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Skriven 2015-12-24 12:31:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that's peculiar 703
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-22-15  07:23 <=-

 >  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...?  
 ML> It was its own separate menu entry, either between the
 ML> appetizers and mains or (my memory is fuzzy on this) as
 ML> a sidebar parallelling both. The restaurant didn't
 ML> suggest what one did with it, just that someone pay for
 ML> it. It would have made a main course for 6 to 8, a
 ML> generous starter for 8 to 16, or a modest starter for
 ML> up to 30 maybe.

So, if I understand correctly, you and Benita laid out just the hundred
bucks for the treat...  :)

 > Still quite the pricy spread, even with the gimmick.... :)  I can see
 > ignoring the hoi polloi and digging in de gustibus... ;)
 ML> We made a good dent in it, but I didn't seek out foie
 ML> gras for some years after that.

Rather a surfeit of goodness, I imagine... ;)  Did either of you take
the leftovers home...?
 
 >  ML> Yesterday Lilli and I visited the
 >  ML> grave of Homer Plessy, the losing plaintiff in Plessy v.
 >  ML> Ferguson ... 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> He sort of ratted on himself. It was originally meant to
 ML> prove the silly nature of separate accommodations based
 ML> on race - Plessy was a member of one civil rights group
 ML> that conspired (in a good sense) with other such groups
 ML> to frame a test that they thought they couldn't lose;
 ML> apparently according to the guides they were in cahoots
 ML> with the railway company, which was getting tired of
 ML> putting on extra cars to comply with those laws. With
 ML> the cards stacked in one direction, they figured it was
 ML> going to be a slam dunk. What they didn't figure on was 
 ML> the backwardness of the judicial population - as far as
 ML> I am able to discern, they lost at every level from the
 ML> trial court, to the state supreme court, to the fedaral
 ML> Supreme Court. It was said by the lone dissenting justice
 ML> that this would come to be as infamous a decision as the
 ML> Dred Scott case, which turned out to be true, but that
 ML> prescience was over 50 years in the justifying.

backfired on them...  Courts don't often change the laws, even when they
need changing... they are supposed to rule by what the law says... 
 
 >  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> As with most countries, we've had some bad spells. Even
 ML> pacifist neutral gun-totin' Switzerland has a substantial
 ML> bloodthirsty history.

Indeed. 

 >  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
 ML> Not that one is actually going to get the opportunity ... .

Just a nice piece of information, should it become useful...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... The art of living well: make good use of garlic.

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