St Valentine’s Day (Call me cynical) reprise.
Tag Archives: Chocolate
A Conspiracy for the Ages
The holidays are soon over. Can another ‘holiday’ come too soon. According to
the valentine related detritus already on display at the store, the answer is no.
Location : The dark basement of a warehouse located somewhere on the east coast of North America.
From separate entrances three men surreptitiously entered said warehouse. Three men who could be considered traitors to their own gender but loyal to one master. A master who can appear in multiple forms and colors and assume many aliases but all answer to the name of’legal tender’.
The three men are strangers to one another. The location of their pre arranged conclave was chosen during the previous year and only revealed to each of them the previous evening.
Each man introduces himself. There was Harry “Salutations “ Brown, Tony “Coco Bean” Burns and William “Don’t Call Me Shrink” Kowalski.
“Coco Bean. Really?” muttered Salutations Brown.
“Well, it used to be Fat Tony but I felt that played on a false stereotype people may have of us in the confection industry,” responded Coco Bean.
“Sounds sensitive enough,” agreed William, ” besides you go maybe 140 soaking wet.”
“So is it business as usual this year gentleman?” asked Coco Bean.
“Well if by usual you mean that both you guys make with the sweet talk generating expectations that cannot possibly be met and then I swoop in to pick up the pieces ,then yes, business as usual,” replied William.
“Yea , I see no reason to change. Why fix something that has been working for over 1700 years,” said Harry.
“I got to hand it to you Harry,“ said Coco Bean. “Your ancestors in business certainly knew how to craft a legend. Everyone loves a romantic martyr. Especially if he comes bearing chocolate and sticky valentines.”*
“You definitely have the poet in you Salutations. Here is to another banner Valentines Day. Long live the cash machine,” said William as he toasted with a glass of champagne.
“Long live the cash machine,” chimed in Coco Bean and Salutations as they raised their glasses”.
“So what fine location is the gathering next year gentleman?” asked Salutations.
“Hey you know the rules. We don’t choose the place. That is up to unknown others to decide” cautioned William.
“Yea, but I bet it will be someplace dark and dank,” replied Salutations.
“You would think the health care industry is in on the grift,” said Coco Bean.
“Not yet,” replied William. They’ll wakeup, all that sugar has to be creating some new customers for them.”
*Thank you Mr. Costello.
Sweet Blogging Award Nomination
I would like to thank Barbara Brady at http://curatorofcuriosities.com/
for nominating my blog thesoundoflaughter.wordpress.com for the Sweet Blogging Award (Sorry it took a few days to get this up!)
The rules to this award (for me and all nominees) are:
- Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that nominated them
- Answer five super sweet questions
- Include the Super Sweet Blogging award image in your blog post
- Nominate a baker’s dozen (13) other bloggers
- Notify your nominees on their blog
The 5 sweet questions.
Cookies or Cake. When it comes to sweets I have to ration them and if I am going to cheat I have to go big and go cake. With cookies it is easy to drag it out and go way past my allocation.
Chocolate or Vanilla. Really ? It’s a choice? Chocolate of course.
Favorite Sweet Treat. Any item that combines Raspberry and Chocolate (Ice Cream, Candy , raw chocolate syrup and raspberries etc). The person that thought “I wonder what raspberry and chocolate together would taste like?” should have gotten the nobel peace prize. Yes even before the person that thought the same about chocolate and peanut butter.
When do you crave sweet things the most? After a long hard work day. I guess its comfort food and a reward. Its two , two things in one. Kind of like chocolate and raspberry.
Sweet Nick Name. Is it a nickname if we give it to ourselves? I think my nickname should honor my heritage and therefore be a combination of terms stemming from my Polish/Irish background. I am combining the Polish word for chocolate and the name of a fine Irish whiskey . Czekolada Jamison (pronounced Check-o-lada or Check-o-wada depending on how authentic a pronunciation you’re going for). In fact I like it so much I may make it my Nom de Plume. It also works as a great band name. They would probably list Devotchka as one of their influences. Note: Chocolate Raspberry in Polish would be Czekolada Malinka but that would be a slight towards the Irish part of me. It also would make a good band name. But the band would have to involve a lot of accordion and would be relegated to the Wedding/Polka circuit.
My Nominations: So I want to point out that I have only been involved in this blog community for less than a month so my list is from the blogs aware to me in that short time.
Without further ado, ok maybe a little do, my nominations for the Sweet Blogging Award ….drumroll please…
Travel With Intent:http://travelwithintent.com/
Charles Gulotta – Mostly Bright Ideas:http://mostlybrightideas.wordpress.com/
Marisa D. Lyon:http://fate423.wordpress.com/
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move:http://giaonthemove.com/
Ermisenda Alvarez and Eliabeth Hawthorne – Ermiliablog:http://ermiliablog.wordpress.com/
Inside My Glitching Mind:http://bzebza.com (Note: I could not find a place for posting comments to blog. I emailed the author).
Russell Deasley – Worlds Top 10 of Everything and Anything:http://theverybesttop10.com/
Bitter Ben – Ben’s Bitter Blog:http://bensbitterblog.wordpress.com/
The Unwitting Traveler:http://theunwittingtraveller.com
laurasbadidieas – http://unlikelyexplanations.com/
Tracyembor :http://tracycembor.com/
Alistair Savage:http://alastairsavage.wordpress.com/
Thank you again Barbara! (http://curatorofcuriosities.com/)