Dum da dum! Did the frost warning yesterday night mean certain death for the garden? Did it actually get below freezing? Did the bedsheets protect some of the tomato plants and the new baby lettuce sprouts? Did the remaining basil perish? Does the snake live on?
Tune in next time for these exciting updates! Plus many long-overdue photos of the ravages of the evil wilt and a list of things to do differently next year. (Sneak preview: Don't plant 16 tomoato seedlings, go lighter on the basil and parsley and heavier on the dill and chives, get the bug-repelling plants in earlier.)
But tonight, J. and I came home early from a really nice barbeque at a new friend's house to do more schoolwork. Instead, I've been watching Swedish Chef videos. Of course. I blame Shannon, who totally started it with all her Muppet links, although I haven't figured out yet how I can blame her for the ENTIRE HOUR I've spent searching YouTube for more.
De chickie in de baskie! This was live TV... how did he throw the chickie right in there on the first and only try?
Fun Muppet trivia: Jim Henson did the voice and the mouth of the Swedish Chef, but those are Frank Oz's hands -- the Chef was the first Muppet that needed two people to operate him. The very first time he appeared, Frank Oz was trying to make Jim Henson laugh by doing ridiculous things with his hands, and thus the awesomeness was born.
How did they do this one? Strings from the ceiling? Cut-out in the table?
Also? "Bort" (as in "bort bort bort!" at the end of his theme song, when he throws whatever's in his hands) means "away" in Swedish.
Tort-leh! I swear, I remember watching this one as a little kid:
Consider de loobstairs (why are they Mexican?!):
OK, last one -- chocolat moose:
There's a Sarah Palin/moose-hunting joke in there somewhere. The Swedish Chef has more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin!
1 comment:
Ah! The chocolate moose! that one is my favorite. Closely followed by the lobsters.
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