It's French Fries Day

Are French Fries French?

French fries were probably invented in Belgium, but nobody knows for sure. The word "french" refers to the way that are made. Any food cut up into strips is called "frenched", so potatoes cut into strips and fried were known as French Fried Potatoes. Maybe McDonald's started calling them French Fries!

Happy Birthday, Mark Meyer!

You share your special day with:

1737 - Thomas Paine, political philosopher
1843 - William McKinley, 25th US president (1897-1901)
1880 - W C Fields, actor (Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee)
1912 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1915 - Victor Mature, actor (Samson & Delilah)
1918 - John Forsythe, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
1939 - Germaine Greer, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
1942 - Katharine Ross, actress (The Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1945 - Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI)
1948 - Marc Singer, actor (V, Dallas)
1950 - Ann Jillian, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1975 - Sara Gilbert, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)

Good Morning,.....and Happy Birthday, Mark!

Happy Birthday Day and have a safe journey and enjoy the wonders of Bonaire..Safe diving too

Hi Margarita! Hi Freddie! When does lucky Mark hit Fantasy Island?



Today is the day - I head out into the winter wonderland that is Western Massachusetts and brave the light snow and cold for a lunch date with Dadz. I have second thoughts. I *rilly, rilly* hate going outside in the winter but I look forward to lunch and I need to get some fresh produce.

You go girl! Do it for the

Hi, Freddie!

Hi Gals.. Going to snow here today, you can tell, "it smells like snow!!!!" Anyone else out there have this unique gift of scent????

I know that smell!!

Found some divers.....only there for one frame.

Freddie - you are so right! I can smell it in the air here, too. The forehead and sheekbone sinuses hint at it also. We had flurries coming in a couple days ago and my entire face was scrunched up - aspirin wasn't helping. Then whoosh it was gone. I looked out back and the snow had arrived.

Sure is some different to have no migraines for two years (January 8th was two years!!) and being able to recognize the signs of a subtle, normal headache!

Happy Belated anniversary Rusty!!! Could have something to do with BT....
By the way I love your new profile pic, meant to tell you the other day!!! you will soon be in contention for keep up the great work!!!

OK am I the only BOZZO that continually hits the "New Registration" Button on the search page????

Freddie - you were the only to ADMIT it... until now. I hit it at least five times a day and then say, "Whut da heck??" LOL

Congratulations on your no headaches anniversary. I've never had one of those( migraine, that is) Most of my headaches have been self induced...know what I mean? Have you just found the right meds to cope, or have they actually gone away? margarite

The specialists at the UMASS Headache Clinic in Worcester got me onto a couple of daily Rx that immediately dropped my monthly migraines from 30+ to ZERO! They're a combination of blood pressure and calcium channel blocker meds - and as long as I take them morning and night I've stayed migraine-free! It's a miracle, truly!

Oh, and by the way...

Click me!

Not sure about the registration problem you are talking about, but I have to keep selecting a "user name" everytime I change topics or post.
why why why???

It's giving ME a headache!!! Glad yours are gone Rusty....

OOOOOOOOOo....I like that. Thank you Rusty!

Margarite.. I think to solve your problem you have to go into your user profile and check the preferences to see if the right ones are checked.
make sure this one is checked..
Remember my username and password in a cookie

Hello

Right, now that I can do that, how do I do this cookie thingy.
Presume this cookie is not an English biscuit, nor something Blue Peter prepared earlier :-)))

I always put my user name and password in every time change threads, and every time I change topics and boards.

So I shall go on a ''reckie'' and see what happens.

OK I have ticked / checked the box saying keep my username and password as a cookie. Should I have also ticked/checked the box saying something or other about ??? closing the cookie when I log off>> ??

Here goes....

Freddie, it didn't do that until I had to use the start up disk and I dumped all my information 'cause of the freezing problem I was having with my laptop. Now I'm not sure I know where to check preferences in my p-file.....it doesn't ask me about the cookie. Sheesh.

Great link Rusty!! I just called my therapist and fired him - whooohooo!!

Been to the other board and tried it out.


I am VERY impressed

I know my password SO well, and it will be wonderful not to have to write it in all the time.

Great link Rusty. Maybe I could fire my therapist too????

Margarite you probably have to enable you cookie Jar here is where you have to check in your profile..
Preferences

The following section allows you to specify your preferences for the operation of the board. The board needs to know who you are in order to use many of these settings. Consequently, for many of these features to work, you need to enable the cookie option.

Remember my username and password in a cookie

Jenni I think the turn off the cookie thingy is if you are on a public{work}computer.. Or at least that is one reason to turn it off, I'm sure there are more ..

lids off the cookie jars...hmmmm...



(good therapy)

I think I will go play now.

To get to my preferences, Margarite, I clicked on my own name [on a previous message I'd posted] and then went to User Profile right at the bottom of the page, and got a list of preferences. I didn;t remember doing any of that when I joined, but I wouldn;t have understood 'any' of it back then. Thanks to you guys I understand bits and bobs now.

Expecially when they are chocolate cookies, bob.

Bet I'd earn a fortune doing therapy with chocolate cookies.

Tom you look soooo young!! Love the haircut!!!

Jenni you can get to the profile thingy at the bottom of any of the pages...

Wow, this is so fast, not having to continually type in my name and password, or just my name, and then click on it to get the password in automatically. I love this.

Keep trying to type my name out of habit though. What a laugh!!

Oh, can I Freddie? I didn;t think *it* would know who I was [before cookie enabled] unless I was on *my* page.

Oh well. It worked. I just worked out wrong how to do it. Guess we do that all the time. Till someone informs us. Thanks, Fred!

Thank you Freddie

Actually that was taken a very long time ago before the "accident", here are a few newer ones.



and I owe my muuzical talents all to me Mother.

Well maybe it will help someone else too Jenni, and yes don't we all do silly things around here!!!!

Freddie is a virtual font of info today, guyz and grrrrlz! Let's give her a big round of applause! She got all the answers correctomundo!



Kids, poor ol' Rusty (45 last week, yikes!!) gotta go soon. Thesnow just started - light but steady.

Dadz coming by to get me. He has a yen for Taco Bell. (Can you have a yen for Mexican food??)

I was trying to do the same thing, Freddie..... But I did the preferences thing....still not working for me. But I can't worry about it today....got stuff to do. Also it hurts my brain.

Really Tom you should see a doctor about that!!!
or sue the one that did the surgery after the accident!!! Or at the very least see a good Dentist and have some choppers made..

I read it wrong...I'm glad you had the surgery done Excellent surgeon !!!

Tom is that your Momz TIP bottle on the floor by her Tiger slippers???

Hi everyone. I got home early. We didn't have to wait to be seen today. Straight in and straight out again. Whoopie. Annie B.

Look who greeted me when I logged on.

Here is a shot taken by a buddy of mine at Dutch Springs a few years ago.

Hi Annie - Great. I'm glad for you

Off to work now. Back at 10.30pm

See ya later Jenni.

Hi, Glad you got a break today . No mean nurses to scold you and no waiting around. Good.

Hi Margarite. Yep, today was a real bonus. Hope the next two days go the same, then I can come home and cam. BTW, my emails still don't work. Annie B.

Annie B.

Great. Keeping our fingers crossed helped with the wait time. We will continue to cross them and send prayers and good thoughts your way.

Annie, Jim told me you had sent messages to his mail. I don't get why it would work for Martin and not for you.... Stupid Computers....Anyway, my laptop went into safe mode earlier. I expect it to Freeze-crash-die any time now

BREAKING NEWS: From the depths of the shattered Super Sized Sanitary Septic, I figured how to post a gif!

Well,hooray for you, Clint!

Fun, isn't it? A whole new avenue for self expression. Now you can start your gif collection in earnest.

Pretty soon we shall hear Clint chant

Margarite Where did you find the twirly girlie. Annie B.

Rusty Great link. I like that.

Mike Cross everything, it is obviously working.LOL Annie B.

The ballerinas are from Animation Factory, Annie. Free , you know. I got some more ,too.

I sit around doing COBOL & SQL programming all day been years since I have done any "Fun Stuff"!

Go,Clint, Go!!

Annie, whilst I was shopping around for fun gifs, I came across this

Portrait of Jimmy, my happy hubby!!

How about some clever person making us a link to a new thread??? My sick puter is soooo slow. Here's one for the heck of it

Margarite you start the new thread and I'll do the link!!!

Now I know you folks have way to much time on your hands.

Ok I got the new thread up and going ..

tom, great pics

They were fun to make.

so tom, i have to ask, how did you "make" them?

Waah! I froze out just as my Dadz honked in the driveway. Sheesh.

Freddie is a virtual font of info today, guyz and grrrrlz! Let's give her a big round of applause! She got all the answers correctomundo!

Blue Tang,

It is easy first I start with a photo

remove background save

open another photo

put first photo over it, remove the parts I do not want and presto chango

Had a lot of practise doing this with products which appear on a few web sites.

So far all I have use are MS Image Composer and several Adobe Tools.

The gif files some of the visitors to this site create are a lot harder.

Rusty
the real truth about french fries is simple,
the normal standard cut size is 10*10 mm (at least here). However somebody at the other side of the ocean created a 8*8 mm cut and called it French Fries, I remember it was mr.McD, so it was just a marketing effort to convince the audience to have a better product. I must admit they've succeeded, we even call it now "mini-frites"

They were called French fries way before McD's. Many US service men refered to Belgian fries as French fries when returning from the WWI European theatre because France and Italy were both way more sauve than Belgium. I can remember going to A&W for a frosty mug, teen burger & french fries before any one had heard of McD's.

all i have to say is "papas fritas"

tom, i have a sigh of relief...i didn't want to be rude, as i thought that you most certainly had to be the most unusual looking diver i had ever seen...i'm glad that you posted what must be the real you in dive gear

Cynde Lee, you are so so sweet!

I received several e-mails regarding my "Beau Bales" photos. One person wanted to know if I was offended by a post they had made regarding "my" appearance:-{)}

Remember these words from Ken Beebe, Phd. Ed. (Dr. Play),

Play, for if you die tomorrow
Someone can and will do your work.
But, no one can play for you.

That's okay - I thought you had a sea urchin clamped onto your mug, Tom! LOL

What did she say?