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Skriven 2015-12-09 20:59:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that too 611
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-03-15  09:56 <=-

 >  ML> that, so she threatened to make s'mores, only nobody
 >  ML> had any graham crackers, and I wasn't about to let
 >  ML> on that I had chocolate.
 > Just as well... :)  Although your chocolate probably would have made
 > them more tasty...  ;)  I used to love getting stale marshmallows as a
 > child, nice and chewy... but the new sort just aren't the same...  Now I
 > can easily live without them, fresh or stale... but I don't mind the
 > occasional one or two...  ;)
 ML> Oh, sure, I'll eat the occasional just about anything.

I know.  ;)

 ML> What's wrong with modern marshmallows? I am unaware but
 ML> could maybe investigate (going to the store today).

Ever since they've been advertised as "jet-puffed", they don't stale
down to that nice chewy-ness they used to... now they are the same
forever until they get hard as a rock and totally inedible...
 
 >  >  ML> Sixth Trombone" can't be all bad.
 >  > I don't think I'm familiar with his work... abstract or
 >  > representational...?  Nice title, though... :)
 >  ML> Both - his works are usually representations of
 >  ML> recognizable things but symbolic of concepts, so.
 > Ah, ok...  :)
 ML> For example, a painting of a dead guy with sunflowers
 ML> around is called "The Orders of the Night"; other works
 ML> are similarly jarring.

Designed to make one have to think... or totally ignore him... 
 
 >  ML> I often describe something in a post shortly
 >  ML> after it happens, but the report doesn't get
 >  ML> finished for a month or three.
 > Exactly.  :)
 ML> The immediate response followed by the measured 
 ML> retrospection. Sometimes I use some of the same
 ML> words in both.

As I've noticed... But there is more context in the reports, usually. :) 
 
 >  ML> raised the possibility that there might be several
 >  ML> grades of sausage gravy - regular, premium, and Kosher,
 >  ML> maybe. Imagine having gallons of leftover gravy.
 > Point.  If it were good, it could be used as a soup/drink... but
 > crummy... would take forever to use up... unless one knew a likely,
 > non-discriminating soup kitchen that would welcome the donation... ;)
 ML> Hey, Homeless Shelter, what do you say, how about 
 ML> a half can of bad sausage gravy?

Just thinking that what we might think inedible might taste good to
someone else... or not too bad, anyway, if mixed in with other stuff...
Kinda like that some people here in the echo like okra or zucchini or
coconut and others detest the same...  ;)
 
 >  ML> sake, and the proprietor said that we looked like 5s,
 >  ML> so he brought us 5. Neither of us could detect much
 >  ML> heat, so we had to call for the hot pepper, ah well.
 > You'd probably want to go higher here, too, then... ;)  Rather
 > presumptuous of the proprietor, I'd say, though... :)  
 ML> Indeed. An mathematician-looking guy who would perhaps
 ML> have been happier in a Silicon Valley cubicle.

Ah... 

 > Did you go back
 > there, and get the level you asked for, afterward...?
 ML> It was kind of out of the way. The friend I was with was
 ML> an Indian woman, who, when I visited her after her breakup
 ML> with some guy or another, informed me right away that she
 ML> wasn't looking for a relationship. As that was at best
 ML> only peripherally in the back of my mind (i.e. almost not
 ML> at all), I was happy to behave accordingly in a gentlemanly
 ML> way, which turns out to have been not what she imagined
 ML> would happen, and she's hardly spoken to me since. So even
 ML> though I might have been not unhappy to go 1. out with her 
 ML> a bit and 2. back to the restaurant sometime, no such 
 ML> thing has happened.
 
Oh.  Yeah... I can see how that would happen...  Oh, well... hard to
fathom other people at the best of times... and that was rather mixed
signals on her part... :)

 >  ML> Pear honey
 >  ML> per 1 qt Kieffer pears
 >  ML> A tasty variation is to substitute orange and nutmeg 
 >  ML> for lemon and ginger.
 >  ML> Source: backwoodshome.com
 > I think I'd stay with the lemon and ginger...  :)
 ML> Yeah, and I'm not all that fond of nutmeg anyhow.

Nutmeg's fine in its place...  :)

ttyl     neb

... I am positive that a definite maybe is probably in order.

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