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Like so many who want to be in show biz, he took whatever jobs were available while honing his craft, and he hoped to be a stand-up comedian.
Our pizza and Italian food restaurant was hiring, he was bright enough I knew he'd be able to do the work, and on his first day, I ended up training him back in the kitchen.
He learned fast and was showing promise at being very good at expediting (cutting, chopping, slicing, getting ingredients ready for the chef).
As I was showing him the cheese grating station, he said, "Ah, where you shred all the mozzarella, right?" and I responded, "Actually, pure mozzarella is expensive, we use a blend of it and Provolone."
He looked at me with a straight face and said, "You mean you cut the cheese?" and then grinned.
He'd do the work, all right, but it was going to be a long shift.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Blend.
(For any who might not be familiar with it, "cut the cheese" is an American English euphemism for flatulence/passing gas.)
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
It's not often you see snow on our rickety old fence.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
We did all the hard work,
to blow this one up and fill it,
the smaller pool's right there for you,
we're enjoying this big one for a bit.
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful the roads are more passable and places are starting to reopen. We are even hoping to get to work today.
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Today is:
Bounty Day -- Pitcairn Island (celebrates the burning of the HMS Bounty in 1790
Clashing Clothes Day -- "officially" (although i'm not sure who declared it) on the 4th Thursday of January, but some people seem to celebrate it every day
Cold, Cold, Cold Day -- coldest temp ever recorded in the US, -79.8°F (-62.11°C), this day in 1971 at Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska
Day of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Get to Know Your Customers Day -- on the 4th Thursday of each quarter
Lenaia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (three day Dionysian festival to arouse the sleeping vegetation and bring spring; date approximate)
National Pie Day -- US, sponsored by the American Pie Council
National Handwriting Day -- US, on the birth anniversary of John Hancock, to encourage the dying art of legible handwriting by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association
National Rhubarb Pie Day
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti -- TR and WB, India (birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose)
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays; plow drivers, see how far you can make those rural mailboxes go!
St. John the Almoner's Day (Patron of Knights Hospitaller; known for his generosity to the poor, "If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need.")
Women in Medicine Day -- Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman awarded the degree of Medical Doctor in 1849
Women's Healthy Weight Day -- on the Thursday of Healthy Weight Week, encouraging women to strive for a healthy weight and lifestyle
Anniversaries Today:
The founding of Georgetown University, the first US Catholic college, 1789
Birthdays Today:
Tito Ortiz, 1975
Tiffani Thiessen, 1974
Mariska Hargitay, 1964
Gail O'Grady, 1963
Princess Caroline of Monaco, 1957
Antonio Villaraigosa, 1953
Pat Haden, 1953
Richard Dean Anderson, 1950
Rutger Hauer, 1944
Gil Gerard, 1943
Chita Rivera, 1933
Jeanne Moreau, 1928
Ernie Kovacs, 1919
John M. Browning, 1855
Edouard Manet, 1832
Stendhal(Marie-Henri Beyle), 1783
John Hancock, 1737
Joseph Hewes, 1730
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The A-Team"(TV), 1983
"Roots"(TV miniseries), 1977
"Barney Miller"(TV), 1975
"King Family Show"(TV), 1965
"After the Fall"(Miller's Play), 1964
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"(Film), 1948
Today in History:
Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga (Hindu Iron Age of the Gods), BC3102
In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops, 971
The first printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul, 1490
The first printing of the Pentateuch, 1492
The second version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England, 1552
What is probably the most deadly earthquake in history kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China, 1556
Queen Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange in London, 1571
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, 1656
Joseph Pease, a Quaker, is admitted to Parliament on his affirmation, 1833
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female physician in the US, 1849
The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1855
Alesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Alesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless an one person dead, 1904
Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American US senator, 1907
Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of the Polish government in exile, 1940
Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time, 1943
The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean, 1960
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, 1986
Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10, 2003
Six Venezuelan cable television channels are taken off the air by the Venezuelan government after refusing to transmit government messages, 2010
Chinese researchers report they have cloned two monkeys, using the same technology as Dolly the Sheep, 2018
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is marked by an international forum in Jerusalem, Israel, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, in a speech to Parliament, says Japan is on the verge of not being able to function as a society because of the low birth rate and high life expectancy, 2023
Love your six sentence and that crowded pool with the poem.
ReplyDeleteSmiling at both your six sentence story and the pool poem. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great poem...way too crowded fior me, too...
ReplyDeleteTwo fences this time; and with snow.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I bet you are thankful for clear roads. Unless you have flooding you don't often have roads closed especially for snow. I think our schools might open today because we are 10° above zero this morning.
ReplyDeleteWhen life gives you snow, enjoy it as it will be gone soon. It would be tough to work with someone who was constantly making bad jokes!
ReplyDeletebah rum bump!*
ReplyDeleteand whatever onomatopoeiaic construct stands in for a single cymbal crash
How much water could possibly be left in that pool??? Silly men.
ReplyDeleteBe careful on thoe roads, you never know where a patch of ice may be hiding.
Woos - Misty and Timber
That is a funny poem and a crazy picture too and hooray for snow melting away! Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteGreat story. Glad the roads are better. XO
ReplyDeleteThanks for the two smiles you gave me - the six sentence story and the pool photo. No make that three! The poem was a bonus.
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "Our Dada years ago had a coworker friend for whom English was a second language, and one year she brought in a plate of cheese and crackers and pepperoni and stuff for the break room. She sent out an email to everyone in the company to come to the break room because she was going to cut the cheese. Our Dada had to go to her cubicle and explain to her why everyone in the office found that so amusing ..."
ReplyDeleteGood job on the poem this week - the kids look like they're being VERY PATIENT with the Dads taking a dip but I'm thinking their patience is about to run out!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam and Teddy
Nothing adds levity, like a little bathroom humor. Once again it was a pleasure to spend a few moments in your little corner of the world.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent six - thanks for the informative footnote! I'm not sure I'd want to be in that pool!
ReplyDeleteExcellent Six - and that cheese 😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that euphemism! What a fun Six, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteGreat writing and glad to hear roads are becoming more passable ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Exlores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Cute Six, Mimi. Poem too. Bet those kids didn't know what to say, lol
ReplyDeleteHistoric snowfall! It's always a welcome feeling when the roads begin to open up.
that pool pic was so cute....loved the 6 sentence too
ReplyDeleteNothing like a good fart joke to move things along. You clever girl! 😉😂😂
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