Welcome to the Ugly Girls’ Club hosted by Dr. Jan and Betsy!  This is episode #003, The Mosquito Ringtone Episode

In this podcast, tune in to hear Betsy and Dr. Jan discussing…

1)     Missouri and Tennessee.  Betsy is still in Bolivar, MO (much to Dr. Jan’s disdain) teaching graduate level education classes.  Jan has just returned from a road trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee (a 14 hour one way drive with surly teens).  They are both worn slick.  They conclude that the two happiest minutes of their respective visits are:  1) the minute they arrive and 2) the minute they leave.

2)     Mosquito Ringtone.  The latest tech rage for teens is the mosquito ringtone; originally developed in England to annoy and chase away errant teens from businesses, the ringtone has become a hit with teens because only they can hear it (no adults, with faulty high pitch hearing, allowed).  Check the ringtone out here:  http://www.ringtonesgalore.co.uk/enhanced/animal-soundbites/mosquito/mobiletonescom/

3)     Our favorite health club.  The girls routinely work out (that’s their story and they are sticking with it) at the local Dustbury International House of Pancakes.  Dr. Jan checks the internet to see if Cameron (in Australia) knows about the IHOP.  The girls are appalled to find out that IHOP is only international in the USA and Canada.

4)     The North Korean Missile Crisis.  Dr. Jan decides that the North Koreans are wildly misunderstood.  She believes they set off the missiles to celebrate the American Independence Day of July the 4th or concludes that the North Koreans are incompetent and totally lame. 

5)     The Rosarito Drug Cartel.  Betsy warns about the drug cartel down in Rosarito Beach (Acupulco), Mexico.  The girls decide to not visit the beach (as if).

6)     Homer the Beagle.  Betsy relates the shoe mystery story.

7)     Swiffer.  The girls discuss the tragedy of having to clean their parents’ homes during the visit; Dr. Jan extols the virtue of Swiffer cleaning systems.

8)     Pat’s Pickles.  Every year Dr. Jan makes a homemade batch of old fashioned sweet pickles.  Here’s the recipe Jan was given 17 years ago in Darlington, SC by Mary:

1/2 bushel cucumbers (washed)
 

Day 1-            Bring to boil 2 gallons of water and 4 cups of pickling salt.  Pour over cucumbers.  Let stand 24 hours.
 Day 2-            Drain cucumbers.  Bring to boil 2 gallons of water and 1 cup of Alum.  Pour over cucumbers.  Let stand 24 hours.
 

Day 3-            Drain cucumbers.  Bring to boil 2 gallons of water.  Pour over cucumbers.  Let stand 24 hours.
 Day 4-            Drain cucumbers.  Bring to boil 2 gallons of white vinegar and 1 box of pickling spice.  Pour over cucumbers.  Cover and let stand 9 days.
 

            Slice cucumbers.  Put cucumbers in layers in the “pickle container”, alternating a layer of cucumbers and a layer of sugar.  Use 5 lbs. of sugar to gallon.  Carefully stir pickle mixture each day until sugar melts.  Once sugar is melted, place pickles and sugar in pickle jars and process through boiling water bath pickling process.
 

 9)     Joke of the day.  Betsy tells a Bill Clinton joke that Dr. Jan totally doesn’t get; so she has to explain it.

10)   Bye now.  The girls sing Roy Rogers and Dale Evans’ song, “Happy Trails to You.”

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