Happiness is The Many Expressions of Xi Jinpingpong

 

Happiness is George Thorogood "It Wasn't Me" (Chuck Berry cover 1978)

 

Happiness is probable caws

 

Bon Appetit: Best frozen french fries are from Lamb Weston

Our house agrees. We prefer the shoestring cut.

The Standout: Lamb Weston Hand Cut Style Fries

The old story was recycled today on Pocket, and my store which carries these was nearly cleaned out as a result?

 

Happiness is lighting your feast on fire

 I used the recipe by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins in The Silver Palate Cookbook (New York: Workman, 1982), p. 136f. There are 21 ingredients.

In step 6 of 10, you light the cognac on the lamb in the skillet with a match. Very fun.

Life is short: Celebrate the New Year with a spring feast of Navarin of Lamb.

Happiness is four black birds on the fourth day of Christmas, December the 28th

 

 

  "Colly" is derived from "coal", a word at least as old as Shakespeare. "Calling" birds is a later alteration. Use of coal for domestic heating in England became more widespread in the 1500s when the wood supply came under pressure, but the Romans were mining it there already in the 100s.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" dates to at least c. 1780, as shown here from "Mirth Without Mischief", perhaps but vaguely recollecting the traditional drunken revelry of Christmastide which English Puritanism had long attempted to mute. This work was for children, who were in any event prone to mischief after school.

Happiness is a breakfast of blueberry mascarpone toast

Blueberry Mascarpone Toast

1 slice toasted whole wheat bread

Drizzle with honey and spread to cover

Spread mascarpone cheese over the honey

Dot the toast with fresh blueberries

Yeah, that was me

 Record: MACY'S Parade Is Most-Watched Ever...

I haven't watched the parade in years, but I spent a half hour for some reason, unknown even to me, clicking on at least five different livestreams this year on YouTube looking for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and all I got was the Pillsbury Doughboy.

One man can make a difference.

Happiness is Dwight Yoakam Gone 1995, but maybe not for him

 

Happiness is the power of the herbalist, formerly called a simpler or simplist

 Medicine is mine: what herbs and simples grow

In fields and forests, all their pow'rs I know.

-- John Dryden

Happiness is Old Hippie by the Bellamy Brothers 1985

 

Happiness is Shelley Fabares' 1961 Johnny Angel

 

Happiness is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623

 

Happiness is Jackson in the Valley

 

 

 

Jackson in the Valley · 2nd South Carolina String Band Southern Soldier ℗ 1997 2nd South Carolina String Band Released on: 1997-01-01

YouTube here.

'Twas back in the summer of '61, Stonewall Jackson's fame was won. McDowell marched across Bull Run, And went back runnin' to Washington. 

 

Come the spring of '62, Down the valley Old Blue Light flew. At Kernstown there he picked a fight, And gave Old Abe a fearsome fright. 

 

Rebels in the Valley, Lincoln cries alarm! Jackson's in the Valley, all fear to his harm! Jackson's in the Valley, Stonewall is on the loose! Jackson's in the Valley, all hell's a breakin' loose! 

 

Down the valley and back again, Stonewall's boys did fight and win. For two long months and maybe more, We marched and we fought and we marched some more. 

 

Now we'll raise a rebel yell, And we'll send them yankees straight to hell. We'll give them grapeshot, buck and ball, We'll march and we'll fight for Old Stonewall. 

 

We're marching though our feet are torn, And it's true our clothes are worn. Still we'll keep our muskets bright, For Stonewall's Army is full of fight. 

 

Banks and Shields and Frémont too, From our Valley they all withdrew. Jackson swept the Valley clear, And now he marches on McClellan's rear. 

 

Jackson's in the Valley, Stonewall is on the loose! Jackson's in the Valley, all hell's a breakin' loose! Jackson's in the Valley, Stonewall is on the loose! Jackson's in the Valley, all hell's a breakin' loose!

Happiness is Gussie Fink-Nottle telling off Madeline with "I shall now eat a ham sandwich"

 

Happiness is mercy

 

 The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth as the gentle rain of heaven

Upon the place beneath. It is twice bless'd;

It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I

Happiness is three synonyms for a simpleton

 Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd, ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?

-- John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, (1667-1735)

Happiness is knowing how to tell the age of sheep

 When sheep is one shear,

they will have two broad teeth before;

when two shear, four;

when three, six; when four, eight:

and, after that, their mouths break.

 

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Happiness is Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime 1980

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9

Meteorologist Donald Trump on Hurricane Hilary

 

Happiness is The Vapors' Turning Japanese 1980

 

LOL of the day

 

Happiness is a bed of leaves

 Within a thicket I repos'd, when round

I ruffl'd up fal'n leaves in heap, and found,

Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.

-- George Chapman (1539-1634)

The best thing about COVID-19 was . . .

. . . I could not work at home, instead of not working at work.

Happiness is at least seven people coming to your funeral

 Because only six came to Thomas Paine's.

Happiness is the advantage possessed by age and guile over youth and innocence

 

Unlike The General Lee, this one DUI lol

 

Happiness is still living rent-free in England's head

 

Happiness is Jack Schitt's profile at LinkedIn

 

Happiness is foraging for edible mountain herbs and greens in Cisalpine Gaul

 

Happiness is a vacation to Puerto Backyarda

 

Happiness is an oldie but a goodie

 

Happiness is clover when you have no manure

  

 Clover is the best way of improving clays, where manure is scarce.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Happiness is Radio Taiso Snow Edition

 

Happiness is a toasted plain bagel for breakfast, with ricotta cheese and jam

 

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Happiness is Granny Hawkins: I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat

Decoration Day

 

 Embrace again, my sons! be foes no more;

Nor stain your country with her children's gore.

-- John Dryden

Happiness is Vera Lynn, 1917-2020, "the Forces' Sweetheart" and the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century

Read all about the amazing woman who bested the Beatles, and Bob Dylan, here.

Vincenzo's Plate got me to try Mutti Passata from a jar, available at my grocery: What a revelation of tomato sauce goodness

 

Happiness is fresh spring air

 Gentle gales,

Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense

Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole

These balmy spoils.

-- John Milton

Happiness is a Neapolitan coffee pot: La cuccuma napoletana

 

Happiness is a Bud Light meme, unless you are Bud Light

 

You don't have to be rich to biddy biddy bum

 

Otherwise, I putz in my yard. I do a bit of writing. Once in a while, I have small get-togethers at my apartment. I’m kind of embarrassed by how deeply satisfying and comforting my simple routines are, and by how much I care for my cats. 

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Happiness is Dave's Good Seed Bread

 Especially toasted with butter and cherry jam, accompanied by scrambled eggs and coffee.

What a breakfast!

 

Happiness is Teenager in Love by Dion and the Belmonts 1959

 

Happiness is being born again

 

Happiness is Wanda Jackson singing her 1957 Fujiyama Mama which was a #1 in Japan for six months in 1958

 

Happiness is a brick collection

 

Happiness is a map of the many cheeses of France

 

Happiness is the nearby hu-hu-hu sound of an owl on a winter evening

 

Happiness is finally discovering the secret to good television reception

 

Happiness is The Bayerische Staatsoper Opern Studio performing Funiculi, funiculà with maestro Villazón

 

Happiness is dark chocolate, despite the "heavy metals" brouhaha

 The Consumer Reports story has now made it to CNBC:

5 brands—including Trader Joe’s—whose dark chocolate tested high for lead, cadmium

When the story first came out I was alarmed because I regularly consume two or three small squares of the very worst chocolate bar in the original report.

Long story short, I calculate that I have consumed 0.72 micrograms lead per day for some time.

In 2022 the FDA fixed the lead limit for women of childbearing age at 8.8 micrograms per day:

The FDA lowered its IRLs for dietary lead to 2.2 μg/day for children and 8.8 μg/day for females of childbearing age.

Like everything else from California, its "maximum allowable dose level (MADL)" is hysterical.

 

I may change brands in the future, but I'm in no hurry.

What? Me worry?

 

Happiness is a wealthy redneck woodstove

 

Happiness is an avocado, but not because it has flavor

 The fruit is of itself very insipid, for which reason they generally eat it with the juice of lemons and sugar, to give it a poignancy.

-- Phillip Miller (1691-1771)

Happiness is beans, beans the magical fruit

 A nutritionist shares the ‘underrated’ longevity food she eats every day to boost her immune system :

According to a 2022 study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, swapping out red meats and processed foods for legumes, whole grains, vegetables can increase life expectancy by more than a decade for people in their 20s or 30s. ...

In fact, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association recommend eating legumes as an alternative to animal proteins to help lower the risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Happiness is the five pillars of a longevity diet

Whole grains like corn, rice and oats (complex carb)

Greens

Tubers, including potatoes and yams (complex carb)

Nuts

Beans (complex carb)

 

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Happiness is chastity, an obscene word which has a tit in it

 

Happiness is a ridinghood in winter

 Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,

Defended by the ridinghood's disguise.

 

-- John Gay (1685-1732)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in New Jersey

 

Happiness is the end of election season

 

Happiness is oats in England, if you are a horse

 

A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. 

-- Samuel Johnson

Happiness is retiring to the country with your friends

 All hail, ye fields, where constant peace attends!

All hail, ye sacred, solitary groves!

All hail, ye books, my true, my real friends,

Whose conversation pleases and improves!

-- William Walsh (1663-1708)

Happiness is a silver saucepan

 If your butter when melted tastes of brass, it is your master's fault who will not allow you a silver saucepan. 

-- Jonathan Swift

Happiness is the word queue

 

Happiness is freedom from anxiety

 To be happy, is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience, and tranquillity of mind.

-- John Tillotson (1630-1694)