G'Morning fellow DF'ers,

It's time for a cuppa ice cream joe! Cuz t'day is:
"National Coffee Ice Cream Day"



Here's a video recipe for Irish Coffee Ice Cream:




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Where were you when...

2004: President Bill Clinton underwent a successful 4-hour quadruple bypass operation at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

1997: Princess Diana was buried in the grounds of her family home. The worldwide TV audience for the funeral ceremonies was estimated at over two billion.

1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games

1968: Eric Clapton recorded his guitar solo on the Beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

1959: Barbie debuted to the non-Barbie World

1899: Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk


And... HERE'S a buncha weird news:

2006: A Swiss driver caught speeding in Canada explained that he had been taking advantage of his ability to drive fast without hitting a goat.
The driver was caught traveling 100 mph in a 60 zone in eastern Ontario.
The traffic officer's notes said it was the first time he had ever heard of such an excuse, and he had never found a goat on Ontario highways.
Police issued the driver a $330 speeding ticket.

1999: A Rio de Janeiro court ruled that a clothing store had to pay a 23-year-old female law student "moral damages" of $267 after the teeny weeny red bikini it sold her turned see-through when it got wet.

1993: Helen Stephens was jailed for a week after neighbors complained she played Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" loudly and constantly for five weeks.


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Today's Birthdays

1970 - Macy Gray
1964 - Rosie Perez
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy
1925 - Jimmy Reed
1860 - Jane Addams


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OK... on a personal note regarding "Princess Diana was buried in the grounds of her family home."
If you were to be buried, would you WANT to be buried in your back yard? While I recognize that the "family home" grounds are probably large... I think it would be weird to be buried on land that, perhaps, other people will call "home".
Whaddya think?


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Could you imagine? Rocking at the beach and all of a sudden your red bikini turns see through turning you into a beach bound Lilith? I would expect more that $237 in compensation!

I think being buried in general is dumb. But I admit, I'm comforted when I visit my father's grave site. I suppose an urn or a piece of statuary commemorating his life would work just as well though. However, the cemetery is peaceful.

Elvis is buried at Graceland. And Graceland has a tiny backyard. And yeah, it's weird.

I get it because they want to control access to it - it'd be a Jim Morrison-like pilgrammage spot for a lot of folks I think.

How many board peeps have been to Graceland? How many times?

So far:

Caps - at least once apparently.
Squid - 2x

I've been twice, too. I lived in Memphis, so whenever anyone came to visit they wanted to see it. That's my excuse for having gone twice. What's yours?

I love Elvis. My mom loved him, so his music is very linked to my relationship with my mother with whom I've been listening to it since I was a baby.

I love his whole story arc very much too, even the tragic bits. It's so wonderfully US. American.

I promised myself that whenever I'm within 2 hours of the place I'll go.

That's happened twice now.

It's on my list because ya just gotta do it. I have never been.

You could sit and have a conversation with his headstone and bang out two list items at once.

I've been to western Tennessee many times, but never took the time to go to Graceland. I never got into Elvis. This song romanticizes it well, though.

That entire double CD, Simon in the Park, is incredible.

Paul Simon Concert in the Park is the name of the CD. It's a must have. Great musicians from all over the world with his voice and songs. Plus the massive crowd adds to it very nicely.

I have no desire to see Graceland.

I haven't been to Graceland, but my mom and sister have. My mom's an Elvis super-fan, for sure.

A while back, I heard this song by Martin Sexton, and when the sad, sad day comes to have a funeral for my mom, I want to play it because of the line, "Jesus lives in Elvis things." (She has already requested Elvis' Amazing Grace.) And I wouldn't mind it played at my funeral, although I'd rather keep it more upbeat.

I've not been to Elvis' resting spot.

But I HAVE been to see Jim Morrison's grave.

The head-stone-bust of Jim is gone... cuzza people would de-face it and eventually scraped the sculpture down to a nub before someone stole it.




Now, it's just a simple head-stone


But there still is a sandy spot in front of the head-stone that allows people to give Jim a smoke, etc.



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whoops - forgot to link to the song. It's called "Hallelujah" (not the same as Jeff Buckley's)

You still forgot to link it.

I've never been to Graceland but I wouldn't mind seeing it one day. I live not too far from those "Hollywood" cemetaries but I've never really felt the urge to go look at Marilyn's grave or anything.

Diana is buried on an island on the grounds of her family estate, which I think makes it far enough away to not be that weird.

I am pretty much up for any new experience so if the opportunity arose for me to go to Graceland I'd go.

I like to visit cemeteries but I'd never want to "live" in one.

Mmmm...coffee ice cream...

As stated in the CTRL V thread, I was looking for a present for Guitar Boy's birthday so was googling Cthulhu and HP Lovecraft stuff - Apparently his favorite food was coffee ice cream. He complained that it was hard to find outside of New England in his time.

Lovecraft, not Guitar Boy. Guitar Boy hates coffee anything.

I've taken vanilla and instant decaf and made my own. It's not bad.

Probably would be a good day for a Cold Stone Creamery's "Coffee Lover's Only" creation. But then I'd have to spend over $5 on ice cream and I am too cheap to do that unless there are emergency happenings.

Lol I read Ginny's post as "outside of his New England time" and I was like "WHOA! that guy knew what he was writing about!"

My bf's favourite icecream is coffee flavoured. I'm sure he will be pleased to have an excuse to have some today