On Saturday we went to our favorite (overpriced) junk/junque/handcraft store to look for our fourth, and final, lamp. The guy broke into an illuminated smile; he remembered us from previous lamp purchases.
They didn't have what we wanted (something to match the other three, sort of) so he said "wait a minute, I'll be right back" and took off down the street. He returned from his lamp cache with just what we were looking for, so we bought it. But it was desenchufado. While waiting for him to attach a plug to the cord (don't ask; I have no idea, but el Sr. J says it's a simple procedure that one learns in jr. high school shop class), I stood looking at this triptych:
Suddenly, instead of seeing the three images as abstract, I saw them as representational, and I knew that the one on the right was upside down (in the store, not here). They were dirt cheap so we bought them and hung them over our bed.
10 puntos if you know what they represent. The people in the store did not, or they wouldn't have hung the right-hand one upside down. 10 puntos because it may be hard and because these images may more likely be rolling around in my head than in yours (that's a hint).
Speaking of puntos, I will give the answers to two previous quizzes:
We got the sauerkraut at Comercial Mexicana, the third largest grocery chain in Mexico, Walmart and Soriana being 1 and 2, respectively.
The black and yellow bird in Zihua is the Cacique Mexicano (Cacicus melanicterus).
Extra credit: 5 puntos to Sue for providing a reference in her comment on the catsup/ketchup controversy. We noticed in the supermarket yesterday that every brand, save one, was labelled "catsup." The one? Heinz. The only one imported from the US.
you're going to have to give me the puntos for the bird question because i posted the answer at 3:17 today and you posted it at 3:23. hah!
ReplyDeletei too liked sue's answer about the catsup. finally, alain found sancho panza, don quijote and the windmill in the colorful scribbles!