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Skriven 2007-08-19 07:08:24 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
     Kommentar till en text av Barbara Mcnay
Ärende: bird and rat 5
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 BM> I think some students did have cars when I went to high school, but I
 BM> didn't know any of them.  In my high school days in MA, you could get a
 BM> full license at 16.  Nowadays, here, I think it's a provisional sort of
 BM> thing until you're older.  Wasn't Lamar in Houston?

Yep, spent my high school daze in Houston.

 BM> I never ran into a school uniform issue with my or my son's schools. 

The point of the school uniforms was said to be that there would
thus be less distinction between the richer kids and the poorer
kids (which sentiment I endorse); also it gave the school a high
profile, as the students tended just to wear the same clothing
all day, so there were all these boys in white shirts and
khakis, the girls wearing, let's see - white blouses with either
a red and black plaid skirt or a red jumper (though girls who
had maintained a place on the honor roll for a certain amount
of time had the option of wearing a powder blue jumper instead),
playing consumer at all the best places. I got my clothes at
places like the Sears, Roebuck; the girl uniforms could be had
only at Palais Royal (now gone).

 BM> And I wouldn't have thought that varnish would leave stains so much as
 BM> it would remove fibers from the cloth.  I never thought to look to see.

There's clear varnish and there's unclear varnish. School furniture
varnish is generally brown. The odd thing about the high school
was that part was air-conditioned and part was not. The part that
was air-conditioned had smoother chairs, as I recall.

=

 BM> That's something that never bothered me:  I can't hear them. When we
 BM> were in a trailer which acquired mice, my husband would occasionally be
 BM> standing up in bed in the middle of the night, pounding against the
 BM> wall near the ceiling to make the mice stop their noise.  *That*, of
 BM> course, kept me awake. 

In this apartment, there is the occasional mouse, but more
annoying is a nest of pigeons outside my bedroom window.

 > Plus are on a controlled diet of rat chow no doubt.
 BM> Purina Rat Chow, no doubt. :)

But of course.

 > Some people have pet rats!
 BM> True, and I understand they can make nice pets.  Not allowed in
 BM> Alberta, though.

Jim Weller tells an interesting story of border rat eradication
up there someplace.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02

      Title: Michel Debost's Ratatouille
 Categories: Vegetables, Casseroles
      Yield: 4 servings

      1 lb Each of eggplant,
           -zucchini, tomato,
           -onion
      1    Head garlic
           Salt
           Ground peppercorns
           Bouquet of thyme & laurel
           -[5 sprigs thyme, 3 large
           -bay leaves]
      1 pt Olive oil
           Deep cast-iron pan
           With lid

  Found - a recipe by one of the more famous musicians [flutists] in
  this world [my annotations are in square brackets] - (pronounce
  RATATOOY)

  Preparation time 1/2 hour. Cooking time 3 hours.

  Wipe (do not wash) vegetables. Slice eggplants lengthwise, salt and
  brown. Set aside. Likewise with onions. Peel tomatoes after dipping
  them in boiling water. Line pan with one layer of eggplant slices.
  [Crush, chop, and saute the garlic. Sprinkle on ad lib between layers
  ~ the original recipe lists garlic as an ingredient but doesn't say
  what to do with it, so I guess this is more or less right.] Then, in
  layers, add sliced tomatoes, zucchini, onions (salt and pepper).
  Halfway up add thyme and laurel bouquet, then again eggplant etc.
  finishing with one layer of eggplant. Cover and cook very, very
  slowly for 3 hrs without stirring. Upon serving, stir, remove
  bouquet, and add one beaten raw egg [optional!].

  Bon appetit Michel Debost Orchestre de Paris

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