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Skriven 2015-03-18 13:34:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: sing a new song 350
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-13-15  11:34 <=-

 ML>> It's today 3:45 pm. Wish me luck.
 NB>> Hope it went well... I've been quietly wishing you luck right along..
 NB>> ;) And deciding against saying such traditional things as "break a
 NB>> leg", given the weather and all... (G)
 ML> Well, I did come close enough to breaking an elbow.

You did indeed... and reinforced my inclination to avoid the saying. ;) 
 
 ML>> It's short by 1.9", and the season is coming to a close.
 ML>> See tinyurl.com/rulerruler to get the ins and outs of the
 ML>> measuring system.
 NB>> Just need another major storm to dump another foot on the proper
 NB>> measuring site... that would clinch it for sure... ;)
 ML> Is that what is referred to as an abundance of caution?
 ML> 2.0" more would do the job.

Nope, an overabundance of whatever...  I heard that Boston did in fact
clinch the record, and while you were still there, even...  :)

 ML>> seemed really reserved, got enthusiastic about this meal and
 ML>> commented animatedly on the cornstarch crust and the frying. I
 ML>> thought, I could love this girl (my favorite in the past was her
 ML>> tart-tongued and more dynamic sister). Unluckily or luckily she's
 ML>> engaged, plus I'm a decade older than her mother.
 NB>> Maybe it was the wine loosened her tongue..?  Probably just as well
 NB>> she's already engaged... :)
 ML> Not to say she's any kind of dummy - she has a BA and I
 ML> think an MBA from Cornell. I just got invited to her wedding.

So you are held in high regard... :)  I didn't get any impression that
she'd be a dummy... reserved doesn't mean stupid (often quite the
opposite, actually)... ;)
 
 ML>> They all had the "Waldorf" salad, but I said no salad at all,
 ML>> which caused some amused conversation at table.
 NB>> I'd have passed on it, too... for obvious reasons... :)
 ML> There was also a mixed greens option. Is your condition severe
 ML> enough that you'd get adverse reactions if, say, a knife used
 ML> to cut apples were immediately used to cut your onion or tomato?

Mixed greens I'd probably pass on too... since raw greens tend not to
digest well for me (except with Fu's salad dressing, full of ginger)...
I'm not sure to what extent if any I'd get a reaction to the above
situation..  It probably would make a difference how much apple juice
got onto the other foods...  I can usually pick apple pieces out of
things and eat the rest, so perhaps the dose would be small enough not
to trigger...  :)

 NB>> Sigh.  A case in which bacon didn't improve things... ;)
 ML> I always wondered about bacon-wrapped filet. The flavor of the
 ML> meat is rather weak to begin with, and having it obliterated,
 ML> well you might as well spend 1/8 as much and eat ham.

It's the prestige thing, I suppose... ;)  Looks fancy, who thinks about
what it does to the taste...?

 NB>> I have a friend that is allergic to bacon...  
 ML> On the regular menu one of the disclaimers says something
 ML> to the effect of Please inform your server if anyone in
 ML> your party suffers from any allergies to food. Being allergic
 ML> to bacon, that's rough; only thing I've heard of worse was
 ML> the father of my high-school dreamboat, who became allergic
 ML> to onions and garlic.

My aunt was allergic to onions... then she got pregnant, and the allergy
went away... Before that, it was pretty bad... I remember once Mommy
cooking up a big mess of onions just before one of her visits to get rid
of them out of the house... it backfired, as enough was left in the
(clean) pot to trigger the allergy... 
 
 ML>> It is; remember the old toast - Here's to old Boston, the land of
 ML>> the bean and the cod - where the Lowells speak only to Cabots,
 ML>> and the Cabots speak only to God.
 NB>> I'm not sure I've heard that before... but certainly does sound
 NB>> authentic... ;) 
 ML> I forget whether I got the Lowells and the Cabots backward
 ML> in that rhyme - I've met one or two of each variety and found
 ML> them substantially unnotable.

So it doesn't matter much if they are too snooty to talk to anyone
else... ;)

ttyl       neb

... Psychosclerosis: hardening of the attitude.

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