> > I get sick sometimes if I'm not driving, especially in a back seat. 
> 
> Before I started wandering around in airplanes, 
> I used to get varying degrees of motion sickness,
> and when circumstances forced me to quit flying
> so much, it all came back. On the way out here, 
> I tried to play Word Connect in the car, and in
> short order it was torture city.
> 
We used to have to pull so I could barf, on long car rides.  These days I
stay out of the back seat. 

> > > What's the saying, marriage is the triumph of
> > > hope over experience?
> > Remarriage - Samuel Johnson, IIRC.
> 
> Ah. That makes sense. I also found "Marriage is the 
> triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second 
> marriage is the triumph of hope over experience"
> - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) via telegraph.co.uk

I'd always heard Johnson rather than Wilde, but the Telegraph is a few
thousand miles closer to the source than I am. 
 
> > > > least less immediately disastrous.  
> > > Um, you been in New York lately?
> > Nope, and I'm not going either.  
> 
> Neither rain, nor sleet, nor urinous bums will
> keep me from my occasional visit to NYC. It's
> an acquired taste, I admit.
> 
I'll leave it to you.

> Mungbeans in Sugar Syrup
> categories: sweet, Chinese, stripped down, acquired taste

That sounds a bit odd. 
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