Raven
Tomorrow is the birthday of one of my favorite writers/interesting persons… Charles Dickens. It is true that Mr. Dickens kept ravens as pets… and his favorite helped himself to white lead paint (which is apparently sweet-tasting… not that I’ve tried it myself). Also true is that CD had the bird stuffed… and upon his death it was auctioned off and wound up at the Free Library in Philly.
What’s a bkw?
Dani: Bologna and Ketchup on White.
Brig: You taught me something about the origin of Poe’s “The Raven”. Thank you!
Poe’s, The Raven inspired by Barnaby Rudge? The Dickens you say!
Like you, Astragali, I learned something new today.
Bologna, ketchup on white is what my dad, God bless’im, would put in my lunch as a kid. I, for some reason, could not tell him that I disliked them, intensely… (therefore, I disposed of them… usually in covert but found later places). Anyhoo… The nasty little BKWs are just perfect for my Randie’s diet. She also loves sardines… but I actually like them!
Wanna hear something weird? Okay, so I draw these sunday toons weeks in advance and then I schedule them and forget the sequence and order. Last night I was dreaming of ravens, crows, and the conundrum “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (a la Mr. Carroll)… So I woke up thinking “WHY IS a raven like a writing desk?” and trying to solve it… and boom! …. the Raven toon is in the paper. WEIRD.
More trivia: A painter pal of Dickens observed Charles’ pet obsession… and called him “Raven Mad”.
“Raven mad”… Sounds like one of Joe’s 😉
Of course, I Googled Brig’s riddle. Although Lewis Carroll never intended there to be a solution to “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”, it seems that several years later, he wrote one – I shall present it with the deliberate typo that the proofreader took out:
“Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!” (nevar backwards is…?)
As for BKW… not for me. Fried bologna with ketchup on white, mind… though fried pork luncheon meat is better in this case than the bologna. Mind you, I wouldn’t want Randie to gain the ungainly curve that I have at my waistline…
— The Ravens of Baltimore were tough but didn’t make the Super Bowl.
— The first Crow with Brandon Lee (Bruce’s only son, who died in it’s making) was awesome, the sequels, not so much.
Brig,
Love your BKW disposal tale. Reminded me that as a kid we had to eat our vegetables, but mashed potatoes were OK to leave behind. So the veggies got covered with the mashers and I was more than happy to clean up my plate (dispose of the vegetables) after dinner.
Seems mayo goes well with bologna (one deserves the other)…but ketchup?? Argh!!
Leaving mashed potatoes behind? Sacrilege!
Mark, weeping for potato-hating humanity
Bologna? Fried bologna? No way, Jose. For me it has to be . . .
Spam, spam, spam, spam!
Spam, spam, spam, spam!
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!
We used to have something we ate for dinner called “Dad’s Sandwiches”… they consisted of Bologna, cheese, and tomato paste on french bread. They were put in the broiler and all the cheese melted and the bread got crunchy… (do you sense that Dad liked bologna and tomato type stuff?)… I was on board with all but the tomato paste (blecht)…
I, too, mourn the passage of mashed potatoes… with buttah and garlic, yum!
Okay… then there were the spam sammiches… grind up the spam with velveeta… add ketchup to the mixture, then spread the stuff on a hamburger bun and put under the broiler. This is what they do in Ohio, people. Can you say high-salt content? It’s amazing that I lived through my childhood.