26th May 2011 Finger Licking Fun

I had dinner recently with a friend in a rather posh restaurant where everybody seems to order prawns. At least that's what I immediately noticed on all the tables within my view. I have this bad habit of spying on what other people eat, mostly to help me find out what looks good. All right, I am also just a bit nosy! So, we too ordered King prawns with garlic butter as starter.

The prawns arrived, a beautiful sight of artistically 'constructed' pile of prawns dripping with aromatic butter, a lemon 'basket' on the side, and crisp courgette butterflies. Half way through it, I noticed at a nearby table a well dressed woman, well off too I bet (wearing more jewellery than she ought to), struggling hard with her knife and fork, painstakingly trying to pry off the shells of her prawns, while I was eating mine with fingers of both my hands, posh restaurant or not.

When she happened to pause for a momentary rest with so much struggle, I raised my hands with the half striped prawn, grinned and winked at her. With quick and good humour, accompanied with an enormous sigh and smile, she winked back, threw her knife and fork on the table, grabbed
and attacked the prawn with her hands.

I go to a restaurant to enjoy eating food, not to stare at it and fight with it, right? That little episode quite made my night. I have done my good deed of a girl scout for the day, and it compensated somewhat for my date's not very interesting account of his recent financial combat in the stock exchange.

My friend Abbaren just added the following:
A man walked by a restaurant and saw his good friend Mulla inside devouring his food with both his hands instead of a knife and fork. Shocked, the friend went inside and asked, "Mulla why are you eating your food with two hands?"

"Because I haven't got three," responded the hungry Mulla!

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26th May 2011 Recent News Tip-Bits

Mortal Rumba! Peret decapitated a fan sitting in the first row, when he made a rapid gyration with his guitar. - El jueves

~ Music stirs up lots of different sentiments; never thought it could kill.

In the frontier of Thailand a man was detained and he said the 6 children in his car-boot were for their own 'consumption'! - El jueves

~ Another proof that learning to use the right words is important.

A mummified Playboy-rabbit was discovered in California. - Publico

~ Hope they are not wasting time looking for the 2 missing legs of the rabbit.

Three people detained by police for escaping at 180 km/hr in a Seat 124 of 35 years in Madrid. - El Dia

~ How many years old the car was definitely not their main concern at that moment!

A man entered apartments saying he's paramedic from the Sanitary department, giving free home service to women Mammography, with his hands! - El Mundo

~ When have you heard of anything delivered to your door free?

A judge ordered a young man 'In In (youth who neither studies nor works ) to leave the parental home. He had denounced his parents for refusing to give him spending money, when the parents already maintains his board and lodging plus his car. - Sur

~ Call me a Cynic, I think it's the fault of the parents who had never bothered with the young man's education.

A 10 year old boy was arrested by the police for killing his father whom he accused of  being Neo-Nazi. - Publico

~ I am speechless!

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26th May 2011 Memoir Of The Bedroom

Chester Brown is a very peculiar character. It shows clearly in his autobiographical comics that has been publishing since the 80's. Amongst them 'The Playboy' (1992) and 'I never liked you' stand out to demonstrate this side of him.

 

The artist has surpassed himself with the publication of 'Paying for it', a comic strip memoir about being a John (client of prostitutes), with the 'it' in the title standing for sex. The book is terribly funny where the author declared himself a fervent visitor of prostitutes. After he was abandoned by his lady-love in the middle of the 90's - in fact she had found someone else and brought him home, Chester came to the conclusion that romantic love is a swindle, a joke and the source of disgrace and distress, so he seeks sex and appearance of affection paying for it ever since. Even today, he maintains a very good monogamic relationship (on both parts) with a prostitute. They get together every now and then and it's satisfactory for both (or so he says).

 

His friends, Seth and Joe Matt, another 2 glorious artists of humorous stories, who appear in his book as characters, confirms that Chester had never been quite right in the head. In the prologue, the great Robert Crumb describes it so: 'Chester Brown is not of this planet. Probably it's result of one of those alien abductions, in which a needle is poked into a woman's stomach to impregnate her. He is a very advanced human. You need only to look at his photo to prove it.'

 

The photo in question is at the end of the book and it frightens you. But you will read the book 'Paying for it' from cover to cover without wanting a break. And spend a lot of time afterwards ruminating on it. The Marxist theory that marriage is just legalized prostitution seems to have found a new and enthusiastic defender.

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