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Skriven 2006-11-04 18:52:18 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: cheese & expertise 530
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Ho there Michael!

->  HN> Ok, the next time I go down to visit Amanda, I'm looking for this girl
->  HN> and  volunteering to sit down and try some of her "studies" (grin)!
-> 
-> With my luck I'd be stuck with Gorgonzola and Mateus.
-> 
Hah! With my luck I'd end up with velveeta and mad dog...that horrid pink 
stuff!
-> =
-> 
->  HN> Looks good on paper, er...on the screen....but like you said above, 2c
->  HN> and 10  seconds inserts reality into the equations and often the
->  HN> answers are uh, less  than stellar? It would seem to me that using an
->  HN> appropriate noodle like a  buckwheat soba perhaps would have been a
->  HN> better choice...even chowmein  noodles would have been better!
-> 
-> Chow mein noodles would have been a ton better, as they would at
-> least have been edible.
-> 
-> Of course, garnishes were not always meant to be edible - see the
-> weird and wonderful centerpieces and plate adornments from the
-> classic French banquet tables. And even pate en croute - the stuff
-> on the outside, a simple flour-water paste brushed with egg so
-> it wouldn't look pale and disgusting, wasn't meant to be ingested,
-> but so many people (American tourists, according to the books)
-> ate it anyhow that nowadays the crust is usually a decent brioche
-> dough, which has less utility in the sealing in the juices
-> department but which isn't so gross if eaten.
-> 
->  HN> shot a wide  assortment of weapons from an authentic .22 caliber 
long
->  HN> pistol made by Ned  Buntline, a sharps buffalo gun (.45 70), and 
a .460
->  HN> weatherby, to .22caliber  custom built long range target rifles. my
->  HN> very favorite guns of all time? A .303 
-> 
-> I've held but I think not shot an Enfield (father used to collect
-> military firearms, as you can guess). My favorites were the .222
-> Sako, a rifle that was beautiful if you can call a weapon that;
-> the .30 short M1 Carbine version, a useless weapon for combat
-> but the only larger-caliber weapon that didn't kick like a horse
-> and didn't make my ears ring; and the tubular magged Winchester
-> I think 72, whose main advantage was that if you just wanted to
-> go plinking, you could load up many, many .22 shorts in the
-> magazine; my father, basing his judgment on what he read, always
-> bought .22 LR, because of its superior power and accuracy, never
-> mind that you didn't need any of that for the kind of 50-yard-max
-> shooting that I did. I liked .22 shorts, they made less noise
-> than a capgun. Also liked - for their looks - the Winchester 94,
-> which looked like the Wild West with its lever, and the 70, which
-> chambered at .243 or .270 was probably the best combination of
-> accuracy and power that you could get at the time. As you can
-> tell, my father, having read that Winchesters were the best rifles,
-> wouldn't be caught dead with a Remington or anything lesser. And
-> as you can also tell, my reasons for liking a weapon are pretty
-> idiosyncratic in themselves.
-> 
->  HN> enfield sniper rifle from pre WWII;one of the most accurate none
->  HN> scoped rifles  I've ever fired, and berreta double barreled skeet gun
->  HN> that was the most  comfortable weapon I've ever held!
-> 
-> For me that honor goes to the Sako.
-> 
And I no longer have any guns in the house...but I'd still love to go shooting
!
chat with you soon
hap 
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