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Livingonsteak says
Dear woman… :D
Andie says
Sad. I get to avoid this, because I only have two males that read my blog (well, three if you count the crazy dude that seems to be stalking PZ – but he only ever commented once) out of the whopping 14 people who subscribe. Must suck, though.Can I just say that I enjoy the use of the word Dudeitational?
John Moeller says
"And I'm not sexist so it's ok." I love that. I think that it sums up the reactions of a lot of male academics to these types of situations. "I'm the product of a liberal education and background! Think about what your accusations would do to people like me!"
Rbray18 says
i admit,i do the old poor me bit to myself when the topic of sexism comes up.cause my twisted head always turns it around to "you're evil because you're a guy with privilege you never see." i know that's wrong and not what's being said but even though i'm a atheist i'm not always rational,i was at one point a Christian after all.but i have many many issues.one day i may get over it and be closer to perfect and ideal as i seemingly get told i'm supposed to
Ben Lever says
Okay. I want to preface this by saying that I'm actually asking, not just asking a rhetorical question. But why, exactly, is this sexism? (The first part, not the ganging-up, dismissing-calls-of-sexism, accusations-of-lesbianism part).I could definitely see why it would be sexism if she had uploaded the comic and then the dude had just commented on her bio pic, saying "Your tits are so good it makes me want to fuck you." Then it would be legitimate to get into the whole "Hey, I'm more than just a body, I want to be appreciated for my comic" thing. But he specifically goes straight from liking the comic to wanting to fuck her…which is still very blunt and idiotic and so on, but is at the very least less shallow. He is appreciating her for her work, it's just that his reaction is to request sexytimes…and there's nothing wrong with sexytimes.I also want to know how this is any different from when someone posts a particularly insightful comic/post, and the comments/forum discussion/tweets are full of "Marry me" – which is often taken as a compliment rather than sexism, and is just as often women saying it to Randall of xkcd as it is dudes saying it to women. The basic formula is the same – "your work resonates with me to such an extent that I feel romantic emotions for you" – it's just the method of expression that differs (and only slightly, since we can assume that 'marry' would include 'fuck').I suspect I am going wrong here somewhere. But I'm genuinely confused. Is it a 'sex object' thing? Because like I said, I'm not sure that's actually what's going on here.
UncountablyFinite says
I think it's a combination of:1. That kind of comment is often or usually rooted in sexism.2. The frequency of that kind of comment. If it was a once in a while thing, you might just think he was an idiot or something. The frequency makes it frustrating.3. There is a difference between the words marry and fuck. We wouldn't need two different words if there wasn't.4. She didn't call it sexism. She just, very politely, suggested that that kind of compliment was not one she appreciated. The appropriate response for the guy would have been to simply apologize. The comic is more about the reaction to her comment than it is about the original comment by the guy.
K.W. Ramsey says
From what I can see it totally is a sex object thing. The first, ahem, "commenter" goes from saying he likes the comic to saying he would like to engage in a carnal act with the artist. While he can feel that way it is rather crass to make the comment, and likely the only reason he did was because he didn't have to look the artist in the face to make it.While marriage may include sexual intercourse it has a different meaning when said in person or online. Fuck implies an encounter of only physical interaction, while marriage implies a commitment and love. Also, the use of "marry me" has a longer of history of being used humorously to express admiration and affection online towards a creator, while "fuck" does not have the same connotation and in fact has been used in a hurtful manner in many online exchanges.The best way to break it down, in my opinion, is the guy made a crass and tasteless comment and was surprised when the artist did not just meekly accept it and then a pissing match started over the whole thing when others started to chime in. He was clearly in the wrong and she attempted to gently correct him. If he'd realized his mistake and apologized and then the shitstorm happened I'd say it was a misunderstanding, but from what the comic expresses he kept acting like an entitled jackass through the whole thing, thus rendering any claims of not being sexist moot.I'm not going to defend or condemn this guy any further, as, to be perfectly honest I never saw the original exchange and the comic is obviously biased, as it well should be coming from one side of the issue. That's not to say it's wrong, but to not take in account the fact that all forms of expression are biased would be hypocritical. I'm also not going to apologize for this idiot (dang, that's condemning, ah well screw it the guy is an idiot). What I will do, and what I recommend for anyone reading this is don't act this way. If you find something online that you appreciate and find the artist attractive, send them a kind word praising their work but don't make any kind of sexual commentary or advance. Really, it's freaking creepy even when it isn't sexist.
loreleion says
I think a language where marry and fuck were the same word would have extraordinary comedic potential.
Erica says
The original comments that inspired this comic were made by cartoonist Kate Beaton (@beatonna) on Tuesday on her twitter, quoted below since I can't link to her tweets directly:"dear internet, you are well meaning, but I'd like to make a point.when you tell a female creator you like her work so much you want to marry her and have her babies, you're not doing anyone any favorsfirst of all, as cute as it sounds in your head, it's a shitty, disrespectful 'compliment.' No one makes comics looking for sexual attentionsecondly, by doing so you invite others to critique that person's works based on their looks, which is uncomfortable, sexist and unfair.t's just a general problem I see out there, and I don't like the message that ignoring it sends even if it's the best way to deal with it."
BEG says
That comic is possibly one of the funniest ever, in a "The Office" sort of way….
Azkyroth says
Correction: it's *very rarely* what's being said.
mcbender says
Ugh. The phenomenon described in this comic is all too real; I've seen it happen too many times to count. It depresses me, in addition to making me ashamed of being male.
Caliguy7281 says
I think female X-Box players have it worst of all. You should hear the garbage they put up with.
Jim says
I have to wonder, and this is a somewhat serious question even if it doesn't sound like it, at what point it became offensive and disrepectful to tell a girl you'd like to fuck her. And to be clear, I'm not saying men aren't consciously disrespecting the female to whom they profess their sexual desires in such a manner, since they presumably can anticipate what sort of reaction this will elicit. But I have to assume that for most species, and for most of humanity's history, the expression of desire to fuck on the part of the male would be taken as a compliment on the part of the female. Wouldn't natural selection neccesitate this? My personal theory is that human females associate blunt expression of the desire to mate with rape and subjugation, and therefore with pain and humilation as well. This is probably understandable given the way the men have treated women for most of our recorded history. And no I'm not missing the point. I get that women in modern, cultured society want to be valued for more than just their vajayjays. And I don't think turning down every anonymous offer of sex means you're uptight either.
Arctic Ape says
Finnish is kinda like that, but it only feels like a *really* old joke for native speakers.
FPops says
I wonder what his reaction would be if I (a male) said I wanted to fuck him? Not nearly as cool as Ms Beaton's I should think. What happened to romance? – you don't just see someone you like, then go up to them ask for a fuck … it's like a child in a shop saying "gimme, gimme".Call me old-fashioned but a bit of common respect never hurt anyone.
Egoistpaul says
lol. I don't know what to say in response to this.
Svlad Cjelli says
It was Beaton?! But she's awesome; why would anyone be mean to her?
Svlad Cjelli says
Well, being on X-Box Live is a bit like punching a hornet nest to begin with.
Ola Rozenfeld says
Really, Erica?!! That was it?! Well, okay, then it all only makes Ben Laver even more right. And it's kind of sleazy how the "male" point of view was misrepresented there… we went from "marry and have your babies" to "fuck you"? Nice.Ben, just so you know:1) I'm a woman.2) I don't find the "marry me" comments offensive *at all*3) I strongly disagree with people who try to change the culture so that comments like these are considered offensive, and I speak out against them (http://petite-lambda.livejourn… Yeah, I know, exactly as described in the comic :-) albeit with the important difference that I'm a woman disagreeing.4) I might, however, have a problem with the "fuck you" version (although I'd still take it as a compliment). Although there's nothing wrong with thinking it, phrasing it this way is widely considered tasteless and unpolite; and when someone knowingly chooses to phrase something in a tasteless and unpolite way, it usually indicates disrespect.
facebook-740856118 says
Even I had to quite X-box Live. There's nothing like getting trash talked by a 10 year old, and having to remind yourself not to yell back at the little twit. ;)
Ola Rozenfeld says
See Erica's comment above — turns out that the story actually started with a mere "marry me and have my babies" rather than "fuck me" comment…For me, it all depends on how you phrase it. There's nothing wrong with the intent, that's for sure (I often think about someone who just gave an amazing speech "I want to hump his leg!"). Thinking it is okay. Problem is, the exact phrase "I want to fuck you", said to a stranger, is widely considered tasteless and unpolite; and someone who reached the age of wanting to fuck is presumably aware of it being considered tasteless and unpolite. So, if he still chooses to phrase it this way — 99% chance that he's a disrespectful asshole. Again, it's all about intent, and how you communicate that intent. Intent to actually have sex with me is fine; disrespecting me is not.
makeshiftkey says
It's sexist because the highest compliment he can think to give her for her work is that she's worthy of his attention and his babies. That's the problem here – turning someone's work into an item with which to determine their fuckability devalues the work and the person together. It devalues the work because it suggests that the aim of the work is to extract marriage/sexxing proposals and it devalues the person because it suggests that The Very Best they can do is cause other people to want to make babies with them. Beaton accepts that people are well meaning when they use this "compliment" but she's trying to express that she doesn't really see it as a compliment for these reasons.
facebook-740856118 says
To me, the sexism comes in when the guy refuses to acknowledge her discomfort, and the other guys start attacking her for stating her discomfort at his comment.The proper thing would have been for the guy to apologize and maybe had a dialogue with her. Publicly attacking her on his blog was not the way to go.
The G says
I've heard this kind of comment before from my male coworkers which I never quite understood. Whether or not it is a kind of compliment, the ladies I work with in my supermajority female-dominated profession would find it very offensive. However, one of the guys explained it to me once in a way that *almost* made more sense. He told me that there are standards among guys (don't believe the sexist belief otherwise!) on with whom they would like to have sex. If someone is beneath their threshold, showing great intelligence or talent improves their general attractiveness to the point the guy would like to have sex with the woman in question. While I'm not advocating a relativism to the male culture, I can see where such a statement is not merely carnal. It is also a compliment to the talent or intelligence displayed by the person.It is still offensive to many, but may only indirectly involve the woman's reproductive structures.
Megan Webb says
Dear Jen,Thank you for reposting this. I LOVE Kate Beaton's comic and had no idea this was going down since I tend to avoid twitter like the plague.This phenomenon seems to happen a lot whenever a woman tries to point out sexism. I even got shot down by my (anthropology!) professor when I once tried to point out how he was being sexist. His response? "I'm not sexist! I'm a feminist! No one can out-feminist me!"…And then an undergrad boy jumped in with, "Nobody ever mentions how sexism hurts men, too! Feminism is unfair to men!" and I had to beat him over the head with Greta Christina articles.Sigh. This is the kind of BS that, as I try to decide what sort of history I want to study, makes me run screaming from attempting women and gender history even though I think it's totally cool….
Lodevijk says
This very comic is so sexist I don't know how to describe it. Meta-auto-sexism?
jose says
Some years ago there was a very successful bullfighter in Spain. His name was Jesulín de Ubrique. The peculiar thing about him was, girls were crazy about him. They would go to the bullring and throw him their bras and knickers while shouting 'I want to have your kids!!'. It was something between funny and disturbing. Never thought they were being sexist–until now.
Azkyroth says
So, implying that someone is below the guy's standards to start with, but their intelligence or talent "saves" them, is supposed to be a compliment?
Ray says
On what seems like the most natural reading of the comment, the bit about marrying and having babies is Beaton's shorthand for a range of sexual comments, not a direct or indirect quote from anyone.
G. Syme says
I have to agree here. As soon as you say that *telling* someone you want to fuck them is sexist, then *wanting* to fuck them is sexist too. In the first instance, you're merely expressing your desire to do so. People do want to fuck other people – especially attractive people. No one is going to deny me that truth. So when someone encounters a member of their sex-of-preference who displays traits attractive to them (such as, god forbid, intelligence) they may well find that they wish to fuck them.Now, in our society we tend to frown open overt declarations of fucking-intention (DoFI) because they're generally crass, distasteful and make the recipient uncomfortable*. But what does the internet do best? It deindividuates its denizens and removes societal pressures and norms. Suddenly people are much more honest with their DoFIs, to the discomfort of all. But I still don't see it as being the overly simplistic accusation of sexism that we're discussing here.*Not in all cases, though. I tell my girlfriend on an excessively regular basis how much I'd like to fuck her, as she does to me. Surely no one would claim this is sexist and, apart from a few language-prudes, even particularly crass. Understanding the difference between our DoFIs and those between strangers on the internet would go a long way to explaining why we frown on one but not the other. Ideas, anyone?
Jinborov Karnovski says
Exactly. The first time I heard anyone say "I want to have [their] babies" was when girls in my high school [~10 years ago] were talking about random male celebrities they had photos of on their folders, jokingly..I was reading the comments on PZ's blog yesterday and it was depressing. Someone would comment "Guys I think you're over-reacting. Clearly he was joking, and it's not even biologically possible." and they would be instantly swarmed with "Oh look, here comes another pig to tell us why [actual sexist asshole from a previous thread about actual sexism] is actually right" comments.
Dale Husband says
If you want to see a disgusting example of sexism, look here:http://circleh.wordpress.com/2…I can't stand guys like that, really. His ripping off Richard Dawkins is just part of his corruption, we should all condemn this making fun of successful women too. The Wilson sisters of Heart were even attacked by their own record lable at the time, which put out an ad implying they were lesbians.
Jen (but not the blogger Jen) says
Hmm, interesting. I've been known to say about Joss Whedon that I want to marry him and have his babies. It's certainly not due to physical attraction (sorry, Joss), but because I love the man's mind. It's also, obviously, not meant to be taken seriously or realistically.
persnickety says
Man, it's always so hard to watch debates like this, because it's never about "this action is obviously always wrong!", it's more "this action is like the straw that breaks the camel's back" so it comes out like one camel going "Hey guys, stop giving me all this straw, it's too heavy and I can't carry it" and another camel goes "What are you talking about? Straw is very light! I'm carrying a handful of it and I barely feel it at all!" and the first camel starts trying to explain that the circumstances are different, that a bale of straw is a lot harder to carry than a handful, but now the argument is about whether straw is heavy or not and the original complaint gets lost.And that was a terrible analogy, but what I was trying to say is that I see female producers of geek culture (comics, blogs, videos) get an incredibly large amount of creepy and/or sexualized compliments in reaction to their work, a lot more than I see male producers get (although I do see them get some creepy attention too and I'm sure they're just as creeped out by it). The argument is not really about whether "I want to have your babies!" is a creepy thing to say on its own, but that it's hard to deal with such a large volume of sexualized compliments and maybe fans should take it down a notch.
jeff says
how is that sexist? It changed the album to be a pun on farting.. i think you are reaching there quite a bit.
Dale Husband says
Forgive me for not sharing your warped sense of humor, Jeff, but can you tell me how such a silly thing can be enjoyed equally by both men and women, if it is not sexist? Because speaking as a MAN with a sense of honor and empathy for women, I know what Josh Timonen did to the Wilson sisters was indeed sexist. And if I do something and a woman tells me she considers it sexist and tells me exactly why, I have sense enough to APOLOGIZE to her, regardless of how I feel about it, and clarify that I meant no offense. I NEVER defend something for its own sake, for that is selfish arrogance.(((Stepping down from the soapbox)))
Mlbrowne says
*sigh* The problem is when you're told "No thank you, please don't say that again" you should say "Oh, ok, sorry." You should not go on a long rant about how that uptight bitch didn't recognize the awesome compliment you were paying to her lowly self and how dare she not be grateful.
Ola Rozenfeld says
That's a very good point. "Nothing wrong with X, but I'm getting so much of it that it gets tedious and I'd really like to see some Y instead" is very different from saying "oh when will these sexist men learn not to do the disrespectful X anymore". Put like that, I agree entirely.
Rollingforest says
And here is the obligatory post saying that with the thought of feminist activists becoming the main philosophy among college professors, the same thing can happen with female professors (not normally about sex obviously, unless it's about removing all sexual images from the media)
Rollingforest says
But I think the point made above was that woman use the "marry me" and "I want to have your babies" line to men all the time. Men usually brush it off because men are usually more promisquous than women for evolutionary reasons (they pay a lower cost for having babies than women do). However, if there was a man who was uncomfortable with sexual attention from women he wasn't married to, it would be just as bad for a woman to do it him.
Rollingforest says
I agree that it is sexist to make sexual proposals to woman who don't want them. But Ben makes an interesting point with the "Marry me, I want to have your babies!" comment that women often use. It happened at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday. A college aged girl indicated that she was single and hinted at Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart said "You know I'm a 47 year old married man right?" but the girl said that that was okay (apparently not caring what Jon Stewart's wife thought of this). Jon Stewart seemed a little put off by it, but if he had been insulted by her suggestion that he cheat on his wife then it could have been just as bad as what the comic was representing.But like Ola below, I'm not in favor of a blanket ban on statements like "I want to marry you and have your babies" or even "you are a successful comic artist and I want to fuck you." If the artist indicates its okay by past suggestions, then it's okay. The hard part, of course, is telling who is okay with such statements and who isn't.
Rollingforest says
It is if the standard is high.
Rollingforest says
I don't think it's a fart joke, but rather is a joke about being sexually attracted to her ass. I agree that if a person offends another person, they should apologize by saying "I didn't mean to make you feel that way" (though after apologizing I might say "I was only trying to [fill in the reason]" so that I can explain my thinking and hopefully we can come to an agreement. And I think it would be sexist to send this picture to Annie Wilson if she wasn't comfortable with it. The difference is that Josh Timonen only did it on his own blog for his own followers. He was trying to express his sexual attraction to her (which is okay) but he didn't try to shove it on her (which isn't).
G. Syme says
Yes, but that doesn't make it sexist. No one here is denying that these posters are both creepy and dickish, but that does not make them (and thus all men, the implication goes) sexist pigs.Speaking from personal experience, but also that of those around me, men get very sensitive when they're called sexist. Honestly, discussions like this just make me despair because it feels as though I can do no right – regardless of my personal actions and active feminism. So male posters being called sexist are going to react quite strongly – indeed, overreact – to such accusations.
chicagodyke says
i've got a pretty thick skin, but i don't deny her point. i've had some really nasty blow outs with men on the internet. sexism on the internet is a feature not a bug, and tied up with the patriarchal discourse foisted upon all of us. it's damn hard for a woman in the internets, and some communities are so violently sexist it's a wonder women go there at all. people are trained to shout and gang up and use violent rhetoric towards outsiders or those with a dissenting opinion in most commenting environments. liberal blogs are obviously much better about it, but even there sometimes the casual sexism is all too common. the use of nonrational, emotive 'argument' is something a great deal of commenters on the internet have been condition to, and that is obvious in moments like this. politically, it has the benefit of redirecting justified anger towards the undeserving instead of the powerful and corrupt.
Demitri Morgan says
I wish it weren't that way, though I can't say I've ever paid attention to that kind of drama.Saying sexual things to a woman uninvited is very rude, beyond just sexist. Doing so on the internet makes no difference – though it does lend further credence to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Mlbrowne says
"Yes, but that doesn't make it sexist. "Actually, it does. If you think that a woman's right to have her boundaries respected isn't as important as having her shut up about about it so a man can feel good about making sexual comments to her, that's sexist. If a man makes a sexual comment to a woman, she asks him not to, and he starts ranting about how dare she be so rude and ungrateful, and then a bunch of men start agreeing with him, and someone writes a comic about it…And your response is not "wow, that must been tough for her to deal with" but "but that makes men look bad, so you should think twice about posting it" – that's sexist.If he had said
Aardvark Cheeselog says
Maybe the cartoonist should consider the possibility that, by publicly doing something creative and demanding, she demonstrates (exhibits? flaunts?) fitness in a way that some males find so unbearably attractive that they act like assholes?Or is this just a tired retread of some blame-the-victim trope?
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Ghost Town - What Ghost Town???
30 comments:
- Backcountry Brodie said...
Oh, I hope he did not shoot that deer, the meanie. (I woz going to use a different werd but mom would not let me.) We once running into men wif guns wot woz not playing by the rules coz there be signs all over wot sayed "no huntin'" and we commed up over a hill right smack at them. This is why mom always makes me wear orange when we be hiking no matter if it be huntin' season or places or not. And I bet you thought it woz coz I look mahvelous in orange.
- September 1, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- NAK and The Residents of The Khottage said...
- September 1, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- houndstooth said...
What great pictures! You make me want to grab Mom and Dad and get them to just start driving me someplace cool!
- September 1, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- Sharon said...
Looks like a potential rock slide to me, very pretty though! Love the old trees!
Too bad you couldn't get through the gates... but then you may have met a bear!
- September 1, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Love the pikturs......especially the potential rock slide!
Too bad you couldn't visit the Ghost TOwn....that would have been super interesting!!!
- September 1, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- 24 Paws of Love said...
Good choice not aiming the camera at him, when he fully loaded and looking for supper. Never know being out in them there mountains what you may come across and they don't take too kindly to strangers. lol
Sorry you weren't able to find the ghost town. Will you keep looking? I'm sure there's a ton out there. What state are you guys in now?
- September 1, 2010 at 9:22 PM
- Life With Dogs said...
I am so envious. I moved frequently until my 20s and I still have wanderlust. Always love the pics! :)
- September 1, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- George The Lad said...
Oh, I was waiting to hear all about the ghost town, well it lived up to its name, if you can't get in!!!
That must have been quite worrying the mad man with the gun:0 you did the right thing me thinks.
See Yea George xxx
- September 2, 2010 at 12:55 AM
- Maggie Mae and Max said...
Beoootiful pictures! I am happy dat da guy in da pickup missed his target.....what an idiot.
WOofs and Licks,
Maggie Mae
- September 2, 2010 at 4:24 AM
- The Daily Pip said...
That second to last picture is very creepy! I think a ghost definitely lives in that scary place!
Your pal, Pip
- September 2, 2010 at 4:28 AM
Super cool bear gate. Would have been real hard not to trespass ;)
Good thinkin on not pointin the camera at the dumb gun guy. Shakin my head till my ears are bruised.
Waggin at ya,
- September 2, 2010 at 4:38 AM
- Unknown said...
That gate is AMAZING - ive never seen anything like that, it was really cool - thanks for sharing!
Ugh yeah I agree I wouldnt have pointed my camera at that man either!!!
- September 2, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- Frankie Furter and Ernie said...
Oh my these are really beautiful and interesting pictures. Sorry you didn't find the ghost town though.
Shooting out of a truck??? How unfair is that. My dad would not like that much.
- September 2, 2010 at 6:12 AM
- Two Pitties in the City said...
Those are such great photos. We love going on your trips with you!
- September 2, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Cool concept for a blog! I'm going to follow (get it "follow" BOL) you around :)
Don't expect a lot of comments from me. I'm a furry busy chihuahua. I love reading good blogs, but I mostly interact with my furiends through my Tuesday posts (an "advice column" for the pet community).
Pleased to make your acquaintance,
- September 2, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- K9 Katastrophie said...
ooooo Scary!
- September 2, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Road Dog Tales said...
Thanks for stopping by everyone! And, um, that was not the ONLY person we saw trying to shoot from their car! It truly is the wild west out here and we're just warning ya!
PeeS - this was in Montana, just so you know to wear your orange out here, like Shawnee!
The Road Dogs
- September 2, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Those Elgin Pugs said...
ooooooo!!! What super enchanting pho-toes!! We's looked in 'da little windows of 'da 3rd pho-toe for a ghost man or sometings... IzZY thoughts she saw sometings...
'da nerve of 'dat gun man!! Maybe 'da ghosts are on 'da way back to haunt his house!! SNORTS!!
Josie, IzZY and Anakin Man
- September 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Pat Wahler said...
The gate is amazing! How very tempting to peek inside!
- September 2, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- meowmeowmans said...
What neat stuff you saw on your trip! We sure hope that mean man with the gun was a poor shot. :(
- September 3, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- the booker man said...
ugh. that dude with the gun in the truck sounds like a total goober face. i hope that deer is a-okay.
that gate is way spiffy! i'd love to know what the house looks like if the gate is that cool looking. maybe you can go back and do a little bit of covert snoopervising? teehee.
the booker man
- September 3, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- Thor and Jack said...
How scary!
- September 4, 2010 at 7:35 PM
- Scooter said...
Hey Road Dogs, this is Frankie Furter's Cousin Sarge. You guys have the coolest pix! I absolutely love the scenery. That bear gate is the greatest. It's look great in my territory since I have bears for neighbors. Thanks for sharing such neat places...makes me wanna travel!
Grr and Woof,
- September 4, 2010 at 8:16 PM
- Sketching with Dogs said...
What a wonderful place to go, you must have the best adventures. Thanks for sharing your pictures with us.
Wags, Dip Bridge and Elliot xx
- September 6, 2010 at 3:04 AM
- 3 doxies said...
Okays well it being Montana, I understands. Now, I aaaaaall bouts NOT playing by da rules BUT there be cases when you should. Dat stoopid man...he be like Sara Palin shooting from a helicopter. At least give da animals a chance...duh! Okays, I get offs my soapy box!
Looooves your fotos.
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The current design at DeeperBlue.net (done by Sitepoint I may add!) is now 4 years old. Time for some fresh ideas!
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Camera: The iPhone 3G's weakest feature is probably its camera, which is nearly unchanged from the original model. Not only is it the same fixed focus, 2 megapixel camera (which was a bit behind the state of the art a year ago), but it also still uses the same very basic camera software. It still lacks video recording and still uses a touch screen button that make snapping a photo a bit difficult, particularly if you're attempting to take a shot that includes you in the photo. You can also forget video conferencing or even video capture.
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Other smartphones accommodate A2DP headphones by expecting the user to carry extra batteries around. Last year, Samsung had to release a fat replacement battery pack for its popular BlackJack because the original battery couldn't keep up with more than half day of 3G data and A2DP use.
It'd be nice to see the iPhone working with Bluetooth keyboards, which would make the phone closer to a laptop replacement. That might also be why Apple hasn't released keyboard support for it yet. Bluetooth file transfer and data sync are also missing, although modern data sync has transcended the relatively slow Bluetooth for all but basic data; MobileMe now offers wireless mobile sync, and USB is far faster than Bluetooth is likely to ever be. It would be nice to be able to beam contacts or files to other iPhone users, however.
Carrier Limitations: While the iPhone 3G sports global HSDPA and UMTS data access, it's only available in the US through AT&T's relatively limited 3G service area. Sprint and Verizon have older and more established 3G networks providing larger coverage. AT&T also does not allow the use of tethering, which uses a phone's mobile data connection to provide Internet access to a laptop over Bluetooth or USB. Conversely, most of the Sprint and Verizon phones attempting to compete directly with the iPhone 3G lack Wi-Fi, ensuring that they will have zero value when removed from mobile service. These external factors remind us that a device is limited as much by its service provider as it is the hardware itself.
Software: While we're endeavoring to discuss hardware and software issues independently, software is still joined to hardware's hip and has a major impact on how well the device works and how usable its features are. The iPhone 3G's software is wimpiest around its weaker hardware features: camera software is extremely basic, as is its Bluetooth support. It also lacks voice recognition for handsfree dialing, a common feature on most phones. The lack of copy and paste, a unified email box, and a handful of other missing features all count as minor dings against the iPhone, but those are all software issues that are not impossible to fix. All the same, one can't retrofit the iPhone's current camera —though it's equally difficult to make competing smartphones any less clunky or add missing features like Wi-Fi.
The iPhone 3G's differing hardware features
While the iPhone 3G's camera and bluetooth support is clearly behind some leading higher-end smartphones, in other areas it's just different, leaving the end user to decide whether its different in a good way or not.
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Indian Notch Park Installs New Rain Garden Thanks to Pratt & Whitney Grant
Pratt & Whitney is among several leading industry and non-profit organizations that are dedicated to the promotion and advancement of environmentally innovative activities, including green technology and efficiency projects. Each year, the corporation meets, and exceeds, its environmental goals and continually reaches out to communities by providing grants, volunteer manpower, mentoring projects and much more.
On Oct. 19, the Friends of Bolton Lake installed a rain garden at Indian Notch Park on Lower Bolton Lake in Bolton, Conn., thanks to a Pratt & Whitney Green Power Grant.
A recent Pratt & Whitney retiree, Mike Morris, who is also a member of the Friends of Bolton Lake, told the group of the Green Power Grant program, and Friends of Bolton Lake's Shelly Jewell initiated the application process with help from Pratt & Whitney's Kathleen Sandin to eventually secure funding.
Equipped with a wealth of information and expertise from UConn's Mike Dietz, the Friends of Bolton Lake board determined that the rain garden was the project they wanted to embark upon.
"It linked the lake association with the town of Bolton and a Bolton High School senior [David Cowles, now a UConn student] to do a project that would benefit the town, the lake and the state," said Jewell.
Cowles' plan for the functional rain garden, which was his senior project, included a variety of colorful native and perennial plants. The rain garden, which will collect storm water runoff, is hoped to reduce the amount of pollutants that leave the grounds and enter the nearby lake, reducing the need for costly municipal storm water treatment structures.
Cowles, together with Friends of Bolton Lake members and Bolton town employees, completed the majority of the installation work on the Oct. 18, and a bench acknowledging the project and Pratt & Whitney's funding was put in place the following Thursday.
"Members of Friends of Bolton Lake will come back later in the fall to cut plants back, if need be, and in the spring to weed, add mulch if needed, etc.," said Jewell. "The rain garden is a public display exemplifying how residents, town, state and private industry representatives can work together to develop attractive and environmentally sound solutions for a healthy watershed."
Launched in 2008, Pratt & Whitney's Green Power Grant program provides grant money to U.S. employee volunteers for clean up, habitat restoration and environmental education programs. For more information about Pratt & Whitney's corporate responsibility and grant opportunities, visit http://www.pw.utc.com/environmental_leadership and http://www.pw.utc.com/corporate_citizenship.


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(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed directly to far right voters on Monday with pledges to get tough on immigration and security, after a record showing in a first round election by the National Front made them potential kingmakers.
Polls show centre-right leader Sarkozy on course to become the first French president to lose a bid for re-election in more than 30 years, trailing Socialist challenger Francois Hollande ahead of a May 6 run-off.
Hollande pipped Sarkozy in Sunday's 10-candidate first round by 28.6 percent to 27.2 percent, but National Front leader Marine Le Pen stole the show, surging to 17.9 percent, the biggest tally a far-right candidate has ever managed.
Her performance mirrored advances across the continent by anti-establishment Euroskeptical populists from Amsterdam and Vienna to Helsinki as the euro zone's grinding debt crisis deepens anger over government spending cuts and unemployment.
"National Front voters must be respected," Sarkozy told reporters as he left his campaign headquarters in Paris. "They voiced their view. It was a vote of suffering, a crisis vote. Why insult them? I have heard Mr Hollande criticizing them."
The unpopular Sarkozy, the first sitting president to be forced into second place in the first round of a re-election bid, now faces a difficult balancing act to attract both the far-right and centrist voters he needs to stay in office.
The weak showing by Sarkozy spooked investors already nervous about European governments' ability to service their debts, helping to send French stocks and bonds lower.
Returning to the campaign trail on Monday, Sarkozy hammered home promises to toughen border controls, tighten security on the streets and keep industrial jobs in France - signature issues for Le Pen at a time of anger over immigration, violent crime and unemployment running at a 12-year high.
Sarkozy will hold a "real workers'" day rally on May 1 in a bid to upstage simultaneous events held by Hollande, the FN and trade unions.
After five turbulent years leading the world's fifth economy, Sarkozy could go the way of 10 other euro zone leaders swept from office since the start of the crisis in late 2009.
Hollande has vowed to change the direction of Europe by tempering austerity measures with higher taxes on the rich and more social spending. Polls published on Sunday predicted he would win the run-off with between 53 and 56 percent of votes.
But the strong showing of Le Pen, gravel-voiced 43-year-old daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, offered Sarkozy a glimmer of hope by suggesting there are more votes up for grabs on the right than had been thought.
"Marine Le Pen's breakthrough throws the second round wide open," read the front page of right-leaning Le Figaro, while left-wing Liberation read: "Hollande leads. Le Pen the killjoy".
Hollande blamed Sarkozy for fuelling the rise in the far right and said he would make no attempt to seek National Front votes. "Since some voters supported them out of anger, I will listen to them...but I will not court the far right," he said.
On a strong turnout of 80.2 percent, more than a third of voters cast ballots for protest candidates outside the mainstream, foreshadowing a possible reshaping of France's political balance of power at parliamentary elections in June.
Le Pen's focus is now on securing a strong National Front showing in the parliamentary vote, and she is keeping her distance from Sarkozy, describing him as doomed.
"Faced with an outgoing president who will leave a much weakened party, we are the only true opposition to the neo-liberal left," she told cheering supporters on Sunday.
She said she would give her view on the runoff at a May Day rally in Paris. Speaking on France 2 she said it was insulting to her voters to say they had chosen her in protest and suggested she would not formally endorse either candidate.
"I don't change my mind like I change my shirt," she said. "I have nothing to sell or negotiate. For a long time I have considered Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande to be the same on core subjects."
It is not the first time Sarkozy has appealed to National Front voters before a runoff - the tactic helped him win his first mandate in 2007. Le Pen's strategy director Florian Philippot said it would not work twice: "The French no longer fall for this electioneering game Sarkozy plays."
Financial market analysts say whoever wins in two weeks' time will have to impose tougher austerity measures than either candidate has admitted during the campaign, cutting public spending as well as raising taxes to cut the budget deficit.
European markets were sour after the French results and the Dutch government's failure to push through an austerity budget made elections there almost unavoidable. The euro retreated from two-week highs, European stocks opened lower, and safe-haven German bonds opened higher, increasing the premium investors demand to hold French and Dutch bonds.
"It's beginning to look like the perfect storm," said Stewart Richardson, chief investment officer at RMG. "It looks like the French vote was more against Sarkozy than we would have thought last week, and so there is a leftward lurch in France."
Sarkozy challenged Hollande to three television debates over the next two weeks instead of the customary one. But Socialist aides said Hollande, who has no ministerial experience and is a less accomplished television performer than Sarkozy, had made clear he would accept only one prime-time live debate, on May 2.
Communist-backed hard leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon, who polls showed at one stage challenging Le Pen for third place, finished a distant fourth on 11.1 percent, ahead of centrist Francois Bayrou with 9.1 percent.
Political pundits said Hollande still appears to have larger reserves of second-round votes than Sarkozy, who would need to pick up at least three quarters of Le Pen's supporters and two thirds of Bayrou's to squeak a wafer-thin victory.
Polls taken on Sunday by three institutes suggested that between 48 and 60 percent of Le Pen voters planned to switch to the president, while Bayrou's backers split almost evenly between the two finalists, with one third undecided.
Bayrou said he would make his decision on May 3 after consulting and listening to the two finalists.
"The game is getting very difficult for Nicolas Sarkozy," Jerome Saint-Marie of CSA polling agency told i>TELE. "There's a genuine demand for social justice, precisely because times are hard and voters see sacrifices will have to be made ... What they want is that this pain is fairly shared."
Melenchon, whose fiery calls for a "citizens' revolution" drew tens of thousands to open-air rallies, urged his followers to turn out massively on May 6 to defeat Sarkozy, but he could not bring himself to mention Hollande by name.
Greens candidate Eva Joly endorsed Hollande, who can also count on the modest votes of two Trotskyist also-rans.
"Sarkozy is going to be torn between campaigning in the middle ground and campaigning on the right. He'll have to reach out to the right between the rounds, so he'll lose the centre," said political scientist Stephane Rozes of the CAP think-tank.
If Hollande wins, joining a small minority of left-wing governments in Europe, he has promised to renegotiate a European budget discipline treaty signed by Sarkozy. That could presage tension with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who made the pact a condition for further assistance to troubled euro zone states.
A spokesman for Merkel said on Monday she continued to support Sarkozy but had no plans to campaign on his behalf.
Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer, John Irish, Nicholas Vinocur, Vicky Buffery, Alexandria Sage, Brian Love, Matthias Blamont and Daniel Flynn in Paris, Anirban Nag in London; Editing by Peter Graff


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The Islamic Unity is the most important issue which concerns all Muslims in accordance with their degrees and social positions. Because The Islamic Unity is not a political issue only. This Unity starts from the bonds and solidarity between two Muslims due to their brotherhood-in-faith and reaches to the cooperation and mutual assistance among all Muslims throughout the entire Islamic World.
Our Religion, our nation, our countries can only be protected from all kinds of dangers and enemies through the enormous Power which will be generated by the religious brotherhood and solidarity of Muslims and this will serve to the general Global Peace.
That is the reason why the enemies who cannot resist against this material and spiritual Power, try to destroy the Unity and the Solidarity of the Islamic World in order to break this power into parts, using all types of trickery and stratagems.
Therefore, we must stay vigilant against the corruptive incitements of such defeatists and learn the meaning and the contents and the importance of the Islamic Brotherhood which was commanded very seriously by our Religion and we must display zeal to act in accordance with this Brotherhood.
The following verse of the Quran is attracting our attention to the fact that great mischiefs and disasters will happen if mutual assistance and solidarity amongst the Muslims are not achieved. :
"And the unbelievers are allies (protectors) of each other. Unless you do this (protect each other), there would be Tumult and Oppression on Earth, and great Mischief." (Quran, 8:73)
The Religion of Islam has brought important duties and rules which result in Mutual Assistance. For example, the Pilgrimage (Hajj) is of utmost importance for developing the Spirit of Mutual Assistance and the Unity of Muslims.
A truthful dream (Ru'ya as-Saadiqa) of Al-Ustaz Imam Bediuzzaman gave good-news for the consequences of the First World War, but came to silence about the Pilgrimage regretfully instead of good-news. Imam Bediuzzaman mentions about the Silence of the Dream as follows:
"The dream came to silence at the Pilgrimage. Because, the negligence of the Pilgrimage and the Wisdom in it has attracted , not the calamity, but the (Divine) Wrath and Compulsion (Qahr). And its penalty did not help the expiation of sins, but rather made our sins excessive. It is the negligence of the High Politics of Islam and the extensive Social Benefits within the Pilgrimage, which comprehends especially the Unity of Opinions through acquaintanceship, and Cooperation through mutual assistance, that negligence paved the way for Enemies to employ millions of Muslims against Muslims.
Look there ! The Indian killed his Father, supposing him an enemy, and is now wailing sitting next to him...
Look here! The Tatar and the Caucasian understood that the person they helped others to kill was their helpless Mother, when it is too late. They are crying now at her feet.
Look ! The Arab killed his Hero Brother by mistake, and he even cannot cry being perplexed.
Look ! The African killed his brother unknowingly, now he is raising a cry of lament.
Here ! The World of Islam ! They unintentionally and heedlessly helped others to kill their Flag-bearer Son (the Ottoman Turk), now they are tearing out their hair like mothers in sighs and wailings.
Millions of Muslims have been forced to travel long distances over the World under the enemy flag which is entirely evil, since they did not take a rush departure for the journey of Pilgrimage which is entirely beneficial. (Occurances Improvisations Indications, 52-54)
Hence a great wisdom in Pilgrimage (Hajj) ; it is a kind of Supreme Consultation (Assembly) to be held once a year, in order to protect and perpetuate the independence and security of the World of Islam.
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Morton "Morty" Brownstein, a founder of the Brown's Shoes footwear chain, and one of the Jewish community's most prominent figures, died May 23 at age 85.
Brownstein was one of six siblings born to community-involved parents Benjamin and Minnie.
He was known for his work in the community, as well as for his philanthropy, fundraising skills, humour, and integrity.
In 1979, Brownstein agreed to take on the demanding work of the annual Combined Jewish Appeal Campaign of Allied Jewish Community Services, the precursor to Federation CJA.
He became most prominent in the community, though, for his 35-year association with the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), which he attributed in part to his parents being part of the original 1929 campaign to build the institution.
Brownstein began his JGH involvement in 1979 as a member of its budget and finance committee, and went on in 1988 to become board president. In 1984 he chaired the hospital's capital campaign and co-chaired it in 1998.
In 2003, Brownstein helped launch the JGH foundation's Power to Heal $200-million-campaign to maintain the hospital's level of excellence, and in 2009, he received the La Palme du Philanthrope award from the Quebec chapter of the Association of Philanthropy Professionals.
In a 1979 CJN profile, Brownstein attributed his sense of community service to his family.
"My family has a history of such involvement, and for me it completes our involvement in the community."
The family shoe business, which began in 1940 on St. Catherine Street, was the family's second store. The first was a general store run by his father on "the Main."
Shoes became the family's exclusive business, and Brownstein once said that he wants every customer to say, "I need to go to Brown's, not I need to buy a pair of shoes."
The chain now has more than 40 stores.
A recipient of the Order of Canada in 2004, Brownstein also was active in fundraising for the Montreal Association of the Blind and many other charitable endeavours. Ten percent of Brown's Shoes pre-tax profits are earmarked for charities.
Brownstein is survived by his wife of 65 years, Bernice (Greenfield); children Michael, Janis and Cheryl; siblings Harold, André, Irwin, and Beatrice; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.


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Tahoe-Truckee school board to vote on $176M in bond measures
TRUCKEE, Calif. — School officials are mulling whether to place a pair of tax measures on the November ballot to help finance campus upgrades.
The two general obligation bonds — one for $114 million for Truckee, the other at $62 million for lakeside schools — would go toward projects the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District says are needed at several locations, including repairing plumbing and bathrooms, constructing classrooms and updating technology to improve student learning.
"Ballot measures are nail-biters," said Kirsten Livak, a TTUSD board member, at Wednesday's board meeting. "I don't think you can really get away from that aspect, and you're asking for an incredible amount of money from your voting public.
"… It's an inevitable fact when you drive by the campuses that you realize the money has to come from somewhere, and where is it going to come from? It's certainly not coming from Sacramento."
The school board is scheduled to vote next Wednesday on placing the measures on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The estimated tax rate for the $114M bond is $48.25 per $100,000 of assessed property value for fiscal year 2015-16. The other bond would carry an estimated $29.75 per $100,000 of assessed value.
Taxpayers would pay off the bonds over 33 years, said Todd Rivera, TTUSD manager of budget and payroll.
A June 4-12 survey found that 60 percent of 350 TTUSD registered voters polled (222 in Truckee, 128 at the lake) would initially vote in favor of their respective measure. The margin of error for Truckee results was plus/minus 6.6 percent; the lakeside margin was plus/minus 8.7 percent.
According to state law, the measures would need 55 percent voter support in the general election for adoption.
"This will definitely be a nail-biter," said Richard Bernard, partner and senior vice president for Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin Metz & Associates, which conducted the survey. "You're going to be up all night, sorry … if you chose to go forward."
Charles Heath, a partner with San Francisco-based consulting firm TBWB Strategies, advised the board to pursue the bonds.
"I'm not in the kind of business where I can offer ironclad grantees," he told the board. "That's just not the nature of public opinion and how elections work, but based on the kind of numbers we're seeing here, I think there's a high probability of success, assuming that we place a measure on the ballot and there's a community group that comes together and makes a good case for these bond measures."
Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, in a special meeting at district offices at 11603 Donner Pass Road in Truckee. Learn more at ttusd.org.


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BLT sandwich on toast
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|Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato
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|Bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, bread
|Club sandwich
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A BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato) is a type of bacon sandwich. The standard BLT is made up of five ingredients: bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and bread. The BLT evolved from the tea sandwiches served before 1900 at a similar time to the club sandwich, although it is unclear when the name BLT became the norm.
Ingredients and preparation
While there are variations on the BLT, the essential ingredients are bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and bread.[2] The quantity and quality of the ingredients are matters of personal preference. The bacon can be well cooked or tender, but as it "carries" the other flavours,[3] chefs recommend using higher quality meat; in particular, chef Edward Lee states "Your general supermarket bacon is not going to cut the mustard".[2]
Iceberg lettuce is a common choice because it does not add too much flavour whilst adding crunch.[2] Food writer Ed Levine has suggested that BLT does not require lettuce at all, as it is "superfluous",[4] a suggestion that Jon Bonné, lifestyle editor at MSNBC, described as "shocking". Michele Anna Jordan, author of The BLT Cookbook, believes the tomato is the key ingredient and recommends the use of the beefsteak tomato as it has more flesh and fewer seeds.[2]
The mayonnaise used significantly influences the flavour of the BLT.[2] The bread can be of any variety, white or wholemeal, toasted or not, depending on personal preference.[3]
The sandwich has a high sodium and fat content, and has been specifically targeted by UK café chains in an effort to reduce salt and fat.[5] Due to this, low-fat mayonnaise is a common substitute along with low salt bread and less fatty bacon. In 2009, seven large cafe chains in the UK made a commitment to reducing salt and fat through similar substitutions.[6] A more visible solution is to use turkey bacon in lieu of normal bacon.[1] One of the variations on the BLT is the club sandwich, a two-layered sandwich in which one layer is a BLT. The other layer can be almost any sort of sliced meat, normally chicken or turkey.[7]
The BLT has been deconstructed into a number of forms; for example, Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock created a BLT salad in The Gift of Southern Cooking by cutting the ingredients into 1 inch (25 mm) pieces and tossing in mayonnaise. This variation was described by New York Times writer Julia Reed as "even more perfect than a BLT".[8]
Vegans and vegetarians may replace bacon with tempeh as meat analogue instead.[9] This recipe is called TLT (Tempeh, Lettuce, and Tomato).[10] Alternatively they can use mock bacon.
Although the ingredients of the BLT have existed for many years, there is little evidence of BLT sandwich recipes prior to 1900. In the 1903 Good Housekeeping Everyday Cook Book, a recipe for a club sandwich included bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and a slice of turkey sandwiched between two slices of bread.[11] Whilst the 1929 book Seven Hundred Sandwiches does include a section on bacon sandwiches, the recipes often include pickles and none contain tomato.[12]
The BLT became popular after World War II because of the rapid expansion of supermarkets, which allowed ingredients to be available year-round. The initials, representing "bacon, lettuce, tomato", likely began in the American restaurant industry as shorthand for the sandwich, but it is unclear when this transferred to the public consciousness.[13] For example, a 1951 edition of the Saturday Evening Post makes reference to the sandwich, although it does not use its initials, describing a scene in which: "On the tray, invariably, are a bowl of soup, a toasted sandwich of bacon, lettuce and tomato, and a chocolate milk shake."[14]
A 1954 issue of Modern Hospital contains a meal suggestion that includes: "Bean Soup, Toasted Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich, Pickles, Jellied Banana Salad, Cream Dressing, and Pound Cake."[15] By 1958, Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertised their product as "traditional on bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches," suggesting that the combination had been around for some time.[16] However, there are several references to a "B.L.T" in the early 1970s, including in one review of Bruce Jay Friedman's play entitled Steambath titled: "A B.L.T. for God – hold the mayo.".[17] The abbreviation used in title references a line of dialogue in the play in which God yells, "Send up a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich, hold the mayo. You burn the toast, I'll smite you down with my terrible swift sword."[18] The coexistence of the shortened version and the full name suggests this was a period of transition as the abbreviation was popularized.
According to food historian John Mariani, it is the second most popular sandwich in the US, after the ham sandwich,[3] and a poll by OnePoll in 2008 showed that it was the "nation's favourite" sandwich in the UK.[19] BLT sandwiches are popular especially in the summer,[20] following the tomato harvest.[21] In the USA, the BLT-season is associated with an increase in the price of pork-bellies, which are processed into bacon.[22]
BLT in culture
In 1963, pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg created Giant BLT a soft sculpture representing the sandwich, now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[23][24] It measures 32 by 39 inches (81 cm × 99 cm) and uses vinyl, kapok and wood, painted in acrylic. Every time it is moved, it must be restacked, which means it varies between exhibits. The artist has said that he has not set it up personally since its creation in 1963.[25]
In 2003, a record for the world's largest BLT was created by Michele Anna Jordan, measuring 108 feet (33 m) in length.[2] It was prepared at a 2003 tomato festival in Sonoma County, California and had a total area of 14,976 square inches (96,620 cm2).[26] In 2008, Marie Ganister and Glenda Castelli created a 146 feet (45 m) BLT – a sandwich which was originally planned with Jordan.[26] The record was broken again by the Iron Barley restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri, with a BLT measuring 179 feet (55 m), and is currently held by Bentley Dining Services for their 2009 attempt, measuring 209 feet 1 inch (63.73 m).[27]
In 2004, the New Statesman reported that the sandwich chosen by a politician as his "favourite" is loaded with political symbolism. For example, it suggested that a chicken tikka sandwich would be a "gentle nod to an imperial past and a firm statement of a multicultural present and future". The article went on to explain that the then Leader of the Opposition William Hague had accused the then Prime Minister Tony Blair of being a hypocrite with regards to food, telling one portion of society that his favourite meal was fish and chips and another that it was a fresh fettuccine dish. The conclusion of the article was that Blair chose the BLT as his favourite sandwich, which appeals to all classes.[28]
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bricklin, Mark (1994). Prevention Magazine's Nutrition Advisor: The Ultimate Guide to the Health-Boosting and Health-Harming Factors in Your Diet. Rodale. p. 454. ISBN 0-87596-225-4.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Bonne, Jon (12 September 2006). "Secrets to a perfect BLT sandwich". MSNBC. Retrieved 3 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pruess, Joanna; Lape, Bob; Cole, Liesa (2006). Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore about America's Favorite Indulgence. Globe Pequot. pp. 80–81. ISBN 1-59228-851-0.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Levine, Ed. "Does a BLT need the L". NY Serious Eats.com. Retrieved 3 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cafe chains promise to reduce salt and fat – Health, News – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
- ↑ "Cafe chains promise to reduce salt and fat". Belfast Telegraph. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Civitello, Linda (2007). Cuisine and culture: a history of food and people. John Wiley and Sons. p. 180. ISBN 0-471-74172-8.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Reed, Julia (24 August 2003). "Tip of the Iceberg". NY Times. Retrieved 21 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Tempeh Bacon Recipe. Vegan 'Facon' for All". Retrieved 2 October 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Turtle Island Foods, Marinated Tempeh". Turtle Island Foods. Retrieved 2 October 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Gordon Curtis, Isabel (1903). Good Housekeeping Everyday Cook Book. ISBN 1-58816-210-9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Cowles, Florence (1928). Seven Hundred Sandwiches. New York: Little, Brown & Company. pp. 31–35.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Mariani, John F. (1999). The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink. New York: Lebhar Freidman. p. 190.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Martin, Harold H. (27 January 1951). "Lightning Joe, the GI's General". The Saturday Evening Post. 223: 21.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Modern Hospital - July 1954". Modern Hospital. 83: 122. 1954.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ For example, see the version that ran in Life Magazine on 20 October 1958. Hellmann's Mayo Ad. Retrieved 25 March 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Prideaux, Tom (21 August 1970). "A B.L.T. for God – Hold the Mayo". Retrieved 25 March 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Friedman, Bruce Jay (1971). Steambath. New York: Knopf.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "BLT is named nation's favourite sandwich". Daily Record. Glasgow. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Tuttle, Brad (5 July 2011). "Is It Time to Start Stockpiling Bacon". Time Magazine. Retrieved 28 November 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ McFerron, Whitney (4 August 2010). "Bacon Price Surge May Last Through August as Herd Cutbacks Tighten Supply". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 28 November 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Mason, Rowenna (15 August 2010). "Meat prices set to jump after wheat crop failures". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "GIANT BLT (BACON, LETTUCE, AND TOMATO SANDWICH)". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 28 August 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Claes Oldenburg / Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich)". AMICA library. Retrieved 3 February 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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