The Happy Thread

[StillSearching]

It's a Texas Sheet Cake - anyone heard of it?

Aren't those the things you see all over cow pastures? Oh....that's not a sheet cake.

[Moonwood the Hare]

Only Texan recipe I have is a tealoaf made with pinto beans. It's a good one!
It may be true about Guiness. Purists would say it's not true Guiness unless it's made with the water of the Liffey

O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You'll die when you hear.

[Rian]

It's a Texas Sheet Cake - anyone heard of it?

Aren't those the things you see all over cow pastures? Oh....that's not a sheet cake.

And they're not cakes, they're pies!

And a nice warm cow pie for you the next time you diss my sheet cake!

O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You'll die when you hear.

Errrr, what?

[Keep The Reason]

It's a Texas Sheet Cake - anyone heard of it?

Aren't those the things you see all over cow pastures? Oh....that's not a sheet cake.

And they're not cakes, they're pies!

And a nice warm cow pie for you the next time you diss my sheet cake!

O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You'll die when you hear.

Errrr, what?

Finnegan's Wake

[Moonwood the Hare]

O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You'll die when you hear.

Errrr, what?

Finnegan's Wake

Anna Livia Plurabelle is the personification on the river Liffey which is what Guinness should be made from. I wandered round Dublin looking for places in Ulysses - which I read - never got through Finnegan's wake. There was a pub called Anna Livia with a disco upstairs called Plurabelle's. And a load of nuns and priests were visiting the Martello Tower where Joyce lived and which he writes about in Chapter 1 of Ulysse s- it struck me as ironic since I don't think the Church had much time for Joyce when he was alive.

[Keep The Reason]

Anna Livia Plurabelle is the personification on the river Liffey which is what Guinness should be made from. I wandered round Dublin looking for places in Ulysses - which I read - never got through Finnegan's wake. There was a pub called Anna Livia with a disco upstairs called Plurabelle's. And a load of nuns and priests were visiting the Martello Tower where Joyce lived and which he writes about in Chapter 1 of Ulysse s- it struck me as ironic since I don't think the Church had much time for Joyce when he was alive.

FW is painful to work through.

[Moonwood the Hare]

Anna Livia Plurabelle is the personification on the river Liffey which is what Guinness should be made from. I wandered round Dublin looking for places in Ulysses - which I read - never got through Finnegan's wake. There was a pub called Anna Livia with a disco upstairs called Plurabelle's. And a load of nuns and priests were visiting the Martello Tower where Joyce lived and which he writes about in Chapter 1 of Ulysse s- it struck me as ironic since I don't think the Church had much time for Joyce when he was alive.

FW is painful to work through.

Did you make it?

[Keep The Reason]

Yes-- but here's how. A group of friends read it aloud in a round-robin. So we "got through it" but I think that quietly, by oneself, it might be categorized as an act of unbridled masochism.

[Moonwood the Hare]

I remember years ago reading someone who said you have not started to read Finnegans Wake until you have spent 1000 hours on it. I would guess the pleasure people find in it is more like solving a crossword than reading a novel although sheer joy in language could be a part of it.

[Keep The Reason]

I remember years ago reading someone who said you have not started to read Finnegans Wake until you have spent 1000 hours on it. I would guess the pleasure people find in it is more like solving a crossword than reading a novel although sheer joy in language could be a part of it.

Life's too short.

[Tim-the-Hermit]

Is bitter an acquired taste? I tried it for about 2 weeks but still didn't like it, so gave up and went back to lager. The sophisticated gents also took Mild and 'Brown and Mild.' I'm probably not quite old enough to be nostalgic over these things (39.)

I think Guinness is still doing well, though I don't like it much either.

[Rian]

I don't know if this rightly belongs in the Happy Thread, but it was funny, and funny makes me happy, so here goes:

I heard a song the other day on the radio, and it reminded me of the time that I was with my daughter and her friend in a doctor's office and heard that same song. My daughter needed to get some blood drawn for a test, so we went with her into the blood draw room and the phlebotomist got to work. There was some background music playing, and I suddenly noticed my daughter and her friend trying to suppress giggles. I asked them afterwards why they were laughing, and they said, "Didn't you hear the song that was playing? It was "Keep Bleeding" - and the lyrics are "You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding"! "

[Keep The Reason]

I tried it for about 2 weeks but still didn't like it, so gave up and went back to lager.

This is PRECISELY how I felt about "Finnegan's Wake"!

Except, instead of lager, I needed to take heroin. And it was closer to a month.

[Tim-the-Hermit]

So you wouldn't really recommend "Finnegan's Wake" then, KTR? BTW, this has sort of turned into the Hoppy thread.

[Keep The Reason]

So you wouldn't really recommend "Finnegan's Wake" then, KTR? BTW, this has sort of turned into the Hoppy thread.

It's a very challenging book; hard to say if I'd recommend it. It's more of an acheivement to read it, lol-- climb a mountian because it's there.