Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-06-19 18:24 <=-

Oh, ok... I have heard tales of that, just didn't recognize the initials...

It stands for Under the Gum Tree, apparently where idlers
like Kevin (who named the list) would hang out in Australia.

Ok, that makes sense.... :)

Makes extra sense when you know Glen and Kevin.

I do known their reputations... and Glen was still posting here when I
first came on board... :)

They're both stereotypical Aussies, brash and defensive,
massively chauvinistic, well, okay, most people everywhere
are like that. Both are bright; Glen is educated and has
had a number of productive careers; Kevin is trained in
the school of Hard Knocks and has had a disastrous life
path. Both interesting.

I've gathered as much.... :)

Just what I needed, a twin in Rochester.

You mean that doesn't make you feel special....? ;)

I've had people claim they were my twin separated at
birth only to discover that in some fundamental ways
we weren't.

I found some soul mates of a sort over the years... but never quite a
twin separated at birth sort... :)

I've had a few people who wanted to be such; also
a couple evil twins who looked very much like me,
one of whom also kind of played the violin.

Probably confusing some susceptible sorts... ;0

I've read numerous stories of people who went into
banking, lawyering, or even medicine and then chucked
it all to do what they wanted to do in the first place,
cooking or acting or riding hogs or whatever.

Or music, even.... ;)

Gasp.

I know... can you believe it...!? ;)

Oh, the horror. The trumpet player for Fiddler was
the contractor I worked for at North Shore Music
Theatre back in the last millennium. We were kind
of surprised to see each other. He has done pretty
well for himself in the business but has not got
the financial success someone of his eminence in
another field might have achieved, i.e., he's not
a multimillionaire or in Englewood or Otisville.

Not everyone aspires to climb any higher.... ;) Sounds like at least it
was a good meeting for the two of you... :)

Small enough quantities, probably none at all... :)

I know that zinc supplements are generally gluconate;
the oxide is probably a lot less soluble so even less
likely to cause trouble.

I suppose. :)

The Internet says that it is in fact used as a
supplement in breakfast cereal.

The oxide, or the gluconate....?

Mome raths.

Out grabe....

There was a recent article in the Times about the
raisin crisis..

What raisin crisis...?

Read the article - it was in the Times a week
or so ago and discusses the relations between
the Sun-Maid company and the "raisin mafia,"
which has upset the dried fruit market lately.

Do you have a tin yurl for it...? It hasn't seemed to do anything
noticeable at Wegmans, anyway.... :)

It's been shown that the economic booms promised by
proponents of new zillion-dollar sports stadiums just
don't happen. Baseball comes closer to breakeven, but
even it's not significant.

So I've observed over the years...

And still the taxpayers don't learn.

Or don't pay attention....

M's note: lean bacon? lean pork belly? wwtt?

Could help explain why British food is so bland.... I note they also
call for pouring off the juices.... more flavor lost....

The thing is until not so long ago the Brits
embraced fat, what they could get anyway.

Perhaps now that it is more available, they are succumbing to the
"popular opinion" about the indesirability thereof....?

If you're scrabbling for every calorie you can
get, its label is not going to be so important.

True. :)

ttyl neb

... Sure money can't buy happiness, but it can buy bacon.

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