SWEET, SUGAR and CANDY part II

Confectionery

Confectionery is related to the food items that are rich in sugar and often referred to as a confection. Confectionery refers to the art of creating sugar based dessert forms, or subtleties (subtlety or sotelty), often with pastillage. From the Old French confection, origin of Latin confectio(n-), from conficere, to 'put together'. The confectionery industry also includes specialized training schools and extensive historical records. Traditional confectionery goes back to ancient times, and continued to be eaten through the Middle Ages into the modern era. Confections include sweet foods, sweetmeats, digestive aids that are sweet, elaborate creations, and something amusing and frivolous.

Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well. The words candy (North America), sweets (UK and Ireland), and lollies (Australia and New Zealand) are also used for the extensive variety of confectionery.

Generally, confections are low in micronutrients but rich in calories. Specially formulated chocolate has been manufactured in the past for military use as a high density food energy source.

Examples

Confectionery items include sweets, lollipops, candy bars, chocolate, cotton candy, and other sweet items of snack food. The term does not generally apply to cakes, biscuits, or puddings which require cutlery to consume, although exceptions such as petits fours or meringues exist. 

Some of the categories and types of confectionery include the following:

 Caramels. Derived from a mixture of sucrose, glucose syrup, and milk products. The mixture does not crystallize, thus remains tacky.

•  Chocolates. Bite-sized confectioneries generally made with chocolate.
•  Divinity. A nougat-like confectionery based on egg whites with chopped nuts.
•  Dodol. A toffee-like food delicacy popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
•  Dragée. Sugar-coated almonds and other types of sugar panned candy.
•  Fondant. Prepared from a warm mixture of glucose syrup and sucrose, which is partially crystallized. The fineness of the crystallites results in a creamy texture.
•  Fudge. Made by boiling milk and sugar to the soft-ball stage. In the US, it tends to be chocolate-flavored.
•  Halvah. Confectionery based on tahini, a paste made from ground sesame seeds.
•  Hard sweets. Based on sugars cooked to the hard-crack stage. Examples include suckers (known as boiled sweets in British English), lollipops, jawbreakers (or gobstoppers), lemon drops, peppermint drops and disks, candy canes, rock candy, etc. Also included are types often mixed with nuts such as brittle. Others contain flavorings including coffee such as Kopiko.
•  Ice cream. Frozen, flavoured cream, often containing small pieces of chocolate, fruits and/or nuts.
•  Jelly candies. Including those based on sugar and starch, pectin, gum, or gelatin such as Turkish delight (lokum), jelly beans, gumdrops, jujubes, gummies, etc.
•  Liquorice. Containing extract of the liquorice root. Chewier and more resilient than gum/gelatin candies, but still designed for swallowing. For example, Liquorice allsorts. Has a similar taste to star anise.
•  Marshmallow. "Peeps" (a trade name), circus peanuts, fluffy puff, etc.
•  Marzipan. An almond-based confection, doughy in consistency, served in several different ways.
•  Mithai. A generic term for confectionery in India, typically made from dairy products and/or some form of flour. Sugar or molases are used as sweeteners.
•  Tablet. A crumbly milk-based soft and hard candy, based on sugars cooked to the soft-ball stage. Comes in several forms, such as wafers and heart shapes. Not to be confused with tableting, a method of candy production.
•  Taffy or chews. A candy that is folded many times above 50 °C, incorporating air bubbles thus reducing its density and making it opaque.

SWEET, SUGAR and CANDY part I

Songs about Sweets

Def Leppard is an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). This is the band's longest-standing line-up.

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Pour Some Sugar on Me was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006.

The Rubettes were an English pop band assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage. Their first release, "Sugar Baby Love" was an instant hit remaining at number one in the United Kingdom for four weeks in May 1974, while reaching number 37 on the U.S. chart that August, and remains their best-known record. Subsequent releases would be less successful, but the band continued to tour on the nostalgia circuit well into the 2000s.

The Strangeloves were a fictional band created in 1964 by a New York-based American songwriting production team who pretended to be from Australia. Consisting of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer, The Strangeloves most successful singles were "I Want Candy",Cara-Lin", and "Night Time". Before the invention of The Strangeloves, the three-member team ‒ often going by FGG Productions ‒ had already scored hits for other artists including 1963's "My Boyfriend's Back" by the American female group, The Angels.

The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. "Lollipop" is a pop song written by Julius Dixson and Beverly Ross in 1958 for the duo Ronald & Ruby, which was covered most successfully by The Chordettes. Dixson's name is sometimes spelled "Dixon".

The song is a firm favorite amongst many performing barbershop music.

Millie Small CD (born 6 October 1946), also known simply as Millie, is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 cover version of "My Boy Lollipop". Her other stage names include Little Millie Small.

"My Boy Lollipop" (originally written as "My Girl Lollypop") is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye. A cover version, recorded eight years later by Jamaican teenager Millie Small, with very similar rhythm, became one of the top selling ska songs of all time.

The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of fictional adolescent characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show. The group is also known for their real world success, through a virtual band.

"Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. It reached number one in the US in 1969 and stayed there for four weeks.

Anne Lilia Berge Strand (born 21 November 1977), better known by her stage name Annie, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and DJ. Annie began her recording career in 1999 with the underground hit single "The Greatest Hit" and gained international acclaim, particularly from music bloggers, for her debut album Anniemal (2004).

"Chewing Gum" is an electropop song written by Richard X and Hannah Robinson for Norwegian singer Annie's debut album Anniemal (2004). The song is based on metaphor which likens men to chewing gum.

The song was released as the album's lead single in August 2004. It received positive reviews from music critics. "Chewing Gum" was the album's most commercially successful single, reaching number eight on the Norwegian Singles Chart and number twenty-five on the UK Singles Chart.

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, director, dancer, and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance and performed in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy.

"Candy Shop" is from the album Hard Candy and is the eleventh studio album by Madonna, released on April 19, 2008, by Warner Bros. Records. It was her final studio album with the record company, marking the end of a 25 year recording history. Madonna started working on the album in 2007, and collaborated with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Nate "Danja" Hills. The album has an overall R&B vibe, while remaining a dance-pop record at its core. Pet Shop Boys were also asked to collaborate with Madonna on the album by Warner Bros. but the record company later changed their mind and withdrew their invitation.

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968), often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987.

"Chocolate" is a song by Australian Kylie Minogue, taken from her ninth studio album Body Language (2003). The song was written by Karen Poole and Johnny Douglas, while production was handled by Douglas. Released on 28 June, 2004 by Parlophone and Mushroom, the song later appeared on her 2004 greatest compilation Ultimate Kylie. Before the commercial release of Minogue's version, "Chocolate" was originally a duet including a rap by Ludacris, however it wasn't released as the final mix.

"I'm A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)" is a novelty dance song by Gummibär referring to a brand of candy, Gummi bear. It was written by German composer Christian Schneider and released by Gummybear International; the song received international and internet meme success, in part, due to its corresponding 30-second Hungarian video clip "Itt van a Gumimaci".

The song has since been released in at least twenty five languages and has virally spread worldwide with more than 1 billion plays of the corresponding videos on YouTube and MySpace. With the song ready-made for ringtone use, one critic commented "he's the ultimate cross-platform, cross-cultural phenomenon YouTube was designed to unleash." It is heard on his debut albumI Am Your Gummy Bear released in 2007.

Yes, I know, I'm totally incomplete with this list.

REGGAE PARTY in SWEETGRASS

SUNDAY.  On the invite was written.

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. This week in Sweetgrass we have our Reggae Party with DJ Infa from  21 - 23 CET (12pm SLT - 2pm SLT). $1000 for Best Reggae Outfit and free joints.

The pictures are made by Ganymade and I did cropped them to the "Polaroid size" I use on my blog.

 More pictures at: http://sweetgrassparties.weebly.com/index.html 

Infa

Tim

Rod

Christo

BLOND PARTY at T.R.A.C.S

Last Saturday, June 1st  2013, with our blond DJ Rik.

We had lot of new guests and a lot of fun. So, what wants a manager more?

Here are the snapshots I made.

BLOND PARTY at T.R.A.C.S

June 1st 1926, is the birthday of Norma Jeane Mortenson, better know as Marilyn Monroe.

And Saturday, June 1st 2013, T.R.A.C.S has a BLOND PARTY

Starting Noon SLT (9pm CET), with our blond DJ Rik

T.R.A.C.S at TIMOTHY PLAZA on RIVER ISLAND

http://slurl.com/secondlife/River%20Island/221/249/22

BLOND chapter VI

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950), drew attention. By 1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits (1961), co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.

The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibility of an accidental overdose, as well as of homicide, have not been ruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the decades following her death, she has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon as well as the quintessential American sex symbol. In 2009, TV Guide Network named her No. 1 in Film's Sexiest Women of All Time.

Biography

The life of Marilyn Monroe knows many variations. Her official website, marilynmonroe.com, seems to hold the most flourishing version, here is no mention of the possible incest or neglect by her alcoholic mother. On other websites such as wikipedia.com, and in some biographies, this is called forward. There are many different versions about why Marilyn married her childhood sweetheart, and there are numerous theories surrounding her death. Even her name seems to be ambiguous, on one website they called Norma Jeane Baker, on the other Norma Jean Mortensen. It is said that Monroe was Marilyn's middle name, others say it was the name of her grandmother, or mother. This shows that a clear biographical story about Marilyn Monroe writing is more difficult than it seems. The following biography is based on the following two books: Movie Icons: Marilyn Monroe Duncan in 2006 and Marilyn: Life of a Legend Evans in 2004.

That biographies do not always agree apparent when you compare the two books together. In Duncans Movie Icons: Marilyn Monroe in 2006 called Marilyn's mother Gladys Monroe example, in Evans Marilyn: Life of a legend  from 2004 called her mother Gladys Baker. In Evans (2004) also reported that Marilyn lived here in 1933 with her ​​mother while she lived. Before that time in foster care Around 1935 Marilyn than a few years living with a friend of her mother, before she marries shortly after obtaining her high school diploma with her ​​neighbor. Duncan (2006), however, regarded the years 1926 to 1942 as a period in which Marilyn staying in foster care, a period in which they escaped by marrying her. Neighbor James Dougherty Marilyn was just 16 years old. Exist only for the first 16 years of the life of Marilyn Monroe as seen many different stories. Both on the Internet and in books is therefore not entirely clear how her life really has expired. Therefore, the main features described in this biography mainly of her life the things that both books agree on.

The young Norma Jeane Baker

In Los Angeles, California, is 1926 Norma Jean (e) Mortenson was born on June 1. Since the identity of her father is unknown, the girl later renamed Norma Jeane Baker, her mother, Gladys Baker. Gladys Baker was shortly after the birth of her daughter admitted to an asylum because of problems with her mental health. This she also lost her job. Norma Jean (e) brought this as well as her entire childhood in foster homes, until they just graduated from high school on June 19, 1942, and only 16 years, marries her neighbor, James Dougherty. Around 1944 works Norma Jean (e) a time on the assembly line for the Radio Plane Company in Burbank, before starting to work as a model. In June 1946 Norma Jean (e) requires the separation of Dougerty to. Shortly after following her first screen test with the film company 20th Century Fox (Fox). If they sign a contract with this company, they do so under the name 'Marilyn Monroe'. In both 2006 and Duncan Evans 2004 there is no agreement the origin of its new name, it was a family name, or the name was coined by a movie agent?

Marilyn Monroe

First Marilyn Monroe appears in the film Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! in 1947. Because Fox does not renew her contract, Marilyn signed in 1948 with the film company Columbia Pictures, but this contract is not extended. In the same year met Marilyn movie agent Johnny Hyde, who accompanies her in 1950 from then until his death, and that Monroe put on the map as a movie star. In 1949 Marilyn posed nude for a calendar of Tom Kelly, an image that will be world famous. Later Her breakthrough film follows the same year, The Asphalt Jungle , a film by MGM. After her role in All About Eve draws Marilyn, just before Hyde died in 1950, again a movie contract with Fox. Marilyn Monroe is becoming better known and more popular, partly because magazines articles are devoted to her and she reaches an Oscar at the Academy Awards.

In the year 1952 Marilyn married again, this time with the world-famous baseball player Joe Dimaggio. In the same year it creates a scandal surrounding her previous nude calendar, and Marilyn plays the lead role in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . Her career is starting to get off the ground and although they suspended in 1954 by her film company 20th Century Fox, she holds a series of concerts in Korea for American soldiers. In 1954 Marilyn plays in the film that perhaps has the most famous image of the movie star, the scene of billowing white dress in the film The Seven Year Itch. Two years after her second marriage, the separation of Monroe and Dimaggio consummated. In 1955 Marilyn then starts an acting training, and she founded her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions. And again it is suspended by Fox film company. However, there is again concluded a contract between Fox and Marilyn Monroe in 1956. She also married in this year for the third time, this time with Arthur Miller, a famous playwright. In the same year Marilyn gets her first miscarriage. In 1957, according to Evans (2004) a pregnancy aborted and the story circulating on the Internet than twelve times Marilyn has had an abortion. Duncan (2006) report that only Marilyn in a period of three years ('56-'58) three times miscarried. The following year, in 1959, the film Some Like It Hot came out.

In 1960, Marilyn has a nervous breakdown while she is shooting for her new film The Misfits. The following year, following the separation of Arthur Miller. Where Evans (2004) mentions her admission to a psychiatric clinic, beats Duncan (2006) over this period. Marilyn Monroe met Robert Kennedy in 1961, and President JF Kennedy. In 1962 she sang at Madison Square Garden the song 'Happy Birthday' to President JF Kennedy, official recordings of this are still to be found on YouTube. Again this year there are problems with film company Fox, Marilyn is dismissed for breach of contract, but a few weeks later rehired at a higher salary. The filming of the movie (with the significant title) Something's Gotta Give resumes. Four August 1962 is the last day that Marilyn Monroe is seen alive. Surrounding her death is much speculation, so she would be commissioned by the Kennedys, given the suspected affair that Marilyn had with both President JF Kennedy and Robert Kennedy killed.

Marilyn Monroe died at the age of 36 from an overdose.

On August 5, 1962 is known that Marilyn Monroe died, and that it is assumed that they are committed by an overdose to take medications. Suicide It is never entirely clear whether Marilyn really committed suicide or that she overdosed on pills has swallowed accidentally. Marlilyn Monroe is buried in Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery three days later.

BLOND chapter III

In contemporary popular culture, it is often stereotyped that men find blond women more attractive than women with other hair colors. For example, Anita Loos popularized this idea in her 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Blondes are often assumed to have more fun; for example, in a Clairol commercial for hair colorant, they use the phrase "Is it true blondes have more fun?" Some women have reported they feel other people expect them to be more fun-loving after having lightened their hair. The "blonde stereotype" is also associated with being less serious or less intelligent. This can be seen in blonde jokes. It is believed the originator of the "dumb blonde" was an 18th century blonde French prostitute named Rosalie Duthé whose reputation of being beautiful but dumb inspired a play about her called Les Curiosites de la Foire (Paris 1775). Blonde actresses have contributed to this perception; some of them include Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield, and Goldie Hawn during her time at Laugh-In.

Alfred Hitchcock preferred to cast blonde women for major roles in his films as he believed that the audience would suspect them the least, comparing them to "virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints", hence the term "Hitchcock blonde". This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film Legally Blonde in which Reese Witherspoon succeeds at Harvard despite biases against her beauty and blonde hair, and terms developed such as cookie cutter blond (CCB), implying standardized blond looks and standard perceived social and intelligence characteristics of a blond. Many actors and actresses in Latin America and Hispanic United States seem to have Nordic features—blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin.

Reese Witherspoon

In colloquial French, "ma blonde" means "my girlfriend", regardless of the color of the specific woman's hair. Such is for example the reference in the name of the still-current 17th century chanson "Auprès de ma blonde".

Blonde stereotype

The blonde stereotype, the stereotypical perception of blond-haired women, has two aspects. On one hand, over history, blonde hair in women has been considered attractive and desirable. On the other hand, a blonde woman is often perceived as making little use of intelligence and as a "woman who relied on her looks rather than on intelligence." The latter stereotype of "dumb blonde" is exploited in blonde jokes.

Background and typology

Blonde hair has been considered attractive for long periods of time in various European cultures, particularly when coupled with blue eyes. This perception is exploited in culture and advertising.

Grace Kelly

Annette Kuhn divides blonde stereotypes in cinema into three categories in The Women's Companion to International Film:

 The ice-cold blonde: Kuhn defined it as "a blonde who hides a fire beneath an exterior of coldness". She provided Grace Kelly, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Mae Murray, and Eva Marie Saint as examples.

 The blonde bombshell: Kuhn defined it as "a blonde with explosive sexuality and is available to men at a price". She provided Brigitte Bardot, Lana Turner, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Mae West, Barbara Eden, Marilyn Monroe, and Diana Dors as examples.

 The dumb blonde: Kuhn defined it as "a blonde with an overt and natural sexuality and a profound manifestation of ignorance". She provided Jayne Mansfield, Marion Davies, Alice White, Marie Wilson, and Mamie Van Doren as examples.

Marilyn Monroe

Research  

According to psychological research, hair color is a relevant trait in the perception of an individual’s intelligence and overall ability. In a study by Kyle and Mahler (1996), the researchers asked subjects to evaluate photographs of the same woman with brown, red, and blonde hair in the context of a job application. After making sure that the hair color in all three conditions was rated as looking “natural” (not dyed) in a pilot study, participants in Kyle and Mahler’s study, both males and females, were asked to rate the applicant’s capability based on the photograph for an accounting position.

The researchers found that the blonde-haired applicant was rated as significantly less capable than her brunette doppelganger. In addition, participants designated the female applicant’s starting salary as significantly lower when she was depicted as a blonde than when she was shown with brown hair.

Mamie Van Doren

Although associated with females, the application of the dumb blonde stereotype can be applied to men as well. A study that looked at the CEOs of the London Financial Times Stock Exchange’s (FTSE) top 500 companies investigated how hair color could be a potential barrier to professional success. Because it has been shown that blonde hair is associated with incompetency, it was hypothesized that there would be fewer blonde CEOs among this group – a group of individuals that is viewed as extremely competent – than was representative of the general population. According to the CIA Fact Book at the time of the study, the distribution of individuals who have naturally blonde hair in the UK is approximately 25%, while the study found that only 25 (5%) of the 500 CEOs were blonde. Furthermore, only two (0.4%) of these CEOs were women, neither of whom happened to have blonde hair.

The question that remains, then, is why is it that blondes are generally rated as less competent than those who have other hair colors? One theory focuses on the feminization of blonde hair, which can be seen by the overwhelming association of the dumb blonde persona with females. This idea draws on the stereotype that females have a lower psychometric intelligence than males.

Blonde jokes

There is a category of jokes called "blonde jokes" that employs the dumb blonde stereotype. It overlaps at times with the jokes that generally portray the subject of the joke as promiscuous and/or stupid.

In fact, dumb blonde jokes are overwhelmingly female-specific: according to an extensive search in various publications and on the Internet, about 63% of dumb blonde jokes are directed exclusively at females (compared to less than 5% that directly referenced dumb blonde men). Consequently, blonde-haired individuals – regardless of if they are male or female – may be viewed as less capable because they are regarded as more feminine and thus less intelligent.

Blonde jokes have been criticized as sexist by several authors, as most blondes in these jokes are female, although male variations also exist. Research indicates that because of this, men report being amused by blonde jokes significantly more than women do.

 Blonde jokes nearly always take the format of the blond(e) placing himself or herself in an unusual situation, performing a silly act because he or she misconstrued the meaning of how an activity is supposed to play out, or making a comment that serves to highlight his or her supposed lack of intelligence, lack of common sense, or cluelessness, or promiscuity.

Dumb Male Blonde Jokes

Three business men were sitting in a bar, drinking

and discussing how stupid their wives were.

The first says, "I tell you, my wife is so stupid. Last

week she went to the supermarket and bought $300 worth

of meat because it was on sale, and we don't even have

a fridge big enough to keep it in!"

The second agrees that she sounds pretty thick, but

says his wife is thicker." Just last week, she went out

and spent $17000 on a new car" he laments, "and she

doesn't even know how to drive!"

The third, a blond male, nods sagely and agrees that

these two women sound like they both walked through

the stupid forest and got hit by every

branch. However, he still thinks his wife is dumber." I

have to laugh every time I think about it," he

chuckles. "Last week my wife left on a vacation to Greece.

I watched her packing her bags and she must

have taken at least 5 boxes of condoms with her.

She doesn't even have a penis!"

By Dimitri S

An Irishman, a Mexican and a blonde guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building. They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch I'm going to jump off this building." The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Burritos again! If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too." The blond opened his lunch and said, "Bologna again. If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too."

 The next day the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage and jumped to his death. The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito and jumped too. The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.

At the funeral the Irishman's wife was weeping. She said, "If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!" The Mexican's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much." Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. "Hey, don't look at me," she said, "He makes his own lunch."

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