Text 12995, 50 rader
Skriven 2014-05-05 12:36:57 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12917 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: cleaning up 590
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 02 May 14  09:09:00 <=-

 NB>> I often use baking soda as a grease-cutter... not just on wood... it
 NB>> makes a safe abrasive for Corningware, and works pretty well as a mild
 NB>> abrasive on other pots and pans as well... :)   I can see using lemon
 NB>> juice or even vinegar to remove smells, too...  :)
 ML> It seems that any major change in pH is going to kill off
 ML> most of the bugs. With salt, it's not that (salt being
 ML> neutral) but omstopy (er, mostly) the disruption of cell
 ML> membrane function.

OK...

 ML>> auditioner was livid when he found that his favorite
 ML>> candidate in the blind rounds was a woman and to boot more
 ML>> attractive than he was) and about how the image of the
 NB>> He was so sure that anyone that played that well must be male, and
 NB>> of a certain age...?   :)
 ML> Something like that. The then male-dominated business
 ML> had its little tongues wagging about her having slept
 ML> her way to the top, something that really couldn't have
 ML> happened, but anything to get in the way of a woman's
 ML> career was fair game.

And probably only a fraction worse than the regular back-biting and
jostlings already occuring in the business...  
 
 ML>> give up his seat, she was told flat out that she wouldn't be
 ML>> allowed to audition, and if she tried, they wouldn't give her
 ML>> the job.
 NB>> Remaining hard feelings, eh...?
 ML> For decades. And women were supposed to be pretty
 ML> little things swaying in the breeze like a plum blossom.

And not holding a musical instrument while they did so... (G)

 ML>> I guess this would count as a rural disappointment -
 ML>> Title: Miel aux Trefles (Cloverleaf Honey)
 ML>> "Honey was often made with clover and wild roses boiled in sugar."
 NB>> Maybe something slipped in translation...  ;)
 ML> Doesn't seem that way - more like something slipped
 ML> in concept.

That being the "translation" I was thinking of...  :)

ttyl           neb

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