In 1954 the characters of
a popular comic strip met up with a "Kansas crittur"--the
mythological Jayhawk. "Pogo" was the name of the
critically acclaimed strip, drawn by Walt Kelly since 1948. This satirical cartoon poked fun at American
life and politics. Set in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, it featured a cast of
animals with a peculiarly human outlook.
The lead character was Pogo the Possum, whose optimism was countered by
the cynicism of Albert the Alligator.
The strip lasted until 1975, and is perhaps best remembered for the
oft-repeated line, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/pogo-comic-strip/15641 A long-running (1948–75,
plus a 1989–93 revival) Newspaper Comic starring Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Churchy La Femme, Miz
Beaver and other talking animals in Georgia's Okeefenokee Swamp.
Early versions of Pogo and Albert (alongside a quickly-phased-out human
protagonist named Bumbazine) were regulars in Dell's Animal
Comics (1941) starting with the very first issue, but it quickly
moved to the newspapers, and became one of the all-time comic strip
classics. Creator Walt Kelly, a
former Disney animator,
filled his strip with dozens—actually, hundreds—of characters,
all with distinct personalities, motivations and goals that would frequently
collide. Kelly's ear for dialect and
language, in addition to his skill with nonsense poetry, has been compared
to Mark Twain and Ogden Nash. While superficially a silly comic strip
about funny animals,
it was also a satire about modern times, and frequently delved into politics—so
much so that Pogo often found itself the target of criticism
and censorship. In such cases, Kelly
often responded in kind; for instance, by placing a paper bag over the head of
a controversial character (based on Senator Joseph McCarthy) when a newspaper said that they would drop the strip if his face ever
appeared again. Later, he would write
"fluffy bunny" versions of his Sunday strips, featuring rabbit
characters engaging in simple slapstick, whose real purpose was to inform the
readers that their local newspaper was censoring its comics page. Charming, clever, occasionally subversive,
and surprisingly warm-hearted even at its most vicious, Pogo was The Office of
its day . . . if The Office had a much larger cast, the
writers of The
Colbert Report, the trenchant wit of H. L. Mencken,
and the idealism of Jon Stewart. Its influence on modern cartooning cannot be
overestimated. Bill Watterson (Calvin
and Hobbes), Berkeley Breathed (Bloom
County), Jeff Smith (Bone),
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury),
Frank Cho (Liberty
Meadows), Dana Simpson (Ozy and
Millie), and Bill Holbrook (Kevin and Kell) have all cited it
as inspiration, as did the late Jim Henson (The Muppet
Show). http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/Pogo
WORDPLAY
* the tunnel at the end of the
light *
your command is my wish * a solution in search of a problem
A legume is
a plant or its fruit or seed in
the family Fabaceae (or
Leguminosae). Legumes are grown
agriculturally, primarily for their grain seed
called pulse, for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure.
Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils, lupin bean, mesquite, carob, soybeans, peanuts and tamarind.
A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a
simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens
along a seam) on two sides. A common
name for this type of fruit is a pod, although the term
"pod" is also applied to a number of other fruit types, such as that
of vanilla (a capsule) and of the radish (a silique).
Legumes are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures
called root nodules. For that reason, they play a key role
in crop rotation. The term "pulse", as used by
the United Nations' Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), is reserved for crops harvested
solely for the dry seed. This excludes green beans and green peas, which are
considered vegetable crops. Also excluded are seeds that are mainly grown
for oil extraction
(oilseeds like soybeans and peanuts), and seeds which are used exclusively
for sowing forage (clovers, alfalfa).
However, in common usage, these distinctions
are not always clearly made, and many of the varieties used for dried pulses
are also used for green vegetables, with their beans in pods while young. Some Fabaceae, such as Scotch broom and other Genisteae, are leguminous but are usually not
called legumes by farmers, who tend to restrict that term to food crops. Read more and
see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume
Legumes: Beans,
Peas, and Lentils WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Beans, peas, and lentils are all seeds that grow in pods. We can tell the difference by their
shape. · Dry Beans
are oval or kidney shaped. There are two
main types of dry beans. Red beans are
used in bean burritos, bean tostadas, nachos frijoles, soups, salad bar choice,
marinated salads, and main dishes or side dishes, such as vegetarian beans or
baked beans. Red beans include: • Pinto
• Pink beans • Light red kidney • Dark red kidney • Red beans • Pea beans •
Black beans White beans are used in
soups, salads, salad bar choice, or served as a vegetable. White beans include: • Navy • Small white •
Great northern • Cannellini (white kidney bean) • Garbanzo (chickpeas) · Peas are
round. Peas are used in side dishes,
salads, casseroles, and soups • Black-eyed peas • Whole peas • Split peas are
whole peas split in half · Lentils are
flat disks. Lentils are used in soups •
Green • Red • Yellow • Black https://www.extension.umn.edu/family/health-and-nutrition/toolkits-and-resources/great-trays/docs/legumes-beans-peas-and-lentils.pdf
© 2011, Regents of the University of
Minnesota. All rights reserved. This tip sheet was developed in conjunction
with the Great TraysTM Partnership.
WIy cha'! HaSta! cha yIghuS! 'eH... baH!" These
are the words you hear at the very beginning of
the very first "Star Trek" movie--the one from 1979 with Captain Kirk
and Mr. Spock that was awkwardly called "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." They are commands ("Tactical! Visual!
Stand by on torpedoes! Ready . .
. Fire!") barked out by a member of an aggressive alien species called
Klingons. They were invented on the set
with the goal of sounding otherworldly and menacing, just like the warmongering
race they belonged to. But since then,
from just a few words that were little more than gibberish, the Klingon
language has become the most widely spoken fictional language in the world,
according to the Guinness World Records. It was developed by Marc Okrand, a linguist
hired to invent more Klingon words for "Star Trek 3," which featured
the aliens prominently. "The producers
wanted it to sound like a real language, and I thought that to make it sound
like a real language, it had to be one," he said in a phone
interview. "But I had never created
a language before. So I went back to the
'Motion Picture' and there were maybe eight lines of Klingon in the whole
movie. I wrote down the words as best I
could to make a list of the different sounds and the different syllable
types. That was the start, and I built
from that." "The Klingon
Dictionary," was first published in 1985.
The first part explains the grammar, and the second part is a
Klingon-English bilingual dictionary.
"That was actually harder than describing the grammar, because I had
to decide what words to actually invent.
I decided to not make up any words having anything to do with Klingon
geography or Klingon culture. I know it
sounds strange to have a dictionary about Klingon that doesn't deal with that
aspect, but the reason is because I'm not a writer, I don't write the stories
or the movies and I didn't want to make something up that down the road would
turn out wrong because of a TV episode or a movie. So I would let writers make
up the culture, and come back afterward to say 'This is how you call it.' Not the other way around." Although the book has sold over 250,000
copies since publication, it didn't immediately create a following of Klingon
language learners. That started brewing,
Okrand said, in the mid-1990s. Klingon's popularity is still rising: It is, after
all, "the fastest growing language in the galaxy," according to the
KLI's website--and the latest series, "Star Trek: Discovery," heavily
features Klingons, offering long scenes of uninterrupted Klingon
dialogue (also available with
Klingon subtitles on Netflix outside the US).
Last year, Duolingo, a language learning platform, launched a Klingon course that currently attracts around 100,000
learners. Today, the Klingon Language Institute has about 5,000 guest (or free) members and
about 300 full (or paid) members, and their 25th annual gathering--or qep'a' cha'maH
vaghDIch--takes place in Indianapolis
on July 19 to 21, 2018. Jacopo
Prisco Read more, see graphics, and link
to videos at https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/star-trek-klingon-marc-okrand/index.html
Pork Schnitzel with Cucumber
Salad by The Editors of Food &
Wine serves 4 time 45 minutes total It takes only
five minutes to cook pork cutlets into perfect schnitzel. With only a handful of ingredients, a crisp
and bright salad of cucumbers with dill and yogurt is a simple accompaniment to
the meal. Reprinted with
permission from Dinner Special: 185 Recipes for a Great Meal Any Night of
the Week by the editors of Food & Wine.
Copyright 2018 Oxmoor House
The Arizona
Cardinals are a professional American football franchise based in
the Phoenix
metropolitan area. The
Cardinals compete in the National Football
League (NFL) as a member of the league's National
Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Cardinals were founded as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898, and
are the oldest continuously run professional football team in the United
States. The Cardinals play their home games at the University of
Phoenix Stadium, which is located in the northwestern suburb
of Glendale, Arizona. The team was established in Chicago in
1898 and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920. Along
with the Chicago Bears, the
club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the
league's founding. (The Green Bay Packers were an independent
team until they joined the NFL in 1921.)
The club then moved to St.
Louis in 1960 and
played in that city through 1987 (sometimes
referred to as the "Football Cardinals" or the "Big Red" to
avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals. The franchise has won two NFL championships,
both while it was based in Chicago. The
first occurred in 1925,
but is the subject of controversy,
with supporters of the Pottsville Maroons believing
that Pottsville should have won the title.
Their second title, and the first to be won in a championship game, came in 1947,
nearly two decades before the first Super Bowl.
They returned to the title game to defend in 1948,
but lost the rematch 7–0 in a snowstorm in Philadelphia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals
IHOP has conceded that its "name change" to
IHOb was a marketing ploy "to promote our new burgers." Over the course of the last month, IHOP changed its
Twitter logo, name and other identifying features to "IHOb" to fake
out the world that it was dropping the "pancakes" from its name for
"burgers." People on social
media ate the June 11 announcement for breakfast, and IHOP managed to keep
quiet until confirming the name change was marketing ploy with a July 10, 2018
tweet. Benjamin Raven https://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2018/07/ihop_finally_admits_that_whole.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1917
July 11, 2018 Word of the Day acquis noun Short
for acquis
communautaire. The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of European Union law. The accumulated legislation and decisions of
any international community. The first session of the European Parliament after
it became a directly elected body was held on this day in 1979. The Parliament exercises the lawmaking function of the European Union, and thus contributes
towards the EU’s acquis.
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