13 In the Bag
1. I sent Mara and Kyla home with a bag full of garden lettuce when they were here playing Scrabble last week. Later, Mara texted me an email from her new phone saying, “Thanx 4 the lettuce.” I replied “are you alliterating it or just ating it?”
2. To which she texted back “lets see...lettuce leaves little to alliterate, lest you love lines like: "Look! Lettuce! Lord, how loose is this life.”
3. The “alliteration” line goes back to a poem Mara wrote and one I answered (called Poet’s Hotline), which starts … Her words land in poems … like eggs in a skillet … She makes them sizzle … She burns the butter … And ends with She’s alliterating lettuce … for a garden villanelle.
4. The highlight or my week happened when a young girl at the video store told me she liked my hair. Not only did the much appreciated compliment come at a time when I wasn’t liking my hair and needed to hear something nice, I was impressed that a young girl would even notice me.
5. The play HAIR is back. My sister Sherry and I saw the original in Boston back when many who were in it and practically everyone watching really was a hippie. Now they have actors to play them.
6. We grew up knowing that dirty things came in brown paper bags, but so did our school lunches.
7. In the 60’s when we weren’t “into” something, we really did say, “It’s not my bag,” which wasn’t any stranger than saying “It’s not up my alley.”
8. Do you remember the Unknown Comic and did you ever wonder who was under the paper bag he wore on his head? The answer is HERE.
9. BYOB used to mean "Bring Your Own Booze" but now, in light of the fact that we are drowning in non-biodegradable plastic bags and trees are cut down to make paper ones, it should mean "Bring Your Own Bag."
10. So many ways to say bag. There’s bag it… bag of wind…grab bag … doggie bag … bag lady … old bag …bag of bones …bag of tricks …. a mixed bag …left holding the bag … cat out of the bag …and half in the bag.
11. Ever since I learned that there’s a raft of plastic debris the size of Texas that has collected and is floating somewhere out in the Pacific, I started carrying my own reusable shopping bag in my pocketbook. (More HERE.)
12. Wearing plastic: Do you know how to tell if a garment of clothing is cotton or polyester? Clip off a piece from the underside and burn it with a match. If it’s cotton or some other natural fiber, it will burn to ash and disappear. If it’s polyester or some other unnatural material it burns into a hard plastic ball.
13. Most famous plastic bag HERE.
More 13 Thursday Players are HERE.
Comments
re: #11 - that's one habit I wish more people would get into!
Posted by: janet | June 10, 2009 10:09 PM
happy thursday thirteen!
Posted by: chris | June 10, 2009 10:27 PM
Fun List! I've dubbed my best friend, the Bag Lady. If you ever need a bag, she's got one LOL Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | June 10, 2009 10:53 PM
BOYB... ohh boyyy!!
:D
Happy TT
http://2short2sweet.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-rights-to-living-life.html
Posted by: AD | June 11, 2009 12:21 AM
LOL. More than enough alliteration.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | June 11, 2009 1:30 AM
More than enough alliteration.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | June 11, 2009 1:32 AM
always look forward to thursdays here. i had forgotten about the unknown comic. you and mara seem to have such fun together.
Posted by: sky | June 11, 2009 4:01 AM
To have a young girl notice your hair is just awesome. AND...yes I do remember the unknown comic, actually that show was almost an American Idol from way back. LOLOLOLOL....the one I liked was Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine.
Hello....My 13 is about mockingbird facts, baby chick photos and crepe myrtle bushes in bloom. Stop by if you can!
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | June 11, 2009 6:39 AM
I remember seeing the Unknown Comic on The Gong Show! Now I need to click over to see who it was/is. :)
Happy Thursday to you.
Posted by: Carleen | June 11, 2009 7:04 AM
Oh, I wish I had lettuce now, but I planted it late. I like your idea for a post. Happy TT!
Posted by: Brenda | June 11, 2009 7:34 AM
I can somehow see you and Mara ( my grandaughter's name by the way- Mara Grace) alliterating back and forth all day . I must join this Thursday 13 - it is such fun every week.
Posted by: sandy | June 11, 2009 7:48 AM
Good list. Who knew?
http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/06/13-best-places-to-live-in-usthursday-13.html
Posted by: Harriet | June 11, 2009 8:05 AM
11. me too. and there are these corn-sourced plastics now for garbage bags that claim to biodegrade like organics within a year.
Posted by: Pearl | June 11, 2009 8:58 AM
Wow, that's a lot about bags! So far both my 19 year old & my 13 year old have purchased a couple of reusable shopping bags but I haven't been impressed, they rip too easily, I do re-use plastic (& paper) grocery bags for trash pick up & to line small trash barrels in my house though, so that's something at least.
Posted by: becky68 | June 11, 2009 1:47 PM
I remember the unknown comic! Hadn't thought about that in years.
Great TT, as always.
Posted by: CountryDew | June 11, 2009 1:54 PM
There is an old joke that an old man used tell me over and over again........I think it is appropriate here:
What is honey moon salad?
Lettuce alone and no dressing. xoxo
PS I loved "HAIR".....I actually played a part in our school play!!
Posted by: Sherry | June 11, 2009 8:48 PM
I love that joke! I remember the play well!
Posted by: colleen | June 11, 2009 9:30 PM
Cool list! Happy T13 ; ) Mine's here http://jengspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/06/thursday-thirteen-weddings.html
Posted by: jeng | June 11, 2009 10:30 PM
I wanted to go to the farmer's market for lettuce here tomorrow but we have to be gone all day in Winston. I loved Mara's reply text! I've never seen Hair but I remember the posters from the original.
Posted by: Deana | June 11, 2009 10:44 PM
Yes, it's back to the past not to the future, you have to go shopping with your own bag just like my mother always did ! And I when I started shopping food too ! Now that I am used to plastic bags, I have to go back to the past and for handling a computer I have to go into the future. Poor me ! I would never try your n°12 test ! I am sure with me the whole cloths would burn polyester included !
Posted by: Gattina | June 12, 2009 12:57 AM
Great T13!
Posted by: jillconyer | June 12, 2009 6:27 AM
As always...a great TT....That is very scary about the burning of polyester....UGH! I never liked polyseter and now I don't like it even more!!
When I saw the riginal "HAIR" on Broadway...we thought they were all really "real" Hippies, but.....No...they were all wonderful Actors! LOL!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | June 12, 2009 4:51 PM
Plastic: they had a news story on TV today about a young fellow just going from high school into college who has invented a paper bottle! Think juice carton like the kids use...it is 70% paper with a thin lining of plastic to keep it from leaking.
Disintegrates in 5 years compared to something like thousands of years for plastic water bottles to break down. Smart kid! Somebody needs to start producing those.
Posted by: Marion | June 15, 2009 4:37 PM
Colleen, remind me to find that lettuce poem! Missed you today...sorry we were late.
Posted by: Mara | June 19, 2009 12:07 AM