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Ärende: baseball 79
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 GJ> The French had an alternative method of achieving equality, by very
 GJ> literally removing the heads of state and lords.

The problem being that the leadership enforcing this
equality soon were themselves perceived as head and
shoulders above the rest. As the Chinese saying goes,
the nail that sticks up gets pounded down.

 GJ> I have just heard that there is a hotel in Copenhagen which has a
 GJ> pedal-powered generator set up for residents to assist the hotel
 GJ> electricity supply.  If the hungry pedaller produces at least 10
 GJ> Watt-hours, he gets a free meal.  At my electricity rates, that would
 GJ> save the hotel about 0.2 cents, making it a very cheap meal indeed.

Considering that during the time when s/he is pedalling, the
room rented probably uses more electricity than that, even with
the lights turned off.

 GJ> Until very recently, Bradman had the best overall batting average of
 GJ> 99.97 runs (or thereabouts).  It was a disaster that in his very last
 GJ> match he got out for a duck, otherwise he would have made the 100.
 ML> Interesting. A whimper, not a bang.
 GJ> I don't know who the bowler was, but for the rest of his life he would
 GJ> have had to live with that shame.

 In the final Test at The Oval, Bradman walked out to bat 
 in Australia's first innings. He received a standing
 ovation from the crowd and three cheers from the opposition. 
 His Test batting average stood at 101.39. Facing the 
 wrist-spin of Eric Hollies, Bradman pushed forward to the 
 second ball that he faced, was deceived by a googly, and 
 bowled between bat and pad for a duck. An England batting 
 collapse resulted in an innings defeat, denying Bradman 
 the opportunity to bat again and so his career average 
 finished at 99.94; if he had scored just four runs in his 
 last innings, it would have been 100. A story developed 
 over the years that claimed Bradman missed the ball because 
 of tears in his eyes, a claim Bradman denied for the rest 
 of his life. [from the Wikipedia article, which there 
 appears to be no reason to doubt]

 GJ> As sole judge, or one of a committee?  I suspect that if the latter,
 GJ> it would take several times as long to get through the hopefuls.
 ML> Committee.
 GJ> Hopefully it will all be worth it, when you discover that next
 GJ> Paganini.

We don't need another Paganini, we need another Eric Clapton,
looks like. A new Paganini would likely starve to death, unless
he found a job at Microsoft or something. Speaking of which, my
friend Leonard gave me a litho called "Le Jeune Paganini," done
by a fellow called Daumier. I wonder where it went.

Meat turnovers (MEAT BOERAG)
cat: Armenian, main
yield: 36

h - filling
2 lb lamb, ground
1 lg onion, chopped fine
salt, pepper to taste
h - dough
1 c water
1 egg
3 Tb butter
1 ts pepper
1/2 ts salt
4 c flour
h - for frying
1 qt shortening

Saute filling ingredients and let cool.

In a mixing bowl, to 1 c lukewarm water, add egg, salt,
baking powder, flour, and butter. Mix and knead. Make 6
medium balls of dough. Put on dish towel and set aside
for 1 hr. Take ball of dough and roll out 1/8" thick.
Use 1 lb coffee can plastic cover as cutting pattern.
Place 1 Tb of filling in center. Pinch edges, bottom
overlapping top. Fry in shortening, adding more if needed.

by Siranoush Vartanian
From: Armeniapedia.org


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