You keep dreamin’, bud! She might show up. You never know! 
And btw, aren’t the rest of the Mumper women (and some of the men) good enough? :mad:
No. . .you can be our trashy little secret. We don’t have enough of those around here. 
The only, and I do mean only, thing Miracle Whip is good for is a bologna on white bread sandwich
Oh, hell no! I luuurve Miracle Whip! There’s room for all kinds here in the cool kids club.
Speaking of pies (we were speaking of pies weren’t we?) - I found a recipe for German Chocolate Pecan Pie. OMG! It has to be good, right? No Miracle Whip, or Cool Whip, or real whipped cream needed… I’ll be making that on Sunday, since I baked a carrot cake last night.
I still feel like crap, but not as bad as yesterday. I stayed home from work anyway. I took a nap from 9:00am to 10:00, when Ernie jumped on the bed and started licking my face.
I’m gonna get to feeling better, and make some beef enchiladas for din-din. More Tex than Mex, I believe, since I can’t do authentic restaurant-style enchiladas. I will use taco meat for filling, and Wolf Brand Chili mixed with canned enchilada sauce for the “con carne” gravy. With some rice and canned refried beans. Mmm, comfort food…
Later gang!
:: gropes Plynck on the way out :: 
I’m still finding sucker marks on my body in all sorts of weird places from the last time I had to tangle with Mariah.
**LOUNE ** are you *sure * they are from Mariah?
peeks into room 304, wondering if I should venture in
Yes. I’m sure.
chewing through ropes, which are conveniently made of yummy red licorice
Rebo, we need that pie recipe.
Cough up.
*Steps into the room, seeing *LOUNE ** chewing through the ropes.
sighs
sneaks up behind LOUNE, tying him to the bed with real rope.
*mutters, at least Girl Scouts taught me something.
Well, you can try, but I shall be prepared!
:: Catches **Roo **in a vise-grip ::
:: Hauls **Roo **off to room 305 :: (Hey, 304 is taken!)
:: Proceeds to show **Roo **how groping is done ::
hold her down… your memory is going. Or you’re in denial
Crisco, Miracle Whip and s’mores sound pretty vile to me :eek:
Pumpkin pie, OTOH… mmm, pie!
I have officially joined the ranks of Teh Sick[sup]TM[/sup]. I think I must have got it from one of the mumpers… not sure which one, though, there’s been so much groping going on!
Li-li, I think Protestant theological glurge makes exactly as much sense as Catholic theological glurge does. Or, for that matter (and before you ask!), Jewish theology. Tell him the mumpers said you don’t have to read the rest.
And I won’t grope you because you shouldn’t be exposed to Teh Sick[sup]TM[/sup] right now. You may be relieved or disappointed as you wish
::Gropes **Haze **and **Rigs **on the way out:: Teh Sick[sup]TM[/sup] must be propagated!!
chews through the other ropes and scampers off to cause more trouble
First on 6!!!
:: places the board game Trouble in LOUNE’s path::
:: starts up :: Wha-?
Honestly, what is with all this groping? Whatever happened to flowers first?
Only 'cos I was nice and let you have it!
Wait, are you saying we should grope **Rosie **first?
OK…
::Gropes **Rosie **, then Haze on the way out::
Good grief! I go to get myself beautimafied, and while I’m gone ALL hell breaks loose in here!
Plynck, we had nothing but Miracle Whip when I was growing up, too, and I absolutely hated it on sandwiches. I could deal with it mixed in with N.O.T. salad or macaroni salad, but not plain; I thought I didn’t like mayonnaise. Silly tigger! Turns out I only don’t like Miracle Whip; real mayo – Duke’s, or if it’s not available, Hellman’s – is yummy! Same with mushrooms – my mom never, ever, EVER used fresh mushrooms, just those hideous tasteless rubbery canned things. So it wasn’t till I was in college that I discovered that I absolutely adore fresh mushrooms. Our parents really screw up good food sometimes, don’t they?
Can one of our Jewish Mumpers please confirm for me that monetary bar mitzvah gifts are made in multiples of 18? That’s what I seem to remember, but I don’t trust my memory these days. For some strange reason. :dubious:
From not having much work to do before I leave Friday afternoon for Miami, I have suddenly found myself buried. And almost entirely in congressional [del]drivel[/del] hearings. So I shall shut up and get back to it. But not before the whole bunch of you misbehaving Mumpers get The Look from me! And if you aren’t scared enough by it, just ask snowbunny how dangerous my Looks can be!!
That’s correct.
The number 18 has mystical significance. The letters used to represent that number also spell Chai (not the tea, it’s pronounced “hi” but with the same kind of gutteral H as in Hanukkah) which means Life (think “To life, to life, L’Chaim” from Fiddler)
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In the written Hebrew, numbers are represented by letters of the Hebrew “alephbet”
Yes, this is customary (although not mandatory) – 18 is the numeric equivalent of the word “Chai,” which means “alive” or “living.”
Same here. Miracle Whip is hideous. That is all.
Okay, thanks. Multiples of 18 it is!
StripedyMaternalFeline, Duke’s is the mayonaise! I could never find it in Hawai’i when we lived there, so every time I visited Georgia I would load the suitcase up with Duke’s mayo and a couple of bags of grits. And some canned boiled peanuts - the ones they had there were the big ole grown peanuts that were dried, then boiled. Yuck. The best boiled peanuts are the little bitty green ones.
Not exactly – we use the regular 0-9 in Modern Hebrew. But this was however true of written ancient Hebrew, and since the Old Testament was “sealed” circa ~100-200 CE – or well before Arabic Numerals were introduced – numbers in this form remain written, and are learned, to this day.
Letters are also used as (and converted to) in the Occult form of Jewish Numerology called Gematria