Markian Gooley

A man who missed his vocation. #CivDei

[Markian Gooley @markdotgooley]

@UncleFlapjacks I’ve made a fairly good knockoff version of a Melton Mowbray pork pie after eating some real ones. A bit of work but not difficult. One of those protected local specialties that has to be made in a given area in a particular way.

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Music connected with today’s gospel (belatedly). Yes, it’s television closing credits music. https://t.co/1wTByQ9BdJ

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If I get bored with it, I can use the Microplane grater on it that I use on nutmeg and season my food with it.

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I think it’s a decoration but it’s a fist-sized egg of pink salt meant to be stuck in a turkey before it’s put in the oven. 90% off, or US$1.35

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@frizzydizzyliz I understand. Despite my many blessings in life there are a few things about which I tell even God that IT’S NOT FAIR.

For some of them I might think so as long as I live. Foolish of me?

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@goldenkey112 Amused. It was originally meant to be offensive or perhaps just informative, but it’s quaint really.

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@lydiughhh When my sister passed a professional exam I got a Congratulations On Your New Baby card and crossed out New Baby and wrote in Board Certification. Because they didn’t have cards for that and the exam had been laborious…

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@TheresaZoe I mean, my Mom was Prussian and my Dad a Ukrainian Catholic Hutsul from extreme western Ukraine so what do I know of Italian traditions?

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@TheresaZoe Couldn’t you get some from cans of sardines, anchovies, brisling sardines (really sprats), herring filets, mackerel, tuna, and salmon? Okay, tuna and salmon would be only tiny bits, herring and mackerel not nearly entire…

Don’t know enough about the tradition, me.

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@MSill3 One old priest I know developed during the pandemic a phobia for putting the Blessed Sacrament on anyone’s tongue and wouldn’t. Nobody else seems to mind. Some ordinary extraordinary ministers are very adept.

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@PetriOP A few years ago it was also some car rental companies. I haven’t rented a car for a few years so that may have changed.

It’s because of duplicate carbon or carbon-less forms that work only with impact printers. I think.

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@hexclad The fact that I CAN save so much means it’s overpriced. At least overpriced for a cheapskate like me.

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I imagine a bar or liquor store offering “the coldest beer in town” by keeping (probably swollen) cans of it in liquid nitrogen. Then I wonder whether a competitor might try liquid helium…

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@RCAnnaKate St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. Now it’s also the Ukrainian Catholic cathedral. Brought up Latin Rite though: Eastern Rite is quite unfamiliar. Dad insisted on Ukrainian Catholic baptism and as we didn’t live in Chicago I was nearly 2 before it happened. Unwise

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@EdsPurgatory @CatholicCat8 One year I was living in a townhouse with a small area of 16-foot ceiling so I got a 14-foot douglasfir. Many strings of purple lights and many cheap gold-colored spherical ornaments.

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@dlongenecker1 There’s always Galatians 3:1

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Fits the gospel for today: https://t.co/l3jiQpHvQw

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@SamMacD86958750 @AnthonyEsolen My Mom was known for her excellent apple strudel. Made two one day: perfect grocery store apples, small ugly apples from a neighbor’s tree.

Of course the ugly ones made for their strudel being better. Maybe a variety better suited to purpose, too?

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@BruvverEccles It’s a very unchurched continent. The biggest American base, McMurdo Station, was built and initially run by the U. S. Navy and included a chapel. I expect that Mass was celebrated there for a few years until the Navy left. I get the impression the chapel is hardly in use now.

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@TheresaZoe Invented in Ontario by a Greek immigrant and maybe his brother. Truly fusion cuisine!