- Quoth Margie to my mom in re the Internet: "It's not just for porn, Gloria." #
- Packed up, cleaned up, ready to rock and Roma. #
- After last night, greasy lasagna lunch at AutoGrill seems vaguely disappointing. #
- In Rome (or environs thereof). My hotel room, netbook, and MiFi have turned into On-line Check-in Central for the party. #
- Did you know the straw basket around a chianti bottle is called a "fiasco"? #
- Logistics of car returns, flight times, hotel airport shuttle starting to resemble logic puzzle involving fox, chickens, rowboat, scorpion. #
- From our massive dinner last night. Nom-nom-nom! RT @meoswell : New blog post: Margie gnawing on a bone Link #
- This is the way the vacation ends, not with a bang but a twitter … Killing time — Chez Oswell Link #
- Where we ate last night. This guy was a hoot, the food was massively faboo. :: Antica Macelleria Cecchini Link #
- I have been intentionally not posting non-travel news during this trip. But I've been flagging a lot of articles to follow up on … #
- Dinner at Holiday Inn Rome Eur Parco dei Medici – overpriced, marginally satisfactory food, slow service, but decent coffee. #
- Checked thru FCO security, despite brief DHIMOM concerms at ticketing, and apprehension of Margie as my dangerous Rock Moll. #
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I knew about fiasco, but thought it was the bottle-in-basket totality that was called that. Wonder how it got to have its current English meaning.
It IS hard going back to ordinary when you’ve had The Really Good Stuff. After having heirloom tomatoes in season, there was no way I was going back to conventional, ordinary grocery tomatoes, in or out of season. I’ll eat Romas in salads in winter, but otherwise, I pass on the pallid memories of what a tomato should be.
I read one further source (haven’t had a chance to research) indicating that it derived from the home-blown bottles not standing on their bases very well, thus requiring the straw wrappings to be stable, otherwise … fiasco!
Given the nature of home-blown bottles, that makes sense. I have had a couple of early thrown-pottery projects, and they are rather irregular.