• Re: 501 little annoyances

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Monday, June 10, 2019 21:02:00
    Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-09-19 20:52 <=-

    Aroma different, mouthfeel different, taste
    different.
    Yup.
    I wonder if anyone's thought about pursuing the
    manufacturer for deceptive advertising.
    Probably many a person thought about it, but decided it wasn't worth
    going after.... the effort, anyway.... :)
    Company lawyer: we said I can't believe it's not butter;
    we never said you couldn't believe it's not butter.

    Exactly.... lawyers are good at waffles....

    foreshots and feints, too.
    Ok... feints sounds like A... but the ones I mentioned didn't follow
    the rhyme's direction....
    Feints was another example, but foreshots go along with.
    Yes... and foreshots accepted, too.... But you appear to have either
    missed my point or ignored it... :) All the words I listed don't sound
    like A as in neighbor or weigh, but generally like I (or E, in the case
    of either and neither)....
    Probably read right over it. I'm not supposed to
    ignore anyone's posts, but things may occasionally
    fall through the cracks.

    I guess that could explain it... ;) I mentioned Eiderdown and Eidetic,
    along with Either and Neither.... When I chant the rhyme, I'm likely to
    add the latter two, pronouncing them as though it were an A sound... The
    point being that there are other exceptions that don't get put into the
    rhyming rule.... :)

    Not really.... Some of them challenged me more by their choices...
    but that also happened once with a non-family member...
    It's kind of fun to be stretched, but I'd not have
    gone out of my way for someone who didn't seem to
    live up to my standards. Not a good attitude for a
    commercial person, but I wasn't great at that either.
    And I was never a commercial person... :)
    Sometimes I wonder if it would have been more
    fun had I been a wealthy man, but there was that
    guilty conscience thing - did I cheat 'em too much,
    and did their children starve in the gutter as a
    consequence?

    The one time that I actually charged for my counseling, a client
    referred to me by my massage therapist friend Deb, I was told how much
    to charge, too... I think I might have charged less, but Deb said I was
    easily worth that much and not to worry about whether or not the client
    could afford it.... :)

    In general, I found myself playing better for clients
    to whom I was more favorably inclined because they
    were simpatici or knew music or paid double.
    As with my piano teaching, I didn't really have a lot of gigs or students... just enough to have a steady trickle (not even a
    stream)...
    Eh, it probably is better for your psyche not to
    have to rush rush and scramble scramble.
    Probably... I didn't have to make a living at it... which was a good thing... ;)
    And there's that too.

    Might have had to scramble a lot more if I had....

    Oh, how romantic.... Was Traviata Puccini...?
    Traviata was Verdi. Come to think of it, this in
    fact might also have been Verdi.
    Ok, that's what I thought... Verdi had his share of that sort of
    heroines, too.... :)
    Oh, yeah. Sex sells, almost as well as death.

    And sex with death.... surefire.... ;)

    but you may have heard of him. We called him J. Loathsome
    Toad, which name he partially deserved. That was mild
    compared to the vile accusations slung against other local
    potentates such as Ozawa and Levine (most of them true).
    Yes, I heard about Levine's demise thanks to the #metoo movement...
    along with other icons....
    Nobody's perfect, but some are more imperfect
    than others, and some violated even the laxer
    norms of the day. The maestro, well, going after
    the young and vulnerable, that did not go unnoticed
    - nor uncomplained about. The rich patrons gave him
    a pass because they thought he was a great genius,
    but was he really one - I thought not, and is
    anyone a great enough genius to make up for
    ravishing children, and my answer to that is no.

    I was enough on the sidelines to not have been aware of those things happening... all I knew about was how happy the Met was to have him back
    after he'd been away because of a long illness....

    Wouldn't they need to be listed in the ingredients still, though...?
    They're often listed by brand name. I don't know
    a requirement for them to be further broken down.
    I meant on the packages for the sweeteners themselves, not when they are listed on other products.... :)
    Oh, yeah, for sure, but a certain amount
    of weasel wording is allowed even there.

    True.... We've told the story of how the official make-up/recipe for
    Peanut Butter included shortening and sugar, so if one just sold peanuts
    ground into a butter one had to call it something other than peanut
    butter... And that 2% milk is allowed to use coconut oil to bring the
    fat content up to the requisite 2%....

    Generally faster, though, as I noted earlier, Fontaine
    was the house keyboardist of the Detroit Symphony and had
    once had quite remarkable chops, so when she couldn't do
    up to tempo, the frustration showed (not to the audience,
    but to us).
    I've accompanied some musicians who were like that... not particularly a pleasant experience....
    Sometimes it's interesting, especially when it
    doesn't get out of hand. There have been
    performances that benefited from bizarre levels
    of nervous tension, angst even.

    If the adrenaline rises to meet the occasion... ;)

    That's impressive.... how long ago was that....?
    Thirty-something, when I was thirty-something. That was the
    pianist who took the coda of the Saint-Saens violin sonata at
    200 something, when it's marked at 160, and Heifetz took it
    at 180-ish. I didn't pay attention until he told me when
    listening to the recording of a performance we did in Boston.
    The "he" that told you was the pianist...?
    Yeah - he was the only he in the story except
    for Saint-Saens, who was dead at the time.

    Or Heifetz....?

    We all need places like that in our back pocket.
    Rochester tends to have a lot of that around... ;)
    Good thing is that second-tier serviceable places
    most often charge second-tier affordable prices.
    Not so much in this case... well, maybe, but we are spoiled by Fu's more than reasonable prices... :)
    The better to feed you with, my dear.

    [chuckle]

    ttyl neb

    ... A flash of light, a cloud of dust, and... What was the question?

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