Monday, June 23, 2008

Cucumber Sandwich Munchers Agree

Anyone who doesn't like cucumber sandwiches is not quite right.

Now tell those damn kids next door to be quiet, Marge. I'm trying to do Teh Politics!
posted 03:56

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Bukko_in_Australia said...

Well, the thing about cucumbers is that they're so cool. "Cool as a cucumber" ya know. Until they get too old, sitting on those sandwiches when it gets hot. Then they turn translucent and limp. You've seen 'em get that way, I'm sure. The real ones, not just the ones on LP.

Barbara Walters question -- if you were a vegetable, what one would you be?

June 23, 2008 7:52 PM
gandhi said...

Who the *John Howard* is Barbara Walters? One of those US names one we Aussies are always exposed to without ever quite understanding the context... Yes, I could Google it but WTF, I know you Yanks like talking! :-)

If I were a vegetable, I would be a cumquat (is that a vege? is that how you spell it?) just because the name is so wierd, with all kinds of exciting overtones. OTOH cumcumbers have some fun too, or so I have been told by people who are eagerly awaiting the .xxx domain names (cumming soon).

June 23, 2008 9:15 PM
Bukko_in_Australia said...

Sorry about the seppo-centric reference to Barbara Walters. "Ba-ba Wa-wa" (she was satirised for a slight speech impediment) was a noted female TV interviewer/personality from the 80s and 90s. She was on one of the national TV networks, chatted to all the major political and celebrity identities. One specialty was that she got a lot of people to cry on camera by asking things that hit their psychological weak points. Kind a combination of George Negus and Naomi Robson.

She was famous for asking oddball questions of big-time people. The most widely ridiculed one was: "if you were a tree, what kind would you be?" Not nearly so much fun as "Who would you turn gay for?"

NB: a kumquat (also correct to spell it with a "c" though, according to Webster's) is a small orange-coloured citrus fruit. When I was a teenager living in Florida, we had a tree of them behind our house. They were tiny, about 1/4 the size of a tangerine, and too tart to eat. They made good projectiles for our Wrist-Rocket slingshots though.

If I was a vegetable, I'd be one of those ancho chiles they grow in South America. Perhaps you ran across them. Colourful, a bit spicy but not overwhelmingly so, and also with nutritional value.

As for cucumbers, I recently saw a video online featuring a lass and two of them. At the end, she had taken out an eggplant and was contemplating it. I'd send you the link, but it's not work-safe...

June 24, 2008 12:07 AM

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