#52416
01/11/2002 4:47 AM
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Today, Saturday, is the most sentimental of days.
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#52417
01/11/2002 5:05 AM
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#52418
01/11/2002 5:18 AM
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Anything you can edit...
Why is Saturday sentimental?
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#52419
01/11/2002 6:51 AM
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Yes, Saturday is a friendly day, too. You might even say it's a good 'friend' of mine
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#52420
01/12/2002 5:56 AM
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For belMarduk? For Jackie? They both need our best wishes. Or were you thinking of the four months since the WTC attack?
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#52421
01/12/2002 6:52 AM
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I sincerely wish all the best for my two mini-wapaloo buddies. May they both feel much much better as of yesterday. Kisses for boo-boos where needed.
Connie
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#52422
01/12/2002 1:52 PM
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And another signature here on the get well card--speedy recovery and speedy mending.
Heart to heart,
WW
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#52423
01/12/2002 2:29 PM
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Actually, Geoff, it is appropriate for all three...but I did have one of our board buddies in mind.  Feelin' better even as we speak, I'm sure!
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#52424
01/12/2002 3:22 PM
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Hope all is well with everyone!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#52425
01/12/2002 11:47 PM
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Sending best wishes and prayers where they are needed most.
Angel
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#52426
01/13/2002 12:37 AM
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Is anyone else still in the dark about what we're talking about here? I sure am.
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#52427
01/13/2002 5:07 AM
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The lady in question posted about an hour ago in Misc/Over-correction. Welocme back, Jackie! A thousand !
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#52428
01/13/2002 4:57 PM
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I sincerely wish all the best for my two mini-wapaloo buddies.That would be our two...  JazzO - I think they missed thier flew shots this year. Get well greetings to anyone who isn't! Oh, and Happy Birthday to any one who is! (celebrating a birthday, of course)
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#52429
01/14/2002 9:55 AM
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Welcome back, Jackie!!
Big kiss and an ever-so-gentle hug!
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#52430
01/14/2002 11:41 PM
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Is anyone else still in the dark about what we're talking about here? Count me in, Jazzo - in the dark and out of the loop apparently. I don't have a clue what this thread is about, starting with Saturday a sentimental day.  Anyone care to elucidate? later edit: And how did we get from Saturday to a get well wish? I'm SO confused....
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#52431
01/14/2002 11:59 PM
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That would be our two... Didn't want to put words in your mouth , 'specially since as far as I know Jackie is the only one with special permission to speak for you  .
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#52432
01/15/2002 12:06 AM
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OK, I give. Why was Thursday Saturday? (etc etc)
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#52433
01/15/2002 12:18 AM
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Why was Thursday Saturday? Because that Sweet WO'N was being considerate of me, and edited his Thursday post without realizing the anomaly therein. [kiss] to you, Sweet WO'N.
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#52434
01/15/2002 12:47 AM
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Because that Sweet WO'N was being considerate of me, and edited his Thursday post without realizing the anomaly therein.
Oh, ok. Got that, JazzO and nancyk? [still dark]
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#52435
01/15/2002 1:35 PM
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OK, I *finally get it. Speedy recovery, Jackie, and don't choke on any wooden pretzels!
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#52436
01/15/2002 8:51 PM
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Oho, so preztels come in bottles these days, do they?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#52437
01/15/2002 10:16 PM
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Oho, so preztels come in bottles these days, do they?
I dunno about preztels. Are they related to borax-poking?
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#52438
01/16/2002 7:33 AM
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>Oho, so pretzels come in bottles these days, do they?
Or so the great British public might believe, according to yesterday's newspapers. Most of the papers that I saw on the news-stand carried a picture of a pretzel alongside Mr President on the front page to illustrate the news story because many (I hestitate to say most) people here do not know what a pretzel is!
Now if Tony Blair had been eating a chip buttie .....
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#52439
01/17/2002 5:43 AM
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In reply to:
many (I hestitate to say most) people here do not know what a pretzel is
Some sort of American nut, I think.
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#52440
01/17/2002 6:02 AM
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These people talking about pretzels are making me thirsty.
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#52441
01/17/2002 11:36 AM
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Some sort of American nut, I think.
Ooh, Bingley--you may be hearing from A Certain Someone about that little remark! [twinkling eyes e]
Ok, Jo, I'll "bite": what's a chip buttie?
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#52442
01/17/2002 1:02 PM
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Oh, Jackie, you poor thing. Such a sadly neglected education ...
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#52443
01/17/2002 5:41 PM
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Oh, Jackie, you poor thing. Such a sadly neglected education ... Well, for heaven's sake, give me one, then...long as they ain't musk-flavored.
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#52444
01/21/2002 2:12 PM
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A french-fries sandwich , in my case obscenely smothered in Heinz tomato ketchup(nothing else will do) it is an artery-clogging comfort food of the highest water! . I have no idea why or when the word "butty " became popular.
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#52445
01/21/2002 3:29 PM
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Such a sadly neglected education ... A french-fries sandwichRather happily neglected, I should say. Methinks 'tis folly to be wise.
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#52446
01/21/2002 10:39 PM
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A French fry sandwich - oh my gosh, in Québec, in my Dad's day, they used to eat guédilles on Fridays because they weren't allowed to eat meat (a Catholic thing). These were french fries in a hotdog bun - french fry sandwiches.
Is it a religious thing for you too?
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#52447
01/22/2002 2:59 AM
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Also re guédilles
My religion forbids me to eat fries [frites] on bread, also to eat them with ketchup (unless excessively dry), and positively not with mayonnaise, which I understand is popular in some heathen lands.
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#52448
01/22/2002 5:52 AM
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I must admit I was somewhat taken aback the first time I came across the practice of dunking chips in mayonnaise, which was when I was living in Spain. I soon came to embrace it, though.
Bel, I don't think chip butties had any religious origin, although they have been accorded near divine status by some.
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#52449
01/22/2002 8:07 AM
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>Chip butties, bacon butties, jam butties, cheese butties, ham butties ... Amazing, you don't get chance to look for a few days and you're all off again! Maybe Bel is right and the chip buttie does have religious significance. It has always been claimed by Manchester (although Liverpool, see below, could just as easily claim it) and I really wouldn't be surprised if it was served up on a Friday to those who couldn't afford fish and chips (y'all know that chips are fries and crisps are chips). Food thread items:There was a discussion on the radio yesterday about the role of high fat foods (like dripping) in the days when people expended more energy in their daily lives - these days people eat just as much fat, it is just hidden in processed foods.
The buttie bit is easy - it just relates to the bread and butter, although where I came from a buttie would always be a single piece of bread (white sliced!) folded with a filling inside, rather than a sandwich which tends to have two slices piled on top of each other and cut. It is especially important in a chip buttie, otherwise the chips and melted butter ooze out. A large bread roll or barm cake (Manchester) is even better, although for me a chip buttie is now a luxury food reserved for very rare moments of comfort deficit.Interestingly Jackie isn't the only person in Louisville with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Brit speak: Butty: a sandwich, i.e., buttered bread. Source: LS2,SL http://www.louisville.edu/~tavan001/MerseytalkB.html
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#52450
01/22/2002 1:49 PM
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...It is especially important in a chip buttie, otherwise the chips and melted butter ooze out.
You mean, you take the healthy potato, cut it, deep fry it in fat, then put it on bread and drench it in melted butter? Exactly what is your cholesterol count anyway? Or is it, as you say, "a luxury food reserved for very rare moments of comfort deficit" and not eaten on a regular basis?
And, by the way, my favorite way to have french fries, yeah, I know...the cholesteral thing is dipped in blue cheese dressing. Especially good when served with the spicy chicken wings we have here in Buffalo. They are NOT called Buffalo wings. Buffalos do not have wings, folks!
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#52451
01/22/2002 2:30 PM
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They just cannot get wings right in the UK, one of my favourite things ( there were many) about my visit to NY
for the Lennox Lewis / holyfield fight was the buffalo wings and the HUGE steak sandwich I consumed in the Pig and Whistle on west 47th
mmmmmmmmm..............wiiiiiiiinnnnnngs
( I am now drooling a la Homer)
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#52452
01/22/2002 2:45 PM
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Harrumph®. At least Jo (aka jmh) had the good grace to dress her food offerings in white. 
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#52453
01/22/2002 3:04 PM
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>You mean, you take the healthy potato, cut it, deep fry it in fat, then put it on bread and drench it in melted butter?
Ducking for cover Almost right. We butter the bread and then add the deep fried hot potato so that the butter melts on contact - actually the whole point. Divine and wicked like any taste from childhood sadly replaced by more austere eating habits. My children will probably feel the same about pizza when they finally have to reduce their intake.
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#52454
01/22/2002 3:33 PM
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not with mayonnaise, which I understand is popular in some heathen lands.
Thank the gods for heathens!
The yumsaroolianest way to eat fries.
Of course, ketchup does have natural mellowing agents.
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01/22/2002 3:39 PM
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