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Skriven 2013-06-13 15:55:53 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 RH> But if available, I'll drink bottled water or soda, or something else
 RH> on that line. I agree tho, most parts of Asia, Africa and Australia,
 RH> I'd be skeptical of the running water.

 ML> The Aussies would probably claim that their water such as it
 ML> exists is cleaner than ours; this might be true, but my
 ML> point is that their microorganisms would be more alien to us
 ML> than, say, European.

Hard to tell, but I'd still make sure my water came from a reliable
source. Nothing worse than getting a tummy bug while travelling,
especially to a place you'll probably never get to visit again.

 ML> Until recently the issue didn't come up for me, as I didn't
 ML> drink much at all, and I didn't get dehydrated. Now, with my
 ML> fluid balance as screwed up as it is, I drink tons, otherwise
 ML> I get thirsty and my eyeballs dry up and shrink.

Ever since we lived in AZ I've tried to make sure I get enough to drink.
Some days I'll do better than others; sometimes I get busy and don't
take the time out to stop & get a drink. I'll have to make sure I do
drink a lot when we go out west later this summer; the heat just sucks
you dry.

 ML> The pat answer about a butter pat is that it's something that
 ML> could have been "patted" into shape, but I think that's nonsense.
 RH> Pat-tently so. (G)

 ML> Now a patty is something that has been "patted" into shape,
 ML> that I will accept. And that a pat is just a little patty,
 ML> also. But the direct jump just strikes me as incompatible
 ML> with reality.

As the old "Lost in Space" robot says, "it does not compute". (G)


 ML> No movements here of any kind! Crescent is no more accurate, anyhow,
 ML> as it properly refers to a 2-dimensional figure.
 RH> As in? Concave is 2 dimensional but I thought crescents could be 3
 RH> dimensional. What about crescent rolls/are they not so?

 ML> Crescent rolls are pastry that remind one of crescents. It's
 ML> a shorthand such as we often use, similarly as rolling things
 ML> out in a 10" circle is literally impossible: you just roll out
 ML> a very thin cylinder that reminds you of a circle.

I know what they are/how they're made but I was thinking along the lines
of the 2 vs 3 dimensional thoughts.

 ML> Ice cubes and butter cubes represent perhaps quite a bit more
 ML> inaccuracy, but too bad, that's the general usage.

So we just deal with the inaccuracies of the language and have
interesting discussions about it.

 RH> So how many turtle eggs needed to make an omelette for 2 people? We
 RH> figure on 4 size large hen's eggs for the 2 of us.

 ML> Depends on their size, and I'd guess that depended on the
 ML> size of the turtle. Given the origin of the recipe, I'd
 ML> suspect the eggs came from a now-endangered giant sea
 ML> turtle, with each egg the size of a ping-pong ball, and
 ML> thus about half a chicken egg.

IOW, probably half a dozen eggs, which is what we use when we make an
omelette with pullet eggs.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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