Maxwell 33: Managers of Their Vests

[mango_fandango]

I primarily use FJ on my iPad and iPhone, which use Safari. No problem accessing the blog. Now that I hit the refresh icon once, the latest post comes up. It just seems that when there’s a new post, I can’t see it until I refresh the blog. As in, I found out about the Stand for Life post on here, yet I couldn’t see it there... then it appeared. Wonder if any of their humpers have noticed anything. 

[browngrl]

In an odd way my culinary life is mirroring the Maxwell's. Well, actually "hate mirroring". I do like the general types of food they eat but I try and upgrade them at every turn. 

This past weekend my SIL gave me a huge number of apples from her farm. I debated: apple sauce vs apple pies. Since I'm not Maxwell, pies won out and now I have several in my freezer (which is cluttered also because: not a Maxwell) as well as two jars of apple sauce ( only two, because seriously how much apple sauce does anyone want)and some dried apple slices. My SIL also gave me a large basket of jalapeños, onions which I used to make multiple batches of taco/burrito fillings. As per the Maxwell's I did use onions/jalepenos and beans and skipped the meat (I'm mostly vegetarian) but I hope my filling will be tastier because I also included: lots of cumin,  chipotle in adobo + other spices. I even made one chocolate pie but unlike the Maxwell's I used good chocolate and real whip cream and a  homemade pie crust. 

I did not have a "crew" to do this (although my dog was never far in case scraps fell on the floor) but I had fun nonetheless because I had lots of podcasts to listen to while I worked (currently binging Lore which is full of heathenish things).

[PennySycamore]

@WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? and @MamaJunebug,  a couple of interesting things about the great flu pandemic of 1918-1919:

Nobody quite knows where the Spanish flu arose although it was probably not Spain.

 Louis Leonowens, the son of Anna Leonowens, the famed tutor of the King of Siam's children was one of the victims of the Spanish flu as was Rose Cleveland, who served as First Lady prior to her brother Grover's marriage,  Austrian painter Gustav Klimt,  the Dodge Brothers of automotive fame, Thomas Griffes, composer of The White Peacock,  Sir William Osler, one of the founders of John Hopkins Hospital, and Myrna Loy's dad.

 Survivors include Walt Disney, Margaret Dumont,  Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee),  Haile Selassie, Edvard Munch, Mary Pickford, Franz Kafka, Georgia O'Keefe, Katherine Anne Porter, General Pershing, Leo Szilard (he came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction) and Presidents FDR and Wilson.  

There seemed to be a connection between flu survivors and encephalitis lethargica.  This was the illness that Dr Oliver Sacks' patients had in Awakenings.  

The Spanish flu killed many more people than were killed in the Great War.

ETA:  One of the victims of the Spanish flu was Hungarian writer and poet Margit Kafka while one of the survivors was Franz Kafka.  The two Kafkas were not related apparently.   

Edited October 3, 2019 by PennySycamore

[kpmom]

12 hours ago, mango_fandango said:

I’m still getting the thing where I click onto the blog and the most recent post doesn’t show up immediately and I need to refresh the page. Once I’ve hit refresh once, it seems to be fine. I know at least one of you has had that problem too, so I wonder if it’s something weird at their end or just a random fuckup.

It's happening to me, too. 

[Flossie]

9 hours ago, church_of_dog said:

When I was a kid I had trouble swallowing uncoated pills like aspirin, so my mom would mash the pills in applesauce.  That certainly didn't help me to grow up liking it...

My mom would take a tablespoon and put the aspirin and water in it, then spoon over some sugar.  Mix with tip of finger and serve.

[IReallyAmHopewell]

4 hours ago, kpmom said:

It's happening to me, too. 

Did you clear your cache?

[SPHASH]

7 hours ago, IReallyAmHopewell said:

Did you clear your cache?

I've noticed on my phone if I don't clean out the cache enough I have trouble with websites loading.

[nvmbr02]

New post up... 

Gigi uses a bible that belonged to her son, and Teri found an inscription inside to her brother from a friend that gave him the bible. So of course she decided to post on the blog about it. Because who cares that the message wasn't written to her or by her let's just post it for the world to see.

There is nothing super important about the message itself but it just feels like a breech of privacy to post it on the blog. 

[JermajestyDuggar]

3 hours ago, nvmbr02 said:

New post up... 

Gigi uses a bible that belonged to her son, and Teri found an inscription inside to her brother from a friend that gave him the bible. So of course she decided to post on the blog about it. Because who cares that the message wasn't written to her or by her let's just post it for the world to see.

There is nothing super important about the message itself but it just feels like a breech of privacy to post it on the blog. 

They are allowed to keep Anna and Mary’s “mission trips” top secret but not personal notes from friends. Ugh. 

[Blessings of the Corn]

On ‎10‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 8:35 PM, PennySycamore said:

@WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? and @MamaJunebug,  a couple of interesting things about the great flu pandemic of 1918-1919:

Nobody quite knows where the Spanish flu arose although it was probably not Spain.

 Louis Leonowens, the son of Anna Leonowens, the famed tutor of the King of Siam's children was one of the victims of the Spanish flu as was Rose Cleveland, who served as First Lady prior to her brother Grover's marriage,  Austrian painter Gustav Klimt,  the Dodge Brothers of automotive fame, Thomas Griffes, composer of The White Peacock,  Sir William Osler, one of the founders of John Hopkins Hospital, and Myrna Loy's dad.

 Survivors include Walt Disney, Margaret Dumont,  Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee),  Haile Selassie, Edvard Munch, Mary Pickford, Franz Kafka, Georgia O'Keefe, Katherine Anne Porter, General Pershing, Leo Szilard (he came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction) and Presidents FDR and Wilson.  

There seemed to be a connection between flu survivors and encephalitis lethargica.  This was the illness that Dr Oliver Sacks' patients had in Awakenings.  

The Spanish flu killed many more people than were killed in the Great War.

ETA:  One of the victims of the Spanish flu was Hungarian writer and poet Margit Kafka while one of the survivors was Franz Kafka.  The two Kafkas were not related apparently.   

I HIGHLY recommend the podcast, "This Podcast Will Kill You". It's all about the history and biology of infections diseases and the state they're at in modern times. It's such an informational and highly entertaining podcast

[Fun-Dee]

5 hours ago, nvmbr02 said:

New post up... 

Gigi uses a bible that belonged to her son, and Teri found an inscription inside to her brother from a friend that gave him the bible. So of course she decided to post on the blog about it. Because who cares that the message wasn't written to her or by her let's just post it for the world to see.

There is nothing super important about the message itself but it just feels like a breech of privacy to post it on the blog. 

She says that the note is from Jason, but it looks more like Joan to me.  If it actually is Jason, he has really nice handwriting.  

[browngrl]

27 minutes ago, Fun-Dee said:

She says that the note is from Jason, but it looks more like Joan to me.  If it actually is Jason, he has really nice handwriting.  

I agree - it looks like it is Joan to me too. What happened to Terri's brother? Why would it matter if the Bible was from a Joan or a Jason? Is this just another weird Maxwell thing?

[anjulibai]

That definitely says Joan - there are only two letters between the j and the n, neither of which looks like an s. And the words just seem like something a woman would say, not a man to another man. 

But I suppose heaven forbid a woman give such an intimate gift to a man she wasn't married or related to (I'm assuming or Teri would have said so). Heaven forbid a woman minister to a man.

Man, they are sexist. 

[nvmbr02]

I didn't even look at the name! I just went off what was posted. The name change is even stranger. Why post the message at all if you are going to change the name? Why not just post a message from a friend was found in the bible and leave it at that if there was a "need" to post.

The Maxwells never make any sense. 

[LilMissMetaphor]

On that abortion video, I got as far as Anna breathing "Hil-ler" instead of Hitler" like she's a porn star, and I couldn't listen  any more.

[mango_fandango]

And of course the main point of that post is that the height of friendship is to give the gift of eternal life via a Bible. I don’t have many friends, but are they not good enough because they’ve never recommended becoming a Christian to me? If someone gave me a Bible with that kind of note in it, I’d be annoyed. It’s none of their business what I believe in. “This is what you need whether you know it or not”, “PS Jesus died for you and He loves you” - fuck off. That’s like some kind of emotional blackmail to me. 

 

[FloraKitty35]

On 10/3/2019 at 8:26 AM, Flossie said:

When I was a kid I had trouble swallowing uncoated pills like aspirin, so my mom would mash the pills in applesauce.  That certainly didn't help me to grow up liking it...

My mom used do that with Theo Dur sprinkles, to this day I don't like applesauce.

[thoughtful]

On 10/2/2019 at 11:35 PM, PennySycamore said:

There seemed to be a connection between flu survivors and encephalitis lethargica.  This was the illness that Dr Oliver Sacks' patients had in Awakenings.  

My grandfather had encephalitis lethargica. I've read everything I could find about it. If I'm up-to-date, the cause actually remains a mystery, as does why it went away again, whether it ever happened before 1916-1930, and whether it may ever come back .

There are various theories about it. I think the idea that it was connected to the flu epidemic was from one theory doctors had as they tried to solve the mystery, combined with the timing.
https://www.neurologytimes.com/blogs/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness

The flu epidemic changed the world. I've read estimates that 1/5 of the world's population was affected, and that it killed more Americans than all of the wars of the 20th century combined.

Oh, and add me to the list of people who associate applesauce (and Coke, and Jello - excuse me - KoJel) with Mom's attempt to get medicine into me. However, one aunt made homemade, chunky applesauce with lots of cinnamon when I was a child, and that I liked.

[fundiefan]

Neither the bible post nor the applesauce post is no longer showing up for me. I first read them on my phone, but today on my laptop, it's not there.

On the subject of t-shirts - I think every baby in my family for 50 years has lived in white cotton onsies either alone or under their clothes. For every baby shower, countless long & short sleeved white onsies are given in all sizes available. I never asked about the reasonong - always just took it for a baby necessity (since I've never had any of my own, what do I know beyond what others around me do?). Maybe it is a generational thing, because the majority of them come from "the aunts" - my mom & her generation. My mom still has a thing for the long sleeved ones and she stocks up on them when she finds them since they're not readily available? White, cotton, Gerber brand. Weird, kind of, when I think about it in context after reading all of your posts. 

I wear camisols under everything. Everything. I am never without them. I am heavier in the middle than in my hips/ass, so shirts always hug me and I hate it. Slipperly camisols help keep them from sticking to me and showing my "love handles". I have a short toso so no matter how much I've ever weighed, it's been thicker that the rest of me. Camisols just help smooth my mid section and make clothes more comfortable for me. The only time I don't wear them is if I wear a t-shirt under a sweatshirt, but that's a warmth thing and I wear very large sweatshirts that I don't have to worry about hugging my middle. 

And as for bras - I sprouted in the course of one summer and it was an explosion. I went from pretty much nothing, wearing just stretchy t-shirts to full blown bras. I was flat in 7th grade and by the start of 8th grade I was a D cup. It was not fun and tween and early teen boys can be rough on a female figure. I wore so much to push me down because I was embarassed, Bras, the 70's versions of spanx, several layers of clothes. I went to extremes to smoosh those puppies. I've since had reduction surgery so I actually go braless any and every chance I get. Since I do like the big sweatshirts, I can often go in public wihtout a bra.

[kpmom]

That name is definitely Joan.  Gee,  why lie about that of all things?

And according to Teri's post, Richard was her uncle, not brother. 

[Tatar-tot]

I agree on the “Joan” not “Jason”.  The writing just does not sit that a man would write that to another man unless there is another dimension to their relationship aside from platonic friendship.  

[Lgirlrocks]

It looks like it could be Jason but the handwriting looks more feminine. I would have to agree it’s probably a Joan. 

[Black Aliss]

I don't think Jason was a very common name when Uncle Dick was born; I'm guessing he was born in the late 1940's/early 50's, at the latest. The bible was printed in '73 and given to him as a gift by a young adult friend (Jason or Joan)

[anjulibai]

I don't see how it could possibly be Jason, unless one doesn't know how to read cursive, which I'm pretty sure the Maxwells would. 

[MamaJunebug]

Do they not perceive how gay it  appears that  someone with such delicate handwriting named “Jason” wrote to another man and signed off with “Love”?

Admit that Uncle received a Bible from someone named Joan who wrote long dedications and signed with “love.”  I’m sure* she meant it as agape love, or filial love, and certainly not hot-bunny-sexual-man-woman love. 

Get over yourselves, TeriSteve. People in your extended families of origin had friends of the opposite gender who used the “L” word. Sheesh. 

* I’m not sure. I really couldn’t give a good gol-darn, but I do enjoy a good vitz at the Maxwells’ ridiculous pomposity. ’