Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-16-19 05:36 <=-

ago... it's just that the name tends to put some people off...

People are weird. I think it's the bones more than anything.

Or maybe the visible fat and gristle... tasty parts, actually, but
some people think them gross...

It's a little ... strange. Of course, add enough Jamaican curry and serve it over rice and I'm in.

It's only meat... :) Just because it comes from the tail..... ;)

Well, there are various ways to look at that issue.
It's only organic matter now.- Philip K. Dick
Don't eat people! - Flanders and Swann

Ah, but we were talking about oxtails... ;) Only mildly exotic... :)

Always some catch... ;)

If it's fish, no sale. I have discovered she'll eat human chicken. Cooked of course.

Our two aren't keen on uncooked fish, chicken or meat... but generally
like it all once it's been cooked... even with some spicing... :)

Is human chicken anything like long pig?

Not really... I'm sure CT Ruth meant chicken intended for human
consumption, as opposed to coming from a can designated as cat food...
and certainly not chicken-tasting humans.... ;)

I think it would be campuses... ;) And, quite understandable
on your part, too... :)

Trying to remember my Latin there. (G)

Ok, if we were talking in Latin, it would be campi... but general English usage I'm pretty sure is campuses... ;)

Campuses is fine. Campi would be fine in nose-elevated
circles. Sort of like the plural of octopus. Octopuses or
octopusses would be my preference, with octopodes (a
metonymy) down there someplace and octopi dead last.

I suppose that campi or octopi might be useful in poetry for the
rhyme... ;) We have a friend that calls us the Backi.... She also
thinks the plural of spouse is spice... ;)

By the way, is a pureed shrimp soup flow scampi?

Wouldn't it need to have lots of garlic in it...? ;)

Houghton is a fair distance
away from Rochester (@75 miles) so we didn't have that much contact with any goings on in the city as a general rule.

One would have to make a special trip to get up to Rochester, after
all.... ;)

That's why humans have opposable thumbs.

That could be an additional use for the opposable thumb, indeed... :)

I admit that it's generally cheaper than the phone and
no more monitored than the phone, but I still don't see
the need, use, advantage.

In the case of the committee meeting, it was like speaker phone but
being able to see his expressions, and, I think, he could see all of us,
as well....

Well, that's fine for you to say. [grumpy face]

True... not much advantage when the vision itself is compromised...

It appears that he's using Skype and you're not, or if
you are it's by proxy or something.

I think he'd have to explain it... but what I understand is that it
isn't the picture/video type of deal at all, just an access to phone
service through a skype account... He can use the service anywhere in
the world that has internet/wi-fi, and it uses his smartphone... It
doesn't incur international calling fees...

I was supposed to call my bank, and Ian said it would
cost hardly anything at all from his phone, but I'm
still too much of a luddite to use it so finessed the
issue in another way.

Fortunately calling my son via the skype account doesn't require me not
to be a luddite... I just make the phone call as though he were up at
the Pond and somehow it gets to him no matter where he is in the world,
as long as he's somewhere that has the internet/wifi at the moment....

Oh, ok... between the trip to Hoares and the picnic, then....

Yeah, when I return to the US.

Hopefully it behaves at least until then... :)

If it doesn't, it'll cost less to treat.

Out-of-pocket, perhaps... possibly not in time or downtime...

was slogging around until suddenly he presented a piece
that was so much more excellent than anything he'd done
before that audiences and critics alike looked at him
in a new light. When my father went to do his D.Phil in
England, he attended a concert at which something familiar
was played, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Yup.

Ah... that's what was plagiarised.... Only get away with that where no
one had heard it before... :) At least the composer knew a good thing
when he heard it... (G)

Probably one of the most important things in doing a
crime is to minimize the chance of getting caught, and
being elsewhere is a good way for doing that.

As long as it can be kept in the "elsewhere"... (G)

ttyl neb

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