Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-11-19 10:24 <=-

When you're bobbing around nicely and a motorboat roars
by with its wake engulfing your head, it's hard not to
think of homicide.

Indeed.

An idle question - what's worse, being swamped
by a motorboat when you're in a canoe or if you're
already in the water?

They both sound pretty nasty... not sure which would be worse... or
better...

There's enough biomass, but harvesting would be
troublesome, as there were I'd say probably a
thousand to the pound.

That would make it less inviting to contemplate, even, true... :)

All sorts of other protein sources would be more
convenient.

Very much so... :)

It would probably be easier to synthesize protein
from scratch than use zebra mussels. And there's a
lot of biomass that is easier to harvest and possibly
as abundant.

Point proved... ;)

Or have one of those transposing organs.

That would also work... I had access to one of those once... maybe
it was the one at the church my sister Tait's wedding was at...
Haven't seen that with pipe organs... ;)

It would be complicated with pipe organs, though some
of the stops are automatic transposers, which may be
why so many organists are crazy.

True... at least on the possibility of a stop being an automatic transposer... sorta... one would have to use the stop on its own as a
solo stop, though... Usually it's used to just fill in harmonies and color... :)

Yeah, true enough, but their existence, and the
thought processes that went into their design,
boggle the mind.

Have to give a lot of credit to the organ builders... :)

But there's a reason why they don't have a pinochle
party after a funeral.

Indeed. :)

Of course, after a funeral, there's always "two spades."

Sometimes only one, and sometimes more than two, though.... SOW, Monday
we took Edith to Taste of Japan for a memorial meal, following taking
her up to her vet's to put down her cat Nena... it just seemed like the right thing to do....

Yeah, feed on something the cat would have appreciated.
Sad, though, that scenario.

She made a similar comment... my thought when suggesting it was mostly
that it is one of her favorite places to go... and she obviously needed
a little more time with friends around... worked out well...

Are we entering some sort of early dementia, perhaps...?

We all are, but in fact I wanted to talk to her children,
but they were not amenable. Today she tried to cram an USB
plug into a 220V European outlet. Luckily it wouldn't go.

Hmmm.... denial on multiple fronts, I see... And good thing when the electronics has some protective features... ;)

She can be agreeable, plus I owe her money, but
there are scary moments as well as irritating ones.

Comes, I guess, with the territory....

On the plane yesterday she tried to put her headphone
plug into the 110V outlet. It went in. Luckily there
are fuses and such.

Not good... when did she (or did she) figure it out...?

Serving pieces and bite-size pieces aren't the same.
The only way that gets me to 16 is cutting the breast
into 6, upper back, lower back, two wings, two drummers,
and two thighs, plus neck and giblets. Some people are
apt to get the short end of the stick.

Perhaps the drummers and thighs also get cut into two or three pieces
like the breast getting cut down...? I'd keep the giblets out of the
stew, probably as cook's portion... ;) And, if one had 6 breast pieces,
two wings, 4 drummer pieces and 6 thigh pieces, that would give the 16 pieces without adding in back and neck...

Thighs maybe. A duck drumstick has very little meat, as do
the wings. I don't see breaking them down into subparts.

I wasn't suggesting breaking down the wings... if one didn't with the
drummers either, I suppose one would have to add back in two back
pieces... ;)

ttyl neb

... If all is not lost, then where is it?

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