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Skriven 2014-01-02 23:46:12 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 8321 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: interesting 661
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 29 Dec 13  05:26:00 <=-

 ML>> All I need is free booze and a place to put my arm, so the
 ML>> dilution of benefits that you read about in the newspaper
 ML>> travel sections is of relatively little import to me.
 NB>> Only if they charge for the booze and cram in more seats, eh...?
 ML> Free booze is the important thing. Of course, the uncomfortableness
 ML> of the seats makes the booze more important, but as the world goes,
 ML> you get either booze + comfort or nonbooze + discomfort.

Equity vs inequity... seems the latter usually trumps... 

 ML> Speaking of which, my upgrades for Asia haven't cleared. It's
 ML> ten days out. If I ditched Lilli from my reservation, my
 ML> chances would be up to about 100%, but hers would plummet to
 ML> about 20%. I think but am not sure that United offers some
 ML> token free booze on transpacific flights.

Less than a week now... have things cleared now..?   I trust the latest
weather nasties aren't going to affect your travel much either...
tonight's pretty nasty for a wide swath of the northern US... but it is
supposed to be clearing by Saturday...
 
 ML> Today's invited guests for our holiday party included
 ML> in among the run of lawyers and docs and realtors and
 ML> such (Annie's friends, not mine) a pet crematorium
 ML> operator, an government person who monitors transmissions
 ML> in weird languages, and a vendor of ball bearings and
 ML> such to Audi or BMW I forget which. All "interesting"
 ML> in one sense and probably dead boring in the other.

Were any surprisingly actually interesting...?

 =
 NB>> This looks a bit confusing... the list of ingredients doesn't seem
 NB>> to match with the instructions...?
 ML>> Title: Crab Burgers
 ML> At least all the ingredients go sort of together, and it
 ML> really doesn't matter what order they are in. Once in a
 ML> while we see an interesting recipe where the ingredients
 ML> don't match the instructions. Sometimes they're interesting
 ML> enough to get posted anyway, and if I fully catch the
 ML> incongruities, I will mention that they exist.

Looking carefully at it, the main weirdness was just that the First
Four had been mixed in with the Latter ingredients... so that an
unsuspecting soul might have been easily misled...  But, as you say, one
really didn't have to take the extra step to put a dressing together, it
could just be all dumped together without much difference...  :)

 ML> Actually, recipes are one of the least important parts of
 ML> the conference to me; I started putting in ontopicizers
 ML> as an ironic gesture after being spurred by some kind of
 ML> whine about not doing enough of them!

I find them interesting sometimes... sometimes for the ontopicizing,
sometimes for the recipe itself...  I've always read more recipes than
I've ever even dreamed of using...  ;)
 
 ML> Source unknown is a red flag, though for really bad
 ML> recipes I tend to be more descriptive than that.

After all, some decent recipes have found their way via devious ways,
and the source could be lost in the passage... ;)

 NB>> Another Interesting recipe, eh...?   ;)   Seems to be a waste of crab,
 NB>> but maybe canned crab wouldn't be hurt, maybe enhanced...?
 ML> Indeed, but if you have ever tasted canned crab you
 ML> should understand the purpose of such dishes.

Oh, I have...  and some canned crab is worse than others... ;)  Some
wouldn't need too much doctoring...  :)

ttyl      neb

... No, I don't know what apathy means, nor do I care...
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