DCBBB Lunch Bunch

[priya978]

Its a cosmic message.

[piqaboo]

bump

[barfle]

grind

(sorry, wrong thread)

[piqaboo]

Originally posted by barfle:
grind

(sorry, wrong thread)

Ba dum CHING!

I came soooo close to using "grind" to bump the other DC lunch bump thread. Thanks for filling in the gap!

[barfle]

I can always be counted on to do the obvious pun.

[barfle]

We had one of our every-now-and-then meetings last Tuesday, and had one of the busboys take our picture.
From left to right, it's barfle (Jim), Stravinsky (Valerie), and Bones (Steve).

Although Owlice didn't show up, we took a picture of a parrot, just because it was around.

[Bones]

That picture looks like I'm trying to walk off with that parrot's perch under my arm. Other than that, what a classy looking group.

[piqaboo]

You look like a nice wholesome group of loyal americans, except for the parrot. He looks a tad suspicious.

[bignaf]

they look like communists!
McCarthy.

[Valerie]

i may be many things my "friend" but i am no commie...

[barfle]

As I recall (barely) McCarthy thought everyone was a commie.

And I can testify that the most likely suspect of being a commie is the macaw. (although some of Strav's musical ideas are a bit radical...)

[piqaboo]

Originally posted by Stravinsky:
i may be many things my "friend" but i am no commie...

Perhaps you are a pinko fellow-traveler ??

[Bones]

And stop referring to me as "Comrade."

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by Bones:
And stop referring to me as "Comrade."

Da, tovarisch.

[Valerie]

ok - what's a pinko-fellow traveler??? couldn't find it in my dictionary

as for my music - it's calm compared to igor

did they post our picture on their picture bulletin board, or is it just here in the thread?

[piqaboo]

Neither can I find a definition.

In reading extensively on McCarthyism once upon a bleak time ago, he and Roy Cohn used "fellow traveler" to indicate someone that was sympathetic to communists if not actually a member of the c.party. And then they used tht to claim that aiding and abetting was just as bad, and ruined a couple extra lives/careers thatway. "Pinko" was similar - you weren't quite Red, but you were headed that way.

Here's a more recent use of the terms to give some context:
"Fascinating stuff, the letter argued that Erap's extensive links with high profile Filipino-Chinese businessmen prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that he's a commie pinko. Jeez, I thought fellow traveler accusations went out with Whittaker Chambers and the John Birch society, or at least with the fall of the Berlin Wall. "

[Valerie]

well - considering my political associations, i am nowhere near being a pinko fellow-traveler

very interesting stuff, though

so - can we assume there will be plenty of wedding pictures loaded to the site so we can see them, since we, the DCBBB lunch bunch can't get there???

[Nicole Marie]

Piq, when I was reading your post about pinko, I read it as PLINKO. I had images of commies playing Plinko with Bob Barker on the Price is Right. Yikes! I had to re-read it before I got it... long week.

[barfle]

Vell, I haff ben to Zoviet Union, tovarisch.

Good music, bad beer, stingy on coffee.

[Serenity]

So, comrade, do you know how to pronounce Prokofiev? Pro-KOH-fyef?