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20 MOTIVATIONAL SLIPS OF PAPER FROM FORTUNE COOKIES, MARINATED FIELD PEA RELISH RECIPE, FASCINATING FACTS, RIDDLE, LOL BY TRACY BECKERMAN

Wednesday, August 8th greetings all!

Presenting Wednesday Reader full of fascinating facts, things to ponder, laughter, marinated field pea relish to enjoy as an appetizer for gatherings – light lunch or to satisfy a little midnight snack attack!

Thanks for being part of the Daymaker Readable Art Community + sharing + caring + engaging.

Grateful.

Wishing you a fabulous rest of the week!

Catch ya Friday.
Same time.
Same Place.

Ready?
Here we go!
Enjoy.

POP Quiz

POP QUIZ

  1. “WE ARE ALL IN THE GUTTER, BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS,” IS A LINE FROM “LADY WINDEMERE’S FAN” BY WHICH HIGHLY QUOTABLE DRAMATIST?
    a) Samuel Beckett
    b) William Congreve
    c) George Bernard Shaw
    d) Oscar Wild
  2. WHICH OF THESE GEMSTONES IS MADE OF PURE CARBON?
    a) Amethyst
    b) Diamond
    c) Emerald
    d) Turquoise
  3. ROBERT LeROY PARKER AND HARRY LONGABAUGH ARE BETTER KNOWN FOR WHAT ALIASES?
    a) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    b) Captain American and Iron Man
    c) Robin Hood and Little John
    d) John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson

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QUICK QUESTION

WHAT ARE THE THINGS
THAT DRIVE YOU CRAZY?

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POP QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” is a line from “Lady Windermere’s Fan” by Oscar Wilde.
  2.  Diamond is made of pure carbon.
  3. Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh are better known by their aliases:  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

~ LESLIE ELMAN, COPYRIGHT 2024
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20 MOTIVATIONAL FORTUNE
COOKIE MESSAGES

  1. OUR FIRST AND LAST LOVE IS … SELF LOVE.
  2. NONE OF THE SECRETS TO SUCCESS WILL WORK UNLESS YOU DO.
  3. TODAY IS A LUCKY DAY FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN CHEERFUL AND OPTIMISTIC.
  4. YOU WERE BORN WITH THE SKILLS TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE EASILY.
  5. THE FIRST STEP TO BETTER TIMES IS TO IMAGINE THEM.
  6. IT DOESN’T MATTER.  WHO IS WITHOUT FLAW?
  7. YOUR HAPPINESS IS INTERTWINED WITH YOUR OUTLOOK ON LIFE.
  8. THE SECRET OF GETTING AHEAD IS GETTING STARTED.
  9. YOU ARE TALENTED IN MANY WAYS.
  10. GRAND ADVENTURES AWAIT THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO TURN THE CORNER.
  11. THE SMART THING IS TO PREPARE FOR THE UNEXPECTED.
  12. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE AND COMPLETE ANYTHING.
  13. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT AND GO FOR IT.
  14. A WARM SMILE IS TESTIMONY OF A GENEROUS NATURE.
  15. MUCH MORE GROWS IN THE GARDEN THAN THAT WHICH IS PLANTED THERE.
  16. YOUR HEART IS A PLACE TO DRAW TRUE HAPPINESS.
  17. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS BY THINKING OF THOSE WHOM YOU LOVE.
  18. BEING UNKIND TO OTHERS IS UNBECOMING.
  19. FAITH FIRST.
  20. JOY CONQUERS.

I’M NOT SWEATING, IT’S MY SUMMER BODY’S SPARKLE.

INSTANT KARMA

BE EASY TO SPEAK TO

RIDDLE ME THIS

IMAGINE YOU ARE IN A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA.  SUDDENLY YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY HUNGRY SHARKS WAITING TO EAT YOU.
HOW CAN YOU STOP THAT?

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MARINATED FIELD PEA RELISH

You can serve this versatile relish as a side dish or condiment.  It makes a fine finish for a platter of juicy, summer-ripened tomatoes.  It’s also happy to sit atop crisp saltine crackers, Texas style.  Or by the tablespoons on fresh baguette slices.
Cheese?  Yes, please!
(Think thin slices of a sharp white cheddar or thin slices from a fresh mozzarella ball.)

HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT

  • 3 cups cooked and drained field peas ( black-eyed peas)
  • 1 4 ounce jar diced pimentos
  • 1/4 cup finely diced red onion
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
  • 1/2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 TBSP Tabasco sauce
  • 1 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 cup halved grape tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup finely diced red bell pepper
  • 1 fresh jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
  • 1 cup favorite, bottled Italian salad dressing, plus more as needed
  • salt and pepper to taste
  1. Stir all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  2. the relish should be moist — but not soupy.
  3. Add a little more dressing if needed.
  4. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
  6. Remove from fridge prior to serving and return to room temperature.
  7. Stir well.
  8. Check the seasonings/dressing level prior to serving.
  9. Store covered and refrigerated for up to one week.

~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box

RIDDLE ANSWER

STOP IMAGINING.

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LOST IN SUBURBIA

HERE’S TO SOAP IN YOUR EYE
BY TRACY BECKERMAN

I’m a pretty loyal consumer.  Once I find something that works for me, whether it’s ketchup or toothpaste, I usually stick with it unless something horrible happens, like they change the formula and go all New Coke on me.  At those times, I question my very existence and wonder if I can continue to live on a planet where someone will change the essence of a beloved product willy-nilly without considering the mental health effects this will have on their consumers.

Clearly, I take all this quite seriously.  So, typically, I will turn a deaf ear to a friend who touts the benefits of some new product they have discovered.

My feeling is, if ain’t broke, don’t lead the horse to water … or something like that.

But then one day I met a friend for lunch, and she looked terrific.  I mean, really, aged-backwards-like-Benjamin-Button terrific.

“You had work done, right?”  I prompted her.

“Nope,” she said.

“A little filler?  Some Botox?”  Snake venom in your lip lines?”

“No.  No.  And no way.”

OK then, fess up.  What are you doing differently?”

“I got new soap,” she said smirking.

“Soap?”  I said incredulously.  “Your face looks so fresh in that rested before-you-had-kids kind of way, and it’s because of soap”

She nodded.  Then she proceeded to tell me about this new face soap her dermatologist recommended that cleaned, removed makeup and moisturized all in one.  I asked if it also pickled up her dry cleaning, but she said no.

Although, as mentioned, I am not a big product experimenter, I decided just this once, I would give this new soap a try.

I purchased the new soap — which cost about as much as getting an actual facelift — and took it into the shower with me the next morning.

I worked up a good lather and could feel all the miraculousness happening as I imagined turning back the clock on my wrinkles and dry skin.  But then something bad happened.  Something really, really bad.

The soap got in my eye.

And that’s when I discovered the secret ingredient they put in the soap to make it so miraculous must be battery acid.

“OWWW!”  I screamed.  “Ow, ow, ow, holy cow, mother plucker, OWW!”

I pelted my face with water from the shower head, trying to rinse the soap out, but I was pretty sure I had already been blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night … or something like that.

There had been a point in my life when I’d thought there was nothing more painful than childbirth.  Then I thought there was nothing more painful than hemorrhoids that came after childbirth.  But now I discovered that nothing really compares to the blazing pain of battery acid disguised as soap in my eye.

OK, so it probably wasn’t battery acid, but whatever it was, it hurt like the blazes, and I was pretty sure if I came out of this relatively unscathed, my eyes would be colored tomato red for the rest of my life.

I came out of the shower rubbing my eyes and looked in the mirror.  It was as bad as I’d thought.  But even still, I decided I could live with vampire eyes.

… As long as my skin looked younger.

~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon:  A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.”
COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM

Fascinating Stuff

  • Named for the 17th-century Italian anatomist who discovered them, the ampullae of Lorenzini are unique gel-filled sensory organs found in sharks and rays.  These supersensitive organs, connected to pores in the animal’s snout, detect tiny changes in the electrical fields produced by sea creatures underwater,  They make it possible for sharks to hunt prey even when their senses of hearing, vision, smell touch and taste are diminished.
  • Fanny Blankers-Koen probably didn’t mind the press nicknamed her “The Flying Housewife” back in 1948.  She was too busy “flying” past her competition at the Summer Olympics in London.  The 30-year-old mother of two — then pregnant with her third child — became the first female athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics:  in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 80-meter hurdles and 4×100 meter relay.  Audrey “Mickey” Patterson, the first African American woman to win an Olympic medal, took bronze in the 200-meter dash.
  • The “cc” you click on when you’re sending an email to more than one person stands for carbon copy.  It comes from carbon paper, first patented by Ralph Wedgwood in 1806 and used to produce duplicate documents long before the age of photocopiers.  The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has carbon copies of letters sent by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley using carbon paper supplied to him by Ralph Wedgwood himself.
  • Though there are exceptions, ancient Egyptian mummies typically had all of their internal organs removed except the heart, which was considered to be the body’s life force and was left in place.  After they were removed, the brain, liver, stomach, kidneys and other vital organs were placed in stone or pottery jars — called canopic jars — that were interred beside the mummy.  Or, in some cases, they were wrapped in cloth, dehydrated with salt and then placed back inside the body before mummification.
  • During a solar eclipse in August 1868, French physicist Pierre Janssen observed helium as a bright yellow line in the sun’s corona.  In October 1868, English astronomer Norman Lockyer notated that yellow line during a daytime observation.  Separately and independently, both men submitted their findings to the French Academy of Sciences for confirmation.  Thus, both are credited with discovering helium, named for Helios, Greek god of the sun.

~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM

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4 replies
  1. Stacy says:

    Love the artwork! Love Beckermans Soap story! I had something similiar happen to me. I bought this alpha hydroxy facial wash and after about two weeks of using it…I had no eyelashes. I made a Doctor appt and he said it was something I was using topically that was basically eating my eyelashes. Went home and read the directions on my new facial wash. In bold letters it said DO NOT USE AROUND EYES. The lashes grew back in about a month.

  2. Carol says:

    Love the motivational inspiration from Fortune cookies. Posting it where I can see it every day.

    The Field Pea relish reminds me of Cowboy Caviar – which I enjoy as a snack, lunch or side – and I am so going to try this version.

    Interesting Fun Facts today also.

  3. Marty says:

    So Daymaker asks, “What’s some things that drive you crazy?” Well that’s easy. There’s a half dozen of them. However, here goes one that happened yesterday and the same the day before that! It’s people running red lights! The numbers are picking up monthly. It goes back to the adage, “The more you do, the more you want to do.” Yikes, it’s dangerous out there!

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