A LITTLE HUMOR + TRIVIA + EPIC BOWL OF OATS FOR BREAKFAST + RIDDLE ME THIS = FUN TIME READ
Happy Wednesday greetings, Daymakers!
Super fun line-up of interestings this final Wednesday of February 2024.
Beginning with —
Leslie Elman’s Trivia Tidbits. I sure didn’t know where the oldest and longest boardwalk in the United States is. As one who strives to walk 3 miles a day – 5 days a week – I’d sure love to put this on my walking bucket list.
Planner or Go-with-the-Flow? I, personally, am a go-with-the-flow gal if I’m on a leisure kind of trip — unless I’m with a group of people who’ve established a go-see-do itinerary. Then I’m cool with the whoever has got it all planned out. And I’m in on the plan.
I almost feel sorry for the Burglar Who Couldn’t Find His Way Out. Almost. Ha
Epic Breakfast Oatmeal I’ve been known to also drizzle on a little caramel sauce for a little something extra-extra. Why not? Delish!
Tracy Beckerman’s Puffy Face column cracked me up. I’m totally in her tongue-in-cheek humor fan club!
Fascinating Stuff – Leave it to the Powers that Be to require licen$e plates for vehicles prior to actual licenses for drivers back then. Ha!
Thanks all for popping in today to give us a read and share + engage. We feel the love and we’re grateful.
Have a fabulous day!
Catch ya Friday.
Same time.
Same Place.
POP QUIZ
- WHERE WOULD YOU FIND THE OLDEST AND LONGEST BOARDWALK IN THE UNITED STATES?
a) Atlantic City
b) Cape Cod
c) Coney Island
d) Venice Beach - TO PROTEST A TAX INCREASE, LADY GODIVA SHED HER CLOTHES AND RODE ON HORSEBACK THROUGH THE STREETS OF WHAT CITY?
a) Coventry, England
b) Dresden, Germany
c) Florence, Italy
d) Rouen, France - THE WORD SABOTAGE IS RELATED TO THE WORD SABOT, REFERRING TO A TYPE OF WHAT?
a) Bird
b) Hat
c) Scarf
d) Shoe
QUICK QUESTION
ARE YOU A PLANNER OR DO YOU
GO-WITH-THE-FLOW?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- The oldest and longest boardwalk in the United States is in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- To protest a tax increase, Lady Godiva shed her clothes and rode on horseback through the streets of Coventry, England.
- A sabot is a type of wooden shoe.
~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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THE BURGLAR WHO COULDN’T
FIND HIS WAY OUT
And the story goes:
A trail-blazing burglar broke into a vast mansion on millionaire’s row in June 1982 at Bel. Air, Los Angeles.
While on a sackfilling tour of this palatial structure, he went through the ballroom into the hall, down the escalators to the single-lane swimming arbor, up to the library across the dining room, out of the annex and into the conservatory containing sixty-three varieties of sulphur-crested parrots.
Deciding that now was the time to make a quick exit, he went back through the dining room, up to the gymnasium across the indoor tennis court, down a spiral staircase to an enclosed patio with synchronized fountains, out to the cocktail lounge through Junior’s sound proofed drum studio and back into the room full of increasingly excited parrots who normally saw nobody from one day to the next.
Panicking slightly, he ran back towards the library, through swing doors into a gallery containing the works of Jackson Pollock, out through the kitchen across a jacuzzi enclosure and up two flights of stairs, at which point he became hysterical, ran outside along the balcony around the circular corridors, up more stairs, down the landing into the master bedroom and woke up the owners to ask them how to get out.
In order to spare him further distess, they arranged for a local policeman to escort him from the premises.
~Stephen Pile
GOODNESS IS THE ONLY INVESTMENT
THAT NEVER FAILS.
~ HENRY DAVID THOREAU ~
RIDDLE ME THIS
WHAT GETS WET WHILE DRYING?
EPIC BREAKFAST BOWL OF OATMEAL
Kids and kids-at-heart love this bowl of yummy!
Prepare favorite oatmeal to package instructions. Spoon hot oatmeal into individual bowls.
To each serving add:
- 1 scoop of good quality vanilla ice cream
- Fresh sliced strawberries (or frozen strawberries, thawed)
- Toasted pecan or walnut pieces
- Sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar
Serve.
~ Hippie Cowboy recipe box
RIDDLE ANSWER
A TOWEL
LOST IN SUBURBIA
THE CASE OF THE PUFFY FACE
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
Even before I looked in the mirror, I knew my face was puffy. It might have had something to do with the fact that I could feel my cheeks touching my eyebrows, or maybe my lips felt like they were the size of eggplants. I knew some women paid good money for lips that looked like mine, but at that moment, I suspected it was probably not a good look for me.
When I finally did take a peek in the mirror, I realized it wasn’t just regular old “I probably slept on my face” puffy. It was more like “I look like the Pillsbury Doughboy” puffy. It was clear something dramatic had happened while I slept. It was like the tooth fairy had taken a hit on me.
“What happened to your face?” my husband asked when I emerged from the bathroom.
“What do you mean?” I said, feigning ignorance.
“You’re all, um, puffy.”
“Oh?” I said. “I hadn’t noticed.
“Really?” he said.
“OF COURSE NOT,” I boomed. “How could I not notice that I woke up looking like a popover?”
He backed up slowly out of the bedroom, realizing this was one land mine he did not want to step on.
“Call the doctor,” he shouted from the other room.
I should mention that this wasn’t the first time I’ve had a puffy face. I experienced something similar years ago when I had my kids. When most women get pregnant, their feet swell. For me, it was my face. Of course. this may have had more to do with all the doughnuts I ate while I was pregnant than the pregnancy itself, but for arguments sake we’ll just say it was pregnancy.
However, I was not pregnant now, and unless, by some miracle of middle age magic, wouldn’t ever be again, so it clearly wasn’t a hormonal thing. I also didn’t recall eating anything the day before that might have had a reaction to, such as blowfish poison, which could leave you looking like an actual blowfish, assuming you didn’t die first.
Realizing I couldn’t figure this out myself, I scheduled a televisit with my doctor.
“Your face is very puffy,” my doctor said to me when she came on the screen.
“See, that’s why I chose you as my doctor,” I said. “Because of your keen observational skills and masterful assessments.”
“It’s my superpower,” she said. “So, what did you eat last night?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary.”
“New cosmetics?” she said.
“Nope.”
“Well, I’d say it definitely looks like an allergic reaction.” She stared at my face in silence for a few moments.
“What did you wear yesterday?” she asked.
“Um, a new wool sweater. A turtleneck.”
“Is your neck itchy?”
“Yes, actually, it is,” I said. I had been fretting about my puffy face that I hadn’t noticed my itchy neck.
“You had an allergic reaction to the wool,” she concluded.
“Wow, OK,” I said, recalling how uncomfortable I’d been at the end of the day. “So, that’s something new. Are you sure?”
“Did you snore last night?” she asked.
“Actually, I did.”
“Well, that’s that,” she said. “You either had a reaction to the sweater, or your husband tried to smother you with a pillow.”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love and Kibble.”
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Fascinating Stuff
FASCINATING STUFF
- Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to charter a bank in the United States, founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, in 1903. Its goal to encourage economic growth and financial security for the Black community extended all the way to little kids, who were permitted to open their own bank accounts once they’d saved 100 pennies in their piggy banks. Walker’s home in Richmond is now a National Historic Site.
- Labeling someone who’s resistant to the spread of technology and automation a “Luddite” isn’t really an insult. The original Luddites were skilled textile workers in the early 19th century who noticed that the increased use of machines in factories led them being replaced by low-wage, unskilled workers. Hoping to preserve their jobs and draw attention to their plight, Luddites destroyed or sabotaged factory machinery. It wasn’t that they hated machines; they simply didn’t appreciate unemployment.
- Turkish Angora cats are considered a national treasure in Turkey, but they almost disappeared in the early 20th century Lackadaisical breeders determined that Turkish Angora cats were merely Persian cats with more desirable coats, and they crossbred the two until the Turkish Angoras were nearly bred out of existence. That’s when the city zoo in Ankara, Turkey, stepped in to rescue its namesake breed (Angora being an earlier name for Ankara) and return it to its rightful place in the feline world.
- In 1901, New York became the first state to require automobile owners to register their cars and put license plates on them. By 1918, all states required license plates for cars, but not all required licenses for the drivers themselves.
~ COPYRIGHT 2024 LESLIE ELMAN
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What kind of person am I…definately a planner to the extreme sometimes.
Puffy Face article…Funny!
Hi Stacy –
High 5 to the Planners in our worlds! Without the Planners a lot of us would miss the adventure.
Thanks for reading + commenting + spreading Stacy Daymaker love.
I’m definitely a planner, striving to be more spontaneous however.
Love the idea of the ice cream topped oatmeal! And why not caramel sauce too!!! I’ve never been a milk drinker and during my growing up years was introduced to the idea of cereal sundaes – dried cereal topped with ice cream or ice cream topped with cereal. The hot cereal version is even more appealing. Yum!
Let’s do the boardwalk walk. . .
Hi Carol –
Interesting that you remember similar breakfast cereals like the Epic Oatmeal recipe (cereal in the morning with ice cream) because as I was walking this morning I thought to myself, “Should have titled that recipe — Oatmeal sundae.”
Creative minds think alike! Thumbs up.
Yes! Let’s do the boardwalk walk.
Appreciate ya and your support and love.
VALUABLE!
Daymaker today:”Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” This reminded me of the Home Depot employee in the rental dept this very morning. Here were 3 lines of people checking out rental stuff. However Dan, Dept Manager, showed extra kindness/goodness toward me in fact he carried my item to the car. Here were his parting words as he carefully placed my item into my SUV, “I’m training the men at the counter so i need to get back. He was an older gentleman and the 2 at the counter were younger. Hmmmm, I wonder if the newbies at the desk happen to catch what i witnessed?
Excellent memory/share/analogy, Marty!
Indeed, and hopefully, the 2 newbies in training at the counter were paying attention. Learning skills one doesn’t find in a classroom. Dan, Department Manager, was offering his wisdom and skills as “free for the hauling” as the Free Ads used to post in newspapers.
Thanks so much for caring and sharing. Grateful.