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Skriven 2006-04-05 17:37:12 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Dinner out
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-> After a couple/3 slow days (only about 10 messages, total), I got about
-> 130 today.  I think Fido wanted to wait until the wet weather cleared
-> off the island before sending too much mail. (G)
-> 
You got drowned; we got the plows out, or almost.  It snowed last night and
into this morning.  I have pictures of a daffodil with half an inch of snow
around it....  Welcome to New England, I guess.

-> Usually.  I always write in the price of the free item, throwing the
-> cashiers for a loop.  They expect to have to look it up. (G)
-> 
If I write it in, they have to look it up anyway.  
 
-> Past week or so it was only in the 70s here and wetter'n all get out!  I
-> think the system that has kept us so wet the past 6 weeks has finally
-> pushed on eastward.

We could have used some of that - March was pretty dry.  
 
-> Higher rank means more BHA & VHA (Base Allowance for Housing and
-> Variable Housing Allowance).  But, post housing, tho it may not be the
-> greatest, is a roof over out heads.  Steve found out that our area will
-> be torn down in 07, not 06 as we'd been told at one time.  I guess
-> there's an area with worse housing (can it be possible?) than what we
-> have.

You could be in my old dorm building at UConn; those were built in the late
40s.  They didn't get the fuse boxes converted to circuit breakers until
the late 1980s.
 
->  RH> I'm not sure enjoy is the word.  Swill...now there's a word.
-> 
-> Whatever term you prefer--to me, swill implies hog food. (G)
-> 
That's about right, given the quality of some coffees I've been stuck with!
 
->  RH> Yet another Yankee comes out of the closet.:-)
-> 
-> As in liking unsweetened tea?  He's always been more "Yankee"; evem tho

Yep - sweet tea is a southern thing.

-> he lived in NC a year longer than me, he never picked up a southern
-> accent.  I got one fast--and bits of it still hang on.  A friend from NY
-> we met in 77 thought I was a native southerner but pegged Steve as
-> coming from the same part of the state as he did.  Even out here I've
-> been asked where in the south I was raised. (G)

I've been known to swap out accents at times; I've got a fairly decent Beeb
Standard lurking around that pops out at odd moments.  
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