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So much for sparing my feelings
There, there, my sweet Max--fear not, you are greatly loved,
though perhaps worship from afar isn't always very noticeable.
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Now Maxie, you know I can't keep a secret    . And you did say "give me a ring" so nicely, too.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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In reply to:
Jackie shocked me with: As far as I know, you are the only board member who has received a proposal of marriage from another!
He told you?! He promised me he wouldn't tell anybody! So much for sparing my feelings!
I know I'm new here, but surely, if you feel you must indulge in such off-topic banter, ought it not at the very least be in "Wordplay and Fun" or, better yet, in private exchanges?
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I know I'm new here, but surely, if you feel you must indulge in such off-topic banter, ought it not at the very least be in "Wordplay and Fun" or, better yet, in private exchanges?You must be pretty new to still think that.  You see, any word uttered on this board is fair game for an off-shoot thread. Any thread has the possibility of spawning new life in a subject completely unrelated. It's a little like the parallel dimension theory. One event can spew history in a drastically different direction.
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Any thread has the possibility of spawning new life in a subject completely unrelated.Couldn't have put it better myself! Yup, nemo, even one little word can lead to numerous new posts here! And that's one of the things that makes this place so interesting: what on earth will be said next? Hey--I wonder if any of this would have any publication merits? Anu, Anu--you might have some easy money here!
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Only this morning I saw ice being delivered to the warung at the end of our street. A warung is a roadside stall selling simple meals such as fried rice or noodles, or a small kiosk selling packets of noodles, soap, toothpaste, sweets, mosquito coils, and other small essentials, including soft drinks, which are kept in a chest with blocks of ice, replenished daily. The ice is usually delivered on a handcart, something like a large squared off wheelbarrow.
Incidentally, a small internet cafe is called a warnet, short for warung internet.
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Most people I know refer to a 45rpm vinyl as a record, a 33 1/3 rpm as an album or LP
The 45 being a single song per side format would have replaced the original 78; the 33 1/3 would have replaced the multi-record album format.
I did notice the word record being used to refer to a CD in the copyright notice on a German CD (from the series, Heilige Liturgie {Musik?} der Ostkirchen) that I was listening to the other day. I'll start a general check on my CD collection.
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Venders in NY still get blocks of ice in the summer, and cover them with a heavy leather cloth-- and then uncover them to "shave" them with a small metal plane that shaves the ice and collects it--
Our shaved ice is serverd with simple fruit flavored syrup--(about $1 for a 10 oz cup, piled high) Not like the shaved ice desserts i had in Indoesian restaurants-- with sweet corn, pea flour threads, and red bean paste..
I think those to be interesting food-- but not quite dessert!
I too, (following an other post) remember the ice man comming round-- we had an electric refrigerator, but the fish monger got ice twice a week, from a big sawdust lined truck. The ice man had a big grinder, and would grind the block into chips, and we all wanted some of the ice chips.. and i was in my teens (late '60's) before we stopped getting fruits from the fruit vender on his horse drawn wagon-- the junk man had a wagon too, The grindstone man had a bike like contraption, that could either let him peddle away-- or turn the grindstone. But by the '60's he was in a truck. I still have a grindstone man that come up my block-- and all the women run out into the street with our knives drawn!-- he clangs his bell, and goes very slowly... and then stops and sharpens all my knives, and scissors too.
Its stange-- but that is one of the things i like about NY-- this big modern city still has shaved iced and grindstone's coming round, ringing their bells... a sort of timelessness.
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Our shaved ice is serverd with simple fruit flavored syrupFunny you should mention that. The past three years I've had a summer job at a Hawaiian Shave Ice confectionary along the "Loveland" bike trail. (There are plans to make this bike trail run from Cincinnati to Cleveland.) Anyway, At this place we have an ice shaver in which you simply put bags of small cubed iced and it shaves it that way. Much easier than a huge block of ice and an exposed blade. I counted once, and I think we have about 55 flavors at this place. It's a great job, especially when there are concerts in the park across the trail. And of course, no, I don't have a real job, I'm still in high school and I spend too much time here.
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