Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-04-18 01:43 <=-

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.

Documenting the oops... ;)

... 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.

Enough, anyway... :)

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.

Balances things some when one ages and everything starts to dry up... ;)

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?

Quite probably. :)

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.

Richard's designation... and his invention, so to speak, as he was the
first to wipe something into Little Bit's fur... as he tells it, she was practically begging him to share whatever it was, and acting like that's
where she wanted it... and when he complied, she happily groomed it out
and asked for more...

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.

Not really... and more than one of our felines has actually liked the
spinach, even straight... :)

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 ... ?

Clarifying knowledge....? ;)

... 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)

Title: Fisherman Chowder

And would there be real fishermen in that...? ;)

ttyl neb

... "And so I thought to myself..." but who else can you think to?

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