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Skriven 2015-01-05 12:34:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Sunday dinners
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 01-01-15  21:39 <=-

 NB>>> looking for my Peter Zechariah James Dederick, I had (naturally)
 NB>>> figured that with a name like that, he'd be the only one with
 NB>>> it...  Turned out that he had a second or third cousin with the
 NB>>> exact same name, of about the same age, and living in the same
 NB>>> general area...   
 RH>> That is unusual, to have all the same names. (G)
 NB>> For sure.  I'd not have been surprised to see even 2 of the three
 NB>> repeated, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see that triplet of
 NB>> names, especially with the Zechariah in the middle, repeated in that
 NB>> same generation...  :)

 RH> Two sets of parents had the same idea for naming their son--must have
 RH> really admired the one named Zechariah for both of them to use it.
 
They were descended from the same Zechariah and his father Jurry/James,
so the oddest part was that they both put the Peter at the front...

 RH>> Back when we were in AZ, Steve had an e-mail from somebody in, IIRC,
 RH>> New Orleans, asking if he was the Stephen Haffly he'd gone to school
 RH>> with (in that area). Interesting to find someone else with that name
 RH>> but no, he wasn't the schoolmate the person was looking for.
 NB>> That happens much more commonly than one would think.  There was a
 NB>> Richard John Backus at RIT at the same time as Richard (whose middle
 NB>> name is Judson).  The former usually goes by R. John, and is still
 NB>> local here, but is an accountant... on the other side of town... ;)
 NB>> But it did make for some interesting confusions in the alumni office
 NB>> for a while, and we do get the occasional call looking for the other
 NB>> guy... :)

 RH> That could get interesting! (G)

Indeed.  ;)  Richard doesn't normally even bother much with his middle
initial, but for the RIT alumni office, he had them use his full name,
including the full middle name, just for differentiating...
 
 NB>>> Or at least not closely so...  generally you go back far enough,
 NB>>> you can find a connection... except probably for surnames based
 NB>>> on occupation... and even then, we're all cousins if you go back
 NB>>> really far enough... (G)
 RH>> REALLY (!) going back far there. (G)
 NB>> Don't even have to go back to Noah for most of them, either... ;)

 RH> But some records were lost by the diaspora.

And by wars and floods and fires...  And for some things, one doesn't
need records to prove it.. just good enough circumstantial evidence. ;) 
 
 RH>>> Of courst by the time it gets grease splattered, you've probably
 RH>>> made the recipe enough times to be pretty sure of the amounts
 RH>>> needed of most all the ingredients.
 NB>>> Probably.  :)
 RH>> So the recipe is more of a back up, and verifier at that point.
 NB>> Indeed.

 RH> Making sure you don't use baking powder for baking soda or vice versa
 RH> and one teaspoon of salt instead of one tablespoon kind of thing.
 
For the days when one's brain just doesn't want to work quite right.. ;) 

 RH>>>> I don't fit in any one specific category either; I think that
 RH>>>> comes from years of cooking experience.
 NB>>>> And thereby a certain degree of confidence in the kitchen...
 RH>>> Yes, I'm no longer a slave to the cook book, be it a virtual
 RH>>> or an actual one.
 NB>>> Quite.
 RH>> Allowing me to be as creative as I want. (G)
 NB>> When you want, anyway... ;)

 RH> Which can make things quite interesting, should I desire to do so.

Goes without saying...  (G)

ttyl          neb

... A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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