Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-02-19 12:31 <=-

Replying from the Pond, Sunday 8 Sept 17:20

Of course, one could trim the roast closer and use the
suet to make the Yorkshires, but who needs the things.

True... and I do see how that would work, though....

I got another top round and rendered the fat cap
for grease, had 4 servings of stir-fry, and made
a quart of chili with the rest. If I'd been so
inclined, the fat was of high quality and would
have done fine for Yorkshires.

Had you been so inclined.... :) But you did do well with it as it
was... :)

Why do people like casinos so much? Because there you can
always find a paradise. Several of them, in fact.

Heh.

The only good pun is a bad pun.

That is what they say... ;)

My first house at college was Dunster House, which was the
repository of the rebels (acting-out pranksters, drinkers,
drug-takers, athletes need not apply) and misfits (would have
been programmers and such only that wasn't really a viable
profession back then), so we were called the Funsters and
could have been the Punsters.

How did you end up there?

... Some days, the only good things on TV are the vase and the clock.

Speaking of wordplay.

And wordplay can be fun... ;)

Until it gets to be wordwork.

That's when I bow out... ;0

It's kind of a fringey sort of treatment.

True.

Although it was originally suggested to me by a doctor
who was impressed by my bad reaction to lovastatin.

Some doctors understand that GRAF (generally regarded as fringey) things
can be quite useful... like my PCP that prescribed using capsaisin cream

It's become a mainstream treatment, as it's been
proven at least as effective in many cases with way
fewer side effects.

That is how fringey stuff does become mainstream... :)

topically for the post-herpatic neuralgia in my back... gabapentin and before that amitriptyline gave me issues, and I wasn't willing to take

Well, the gaba stuff was what killed my father.

Lisinipril was almost that bad for my friend... she had pretty nasty
side effects when it was prescribed for hypertension (which she might
not actually even have)... she only took 3 or 4 doses, interspersed with
not taking it, had the problems each time she took it, got better in
between... had she continued, it would have been bad... hopefully she
won't be in a position later in life when it gets given her and she not
be in a position to override...

You know those cans of writing implements that they
display in doctor offices so you can fill out those
irritating history and insurance forms? That's what I
read your mention of that drug as ... grab a pen tin.

Interesting read... :)

Mine used to be to get the full effects both good and
bad at half the dose, still true of a lot of things,
especially OTC things, such as those travelers' standbys
Benadryl and Imodium, which have caricature effects on me,
making me drowsy or stopped up for days.

Benadryl I've only used topically, Imodium never helped me anyway...

My parents used to put Caladryl (calamine + Benadryl) on
my bug bites when they got too torturesome (the mosquitoes
loved me even when I was a wee tyke, despite my being B+),
but mostly the diphenhydramine has been an internal medicine.

Yup, mine was in the form of calamine also mostly, and often for poison
ivy itch....

Imodium, well, if you did any kind of exotic travel, believe
me, you'd want it around.

Only if it made any difference... :)

Which reminds me to start shopping for hotel and air
for the annual Singapore trip.

When does that happen...?

MLK weekend, so third week in January.

So a ways yet, but not too early to start planing... :)

And looking at the fares, complaining.

Oops, lost an "n" there... Fares aren't cooperating with you, I guess...

Too bad they probably didn't appreciate the goodness...

Letitia's mom, a delicate soul (which her father is not, and
the kids also are not), was visibly squicked out by the red
jiggly meat on her plate.

Sigh...

I could have said, I'll trade you my done to sand chicken
breast for your raw beef, but she folded it in a napkin
and said she'd recook it at home.

Oh, well..... hopefully she enjoyed it later... :)

One hopes, but I suspect her to be someone who, like
Bonnie, would discreetly tip it into the bin when
nobody was looking.

If she was just planning to bin it, she should have let you have it. ;)

... The OPTIMIST sees the doughnut. The PESSIMIST sees the hole.

And the realist sees the whole, too.

Yup... :)

ttyl neb

... Aibohphobia - The real or imagined fear of palindromes

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