BS: Eggs

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: alanabit
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 03:36 AM

I don't know who egged you on to poach that title, but I guess I am too hard boiled to fry and crack any more yokes about it.
By the way, if you start talking about your "eggs" in Germany, you might not be welcome in polite company...

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 07:42 AM

If I had some bacon, I'd have bacon and eggs, if I had some eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:03 AM

is this an eggcumenical matter?

graon

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Morticia
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:09 AM

Twilight zone moment? I had put some eggs on to boil......got completely engrossed in Jerry's Kitchen Table thread and forgot I'd done so ( hey, it's my age, k?) .....finally came out of the thread and saw this at the top, just in time to save the water in my eggs from boiling away completely. Mudcat, fun, educational and occasionally saves you from setting fire to the kitchen.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:12 AM

That was lucky! Sometimes there's a little extra help from somewhere just at the right time.

E>W>I>S

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:34 AM

I had eggs scrambled with smoked salmon in a B&B outside of Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland (just before you turn off to Coliaste Ide, for those of you who might know the area). I try to have reindeer sausage whenever I'm North of 60 (or whenever it's available). REAL butter is the kind made on farms from fresh cream, not the sort made en masse in dairy factories -- salted or un, either one is good.

Add to it a big pot of true Kona or Jamacia Blue Mountain, thich artery-clogging cream, fresh orange juice, some fresh fruit...perhaps freshly picked (and washed) blackberries with clotted cream....

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Duane D.
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:35 AM

Why does the Porage bird lay HIS egg in the air?

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 12:26 PM

Jenny O, that's just a slight variant of somethin' my folks used to come up with once in a while:

Six O'clock, and the whistle blew;
Out of the boxcar the hobo flew;
    And he said:
If I had some ham, I'd have some ham and eggs'
          If I had some eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 01:18 PM

If a hen-and-a-half could lay an egg-and-a-half in a day-and-a-half, how long would it take a cross-eyed grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 05:49 PM

Ha. You shant catch me up on a trick question that obvious, Billy D!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 05:51 PM

The answer is 'B'.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 05:52 PM

As much as a woodchuck could.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM

You guys crack me up...

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:07 PM

Blissful, eggzactly where have you been, young lady? Haven't seen you around in too long!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:09 PM

I've been all ova!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Kaleea
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 07:41 PM

Here in bobad's eggspertly named "San Dieggo,"
even the simple folk know,
the opposite of white is yolk.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:23 PM

Mixing them with marrowbone will do you no good at all.



autolycus: Cf. Berryman & Berryman, "We Don't Talk about That":



Aunt Peg thinks that she's a hen, but we don't talk about that

Clucks all day to Uncle Ben, but we don't talk about that

He so loves that laugh of Peg's. Digs her soul and digs her legs.

Says beside he needs the eggs, but we don't talk about that.



alanabit: It is not only in German that eggs are slang for what balls are slang for in English, but also in Russian & Hebrew. Naughty Russian children sing:



Po ulitse khodila

Bol'shaya krokodila.

Ona, ona, golodnaya byla.



Uvidela frantsuza

I skhvatila za puza.

Ona, ona, golodnaya byla.



Uvidela kitaytsa

I skhvatila za [yaytsa].

Ona, ona, golodnaya byla.



Along the street walked a big (whimsically female) crocodile. She, she was a hungry one. She saw a Frenchman & grabbed him by the belly.... She saw a Chinaman and grabbed him by the [eggs, but usually some other word is substituted as a tease].



In Yiddish, IIRC, the Hebrew "beytsim" (eggs) has spawned a derivative, "beytismer", meaning a macho type. It is not a compliment.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: We have torn ourselves away from nature as a man tears himself away from a crowd. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 10:18 PM

Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir!
Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:50 AM

Eggs and ham: The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.