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  • In fourth grade someone got the bright idea of cutting lunch to an outrageous 15 minutes (as if going to a year-round school without a cafeteria wasn't enough--we ate at our desks and were served by mobile carts in the hall). To get the slow eaters (me) up to speed, our teachers implemented a charming little policy called "Shovel Time."

    The first nine minutes would pass normally. Then as the tenth approached, Miss Stauffer (a feathered-haired gal who drove a Camaro and loved Little River Band) would yell, "Do you know what time it is?!" The class would manically shriek back, "SHOVEL TIME!!!" Talking was absolutely forbidden the final five minutes—it was a deathly silent scarf fest.

    I don't know if I've ever been the same since. But as a nod to this classy ritual, I've adopted the humble scooping implement as my rating system's icon. Shovel on!
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    1 Shovel=Passing Fancy
    2 Shovels=Puppy Love
    3 Shovels=Crippling Crush
    4 Shovels=Serious Stalking

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The Hoax of the Seven Fishes

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Not exactly a shocking expose (it's touched on here) but if I took away one thing  (in disgusting business speak, "a learning") this Christmas, it is that The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an American, or more specifically NYC Italian-American invention. Oh, and that Home Alone is a popular Christmas movie in Italy with a title that translates as Mama, I've Lost the Plane.

Facebook planning for a Christmas Eve get together involving a bunch of Italian under-35s (what do you call millennials in Italian?) just ended up stumping them when the hostess mentioned the party would be "BYOF" since she was only serving three kinds of fish. Representing geographies from the top to bottom of the boot, no one had ever heard of having to eat fish on Christmas Eve, let alone seven of them.

Then again, anyone abroad could just as easily assume Americans all crack open peppermint pigs for Christmas.

I do love that there is a Feast of the Seven Fishes comic book.

December 26, 2012 in International Intrigue |

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