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Skriven 2014-10-27 18:04:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: exactitude 702
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-25-14  19:51 <=-

 NB>>> Before she started that, though, she was one of my most trusted
 NB>>> confidantes... :)
 RH>> And you miss her, don't you?
 NB>> Of course.  :)

 RH> That's the way it usually works, unfortunately. At least you got to
 RH> know her for a while; I never got to meet my dad's parents.

I was fortunate to know all four of my grandparents, to some extent. 
3 of the 4 were alive well into my son's life... along with 2 of
Richard's... so he actually knew 5 of his great-grands... I knew two of
my great-grandfathers, both on my mom's side.  But Richard's dad died
when he was young, and his mother's father died when she was young.  I
don't offhand remember if Richard knew his mother's mother...

 RH>> The Raleigh paper is pushing their electronic editions more too.
 RH>> I'm not giving in yet--I still like the paper.
 NB>> Yeah... that's how it happened here... I held out until the price
 NB>> rise that was just too much...

 RH> Steve keeps trying to talk me into switching yet but I'm holding out.
 RH> Saving them now, to pack fragiles in for the move. Can't do that with
 RH> an e-paper. (G)

That's for sure.  :) 
 
 RH>> The other day they showed a picture of one of the huge pumpkins at the
 RH>> state fair going on the scale; the winner was over 1,000 pounds. Lots
 RH>> of potential pies but I wouldn't want one from a pumpkin that big.
 NB>> I'd expect that it might not be as tasty as one from a smaller
 NB>> pumpkin...  That's some big pumpkin, though.... ;)  One could use it
 NB>> to make a monster big pie to break Guiness records, maybe...  ;)

 RH> They would need a rather good sized area to set up a pie made from
 RH> that pumpkin! Probably clear out one section of the fair grounds to do
 RH> so. (G)

Probably.  :)
 
 RH>>> I've bit my tongue on a number of occaisions. (G)
 NB>>> Yup... and I refer to "hamburger tongue" for those occasions
 NB>>> when one has to bite hard and often...  (G)
 RH>> Good choice of words, I'll have to remember that.
 NB>> It came to mind as appropriate...  ;)

 RH> Swiss cheese might work as well.

Oh, I dunno...  
 
 NB>>> Some of us have taste...  ;)  Obviously there are enough that
 NB>>> don't... ;)
 RH>> True, especially when it comes to seeing words like "diet", "light",
 RH>> "low (whatever)" and so on. They see those words, think the product is
 RH>> good for them, and buy it, regardless of actual taste. Why waste money
 RH>> on food that doesn't taste good when all you have to do is eat a
 RH>> smaller portion of something that tastes good?
 NB>> What's worse, often it isn't even any better for them, having other
 NB>> things added in that are worse for them than the items taken out...
 NB>> Smaller portions of a wide variety of foods are much better all
 NB>> around...  ;)

 RH> Yes, but it's hard to convince the general public of that. They seem
 RH> to have the "bigger is better" concept for just about everything that
 RH> pertains to food.

Sadly true.  My son will buy a big block of low or no fat cheese, so
that he can consume the entire block at once...  rather than getting
something that tastes good, and eating it less extravagantly...  :)
Makes no sense to me.  

ttyl         neb

... How can I run amok? I don't even own one.

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