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Skriven 2013-05-02 08:35:00 av Dave Drum (66510.cooking)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Mrs Kentucky
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-=> MICHAEL LOO wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 DD> More like Phyllis George - he ditched her in 1998

 ML> Ah. They're pretty much all the same to me. I used to
 ML> play in an orchestra one of whose other members had been
 ML> Miss America. I didn't recognize the name or the face
 ML> and didn't realize that she was beautiful until someone
 ML> told me, and even then I didn't really believe it.

Checking on the web to be sure - I learned also that the Governator/Miss
America deal was a second marriage for both. From the dates listed it sure
looks like she ditched Robert Evans in 1978 and hitched to the Frankfort State
House in 1979.
 
 ML> All governors of Illinois deserve to be put in the pokey,
 ML> with the possible exception of Otto Kerner.

 DD> Our current boob is not too bright or politically astute - but, I am
 DD> pretty sure he's honest.

 ML> There are these two guys taking the train to some hick
 ML> town, the one on business, the other going home, and they
 ML> fall into conversation, and eventually it's time to get
 ML> off, which they do. At the station, there's this yokel
 ML> sitting on the fence, and the native says, watch this,
 ML> you'll get a laugh. He goes up to the yokel and says,
 ML> Hey, Clem, I got a gift for you. He holds out a nickel
 ML> and a dime and says to him, you can have one of these,
 ML> which would you like? And Clem goes, hyuck, thanks, Mr.
 ML> Jones, I'll take the big one. So Mr. Jones chuckles,
 ML> gives Clem the nickel, and goes off on his merry way.
 ML> The other guy, feeling a deep pity, waits until the
 ML> departure of Mr. Jones. Clem, he says, don't you realize
 ML> that the little coin is worth more than the big one?

 ML> Clem narrows his eyes and leans toward the other. Mister,
 ML> he hisses, you know that and I know that, but the very
 ML> first time I take the dime, the game ends.

Quinn would spend so much time dithering over the choice offered that the
currency would be devalued before he picked.
 
 -=> Dave Drum said to Ruth Haffly <=-

 RH> Governor John Brown of KY married Phyllis George, Miss America 1971
 RH> (think I;m right on the year she won, somewhere in that time frame).
 DD> Then he ditched her for another one. She was his second of three
 DD> marriages.
 DD> http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/

 ML> Wasn't she a sportscaster or something like that, or was
 ML> that yet another one?

She was the one - working the CBS football shows alongside Brent Mushburger -
which is why I had to go look that up. I was at school with the overbearing,
supercilious ass. He wore a hat/cap then as it was a military school. It's all
that saved him from someone recognising him for what he so obviously is and
dropping a Durex right over him. I think I did see George a couple times during
her stint as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News.
 
 DD> All of which you may or may not know - or want to know. But it's one
 DD> of the most overlooked, all-around useful plants in America. Euell
 DD> Gibbons would be proud of me.   Bv)=

 ML> Euell Gibbons, in common with many of those natural food
 ML> proponents, died of heart disease.

Aggravated, it is said (although that may be urban legend) by malnutrition.
 
 RH> I've read a good bit about it and have a bottle of Pappy's Sassafras
 RH> Extract (for tea) in my fridge.

 DD> I seem to remember some kerfluffle about the saffrole in sassafras
 DD> being a potential carcinogen and going to check out the alarmist
 DD> propaganda. It's sort of like the big scare tactic over Pepsi Cola
 DD> causing cancer in mice.

 ML> There's more to it than that. I used to be a proponent of
 ML> the view that safrole was as dangerous as, say, solanine,
 ML> but when the connection between it and cancer was shown to
 ML> be less than robust, I did some research and found that
 ML> there was a good reason for its demonization, one that it
 ML> was deemed by the PTB unnecessary to publicize. Turns out
 ML> it's the main precursor to various amphetamines, and the
 ML> synthesis of these from safrole is dead easy; you or I
 ML> could do it in the kitchen without breaking a sweat, if
 ML> you wanted a source of quick cash.

Don't want the ca$h especially, operating under the "Don't do the crime if you
can't do the time" principle, but, that's a factoid I had not known. Which
makes this a good day already.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: George Harris' Hot & Sour Celery Soup
 Categories: Soups, Poultry, Chilies
      Yield: 2 gallons

      1 ga Chicken broth; divided
      4 lb Chopped celery
    3/4 c  Rice wine vinegar
    3/4 c  Soy sauce
    1/2 c  Cornstarch
    1/3 c  Fresh minced ginger
      1 tb Red pepper flakes
      2 lb Sunchokes
      2 lb Jicama
      2 lb Tofu; drained, diced
      3 c  Sliced scallions
      1 c  Water
      1 c  Beaten eggs; (opt)
      2 tb Sesame oil; (opt)

  In a large soup pot, heat 2 cups of broth. Add celery,
  cover and steam for 3-4 minutes.
 
  Uncover, and add remaining chicken broth, vinegar, soy
  sauce, ginger, and red pepper. Bring to boil. Reduce heat
  and simmer 12-14 min.
 
  Add tofu, sunchokes, jicama and scallions and bring to a
  boil. Combine cornstarch and water and mix to create a
  paste. Whisk mixture into boiling soup and cook until
  thickened, and remove from heat. 

  Whisk in egg and sesame oil if desired.
 
  From: George Harris

  Source: Calendar produced by Kraft Foods, 1993

  Typed for you by: Linda Fields

  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

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