> > > A way to fix the pasteurization issue would be to
> > > add a touch of active yeast, preferably brewers',
> > > but perhaps any.
> > I've thought of that, but my mother would see it bubbling and pour it down
> > the sink. :-( 
> 
> One could put up a note: 
> 
> Do not pour this down the sink,
> it's much better than you think.
> If you do you'll be a fink, and
> I'll kick up a great big stink.
> 
..and that might not matter a wink.  

> > > vehicle out of a snowdrift, for example, up through 
> > > the '70s.
> > I don't usually push it more than 25 miles at a clip myself these days. 
> 
> I may not have driven 25 miles in my entire life.

I've done long distance, but it's been a while.  
 
> > > couldn't hobble away fast enough.
> > I'm betting he wasn't trying too hard either.
> 
> I didn't know either of the parties and have not 
> heard any scuttlebutt about the relationship. The
> similar May-December marriage of the Casals was
> by all accounts a success.

By then you know what you're getting into.  
 
> > > > It just turns me mildly green.  
> > > Mildly green is preferable to many other city smells.
> > Unless it's mold.
> 
> Um, you been in a city lately?

If one has a major mold allergy, the stinks are still preferable, or at
least less immediately disastrous.