2. What's ironic about Jesus Christ becoming a carpenter.
3. In 1944, the NYT had to explain what pizza is.
4. The chords the cat sings — so crazy!
5. Highlights of things working out for Daniel and David.
6. It's so hard to plug things in when you're not looking at the outlet, isn't it?
7. So, did anyone want to buy the Skin by Kim accessories?
8. The grandmother's diaries begin in 1931: Start here. Continue here.
9. Kanye West explains his "White Lives Matter" shirt.
10. Why is the judgmental chef asked to view a litter box?
11. That artwork of yours that you put on the wall and no one says a word about — what does it mean?
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#5. Glad to see that things are working out for Daniel and David.
tik tok... Watch the vile left turns into seething raging racist a-holes over Kanye.
10. 10. 10. is a 10.
10!
#2 and #6 made me laugh. What really struck me about #10 is that people trying to operate an unplugged food processor is so common that the gal making the video made a point of including it in the video and that the chef immediately saw it coming.
Number 4.
I feel like I'm part of a Paul Harvey episode that concludes with ".....and that's why jazz singers are called Cats!!"
My reaction to 10
My new favorite ditty
I guess it's better if you collect them until you have enough that make the cut.
These are some of the best ever.
I read somewhere that in Aramaic the word for craftsman and scholar are the same. Jesus was more likely the son of a scholar. It is, however, so much cooler to picture him as the son of a carpenter so that's the story that's stuck. It is ironic that the parentage of Jesus is not the subject of scholarly debate.
I have a print of Christina's World. It repays constant viewing. Maybe she's not stretching for the home in the distance but rather for the white light that's just beyond the space between the barn and the home. There's something sensual about her pose and something spiritual about her yearning towards home or heaven or something other than her present state.....Probably no one noticed it because he had a naked picture of Helga, "On Her Knees", posted just to the left of the sofa.
Pizza tended to be called Pizza pie with the accent on the second word. It backshifted (John McWhorter's term) to the first word, and then the second disappeared. A common linguistic occurrence. As for the dish, I have always heard that it came first to Boston in the early 1900s, then went to NYC and Chicago.
#11 The TikTok poster says it "shows no one really cares." I'd say rather it shows: No artist is entirely without honor except in his own town and among his own family.
3,5,8. Watched a few grandma entries.
I remember the first time that I encountered pizza. Our HS Math teacher and a carload of his best math students went to a college town for a regional math contest. At noon, he took us to an off-campus pizza parlor. This was 1965 or 1966. I wonder how many people today can remember the first time they ate a slice of pizza or the first time they saw a TV?
The history of pizza.
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#5. Glad to see that things are working out for Daniel and David.
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I think I'm the only person in the world who "gets" your name.
That one goes waaay back.
p.s. My daughter-in-law said she visited the Leo Carillo Ranch outside San Diego. I "got" that reference too. But she didn't.
In 1953 Dean Martin sang, "When the moon hits your EYE, like a big pizza PIE, that's amore".
Ye and Candace feel so accomplished and successful that they refuse to see themselves as victims or less human or less capable of compassion for others and liberals freak out.
Re #11: I'd like to see an Ernie Bushmiller/Nancy version of the Wyeth painting.
I liked the 10 til the guy got all snooty over tootsie rolls.
The Wyeth family, and probably many of the other people going through the Wyeths' living room, would have known Christina and understood the "Christina's World" painting. As such, it was exactly not what they were likely to comment upon in the late '40s, I would imagine. I don't think their silence has anything to do with whatever the fellow in the video had to say about it. Andrew liked to tell very pointed stories. (William's suggestion is amusing, though.)
The painting is vintage Andrew Wyeth, so it would not have stood out to his family and friends. Its popularity with the public stems from the common misunderstanding of the subject, where the viewer sees something sweet and optimistic about this young woman seemingly day-dreaming in a field in this bucolic (though austere) setting. I still remember my own surprise on learning that she was crippled and had to drag herself through the field by her arms to reach her primitive house. I'm not sure how widely understood that is to this day.
I was all in for Kanye till he called for death for all the Jews.
My mother in law had a print of that painting hanging over her living room sofa, too. She was a horrible ignorant shrew of a woman, negative about everything to the nth degree, happy only when she was able to instigate a conflict between members of her family, which she worked constantly to accomplish. She was always the victim, demanding reparations from her family for the suffering they put her through, which was her only subject of conversation, ever.
She is in the final stages of dementia now and is a much more pleasant person. Although she no longer remembers my name she smiles at me, now.
"She is in the final stages of dementia now and is a much more pleasant person. Although she no longer remembers my name she smiles at me, now."
There are some interesting TikToks by people caring for family members with dementia.
This one has a grandmother who has become hateful (but there's another video of her reverting to her old sweetness).
Huh. That's odd. Everyone comments on my art hanging on my walls. Usually, it goes like this -- What's it supposed to be? I could do that while driving down the freeway with my eyes closed. A kindergartner can do that. Do people actually like this stuff? It's a joke, right?
What's ironic about Jesus Christ becoming a carpenter.
What I learned relatively recently is that the actual word used to describe Jesus' occupation is "tekton" which is a Greek word that is probably best translated to mean "craftsman," not carpenter.
Also, there's not a lot of wood in Nazareth. So many Christian scholars believe that Joseph and his sons did a lot of masonry work.
This interpretation makes sense if you consider things Jesus said. He often talked like a mason.
"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." (Matthew 16:18).
Jesus quotes the Old Testatment in Luke 20:17:
"The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone."
and the mystery is solved
Tootsie Rolls!
If that chef thing doesn't work out, he might have a future as a stand-up comedian. Great demeanor.
Tik Tok bad lip reader is a pale imitation of youtube star
BLR!
still anonymous, still rocking hard
added bonus for mocking the shit out of A.I.
(I haven't seen Hamilton yet. Now I feel like I can skip it!)
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10!
That goofy, deadpan, nonchalance.
Grumpy chef flailing, at a complete loss for snark. He's enough of a trouper to give her well-deserved kudos at the end.
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