I was beginning to come to that conclusion... but then, so is mint usually green....

Maybe it could equally be called mint, then.

Except that mint actually does have mint flavor... :)

Pistachio should have flavor as well.

It should, but pistachio shouldn't taste like mint...

Is that altogether relevant?

One wonders about just about everyone. One
of the vocal soloists came in I believe a
bar early, and we had to stop the aria and
start again.

In rehearsal or in concert....?

Sadly, everything had gone okay in rehearsal.

Oh, no.... I trust everything afterwards went fine....?

So far as I could tell. I think there may be
a recording someplace.

It was a most famous sketch in its day.

OK. May have heard it, but the reference would probably have gone over
my head even then.... :)

It's just a flesh wound.

Not even a scrape... ;)

Or scratch.

... You don't get once-in-a-lifetime offers like this every day.

I have once-in-a-lifetimes every year or so.
They actually may be once-in-a-lifetime.

You do move in rarified circles.... ;)

Sometimes.

+

You think? Though Annie's cats regularly got
butter treats.

We didn't/don't do butter so much... but our cats do get the final meat/cooking drippings including fats, which they do seem to enjoy...

As Nicholas used to say when seeing me drinking
the last of a cup of drawn butter or somesuch,
it keeps your coat nice and shiny.

Yup... ;)

It's interesting, sort of neat, how the fats come
out of your pores - I always had oily skin and hair.

I was over at Edith's for a meal, she'd fixed chili and cornbread and a salad... One of her cats was making nice to me... so on a whim, I
offered a crumb of cornbread which was gobbled up, along with a few subsequent ones... so Edith tried offering it... but she put some butter on it, thinking to make it even more desirable... the cat turned up her nose at that one... You just never know with cats... ;)

Did the beasts eat dairy products on their own?

I don't think so, not her beasts.... Just kibble and can food... and
boughten cat treats... the last two not being on our list... she might
have tried them with cheese, though....

So maybe unfamiliar with the joys of butter?

Our cats get a much more varied diet... Mostly kibble, but with added
treats like bits of cheese, meat, their dabs of milk, bread/muffin, fur
candy like ice cream/cream cheese/sour cream/sauces from our meals....

Fur candy, I kind of like that.

certain veggies in certain circumstances, too, like spinach mixed with
cheese from a spinach ricotta pizza... ;)

That doesn't count! That's like buttering a slice
of zucchini.

What fun is that?

You tell me... ;) Must be why we deviate from that logic stuff from
time to time... ;)

My logic tells me that our only hope is that
time isn't a one-way street, or if it is, it
must cycle somehow. Which makes my head spin,
which it should.

Or that there is something other than just time that might impact our existence.... ;) Also potentially head-spin-making... ;)

Definitely not fodder for here!

It's a bird... it's a plane.... It's... Superman.... No.... it's a bird.... [wiping face motion] Current when I was in Junior High or so.... The first three bits were from, I think, a TV series on Superman.... or maybe a movie.... :)

The question is mainly whether the original
phrase appeared first in the comic book before
it became the watchword, if you will, for the
TV show. So maybe we should take advantage of
that postulated cyclicality and go back and see.

As you are in more of a position to do... :) At least by doing a
modicum of research... :)

And the incentive is ... ?

... A Steak Sandwich: A Porterhouse between 2 Ribeyes.

I concur, and shepherd's pie can never have
too many shepherds.

Ummm... yeah.... I guess so... (G)

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

Title: Fisherman Chowder
Categories: Soups
Yield: 1 servings

1/4 lb Bacon cut in small pieces 1 ts Salt
1 ts Paprika 1/2 ts Pepper
1/2 c Chopped onion 1 Bay leaf
1 c Diced raw potato 1/2 ts Thyme
1 cn (6.5-oz) chopped clams 2 1/2 c Skim milk
With liquid 1/2 c Instant mashed
potatoes to
1/4 c White wine Thicken
1 c Crab legs/imitation crab Any other shellfish you
1 c Shrimp Like
1 c Scallops halved/quartered

In a heavy soup pot or kettle, brown the bacon with the paprika, onion
and
potato, sauteing until potato and onions are soft and bacon is cooked.
Add
the clams, wine, crab legs, shrimp, scallops and nay other seafood or
fish.
Season with salt and pepper, bay leaf and thyme. Stir in the milk and
heat
over low flame, stirring constantly. Do not allow mixture to boil. When
seafood and fish are thoroughly heated through, thicken chowder by adding
instant potatoes. Remove bay leaf and serve. Chowder may be prepared
ahead,
refrigerated, then re-heated in a crock pot or over very low heat.
Unattributed

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