Keep a good sense of humour

[Syberberg]

If you can have a laugh, no matter how dark the humour, at any given situation, you know you're going to be able to cope pretty well.

One thing that amuses me whenever I think about it is that eventually the world will run out of PVC clothing. Those poor vegetarians/vegans who like the look of leather, but refuse to wear it on "ethical" grounds, are going to be a bit stuck...not to mention the fetish industry.

So, what else is keeping other "Peakers" (yes, I know it's a bad pun, but that's my sense of humour again) amused about what's going on?

[Chip Haynes]

I've always used the term, "doomsluts", but "peakers" is funny.

As for humor in hard times, I offer this: As the oil gets both scarce and expensive, many large farming operatrions will have to revert to manual labor, replaing the tractors and equipment they can no longer run. Meanwhile, in our cities, we have a great many young people that fully expect to live their lives as sports and rock stars.

YOU wanna tell 'em they have to go pick cotton?

It's not gonna be pretty.

But funny.

[Michelle in Ga]

I fondly refer to my sheep as "the corn whores". I would have named them mutton and hagis,but they had names
already.

I will really miss loud,obnoxious rap music. I like to scare old people by blasting it,and I'm 39.

[OldHorseman]

I will really miss loud,obnoxious rap music. I like to scare old people by blasting it,and I'm 39.

   NiMH batteries and a solar charger for the old ghetto-blaster...

   I prefer metal. Hey Grandma! Get Down With The Sickness!

   Alas, there won't be many geezers around to spook in LATOC. 

[Chip Haynes]

Yeah, but those geezers that are left will probably be pretty well armed.

(Good thing their eyesight is going, huh?)

"Hey, Sonny, can I get a corrective lens on this scope?"

[OldHorseman]

Yeah, but those geezers that are left will probably be pretty well armed.

   Won't matter. One morning, when the grid goes down and the Country Kitchen Cafe doesn't open for breakfast, they'll all perish on the pavement outside.

[JurisDoctorOfDoom]

Yeah, but those geezers that are left will probably be pretty well armed.

   Won't matter. One morning, when the grid goes down and the Country Kitchen Cafe doesn't open for breakfast, they'll all perish on the pavement outside.

that whole damn episode was freakin hilarious. The only shows that made me think twice about giving up tv were south park, reno 911, and the chapelle show. all comedy central shows.

[OldHorseman]

that whole damn episode was freakin hilarious.

   I spent a few months roughing it out here while getting this place ready for the wife and critters.  Got in the habit of running into "town" to the only eatery for breakfast roundabout dawn every morning.  Noticed all the old farmers who were regulars there.

   Then I realized I WAS ONE OF THEM! AAACK! 

[Michelle in Ga]

I prefer a bowl of special k in the morning. Country cookin' is good but fattening. The first time I heard about biscuits
and gravy (when we moved south), I thought it was some kind of dog food!

[Chip Haynes]

There's no doubt that "thin" and "Southern" are words seldom found in the same sentence. I've heard the South refered to as the Grease Belt, and with good reason. It all goes back to the very agricultural/rural/manual labor aspects of the old South. Of course, once manual labor was replaced by machines, there was still no move to change the local diet, hence the hefties.

You are MUCH better off with a bowl of Special K.

[OldHorseman]

You are MUCH better off with a bowl of Special K.

   Not if yer gonna work for a livin'!

   I figured out some time ago that a carb/cereal breakfast in the morning often resulted in me beating the living daylights out of someone who barely deserved it by midday.  (Blood sugar goes low, system compensates with adrenalin, no more Mister Nice Sasquatch.)

   Now I save the cereal for evenings.  Enless you count grits as cereal... But grits are mostly a medium for butter and cheese.

[Michelle in Ga]

I like grits. With milk and sugar. Biscuits are great, but NO gravy. I don't eat pork. I buy turkey bacon. Hubby
calls it Facon.

[Nicole]

Southern cuisine is deeply rooted in slave cuisine -- high caloric foods for a minimum of cost.  That means beans, pork fat, poke salad (you poke around in the woods and find stuff to eat) and flour.  Slaves cooked for white folks and then were freed and still cooked for white folks and eventually white southerners got the idea it was regional cuisine.

However, Applachian folk arrived at the same basic food from a different direction.  It's simple, filling, preserves well, is easy to cook and keeps you full all day.  If you sit in an office chair that whole day, it's not a good way to eat -- but if you are poor and staring at the wrong end of a horse or stuck on the business side of a hoe, it's hard to beat.

I don't hold truck with "milk gravy" though.  Burnt flour, bacon grease and water makes for a mightly fine biscuit topping.

Facon -- that's funny.

[nobody]

poke salad (you poke around in the woods and find stuff to eat)

Funny stuff.  Actually there is a common weed that grows here in the south called 'poke sallet' (poke salad, pokeweed, poke) that makes mighty fine eating. http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1971_March_April/Poke_Sallet

I'm confused, I thought 'milk gravy' was one of the four basic food groups.... beans, taters, biscuits and gravy. 

[Michelle in Ga]

I don't know where I picked up the southern word "goober". It was a nickname for the hubby,kids,stupid people etc.
I googled it one day: It's Bantu for "peanut." Bantu is an african dialect. cool.