This is off topic, but I got each of my boys one of those dusters about a year ago. They can not wait until it is cleaning day! They eagerly all get out their dusters and I actually run out of things for them to all dust! It is one of the best 99 cent purchases I ever made-they love those colorful dusters! My boys are almost 7, 5, and 3.
Ah, wikipedia: "At the present time it has a derogative connotation describing an antiquated female role model. The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the English Barefoot and pregnant."
And yet, from the same Wikipedia article, there is also this,
'In one of his essays, T.S. Eliott reproduces and then comments upon a column in the Evening Standard of May 10, 1939 headed ""Back to the Kitchen" Creed Denounced":
"Miss Bower of the Ministry of Transport, who moved that the association should take steps to obtain the removal of the ban (i.e. against married women Civil Servants) said it was wise to abolish an institution which embodied one of the main tenets of the Nazi creed – the relegation of women to the sphere of the kitchen, the children and the church.
"The report, by its abbreviation, may do less than justice to Miss Bower, but I do not think that I am unfair to the report, in finding the implication that what is Nazi is wrong, and need not be discussed on its own merits. Incidentally, the term ‘relegation of women’ prejudices the issue. Might one suggest that the kitchen, the children and the church could be considered to have a claim upon the attention of married women? or that no normal married woman would prefer to be a wage-earner if she could help it? What is miserable is a system that makes the dual wage necessary."'
Why do I suddenly feel like I'm a child again, sitting at Opa's elbow. . . in a room full of his North Dakota family. . . . waiting for the punchline of the joke that was told in English. . . and I can tell it's going to be a really good one. . . but's it's all finished up in German. . . and everybody except for me is laughing :(
Ah, Anon 1--I see your point now. You are right, it is unsanitary to eat dirty cakes.
Ewe, we actually have a good supply of those around for entertainment purposes also. I'm from a strict rag-and-polish family, though, so I just consider them dust rearrangers.
Katy, :D
Anon 2, you're ripped from the headlines: http://concordiansisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/old-possum-on-cspp.html
etem and lisa, you know I don't speak Finnish OR Bahamian
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What about Kuchen?
I klean it 5 times a day, and it's still dirty most of the time.
This is off topic, but I got each of my boys one of those dusters about a year ago. They can not wait until it is cleaning day! They eagerly all get out their dusters and I actually run out of things for them to all dust! It is one of the best 99 cent purchases I ever made-they love those colorful dusters! My boys are almost 7, 5, and 3.
No, I mean Kuchen: cake!
Ah, wikipedia: "At the present time it has a derogative connotation describing an antiquated female role model. The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the English Barefoot and pregnant."
And yet, from the same Wikipedia article, there is also this,
'In one of his essays, T.S. Eliott reproduces and then comments upon a column in the Evening Standard of May 10, 1939 headed ""Back to the Kitchen" Creed Denounced":
"Miss Bower of the Ministry of Transport, who moved that the association should take steps to obtain the removal of the ban (i.e. against married women Civil Servants) said it was wise to abolish an institution which embodied one of the main tenets of the Nazi creed – the relegation of women to the sphere of the kitchen, the children and the church.
"The report, by its abbreviation, may do less than justice to Miss Bower, but I do not think that I am unfair to the report, in finding the implication that what is Nazi is wrong, and need not be discussed on its own merits. Incidentally, the term ‘relegation of women’ prejudices the issue. Might one suggest that the kitchen, the children and the church could be considered to have a claim upon the attention of married women? or that no normal married woman would prefer to be a wage-earner if she could help it? What is miserable is a system that makes the dual wage necessary."'
Yes, my husband quotes this to me..often. And, might I add, affectionately. :)
weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen.
Kreuz und Kronen sind verbunden
Why do I suddenly feel like I'm a child again, sitting at Opa's elbow. . . in a room full of his North Dakota family. . . . waiting for the punchline of the joke that was told in English. . . and I can tell it's going to be a really good one. . . but's it's all finished up in German. . . and everybody except for me is laughing :(
I hear you Anon. Only in my family, the mother tongue was Norwegian.
weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen.
Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing
Aria: Kreuz und Kronen sind verbunden
Cross and crown are bound together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl4TYPLP3g
Actually, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinen,_Klagen,_Sorgen,_Zagen,_BWV_12
Yes, Anon, I saw that, too. But I like the clunky, awkward phrases in Wikipedia articles like "antiquated female role model."
(But I do I like Eliot on our side :)
Ah, Anon 1--I see your point now. You are right, it is unsanitary to eat dirty cakes.
Ewe, we actually have a good supply of those around for entertainment purposes also. I'm from a strict rag-and-polish family, though, so I just consider them dust rearrangers.
Katy, :D
Anon 2, you're ripped from the headlines: http://concordiansisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/old-possum-on-cspp.html
etem and lisa, you know I don't speak Finnish OR Bahamian
Anon 3 and Shrew, or German or Norwegian.
There's no such thing as a dirty cake, unless you're referring to the calorie content.
No mention of "Karpool" either, which I truly detest.
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