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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: disappointments 386
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-04-14  06:53 <=-

 NB>> One hopes.  Does part of the house proceeds go to you, or is it
 NB>> all his...? 
 ML> Owing to a defect in the will, deliberately put there by
 ML> me and my sister to protect the kid, he gets the lion's
 ML> share of the house. Owing to another defect in the will,
 ML> put there by the lawyer (whom my father knew from church),
 ML> there is not a provision for predecease, so that my
 ML> brother-in-law gets my sister's share, even though he would
 ML> not be entitled by traditional inheritance. 

So mostly to him, with smaller shares to you and your sister (now going
to your b-i-l)... 

 ML> We have discussed this issue, agreeing in principle to
 ML> establish a trust for my brother using my b-i-l's share.
 ML> Unfortunately, there are tax consequences. Fortunately, my
 ML> b-i-l and I together could thwart any stupid thing my brother
 ML> would be entitled to do with the assets if this anomalous
 ML> situation were not in place.
 
Probably just as well, so long as you and your b-i-l stay in agreement
on it..  :)   Legal stuff, and tax stuff, gets so convoluted...

 NB>> Offices seem to be more and more virtual, true....  but if an
 NB>> object has to be physically picked up or dealt with, virtual
 NB>> doesn't work so well.
 ML> Construction is mostly modularized, which minimizes the
 ML> human intervention; it looks to me as though maintenance
 ML> is the last frontier for labor.

You are probably correct... Most other things can be dealt with without
proximity...  :)   Maintenance, and the original construction perhaps.

 ML>> The world would probably be a better place with widespread
 ML>> true literacy, but the way it's done, take some arbitrarily
 ML>> low level of competence and define it as literacy, that way
 ML>> disaster lies.
 NB>> True.
 ML> It's time to bring up the old sci-fi story The Marching
 ML> Morons again. One problem of course is that higher
 ML> intellectual achievement is still equated to a great
 ML> degree with higher social status, leading to the Ph.Ds
 ML> in stenography or similar that the story describes.

[shudders]  Sigh...

 ML>>> Chilacayota refreshing drink
 NB>> Maybe it has some resemblance (however slight) to a thick
 NB>> milkshake...?  
 ML> The instructions are defective, speaking of, on this
 ML> subject. What one does with the squash pulp is never
 ML> really addressed. 

Ah... ok.  ;)

 ML> The pumpkin soup that Linda made for
 ML> Thanksgiving out of a Publix brochure was perhaps like
 ML> what you were envisioning - thickish and dead sweet,
 ML> totally inappropriate for a soup course and to me totally
 ML> inappropriate for the table at all.

Sounds rather nastyish... Did it have apple in it...?  I remember having
a squash soup as a soup course at a reunion dinner (30th? 35th? college
reunion) a few years ago... it was catered by RIT's Culinary School
(whatever the proper name for it is/was), and they were doing fancy
schmancy things...  ;)  I got a bit of an unexpected apple reaction from
something that night, and found out later that some recipes for squash
soup call for apple in them...  (Including one from the Wegmans Menu
magazine, later)...  I did see YK Jim's recipe that looked pretty good,
and safe...  :)

 ML>> risky trips). I think that the hardiest voyagers would not
 ML>> want to spend substantial time away from available emergency
 ML>> health care.
 NB>> Maybe depends on how much they are into the experimental aspects of
 NB>> the whole situation... and how driven to be a part of it...  Kinda
 NB>> like the early explorers, who took chances, some of which of course
 NB>> turned out to be totally disastrous...  :)
 ML> I'm okay with that, just so their heirs don't sue everyone
 ML> in sight.

Have to make sure they sign releases ahead of time... ;)

 ML>>> One can of course substitute catnip for the oregano.
 NB>>> Would the Italians notice...?   ;)
 ML>> Perhaps, perhaps not. They're reasonably closely
 ML>> related in taste and genetics.
 NB>> A related question would be whether a cat would roll as excitedly
 NB>> in oregano as in catnip...?   ;)
 ML> Answer is no. The active ingredient in catnip is
 ML> absent in other members of the family.

That's what I thought I remembered...  :)  I have seen cats enthusiastic
for some of the mint family, though... just not as much as with catnip.
 
ttyl         neb

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