A pub in Ireland, still open since 1845. I'm thinking that HOOKER had quite a different meaning in Ireland in 1845, huh? Or, maybe.................not! Well, I DON'T KNOW!?
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Z, You asked, :"How'd we get to LA bashing from waterboarding?
Joy Behar and Rosie O'Donnell don't live here, by the way. I do.'
Via Waterboarding, we were able to foil a plot to bomb LA.
Hence the reference to Rosie O'Donnell.
I hope you understood my train of association.
There is no shortage of innappropriate jokes here are there Z?
1845 Ireland? Different Hookers.
It's supposedly "American" slang.
Dd2....my train must be off the track. but, okay!
Chuck...what? Did that bother you?
FJ..it's just a littlejoke!?
Z,
That is an interesting picture for sure. I wonder if you drink by the hour in there.
FJ,
That word history was very interesting. Thanks.
LOL!
Z, I certainly don't have an issue with inappropriate jokes (I prefer them)
Z ... just so that you know how senstive I am about old bars; the Marine Corps was founded in one. Tun's Tavern, Philadelphia.
When you think about this, it makes perfect sense.
Ooorahhh!
LAW AND ORDER, you won't believe this, but it's true!
My mother emailed Mr. Z tonight and asked how she can get on my blog without me emailing her (my email has my blog under my name as a sign-off, you know, and she just clicks on it, usually..) and so, somehow, he talked her through getting on.
I said "Oh, GREAT, Mom barely goes on my blog but the night I have the HOOKER BAR post, there she is!"
SO, she just emailed Mr. Z saying how funny she thought YOUR LINE about "drinking by the hour" was!! She liked THAT! We're still laughing!
You'd like her, she's a great Mom!! HAA!!!
Chuck..phew, I got worried for a sec!
Mustang, that's very cool! Semper Fi, SIR!!
Some things are best left unexamined. :)
Mustang,
Tun Tavern is indeed the place where the USMC was originally established on 11/10/1775, but Marine Corps history is also associated with a number of other old Taverns...
Samuel Nicholas, whom many credit with founding the USMC, was a founding member in good standing of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, who's members are famed for having formed, First Troop, Philadelphia Cavalry aka Light Horse of the City of Phaladelphia on 11/17/1774, a year before the USMC was organized, and at the very outset of the American Cause for Independence as the 1st Continental Congress had just convened in Philadelphia in Sept. 1774. The Club's headquarters and kennels were at Hugg's Tavern in Gloucester Town... and many a fox hunt ended at Eldridge's aka - The Death of the Fox Tavern in Gloucester.
Of course, Samuel Nichols was also the proprietor of the Conestoga Wagon Tavern as well....
So if you ever make a pilgrimage to the Philadelphia/ Delaware Region, you'll have plenty of excuses to stop and enjoy all the appropriate "refreshments"...
of course... the "Hookers," et al, appear to have come later. ;-)
FJ...great info! thanks very much.
Z, DD2 is right..
There are 7 million people in LA who are probably unaware of how close they came to dying.
Check it out on google.
Red..I had no trouble believing that...we all heard it!
Hitting a building wouldn't have killed 7 million, and that's what I've heard was planned, but......whatever.
Thanks. It was dd2's line I didn't quite grasp...about the new Yorkers ..
Z,
Obviously your mother is a woman of great intellect and good humor. Please convey my appreciation and my best wishes. I will consider ourselves introduced. Nice to meet her.
Law & Order, wasn't that sweet? Thanks for your nice greeting which I just copy/pasted and emailed her with.
She's such a good, traditional woman with amazing values so we howled that she liked your line.
She came to visit every summer we lived in paris and one day we parked underground in the middle of the city only to walk up the steps into THE GAY PARADE! WHO KNEW? She was suddenly eye to eye, virtually 8' away, from a man on a float wearing a boa, fishnet stockings and false eyelashes....and little else. She was wonderful about it and laughed and I was horrified "MOM, oh,my GOSH, Mom's here!" SO funny. She was fine!!
I know she'd love to say "Nice to meet YOU, too, Law and Order!"
LAW & ORDER: From my mother in response:
So I am a lady of great intellect and good humor? How about that. that made my evening. Thanks Z.
MOM
Thanks, L&0!!
Some things are best left unexamined. :)
I always thought the correct saying was, "the unexamined life is not worth living..."
Z,
Your mother reminds me of mine. That's why I am so deferential. My mother grew up speaking German.
She always said the hardest thing was learning to speak English. As I said the Katzenjammer Kids were something she identified with. Your mother seems to be the same, only Armenian.
I'll reply to the post above.
Hooker most likely refered to a longshoreman who would grab the hook of a ship's crane to the ropes of a bundled load - hooking it up so the crane could lift it.
Learn a little history and your language will mean more to you.
thanks, "anonymous", but there was plenty of history given here! I guess ours just didn't jive with yours!?
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