A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running cartwheel; the repai
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The name suited my desire to be sassy but not my need to be serious at times. For me, the rationalization of salami is a somewhat amusing encapsulation of what is a constant struggle between eating right and living right. 3 Ring Binder tells more about what I want to accomplish via blogging, which is to learn and share more in the world of ideas as well as be sassy, fun, and hopefully amusing. That, and I have an actual penchant for storing, collecting, and organizing things via 3 ring binders. It's a good system and, I think, essentially a better name.
Thanks for asking!
I'm teasing a bit, but I must admit to wondering how salami could have enough import in someone's life to require any sort of rationalization to allow for eating it. :-) I don't even know what goes into salami, and I'm not aware of the health risks. I also don't love it. I mean, it's OK, and I don't actively avoid it, but certainly don't seek it out.
So in the eating right vs. living right spectrum, I'm guessing you hold that salami is yummy, but potentially bad for you, and the rationalization part is figuring out the balance while still getting to enjoy it sometimes?
C'mon, we need a treatise on this!
The ultimate question is, of course, what exactly is salami?
from Wikipedia: Salami is cured sausage, fermented and air-dried. Salami may refer specifically to a class of salumi (the Italian tradition of cured meats), where an individual sausage or style of sausage (e.g. Genoa) would be referred to with the singular Italian form salame. Alternatively, in general English usage, salami may be singular or plural and refer to a generic style or to various specific regional styles from Italy or elsewhere, such as France, Germany, or Hungary. The name comes from the Latin/Italian root sal-, meaning 'salt'.
Also from wikipedia: Historically, salami has been popular amongst Italian peasants due to being a meat product able to be stored at room temperature for periods of up to a year, supplementing a possibly meager or inconstant supply of fresh meat.
More fuel for my rationalization process - it has an important history!!!
I'm putting that in my 3 Ring Binder.
And I found your conversation with Mr. August very entertaining!