[Magdalen] Wafting Odors.

[Charles Wohlers]

My dear wife, who has black (well, graying now) hair, claims to be "black 
Irish" (Sharkey from County Cavan is an ancestor). She says it is supposed 
to come from survivors of the Spanish Armada of 1588. How much truth there 
is to that, I don't know.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jon Egger
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 4:17 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Wafting Odors.

My daughter-in-law is Irish (nee Malone).  She and her three sisters have
quite lovely black hair.  Is that where the phrase 'Black Irish' comes from?

Grace and peace,
brud

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No...it was UYA
>
> > On Oct 26, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Grace - Was this the acronym of the final part : OYA?
> > Vaguely remembering that, if I am correct, led me to what I considered
> the definitive spelling...<gdr>
> > Lynn
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Oct 26, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Funny...
> > Lynn's post caused me to look up "wild hair," because I've often heard
> it, but never seen it written, and never known where it came from.
> >
> > Well, sources don't agree at all! Some say it's "hair," and others say
> "hare." Most agree that the rest of the phrase involves a portion of one's
> lower anatomy, but that's pretty much the only thing that's consistent. 
> And
> I'd never heard the second part of the phrase...
> >
> >> On Oct 26, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dave your post brings back childhood memories of sometimes Sundays when
> my dad who loved food but rarely "cooked" would get a "wild hair" and 
> begin
> creating a meal early in the afternoon. Often these meals were incredibly
> delicious but he could never recreate them as he never took notes and was
> often drinking throughout the afternoon. My memories also include the
> copious amount of dish washing and clean up I had to do after dinners on
> those rare evenings - all in all lovely memories of a wonderful father who
> died at an early age - 53 when I was 22. He was also very intrigued with
> outdoor grilling- the mechanical Engineer in him always devising new ways
> to approach some of his grilled Sunday afternoon concoctions. Thanks for
> the memories this morning.
> >> Lynn
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It must be a Sunday thing here in the woods of Pennsylvania, but
> >> there is a heavy odor of charcoal of the type used for barbeques
> >> in the air.  The weather is overcast, but comfortable  outside at 57 F
> (14
> >> C).
> >>
> >> I am reminded that because my father and most of his friends
> >> were born in the second half of the nineteenth century (father: 1880)
> >> I missed out on several developments in home cookery.
> >>
> >> I thus take after my father in that I do not cook at all with the
> exception
> >> of the simple breakfast stuff.  I NEVER saw my father in our  kitchen
> >> except to sit down at the breakfast "nook" for a meal.  Men of  that
> >> generation simply did not cook, period.  Never mind that the
> >> great international cooks in both European and Asian traditions were
> >> largely male.  Men, at least of that ilk, did not cook at home.
> >>
> >> There was also not a barbeque phase in that generation, and I have
> >> never been a barbequer either, of the type where the husband in
> >> the family ruled the Weber Grills.
> >>
> >> The current phase, where men are often cooking and baking is
> >> obviously not what's happening here.
> >>
> >> However, I love to watch the cooking shows on the "Create" Channel
> >> of PBS.  If Martha says it's so, IT'S SO!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang.
>