The Guild - 7-20-02 - A Clandestine Weekend

The Spy Museum ^ | July 20, 2002

[mountaineer]

Ever thought you had an aptitude for espionage? A hankering for the cloak and dagger life? In honor of the opening of the International Spy Museum, we present Clandestine Weekend at the Ladies' Investigative Guild. Digging up dirt on the Clintons' looting of the White House, after all, is how we got our start. The museum opened its doors (or trapdoors, as the case may be) Friday (story here).

On display there is something we all could use:

The KGB created the "Kiss of Death" -- a loaded gun that looked like tube of lipstick. This 4.5 mm single shot weapon easily could be hidden in a purse. This pistol was discovered during the Cold War at a border crossing into West Berlin.

[lodwick]

Good night good FRiends. JL

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning, friend. I hope you rested well. The heat and humidity are absolutely stifling here. Heat indexes predicted to be 122 today. It will certainly be a challenge to keep livestock alive.

[NYpeanut]

I hope the lovely Erica enjoys the wrinkly, disgusting old man's money while the marriage lasts. Eeeuuu. When I was 20-something, there wasn't enough money in the world to tempt me to look at an old clown like him. Come to think of it, there still isn't.

[Iowa Granny]

The attraction may not be so much the money but the preceived 'power', or in this case, noteriety, which can be confused with power.

[BigWaveBetty]

in this case, noteriety, which can be confused with power.

Hehehe! Thanks for the first giggle of the morning IG!

Stay cool today. :-)

[BigWaveBetty]

I played the whack a mole game on the International Spy Museum site. Got a 415. Anybody do any better?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I thought I had said this yesterday, but I guess I just thought it in my head without posting, but this is a really cool thread and I think that you picked a very interesting topic.

Thanks a bunch.

[Nea Wood]

Ladies!

Today I learned something new about our First Lady. She collects vintage cookbooks! I do, too, so I am thrilled that I have something in common with Laura. (After all, she's beautiful, admired, and has an adorable husband who worships her...so I'm glad I have ONE thing in common with her! Ha ha!) Anyway, according to "USA Weekend" magazine, Laura actually uses her old cookbooks, and one of her favorite recipes is the "lemon sponge custard" in her 1964 copy of "The Joy of Cooking." If anyone has that recipe, please post it and ping me when you do. Thank you kindly!

Love,

Nea

[lodwick]

Morning All

[mountaineer]

Now there's something I also have in common with Laura, at least a little bit. I don't have "Joy of Cooking," but among my prized possessions are my late mother-in-law's (whom I never met) "Magic Chef Cooking" that came with her new stove in 1940, and a 1908 book for practical housekeepers, "Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book."

And then there's Queen Hillary, who wasn't the kind to make cookies and stand by her man.

[BigWaveBetty]

This is the recipe from the 1975 edition of Joy. The new 1997 edition tinkers with the recipe, but we subscribe to the "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" school of cookery. Make it on a cold, crisp fall night, and enjoy.

Hot Lemming Pudding
(a.k.a. Lemon Sponge Custard)
3/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
2 or 3 egg yolks
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup milk
2 or 3 egg whites
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cream sugar, butter, and lemon rind. Add egg yolks and beat well. Stir in flour alternately with lemon juice and milk. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold them into the yolk mixture. Place the batter into a buttered 7-inch baking dish. Set the dish on a rack in a pan filled with 1 inch of hot water. Bake for about 1 hour, or until set. Serve hot. Makes 4 servings.

Link Hope this is what you're looking for. :-)

[mountaineer]

The attraction may not be so much the money but the preceived 'power', or in this case, noteriety, which can be confused with power.

Sounds familiar. What nubile young thing would be interested in the pasty, flabby Bill Clinton otherwise?

[mountaineer]

Thank you!

[Nea Wood]

WOW! That was fast! Thanks! :-D

[lodwick]

I love hot lemmings in the evening - thanks for the tip. ;-)

[BigWaveBetty]

Clintoon thinks it's his animal attraction. LOL No doubt Jerry does too.

A judge on July 19, 2002 rejected comic Paula Poundstone's request to spend less time in therapy and more time with her adopted children during her probation on child-abuse charges. Poundstone is shown Sept. 5, 2001 in Santa Monica after a court appearance. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

A judge with brains in Hollyweird? Who knew?

[Endeavor]

Geraldo is a pig among men. The ONLY thing I have in commmon with him is that I watch a lot of Fox News (altho not his show) and that I am a sailor.

Maybe we'll all get lucky and Geraldo will go the way of most male sailors - fall overboard in the middle of the night while taking a leak off the back of the transom. (seriously, that's how most male sailors die - they fall overboard in the night while taking a leak - they are found with their male member outside the "play" area, to speak.

[BigWaveBetty]

You're welcome! :-)

[mountaineer]

Lemmings, like shrews and voles, taste very much like chicken when properly prepared, but a marinade is essential.

[Endeavor]

Minteta or one of his minions ordered the planes grounded? It would fall under his perview.