Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-26-18 09:58 <=-

What poor taste! Though Goetze's caramel candies
might tempt one to get rid of a few pieces of chocolate.

People just have different taste buds, I guess... ;) If we'd had the Goetze's, she might have traded for them, I'm pretty sure she likes caramels fine... :)

She has to have some redeeming social value,
after all!

Oh, she does... very talented, in multiple fields, and easy enough to
get along with... ;) She's #3 in the family, halfway between me and Lydia... She was always the ringleader in things, especially for the two siblings below her....

I really have to look suspiciously at people who don't
like chocolate, though.

In a case like this, I always looked at it as more for me.... ;)

Under these circumstances, I would have preferred a
total deafener, but I doubt these exist.

Probably not.... and as you say, the bass is also felt...

That was almost an electrifying experience, but as the cabin
is surrounded by tall trees, there was no major danger of
electrocution - power out, yes, that happened.. I was thankful
to have put my earplugs in shortly before the strike.

Very good timing... :)

I was lucky, but also the time seemed ripe for a'lightning strike.
I always travel with earplugs and eyeshades at the ready just in
case of similar situations.

Be Prepared. ;)

Bonnie said it was from one of Diana Wynne Jones's books, the name of a magical temple cat... :)

So I looked up that name, and the book in question
was published in 1988. I encountered Throckmorton in
1971, so there had to be some kind of cultural something
between those dates.

Could be...

Now, if someone were to start something (people call
such - incorrectly - memes), the Internet makes things
traceable; not so much back then.

There'd be a paper trail of sorts... but that could have been tossed or
messed with, I suppose....

The parents (who have acquired Canadian accents) have
lived there for 40 years - daddy went to teach at the
U. of Waterloo, mom became an editor of scholarly and
artistic magazines. The kids, mostly living in the US,
have dual citizenship because of their parents - I'm
not sure where they were born.

An interesting case... If the parents took on Canadian citizenship
before the kids were born, they might have been born either place, but
I'd guess Canada would be likely, as long as the kids are under 40.. and
as long as the parents were still US citizens, they'd get the US part...
My sister Jessie's kids, born in the UK, of a US mother and a UK father, have dual US-UK citizenship based on Jessie... She registered them at
the Embassy, I believe...

And there is the additional issue of agreements with
the individual countries, which can complicate things
even more. I'd suspect that the US has advantageous
relationships with most English-speaking nations, and
perhaps the closer the better, so Canada may be a
special case in itself.

Possibly... maybe more so in times past.... nowadays there seems to be
some lessening of the strong bonds we used to have...

I take it they'd rather be in Canada while the hubbub continues...? My friend Deb, currently in BC with her Canadian family, finds it more of a refuge from the saber-rattling...

One thing is that the other countries do perfectly
okay without us. Sure, the stuff we provide is a
big convenience, but, as with television, most of us
don't realize that our influence is not absolutely
necessary for existence and world equilibrium.

You mean the world wouldn't fall apart if we suddenly didn't exist for them....??!! What a novel idea... ;)

Our size, wealth of resources both tangible and
intangible, and heretofore moral high ground make
us a big player, but as with (say) wheat or beef,
if we were suddenly to disappear, the others would
make do in a hurry, as they would have to.

Yeah... I know that... Nobody is totally indispensable and nations are
the same.... :)

The dog issue arose because they needed a nonstop between
airports that had temperatures under 85 degrees, because of
the danger that a pet in the hold would die of heatstroke.
That made San Jose Costa Rica to Toronto or Montreal the only sensible choice, because Managua, Houston, Dallas, Miami,
LA, and Chicago all were in the throes of a heat wave.

That does make perfect sense... I'd been thinking it had been some sort of quarantine issue arriving in the states...

At first their story seemed to indicate that, too, but
it turns out that the US is really lax about animal
quarantine, compared to a lot of other countries.

I guess I'd heard that, too... never had to deal with it personally...

Just as well. Expensive and annoying, but the
ostensible aim is to forestall the introduction of
parasites and disease agents, so in theory worthwhile.

Indeed.

ttyl neb

... Luck will win out over science and technology!

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