Loaf

Thank you, Ali, for the question, as always.

Next, we got one from Loaf, who says, an Armenian friend of mine told me that they've got family from Jerusalem and said that Armenians have been there since the 4th century.

Where else could medieval Armenians be found, and how did their experience in medieval society differ from Jewish and Romani diasporas? Are there any notable diasporas that we know of during the medieval period? And if so, what motivated these communities to form away from their place of origin? I

was actually surprised by this because I was like, oh gosh, only from the fourth century? I just think that means to be around a bit before then.

And here we are.

We got a few more...

Loaf, thank you for the question.

Next, we got one from Gafsy.

Phineas T. Grice, escaping from his own managerial suite, raged about the city, demanding general cooperation in the stretching of great nets between the skyscrapers to trap the errant loaves.

He was captured by Tin Philosopher.

escaped again, and was found posted with oxygen mask and submachine gun on the topmost spire of Puffy Loaf Tower, apparently determined to shoot down the Loaves as they appeared, and before they involved his company in more trouble with Customs and the State Department.

Recaptured by Tin Philosopher, who suffered only minor bullet holes, he was given a series of mild electroshocks and returned to the conference table, calm and clear-headed as ever.

But the bread flight, swinging away from a hurricane moving up the Atlantic coast, crossed a clouded-in Boston by night and disappeared into a high Atlantic overcast, also thereby evading a local storm generated by the weather department in a last-minute effort to bring down or at least disperse the H-lobes.

And, and my favorite thing about this album is that look, so like if you turn it over to look at what the songs are called, um, Yeah.

They're called Enjoy, Floater, 50-50, Sausage, Barnacle, Loaf, Carbuncle, Choda, Half Pipe, Cable Service, and Lockout.

None of those songs.

Enjoy is the only actual song name.

And one day a neighbor's son came to her door and asked her to marry him, and they lived in the little cottage and were happy ever afterward.

Favourite Fairy Tales Retold by Julia Darrow Cowles Inger's Loaf once upon a time a little peasant girl named inger was sent to the home of a rich family in the country to act as serving-maid now inger was a very pretty girl but she was proud and selfish and this had caused her father and mother a great deal of sorrow the rich people to whom she was sent were good to little inger they dressed her as prettily as they did their own little daughter and they treated her as kindly as though she too were their own one would think that this would have caused inger to be kind and loving but instead she became more and more proud and selfish one day when she had been away from her home many months her employer said to her inger it is quite time that you visited your father and mother so inger put on her very best shoes and her prettiest dress and away she started it will be a surprise to see how grand i look she said to herself as she ran along when she reached the edge of the village she saw groups of young men and women walking about and talking and seated upon a rough stone bench she saw her own mother on her mother's back rested a bundle of sticks which she had picked up for fuel what will all those people say to see me talking to an old woman with a bundle of sticks on her back exclaimed inger looking at her own pretty clothes so without speaking one word to her mother she turned and ran back to her employer in the country many months passed and then her employer said again

little inger it is time you visited your father and mother

so once more inger put on her very best shoes and her prettiest dress and just as she was about to start her employer handed her a fine fresh loaf of wheaten bread it is for your father and mother she said they

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Favorite Fairy Tales Retold by Julia Darrow Cowles Inger's Loaf once upon a time a little peasant girl named inger was sent to the home of a rich family in the country to act as serving-maid now inger was a very pretty girl but she was proud and selfish and this had caused her father and mother a great deal of sorrow the rich people to whom she was sent were good to little inger they dressed her as prettily as they did their own little daughter and they treated her as kindly as though she too were their own one would think that this would have caused inger to be kind and loving but instead she became more and more proud and selfish one day when she had been away from her home many months her employer said to her inger it is quite time that you visited your father and mother so inger put on her very best shoes and her prettiest dress and away she started they will be surprised to see how grand i look she said to herself as she ran along when she reached the edge of the village she saw groups of young men and women walking about and talking and seated upon a rough stone bench she saw her own mother on her mother's back rested a bundle of sticks which she had picked up for fuel what will all those people say to see me talking to an old woman with a bundle of sticks on her back exclaimed inger looking at her own pretty clothes so without speaking one word to her mother she turned and ran back to her employer in the country many months passed and then her employer said again

little inger it is time you visited your father and mother

so once more inger put on her very best shoes and her prettiest dress and just as she was about to start her employer handed her a fine fresh loaf of wheaten bread it is for your father and mother she said they will like the fresh sweet

audience, they blanked on Liv from New York, and they whiffed hard on this piece of linguistic brilliance.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to meet Loaf.

I beg your pardon? What? Oh! I'm sorry.

Yes, of course.

So a couple years ago, Lil and I went to At the Marat, like a Rocky Horror thing where they showed it.

There was a shadow cast, huge theater, and Barry Bostwick was there, who was the original Brad, and he did a thing.

And somewhere around that time, I was inspired to listen to Meat Loaf's Bad Out of Hell album.

Because that cover, that album, is kind of iconic.

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The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf.

Narrator, Stage Directions, Ellen Preckle.

Inga and Swallow, read by Sarah Terry.

... just cropped up, didn't it?

Now, somebody here, Andy in Bristol said, "I woke up at a Meat Loaf concert on Friday at Ashton Gate.

To be honest, it was the tubby warbler that sent me to sleep in the first place.

I was woken by someone's grandmother gyrating next to me.

It was not nice."

How do you fall asleep at a Meat Loaf concert?

Don't know, he just didn't enjoy the Loaf.

Big wobbly face in your face.