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Skriven 2008-10-28 23:39:20 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: corporations 125
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-27-08 15:32 <=-

 NB>> formulations, although those are even more likely to have the other
 NB>> ingredients as binders...  There's probably nothing that EVERYbody
 NB>> would be safe with, allergies being what they are...  but it would be
 NB>> nice if there were at least some workable, well-thought-out options...

 ML> But alas, lactose and cornstarch are cheap.
 
Sad, and true...

 ML> Techies and beer. A dangerous combination.

True...  ;)

 ML> One of my friends (at least, he was a friend until he threatened me
 ML> over his girlfriend - in whom I had a purely friendly interest) was
 ML> performing in Japan, and he entered a friendly challenge with a
 ML> bunch of local businessmen in a bar in Tokyo: I am not sure whether
 ML> he took one drink for each round they did, or one drink for each
 ML> drink they did; but anyhow, sooner or later, the Japanese businessmen
 ML> were looking at him with admiration and fear. This guy looks like a
 ML> Sumo - 300 lb of pure muscle, about 5 and half feet tall. But the
 ML> sounds that come out of his violin are remarkably sweet.

Some certainly have a better capacity and head for liquor than others.
And talents don't come in specified sets, either.  :)

 ML> And only once this millennium have I gotten to the floor stage -
 ML> but luckily I was visiting a Royal Ambassador suite and had a
 ML> comfy chair to stagger to. I'd only (only) had a bottle and half
 ML> of wine, but I was jet-lagged, having traveled 15000 miles that
 ML> week.

Yeah... factors such as jet-lag, dehydration, etc can affect, too.  :)

 NB>> corporate chains?  :)   My hope is that, as they contine to expand,
 NB>> they don't forget what has made them good, and that they continue to
 NB>> resist the temptations to take after the "big guys".

 ML> Indeed. So far so good, at least with the one in Virginia, which is
 ML> the envy of all those who are not within a viable drive (most people,
 ML> given gas prices).

I heard tell that some of the first in line were displaced upstate New
Yorkers, who had been missing their Wegmans frightfully... :)  But that
everyone else quickly found out why said displacees had been so little
content with the options up-to-then...  I know that when my kid was in
college in Philly-area that he suddenly realized that what he thought
was normal was REALLY hard to find...  (G)

ttyl      neb

... I'll have two brains on drugs with bacon toast and coffee.

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