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Skriven 2014-08-06 21:38:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: red white 739
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-04-14  08:24 <=-

 ML>> come up allergic to some foodstuff (she thought red wine, but
 ML>> it turns out not to have been that) that gives her clown
 ML>> lips, which wounds her vanity considerably.
 NB>> Did you isolate what's doing that to Lilli...?  Maybe it was
 NB>> something in a particular red wine...?
 ML> It's cleared up sort of, and we've tried several red
 ML> wines in the interim. She is playing it safe, though,
 ML> and alternating wine and greyhounds.

Maybe it was just some sort of weird coincidence...

 NB>> Yeah...  hopefully the creaky knees aren't something serious, only
 NB>> annoying, bad as that is on its own...  and that the palpitations
 NB>> settle down pronto... :)
 ML> The creaky knees are a bit of a concern, because they
 ML> discourage me from doing stairs, and that of course
 ML> reduces the amount of cardiac exercise I get.

Not so good...  I can relate, though...

 NB>> Sometimes the body does better on its own...  ;)
 ML> I like to think so, but it's really hard to predict
 ML> what's going to happen.
 
True.  Sometimes one needs intervention, sometimes it just passes... but
it can be fun trying to figure which when sometimes...

 NB>> I was sent an interesting clipping from a London newspaper... an old
 NB>> report showed up from 1700... and the time of Isaac Newton... where
 NB>> there was supposedly global cooling, which was being attributed to the
 NB>> coal fires of London keeping the sun from getting through to warm
 NB>> things up... so a tariff on fuel was being proposed...  Newton told the
 NB>> Chancellor that it was solar activity rather than human activity that
 NB>> was responsible for the changes, and that tariffs would do little to
 NB>> change anything... The Chancellor's response was essentially, but this
 NB>> gives me a chance to raise taxes without censure...  Interesting
 NB>> parallels, I thought...

 ML> I'm guessing this is a hoax or a misinterpretation.
 ML> just guessing. Do you have a facsimile of the clipping?

No hoax, unlikely misinterpretation... I have a jpeg of it, as sent to
me by my friend...  I can email it to you...  :)

ttyl       neb

... My hard disk went on a diet and lost its FAT!

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