Not sure I've heard of the latter... I've seen references to the former

The latter was started by Kevin when he was unhappy
with being called out for rudeness and the spewing of
general nonsense over here. At some point Dirty Dave
had some involvement in it, I'm not clear on what.

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.

should be credited. Problem is that they tend to
get wrongly credited afterward. You know,
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Abraham Lincoln

Heh. yeah...

There are so many dubious quotes floating around there
from Einstein, Saint-Exupery, Obama, Nietzsche, Hitler,
Yogi Berra, Abraham Lincoln, ... . As I've noted, the
best way for someone to get a cockamamie (or even profound)
statement accepted and proliferated is to attribute it to
someone famous.

... Paranoia: the feeling that a tagline is about you.

Aren't they all?

+

In that last case, they can't have shrimp rice
crackers. For the others, eh, their problem, Lilli
doesn't much like regular rice crackers either.

True, and true... :)

I'd be more likely getting cans of flavored sparkling water to have instead... turning off the tastes buds doesn't work so well for me...

I on the other hand find flavored sparkling
waters, especially unsugared ones, largely
an annoyance.

[snicker] We don't agree on everything... (G)

Just what I needed, a twin in Rochester.

personnel. Fu being a notable exception.

Someday, maybe, he'll get someone else in the kitchen with him...

;) I

But not of his offspring, it seems.

Probably not... unless one of the younger boys shows interest eventually.... :)

What do you think the chances are of that?

Dunno... possible... Fu doesn't push it... though he does encourage them
at least to feed themselves as they get old enough... :)

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.

Think of it as the tides of life. Hunanese chefs are
famous for coming and going and threatening to sever
their relationship with a restaurant by cleaver to
owner's head.

Hmmmm.... ;)

You could look it up.

guess what - Ed had been released from prison and was
back in the kitchen. That lasted for a while, but he
eventually committed some other infraction, and this
time after more struggles the place shut for good.

Indeed an amusing case.... if a bit sad as well... :)

I don't know what the guy's crimes consisted of, but
all I cared about was that they didn't involve me.

it's for external use only... (G) I'd ask if you survived it, but obviously you have... (G)

Just because the zinc oxide and petrolatum or
whatever they were have not been certified safe to
eat doesn't mean you can't eat them.

True... and often it's more CYA than actually poison... :)

Though I can't see what harm a bit of zinc oxide
in one's tum would do.

Some of us used to do similar in unison or antiphonally
while hiking in the otherwise tranquil and pristine
White Mountains. We were obnoxious brats ourselves.

There were indeed some that most of us had also memorized... and unison
was not unheard of... ;) I still remember bits and pieces... possibly
more than I realize... (G)

Mome raths.

There might be a handy public library with at least
microfilm copies.

There might. Dunno as the branch down the street would have any such, though......

There might be computerized access of some sort.

Today's a good day - I can read the screen without
having to scootch up so far that I can see individual
pixels. Focal length is still a couple inches, but
I can discriminate up to 5 (8 with glasses and bobbing
my head around a bit).

Hooray.... :)

And today is quite different - I did okay in the Mexican
sun, but here in the tranquillity of my hotel room, I can't
read anything farther than 3 inches.

... If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

That was a hasty thing to say!

Fruit-cocktail-glazed ham
categories: semi-homemade, historical, main, holiday. pork
yield: 1 batch

5 lb Rath Hickory Smoked Canned Ham
30 oz cn fruit cocktail
2 c wgute sugar
1 c juice from fruit cocktail
- (sub rose wine or sherry for half)

Cook sugar and fruit cocktail juice for 10 min. Cool.

Baste ham with this glaze during the last 30 min of baking.

To serve, deck ham with fruit cocktail and drizzle with
glaze. Mix remaining glaze with remaining fruit cocktail
and serve with ham.

Ham Lover's Cookbook
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