Friday, July 19, 2013

Marilyn's Diary

 
My Aunt Lily tried to reignite the flame with Uncle Herman in every way she could. She dressed sexier. She was more inventive in bedroom as she found new ways to play dead because Uncle Herman used to love that. She even tried learning to cook.

She used to serve the normal Transylvanian cuisine. You know. Rotted flesh. Maggot infested swill. Indian food. But none of it really interested Uncle Herman. He would choke down whatever food it had taken her hours to prepare and not even notice what it was. It didn't really matter to him.

You see he would wait patient until he could creep into my room.

It was what I would eat that would get him all excited.
 
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24 comments:

  1. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM

    What's wrong w/ Indian food?

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  2. The DudeJuly 19, 2013 at 2:54 PM

    Needs moar beef.

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  3. Chip S.July 19, 2013 at 3:06 PM

    All those spices are to cover up bad meat.

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  4. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM

    Tony Soprano got sick on Indian food the day he and the boys clipped Big Pussy. I love Indian food. Eaten it many times and never had a problem.

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  5. ricpicJuly 19, 2013 at 3:49 PM

    Well, in spinelli's line of work it doesn't hurt to curry favor with the motel set.

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  6. The DudeJuly 19, 2013 at 3:50 PM

    I can patel what you are doing there.

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  7. Chip S.July 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM

    Apparently most of those motel owners come from the same province, Gujarati. Supposedly the whole trend got started b/c some US motel owner ran an ad in a Gujarati newspaper back in the day.

    The real question is, are Indian restaurants run by Indians or Greeks?

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  8. Trooper YorkJuly 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM

    Hey even the Greek diners are run by Mexicans nowadays.

    They only have an old Greek guy out front as a beard.

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  9. Chip S.July 19, 2013 at 4:21 PM

    You sure those aren't Greeks posing as Mexicans so they could get in?

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  10. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 5:18 PM

    ricpic, Great pun. As you might imagine, I have stayed in MANY hotels and motels over my career. I should have kept notes because that could be a book in itself. Wisconsin in particular has many non chain local motels. The motel got a quick 2 strikes if I walked in the lobby and it smelled like soup.

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  11. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 5:22 PM

    My sister worked @ a Greek diner as a waitress when she went to college in New Haven. The diner was owned by 2 brothers. It was open 24 hours, EVERY day of the year. One brother worked midnight to noon, the other noon to midnight EVERY day of the year. They were the only person ever to touch the register.

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  12. Michael HazJuly 19, 2013 at 5:30 PM

    Nick - most of the time I stop for lunch in Madison it's at the Maharini. Very good food.

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  13. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM

    Maharini is probably the best in town.

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  14. MethadrasJuly 19, 2013 at 6:58 PM

    ndspinelli said...

    What's wrong w/ Indian food?

    Everything smells like curry.

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  15. MethadrasJuly 19, 2013 at 6:58 PM

    Chip S. said...

    The real question is, are Indian restaurants run by Indians or Greeks?

    Chinks and the mexicans.

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  16. MamaMJuly 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    You sure those aren't Greeks posing as Mexicans so they could get in?

    Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

    Trojan Women is a whole 'nother story.

    In Euripides' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B.C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death; whence in days to come men shall tell of 'the wooden horse,' with its hidden load of warriors.”

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  17. The DudeJuly 19, 2013 at 7:35 PM

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  18. The DudeJuly 19, 2013 at 8:27 PM

    Greek guy takes a pair of pants to the tailor.

    Tailor says "Euripides?"

    Guy says "Yeah, Eumenides?

    I won't be here all week if I can't tell a joke any better than that.

    Horse goes to the doctor...

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  19. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 8:34 PM

    Haz, Here's a bit of politics dirt trivia. When Peg Lautenschlager got popped for DUI, she had her "One glass of wine" @ a restaurant bar that is now Maharini.

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  20. Michael HazJuly 19, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    Huh. Did not know that. You mean the gallon-size glass, right?

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  21. Michael HazJuly 19, 2013 at 8:58 PM

    Nick - When we want too avoid the omnipresent liberals we stop for drinks or a meal at Kavanaugh's Esquire Club in Maple Bluff. I think we're headed there after a Mallards game in August.

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  22. ndspinelliJuly 19, 2013 at 9:07 PM

    The Esquire is where I would meet some Maple Bluff guys every Friday for cocktails after work back in the 90's. The old man was still alive then, but John ran it. I've not been there in 15 years. Only ate there a few times but always good.

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  23. chickelitJuly 19, 2013 at 11:53 PM

    Speaking of mallards and Maple Bluff...I recall someone rather famous in Madison getting in trouble for luring ducks to his pier with food and then shooting them in the 1970's

    Could be urban legend.

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  24. The DudeJuly 20, 2013 at 5:24 AM

    Oh, "his". Never mind...

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