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Skriven 2006-12-28 21:26:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: HOW TO GET A FR779
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 ML> Hi, Kevin:
 GJ> I shall pass on your gibes to him, in case he fails to read this.

Just piling on after one of the Daves called you "Greg."

 GJ> I thank you for your consideration in dutifully switching off power
 GJ> points after unplugging your computer, etc, for the above reason, but
 GJ> in fact, although if your Mr Edison had had his way we all would have
 GJ> been using DC, that crazy migrant Nikolai Tessla's ideas prevailed and
 GJ> now everyone uses AC domestically.

I actually know nowt about electricity, except enough to
prevent me from putting the tines of a fork into an outlet.

 GJ> I don't know who was responsible for USA settling on 110 Volts as a
 GJ> standard when the rest of the world uses double that, so needs half
 GJ> the amount of copper to do the same job.

Edison's system was 110VDC for transmission allowing for 10% loss,
producing 100V at the user end. I don't know why it stepped up.

 GJ> Interesting.  I had not come across the tasteless oil from untoasted
 GJ> sesame seeds, although I could imagine it being suitable for very high
 GJ> temperature frying.

It is too expensive for that but would work well (turning
into brown sesame oil, I suppose, on degradation). Brown
peanut oil, by the way, tastes a bit like brown sesame oil.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Peter Paul Mounds Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
      Yield: 1 servings

      1 ea Deep chocolate cake mix             1 c  Milk
      1 c  Sugar                              24 ea Large marshmallows
      1 x  -----icing-----                 1 1/2 c  Sugar
    1/2 c  Evaporated milk                     1 ea Stick (1/2 cup) butter or
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  Bake a deep chocolate cake mix in a large sheet cake pan. While cake is
  baking, mix together next three ingredients, milk, sugar and marshmallows.
  Heat until marshmallows are melted. Remove from heat and add 14 oz.
  coconut. Spread above mixture on slightly warm cake. FOR THE ICING: Cook
  until boiling. Take off heat and add 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Stir until
  chips are melted. Spread on cake. Source: Donna Ransdell, FidoNet Cooking
  Echo Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

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