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Message board > WOD for Tuesday 28th December
WOD for Tuesday 28th December
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crisholm
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WOD for Tuesday 28th December
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Thank you! There �s nothing like getting up on a lazy holiday morning and discovering that you are the lucky winner of the WOD!
I �m not sure I deserve it - I had great fun with the other entries.
Here in Spain today, the 28th of December, is �Dia de los Santos Inocentes �, on which people play tricks and practical jokes just like on April Fool �s Day.
And here goes the next word for the great WOD competition...
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28 Dec 2010
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MarionG
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hummus= a very popular dish in the middle east, a kind of paste made from cooked, spiced and mushed chickpeas, very healthy, filled with protein and extremely �filling �, usually eaten with pita bread. Some people actually make this themselves by soaking and boiling chickpeas for ever and mushing them by hand, but most people simply buy one of the many varieties available, ready made, in supermarkets. It is gaining popularity outside the middle east lately, especially in the yoga breathing, natural fiber wearing circles..
hummums= a relativly new word, in the category of �yuppies �, �dinkies � etc. It combines �hummus � and �mums �. It is meant to indicate those busy, modern, (health freak) mums who look down upon microwave dinners, frozen pizza, instant noodles and the like but still are too busy to make a real meal for their kids. Hummus will be their meal of choice since, as explained before, it is wholesome and healthy. It has an air of authenticity (even if you didn �t boil the chickpeas yourself), simply because it looks kind of terrible.
ps. so I do not step on anyone�s feelings.. I loooove Hummus!
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28 Dec 2010
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edrodmedina
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hummums..is a very popular middle eastern dish made with spices and cooked and mashed chrystmum, er no ah christmasmums, chrysanmums...mums and eaten with peta..em pizza.. peda emm, flat bread.
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28 Dec 2010
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chud
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HUMMUMS
are humanoid mummies, very cute and humorous.
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28 Dec 2010
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crisholm
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edromedina, careful with the whisky! |
28 Dec 2010
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almaz
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MarionG has the right idea: it �s a development of the British media concept �yummy mummy � and her �Chelsea Tractor � but applies in particular to the American expat version who is so terrified of driving in London traffic that she only feels safe in a �Humvee �.
It takes no great linguistic leap from yummymummies to hummymummies to hummums: overindulged, paranoid American ladies from Notting Hill with big scary cars.
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28 Dec 2010
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crisholm
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hmmm....
I look forward to inviting edromedina to some Rioja wine... just to loosen his tongue, pronunciation-wise!
Jecicka �s breathing exercises left me breathless!
Almaz �s paranoid ladies were a great image but I haven �t seen many of them in Notting Hill snowy streets these days...
Strangely enough, no one mentioned humming birds...
The WINNER IS CHUD, with her alliterative answer!
(I guess this session �s been a bit of a flop; sorry I �m very busy filling complaints to Heathrow and British Airways!)
By the way:
hummums are �sweating places, or baths �
Harry Middleton Hyatt �s Folkore from Adams County, Illioois (1935) recorded this bit of hygiene advice: "Bathe between Christmas and New Year �s Day and you will remain clean the whole year."
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29 Dec 2010
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imanito
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Thanks crisholm for the sweet extra hugs  edrodmedina .......a standing ovation
Hummums is what Gargantua used to say when he got hungry, "hum hum" and with time and the extreme gain in size , it became "hummums" meaning "foods"
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29 Dec 2010
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crisholm
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Hmmm imanito I had not seen your post.... I like the Gargantua bit and the pronunciation difficulties because of size....
Do you think Pavarotti meant the same? |
29 Dec 2010
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imanito
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ohhhhhh it �s over......I was soooooo late  that �s ok well for Pavarotti that �s another story.....he wsn �t hungry; he just had a sore throat so he had some problems uttering words so he kept saying "humum horma" instead of "Nessun Dorma"
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29 Dec 2010
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For all of you who participated, YOU ARE THE GREATEST!!!!!
