NNG: Green Chile Sauce To Go ...

Por favor, Mike - it's 'Russo Loco', not 'Loco Russo' (pronounced Roosso).

a) In English, I am 'Crazy Russ' and my lovely Irish friend is 'Crazy Linda'.  In Spanish
it's 'Russo (muy) Loco' and 'Linda (MUY) Linda', respectively.  I always use the official
Spanish version because I was named thus by our Hispanic departmental receptionist
when I worked at the County of Ventura.*

b) "Viva Veras" was but a mere shadow of 'Kelly's Cafe' as it existed in the central block on Terrace Avenue in the sixties (and before) through early seventies in Chama.  I can personally attest that when Vera was the Chef de Cuisine at Kelly's, the "mild" chili combo required a MINIMUM of three co-consumed beers to facilitate transfer of said comestibles into ones tummy, and ingestion of the "hot" chili was limited to immunized local residents and the occasional Thai or Sechuan visitor who signed 'hold harmless' waivers prior to ordering.

c) As noted elsewhere, the demise of said 'Kelly's Cafe' is rumored to have occurred upon the occasion of Vera accidentally spilling some of her 'mild' chili on the concrete floor of said establishment, after which 'spontaneous combustion' has been blamed for a conflagration which threatened the entire business district of the township of Chama.

- Roosso

* Emma Hernandez knew I was a train nut, so I'm pretty sure 'Russo Loco' is short for 'Russo de los Locos', and is not meant to be a reference to my mental state ('de los Locos' is Spanish for 'of the Choo-Choos').  However the name may also be partly due to my propensity for making 300%-400% enlargements of 'Dilbert' cartoons and posting them on the bulletin board after changing the names to more closely resemble those of our department's "Pointy Haired Bosses".   (There were not one, not two - but FOUR holders of PhB degrees in the 'Information Systems Department' (ISD) at the County of Ventura (CA), where I was overcompensated from March 1, 1980 thru Bastille Day**, 2006.)

** I'm NOT kidding about Bastille Day.  My friend and co-worker Bill Buttkicker, aka PiperBill***, and I escaped from our prison cells cubicles on July 14, 2006 - a Friday - which was the last day of a regular two-week pay period.  This holiday is sacred to Curmudgeons everywhere, and is highly symbolic of Our Fight ... For Our Right ... To PARRRR-Teeee.

*** PiperBill's real name is 'Boetticher'.  As this is nearly impossible for a non-German to pronounce correctly, he's been known around the County for years as 'ButtKicker'.  Bill is a bagpiper (see [www.bagpiper.com]) - auf deutsch 'ein Düdelsacher'**** (I'm not sure about the umlaut 'u', but "Ich bin ein DoodelSacher" is still a major step up from "Ich bin ein Berliner").  Bill is featured on the soundtrack of the Robin Williams film 'Dead Poet Society', has led Pasadena's Doo-Dah Parade in company with Dr. Demento, and has committed to a cameo role in 'The Curmudgeonly Seven', a major motion picture starring Roger Wigwam as himself, and featuring Roger Wigwam as leader of the heroes, the director, the cinematographer and as a stuntman in the second-unit elements of this multi-Oscar-nominated production. (See [ngdiscussion.net].)



Q1. Do you know why bagpipers always march so fast?

Q2. Do you know the difference between a bagpipe and an onion?

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A1. To get away from the noise!

A2. Nobody cries when you chop up a bagpipe!!
(This also applies to banjos, rub-boards, and kazoos ... )



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2021 05:36PM by Russo Loco.