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>  ML> I looked it up - 8 of 9 Internet references are to
>  ML> United Airlines, so that's no help. The ninth is to
>  ML> a DVD about fish that is described as "cosmic mook
>  ML> salt water lure fishing."
> So, perhaps some (non-)linguist/chef at United made it up... ;)

Weller has parsed this in another post, having done a
more creative searching than mine.

> I only made it through one master's level course... Daddy went straight
> thru to his PhD, although he did take off a couple years in the middle

My academic career left some shards and blind alleyways,
now manifested in ancient paper records that no one will
ever see I'm sure.

> obsessive achievement, to be honest...  ;)  She never really did
> anything with the degrees, but then, she didn't get the last one until
> after I was through college...  :)

I may have told you about the mother of a friend of mine;
she got her graduate degree in law but couldn't practice,
because she wasn't allowed to take the bar exam, because 
she was under the age of 21. She had to work so got a job
as a law librarian, which she did part-time for 40 years.
Bit of a waste that, but her life was actually pretty good.

>  ML> There's some guy who was in the news who had 29 going
>  ML> on 30 of the things. One wonders.
> Some of them stay perpetual students instead of facing the real world... 

I dodged the real world by becoming a musician.

>  ML> reserves all rights only if s/he actually has any. It's
>  ML> mostly a bluff, and documents that claim this (especially
>  ML> recipes) I automatically consider a little fishy.
> Yup, especially recipes, since there are only so many ways one can do
> certain things... :)  

The law says that if there is creative content attached
to the recipe, that can be copyrighted, but ingredients
lists and mere directions are never copyrightable.

I've put a similar notice on the music I've
> written, mostly for documenting the date of composition, but also to
> announce my ownership... Not much I probably could really do,
> realistically, if stolen, since I've not registered my copyright...

There used to be a procedure used as a "poorman's 
copyright" - you took a copy of your work, sealed in an
envelope, and mailed it to yourself, of course not
opening it when it arrived; the theory was that in 
case of infringement, one could submit the envelope as
evidence at trial, where it would be opened up, the
date of creation ante quem being proven by the postmark.
There was at one time, and I'm not sure if or how this
was resolved, a debate about the effect of posting 
something under one's name on the Internet or other 
public forum did to the status of original work - 
whether copyright still "inhered" to the creator/poster
or if the act put the work in the public domain.

>  ML> Bonito-infused Scotch
> Now that's fishy...!   ;)

Not as fishy as blind robins.

Fish out of water
categories: airline, booze, weird
serving: 1

2 oz bonito-infused Scotch
3 shiso leaves 
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz agave syrup
3 dr chamomile oil
onion sprouts

Muddle shiso leaves with lemon juice and agave syrup.

Add Scotch and double strain through a tea strainer into
a coupe. Garnish with onion sprouts.

Hemispheres magazine 12/15
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