tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63762447559616234092024-03-05T03:28:17.845-06:00Margie and Edna's BasementMargie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.comBlogger848125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-88019880780879603222012-06-29T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-29T08:00:14.722-05:00Fruity Friday, cake edition<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We know it might be too hot where you are to fire up the oven, but if it's not then we recommend this recipe. It's sure to cure what ails you! </i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.yummly.com/recipe/external/Fruity-Pineapple-Cake-Recipezaar">Fruity Pineapple Cake</a>, courtesy of <a href="http://alphabetsoupstudio.blogspot.com/">Chef Lennie</a>.</span></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-4935362775962213322012-06-27T08:00:00.003-05:002012-06-27T08:00:03.533-05:00Summer holiday<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9xZoKiBgU" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/work-vacation-policy-pop_3122.jpg" /></span></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Summertime is in full swing, and that means it's time for us to take a holiday. Starting next week, Margie and Edna will be on hiatus during the month of July, but don't worry because the ladies will be back in full force in August. In the meantime, we suggest to our readers that you spend some time offline during the month of July, and enjoy being with your friends and family. Go outside for a little sunshine and fresh air, if it's not too hot where you are. Do a little traveling, even if it's just a mental vacation. Recharge your batteries, and we'll be doing the exact same thing. But don't get so relaxed that you forget to come back. See you in August!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Love, Jane (Margie) and Beth (Edna)</i></span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-88431541625657702572012-06-25T08:00:00.003-05:002012-06-25T08:00:09.702-05:00Call the dentist!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dumdumpops.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="150" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/spangler-dum-dum-pops-30lb-bulk.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, did you know that June is <a href="http://housing.k-state.edu/dining/FitCourse/justforfun/06-candymonth.html">National Candy Month</a>? Silly me, I forgot that you think every month is candy month. That reminds me, have you seen my Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? Don't even try that old lie about you guess a rat got them. We don't have rats!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Oh, I ate them all right. You're so bitter and mean, I figured you wouldn't miss your sweets. Happy Candy Month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: That is very hateful, sister. If you were a candy then you'd be Sour Apple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Well, if YOU were a candy, you'd be a <a href="http://www.dumdumpops.com/">Dum-Dum</a>!</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-16937081663125585512012-06-23T08:00:00.008-05:002012-06-23T08:00:10.498-05:00Frozen Fruity Friday<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sunset.com/food-wine/healthy/light-summer-fruit-desserts-00400000045442/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="150" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/how-to-freeze-foods-4.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Look at <a href="http://www.sunset.com/food-wine/healthy/light-summer-fruit-desserts-00400000045442/">this</a>, sister. I've found the perfect way to beat this summer heat. Fruit desserts. What could be cooler or more refreshing? I'm going to start eating a different dessert every day to stay cool. Why don't you get Mama's old fan so you can fan me while I enjoy my dessert?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: I'm going to ignore that request, sister. But you've certainly got the right idea about keeping cool by eating fruit desserts. It's so hot outside, all I want to eat these days is cold fruit. These <a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/triple-decker-citrus-popsicles-10000001598617/">triple-decker citrus popsicles</a> look like they'll do quite nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Hand me one of those sister, then I'll go make some <a href="http://margieandednasbasement.blogspot.com/2008/03/special-tea.html">Special Tea</a> popsicles. After one of those we won't even realize how hot it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: You're on!</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-66129518720455690692012-06-20T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-20T08:00:20.271-05:00Ice cream soda day!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/ice-cream-soda-day" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="193" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/soda.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, today is <a href="http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/ice-cream-soda-day">Ice Cream Soda Day</a> and Lord knows it's too hot for anything else. I'm going to go put on my bikini. When I get back I'm making me a huge strawberry ice cream soda then I'm going to sit by the pool. You'd best stay inside as you know what the sun does to your old wrinkles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Don't worry, Margie, there is no way I'm appearing in public next to you if you're dressed like that. I'll stay inside with my own ice cream soda, where it's cool. Don't expect me to put aloe on your sunburn later, either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Margie: Thank you, sister, for that idea you just gave me. I'm going to sit in the shade and sell ice cream sodas to whoever wants one. I expect to be extremely busy so you may have to run to the store to get more ice cream for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: It's your idea so you can do it your own self, you freeloader. It's not "help your sister make money that she's not going to share with you anyway" day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: You're right. It's a day to sell ice cream sodas to handsome gentlemen and keep all the cash for myself. Stay out of my way.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-969916727178867482012-06-18T08:00:00.003-05:002012-06-18T08:00:13.792-05:00Margie the TV star<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/whisk-eggs.jpg" width="160" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, I have a secret. I didn't tell you before now because you always interfere in my business. Anyway, I was watching the Food Network and they're looking for new talent. I had Cousin T make a video of me cooking and it's in the mail. I'm calling my show Margie's Manly Meals. I'll be cooking for different manly men every week. The ratings will be the highest in history. How do you like that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, what do I care if you humiliate yourself on national television? You'll just be showing the world what I already know: that you're a shameless hussy who can't cook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And poor Cousin T, I wish you wouldn't involve that boy in your shenanigans. He was raised to respect his elder's requests, even when said elder is a nincompoop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: See? You're trying to interfere in my business. You're just jealous. You don't want me to be a star. Well, once I'm a star, I may have your <a href="http://www.gillesmarini.com/">manly Frenchman</a> on my show. How do you like them apples?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You best watch who you call names, Missy. You won't be sharing my new riches if you keep it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: If you think I want anything to do with your floozy money, then you've got another think coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: What I think is that you're a moron because floozy money spends as well as any other kind.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-51886602505250904662012-06-15T08:00:00.009-05:002012-06-15T08:00:07.639-05:00Fruity Friday, carving edition<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie has always said she wished she were more artistic and creative. The poor dear, she can't draw her way out of a paper bag. So, to cheer her up I thought I'd surprise her by enrolling her in a fruit carving class. Her hands are fairly steady for a nonagenarian. I did think long and hard about the wisdom of putting a knife in those hands, but as long as we keep fruit in the house I think I'm safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been looking at fruit carvings on the interwebs, there are a lot of talented people out there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">For instance, this one reminds me of how I look when I see Margie first thing in the morning:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this one looks a little like the hat Margie wore to church last Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this is what I'm going to have Margie carve for our ladies book club meeting next week. Won't she be thrilled when I tell her all the ladies are expecting it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm sure she'll get the hang of it in time. </span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-32134445098333911712012-06-13T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-13T08:00:03.153-05:00Welcome to the 21st century!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, I'm sick and tired of you being so dang lazy. You don't ever make your bed so I have to keep your bedroom door shut in case we have guests. Mama would be ashamed. She told me to look after you so get your handbag and money because I've found something you're going to buy. It's a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158073/Smart-Bed-makes-How-lazy-modern-life-get.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">Smart Bed</a> and it makes up itself!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158073/Smart-Bed-makes-How-lazy-modern-life-get.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/article-2158073-13918933000005DC-504_634x398.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>The not-at-all scary "Smart Bed."</i></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: First of all, what makes you think I'm going to waste my money on something to make YOUR life easier? Secondly, that bed looks like just one more step towards robots taking over the world. First it's the robotic vacuum cleaners and beds, next it's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYmYbkdHCBE">"Kill all humans!"</a> No thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, you need not be afraid if robots say to kill all humans because you aren't one. You either start making your bed or I'll tell the robots you're here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nitwit.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-39027914820841821502012-06-11T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-11T08:00:04.809-05:00A cautionary tale<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="320" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/FarSide.jpg" width="244" /></a></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-10152285262689724002012-06-08T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-08T08:00:02.237-05:00Fruity Fridays!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/mango-strawberry-snow-cones-recipe/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/strawberry-mango-e-liquid.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Folks, this time of year makes us want to sit out on the porch under the ceiling fan and enjoy something cold and fruity. It's about the only thing we can agree on when the weather gets hot and we get cranky. Okay, <i>crankier</i>. Maybe one of you wonderful blog readers would like to come over and whip us up a batch of Mango Strawberry Snow Cones? We promise to share!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/mango-strawberry-snow-cones-recipe/index.html">Tyler Florence's Mango Strawberry Snow Cones</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 lime juiced, plus wedges for garnish</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Directions</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fill a food processor with ice. Process until the ice is very fine, like snow. Add the mangoes and strawberries and pulse to blend. Pile the crushed ice into dessert glasses or dishes and squeeze over the lime juice. Garnish with lime wedges; serve immediately.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-10923067112438351472012-06-06T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-06T08:00:08.320-05:00The ladies talk a little gardening<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.holidayinsights.com/other/gardeningexercise.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="320" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/Gardening.jpg" width="238" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your tushie is getting broader by the day. I know you hate exercise but today is <a href="http://www.holidayinsights.com/other/gardeningexercise.htm">Gardening Exercise Day</a>. We need to do some gardening anyway so we can have fun and exercise at the same time. Get up and come on. Maybe I'll fix you some of those sugar snap peas for dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Sister, after all those insults you'd best not get anywhere near me while I have this shovel in my hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: 911? This is Margie. Send deputies quick! Edna is attempting to murder me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: You just keep digging that hole, sister, and tell me when you hit six feet deep.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-14768252651314746212012-06-04T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-04T08:00:02.705-05:00The fish should be scared...<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.aza.org/FindZooAquarium/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/soft_rock_1024_B.jpg" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Sister, did you know that June is aquarium month? Let's buy us an aquarium. I love to watch fish shows on TV so it'd be nice to have our own. I don't want any big-mouthed fish because your big mouth is </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">more than enough for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Tell me this, sister. Who's going to clean out that aquarium when it gets dirty? This isn't some Disney movie where the fish can take care of themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, you're just being silly. Nobody cleans the oceans or rivers so it's obvious that the fish clean up their own living area. Unlike you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: I'm going to call the pet store and tell them not to let you in. With an attitude like that, we'll have an expensive tank filled with dead fish inside of a week. Besides, how were you planning on paying for this aquarium? Maybe Mary Bailey will let you wait tables for tip money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, you are a true idjit. You'll be responsible for cleaning the aquarium since you'll be the one buying it! I just want to watch your pretty fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, it never ceases to amaze me how you can flap your gums sixty ways to Sunday and yet you never say anything intelligent. Truly, it's one of the wonders of the world--or, at least, of Jericho.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-52840943212332718822012-06-01T08:00:00.000-05:002012-06-01T08:00:10.054-05:00Diamond Jubilee Weekend<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33667_162-57444820/toast-queen-elizabeth-iis-diamond-jubilee-with-royal-inspired-recipes/" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/queen-elizabeth-ii2.jpg" /></a></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-75081568950703273502012-05-30T08:00:00.008-05:002012-05-30T08:00:01.260-05:00Margie's mistake<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kansashighwaypatrol.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/co_trp001.jpg" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: This elderberry cordial is mighty fine, sister. I'm all tuckered out from running errands today. Have another one, Edna, and I'll tell you a funny story. It'll probably be in tomorrow's paper and I wouldn't want you to see it and have a fainting spell. Don't get your bloomers in a wad because your heart isn't what it used to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, with a lead-in like that, how am I supposed to stay relaxed? You just spit out your story and let me decide what to do with my bloomers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Well, it was a hot day and I had all the windows in the car rolled down then my favorite song by Rihanna came on the radio. I turned up the volume and was singing along when I looked in the mirror and saw the flashing blue lights. I pulled over as I'm a law-abiding citizen. This hunk of a trooper walked up to my car and said something but I couldn't hear him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My word, he was handsome. Well, I said to myself that I wasn't doing anything wrong so my Sunday School friends must be aiming to surprise me with a little treat. I turned the music a little louder and yelled, "Take it off. Take it all off." How was I to know he really was a trooper and not a male stripper?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">He took me to the hoosegow but you need not worry. My friend, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136922/">Mary Bailey</a>, came and got me out. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827307/">Deputy Jimmy</a> said it may be in tomorrow's paper though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Good God, Margie, you should have poured me a bigger cordial before telling me all that. The next time the doctor asks me why my bleeding ulcers aren't getting better, I'm showing him this story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: You are nothing but a big baby. Would you like to hear another story?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Not if it involves strippers, real or imaginary. You just keep that to yourself.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-74892230531196436202012-05-28T08:00:00.006-05:002012-05-28T08:00:07.717-05:00Memorial Day<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="320" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/MemorialDay.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Thank you.</i></span></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-60625644581424635502012-05-25T08:00:00.006-05:002012-05-25T08:00:02.734-05:00International House of Snacking<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, you're such a snackaholic that you should read <a href="http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/05/21/snack-flavors-around-the-globe/?hpt=li_c2">this article</a> about snacks from around the world. Frankly, I'd stop snacking if I had to eat some of this garbage. Don't be buying me any red caviar chips. Yuck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Those chips would actually be perfect for you, Margie. You have caviar taste but a potato chip-sized budget.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is Cucumber Pepsi. I think you'd better take your own Pepsi if you ever travel to Japan. I can just see you pitching a fit when they brought you Cucumber Pepsi at a restaurant. You'd be an embarrassment to our entire nation.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pepsi_variations" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/Pepsi-Ice-cucumber.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Yes, it's real.</i></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, here's something that you should do. Go to the UK and try this Hot Dog–Stuffed Crust pizza. Maybe that would fill your big mouth so you'd stop dissing me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Good Lord, woman, did you just use the word "dissing"? Who do you think you are, some young hotsy-totsy who's up on the newest slang? You don't even have to leave the country to embarrass yourself, you're doing a fine job of it right here on American soil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I believe you know where you can stick that pizza, don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Open wide, sister.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-15203869979913830992012-05-23T08:00:00.006-05:002012-05-23T08:00:01.089-05:00Tahiti Sweeties<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The summertime blues have set in, and Margie and Edna are taking a mental vacation in Tahiti. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>They'll be back on Friday. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> Maybe.</i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tahiti-tourisme.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="300" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/bora-bora-french-polynesia-12.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-80442865174073616582012-05-21T08:00:00.000-05:002012-05-21T08:00:14.913-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fanpop.com/spots/sam-winchester/images/4527196/title/sam-wallpaper" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="256" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/Sam-sam-winchester-4527196-1280-1024.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, you know I wasn't too happy about Supernatural this season. There were several episodes where I felt I'd wasted my time except for looking at my sweet Jensen Ackles. That boy is sweeter than Granny's chocolate cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, I'd like to borrow 2 pieces of your pretty stationary because I have to write 2 letters. I have some suggestions for next season so I'm sending them to my Congresswoman and the Supernatural producers. Would you like to hear my suggestions?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Sure, why not? Just make it quick, it's almost time for my stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, this is more important than your floozy stories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, Dean and Sam need to be in a warm locale like Hawaii. Second, Dean needs to take his shirt off a lot because it's hot in Hawaii. Thirdly, it's hot in Hawaii so Dean needs to sleep nekkid. Finally, I need to move to Hawaii so I can write this show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">How's that, sister?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, once again you've proven that you're an idiot. First, if they move the show to Hawaii, that doesn't mean the writers get to live in Hawaii. They might not even film it in Hawaii, you dunce. Second, you are way too old to be writing for youngsters like that. If Sam and Dean were centenarians, then maybe you'd have a chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Aha! You're the idiot! I'll be writing the show so we don't need any other writers. I'll say where we film and I say it's Hawaii! I can write for any age man, nitwit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You're just mad because you can't stand the thought that I'll be moving to Hawaii. I always knew you'd never want me to leave you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Good Lord. Margie, you realize that you don't OWN the show right? My lands, this heat must be frying your brain cells. You go on and move to Hawaii, I'm sure not going to stop you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: I own what I say I own. I'm going to search your room and see what you took that belongs to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Try it, sister, and you'll be traveling to Hawaii in a pine box.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-42276903198056219702012-05-18T08:00:00.000-05:002012-05-18T08:00:01.894-05:00The facts about MS<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001747/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 17px;">Multiple sclerosis (MS)</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;"> is an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span><ul><li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">MS affects women more than men. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Symptoms of MS often appear between ages 25-31 and can last a lifetime.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">You are slightly more likely to get this condition if you have a family history of MS or live in an part of the world where MS is more common.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Some symptoms of MS are much more common than others. These include: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Fatigue; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Numbness; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Walking (Gait), Balance, and Coordination Problems; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Bladder Dysfunction; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Bowel Dysfunction; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Vision Problems; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Dizziness and Vertigo; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Sexual Dysfunction; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Pain; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Cognitive Dysfunction; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Emotional Changes; </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Depression; and Spasticity.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;"></span></li>
</ul></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;">Although there is still no cure for MS, effective strategies are available to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations (also called attacks, relapses, or flare-ups), manage symptoms, improve function and safety, and provide emotional support. In combination, these treatments enhance the quality of life for people living with MS.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;"><i>For more information about MS, including how to raise awareness, please head <a href="http://www.nationalmssociety.org/get-involved/index.aspx">here</a>.</i></span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-54152745312130991462012-05-16T08:00:00.002-05:002012-05-16T08:00:02.148-05:00A kinder, gentler Margie?<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ingoodtasteblog.net/in_good_taste/2011/04/six-ways-to-use-in-season-strawberries.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="142" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/bowl_of_strawberries-619.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, dear, come eat your breakfast while it's hot. I made your favorites. There's a Margie McMuffin, hot tea, and fresh strawberries. You'll be ready to face the day after you fill your belly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: What are you up to, sister? The last time you did something nice for me, come to find out you'd stolen my credit card and booked yourself on a trip to Tahiti. So go ahead, spill your bad news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, I'm insulted. Can't I do something nice for my sister without you thinking I have an ulterior motive? My stars, you always ask why I can't be nice to you yet you never believe it when I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">While we're talking I did want to say that I was wondering how much life insurance you have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: There, you see? That right there, I knew you were buttering me up for something. Never you mind about my life insurance, you keep your questions to yourself. And don't you go getting any funny ideas, you aren't the beneficiary anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: That does it! See if I'm ever nice to you again, you old toad!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Your brand of "nice" I can do without, sister.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-23389792357567619452012-05-14T08:00:00.011-05:002012-05-14T09:08:17.363-05:00Blast from the Past<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_feature" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/drivein.jpg" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Sister, do you know what I was thinking about this morning? Those double feature movies that we used to go see every Saturday at the Jericho theater. How come they don't make those anymore? I guess they got greedy and want you to pay for each movie separately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember that wonderful popcorn? They don't make it like that anymore. I could sure drink one of those cold drinks too. That makes my mouth water. Those were the days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Edna: That old movie popcorn was the best. These days they slap rancid yellow oil on it and call it "buttered". Buttered, my Aunt Fanny! That popcorn is about as close to being buttered as you are to being Miss America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe we should start showing our own double features, revive a tradition. We could see if Cousin T could rig us up one of those projectors you can use with a computer, and we could show movies on the side of the barn during the evenings. We could even charge a quarter admission fee! What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: I think you'll be serving popcorn and drinks because I'm going to collect the money!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Fine. I'll be serving <a href="http://margieandednasbasement.blogspot.com/2008/03/special-tea.html">special tea</a> so you'll just have to miss out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Fine. I'll just go to Bailey's with the money I collect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Fine! When you come home, don't be surprised to find the locks changed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Going to call my lawyer now. Bye.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-26011583126941664272012-05-11T08:00:00.002-05:002012-05-11T08:00:11.306-05:00Happy Mother's Day!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day_(U.S.)" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/mom.jpg" /></a></div>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-4121576408879388712012-05-09T08:00:00.006-05:002012-05-09T08:00:06.607-05:00Treasure, there be!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, lookie here at this new shovel I bought you. I got me a pink one. Would you like to know why I bought them? I'll tell you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went to the home to do some visiting and I saw a gentleman that I hadn't seen before. Turns out it was Irving. Remember him? He was your high school crush. Anyway, he said his great-grandpa told him that our great-grandpa had told him that he buried money in this very back yard. Let's get to digging, Edna, and I'll share some of my treasure with you.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pinksuperstore.com/pink_details/yard_and_garden/pink-fiberglass-shovel.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="167" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/pink-shovel.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, don't you dare dig up our backyard, I just planted our summer annuals! Besides, you are way too old for this treasure-hunting nonsense. Who do you think you are, a pirate? You'll give yourself a heart attack with that digging, maybe we'd best buy us a metal detector then have Cousin T dig when we hit metal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And darn tootin' you'll share the loot with me! I do own half of this property so half the treasure is rightly mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Well, I suppose a metal detector would be best but I'll do the detecting! Edna, I sure was looking forward to using my pink shovel because it matches my bikini.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Good God a'mighty. Maybe that pink bikini is the answer; you wear that outside and the treasure will all but leap out of the ground so you can go back inside and stop your assault on the eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You know, you're awfully quick to trust the word of an old man who may or may not be remembering things correctly. What if there's no treasure out there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, there will be treasure even if you just go bury a jar of your old coins. I won't be fit to live with if I don't find treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: What makes you think you're fit to live with NOW?</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-46568671470805528772012-05-07T08:00:00.053-05:002012-05-07T08:00:02.768-05:00A new hope for Jericho?<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://remote.lohudblogs.com/2007/11/05/margie-edna-have-a-message-for-cbs/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="215" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/bench4.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: Margie, I just found <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Netflix-Jericho-1046804.aspx">something</a> on the <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/netflix-may-resurrect-jericho-canceled-cbs-drama/">Internet</a>, I think you'd best come over here and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/a-reborn-jericho-join-arrested-development-netflix-article-1.1071391">listen</a> to <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/tv/tvguide/article/Exclusive-Will-Netflix-Give-Jericho-Another-3524310.php">this</a>. Do you remember when that film crew was in Jericho a few years back, making that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/">documentary</a> about us townfolk? I'm sure you do, I definitely remember how much you complained that they focused too much on the Green family (especially that scandalous <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000240/">Jake Green</a>!) and not enough on the rest of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Edna, those folks came here and made a big commotion but did they put you and me on the TV? No, and we've lived here longer than anybody else. <a href="http://everythingjericho.wetpaint.com/page/Margie+and+Edna" target="_blank">We ARE Jericho</a>. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=3214156&page=1#.T6cI7-tv_lk">Nuts!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna: I think we'd better take some steps to make sure we're included this time. I don't know about you, but I'm going to go out and buy a new hat. The flashier the better, maybe that will attract some attention during filming. Plus, I'm going to write a letter to that Mr. Netflix, whoever he is. Plead our case directly, so to speak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Margie: Great idea! I think I'll wear my new hat that has the big fish on it. Do write him a letter and we'll enclose a picture of me. He won't be able to refuse us then for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>News broke last week on various online media outlets (<a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Netflix-Jericho-1046804.aspx">TV Guide</a> and <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/netflix-may-resurrect-jericho-canceled-cbs-drama/">The New York Times</a>, among others) that <a href="https://signup.netflix.com/movie/Jericho/70142437">Netflix</a> may be picking up Jericho in order to resume filming the TV series that originally aired on CBS. We were tickled to hear the news, because Jericho is a show that we both hold near and dear to our hearts. This is partly because we both participated in the original fight for the second season, but it's </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">also because Jericho is how and why we became friends in the first place. We would love for Jericho to get another chance, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125603585461/">fans</a> are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/219914678111792/">mobilizing</a> to help Netflix to fully appreciate what a devoted fandom Jericho already has. If you're interested in becoming involved, we suggest you check out <a href="http://www.savingjericho.com/Campaign/campaign.html">SavingJericho.com</a> for resources and suggestions on how to let your voice be heard. </i></span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376244755961623409.post-49630534838473539652012-05-03T08:00:00.011-05:002012-05-03T08:00:03.577-05:00On this day in history: May 3rd<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/niccolo-machiavelli-born" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/margieandedna/birthday-cupcake.jpg" width="136" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Music legend <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/james-brown-9228350" target="_blank">James Brown</a> was born (1933).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli" target="_blank">Machiavelli</a> was born (1469).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Crooner <a href="http://bingcrosby.com/bing/" target="_blank">Bing Crosby</a> was born (1903).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Former Prime Minister of Israel <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html" target="_blank">Golda Meir</a> was born (1898).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And in 1996, the best nephew in the world was born. Happy Birthday, Sweet Tea! The world became a much better place as soon as you set foot in it. You deserve the very best that life has to offer, and more.</span>Margie and Ednahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631847613073494899noreply@blogger.com1