Long ago when I was in law school there used to be a place on 57th Street and 3rd Avenue in NYC called Tommy Makem’s Irish Pavilion. Remember the traditional Irish music of Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers? That Tommy Makem.
My aunts and my mother’s cousins and my cousins used to make such a regular habit of being there on Thursday nights (there was live music Thursday through Sunday and Thursday was the least crowded) that there was a table permanently reserved for our family each Thursday.
Depending on the route I took home, I might get off the subway at Lexington Ave. and walk over to 3rd to catch an express bus home and that would take me right past the Irish Pavilion. As you can imagine, I would often stop in of a Thursday to have a pint and say Hi to the fams.
During my second year of law school I developed pneumonia but tried to keep on at school. I had been invited onto a law review and the workload from that in addition to my course work was crushing. I did not want to fall behind.
One night, I was walking past the Irish Pavilion, too exhausted I thought to make it to 3rd Avenue and wondering if I had the strength to get home when I realized – it was Thursday! I went to the door of the Irish Pavilion, there was line out onto the pavement. But I shoved by a bit and caught the eye of Declan the matre’d . He took one look at me, all flushed and glassy eyed with fever, and pulled me in saying, “I’ll get Tommy.”
I went back to the family table and, thank heavens, there along with a mess of cousins and second cousins was my Aunt Vera. I was saved. A minute later, Tommy came out of the kitchen with a steaming mug, said “you must do as you Uncle Tommy tells you now”, and ordered me to drink its contents. Although Tommy was not really my uncle, he said it would save my life, so I sipped it down.
I am still alive, so I guess he was right. The hot toddy recipe is one I have come back to for more colds, flus and bronchitis than you can shake a stick at. It never fails.
In an Irish Coffee mug or similar container, put:
1 tablespoon of honey 1/6 of a lemon (no more, not less) 1 clove (stuck in the rind of the lemon. Avoid the temptation to add more cloves) 1 shot of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey (Bushmill’s doesn’t work as well, I cannot figure out why) fill to the top with boiling water.
Breathe the vapors until it is cool enough to sip. Then, sip and breathe until finished. You will feel so comforted and have the most restorative night’s sleep. I have also used it prophylacticly to avoid illness when I have been soaked with icy mud during the odd early spring rugby match. There is nothing like the combination of hot bath and Tommy’s toddy to ward off the effects of the cold .
So, now that it is colds and flu season and with the weird weather we have been having, maybe we should expect more, we may need lots more home remedies. What traditional remedies have you used in your family? For that matter, does anybody else have a great hot toddy recipe? How about a favorite cold weather meal recipe? Something for after the snow shoveling, or better still, something for those nights when you have to commute home in freezing rain?
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Amen to the hot toddy! I can also testify to its amazing powers, as it has saved me from numerous colds as well.
LHP. Great posts over the last week or so briefing the firepups on the impending Fitz. Very inciteful, very informative for we non-lawyers.
Booyah LHP!
Just read this little tidbit in my print newspaper this morning:
There was a report of a quiet agreement last year between the White House and the Secret Service that the records of visitors to the “people’s house” will not be open to the public.
LHP: Here’s a pic I took not long ago of something that makes me feel better…
oops: here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9…..207046095/
mornin’ all
hey t
lhp, thanks for the informative posts over the recent past. Please hoist a medicinal toddy for me. (With me?) Of course, there is no scientific basis for claiming that Jamisons works and Bushmills doesn’t, and i’ve even heard of wise old grandmothers claiming that only Black Bush works.
Me, i had a Caol Ila 18 last nite with a few drops of water, and it also worked. but i can’t shake this nagging feeling that the runaway coup d’etat in amurka has some real suprises up their collective sleeve (a*s)
My favorite after shoveling snow is to make some hot chocolate with cocco powder and milk. And in the mug, have a shot of Calvados and maple syrup.
Pour the hot chocolate into the mixture in the mug and stir. If I have some half and half around, I’ll float a little on top.
My Italian father used to make us the same brew as LHP except for the clove. He would then put vicks on our chest and roll us up in a warm blanker right out of the dryer and make us sweat it out. I swear, the next day it was always gone.
Thanks lhp.
Never tried one of these. But I’m sitting up in bed right now having awaked for the fourth day in a row with a sore throat. Head is filled. Too late to prevent it, now I have to treat it and quick as I have to climb into the pulpit tomorrow morning in honor of MLK Jr. and do a memorial service tomorrow afternoon. Teapot filled with Traditional Medicinals bags all at once- Gypsy Cold Care, Breathe Easy, and Throat Coat. Been drinking lots of it.
Had the worst cold in memory during the YearlyKos convention last summer. I still reveled in the experience, but it would have been SO much better had I been healthy.
One thing for sure . . . use the tissues with lotion in them.
I like black coffee with a shot of Frangelica (the monk bottle) and whipped cream. Yummy.
Hot Curry Chicken Stew – or a bit looser like thick soup over egg noodles. Really opens clogged heads.
ccmask @
12
how about frangelica with a shot of coffee?
Jewish penicillin also is a necessity—chicken soup. I usually go for the clear broth in a can. Streits or Manichewitz. That and saltines. The salt helps the throat a lot.
The chicken soup must be homemade and instead of rice, use pastina.
ccmask @ 16
Agreed. I always keep a few chickens in the freezer for that reason – and the smell of it cooking is comforting.
hillary’s in baghdad – it’s enough to make any cold/flu worse
The Vietamense version of chicken soup, Pho Ga works wonders also.
twolf1 @ 18
Maybe they’ll take a picture of her in a tank like Dukakis.
Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., an influential member of the Appropriations Committee and top ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warned Friday that he might seek to close the controversial U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a condition of approving more money for the war.
“If he wants to veto the bill, he won’t have any money” for the war, Murtha said at a forum of anti-war Democrats.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…..NI8VK1.DTL
Mornin’, Fire pups –
lhp – this one’s for you & Christy (if you’ve not seen it) ;-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01…..r=homepage
Synopsis from administration mouthpiece:
Terraists don’t need no stinkin’ legal representation & we’re gonna make sure they don’t get none.
When I am sick, I pull out my special mug [from college days, with a beautiful blue glaze], put the kettle on, and make a big pot of Red Rose tea [warm up the pot and the mug first with boiling water]. I pull out a lemon, my bottle of honey, and set everything on a tray. Each cup has a little honey and lemon–the only time I sweeten tea.
And for what ails you, I heartily recommend Aunt Patsy’s Chicken Thyme Soup–discovered this more than 20 years ago–with a batch of herb biscuits [just Biquick drop biscuits, made with skim milk, plus dried sage, rosemary, marjoram, and thyme].
Bush vows to 60 Minutes that ‘no matter what Congress wants’ surge is on
christof: So many people have never had pastina. Growing up, we had it for breakfast all the time. Even had spinach pastina which I just can’t get in town. Add milk and pepper to it and it is great for kids. I eat it for dinner a lot.
RevDeb @ 20
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Calls Situation in Iraq ‘Heartbreaking’
. . .always good for what ails the progressive soul
Steven Griles has been notified he is the target of an investigation as a result of his testimony on Abramhoff in 05
http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vau…..03391.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Griles
I’d say it’s a wise use of DOJ resources*g*
Mornin’ Firedogs
ccmask @ 25
My mom used to feed it to me when I had a stomach flu or something – just with butter and salt. I have passed that down to my kids – and recently to my sick girlfriend. She loved it also.
cbl: Another one of Reagan’s boys…
From wiki on Steven Griles:
David Hirsch, a director for Friends of the Earth, said of Griles: “he spent four years working for his former clients at the Department of Interior. It didn’t seem to matter how many problems came out, he just kept going. He’s the Energizer Bunny of conflict of interest.” [2]
Curried anything really helps to unclog the sinuses, but chicken mulligatawny is the best especially made with lots of fresh ginger.
A hot drink with honey, lemon, and as much grated fresh ginger asyou can stand is good too.
Oh, and LHP? You’ve been fabulous.
ccmask @ 25
Now there’s some great comfort food ccmask. My grandmother used to make that for me for lunch.
I’ll have to give your Rx a whirl. Up till now, a double shot of good brandy provided me respite from achiness and sleeplessness.
Family recipes? Let’s see…. ammonia on bee stings, vinegar on a bad sunburn (despite the reek), sour cream to settle a sour stomach or heartburn.
More recent herbal hippie type remedies I’ve employed: kefir to restore intestinal health after a spell of antibiotic use. St. John’s Wort to treat depression ( I used it for three months to dig out of a situational depression once and I was most impressed).
And then there’s the standby I use for writer’s block once or twice a year, or for the rare occasion when I feel humor-impaired: cannabis indica. It’s supposed to work well for other ailments, too, none of which I suffer from. With no known side effects beyond incarceration (in unluckier states) and failing employment drug tests, and having to endure other hippies goofing on me while bogarting my stash.
cbl @ 27
Morning all– tres good news, indeed.
Wonder if Gail Norton is also under investigation? :0
Anyone ever see the movie Cold Comfort Farm?
twolf1 @ 18
an antidote to hillary flu:
go over to Hullabaloo (listed here under “digby” for new folks) and read poputonian’s post of yesterday (the 12th) on how impeachment proceedings against fuckwad and cheney may well come out of new mexico. they’re working on it in their state legislature and claim they have a new congressman from New Mexico to introduce it in the House.
word is, there’s “a race on” in several states to be the first to make this happen. and i’ll take a shot of that neat and breathe in the vapors ……
For warts, my grandmother would take a copper penny and tape it on the wart for a week. Each day, you had to change the penny. I have seen it work on my brother.
Vicks vaporub, a steaming cup of chamomile and my Mom’s cool hands on my hot forehead…
And angie, put the vick’s right in the water of one of those humidifiers. That is really good.
When I get stuffed up, I put vicks and water in a pot, boil it and put a towel over my head right over the pot. Don’t fall in though.
Warts? Hah! My mom said rub it with an old dishrag, then bury the rag in a hole. Wait 2-3 months till the rag’s rotted away and the wart will be gone by then.
Skeptical? It worked on a finger wart when I was a kid. Amazing what mindpowers we have when young and gullible.
I watched a Russian babushka [grandma] use a mustard plaster on the chest of a very sick man, to amazing effect. Didn’t know those things could work.
lol Kevin. Makes you think that it’s the easy things that matter. Like a bag of pretzels could cause world peace.
hillary’s in baghdad
Is she going pheasant hunting with Michelle Malkin?
“pastina” -
Anyone else familar with the Food Lover’s Companion? (a.k.a dictionary/remedy for the food ingredient impaired) I have yet to come across any recipe item not included in this little gem.
That would be peasant hunting if it’s malkin.
I asked on Late Night, but will ask here as well.
Is anyone going to the March for Peace on January 27? Here’s info.
Work for peace, every day.
lhp,
i was walking that very neighborhood last night. i forget what’s at 57th and 3rd now, but i passed pj clarke’s and was reminded how often i used to close down the night there.
your toddy recipe sounds fabulous, though i wonder if powers would work as well as jamisons.
typically, for myself or my kids when the issue is a cold and or fever, it’s just lemon tea with honey, and later chicken soup. my kids really like chickarina, so i always have a few cans of it stocked in the pantry. there’s also boiled chicken, in strips, steeped in its own broth.
njprogressive, red rose tea was a favorite of my family’s growing up — this was back when it wasn’t imported. when we’d visit my grandmother and aunts in montreal, we’d load up on boxes of the stuff.
finally, for an upset stomach, or nausea, my parents were very clear: warm, flat coca cola. i’ve used it for my kids too. it works pretty well.
Like a bag of pretzels could cause world peace
Ccmask, I suspect it was the MadDog 2020 -not the pretzels – that nearly caused that.
njprogressive @ 45
I’m going to be in LA that weekend, I know a bunch of my friends are trying to organize their own bus.
dmg @ 47
Well, close – warm, flat 7-up at our place. And canned peaches were alway the first thing we ate after we were done being sick – right after the dry saltine crackers.
Morning Mman @ 48
I haven’t been around the ‘Lake much lately. How’re things in your part of Jersey?
Ccmask: That would be peasant hunting if it’s malkin.
Hah! Perfect!
Dmg: for an upset stomach, or nausea, my parents were very clear: warm, flat coca cola. i’ve used it for my kids too. it works pretty well.
I’ll vouch for that. Flat ginger ale, too.
ccmask @ 38
My parents always did that for me when I was a kid! I loved it and the hum from the old glass humidifier Now I no longer use a humidifier (am troubled by the link between them and nasty, nasty infections), but I will remember your tip ccmask, thank you. My Daddy always recommends a boiling pot of water and a towel over your head so you don’t miss any of the steam– the addition of vick’s sounds great.
njprogressive @ 50
Hey NJP,
I’ve been away for a while also. Things are good here, a little cloudy today. How about with you?
I thought it wasKevin Hayden @ 47
a pint of Night Train.
Ah, 57th street. Isn’t Michael’s pub over there too…if I’m not mistaken (I worked on 55th & Lex as a florist for 8 years) Woody Allen used to play the sax on Tuesday nights…I love 57th street. One of my favorite store, Mckenzie Child’s, is on 57th too. My best friend lived right off the river on 57th in a brownstone…5th floor, no elevator. She used to meet her visitors at the top of the stairs with a glass of water.
I lived on the 12th floor of a building and in the summer, with the blackouts, it was rough.
fern: i’m not sure, but we had to use coke — pepsi would NOT suffice — and i came to believe the caffeine had something to so with it. as if. and this in a family of uncola nuts.
kevin: yes, ginger ale, but again very brand specific. had to be canada dry.
not a home remedy – but for those concerned about using humidifiers -
Triaminic Vapor Patches have helped us through colds w/ our youngest three – pungent bubblegum smell but your child will sleep through the night
dmg @ 56
My mom used to give use cola syrup (came in a bottle like cough syrup) when we had a bad case of stomach flu. Not sure if they make if any more but it always helped.
Morning everybody! LHP great story, nothing like irish music to stir the soul. I saw the Dubliners live when I was in Dublin in college and have been hooked ever since.
For me, nothing works like Alka Seltzer plus cold medicine. Perks me right up.
Tommy Makems-that brings me back! I used to go there after work for a shot or two.
My maternal grandfather was a doctor, and my mother used a similar recipe on us (and we’re not even Irish). When we were running temperatures, she’d give us a shot of whiskey — I was a little young to recognize the label — and order us under a pile of blankets to sweat out the fever.
Here’s another tip I got from my mom…I travel a lot with my job and when staying in hotels, I always take the shower caps home to use them to cover dishes of leftover food in my frig.
Hello LHP and All, Doing a quick posting so I can close these other windows.
(Gawd you’re talking about Tommy Makem!! I have records by him and the Clancy Brothers–and no record player. Gotta read the post.)
Anyway, I just made a comment on the WAPO article about bloggers at the Libby trial and thought I’d share:
Link
hey lhp -
mad props Prof Prop for your work this week – coupla my non blogging, non hippie co workers were enthralled by your posts
luv that graphic downstairs of smirkin’ irvin’ and counsel
lhp, I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. We loved reading your post about opening statements. It’s good for us non-lawyers to learn the techniques.
dipper @ 63
Second that. Would that the trad. media were as well prepared as we will be when the trial starts.
I agree cbl. The LHP-cliff notes will get us through the trial. This will be one of the first highly public trials where we will know the facts. This will create a huge snafu for the cocktail weenie set for sure. Mustard, please!
Millineryman @ 54
along w/ soups, we’ve been using Pastina in a simple shrimp salad for years -
al dente pastina
cooked shrimp
sour cream (or plain yogurt)
minced scallions
chopped fresh dill
all to taste. leave in fridge several hours before serving. nary a leftover
Hey christof, nice to see another person form NJ here.
It’s mild this morning in central Jersey. Metro NY/NJ had a trace of snow the other day–the latest snowfall since the 1870s. We had some rain overnight, but there are soft shadows everywhere through the light cloud cover.
My sister gave me [at my request] the National Audubon Society’s Field Guide to Trees. I’m taking it with my on this morning’s walk. I want to get to know my natural neighbors, before global warming brings me crape myrtles and palms!
RevDeb,
For sore throat, along with other remedies, eat hot potatoes (hot as you can stand them), baked or mashed. Works wonders.
Crazy Horse @ 8
What’s Caol Ila 18?
Millineryman @ 69
Not really from NJ. Originally, Long Island. Then, eastern PA. Now living on a farm north of Trenton.
Hi everyone!
My dear Waccamaw… you’re dangerous! First, you get me hooked on candied citrus peels (and I’m supposed to be losing weight) and now you tell us about a book that sent me over to Amazon to see just what it was. I want it! Bad, Waccamaw, bad :)
LHP, thank you so much for all the time you’ve taken to prepare us so well for the trial! Christie sure did mean it when she said she was leaving us in good hands.
In a addition to a hot lemon and whiskey, I always put on a pot of fresh ginger to steep when I have a cold. No need to peel it, just chop it up roughly and put it in a pan with water and bring to a boil. I keep it on the stove all day, replenishig the water or ginger as necessary.
Hope you’re feeling better by tomorrow, RevDeb.
Instant Alfredo for one
[ideal comfort food]
Cook a generous half-cup of orzo, pastina, tubetti, or tiny shells. Any small pasta is fine.
While pasta is cooking, warm your bowl in the oven.
Drain pasta.
Mix in a warm bowl with a generous dollop of sour cream [reduced fat version is very good], plenty of freshly grated Parmesan, and some chopped fresh parsley.
Mmmmm.
RevDeb @ 11
Those three are ALWAYS in my cupbord
christof @ 72
Nice, what kind of farm?
Audrey @ 70
That’s a new one on me. Munching on saltines right now and they help a lot. The hot salt water gargle, old and simple as it is works wonders.
southern version of hot toddy:
herbal tea
shot of wild turkey
sweeten to taste
(don’t drive)
Christof
How far north of Trenton?
Waccamaw @ 22
OK, between that and the links MAry sent me last noght about firining US attorneys for daring to actually do there jobs, I am heading for a full blown web rant.
Audrey @ 70
hey audrey, that sounds like a terrific idea. will use it on the next available esophagus.
egregious @ 40
I still can’t eat mustard to this day from the liberal use of mustard plasters. My mom would also get me to pick a fresh mustard green from the garden to put on the forehead. Very strange indeed, not sure what that was supposed to do.
Millineryman @ 77
170 acres. I rent the farm house (parts of which are over 100 years old) a local farmer leases the land. He plants soy, mostly. Great place for walks, wildlife, etc. The property is owned my Merril Lynch and will be built on in the next few years. We’re enjoying it while it lasts…
looseheadprop @ 75
Just put a fresh pot with the 3 on.
and thanks Pfifferling. One way or another I’ll be in the pulpit. Gotta rouse the rabble for peace and justice.
njprogressive @ 80
Scotch road – just north of 95
Audrey: hot potatoes for a sore throat? Never tried that. But then, it’s been years since my throat was sore. I’ll give it a go when it next happens.
It might be the heat that’s key, because we used hot water (as hot as could be tolerated) with a ton of salt dissolved within, as a gargle.
But for chasing off a winter chill, this variant of a potato soup works wonders.
Family cure for warts: Trace the outline of your hand on a piece of paper, then draw in your warts. Set the paper ablaze and let it burn itself out. Yes, it works!
Hot drink for colds: similar to Fern’s – lemon, honey, grated ginger, and cardamom in boiling water. If I don’t have a sore throat, I add a hot pepper, too.
Here’s a step into the wayback machine. Nate @ Get In Their Face has dug up a gem:
It really puts today’s actions in the ME into perspective.
angie @ 33
Good point.
The entire Interior Department’s management team should be impeached (like Dean said, go
after the corrupt underlings.)
Join with me in recommending that Congress boycott the State of the Union on January 23rd.
I don’t want that fucker telling me about
our country…
He is a warmonger…
Jack
LHP — lovely story. I’ve found as a blogger that I not only told my life story, but wrote it out. It’s the kind of thing we can’t get our parents and grandparents to do, to our great loss. But my kids now have parts of me I might not have otherwise shared because of the exercise of blogging. Hope for littleprop you’ll keep blogging like this.
I swear by Hot-Sour Soup, or soup from one of the two local Greek restaurants. The first one is a little family restaurant, makes thick, creamy Avgolemono soup into which I squeeze more lemon juice. The creaminess comes from the rice, not quite like a gruel. The other restaurant is a chain owned by a Greek family; they make a chicken noodle soup that is tasty. It’s unremarkable except for the chicken — they use the chicken they marinate in herbs and roast over open flame in the soup.
Hot-Sour works best for those annoying head and chest colds, or sinus infection with a fever. The Greek soups work best for the flu.
As what is happening with most of what’s left of the Garden State.
egregious @ 40
My grandpas Swore by mustard plasters. Tried every drug store in the neighorhood looking for one when I had the law school pneumonia. He was appaled that they were not is stock
RevDeb: you beat me to the gargle. Hope you feel better before exhorting the masses to uplift.
yep, that’s little Gordie Sumner singing, somewhere a Reddhedd is smiling . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2vdrWyUgU
looseheadprop @ 92
Now you can find lots of ways to make them yourself on the toobz. Amazing.
The running joke in our family is that, no matter what ails ya, Vicks will fix. My maternal gramma put Vicks Vapo-Rub on everyone at the slightest opportunity. Whenever one of her grandkids developed a sniffle during an overnighter, her cure was Vicks on your chest and back, a big white T-shirt Clorox’ed within an inch of its life, and Johnny Carson.
No, really. The healing powers of Johnny and Ed are beyond wondrous! (She’d tuck us into bed with her so she’d know if we became sicker in the night. )
The rest of Gramma’s medicine cabinet involved: homemade chicken soup with egg noodles, ginger ale – always Canadra Dry – and hot tea with whiskey, lemon, and honey.
“Join with me in recommending that Congress boycott the State of the Union on January 23rd.”
At risk of sounding like a broken record, some kind of demonstration — a boycott, no clapping, moon the sob, painted purple fingers flippin’ him off, something that the MSM can’t ignore. The whole world’s (gonna be) watching.
Hey, Pfiff!
Almost shut down w/o just onnnnnnnne more refresh; so good to see ya. It really is a wizard book……think there’s also one similar having to do w/spirits. Gotta go; will check back later. Oh, and try to let me know if you ever do a test w/lemons. Take care, darlin’.
RECIPE: COCKTAIL WEENIES
One package of cocktail weenies
One roll of Crescant rolls
Open crescant rolls and with a sharp knife, cut rolls into 1/2 inch strips. Take weenie and wrap strip around the weenie, never overlapping. After you wrap it, pinch the roll (as seen in my pic)so the end doesn’t come loose. Cook rolls according to package directions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9…..285282378/
Audrey @ 61
In my family one of the first songs all the little kids sing when they first learn to talk is “walzing with Bears”
I remeber my nephew when he was first learnig to talk running around my sister’s house at the top of his lungs “Wa wa wa, walzing with bears!!!!” He thought that was the funniest thing. My mother has a print of that silly painting of bears dancing in a circle in the woods, so The little ones think it is real
ccmask @ 101
roll a little cheese up in ‘em too.
lhp @ 80 -
Glad to be of help; can’t believe I actually beat twolf to a breaking story *g*. Look forward to what you have to say b/c it made my blood boil. OK……no more refresh…….going, going, gone……
dipper @ 63
More to come. It’s a 4 credit course *g*
retirin’ in five @ 97
Yeah. Let’s break the record. I don’t think
it’s ever been done, but has a Prez ever been at 32% and falling… Let’s get more Parlimentarian (sp)…
Jack
I never used mustard plaster, but there used to be a mustard-based remedy called Musterole that could be swabbed on the chest to burn the evil phlegm out of you.
Here’s one recipe for a mustard plaster.
RevDeb @ 77
I don’t know if the heat destroys all the vitamin C but I do think it has something to do with the carbs, the potassium and the way the taters act like little ovens all the way down.
By the way: Cayenne pepper is loaded with vitamin C, too. You can sprinkle some in your tea after it steeps and never even know it’s there.
RevDeb @ 77
When all else fails, you can try my mom’s newfound sore throat cure: Lie in bed. When the pain gets to be too much, swallow a capful of Bacardi (straight). Sleep. Repeat as often as necessary.
She did this last winter after developing a rather nasty ear/sinus infection and sore throat. She could barely swallow. When my step-dad told her that his dad always swore by a shot of whiskey for ear ailments, she decided to try it, using a capful instead of a shot since she doesn’t drink much.
Her theory is that it didn’t cure her, just kept her from being aware of the pain.
Why haven’t I even thought of cheese in them weenies….I love cheese dogs.
Christof: I grew up in Massapequa (from Brooklyn)
The bloodthirsty Joe Lieberman is on C-Span right now, rerun from Tuesday.
Rayne @ 90
I am very very lucky in that the same Aunt in the story, wrote her “auto bigraphy” of her childhood and color photocapied old photoa and daugertypes. The first photos oafter my coming over from Ireland, My gandfather and his brother when they played Minor League baseball; all kinds of things that I either din’t know or hadn’t heard about since kindergarten.
We made copies for each new nuclear family so we could pass it on to our own kids.
Such a treasure
ccmask @ 109
Hicksville (people not familiar with LI often find that funny)
angie @
37
On winter days when the heat was up and the house had a tendency to dry out, a pot of water simmering on the back burner with crushed, whole eucalyptus leaves was soothing and helpful to keep phlegm from binding to the lungs (this was my mother’s rationale). If one of us had a cough, the vapors loosened things up so that it was not painful to cough. Eucalyptus is in Vicks and she also rubbed that on our chests at night.
The war within Sen. McCain
“One of the most frustrating things that’s ever happened in my political life,” he said, “is watching this train wreck.”
Well LHP,
I knew there was something I liked about you. My grandfather was a doctor. He was Irish. He always prescribed “The Jamison” cure (Bushmills would do…)whenever we were sick with cold or flu. To this day, if you walk in to my parents home with a sniffle you will be offered a hot toddy. And for some reason the “noon rule” does not apply to the hot toddy (cause we all know it’s medicine!).
I smile as I think of my family and some of the funnier lessons about life. The combination of american indian with Irish is somehow fitting. Today I am a counselor specializing in addictions. I know longer partake of the cure but it’s fun to remember the romantic side of it all.
Good morning fellow travelers, I have to weigh in on this one. Thank you for the memory land post LHD. I just had a drive-by flash of many Irish pub law school memories (and the remnants of a few that are missing as well). The ones that I could not seem to muster may be forever lost behind a few too many empty handles of Jameson (NOTE: it is JamEson Irish whiskey NOT JamIson Irish whiskey). I dropped enough handles of the stuff along the way to at least remember that much, and a good many of those Jameson handles were enjoyed lubricating those three uniquely grinding years. Slainte, cl — must admit their might have been a couple of bottles of Tullamore Dew, John Powers, Bushmills & Blackbush and once (although not on my tab or any other student’s for that matter) a shot of Middleton as well.
[Mod Note;thanks for the heads up, refresh and it should be corrected.]
Good morning everyone. Here in Denver, it’s currently reads 8 below zero on the thermometer just outside my bay window. Still about a foot of snow on the ground (only about 1.5 feet of snow has melted after 2 weeks or so). We had our fourth consecutive Friday with snow yesterday. Crazy weather in Denver; I’ve been here over 20 years and have seen nothing like it before.
My favorite evening drink – Bailey’s, franjelica, and a bit of cream in a cup of decaf coffee topped with a dollup of whipped cream.
christof @ 85
Used to live in Princeton boro [in the Witherspoon-John neighborhood]. Good friends lived on Bear Tavern Road not far from you. Now they’re in Raleigh, NC, and, after a brief sojourn in our nation’s capital, we’re in Middlesex County, north of New Brunswick.
I had friends in Hicksville. I went to an all girl Catholic high school so I knew people from all over the island.
Kevin Hayden @ 86
OH yeah, love the name they give it. I’ve made many variations of this–depending on what’s in the cupboard/fridge at the time. Shoeless Soup! :)
looseheadprop, thank you so much for the hot toddy recipe. I was sick a couple of times last winter, and I’m increasingly nervous about taking antibiotics. I’ll try it your Uncle Tommy’s way next time.
Just like everyone else here, my mother smeared Vicks Vapo-Rub all over me at the first signs of the sniffles. I try to put it on DH’s chest now when he’s not feeling well. He detests it.
My mom had one more slightly weird cure-all, but I didn’t start getting this one till I was older. She’d go to the grocery store and bring me a bag of candy corn (big treat,) and the latest issue of the National Enquirer when I wasn’t feeling well.
-S
Their music was often playing in our house when I was very young. Them and the New Christy Minstrels and Peter Paul and Mary. How lucky you are to have had such access to it live!
Not sick, but it’s raining. Again. I’ve had quite enough, thank you. It makes me feel all sleepy and unmotivated. And here I should be psyched what with a Democratic governor being inaugurated today.
They say working up a hot sweat under a live corpse is good for what ails you.
Speaking of local bands…our neighborhood pub in Long Island featured Twisted Sister. It was this tiny pub and every weekend for a long time, twisted sister played. Maybe 20-25 patrons in the place.
twolf1 @
26
Who Knew!?!
sorry, a crass 1st reaction… jr makes me sick… got anything strong enuf for that?
fwiw, I’m proud of the Democrats in general these days (yeah, i know, with a few glaring exceptions…). still, after months of repugs trumpeting that Dems “have no plans, have no plans, have no plans, awk” – by GUM(!) that 100hrs idea is kinda WORKING! and the msm is picking up on Dem.-speak instead of repug-ugh..
that & a bag a pretzels to save the world…
hmmm… add FDL into the mix & we might have a chance…
thanks lhp for all the cli** notes versions of fitzmas. MUCH MUCH appreciated!
stay safe and healthy, all…
Good morning folks.
I just read that the maladministration has fired Carol Lam, in their typically classy fashion. Carol Lam was/is (it’s not clear to me if she has already resigned) the San Diego U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Duke Cunningham (and also a former classmate of mine).
This has got to be the Worst President Ever.
Imagine? Pretzels-$1.59 a bag
dmg @
46
DMG,
Re; Powers Irish whiskey: Yes (and on good authority).
Re: flat coca cola: I recommend this as well. However, it works best, indeed much better, with two splashes of Angostura bitters. The taste is a hell of-a-lot better too especially if, like me, one cannot stand that awful sweet taste.
slainte,
cl
ccmask @ 124
You don’t mean Tin Pan Alley that used to be on Glen Cove Road, do you?
Did you used to go to “My Father’s Place” ? My uncles buit the interior. Or the OBI?
ccmask @ 127
Bite Me Bush
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 126
Mary sent me a bunch of links about yesterday. This is such bullshit. She’s not the only one BTW
Thanks for this thread. Warm fuzzies along with the remedeies
Feels comforting as it seems as we are in or approaching the Bush End Game.
He seems to be firing up all the atrocities at once.
All the words seem so powerless under the Admins assault on our country as well as the Middle East
So this warm reminder of things normal helps alot.
Vicks at my house in the 50’s in NH…Listerine now.
twolf1 @ 114
throwin’ a general question out there….
what happens to joeliarman when McCain hangs it up & jus’ quits? somehow, I see that happening, one way or another. McC’s really cornered & beaten, methinks… & I’d swear joe’s been hangin’ onto McC for dear life & glory-beeeeeee… is that just gonna go poof? poor joe *sniff, heh*. jes can’t happen soon enuf for me(!)
I’m Greek, but I’ve used the same miracle elixir since my college days.
looseheadprop @ 100
Oh my that had to be sweet. Irish songs are great for kids. I didn’t have that one, but knowing their music and how well children respond (used to play them for my own) I can well imagine. *G*
ccmask @ 100
Redneck cocktail weenies.
Well that does it. The overwhelming power of suggestion has the better of me.
The Pogues are blaring, and I mean BLARING, at my house and now I have to get my work done.
Slan abhaile/Safe home everyone.
cl
LHP: No, twisted sister played in a small bar in Wantaugh.
My Father’s Place in Roslyn? That place was great. My sister worked there ages ago!!
Oak Beach Inn? Of course!
Real classy, this. But I suppose it was bound to happen…
Dead Soldiers Widows Get Re-Enlistment Mailers
Are any of the New Yorkers here familiar with a pub called The Ginger Man (name from the title of the book by J.P. Donleavy)?
My mom used to have a collection of Burl Ives albums. I used to play them in my room when I was home sick from school. I really liked his ballads and songs.
looseheadprop @
71
A very fine old peat and salt water spray Islay Scotch
McCain/Lieberman 08
AirportCat @ 141
Yes indeedy!
Crazy Horse @ 143
Ah. I used to drink single malt. I find the older I get, the less potent my libations. Mostly a cabernet drinker these days.
twolf1 @ 144
heh… should have had spew warning…
looseheadprop @ 132
Sounds like time to bring Ms. Lam to DC to appear before a committee. Let’s see, which one . . . . Government Oversight? Is there such a thing? Or perhaps Judiciary. Pat Lahey would have lots of fun with that.
twolf: If he ran with McCain, he’d still keep his Senate seat after the loss.
What a treat this thread is. THANK YOU for the authentic hot toddy recipe! I, too, had an Aunt Vera, she was actually my grandmother Vivian’s sister. They both lived to be nice and old!
A cop came to Vera’s funeral, because he’d developed an affection for the old lady who would walk across a busy avenue in Boston, holding up her cane to make the cars stop.
Well into her 90’s, she was walking across that road to make her way to the old folks’ home. She’d been doing that since she was in her 30s or 40s – a public service of “visiting the old” to lift their spirits. Apparently, she’d never found the appropriate age to quit providing that public service!
The only home recipe my family passed on was for a rather… cough… personal issue. My grandmother always kept real licorice for when anyone was not..[how to say this] regular enough? I hope you understand what I am getting at.
Used it for my older boy. And it did wonders. He liked it too. Prune juice was next so he stuffed himself with licorice first.
ccmask @ 149
…and if they did lose, they may take their toys and start their own country/government
Adie @ 147
No kidding……. eeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuu….
I would be interesting if Lord McCain was due up for re-election in 08, the local repugs are saying he is TOOO liberal or TOOO close to the religious right or TOO close to BushCo…
From anyone I hear from in AZ…. the maverick stick has been exposed and finally they are seeing the real McCain
looseheadprop @ 145
I worked at the Ginger Man in Houston, TX when I was in
gradualgraduate school.Hey lhp (one of the finest pseuds i’ve seen on the net) i like to drink red wine as well. But in this little burg in Germany there’s a small, cozy whisky bar with some 150 whiskys. The proprietor knows more about whisky and its flavors than virtually all the top barkeeps at the best restaurants in San Francisco… so we’re always discovering hidden treasures.
i still think boiled ginger under a towel is still the best remedy. But there doesn’t seem to be any remedy for the sh*t that’s hitting the fan.
Renee @ 140
My cubie says his paperwork is so messed up that at least part of DoD doesn’t realize he’s out, and that this is not at all unusual. He’s been in units with guys who were physically dead and still on the books, with no way to get them off the lists. They really don’t know what they’re playing with, or who.
Crazy Horse: I took my son to Germany about three years ago. He was 16. The one thing he loved was that in every restaurant we ate, they bought us a shot after dinner and always asked him what he was having. Thankfully, it’s the last time he drank.
Breaking News:
OH no….. Mike Tyson has been indited on two felony drug charges in Maricopa county plus DUI. Not a good place to be charged with….. he could be serving hard time in Florence Prison!
Thanks for the many informative post lhp.
Ahh yes, the hot toddy. We always used Paddy Irish Whiskey. It’s hard to come by in the states. Hot tub, hot toddy, hot bed … and next morning your as good as gold.
Revdeb, sorry about the sore throat and cold. My dad swore by hydrogen peroxide with equal parts warm water. It’s truly awful tasting, but it does the trick, mercifully.
I’m prone to ear and sinus things and a few years ago found a wonderful remedy called Urti Compund by Wise Women Herbals. I use a few times a day for a few days and it knocks out even the most entrenched sinus infection. I avoid antibiotics, and this has been as effective without the nasty side effects.
We’re expecting snow here in Maine! Yeaahhh!
looseheadprop @
80
lhp — so glad you’re doing this. I read the article earlier at breakfast and came back seething, ready to write, but this one needs a real lawyer. Have at it.
btw — nice post. And the graduate seminars on trial prep have been wonderful. Much appreciated.
Morning all.
Hey! Ohio has a new governor!
katymine @ 158
OMG, can you imagine what could happen if Joe Arpaio gets his hands on Mike Tyson? (Do you think maybe they deserve each other?)
Depp to make film about poisoned ex-spy
Adie @ 147
Don’t laugh. It really looks like Joe’s campaigning for the nod
scarecrow,
if your blood hasn’t come to a complete boil yet, check this one out . . . and of course anyone else who needs a huge dose of morning outrage.
For a cold: Sopa de Lima. How can you go wrong with soup made with chicken AND green chile AND lime?
Basically onion and garlic, saute. Then add the broth, chicken and green chile. At the end, squeeze lime–to taste–and serve with a thin round of lime floating on top. Can also add yellow or white tortilla chips for garnish.
I am looking into the NM legislature story referenced above re: impeachment. The only person who would carry to national congress would be Tom Udall, our rep from northern NM (district formerly represented by Bill Richardson). The Udalls are basically the Kennedys of Colorado, NM and Arizona.
Perhaps it is my own state senator who will be doing the honors at the Statehouse. Session begins next week, I think.
GrandmaJ @ 151
My grea aunt Mae had the most stunningly beautiful complexion all the way into her 80″s (she was a looker generally). My mother asked her secret to beautiful skin.
Her anwer: eat 5 prunes every day with a big glass of water.
Deb — that’s what I was talking about; it’s the same NYT story that Waccamaw linked to.
susan @ 159
Sorry, don’t drink this …. but gargle instead!
ccmask @ 157
There’s always the sociological argument German youth don’t get as f*ckin drunk as amurkans because they are allowed to drink even without parents for five years before amurkans can drink. but i won’t go there.
Here is the linky for the impeachment.
more food for thought from Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Genius-I…..1595581405
anyone reading it ?
twolf1 @ 163
Littleprop is a HUGE Jonny Depp fan. Ever since she saw “Benny and June”. We were in London a few years ago and where in a very small elevator with him and he struck up a conversation with her. I thought she was going to die of happiness on the spot.
He was very funny and charming and toally made a little girls day!
lhp – I miss Christy, but your posts are excellent, as are your comments on the law, a subject about which I know only enough to pose a danger.
pneumonia in NYC – I’ve had pneumonia 3x and the worst case I probably caught in NYC, almost exactly 10 years ago, when I was preforming/lecturing at Juilliard. Caught up with me two months later in Houston. I’m incredibly lucky to be alive. No Jamieson’s. Just major pleural surgery and cipro, which I was one of the first humans to use.
Jamieson’s vs Bushmills – as an Alaska fisherman, I’ll swear by the tremendous medicinal properties of Bushmills.
scarecrow @ 169
sorry. head stuffed this morning. The other outrage is the Lam firing which is just beyond . . . .
This is going to be quite a season for whack-a-mole. It will be hard to keep up.
Condi Rice says to Middle East, I aint doing the heavy lifting.
Fix it yourself, losers.
-GSD
Renee in Ohio @ 161
Yay! But who’ll stop the rain?
Since this post is about things that are good for what ails ya, I don’t think this is too far OT: this evening, the New Orleans Saints will play their first-ever-in-franchise-history HOME play-off game in the Superdome, which will almost certainly be the loudest place on the planet tonight. You cannot believe how excited people are here, even the people (both of ‘em!) who don’t care about football or the Saints. It’s one thing I really like about New Orleans: many people’s lives here may be shite, but they certainly know how to forget about it for a while and enjoy themselves, and the Saints have always been a catalyst for that.
IfWhen the Saints when tonight, well, keep in mind it’s Saturday of a three-day weekend and the bars do not close …Ed*ard Teller @ 174
I think once you get pnuemonia you are always prone to lung infections. I usually end up with a bronchitis evry winter and in 2000 had apneumonia so bad that when I was admitted to the hospital they did not expect me to live through the night.
Way too much drama, that. An Alaska fisherman, you are truly one of the last fronteersmen
ET’s cold/flu remedy – homemade kim chee.
I put up a dozen quarts of kim chee this past summer. Heavy on garlic and thai pepper, but it is the best kim chee I’ve ever had, and I haven’t had a cold or the flu since.
new thread – free nil?
Oh yeah, next time you hear some right wing noodnick carping about poor Condi and the evil Barbara Boxer, toss this Pickles’ Bush comment back at them.
“Probably because she is single, her parents are no longer living, she’s an only child. You need a very supportive family and supportive friends to have this job,” the First Lady said.
-GSD
Ed*ard Teller @ 181
That’s ’cause no one will go near you :-)
twolf1 @ 114
g’morning all
ya know, I’m getting more pissed off by the day at the people who have had the chance and the responsibility to make a difference but didn’t.
“One of the most frustrating things that’s ever happened in my political life,” he said, “is watching this train wreck.”
that word should be “enabling“
Guys
I am having terrible troubles with internet connectivity this morning. I have another post up next. If I cannot get into the comments (I keep getting kicked off when I try to enter the comments thread–I’m in a coffee house and the connection keeps fluctuauting) and you have questions, I will get to them later today when I get back home.
I’m goin to try to sit on the new thread if the modem cooperates, but if not, I’ll do the questions later this afternoon.
Thanks for sharing the wonderful story.
My family (both the Irish and Slovak sides) had similar nights or afternoons out, mostly at ethnic social clubs or pubs. It was quite natural that elderly ladies would spend an evening at a table, with music in one area of the place and a bar area over to the other side. It was a shock to me when I moved away for grad school to find that not all families had this tradition and some folks think that aunties and grannies shouldn’t be in “barrooms”. Talk about a culture shock.
I have so many good memories of multi-generational gatherings, with everyone talking, listening to music, and even dancing a little. When dancing was involved, the men would dance just a couple (once with the wife, maybe once with the daughters) then head off toward the bar or a table with great relief. The rest of the time was the women dancing with
each other or with the one uncle who always seemed to stay out on the dance floor. It actually seems unusual to me to see a male-female couple dancing a polka. It feels like it should be a granny and granddaughter.
My little nieces are growing up in this tradition, although it’s getting harder and harder to keep up. They’ve spent Sunday afternoons at family Irish pubs, Slovak Citizens’ Association places, Lithuanian Clubs, American Legion posts, and the like. Sometimes there’s music, sometimes it’s a game on the tv, but we tell stories, chat with the neighbors, pass on info/gossip, and have a good time. :)
Jr.’s jejune JAR makes it a good time to call attention to how far his misAdministration is going off the reservation.
Audrey @ 61
Link
By bumpkin1 | Jan 13, 2007 9:20:31 AM
Thanks to your link, I also went over and wrote the following post to them:
The blogs I read on a regular basis are mostly written by lawyers, journalist, and PhDs. Do you expect me to believe that these people lost their standards and their skills when they started blogging? The blogoshere is nothing more than a huge democratic forum in which people of all stripes get to voice their opinions; it’s up to the reader to be discriminating, that is, to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, just as we do with other types of media. Not all journalist, pundits, or commentators in print or television or radio are equal. Yet they’re credentials don’t seem to get questioned. Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict, yet he gets to rail on and on about how addicts should be imprisoned. Bill Bennett is reportedly a gambling addict whose gambling debts have been in the seven digit category, yet he gets sit in judgement of others whose “family values” don’t live up to his particular standards (if he truly has any.) So I think it would behoove the corporate media to just back off. They will never again get to tell all of us citizens what to think or read, since the blogoshere is the only true democratic forum we have left that is not corporate owned. And I for one will make my own judgements, thank you very much!
(Gawd you’re talking about Tommy Makem!! I have records by him and the Clancy Brothers–and no record player. Gotta read the post.)
Anyway, I just made a comment on the WAPO article about bloggers at the Libby trial and thought I’d share:
RevDeb @ 175
We may need to revise the Daou Principle — we’re supposed to become fatigued by the avalanche of scandals, and the horror just wears off as we become desensitized. But I find that each new outrage has the opposite effect. And these clowns seem to have an inexhaustible supply.
They are clearly some of the stupidest, meanest dickheads I’ve ever seen. And they’re infiltrated throughout the government. We’ll need to fumigate the upper floors of every federal office building in the country. Sheesh.
looseheadprop @
164
i know i know… translation from Adieland: heh = equal measures of laugh & cry. my only hope is that McC’s becoming such a sorry, blubbering mess, & joem just WON’T SHUT UP with the whining (is it possible to whine & sound like a pompous a** at the same time? – that’s what I hear, anyway)! They act like a pair of born-losers who deserve eachother, and as a pair, have NO CHANCE AT ALL to grab the brass ring. They’re becoming pathetic to the point of major annoyance. That’s a GOOD sign, no? or is it just my wishful-thinking-gear kicking in a tad early?
Above is what I “smell” in the ethers. I just get this heeeuuuuge feeling that McC’s chances are done, finished, over, & he knows it. And joe = mr. clueless-laughing-stock. The closer those 2 cling to whatever’s left of jr’s tattered coat-tails, the more disasterous the effect on their own sorry hopes for fame’n fortune. Think there’s any chance??? Could it be??? anyway… i can dream…
RevDeb @ 166
This needs it’s own post, hint, hint,
wink, wink… nudge, nudge
scarecrow?
RevDeb – thanks. By the way, can I ask what your message might be for this week?
twolf1 @ 144
Okay, I needed that like I needed a second sphincter.
EvilDrPuma @ 192
it’s Quato-joe… and yes, he has two sphincters, one at each end
My preventative for ‘most everything:
Each morning, first thing, a cup of sweet and sour tea. In your favorite cup (mine’s my FDL cup from Cafe Press), put boiling water, 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar and honey to taste. Sip it. I found this in my Ayurvedic home remedies book as a cure for high blood pressure. Doesn’t do much for bad sinuses, but it seems to work well for illness prevention and hbp, and in addition is yummy, if you like sweet/sour.
I had chronic bronchitis the entire time I lived in DC. My first Christmas there, I passed out face first in the mashed potatoes at dinner and was flat out for more than 6 weeks, with terrible recurrences each winter.
Since I moved to LA, my only episode was the bad El Nino year. Average humidity in the desert is about 26%.
ET – Kim Chee! I love it now, but my first exposure was not pleasant. I worked for Western Union Electronic Mail back in the 70’s. One day our driver arrived late to pick up some computer terminals to deliver to a branch office. WE hauled the computers out into the parking lot, he opened the truck door and we were bowled over by the god-awful stench emanating from inside. He had used the truck over the weekend to go to the field where they had buried their home-made kim chee for the requisite time and distribute it to all their family and friends in th area. Some spilled. One pot got left behind, under a moving blanket which was saturated with kim chee liquid, and baked in the DC heat.
WUEMI sold the truck and bought another, tout suite.
scarecrow @ 190
salt and smudgesticks. Perhaps an exorcism or two as well.
katymine @
158
that’s news?
What about John Power Irish Whiskey?
I got pneumonia during my first year in law school–what is it about law school that does that?
EvilDrPuma @ 192
sorry for the annoyance, but i s’pec you oughtta take it seriously. joem shows every indication of making it happen, if he possibly can. i know… eeeeeeeeewwwwwwww…. but it be… imho
I found this bizarre story concerning Stimson. This doesn’t concern his gitmo claims but is worth the read for him being against outrageous, and deadly, unnecessary incarceration.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
Prosecutor’s pleas for leniancy in pot case end in death sentence by judge
Jamison’s is made in Ireland; Bushmill’s is made in Northern Ireland. That’s the difference.
Simple answers for Simple questions ala Atrios.
Ann in AZ @ 188
Thanks to your link, I also went over and wrote the following post to them:
The blogs I read on a regular basis are mostly written by lawyers, journalist, and PhDs. Do you expect me to believe that these people lost their standards and their skills when they started blogging? The blogoshere is nothing more than a huge democratic forum in which people of all stripes get to voice their opinions; it’s up to the reader to be discriminating, that is, to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, just as we do with other types of media. Not all journalist, pundits, or commentators in print or television or radio are equal. Yet they’re credentials don’t seem to get questioned. Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict, yet he gets to rail on and on about how addicts should be imprisoned. Bill Bennett is reportedly a gambling addict whose gambling debts have been in the seven digit category, yet he gets sit in judgement of others whose “family values” don’t live up to his particular standards (if he truly has any.) So I think it would behoove the corporate media to just back off. They will never again get to tell all of us citizens what to think or read, since the blogoshere is the only true democratic forum we have left that is not corporate owned. And I for one will make my own judgements, thank you very much!
Hi Ann (My Mom and Sis are in Phoenix, btw. :)
I sure hope that someone is reading these. The idea that they could still not see what you (and the rest of us) are saying, that they could not “get” why their reader/viewerships are tanking after all the letters, comments, emails and phone calls has to say something about the level of intelligence on their end. Seems they got rid of anyone with the ability to use logic to figure things out a long time ago.
Oh and you’re welcome. :)
Thanks for the link to the WaPo comments.
I’m not only reading, I’m between you over there.
this is lionjprogressive @ 117
It’s like being in Mr. Roger’s neighborhood. I lived on Pennington-Titusville Road, less than a mile from where you are on Scotch Road, and on Bear Tavern Road during the time I was in NJ. Last ten or so years in Washington state. We left because the winter of ‘94? was so bad my kids had 17 snow days, we lived out in the country and my husband was out of town for all of the storms except the last. This year, we have snow in Seattle, and NJ was in the 70s last week.
Polyblog @ 200
I knew it! I knew it! Seriously, I made an unfair comparison when I tried Bushmill’s vs. the Jameson 12 year. Bushmill’s tasted like treacle compared to the higher shelf old stuff. Anybody tried the older, more expensive Bushmill’s and made a comparison?
On the northern Ireland thing, I was raised by my IRA-supporting father (he sent money, God help us) to have a problem with anything “orange,” but I did overcome that with life experience.
I worked for years as a flight attendant on those small Shorts-360 airplanes, the ones with the flat sides. Those were made in Belfast Lough, and supposedly Catholics not allowed to work on their construction. I don’t actually know how true that is. But those were terrific, safe little airplanes (the ingenious design of the airfoil body provided something like 23% or 30% of the lift, I’m not sure now), and I decided they were just fine! I was proud of them, cold, loud, and smelly as they were, because nobody had ever died in one at that time. Great airplanes.
Glad to get all these recipes, especially as I am in serious need of such a remedy right now. I think someone could probably get a Sociology PhD exploring what the spread and development of home remedies tells us about the spread and and cross-influence of immigrant cultures in America. That’s if someone hasn’t already done it.
But my first reaction to that story is that it shows what a classy guy Tommy Makem is.
Adie @
196
Tommy Makem! I grew up on the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and I swear to God that just in the last 3 weeks I bought a bunch of their albums on CV (my old records are useless without a record player, and I wanted to put the songs on my iPod), so I’ve been listening to them non-stop. What a great recipe. Here are two more.
My friend Kathleen’s Greek father-in-law swore by a combination of Hiram Walker’s blueberry brandy (no other brand), lemon, and hot water. It helped.
I myself make a chicken soup by sauteing minced garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes in sesame oil, adding a combination of home-made chicken broth plus canned broth, plus some water, and then piling in a bunch of leafy greens—bagged spinach is easiest, but any of them will work. These days I’m so lazy that I pre-heat the greens in the microwave, while the chicken broth is heating on the stove. Throw in some sliced chicken, add salt to taste, and then squeeze lemon to taste in the bowl. There needs to be a lot of ginger & lemon. It is the very best dinner when you have a cold; take out the red pepper & lemon, and it’s excellent for an unsettled stomach. Noodles are superfluous. If you have those little glass jars of minced garlic & ginger (kept on hand for just this kind of emergency), the whole thing can be done in less than 20 minutes.
Caoimhin Laochdha @ 129
cl,
thanks for the confirmation — also the correction on jameson.
generally, i hold with no points off for typos — or else i’d never write. but you want to get the name right. after all, this is medicine we’re talking about.
Just remebering now an old Irish saying, my mother always said it in Irish, then the english translation
Whiskey when you’re sick makes you well, whiskey makes you sick when you’re well.
Paddy, the whiskey of my family’s preference, is from Cork, triple distilled, and very smooth.
Marry a doctor.
Oofda @ 197
It’s 16 hours a day with you butt in a seat not moving while you do all that reading. Lungs are meant to get some help from exercise.
Is that how oofda is spelled? I always assumed it was ufda or uffda. A lawschool classmate of mine from the midwest introduced me to both “A Prarie Home Companion” and oofda. What a perfect word for it’s purpose
Polyblog @ 200
I thought it was the other way around; That Jamesons was the protestant whiskey and Bushmills the catholic. I’ll go check the bottle
I’m wrong.
My medicianl bottle of Jameson’s says “Dublin” as it’s place of origin
katymine @
206
oh phoo! not one of my more sterling days today…. fell right into that’un! but I gotcha now – duh… Maybe I should check into the toddy supply for the vision thing it’d surely inspire.
I’m hopin’ we all will feel better when that trial starts. *a salute to Mr Fitz!*
looseheadprop @
212
Having visited (made pilgrimage to) both the Bushmills and Jameson distilleries several times, I can vouch for the fact that Bushmills is in Ulster and Jameson is distilled in the Republic of Ireland. (Disclosure: I also worked in or managed over a half dozen bars between sophomore year of college and eventually landing in law school so I’ve spent as much time selling this stuff as I have spent at the business end of a handle of Jameson).
However, what most people don’t realize, and what neither of these truly fine libations advertise, is the fact that the longest standing ally of the United States owns both: the French. Both ceased being “RepublicanCatholic” or “ProtestantUnionist” a long time ago when they were married by a holding company that took possession of both. That holding company was acquired by the French (Pernod?) in the late 80s.
Another important fact people NEED to know about Ireland and whiskey. First, Ireland “invented” the stuff. Although the Scots have made a pretty good run on the market, theirs is a “me too” product. The Irish triple distill theirs and the Scots only distill twice (insert “cheap” Scot joke here). The word “whiskey” is in fact an Anglicized adaptation of the Irish “uisce beatha” which translates as “water of life.” To understand its medicinal qualities, all you need to know, really, is that you are imbibing the “water of life,” which pretty much explains it all.
slainte,
cl
Try Airborne at the first sign of a cold. It works! Saw it on Oprah, made by an elementary school teacher who got tired of getting sick. Not as glamorous as lhp’s remedy but it’s kept me well for the last two winters. You can get it at Costco or any drug store.
Sure cure for clogged sinuses: Hottest horseradish known to man on a ham sammich. Might cause nosebleed, but sinuses will be cleaned out. Worked for me when nothing else would. I am now on my fourth shot of Jameson’s with honey and lemon for chest congestion. I think it’s working, or at least I no longer feel any need to breathe.