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Sia

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 08:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Everyone's given really detailed and helpful information! I never cease to be amazed at how willing to help the TVCH people are! Posting a question here is soooo unlike asking, say, my brother. He'd probably say, "No idea, Sis; sounds like you may have a problem."

Chai

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dumb question is this:


What the heck are those little fleshy bits in the corners of your eyes called?

I know it's a stupid question, but it's just one of those little questions that just tend to come to you out of the blue and nag at you.

Theowl

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 01:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I call them "goobies". Some people call them sleepy rocks.

Twinkie

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 02:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tear ducts?

Denecee

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
eye boogers?

Whoami

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<wonders how many people are grabbing pocket mirrors and looking at the corners of their eyes now>

Although I don't believe Chai was talking about the eye boogers, I just have to add our families name to it. On our dogs/cats, it's "ookie eye." When we wipe the gunk from their eyes, we are "de-ookatizing" them! .

Zachsmom

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
tears normally drain into two small holes ("puncta") located on the inner corner of the upper and lower eyelids. From there, the tears drain into the back of the nose via the tear duct (a.k.a. nasolacrimal duct).

Theowl

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 03:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, ZMom!! That's really deep!!

Sia

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How interesting that those little puffy thingies actually have names! LOL. Back to the descriptive names for eye-gunk, however: my Grams always said we had "duck-$h!t" in our eyes if we had eye-boogers in the corners of our eyes. I call them eye-boogers to my kids.

Abbynormal

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 10:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am truly truly ignorant when it comes to this question. Could someone please explain the difference to me between Spanish, Hispanic, Latino and Latina. I have heard them all used and I thought they all meant the same thing, as in a race of Spanish origin, but not so sure now.

Draheid

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 10:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abbynormal: Latina & Latino are feminine and masculine (respectively) versions of the term describing latins - from the Latin America region. Spanish is defined as specifically from the country of Spain and Hispanic refers to natives of Latin America. Here are the definitions from Merriam Webster's dictionary:
Main Entry: Span·ish
Pronunciation: 'spa-nish
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, adjective, from Middle English Spainish, from Spain
Date: 15th century
1 : the Romance language of the largest part of Spain and of the countries colonized by Spaniards
2 plural in construction : the people of Spain


Main Entry: His·pan·ic
Pronunciation: hi-'spa-nik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin hispanicus, from Hispania Iberian Peninsula, Spain
Date: circa 1889
: of, relating to, or being a person of Latin American descent living in the U.S.; especially : one of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin

Main Entry: La·ti·no
Pronunciation: l&-'tE-(")nO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nos
Etymology: American Spanish, probably short for latinoamericano Latin American
Date: 1946
1 : a native or inhabitant of Latin America
2 : a person of Latin-American origin living in the U.S.
- Latino adjective

Main Entry: La·ti·na
Pronunciation: l&-'tE-n&
Function: noun
Etymology: American Spanish, feminine of latino Latino
Date: 1983
1 : a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Latin America
2 : a woman of Latin-American origin living in the U.S.
- Latina adjective


Hope that helps.

Abbynormal

Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 10:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you very much. I got to wondering when I heard Jennifer Lopez say something about being Latino, which would be correct but I thought why didn't she say Latina? I have also heard Selma Hayek describe herself as Hispanic, so I guess it got me to thinking. Thank you again.

Chai

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the info about the eyes! I guess the fleshy things I'm talking about are the tear ducts with the puncta. Maybe the lagrimal glands??


Funny discussion about eye gunk, too! We have several names for that...eye goobers, eye boogies, and just plain crud among them.

Whit4you

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My question (and I doubt Dra can answer this one)


Why is it that men look soooooooooooooooo totally hot in a tight pair of Wranglers???

Bob2112

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob Friction!!!

Whoami

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 09:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the airline info all! I think I'll be much more prepared.

New question. Does anyone recall an incident in Washington DC in 1977. I was granted a trip there with my high school (it was called the Close Up program back then. Don't know if it even exists now) during my senior year.

I don't remember the trip much now, except for getting stuck in an elevator for hours with 8 other people, on my way down to the only seminar I was really interested in (of course). And having our tour of the monuments cancelled becasue of some sort of terrorist type activity. I don't know if they were really terrorists, or what exactly they were called.

I believe they took over the Library, but it's so long ago now, my memory is muddled. And, for some reason, it seems like they were protesting a movie or something called Muhhamad?

As a security precaution, the authorities in DC closed down all the monuments, in case these people were to try and go to one of them and take hostages.

Being there when it happened, and being out of state high school students, we were sequestered away in our hotel rooms. Either my memory is gone, or maybe they kept a lot of info from us to keep us from getting freaked out.

Anyway, it would be kind of interesting to research that incident now that my brain is more mature. Just wondered if anyone remembered anything of the sort.

The only other thing I remember about the trip now is, on our last day there, we were going to have the chance of visiting the Smithsonian, or go shopping in Georgtown, but only if the "terrorists" were captured. That morning, they were either captured or surrendered, so I was at least able to see the Smithsonian.

Zachsmom

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
do you remember what month?

Whoami

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 10:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm..good question. March pops into my head. But I can't guarantee that. It's more like, when you don't really think hard about something, but an answer pops into your head from some sort of memory resourse.

Whoami

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 12:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Uh oh, looks like I've finally managed to stump the band!

I wish I could remember more about it. It may have had more to do with prisoners they wanted released. But I could be mixing that up with stuff like the Iran hostages.

Draheid

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 07:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami: The only publication online with archives searchable back to 1977 that I could find is The Washington Post. They had no reports of any incidents at the Whitehouse in 1977 that I could find. I have tried all major search engines, as well as scouring the Secret Service, Whitehouse.gov, Library of Congress and several other sites. I am unable to locate any reference online to the incident you are asking about.

Perhaps with a few more details something would turn up.

Twinkie

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 07:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Who, hubby said the only thing he can think of might have been the protests over our support of the Shah of Iran.

Whoami

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Dra! I'm sorry I put you through so much work!

Hmmmm Twinkie. That's ringing a bell. I do remember some sort of incident of people demaanding something like the US "turning over" the Shah of Iran or something. But again, that memory could be from some other incident, rather than this one.

It must not have been major enough. Mom says she remembers it being in the news when it happened, but she wasn't concerned for my safety. She thinks someone from the school may have called her to let her know how they were seeing to our safety. If it was a more major deal, Mom would have been frantic and freaking out no matter what they told her regarding our safety.

I went to IMDB and tried to find a movie or something called Muhammad, and found nothing except things on Ali. So, I really don't know where the heck that memory came from.

I know nothing really happened at the White House itself. They (officials) just closed down that and the Monuments for security reasons. Heck, maybe it was just our tour group that decided not to tour the monuments, and told us it was all closed down.

I'm sure some distant memory is somewhere in this old brain. I wish I could figure out how to dig in there and find it!

Thanks anyway for the efforts.

Whoami

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 01:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, I think I've found it. I went to the Washington Post (thanks Dra), and did an advanced search with the word "hostage." I eventually found these stories (they are just two of many around the same date, and not the full story. You have to pay to read the whole story.

Hanafi Muslim Bands Seize Hostages At 3 Sites
March 10, 1977; Page A1
Section: First Section
A tiny group of Hanafi Muslims, perhaps fewer than 10 people altogether, terrorized the nation's capital yesterday, killing, wounding and threatening a bloody end for dozens of hostages they captured around midday at three busy locations.

By nightfall, the Hanafi gunmen, members of a small black group of Muslims here who were armed with guns and machetes, held anywhere from 20 to 30 to 100 hostages at the B'nai B'rith headquarters on Rhode Island Avenue NW near Scott Circle,…


Seizure of 3 Buildings Foils L'Enfant's Grand Plan for City
March 10, 1977; Page A18
Section: First Section
When Pierre L'Enfant designed the city of Washington, he structured it with wide boulevards and traffic cirlces so that it could not be easily tied up by violence, as Paris had been during the French Revolution.

Yesterday, it was obvious that L'Enfant failed. All anyone has to do to bring Washington to a standstill is seize the District Building, the B'nai B'rith offices on Rhode Island Avenue and the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Avenue at Waterside Drive….

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 02:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good work, Whoami. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody here doesn't have an account with Washington Post and e-mails the story to you.

Whoami

Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 06:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, newest DQ....

Mom ordered Egg Foo Yung tonight. Neither of us has ever had it. She just had heard it was good. What came was two large pancake style items, accompanied with a soupy brothy stuff with large chunks of shrimp, whole mushrooms, etc. How do you eat this stuff? Do you pour the brothy stuff over the pancake? Chop up the pancake and dunk it (that's what Mom ended up doing). She said it was good. Just wondered what the conventional way to eat this stuff is.