BS: Eggs

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

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

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: 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: 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: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:09 PM

I've been all ova!

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 - 06:01 PM

You guys crack me up...

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

As much as a woodchuck could.

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

The answer is 'B'.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 08:03 AM

is this an eggcumenical matter?

graon

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: 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: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 02:30 AM

It's my observation that this thread

"ain't all it was cracked up to be."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:46 PM

The (poodle) thread has finished, but the mood'll linger on. Toodle-oo

Benny hill had a song called 'The Egg Marketing Board Tango' (in other words, the dance of l'oeuf).
Sounds better with a French accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:32 PM

my mother-in-law tried showing me how to do it ... could never get the knack of that.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:31 PM

I like to poach them in a pot of boiling water.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:27 PM

Thanks Peace ..... bought some coddlers at a yard sale some time back. The only way I'll cook an egg is to coddle them. Just put in lots of ground pepper with the egg and put the coddler in for a bit.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:22 PM

Then this link's for you, sIx.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 11:20 PM

I like coddled eggs ... the most civilized manner in cooking an egg.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:52 PM

Wow. That sounds cool. Hey, we would have to get to the Bagel Factory. I haven't been there in decades. I looked up Beauty's on the 'net. It sounds really neat. Thanks, bobad.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:51 PM

Reindeer sausage? Boy! Don't let Santa Claus hear about that or you'll be gettin' squat for Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:47 PM

Peace

It's (at least used to be - haven't been in a long time) on the corner of Mt. Royal and St. Urbain streets - a holdover from the days when the neighbourhood was a nexus of the Jewish community. Sunday mornings would see line-ups a block long for breakfast or brunch, the only meals served. On the menu - fresh squeezed orange juice, eggs (any way you like 'em) with a side of bacon or sausage and the best part - the world's best home fries. Also famous for their world renowned mishmash, which is an omelet filled with fried onions, peppers, salami and hot dogs. But the best was what I usually ordered, which was the Beauty's special - lox, cream cheese, sweet onion and tomato served on a toasted St. Viateur St. bagel - to die for.

If you ever make it out this way I'll spring for a trip to Beauty's, you'll love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:45 PM

Little old lady, deperately poor, goes to little neighborhood grocery. They know her there, and always allow her to buy what she asks in whatever quantity. So it is that she sets out to return to her tiny apartment with a bag containing a bottle of ketchup and two eggs. As she passes an alley, a drunk staggers out, face turned downward, and bumps into her, knocking the bag from her hand. The bag and contents all shatter on the sidewalk. The drunk looks down at the remains, then up at the lady. "Don't cry, lady", he says; "It wouldn't have lived anyhow; it's eyes were too far apart."

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:33 PM

"Cigarette ash, no extra charge."

Good one Cluin !

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:30 PM

I lived there for two years--north of 60 that is--and I never saw it on no menu either. And most of the places--expensive or not--were greasy spoons.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:26 PM

Go north of 60.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM

Sounds good Rap, never seen that on no menu at no greasy spoon though.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:24 PM

Real as in non-salted, Rapaire?

Bobad: No to Beauty's. Tell me about the place if you'd be so kind.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:21 PM

Eggs, scrambled with smoked salmon and a very light touch of green onions, served with reindeer sausage and sourdough toast with REAL butter.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

Speaking of which Peace, have you ever had the pleasure of breakfasting at Beauty's ?

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

Cigarette ash, no extra charge.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:05 PM

Ah yes - breakfast in Montreal.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:03 PM

Don't be lewdle.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:02 PM

Two eggs side by each and a pair of toast.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:51 PM

Right on Pierre!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: GUEST,Pierre
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:50 PM

Foodle Doodle!

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:47 PM

Oh yeah? Here's a couple unused thread titles:

"What did we do with the boodle?"
"Can we improve the Western soodle?"

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:46 PM

Thus spake Pierre Elliot Troodle.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:42 PM

Threads like this are what results when the supply of words rhyming with "poodle" is exhausted.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:34 PM

Nothing I can add -- it's ova.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 07:21 PM

EGGspecially in San DiEGGo.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 06:35 PM

This thread is eggscruciating.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:40 PM

Eggs--the ultimate clones.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:40 PM

Eggs--the ultimate clones.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:37 PM

"Cogito eggo sum"

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: GUEST,The Egg
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:26 PM

Embedded with Chicken, I always come first.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: autolycus
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 05:00 PM

Perhaps not everyone knows of the psychiatrist (Stan Freberg) who owned a horse that clucked.

Passerby"Why does your horse cluck instead of neighing?"

Psych. "He has a complex - he thinks he's a chicken."

Pas. "Well you're a psychiatrist. Why don't you straighten him out?"

Psych. "I would - but I need the eggs."


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:56 PM

You must be disappointed after having such Great Eggspectations.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:49 PM

I went to a joke site to see how the chicken and the egg thing was rated. I'da given it a five outta five for wit and humour. The people who voted for the funniness of that joke gave it 1.6 out of five. Go figger.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:43 PM

Cluin, he laid one himself, din't he? Also, a chicken having sex with an egg is just WRONG!

Somebody told me this once, and I've never forgotten it, because mostly I forget important stuff: the egg came first. Another critter, a not-quite-chicken, a chickensaurus, or something else laid an egg with a mutant embreyo in it, and that embreyo is what we know today as the chicken. Not the same chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:31 PM

Un oeuf le dindon.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:30 PM

nothing stinks like an eggstinct egg...

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Micca
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:28 PM

because one egg is un oeuf?

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:17 PM

Impossible scenario. Unworkable premise. Reprehensible punchline.

Bravo, Peace. I salute you.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:15 PM

Something of interest here ... I read somewhere that Paul Simon got the title of the song 'Mother and Child Reunion' from an item off of a restaraunt menu for a dish that included chickens and eggs.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:13 PM

Chicken and the egg had sex. When they'd done, the chicken lit a cigarette and said, "Well, I guess we've answered THAT question."

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:10 PM

yuk yuk

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:09 PM

Is this a yolk?

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: bobad
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:06 PM

Do they come from chickens or is it the other way around ? I forget.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:04 PM

eggbert.

Subject: RE: BS: Eggs
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:03 PM

Eggs-actly.

Subject: BS: Eggs.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:02 PM

The thread title says it all.