{"id":173,"date":"2008-05-05T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:33:00","slug":"happy-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cinco de Mayo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year continues my streak of great Cincos de Mayo.&nbsp; Last year&#8217;s included a party, a pig, a keg &#8211; and then we broke out the Tequila.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s was much more sedate, not to mention sober, but nonetheless a great Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The day began in an office, where I was&nbsp;managed.&nbsp; Then I drove&nbsp;to a second office, where I did some managing.&nbsp; Next,&nbsp;I drove to still a third office, where&nbsp;there was mutual managing.&nbsp; (And yes, we still manage to respect each other in the morning.)&nbsp; Then I came home to wonderful dinner.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the second office, however, I was discussing business with a colleague when I noticed that there was a bowl on her shelf.&nbsp; I noticed this not so much for the small clear glass bowl itself as for the sheer bewildering number of fresh green limes that it held.&nbsp; In fact, in your standard factory-grade office with typical boring decor, any number of decorative fresh limes above zero is likely to cause comment.&nbsp; Said colleague claimed feng shui, though the comments may have been the real reason.<\/p>\n<p>But not&nbsp;my comments.&nbsp; Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>If you are like me&nbsp;&#8211; and I am not for one minute suggesting that you&nbsp;are &#8211; you may have,&nbsp;rattling around in that steel trap&nbsp;of your brain, some highly esoteric humorlined up, just waiting for the right moment.&nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s not every day you get to pull these out, in context; in fact, it&#8217;s not even every decade.<\/p>\n<p>BUMD:&nbsp; &#8220;Oh, so those limes are in there keeping the moisture away from the inside of the glass bowl?&#8221;<br \/>Innocent Colleague:&nbsp; &#8220;Um, huh?&#8221;<br \/>BUMD, removing one of the limes and holding it up:&nbsp; &#8220;Ah yes, you see:&nbsp; <strong>These are the limes that dry men&#8217;s bowls.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Yep.&nbsp; Not every day you get to whip that one out and wave it around.&nbsp; To give you an idea how excited I was to get to pull out something that crusty, note the attribution:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To Wolfman Jack, thanks for the tunes and crazy one-liners!&nbsp; Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>And to all, a wonderful Cinco de Mayo to youo!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year continues my streak of great Cincos de Mayo.&nbsp; Last year&#8217;s included a party, a pig, a keg &#8211; and then we broke out the Tequila.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s was much more sedate, not to mention sober, but nonetheless a great Cinco de Mayo. The day began in an office, where I was&nbsp;managed.&nbsp; Then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}