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I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but when I did my exams at the end of high school, the back of the cover page of the exam booklet always said "This is a blank page." We were explicitly told by our teachers not to write "not anymore" or "no it's not" on that page, as the assessor's had seen it so many times that we might put them in a bad mood. I'm not sure how much of an effect this warning had on us. Probably not much.
Anyone else have anything similar worth sharing?
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I've seen ones that read, "This page intentionally left blank". [shrug]
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The blank page gives the right to dream. Robert Frost.
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I was once involved in putting together a book of recipes garnered from the people who worked at my company. My task was to organize the pages so that everything could be printed out on 8-1/2X11 paper 1 with two pages per side and everything would come out right when we piled up the printed sheets and bound them into a whole. Somehow my powers of conceptual detection failed me and we ended up with no page numbers 11-48. At that point in the book we inserted the text: Pages 11 through 48 intentionally omitted 1. Slightly shorter and slightly wider than A4 paper
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..leaving people to muse, "they left out all of the ____ recipes."
-joe (fill in the blank) friday
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..leaving people to muse, "they left out all of the ____ recipes."
A recipe for stone soup!
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..leaving people to muse, "they left out all of the
blanc-mange recipes."
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Darned right! Another food thread?! [mock warning glare e]
Edit: actually, I just finished dinner, having made a new recipe: mango chicken jicama lime mint oil sriracha mixture on lettuce wraps. It was quite good.
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jicama sriracha, nothing wrong with food words. So, what's in the sriracha?
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dragons,jicama,sriracha?? I give you the serious blank stare.
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So, what's in the sriracha?From the Huy Fong website ( link): "Sriracha is made from sun ripen chilies which are ground into a smooth paste along with garlic and packaged in a convenient squeeze bottle." IIRC the ingredients on the (US-made) bottle are also in Dutch (for sale in Indonesia). [Addendum: Nope, Vietnamese, Chinese, English, French, and Spanish\ ( link. But I have seen Dutch on the labels of some jarred or tinned foods made in and for distribution throughout Asia. I'll bring my camera next time I got to Ranch 99.]
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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dragons,jicama,sriracha?? I give you the serious blank stare.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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A chili sauce, trendy I read and looked up images. A very exotic brand name.
Thank you. I thought it was a real word.
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I thought it was a real word.
Well, it is a real word. The brand name comes from a Thai toponym Si Racha. I think of it as Asian, but it's manufactured in Southern California.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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{Si Racha, a town in Chonburi Province, Thailand
Amphoe Si Racha, the district surrounding the town
Sriracha F.C., a football club based in Si Racha
Sriracha sauce, a sauce originating from the town, which has become a genericized term for several chilli sauces}
Then what would the addition of the r stand for? Does the r stand for 'from' maybe?
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