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Skriven 2010-03-24 10:24:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: PECULIARITIES 948 00324
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 ML> By the way, I'd never heard of Australian Style yogurt. Hope
 ML> I never do.

I hadn't heard of it before Ruth mentioned it.  But then I hadn't
heard of "Outback" restaurants until reading of such in these pages.
 
 GJ> I'm the normalest person I know, so I judge everything w r to me.

 ML> You must live in a most peculiar world. Of course, one largely
 ML> populated by KJCJDS is by definition most peculiar.

My world is somewhat coloured by the KJCJD you know.  There are not
many KJCJDs in Australia, and fortunately his sexual preferences are
such that it is likely to stay that way.
 
 GJ> Of course, but compared with a pitcher, the bowler has the extra
 GJ> confuser input of how the spinning ball reacts when it strikes the
 GJ> ground before it gets to the batsman.

 ML> The pitcher's advantage is that the ball approaches the batter
 ML> at full speed and with full spin.

The bowler's advantage is that the ball suddenly sharply changes
direction just before reaching the batsman, with little loss of speed.
 
 GJ> I saw an interesting TV program yesterday on Adrian Antawan, the
 GJ> one-handed violinist who studied at the Curtis Institute of Music.
 GJ> Don't you have an involvement with that Institute?  He had an
 GJ> interesting technique to play pizzicato with his left hand.

 ML> Nope, I've had involvement with other institutions that look
 ML> upon Curtis with a measure of envy. Anyone, by the way, can
 ML> play pizzicato with the left hand; his execution might be better
 ML> than, say, mine, but I can do it, too. It would make sense,
 ML> though, were he to have a pizzicato tool built on as an extension
 ML> either to his bow or to whatever he holds the bow with -
 ML> presumably a device attached to a stump. Not that pizzicato is
 ML> a particularly important part of the violinist's armamentarium.

I wondered about that, but the way in which the bow clipped onto the
wrist stump prosthesis would make such a "twanger" difficult to access
quickly and accurately.  His left hand pizzicato was very effective.

I have passed on your comments re CDG airport to Leonore.  She is not
impressed.  I have been told that Poland does not produce wine, and
everyone there drinks vodka.  We have been promised a day trip from
Vienna, 60 km across the border to Bratislava, in Slovakia, to enjoy
the good, cheap food and drink there.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Violine
 Categories: Booze
      Yield: 1 servings
 
      2 oz Vodka
      2 oz Tomato Juice
      2 oz Clam Juice
      1 ds Worcestershire
           Black Pepper
           Tabasco Sauce
 
  Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a
  highball glass.
  
  cocktailtimes.com
  From: Michael Loo                     Date: 08-18-08
 
MMMMM
 

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