -- interesting ! in Yemen the drink made from the hulls of the roasted coffee ( mildly caffeinated ) is called Geshr.., same as Mocha is from the area on the Yemem coast -Mokka. Normal coffee in Yemen ( and Bahrain and the Emirates ) is called Ghawah. well - I just wiki-ed it and lo !: The word coffee entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve (قهوه), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah ok, I'll now go finish my morning large Iced version ! in local arab dialects coffee is variously pronounced Gahaway, 'Ahaway, or Kahaway... (the 'A is a glottal stop)
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 17, 2023 12:53:26 GMT 2
ROFLOL
ETA: I'll go for Onyx. It promises to heal the planet (though it may cost me quite a lot to acchieve that}.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2023 8:16:16 GMT 2
look baz after onyx we can take this course! writingworkshops.submittable.com/submit/244409/writing-workshops-paris-2023-applicationthen go here ON MY MIND: Singapore! Headed there in June with my business Authors At Large (AAL) for a week long retreat & literary week, which will be held at the gorgeous, historical Arts House. Leading a fiction & nonfiction prose workshop with our AAL co-founder Robin Hemley. We're also offering workshops by two of my favorite people - in the novel /fiction led by Madeleine Thien and one in poetry with Alvin Pang. There's also a panel of terrific, award-winning Singaporean writers
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Post by tzarine on Feb 19, 2023 23:27:02 GMT 2
overheard in my neighborhood
"i spent $200 on sunglasses. i lost them after a day!"
"im still thinking about last nights dinner"
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 20, 2023 8:12:59 GMT 2
A really strange thing. I was looking to see what was on a VHS tape and skipping through I happened on a song I know well, very well. I let it play and at first it caused me to smirk, then to giggle, then start laughing so much I stopped the tape before I became hysterical and went away to think about it. It has never prompted laughter before. I returned and played the tape from the very beginning and when the song came along I laughed out loud again.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 20, 2023 12:44:28 GMT 2
and now we wonder....
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 20, 2023 15:37:25 GMT 2
On the basis that trying to explain why something is funny is a lost cause, I wan't to check that I could find the sequence online. I did. It is not the song that is funny it is the way he is singing it. Specifically the phrasing and inflection in the verse. I think it hilarious but I have a strange oblique sense of humour so I won't be surprised or dismayed if others can't see the joke. | | | | | v
From the final leg of his infamous 1966 World Tour: Footage from the unpublished documentary "Eat the Document" later included in the documentary film "No Direction Home" which I had never seen until I stumbled on a VHS recording last night.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 20, 2023 16:17:39 GMT 2
oh, his way of singing there IS funny! he looks/sounds simultaneously ready to fall asleep and like a pouting toddler about to have a tantrum.
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Post by sophie on Feb 20, 2023 16:29:50 GMT 2
Or he is very stoned!!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 20, 2023 20:03:26 GMT 2
totally agree w sophie he's high
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 21, 2023 9:53:55 GMT 2
Yes, I expect so, and perhaps tantrum, but also trauma.
He had moved on, his audience not so much,
They were more for endless acoustic renditions of Blowin' in the Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin' etc.. He was fronting up a hard hitting electric blues band.
The concerts sold out like hot cakes with many of his fans, perhaps that should be ex-fans, turning up so they could boo and hurl abuse at him during the closing, "electric" half of the show.
It happen everywhere they went. They hated him. He had let them down.
I think he was taking the piss.
FWIW He had control over the filming, he edited the original documentary himself, he gave "Visions of Johanna" the same treatment, perhaps it was an "Up Yours".
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Post by tzarine on Feb 21, 2023 22:16:23 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 22, 2023 16:25:55 GMT 2
Still feeling the need for a quick cheap giggle I put "1966 Judas" into a search engine and out popped a unanimous verdict, a page of links each to a Bob Dylan article. Sorry, I'll try to stop now, honest.
If, as might be quite likely, this started during his 1965 UK tour (April-May) she was aged 16 and not a lot. And we thought he was precocious
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Post by tzarine on Mar 1, 2023 8:34:57 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 1, 2023 9:34:28 GMT 2
Kim inspects the Wonsan Disabled Soldiers’ Bag Factory.
Check out his feet: It must have been a little after a quarter past eight.
And again:
Kim visits the Pyongyang Trolley Bus Factory and the Bus Repair Factory in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 1, 2023 22:46:51 GMT 2
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