Posts made by barliman2001

A family has been out in the woods gathering mushrooms; their cook lovingly prepares a wonderful mushroom soup. They all share in the soup, and even the doggie gets his share. Suddenly, during the roast, the cook rushes in, "The dog's dead!"
The family race to the nearest hospital to get their stomachs pumped. Several hours later, they return home, pale and chastised... the youngest can gather enough strength to ask the cook, "Did the poor dog suffer badly?" - "Oh no, my child," says the cook. "He was run over by a truck and died instantly."

Mushroom omelette can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience...

"How many pets do you have, Gillian?" -
"Oh, quite a few... a Jaguar in the garage, a mink in the closet, a stallion in bed and an ass who's paying for everything..."

Mother to daughter:
"Make sure that you marry a soldier." -
"Why, Mum?" -
"He can cook, clean and make beds, he'll be away for long periods and most important, he has learnt to follow orders."

Doctor to wife: "I'm sorry, but your husband is dead."
Husband (from the bed): "Hey, that's not true!"
Wife: "You shut your mouth. The doctor knows what he is doing."

On the brink, I know...

Why do so many elderly men have huge bellies?
So that the poor out-of-work dwarf down there at least has a roof over his head...

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Whatever happened to Peter Cetera's brother Et?

He married and took the surname of his wife, Aliis.

The Scottish recipe for tomato soup?

Hot water in a red bowl.

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

... Then there's the old one about the man who orders a bowl of soup in a restaurant:

Diner - "Waiter, would you please come over here?"

Waiter - "Yes, sir? How may I help you?"

Diner - "Taste the soup."

Waiter - "Is there something wrong with the soup?"

Diner - "Taste the soup."

Waiter - "Is the soup not hot enough?"

Diner - "Taste the soup."

Waiter - "Is the flavor not to your liking?"

Diner - "Taste the soup."

Waiter - "All right, if you insist, I'll taste the soup. Where's the spoon?"

Diner - "My point exactly!"

In a very posh restaurant:

Diner: "Waiter, my plate is wet!"

Waiter: "Excuse me, sir, that is the soup."

@OldSchoolEuph
Let's see how long that will last. i've seen so many new brands come up and disappear...

@Kehaulani

We were incredibly lucky... "Jungle Village" near Vienna used to be "recreational area" where land owners were only allowed to put up bathing huts on their properties - nothing to live in permanently, just shelters for holidays. When my wife got hold of the property by guaranteed long lease, that ban was still in place, so we paid around €15k as main payment and have a guaranteed lease to pay of €800 per year. We intended to use the property more or less for one or two storage huts. But out of the blue, the local authorities decided that they needed space for permanent housing, and where better than in an area where all the infrastucture was already in place? So they lifted the ban, and within weeks of getting hold of that 99-year lease, we were allowed to build a permanent home there...

@Kehaulani said in Martin Committee Club:

@barliman2001 said in Martin Committee Club:

. . . we inherited lots of fruit trees - cherries, apples, pears, plums (two kinds) and quince, and a vine.

Sounds like a receipe for Obstler. Yum.

Well, it regularly lands us with tons of home-made jam.

@Newell-Post said in Mouthpiece recommendations for young beginners:

10.5C Readily available, cheap, used. Worth a try. I never liked the 7C, even when I was a beginner, due to the shape of the rim. (Very sharp inner lip and heavily rounded outer lip.) I don't know who ever came up with that concept or why. But, for me, it was terrible for endurance. The 10.5C is slightly smaller, but with a fairly flat rim that is much more comfortable. IMO.

Well, the 7C worked for me. The smaller sizes never fitted, and now I am on a 1C Megatone that I had specifically altered to emulate the sharp rim of the 7C...

@tjveloce
We're near Vienna - altitude somewhere around 400 feet, less than five minutes walk from the Danube backwater, with a wooded peninsula as our favourite dogwalk... lots of wildlife, including beavers... and yet we can be in downtown Vienna within 30 minutes. The "estate" is so rural there is no street lighting, and all the public services are managed by the Residents' Club. We've been selected as one of the first locations in Austria to be self-reliant as to energy, with solar panels and wind turbines discreetly all over the place...

@tjveloce
Our house is in an estate called "Jungle Village" near a backwater of the Danube. In fact, we are "beyond the pale" as the whole village is outside the flood protection dykes and liable to be under water whenever the Danube rises exceptionally high. So we put the ground floor on 8ft concrete stilts and raised a timberframe house on that platform. Main family room with open rafters - just like yours! - a wood-burning stove, and two prepared stilts for adding a 9ft by 27 ft balcony... which will be built in January. Our garden snuggles directly on the dyke, so no one can build into our view of the Vienna Woods, From the previous owners, we inherited lots of fruit trees - cherries, apples, pears, plums (two kinds) and quince, and a vine. No pictures yet, but there will be. If you want me to send you some, just send me an e-mail address via chat.

@flugelgirl said in What Are You Doing New Years, New Years Eve:

Subbing for a big band job, and then a blues band on New Year’s Day. Never had a New Year’s Day gig before - I guess there’s a first for everything!

Indeed - last year I had a Christmas Day funeral, a Jewish relative of mine who passed away on Christmas Eve.

@tjveloce said in Martin Committee Club:

@barliman2001

I agree....and there's just something about vintage horns, including the fact that they have so much character and mana from their previous lives. But I like lots of vintage things.

-tj

I know that feeling... we even designed our new house so that our vintage furniture would fit. The builders declared we were simply mad. "You build the house, and then you buy the furniture!" they said. But we drew plans, and re-drew the plans, and re-drew the re-drawn plans until every piece of furniture fitted as if it had always been there.

Playing a New Year's Eve Ball with Big Band Markus Fluhr www.bbmf.de, and then several weeks of assisting my wife with "Countess Mariza", done by the touring operetta company she has just wormed herself into to such an extent that the present owner wants to retire and hand over the company to her... then a concert with the Vienna Lakeside Music Academy Symphony Orchestra - music from animation movies - and then a few Carnival gigs.

@tjveloce Too far away for me - would need a sailing boat to take me over, as at the moment it is unwise for me to fly.