"Veal Paprikash" My grandmother used to make it when I was just a small boy, probably 50 years ago, and I don't think I've had it since. I thought it might be...
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Jun 1, 2008 9:56 pm
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"Nikto nie je spokojný so svojÃm osudom" No one is content with his lot. H...
Ain't that the truth!!! Ben Helen Fedor <hfed@...> wrote: "Nikto nie je spokojný so svojím osudom" No one is content with his lot. H [Non-text portions...
Anyone else for _Jozef Mak_???? H ... What a great idea, Helen. I'd love to do this.... now is best, over summer vacation. Fall is a very busy time for me. ...
ME! :-) I will borrow it from my wife... :-D so I may have a different version that you guys. It will give me something to read this July. Ben Helen Fedor...
Hey there everyone, I was just wondering, for those of you who are either Slovak or grew up in Slovak households, how much of a part of your life did folklor...
Went to a lot of church weddings as a kid -- so the foods and the music of my childhood stop me in my tracks when I hear or smell them now as an adult. ...
Well, I just helped my Slovak friend burn some old polka tapes onto a couple of CDs so he could play them in his car. My mom & dad were absolute gems at the...
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Jun 2, 2008 5:07 pm
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Although my parents liked Slovak music well enough, we never had a stereo, so the music never really played any role. My mom did teach me a couple of songs,...
Hey there Caye, I have been to that festival twice and LOVED it! I have been teaching our littly Nikolas everything about folklor- :-D he goes to sleep with it...
Thank you skeeter and Helen for this input!!!! :-D I wonder if anyone else goes "weak in the knees" when they hear that first run (noty) on the violin or that...
Hi Helen... Eva Smith sent me an enthusiastic e-mail about the book discussion, I believe thinking I was in charge. I told her you were the instigator... So...
music wise we listened to Karol Gott but I don't have the desire to play him in our household - not that I think he is bad, just not our style. We had a...
Argh, I cannot find this word in any of my dictionaries, paper or online. What is the meaning of "drbnut"? "Mna ide drbnut s tej mojej. No co taky zivot" I...
Oh, and it would be "Mna ide drbnut z tej mojej..." for grammatical purposes. :-) however, due to assimilation, it sounds very much like "s tej mojej." I am...
Hello Caye, What does   mean. Al Dubnicka ... From: Caye Caswick To: Slovak-World@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 12:47 PM Subject: Re:...
Just computer code that happens once a message is replied to over and over again. Has to do with HTML, but nothing I originally typed. Caye ... From: Al...
Other than a fondness for polka music there was little of Slovak heritage around my house in the 1950's -- my father was a long way from his roots in...
It is HTML for a space: http://www.sightspecific.com/~mosh/WWW_FAQ/nbsp.html ... From: Caye Caswick <ccaswick@...> Subject: Re: [Slovak-World]...
Hi Ben, now you said "forklore" so I hope I am answering you what you want: My Babi would say, "when you sew something on your body, like a button, you have to...
Ben, sadly I can't think of much folklore that my father related to me. I have read more on this list than he ever talked about. I can remember one thing he...
"I think that that may count.... :-) do you still think of it when you hear those claps of thunder??? Ben" Reminds me of when I was growing up. My dad and I...
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Jun 3, 2008 4:09 am
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... Well, that's good that it counts. I do think of it occasionally. Nick...
Skeeter and all, where I live now doesn't have really big thunderstorms. I worked for the Weather Bureau for 35 years and the best storms I saw were in Darwin...
An old friend of mine, the late Mr. Claude Benedict, was a weatherman during WWII, and wasn't fazed by thunderstorms (burkas), either. Stuff happens, and you...
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Jun 3, 2008 10:22 am
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Nick and Skeeter, Where do you guys live? I am in Wilmington, NC-- the T-storms here are those fiesty costal ones that carry very odd skies and pretty violent...
Whenever there was a particularly big thunderclap, my mom would say that Perun had struck. He was the old Slavic thunder god (I learned later). She was very...
Ben-- I'm just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and vividly remember when a tornado went though here in the 1970's. It was only 2-blocks away from my parent's...
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