bk>  My hearing isn't really bad enough for me to develop the skills
 bk>  at reading people. Been working in a high noise environment for
 bk>  30 years, where you can't hear anyone a foot away, and still
 bk>  can't read lips.

 Not to be mean but, sorry... that's what I said about 15 or so years
 ago...  :( I can read lips a bit.. it's kinda strange you know? It's
 sort of a subconscious effort ; you can be doing it and not even
 realize it. High noise is not good for anybody. Wear those industrial
 ear plugs?


 bk>  All you gotta do is speak up a bit, enunciate, and face me.

 Yup. It's funny too how some people don't 'get it' about the need to
have eye contact. Of a character who is deaf but reads lips really
well: "he can only hear if you look at him, must be he
thinks he hears with his eyes".. as a line in a story that made me
roll mine. In a sense he is 'hearing' with his eyes tho.
..............


 bk>  All I need is for them to speak up a bit. To which end I just
 bk>  mention that I am a bit hard of hearing. OTOH, in a quiet
 bk>  environment I can understand quite well. I don't even need my
 bk>  hearing aids at most concerts, as the acoustics tend to be good
 bk>  and the audience quiet.

 Background noise does count yeah. Some of the fancy pricy aids claim
to block out background noise but last I know of this only works for
the volume impaired hearing. HA's of any kind so far as I know of,
don't do much good for tone deafness. There's research going on for
the latter.. looks good! (Regenerate 'hair' cells in the ear; those
are the tone receptors. They look like hair cells, but they're not
actually hair.)
..........

 CH> Now as for delays in letting us know what was said , way
 CH> past where we can respond we need to let our loved ones
 CH> know that we'd appreciate the opportunity to respond
 CH> promptly.. You see they really don't know. We have to
 CH> shelve our dismay and teach them. Gently.

 bk>  Smack! (no? Sorry.)


 LOl. Well you know what I mean. I get so ticked off sometimes at the
 oblivious attitudes of the hearing toward the HOH/deaf/Deaf but this
 does us no good at all; we just scare them all the more if we get
 upset at the poor dears. One must be patient. Yoda says so.
....................................

 CH>  I like that. And it's cute how a TV show has yet again
 CH>  created a household word so to speak. Or rather created a
 CH>  'household word' OUT of a common word.

 bk>  Huh? Which household word?


See? It's working! You're not supposed to know you're actually using
it. OR on the other hand this may be one of those tail wagging the dog
situations. Where you innocently used the common expression "I'm Lost"
without any connection to the media hype for the tv show.
...............

 bk>  bk>>  If not, we can grill Lee about it. If he doesn't reply we'll
 bk>  bk>>  make hamburger out of him. With dehydrated onions.

 CH> I'd rather have grilled swiss with red peppers and a dab of
 CH> honey mustard. Or better: NYS style bagel; a toasted sesame
 CH> seed bagel with sweet red peppers, aged a bit of cheddar
 CH> and minced garlic toasted on top...  (HAS to be a sesame
 CH> bagel...)

 bk>  See, Cindy...

 Lee and I like good food. We're Southerners. By dog. Hey I've been in
the South for 8 years now so I think I can call m'self a Southern
Dixie Cup by now. 


 bk>  LL>> Ce doit avoir ‚t‚ ce gallon fran‡ais qui m'a obtenu perdu.
 bk>  LL>> Mais maintenant j'ai ‚t‚ trouv‚.  :)

 LL> La meilleure m‚thode est d'imbiber les oignons d‚shydrat‚s
 LL> en jus de choucroute pendant quinze minutes, pour placer
 LL> alors sure le gril, ajoutant les pƒt‚s d'hamburger, et le
 LL> cuisinier jusqu'… fait.

 bk>  lost> perdue

 perdue means "lost" really? So that means the chicken guy is lost.
Now the University in Ithaca is PUrdue... I used to get those two
mixed up. (A relative once taught there.)


 bk>  found> trouve

 AH that's in the Jabberwacky I think.

 bk>  5 minutes> quinze minutes

 good scrabble word that one. quinze

 bk>  grill> gril

 that's easy enough.

 bk>  hamburger> Pates d'hamburger
 bk>  dehydrated onions> Oignons deshydrates

  I'll just stick to the English.

 CH> ..................
,=
 bk>  My French was high school, over 40 years ago. But the only part

 You've got a good memory for it. A niece took it recently and says it
 makes her think backwards. (YOu know, transposing subject/object and
 all that.)
 
 bk>  of that I didn't get, I believe, was the Jus de choucroute.
 bk>  Juice of something. Knowing Lee it might be Juice of Crawfish.

 LOL. I know the de jour, soup de jour (soup of the day).
 Some restaurants think if they use fancy words the food will somehow
 taste better. Maybe it does sometimes. A psychological trick.

speaking of psychology remember the Heinz ketchup campaign to sell
purple/green/orange ketchup? Didn't go too well. Even it the taste
is not  altered, people like their ketchup red. Period.

If you beat a tablespoon of dish washing liquid with two cups of
water... you'll get what looks like whipped egg whites. Very pretty!
Use it to clean upholstery fabric. This reminded me that in Food ADS
they use shaving cream for whipped cream because it holds up under the
hot stage lights.

Mix veg oil and sugar together (for banana bread). Looks like
applesauce.
................

 bk>  Nah... even he wouldn't do that... would he?

 Re juice of crawfish. Yes. lee would do that. :)

 bk>  Let's see how I did, Lee can score it.

Scored crawfish ...
................

 bk>  He had a french recipe that he had lost, but now he has found
 bk>  it.

 bk>  The (meillure) classic? best? preferred? method is to soak the
 bk>  dehydrated onions in the choucroute juice, whatever that is, for
 bk>  about 5 minutes. Then place them with the hamburger patties on
 bk>  the grill. And the cuisine is complete.

 bk>  IOWA, it appears he is a purist when it comes to hamburgers. As
 bk>  am I.

 I am too. Same with chocolate.

 Y'all won't believe this but a friend of the daughter won't eat a
cookie without a glass of milk.

cindy

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