The struggle is eternal.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
We all need luggage when travelling. But a good piece of luggage can be expensive. It can even run you a million bucks as this good soul found to her dismay. Fortunately, she found herself a million-dollar discount. Huzzah! This brought the price down to $0.00. Free. And that’s cheaper than a $50 suitcase with no rebate. There’s a lesson here for all of us.
See the picture to the right for details. Though honestly, I can’t see much interest in any $1,000,000 travel kit. But that might just be me.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
People keep asking me, for no apparent reason, how to win a woman’s heart.
This is an easy one. I can’t figure why there are so many books on the subject.
So, how would I a woo a woman?
Simple, cook for her. A well-cooked meal will make a woman’s heart flutter.
Continue to prepare her dinners fit for the gods. She will love you devotedly all your life.
And oh, as my Grandma Anna used to say, “An outstanding chef will leave the kitchen as clean at the end as when he started.”
So if you clean up as you go, your everlasting love will be the greatest of all time. Just like Romeo and Juliet.
But they both killed themselves. Oh well, maybe you should make a little mess. Or just eat out.
Bother.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Carl La Fong, way back in 1922 complained about the slow service at his DMV. He raised his eyes to the heavens–There was ceiling in the way, but we’ll let that go–and yelled, “This place as slow as road repair.”
But we don’t have a word to describe mind-numbing slowness.
It’s high time to correct this oversight. It derives from the initials of slow “as road repair,” or “sarr.”
TODAY’S AWESOME WORD
sarr
Awesome entry #22
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
20 million people in the Philippines speak the Tagalog language. 1.6 million people living in America speak it. Even 400,000 Canadians converse in Tagalog. So you can see how essential it is for the modern American man and woman to be fluent in Tagalog in this world of ever increasing globalization.
Sure, I hear you say, “But Paul, learning a new language is hard. Can’t start with a few important words. I feel your pain.
This is why this, the first lesson, starts out with the 32 most important words in Tagalong. Master these words and soon you feel absolutely at home in any Tagalog community.
Of course, if you’re reading and come across a word in Tagalog, simply find it in the Tagalog column and look up the English translation. You, linguist, you.
Lesson #1
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Sure, we all want to be in better shape. We should exercise more. Some. Once. But we don’t. Our excuses for avoiding physical extertion are legion. So many of us completely erase from our mind all thoughts of the workout. But not all of us. The better lazy people actively think about exercising.
But we don’t have a word to describe this behavior.
It’s high time to correct this oversight.
TODAY’S AWESOME WORD
mindcise
Awesome entry #21
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Part of the Hail Mary part of the rosary is as follows:
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death.
I really thought for a bit that those lines went as below. The “now and then” misinterpretation changes the meaning a bit. I my defense, my misunderstanding has Mary praying for us more often.
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
While we’ve been concentrating on foreign wars, domestic politics, and the economy, an issue of great importance to all of us has been allowed to fester.
Namely, the truly fetid state of many plastic wraps. Plastic wraps, WHEN THEY WORK, are invaluable in helping food last longer. When they don’t work, the plastic usually is doing a fantastic job of adhering to itself. It’s nigh on impossible to remove any plastic from the rest of the plastic on the roll. Indeed, the whole state of affairs has gotten so bad, that some of the poorer militaries around the world use rolls of plastic wrap in their bazookas.
American consumers yearn for information on plastic wrap. Who will help them choose the good wraps and avoid the bad ones? Who? Who will bear the consumers’ burden?
America, Paul’s Awesome Buyer’s Report hears you. Here is its first in depth analysis.
But first, we must go over PABE’s, Paul’s Awesome Buyers’ Report, rating system.
From worst to best:
Evil
Bad
So so
Good
Heavenly
In this issue I analyzed the following wraps
Saran(tm) Premim Wrap – Evil
I could not any plastic to pull off the roll no matter how hard and long I tried. I ended up throwing it away,
Reynolds(tm) Kitchens Plastic Wrap – Good
The great virtue of this product is its built-in side cutter. As Reynolds states, “Clean cut every time.” You’ll never again buy any plastic wrap without a built-in a side cutter.
Reynold’s = Good
Saran’s = Evil
There.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Jigsaw puzzles can be lots of fun. Finishing them elicits effusive praise from guests. Completing the puzzle makes your spouse respect you for the first time in months. “You completed a project. Well done!”
However, puzzle solving can take hours, dozens of hours, and even dozens of weeks, if you even finish. Yep, you’ll probably give up. Your latest failure will drive her to desert you. Her farewell note of “You clod, I’ve run off with the milkman” will be all the more hurtful for the fact that your neighborhood hasn’t had a milkman in 40 years.
And if you stick to your puzzle quest, no matter the cost, chances are there will be a missing piece. Where did the piece go? Is it hiding somewhere on the floor, did it migrate to your sock drawer, or did your puzzle box simply have a piece missing? No matter, it’s missing. You won’t regain your mate’s love and adoration.
He: You didn’t finish the puzzle.
You: I did. All but one piece.
He: Like I haven’t heard that one before.
And then he leaves, claiming to go to the store to buy a particle accelarator. He doesn’t come back. Your life is bereft of joy. Well mostly, you do look forward to not picking up his socks anymore.
What’s the solution? A one-piece puzzle! Everyone of us finish that. And quickly, too. No more looking at a box of 1,000 pieces and guessing if they are all there. Buy the one-piece puzzle. We can all count to one. Yes we can.
Look below to see the one-piece puzzle I just completed..
1 piece puzzle of the world.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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