“Lagniappe” – pronounced “lawn-YOP” – Cajun for a little something extra – a coonass ‘baker’s dozen’.
In this case it’s musical, from a post on Facebook.
Everybody knows Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor because the creepy guy in the old horror movies is always playing it on an organ, the instrument for which it was written.
So let’s dredge up the pice performed masterfully on a harp:
Eighty by eight? Missed ‘ninety by nine’ by a degree and a half. NO surprise. Been like this here since the last Ice Age.
Opened the morning paper and found that hte big hospital across the river reports thirty one new babies, twenty to unwed parents, and one little darling failed to get a business card from the daddy of hers.
Cutting the chit-chat, let’s just dive in:
Harry W. & Kayonta(!) C. have great ambitions for their new son Isaiah Messiah. Ain’t none of the ‘baron’ or ‘prince’ crap. We shootin’ for GOD!
John C. & Tinisha(!) M. give their daughter that special boost in life that a punctuated name offers, tagging her with Car’Layiah Tineice.
Strekker & Mandi (With an ‘i’!) P. Do thier daughter with Quinn Avery.
Jacobie J. & Trayunna(!) G. present their little girl Aaliyah Lee.
Nick ‘n’ Kayla A. give their daughter her very first stripper name, Harleigh Rose. I’ll be impressed when I see little BMW Nasturtium.
Justin & Ashely C. give us a mystery in the from of their son Grayson Phillip. Who’s this ‘Gray’ and why’s the kid named after him?
Ceory N. & Alexis R. perpetuate the travesty with their son Ceory Deandre.
JT & Ashely F. do their daughter as Reed Louella.
Clayton & Brittany M. start their son off with business advice, Cash Robert.
Casey C. & Sherri B. tag their daughter with Aiyanne Neil.
And our single tripe shows up as Miss Tabasha(!) B. does her son up with Reece John-Michael.
End of list. See you next week.
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. While tied to the stupid DOCK! No icebergs. No torpedoes. NO storm. Just tied to the DOCK!
1929 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). Yeah, that’s gonna work real well.
1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aircraft bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. And this wasn’t considered “collateral damage”.
1948 – Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian makes his first appearance in the cartoon Haredevil Hare.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket. In less than twenty years a rocket will leave here putting Americans on the moon. Actually, Apollo 11 splashed own on this date in 1969, returning from that moon trip. 2011 – we’re reduced to hitching rides with the Russians.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (“Long live free Quebec!”). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians. Sadly, many people outside France don’t know that Charles deGaulle single-handedly drove the Germans from France in WW II, so they aren’t properly worshipful and appreciative of the greatness they have witnessed.