• 153 is shambolic was was + Yanquis

    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to RUTH HANSCHKA on Sunday, October 27, 2019 21:27:44
    I wonder if the big fans of the dominant teams
    (Yankees, Patriots, Manchester United, etc.) are
    making up for some other inadequacy, such as living
    in excessively dirty and crime-ridden cities,
    having wives who left them, and so on.
    right now the Yankees are making up for lost sleep. (heh)

    I'm happy enough about that; just a tiny gratification
    in what we hope will be a long chain.

    The one I'm thinking of was a Hill, but I've no proof,
    as I said, and it would in fact just be sitting in a
    storage unit now anyway.
    Possibly just as well someone else is using it then.

    I have a mild preference that someone had compensated
    me for it, though.

    Huh, we must be talking about different things. A violin
    bow shouldn't have enough silver to bother to stamp; the
    stick, though, is most often branded with the maker's mark.
    You'd be surprised. The silver guys in Britain stamp their work early
    and often.

    How much silver goes into your average bow? None. I
    have one with a couple grams maybe, but that's all.
    Oh, yeah, sometimes the windings near the frog that
    help keep a grip on the stick were silver wire, but
    that would be hard to mark.

    Yeah, but a label inside will last longer than the bearer
    of the birth certificate. That reminds me of a card sent to
    me by a student of mine, back when I had students, which
    said The older the fiddle, the sweeter the music. Which
    I've discovered isn't necessarily true in any of the
    possible senses.
    Especially when it's an old, cracked fiddle like most of US.

    Speak for yourself!

    get out of the museum (which actually cost money to
    enter) you had to traverse a maze of crystal merchandise
    and fawning salespeople. Lilli and I couldn't get out
    of there quick enough - and she likes shiny stuff.
    I like sparkly stuff, but not those cutesy figurines.

    I hope you draw the line somewhere short of Swarovski.

    I knew two women named Marion spelled that way. It may
    be worthy of note that John Wayne's original name was
    Marion Michael Morrison. Once in Newsweek or Time I
    read an article featuring a woman named Michael, no
    relation to me or the below.
    Michael Learned was the mother on The Waltons.

    That's a show I probably never saw any episodes of.

    ---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

    Title: Peanut Butterscotch Cookies
    Categories: Cookies
    Yield: 48 servings

    1/2 c Butter softened 1 ts Baking soda
    3/4 c Packed brown sugar 1 c Salted peanuts
    1/2 c Chunky peanut butter 6 oz Semi-sweet chocolate
    chips
    2 Eggs 6 oz (or) butterscotch chips
    1 1/2 c Flour

    1. Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and brown sugar until light and
    fluffy. Add peanut butter and eggs. Mix well. Stir in flour and baking
    soda and blend well. Add peanuts and chips. Mix just until blended. 2.
    Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls two inches apart onto ungreased cookie
    sheet.
    3. Bake 9-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove right away from
    cookie
    sheet and cool on wire rack. from: _Cookiemania_

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