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Skriven 2006-10-31 08:26:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> the most dedicated alcoholics I'd ever met. I was rather concerned
 ML> for him and was a little anxious when he disappeared someplace (he
 ML> has a fat wallet with many credit cards and hundreds in cash), but
 GJ> I wonder for how much longer he can live that life-style and still
 GJ> maintain financial control of his assets?

Depends how unlimited his assets are, something I don't know.
If he makes (via earnings or investments) half a million a
year, he can go on like this every night indefinitely, but to
my knowledge he does so only weekly. This was the first of the
embarrassing events I attended, and likely the last, unless
there is someone else on the guest list I am fond of. My
friends Mark and Elizabeth were grossed out by the scene and
made an early exit, as I may have reported already.
 
 ML> his friends (I was a FOAF) said he'd be fine. The fact that he truly
 ML> young Kevin. Elsewhere at this bar there were fistfights, falling
 ML> overs, and an extraordinarily beautiful Arab woman screeching about
 GJ> If this was one of your "very posh" bars, what are your rough, seedy
 GJ> bars like?

Pretty much the same at a fraction of the price. If I were pressed
to name a difference, I'd say that the risk of accidental death would
be greater at the rough, seedy bars; of intentional murder at the
posh ones.

 ML> [having had intercourse with] some person named by name. I'd come
 GJ> As long as it wasn't _your_ name!  Was the named gentleman present?

Carol wasn't there to hear, although there were those present
who would certainly have reported back to her. As I was not
familiar with the named gentleman, I lack the expertise to
respond to that.

 GJ> I presume that that one visit was enough for you, and you will be in
 GJ> no hurry to return there.

No great hurry.

 ML> Those drum magazines showed a propensity of jamming unless
 ML> they were inserted carefully. It could be the source of some
 ML> embarrassment if one had a hundred rounds to fire and was
 ML> put out of commission after only ten or twenty.
 GJ> Sometimes - often - the range of your expertise surprises me.

I'm one of the few here who has been privileged to hold
various kinds of automatic weapons and used to have some
expertise with a Kalashnikov (but not a Tommy gun, which
I've only seen and not heard).

 ML> So it wasn't just discrimination against me. I thought perhaps
 ML> they'd taken a look at me and put me down as a half pinter.
 GJ> I could have depended on what you asked for.  In SA, you can ask for a
 GJ> Pony, Butcher, Schooner or Pint, in increasing size.  If you just ask
 GJ> for a "beer", you are dismissed as a Victorian or NS Welshman, as that
 GJ> is one of the standard glass sizes "over there".

I asked for a pint of VB, my normal order "over there."

Asparagus Milanaise
cat: side
serves: 4

2 lb asparagus, trimmed
1 1/2 oz butter
3/4 c Gruyere or other Swiss-type cheese
2 oz butter
4 eggs, optional
1 Tb oil, optional

Steam the asparagus until it is tender.

Melt 1 1/2 oz butter in a large flat pan. Toss the asparagus in this.

Put the asparagus into a buttered ovenproof dish. Grate the cheese
over it. Set the dish aside briefly.

Melt the rest of the butter and heat it over high heat until it
starts to brown. Sprinkle the browned butter over the asparagus.

Broil the asparagus until it begins to brown on top.

Optional: fry eggs in oil and serve with the asparagus; this is
the traditional accompaniment.

Source: moi
Posted to FIDO 10-30-96
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