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Skriven 2008-12-23 10:19:14 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: TRAVELS 412 81223
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 ML> What's German for kangaroo?
 GJ> "der Kangaru"?

 ML> Close, apparently.

Having seen Ruth's reply, I checked my 2 dictionaries.  Oxford gave
"das Känguru", and EUP gave "das Känguruh".  I have read that the
original meaning of the word, given by one of the local aborigines in
response to the first British visitor's "What is that animal called?"
was, "I don't understand you."
 
 ML> [size=98]G'DAY, MITE, WHERE'S THE EFFIN' KANGAROOS?[/size]
 GJ> The words are right, but your accent is wrong.

 ML> Reminds me of the Mark Twain story ... about him, not by him ...
 ML> apparently, he was doing some carpentry work and hit himself with
 ML> a hammer or something similar that absent-minded intellectuals
 ML> would do when undertaking manual labor. So he let go a string of
 ML> curses: "*($*%$ *&$*!" Whereupon he was embarrassed to see his
 ML> wife nearby; she fixed him with her little eye and repeated to
 ML> him: "*($*%$ *&$*." Mark Twain sighed and replied, "You have the
 ML> words, but the music is missing."

Yes, I noticed the absence of the ! in your quote.  A good one.
 
 GJ> My friend who I stay with occasionally is British by birth, married to
 GJ> an ex-Lufthansa flight attendant.  She is really quite charming, and
 GJ> took me to some interesting places around Vienna.

 ML> She's Perchtoldsdorfer, not Viennese, though.

She can talk to the Viennese, though.

 ML> They live in her 3
 GJ> storey, 100 year old family pile in the old village of Perchtoldsdorf,
 ML> Bearing in mind that a 100-y-o family pile is relatively new by
 ML> European standards.

New enough to be uninteresting, and old enough to need repairs and
expensive maintenance.  It still bears bullet holes from when the
Russian tanks came into the back garden a few years ago.
 
 GJ> Last time I was there on a Sunday, a small festival was held in the
 GJ> village square, with a fine selection of wursts grilling on barbecues,
 GJ> and the brass band playing in the bright sunlight...

 ML> Ah, yes, I encountered such a sight in the lovely town of Mondsee,
 ML> where I also encountered a whiff of racial prejudice. The bacon
 ML> and schnapps were nicer than the prejudice. The brass band wasn't.

My young, attractive, Filipino-born niece who I was travelling with
encountered no racial prejudice, possibly because she was young,
attractive and female.
 
 -=> Glen Jamieson said to Jim Weller <=-
 
 GJ> So how does Aura get around in Manhattan?
 JW> The subway is superb and there are numerous and relatively cheap
 JW> cabs.
 GJ> That sounds like what a real city should be.  Any buses, or do the
 GJ> cabs adequately serve the same purpose?
 ML> The bus service is frequent, cheap, and relatively safe.

Excellent. I might even go there, some day.  When I visit a city I like
to blend into the populace as much as possible, to get a feel of the
place and the people.  Using public transport is one of the best ways
of doing that.  Taxis tend to isolate visitors from that world.  The
London Underground is different, as commuters each hide behind
newspapers for the length of their journey, then leave the paper on the
seat for the next occupier to hide behind.  Younger travellers,
everywhere, just turn up the volume of their Ipods, and their eyes
glaze over.  Small children and old people remain more conscious.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Blazing Trail Mix~
 Categories: Snacks, Camping
      Yield: 36 Servings
 
      2 c  Shredded miniature wheat or
           - bran squares
      1 c  Unsalted thin pretzel
           - sticks; broken into pieces
    1/2 c  Cooked lentils
    1/2 c  Quick-cooking rolled oats
    1/2 c  Raisins
    1/2 c  Chopped dried apples
    1/4 c  Honey
      2 ts Curry powder
    1/2 ts Ground coriander
    1/4 ts Ground cumin
    1/4 ts Paprika
    1/8 ts Ground red pepper
 
  Prep. Time:  10 min.      Baking Time:  15 min.
  
  In a 13x9-inch baking pan, combine the wheat or bran squares,
  pretzels, lentils, oats, raisins, and apples. In a small bowl, stir
  together the honey, curry powder, coriander, cumin, paprika and
  pepper. Drizzle the honey mixture over the cereal mixture. Toss until
  evenly coated. Bake at 350~ for 15 to 20 minutes or until crisp,
  stirring occasionally. Store in an airtight container or self-closing
  plastic bags.
  
  Makes 8 cups or 16 servings.
  
  Per 1/2 cup:  Calories 97; fat 0.6 g (5% of calories); fiber 1.5 g;
  cholesterol 0 mg; sodium 128 mg.
  
  Typed for you by Marjorie Scofield    9/16/95
  
  Recipe By     : Prevention Stop Dieting & Lose Weight ISBN
  0-87596-198-3 Serving Categories
  : Healthy                          Snack
  
  Echo: Recipe 9-95 -                   From : Marjorie Scofield
 
MMMMM
 

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