Hi Michael,

 ML> > It can be useful at times, other time, downright
 ML> > bothersome. Also depends on if you're the stubborn
 ML> > party or the one being stubborned against. (G)

 ML> In little things, it's almost always an annoyance.
 ML> In big things, it can be characterized as persistence
 ML> or principle; it still may be an annoyance, but it's
 ML> also necessary.

Quite so! When we were in Germany, we could use coupons at the PX or
commissary up to 6 months past expiration date. One February 27 or 28, I
pulled out one that had a Sept. 1 expiration date, cashier tried to tell
me it was expired. I held my ground; she called in her boss who finally
figured out that I was right. Our girls were with me--embarassed them to
all get out--but I made my point, was right and stuck to it. (G)


 ML> >  ML> Why a fireball - whose idea was that in the
 ML> >  ML> first place?
 ML> > It was part of a bag of candy treats--don't remember if it was a
 ML> > birthday party take home or what but it was my first experience with
 ML> That's peculiar.
 ML> > Not really for my time and place.

 ML> Peculiar that you were made to sit there until it
 ML> was all done and with nothing to cool your mouth
 ML> down. No wonder you didn't try another one until
 ML> you were an adult.

At that point there were 5 of us kids and only Dad was working, at a
somewhat low paying job but one he loved. Money was tight so we were
limited as to how much milk (and other things) we were allowed at meals.
Eight ounces (give or take a ml or 2) or one glass was the limit; it
didn't go far when you'ld been sipping it thruout the rest of the meal
before having the fireball. But, I survived and re-enforced the fact
that chocolate was my sweet of choice. (G)

ML> Mushrooms, a big waste of money.
 ML> > Handy for things like a spur of the moment
 ML> > decision to have pizza or some of my odds and
 ML> > ends of this and that meals. A can of mushrooms
 ML> > helps stretch whatever's being mixed together.

 ML> To me the price is unconscionable and
 ML> the flavor wanting. That goes for fancy
 ML> canned mushrooms as well - straws, enoki,
 ML> and the rest. Cepes, maybe they're okay
 ML> if preserved in oil.

I'm not expecting gourmet, just a basic addd in/on.

 ML> Green Giant offered a very good corn product at
 ML> one time. It was a solid-packed Niblets that
 ML> actually tasted like food. Also, I use canned
 ML> creamed corn for fritters.
 ML> > We don't do corn here, remember?

 ML> I won't buy corn for you. But for me,
 ML> no reason not to.

No reason at all for you to not buy it. Steve has told me that he won't
mind if I buy corn on the cob (in season only) for myself but I rarely
do. I know how much he likes it and I don't want to enjoy it in front of
him.

 ML> > disclose what was in the dish, the child (or adult) is none the
 ML> wiser.
 ML> But doesn't learn!
 ML> > hey may, with enough exposure. OTOH, they may not,
 ML> > like me and my siblings with candied sweet potatoes.

 ML> Though the experience must have been very
 ML> unpleasant, because you don't do uncandied
 ML> ones either, apparently to this day.

No, I don't like them in any way, shape, form or fashion.

 ML> in), veterans were issued V or DV plates that
 ML> gave them extra privileges.
 ML> > They still don't get the handicap parking
 ML> > priviledge unless they have that tag to the
 ML> > best of my knowledge. Our younger daughter
 ML> > has a V plate, doesn't get anything out of
 ML> > it that we know of.

 ML> It would take a cop with balls of steel to
 ML> tag a V plate.

If it was deserved, then the cop would be doing his/her duty to tag a V
plate.

 ML> > I'd say that our generation is a mix of
 ML> > technologically capable and backwards.
 ML> > Don't know what the split would be but
 ML> > there is a definate divide in technological
 ML> > competence.

 ML> We represent one end of that divide, with
 ML> the sysops and former sysops mostly on the
 ML> other.

And Steve is on the opposite end of the divide than me.

 ML> I've seen them, just not often, mostly as I
 ML> recall on the x00 series buses.
 ML> > I rode buses, U-bahns and S-bahns, depending
 ML> > on where I was going.

 ML> Only once do I recall seeing a ticket checker
 ML> on the U-Bahn in Germany. In other places, Zurich
 ML> and so on, they stroll around but mostly don't
 ML> check, only swinging their ticket punchers and
 ML> looking for likely scammers. On intercity trains

Then too, I lived over there for 5 1/2 years, not just visited.

 ML> they of course come by on every trip, but that's
 ML> another kettle of fish.

Exactly! Snapper, not mullet. (G)


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