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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that's fancy 639
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-08-15  08:36 <=-

 >  > of days... ;)  He probably expected me to eat it faster...  ;)
 >  ML> As you might have done well to!
 > Hindsight's 50-50...  (G)
 ML> But certain principles can be learned from these
 ML> experiences. Like, thou shalt not let things oxidize.

Unless they are better aged... ;)
 
 >  ML> Well, don't do it again. One has to respect even the
 >  ML> Jones brand liverwurst.
 > We just don't go through things that quickly... 
 ML> There are things one has to go through quickly if 
 ML> at all. I did not say that d'Artagnan also sells
 ML> the stuff in pound packages at a lower unit price
 ML> for such a reason.

I suppose that would be the size to buy if one was throwing a fairly
good-sized party... ;)

 > Although, once I finally
 > did get around to the foie gras, I did finish off the tube in the one
 > sitting, a slice at a time... it obviously needed finishing... ;)
 ML> And the part farthest from the package opening
 ML> was the best, I presume?

Maybe slightly... not all that appreciably, as I remember...  I probably
did dither about it way too long... ;0

 >  ML> One of the activities was a truffle hunt, and she found
 >  ML> one that was about the size of a rabbit. I said, wow,
 >  ML> that must have paid for the whole trip, but no, the
 >  ML> terms stated that all the scavengings belonged to the
 >  ML> tour organizer. Pooh.
 > That wasn't any fair...  all she got was bragging rights...?
 ML> Them's that got the gold makes the rules.

I suppose... sigh...  
 
 >  ML> If there is the proper combination of cold but not
 >  ML> freezing winter, oak trees, and the appropriate
 >  ML> species, it may be possible, but I won't believe
 >  ML> until I taste. And won't likely bother to go out
 >  ML> there and do the research.
 > Something to keep in mind, should you happen to be in the area,
 > perhaps...?   ;)
 ML> I'd do some research first; I can't overemphasize
 ML> how skeptical I am about this.

Oh, I hear you loud and clear... ;)   I'm quite curious, though... ;)
 
 >  ML> Bad truffles: everywhere, including France and Italy.
 >  ML> Good truffles: nowhere except France and Italy and 
 >  ML> then only sometimes.
 > I think I'll stick with chocolate truffles, then...  (G)
 ML> On the whole they're more likely to be as hoped for.

That's what I was figuring...  :)
 
 >  ML> I have a doctor appointment on the 12th and rehearsal on
 >  ML> the 13th (or vice versa, I forget - there's the danger
 >  ML> I'll show up at the hospital with a violin). Faure Wreck,
 >  ML> the solo part.
 > Regular concert or special occasion...?  That's a piece I don't tire of
 > hearing... :)
 ML> I'm rather fond of it. Regular concert along with
 ML> some stuff I am not familiar with, Debussy's "Salut
 ML> Printemps," for example (I believe that translates as
 ML> "Hello Springtime").

Or Welcome Springtime...?  It doesn't ring any bells for me, but, never
know, I might recognize it on hearing it...  ;)

 > Once I sang the tenor part as part of a "pick-up"
 > choir... Choir director at one church was the husband of an RPO horn
 > player that worshipped at our church, and he needed more singers to fill
 > out the choir.  That was an enjoyable occasion...  :)
 ML> Dated a woman who was in a pick-up choir doing the Faure,
 ML> and there were too few altos (the sopranos as usual get
 ML> most of the good parts), so John Rutter came in and sang
 ML> alto in that piece and in his own requiem (that is, the
 ML> one he composed).

That must have been quite a memorable occasion... :)   Apparently he has
a very good range...  :)  I've been a tenor since about 9th grade... as
a senior, I talked an adamantly negative director into letting me sing
tenor instead of alto, when the alto was going way into the stratosphere
and I couldn't possibly reach it... I showed him that I could reach that
C below middle without a hint of a strain... At RIT, though, there just
weren't enough women available, so I did have to sing alto there... 
Now, of course, being a true tenor, my voice is slipping more and more
into baritone.... (G)

ttyl      neb

... A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

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