<p>Alas, “Menopause, the Musical” is not coming to my fair city. We’re completely flyover territory, it seems. Maybe some day…</p>
<p>We have hors d’oevres??? All this time I’ve just been eating stale peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor. Since when did someone bring some class to this joint?</p>
<p>Or as my kids like to say: “We are having a guest: Horace Doovers”.</p>
<p>Still on my quest for 300 posts. If only Parent Cafe counted, or I had anything substantial to say elsewhere…</p>
<p>Happy Halloween! I was in the US last Halloween and wanted to go to the “gathering” but I was in the US to take care of my parents so that was that. But I remember the little trick or treaters coming to the door, something I hadn’t experienced in years. It was wonderful.</p>
<p>I’ll take a handful of candy corn, please.</p>
<p>All right, I never would have said this, but I re-read Post #1 with “the rules,” so here goes. We used to refer to them as “horses ovaries.” :)</p>
<p>mof3-
Well doesn’ that sound yummy :eek:
What are we serving this fine Halloween day?</p>
<p>We’re so fancy here we put our candy corn on toothpicks!</p>
<p>This non-religious country is anti-halloween on religious and anti-American grounds. Talk radio was spitting. Everyone in the grocery store was buying one SMALL package of lollies. We bought seven. We had a couple of groups. They got handfuls even though they don’t get the ‘Trick’ part of Trick or Treat.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, S1, three Halloween party invites in hand, dressed up as Tom Cruise in Risky Business…<em>means he pranced around the nation’s capital in tightie whities and white socks</em> :eek:</p>
<p>I saw Menopause the Musical in Chicago Oct. 5, audience of about 150, with 10 guys. It was a riot. Leave the guys at home.</p>
<p>Will be glad to stay home, maybe watch sports or science fiction.</p>
<p>Wife is looking forward to menopause (the real world event, not the musical). She suffers from migraines that seem to be related to her cycle. Doctor and W’s hope is no more cycle, no more migraines.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed…</p>
<p>Which reminds me of an old joke:</p>
<p>Q: How many women with MENOPAUSE does it take to change a light bulb?</p>
<p>A: One! ONLY ONE!!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don’t even know that the bulb is BURNED OUT!! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it out. And, once they figured it out, they wouldn’t be able to find the light bulbs despite the fact that they’ve been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past 17 YEARS! But if they did, by some miracle of God, actually find them 2 DAYS LATER, the chair they dragged to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER THE STUPID LIGHT BULBS CAME IN!!! BECAUSE NO ONE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!!! IT’S A WONDER WE HAVEN’T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE A FOOT DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE!! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS DARNED HOUSE!</p>
<p>I’m sorry… What was the question?</p>
<p>LOL!!!</p>
<p>(audiophile, do you have a hidden microphone in my house?)</p>
<p>Pour audiophile whatever he’s drinking, on me. LOL!!! (just trying to outdo patsmom with the appreciative !s 
). Good timing, audio–momof3sons is new in here and I like that she’ll get top of the line entertainment on her first visit 
.</p>
<p>audio-
Sure you werent a menopausal woman in a past life? That was perfect!</p>
<p>Out here in trendy California, we don’t have hors d’oeuvres any more. Now they’re called tapas, even though a Spaniard wouldn’t recognize most of them. Or sometimes, if the place wants to create a fake pan-Mediterranean atmosphere, they call them *mezzes<a href=“accent%20on%20the%20last%20syllable”>/i</a>, which is more or less Turkish, whether or not a Turk (or a Greek, for that matter, who would call them mezedakia) would recognize any of them.</p>
<p>dadofam-
Here “tapas” translates as “miniature portions of miniature food on miniature plates but charge fullsize prices” .</p>
<p>Ahah! Mezze is a complete meal from raw artichokes and onions, munch, munch sprinkled with lemon juice (it’s good for you) through a myriad of plates of veggies, meat dishes, fish, fruits and heavily soaked in honey pastries. Don’t try this for 2; it is for a table of many. It is way too much food! Hors d’oeuvres not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the menopause (the musical…the real world event I am all too familiar with, thank you!) recommendations. Definitely aren’t planning to take the husbands, and jym, I LOVE the fur bus idea. Actually we rented the fur bus a few years ago when Carolina was playing in the Peach Bowl…it was great!</p>
<p>momof3sons back and wondering who will 'fess up to spiking that Shirley Temple??? When I finally came to, I promptly took a step and slipped and fell on all those peanut shells dropped by jym! Now, as for the Halloween hors d’oeuvres, might I suggest Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with an m & m’s chaser, followed by Nestle’s chocolate bits-I’m partial to the 72 oz. bag.</p>
<p>abbybabby-
We want pictures of you guys in the furbus 
My h. got MOONED by a bunch of girls on the furbus when they were at the toolbooth. The pathetic thing is-- what does he do?? Calls me to tell me!! Old married guy… sigh… Have fun (and no mooning anyone).</p>
<p>momof3-
oops :o Didn’t mean for you to land on your kiester. I am *sure SA has great liability coverage. Did you break your butt??? But you are right - Chocolate heals everything.</p>
<p>My Al Jarreau-George Benson CD arrived today. I’ll listen to it after all the trick or treaters finish up… if I can stay awake that long (I give out fullsize candybars and everyone in the neighborhood knows it, so we get a LOT of visitors). I’ll report back on the CD.</p>