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Skriven 2015-03-20 14:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: estimation 379
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-18-15  20:18 <=-

 ML>> She is essentially living off the interest of a trust from her
 ML>> father's estate, medicare supplement included. The house is paid
 ML>> for and well insulated. She'll never have to work -
 NB>> The sort of independently wealthy that some of us only aspire to in
 NB>> our daydreams... ;)
 ML> She thinks she's middle class. I figure we should compromise
 ML> and call her upper middle class.

Or maybe upper upper...  (shades of Classical Rap, with "upper upper
upper upper East Side" [g])
 
 ML>> She's maybe not a one percenter, but she's several notches
 ML>> above most of us, I reckon.
 NB>> And it sounds as if some of her richer friends probably are,
 NB>> technically if nothing else, one percenters...  :)
 ML> I believe so. But the one percenters feel dwarfed, as they
 ML> perhaps should, by the one-tenth percenters.

It's all in the perspective...   :)
 
 ML>> This chart is a quarter century old, and since then there have
 ML>> been bred peppers in the Habanero bloodline that are up to 10%
 ML>> capsaicin by weight, or 1.5 million units' worth. These are
 ML>> usually but not always given fanciful Indianish names (the
 ML>> "ghost" bit is said to be a translation of Hindi "bhut").
 NB>> Which only pushes the scale further up... not making their 3 any
 NB>> more validly higher on the scale, of course..
 ML> Given the wide distribution of the old 10-level scale, it would
 ML> make sense to have the fancy new peppers be 11 or 12 on a scale
 ML> of 10. 

That would make sense to me, too..  :)

 NB>> A newcomer to church,
 NB>> at the same table at our church dinner today, was telling how he
 NB>> was given a bottle of ghost pepper (sauce?) for his birthday...
 ML> That seems to be the most important function of that pepper
 ML> - as a conversation piece.

Indeed.
 
 NB>> Certainly has... sigh... And the effects thereof, equally ugly...
 NB>> the potholes are ridiculous...  Part of what's put me behind again
 NB>> was losing most of Wednesday to getting two tires replaced after
 NB>> destroying them in a pothole sequence under a railroad overpass...
 NB>> The tires were only about a month old... good news was that they
 NB>> were covered in full by the road hazard warranty
 ML> My brother remarked today that the potholes were especially
 ML> bad this winter, and I said that he was probably right about
 ML> that, and the out to lunch creature said that he was surprised
 ML> that I agreed with him about anything.

Perhaps he hasn't had the experience of being right all that often...
(G)  Apparently you are back in MD for the moment...  Did you happen to
ask him how he liked your concert...?  Or what occasioned his not so
characteristic trip for it...?

ttyl          neb

... CA, the Granola State - What ain't fruits is nutz.

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