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Skriven 2015-12-21 19:50:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that's fancy 686
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-19-15  09:48 <=-

 >  ML> It was the two of us at Michael Mina's restaurant,
 >  ML> formerly Aqua, and it came out in a big shiny domed 
 >  ML> cart, and people stopped eating and stared.
 > The entertainment for the evening, eh...?  I trust they went back to
 > their own meals once it was properly delivered... or did they stare as
 > you two set about making that good-size dent in it...?   ;)
 ML> Not sure, because as after we started on our task,
 ML> our own attentions were devoted to dealing with
 ML> hundreds of dollars worth of fat (sold below cost
 ML> at $99.99 the serving, as a gimmick), and what other'
 ML> people thought, well, heck with them.

And how many servings did the restaurant consider that...?  Still quite
the pricy spread, even with the gimmick.... :)  I can see ignoring the
hoi polloi and digging in de gustibus... ;)

 >  ML> Mr. Mina, by the way, looks pretty darned Arab to
 >  ML> me, though it's said he is of Coptic Christian stock.
 >  ML> Would be a pity if he was hassled at the border.
 > Twould indeed.  I understand there's been quite the intermingling there
 > in Egypt over the centuries... :)
 ML> There's lots of intermingling wherever the opportunity
 ML> has existed. That doesn't mean that people can't put on
 ML> airs and practice the weirdest kinds of oppression at the
 ML> slightest provocation.

Sadly much too true....

 ML> Yesterday Lilli and I visited the
 ML> grave of Homer Plessy, the losing plaintiff in Plessy v.
 ML> Ferguson, the case that ingrained racial discrimination 
 ML> in the US, where it stood untouched until 1954 and remained 
 ML> in partial legal effect until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 ML> He was a member of the height of Creole society who just
 ML> happened to have a mother who was part black. So though
 ML> he looked white and mingled in white society, he was not
 ML> legally white; so he was recruited as a test case against
 ML> the segregation laws of Louisiana. Which he tested by 
 ML> buying a first-class train ticket and sitting in the
 ML> first-class section. And was busted.

Somebody ratted on him...?  Or was he already (in)famous by then...?

 ML> Eventually, his case went to the Supreme Court, which
 ML> ruled against him. I don't know what happened to him
 ML> after that.

Not the best chapter of our history....
 
 >  ML> Ah. Were you all flying out of ART, or just he? In any
 >  ML> case, I think I know where my priorities would have lain.
 > Just he... and then I wended my way home from there once it was time for
 > him to disappear behind security....  :)   His getting my car properly
 > loaded for the trip home, and, previous to that, getting the camp
 > properly "tucked in" for the winter, was the primary reason for my being
 > there to get him to his flight out... and things had fallen into place
 > faster than he'd been planning...  :)
 ML> How is Watertown to get to from the camp?

Not bad at all, actually...  and now that I know where the airport is
exactly, probably easier in many ways than Syracuse... except, of
course, no doubt, available destinations.... ;)  One gets off I81 one
exit before (and in the same direction) I'd normally get off to wend my
way home via Rt 3 along the end of Lake Ontario...  ;)  And, for doing
it on my way home, hardly even a detour, as the next crossroad after the
airport drops right down to Rt 3, well outside Watertown...  :)

ttyl          neb

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