• 690 language was baseball and oddities

    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to RUTH HAFFLY on Thursday, July 18, 2019 07:02:44
    Back after being unable to connect with Marc for a few days, wondering
    if the storm messed up his power or otherwise.

    Likely. We are subject to the elements in a
    quaintly old-fashion way, which, if we were to
    cast our bread on the impersonal waters of the
    Internet, would be mostly negated.

    soccer, golf and more), the Times covered quite a few sports. Their
    main > emphasis was news and business but every Wednesday they also
    had a section dedicated to food.
    But Newsday is the traditional font of sports wisdom in
    the City. Even the Post and the Daily News have better
    sports coverage than the Times.
    True, but if your dad buys the Times, that's what you read. (G)

    The Times's sportswriters were too artistic and
    not entertaining enough. The tabloids had that
    breathless offensive style, but at least they
    imparted most of the facts. Newsday, which as I
    recall was the Long Island newspaper of choice,
    struck a decent balance.

    To me it's something that's to laugh at, especially
    as it's unenforceable.
    Yes, it is laughable but I also shudder at the blatantly deliberate mispronunciation.
    That tends to get me upset as well, but Harvard boys
    can take care of themselves, by and large.
    Harvard girls also?

    In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
    The instruction was the same, the endowments different.

    The lovely Jane it turns out went to Wells College,
    which I thought an adjunct of Cornell. Not so, Cornell
    had been co-ed since its founding but at a 4:1 ratio,
    so nearby women's college (maddest folly going) was a
    source of intelligent poised marriage bait, similar to the
    situation with Wellesley College and Harvard/Radcliffe and
    its 4:1 ratio.

    I know a few words, but not enough to carry on any sort of
    conversation.
    Spasebo.
    That being one of them. Dosvedanya (spelled phonetically) is another,
    and the standard da & nyet.

    Pretty much all I have except for the usual food terms.

    Eating Big Bird for supper?
    Wouldn't bother me.
    Big Bird & Snuffleupagus Breakfast
    This was cute. I'd try it out on grandkids but they're all beyond the
    Sesame Street age of appreciation (or will be, youngest will be 6 next month). Not sure when we'll be seeing them again.

    It will happen for sure, sometime.

    ---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

    Title: Nut Biscuits
    Categories: Cookies, Italian
    Yield: 6 servings

    1 c Sugar 1 ts Ground Cloves
    3 lg Eggs 3/4 c Almonds, Chopped Or
    Sliced
    1/3 c Oil 3/4 c Filbert Nuts
    (Hazelnuts),
    1/4 c Water -Chopped Or Sliced
    3 c Unbleached All-Purpose Flour Rind Of 1 Orange,
    Grated
    2 ts Baking Powder 1 tb Sugar
    2 ts Cinnamon

    Yield: 5 To 6 Dozen Biscotti

    Beat 2 of the eggs and add the sugar and oil, beating to blend well. Add
    the water. Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves together,
    blending well. Mix into the creamed mixture. Stir in the nuts and
    orange
    rind, blending well. Divide the dough into 6 parts. Roll each part, on a
    floured board, and shape into a loaf. Press each loaf a little. Place
    the
    loaves on a large cookie sheet. Beat the remaining egg and brush it on
    top
    of the loaves and sprinkle with the sugar. Bake in a preheated 350 Degree
    F. oven for 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove the loaves and
    cool
    slightly. Cut each loaf diagonally into biscuits.

    From The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook by Susan Mahnke Peery
    Copyright
    1986

    Shared by Rich Harper

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  • From Ruth Haffly@1:396/45.28 to MICHAEL LOO on Thursday, July 18, 2019 17:02:30
    Hi Michael,

    Back after being unable to connect with Marc for a few days,
    wondering > if the storm messed up his power or otherwise.

    Likely. We are subject to the elements in a
    quaintly old-fashion way, which, if we were to
    cast our bread on the impersonal waters of the
    Internet, would be mostly negated.

    And those who depend on electronics in one form or another would be up
    the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

    soccer, golf and more), the Times covered quite a few sports.
    Their > ML> main > emphasis was news and business but every Wednesday they also > ML> had a section dedicated to food.
    But Newsday is the traditional font of sports wisdom in
    the City. Even the Post and the Daily News have better
    sports coverage than the Times.
    True, but if your dad buys the Times, that's what you read. (G)

    The Times's sportswriters were too artistic and
    not entertaining enough. The tabloids had that
    breathless offensive style, but at least they
    imparted most of the facts. Newsday, which as I
    recall was the Long Island newspaper of choice,
    struck a decent balance.

    Nobody in our area sold that one. It was the Times or Daily News for NYC papers, plus the locals and regionals. Food sections were interesting
    reading, would have been more so now as my tastes have matured.

    To me it's something that's to laugh at, especially
    as it's unenforceable.
    Yes, it is laughable but I also shudder at the blatantly
    deliberate > ML> > mispronunciation.
    That tends to get me upset as well, but Harvard boys
    can take care of themselves, by and large.
    Harvard girls also?

    In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
    The instruction was the same, the endowments different.

    Quite so. (G)


    The lovely Jane it turns out went to Wells College,
    which I thought an adjunct of Cornell. Not so, Cornell
    had been co-ed since its founding but at a 4:1 ratio,
    so nearby women's college (maddest folly going) was a
    source of intelligent poised marriage bait, similar to the
    situation with Wellesley College and Harvard/Radcliffe and
    its 4:1 ratio.

    The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.

    I know a few words, but not enough to carry on any sort of
    conversation.
    Spasebo.
    That being one of them. Dosvedanya (spelled phonetically) is
    another, > and the standard da & nyet.

    Pretty much all I have except for the usual food terms.

    So you could get something to eat but not navigate your way around
    Moscow? Actually, if the city had color coded transportation lines, you
    could get around--to some extent.

    Eating Big Bird for supper?
    Wouldn't bother me.
    Big Bird & Snuffleupagus Breakfast
    This was cute. I'd try it out on grandkids but they're all beyond
    the > Sesame Street age of appreciation (or will be, youngest will be
    6 next > month). Not sure when we'll be seeing them again.

    It will happen for sure, sometime.

    I know, just trying to figure when that might be. We do get snaps on fb
    and text quite often so have (sort of) kept up that way but it's not
    like being there.


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    Catch you later,
    Ruth
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