Cindy Haglund wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 RN> Pretend I've not seen a dog before and do your best to describe one to
 RN> me.

 CH>  Ah yes. I hold before ye (you're sitting in front of me or I'm
 CH> standing before you or something like that)... I hold here what is
 CH> called a coffee cup. It is a device; a container for holding
 CH> coffee. A liquid beverage made from the steeping of ground coffee
 CH> beans with boiling hot water.

Strange looking dog.

 CH> Now wait we could skip the coffee altogether and use a drinking
 CH> glass as our example. That way you don't have to explain water? :) 

What do they look like?

 CH> A liquid is a state of being which requires containment if you want
 CH> to control it at all, such as in drinking the liquid. Drinking
 CH> involves ingesting into the body the liquid; into the mouth, and
 CH> swallowing the liquid.

All the while hoping some doesn't go in an unintended direction.

 CH> If the container does not contain a liquid or any other such
 CH> property other than ambient air, the convention is to describe the
 CH> cup as Empty; empty of that which it is intended to contain. :)

 CH> How's that?

I still can't picture the dog.

 CH>  Of course there is but its not what we are saying isn't there. :)

You're right!  (-:

 RN> Waitress, you brought me my cup of coffee, but neglected to put the
 RN> coffee in it?

 CH>  Maybe it's only half empty. :) Er full? Now if simply brought you
 CH> a cup with nothing in it, then it wouldn't be a cup of coffee. It
 CH> would be a cup of air.

For all practical purposes, it would be an empty cup.

 CH>  OH yeah I forgot about the denizen of air. Yes. The normal flora
 CH> of air can be found on our entire skin surface for example.

I still don't know what a dog looks like.

 CH> [...]

 CH>  AH. Somebody put that word into a scrabble dictionary tho ... like
 CH> unrip. I've been wondering just how the heck you unrip something . 
 CH> some smartie said: Oh you sew it. Er.. So if you can unrip
 CH> something you can unfill it by emptying it.

"Somebody" cheated you.  The next time you get into a game of
Scrabble, everyone playing should agree on a dictionary to use other than a
Scrabble dictionary.  We use Webster's.

 RN> I'm lost.

 CH>  Then we won't find you again until February :(

I get the new season of The Closer next Tuesday.

 CH>  The only sure thing, (note comma, cute handy little thing)...
 CH> about being unsure, is that one is being unsure.

 CH> How's that.

How's what?

 CH>  OH definitely :( I have seen a really big huge flood btw but by 
 CH> no means the magnitude of the one you are referring to.

New Orleans took a big hit when the lake levees gave way.  Where I lived at
the time had no water threat.  Just lightning, tornadoes and 175MPH
sustained winds near the eye, with gusts up to 215MPH.  We had no water to
speak of in my area, but the tree damage was such that it took the power
companies two months to restore power to our area.

 RN> You would have a better chance of computing to the last digit the
 RN> value of pi.

 CH>  Cherry or blueberry?

Cold.

 CH>  What were... oh plants and WHY Them? The French? No way. I do it
 CH> due to liking tropicals and the poor dears can't take TExas
 CH> weather. IN FL all I had indoors was a very hardy philodendron and
 CH> I am happy to say the dear thing is still alive today! :) Had to
 CH> trim it a bit recently but it's growing as good as ever and better.

Because they started it.

 CH>  Though the cynic speaks: They just raise our rates when we try to
 CH> save. OH well we keep our a/c set at 78... not 32 like so many
 CH> others do... so it won't be that big a saving but sure will help
 CH> some.. especially in August.

Then your energycommissioncrooks aren't doing the job of protecting you from them.

 CH>  I put OFF on. That helps.

I don't use that stuff anymore.

 CH>  Not here they're not leaving at all. Not when they know where the
 CH> good blood is.

Where is it?  (-:

 CH>  They do in Fl too but here it's so rare to have such a problem
 CH> they don't bother.. its' like the ice problem in the wintertime.

We get that on ocassion.

 CH>  The article said something about her early films being 'horror
 CH> films' where her main line was to scream.

Cite some examples.  I can't think of any.


Regards,

Roger 
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