Life Lessons

Posted on December 12, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

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Don’t Miss The Bee Gees Documentary

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Edible Art Curated By Pal Marcia Grand. What Do You Have In Your Refrigerator ?

Posted on December 12, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

Did You Hear The News?

Posted on December 10, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

Steve Greenberg’s tech game show creation, “What The Heck Is That!?,” is being featured on the Today Show this morning. There is so much excitement and interest in the show. Please YouTube and subscribe.

http://www.gadgetgameshow.com/

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Celebrate Chanukah with Rabbi Marc Philippe of Temple Emanu-El of Miami Beach. I watched this live on Facebook and then several times after. It brings us all together during these very strange times. Don’t do Chanukah alone. Watch this 30 minute celebration. Happy Chanukah to you from Lois and Eliot

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Dedicated To The Aging Person In You

Posted on December 9, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

Click here:

https://youtu.be/LR2qZ0A8vic

This video was given to me by Michael Sommer, a friend who lives in Park City, Utah. It’s 15 minutes of one belly laugh after another. I found myself laughing hysterically. It features a guest speaker at a Conference on Aging in California. The speaker is a weatherman, but SHOULD be a stand up comic. Attendees were young and old alike, male and female.

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I WANT WHAT HE’S HAVING

Another video from Michael. This one is 20 Seconds.

A Man is in a Coffee Shop and asks for the same as another customer is having. It is not in English language but you will still have your sound turned on.

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The Show Must Go On

Posted on December 8, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

https://youtu.be/i9cB1dmEmZM

Fran Drescher made the formal announcement on Entertainment Tonight. Eliot and I were one of the first investors. Nanny, the Broadway musical. Scott Zeilinger and Victoria Lang producers. Written by Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. Now we just need Broadway to open up.

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Join Rabbi Marc Philippe of Temple Emanu-El, Miami Beach, and guitarist Douglas Hirsch, to celebrate Chanukah

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rabbenumarc/

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The Most Amazing Public Art

Posted on December 7, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

You may not be able to travel at the present time, but you can surely look at some of the most interesting public art around the world. They are definitely inspirational.

Good night Miami at 68 degrees. On our way to 54 degrees.

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Latkes and knishes for dinner tonight from Roasters and Toasters. Started Chanukah celebration early. Thursday night at sundown. 7pm, Join Rabbi Marc Philippe Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rabbenumarc/
Thank you!

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Lockdown lingo – are you fully conversant with the new terminology

Posted on December 7, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

Coronacoaster

The ups and downs of your mood during the pandemic. You’re loving lockdown one minute but suddenly weepy with anxiety the next. It truly is “an emotional coronacoaster”.

Quarantinis

Experimental cocktails mixed from whatever random ingredients you have left in the house. The boozy equivalent of a store cupboard supper. Southern Comfort and Ribena quarantini with a glacé cherry garnish, anyone? These are sipped at “locktail hour”, ie. wine o’clock during lockdown, which seems to be creeping earlier with each passing week.

Blue Skype thinking

A work brainstorming session which takes place over a videoconferencing app. Such meetings might also be termed a “Zoomposium”. Naturally, they are to be avoided if at all possible.

Le Creuset wrist

It’s the new “avocado hand” – an aching arm after taking one’s best saucepan outside to bang during the weekly ‘Clap For Carers.’ It might be heavy but you’re keen to impress the neighbours with your high-quality kitchenware.

Coronials

As opposed to millennials, this refers to the future generation of babies conceived or born during coronavirus quarantine. They might also become known as “Generation C” or, more spookily, “Children of the Quarn”.

Furlough Merlot

Wine consumed in an attempt to relieve the frustration of not working. Also known as “bored-eaux” or “cabernet tedium”.

Coronadose

An overdose of bad news from consuming too much media during a time of crisis. Can result in a panicdemic.

The elephant in the Zoom

The glaring issue during a videoconferencing call that nobody feels able to mention. E.g. one participant has dramatically put on weight, suddenly sprouted terrible facial hair or has a worryingly messy house visible in the background.

Quentin Quarantino

An attention-seeker using their time in lockdown to make amateur films which they’re convinced are funnier and cleverer than they actually are.

Covidiot or Wuhan-ker

One who ignores public health advice or behaves with reckless disregard for the safety of others can be said to display “covidiocy” or be “covidiotic”. Also called a “lockclown” or even a “Wuhan-ker”.

Goutbreak

The sudden fear that you’ve consumed so much wine, cheese, home-made cake and Easter chocolate in lockdown that your ankles are swelling up like a medieval king’s.

Antisocial distancing

Using health precautions as an excuse for snubbing neighbours and generally ignoring people you find irritating.

Coughin’ dodger

Someone so alarmed by an innocuous splutter or throat-clear that they back away in terror.

Mask-ara

Extra make-up applied to “make one’s eyes pop” before venturing out in public wearing a face mask.

Covid-10

The 10lbs in weight that we’re all gaining from comfort-eating and comfort-drinking. Also known as “fattening the curve”.

…and finally, finally: One sentence to sum up 2020, so far: At one point this week, 1 loo roll was worth more than a barrel of crude oil!

Nick’s Grandfather “Mank”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by loiswhitmanhess

A business associate, Nick Davis, is the grandson of Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, the screenwriter, who with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane. As you may know, there is a new movie about Herman Mankiewicz called “Mank.” Here are some of Nick’s comments on the movie.