I think she's meaning Read's... at least that's the only common brand of canned salads I'm aware of...

Probably. Canned food, potato salad, and most
deplorable things in general are generally outside
my field of expertise (and you thought I knew about
food!).

I expect you to mostly know about the good stuff... ;)

I try.

This was a recipe I was going to send to Ruth, but
I found a nonalcoholic one that was almost (not
quite) as relevant to the message of the moment.
So you get it. It's likely that you and I would be
the only echo members who would enjoy this anyhow.
Lung and loin Bourguignonne

You mean, because of the lung...? ;)

Yeah - you've been here for years, didn't you
loin anything about us?

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Not sure that I agree with the hypothesis in the first place... but the tendency to make snap judgements does seem to be hard-wired at times...

The appeal of that hypothesis is in its providing an
explanation for our tendency to careless thinking.

There are simpler explanations... such as in Genesis 3... :)

I know you had to bring that up, but let's not
go any farther along that line.

close to 200 lines.... I find that a bit unwieldy... I have my Bluewave set to not cut messages short, actually... and have advised others about that setting... ;)

The limitation had real usefulness in the days of
sysops paying long-distance phone bills.

Also there were some bbs softwares (and messaging softwares, I think)
that just chopped off anything past a certain length, so a lot could go missing....

Which would have made a lot of sense in those
days of more pricy communication.

Now, it's
mostly to forestall the infinite quoting phenomenon,
something that irritates the heck out of me - iPhones
seem to default to that wasteful and annoying condition.

I'm glad that with EMACS and BW, I don't have to worry about not being
able to trim down quotes... the editor that comes with Pegasus (my email reader) isn't quite so user-friendly, at least for me... I've been known
to not quote at all there, just because all I wanted to respond to was a smaller bit I couldn't crop down to...

Whatever works. There should be a way within
your reader, though.

True... the "names will never hurt me" fallacy...

Remember that that was chanted by the victims in
a sort of self-protective ritual. If I'd been
doing the taunting, I'd have sneered "so that's
the way you want it, you got it."

As I said... a fallacy.... I was never a taunter, sometimes a victim,
often an observer... it was readily obvious that names did hurt...
despite the protective chant....

I was seldom if ever the taunter unless taunted upon
first. As far as being the victim, sure, that
happened, but much more seldom as time went on, as
I learned that fighting back (in whatever way) was
satisfying, even if, as more frequently happened, I
unjustly got the blame for the incitation.

Sure: there are behaviors that never should go
public at all, though.

You'd think. I know, you said should, not that don't....

There's nothing wrong, I think, with hoping
for a better condition, even if that condition
isn't likely to ever obtain.

Granted... and agreed... :)

I'll amend that to say that there's harm if
that attitude prevents someone from trying
to solve the issue actively.

As far as they were concerned, their mom was
a virgin until marriage. Of course, the boy
children at least probably are of the delusion
that she still is one (the daughters were a
little more connected with reality).

That is rather delusional... Would it shake their sense of reality
should the older half-sibling show up, wanting to be reunited with mom
and family, I wonder...?

Who knows. And in this case, it's by no means
clear that removing the delusion would do anyone
any good.

Smelling the sausage. Eating it would be going
to successful concerts by the beneficiaries of
the aid and guidance.

Those often follow the interview, as on-the-air performance... for example, on Julia Figueras's Backstage Pass monthly program on
WXXI-FM... occasionally she's highlighting such enterprises locally. :)

And I hope the kids really are good.

They seem to be, from the performances I've heard... of course, it's
radio so one can't view the performance... :)

We've recently gone from audio preliminary auditions
to video ones, and I hate it.

Fire In The sky #2
categories: booze, blue, flaming
servings: 1

2 oz Bombay Sapphire gin
1 1/2 oz Skyy vodka
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 splash 7-Up
1 ds 151 Proof Rum, float

Shake all the ingredients except rum with ice
and strain into a cocktail glass. Float the rum
and light. ALWAYS USE CAUTION WITH FIRE.

The Gemini via barnonedrinks.com
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