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 ML> in in addition. It's an interesting document, with 7 Singapore
 ML> visas as well as other oddities.

The States are among those countries whose citizens are given
instant admittance without prior application (I have no doubt
that the passenger manifests on the flights and cruises are
scrutinized computorially beforehand by the government, though)
- the visa applied while-u-wait, which in my case has usually
a matter of less than thirty seconds. But I have on several
occasions seen people turned away at immigration, to what
eventual fate I shudder to guess.

 GJ> Mine is still fairly empty.

You will have to fix that then.

 I was most upset that my last passport
 GJ> was destroyed instead of being returned to me, as it has some never to
 GJ> be repeated visa stamps, such as the full-page Portugese one for East
 GJ> Timor, saying I arrived as crew on the ship Nimrod.

Probably some kind-hearted official who thought he was doing
you a favor and shielding you from inquiries about your smug
druggling past.

   Shortly
 GJ> afterwards, the country became Indonesian, then independent.  It
 GJ> struck me that the smaller the country, the larger the visa stamp. 
 GJ> Tiny Nauru is another which gives full page work visas.

My only full-page visa was from Taiwan. I think I got two of them,
but I have no idea where my old passport is to check. Perhaps it's
been shredded, too?

 GJ> After living through the Depression, my parents would be most upset if
 GJ> they were alive to see the stuff many people leave on their plates.

Food waste (other kinds, too) cause me a certain anxiety as well.

 ML> The meats in general were lackluster, sorry, lacklustre. The lamb
 ML> and beef in particular were, as I recall, good looking but nasty
 ML> tasting.
 GJ> That place has definitely gone downhill, and therefore I am not likely
 GJ> to take visitors there again.  There are plenty of other good eateries
 GJ> in Adelaide, competing for my custom.

Considering that you could pay a third of the amount and eat
well at a respectable restaurant. And rebate $10 to Leonore
so she could buy her fill of smoked salmon.

 ML> The oysters were excellent; I had two dozen and should have made
 ML> my entire meal of them. Pity the wine I was drinking was a Shiraz.
 GJ> There was nothing done to the oysters except opening them, so they
 GJ> were good, if you didn't mind the occasional shell chip.  Our local
 GJ> oysters are very flavoursome.

Those were Tasmanian: does that count as local or globally sourced?

NUCLULAR TASMANIA WOMBAT
cat: booze
yield: 1 batch

1/4 Coconut Rum
1/8 Blue Curacao
1/4 lemonade mix
1/4 cranberry mix
1/8 orange juice

Mix and serve iced.

Steven E. Foster, Trash Can Punches

[a neat way of finessing the problem of whether to spell it
"nuclear" or "nucular"]
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