Hi Michael,

 ML> > Ever try to get your hands around a big zuchinni?

 ML> Why would I - they don't strangle easily.

Getting a better grip on it so you can swing it like a baseball bat.


 ML> >  ML> > She has always thought herself above everybody else.
 ML> >  ML> You should have got her a DNA test for
 ML> >  ML> Christmas. Surprise! You're adopted!
 ML> > No chance of that

 ML> So do you have a better explanation!
 ML> Besides sheer meanness of spirit, that is.

She was 2nd girl, 3rd (of 5) child in a small, rural community with an
equally small school. She always had the attitude that she should have
been a first child, and that the school should have offered more classes
than it did (no AP or other honors). School did its best with what it
had (I think very few teachers had anything beyond a BA or BS; a few had
a MA or MS.) and her birth order was what it was.

 ML> >  ML> > I had something similar with a tooth back when we were in AZ
 ML> but the >  ML> > dentist had seen the situation maybe 5 times before
 ML> in his practice. >  ML> On the other hand, that was probably
 ML> >  ML> before info was so easy to find on the
 ML> >  ML> Internet.
 ML> > Yes, it was in the very early days of internet. He'd personally not
 ML> seen > the situation but maybe 5 times before.

 ML> One can "see" a lot more things now without
 ML> having to see them.

Quite so!


 ML> > Those would have left you with worse sight than pre surgery.

 ML> You've encountered me pre-surgery, and my
 ML> eyes were pretty useless for distance.
 ML> True, the fear was that the result would
 ML> have been worse than that, but that would
 ML> have meant the need for the white cane
 ML> rather than the option for one.

Bottom line is that some sight is better than none.


 ML> >  ML> > We've had enough not quite expected results to know better
 ML> than to >  ML> > expect perfection.
 ML> >  ML> Part of it is the docs' putting
 ML> >  ML> themselves up on a pedestal of can do
 ML> >  ML> no wrong.
 ML> > Depends on the doctor.

 ML> As with politicians and doctors, one rat
 ML> dropping spoils the whole pot of rice:
 ML> a probably apocryphal proverb attributed
 ML> to Confucius by Peter Pauper.

 ML> >  ML> The blender won't make anything similar
 ML> >  ML> to panko, which is kind of grated.
 ML> > IOW, switch from the blender to grating the crusts for more of a
 ML> panko > outcome?

 ML> The blender doesn't seem ideal for any but
 ML> fine crumbs. The charm of panko is that it's
 ML> chunky and irregular and holds lots of air.

I like fine crumbs for most things, the panko is used less often.

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> Perhaps higher than draft or farm or food
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> animals, but I have the feeling that
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> household pets and guard animals were
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> probably treated better than the poor,
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> being less expendable.
 ML> >  ML> > Usually no household pets in poorer families; most of them
 ML> were >  ML> doing > well to have any sort of animal.
 ML> >  ML> We weren't talking about poorer families
 ML> >  ML> to begin with!
 ML> > True, but I don't think many of the gentry had many animals besides
 ML> > horses unless they were very upper class.

 ML> Bringing us back to our original topic, which was
 ML> the tables of the rich.

Round and round we go........


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