#60085
03/11/2002 12:53 PM
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I also freeze all my nuts,I resemble that remark! 
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#60086
03/11/2002 1:01 PM
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I also freeze all my nutsI resemble that remark!Must... resist... temptation...
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#60087
03/11/2002 1:28 PM
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I dunno, faldage, at least the Asp doesn't Whack all of her nuts!
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#60088
03/11/2002 2:40 PM
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Dear Faldage: Doesn't it hurt when you close the freezer lid ?
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#60089
03/11/2002 2:44 PM
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Doesn't it hurt when you close the freezer lid ?
Not if you don't get your thumbs caught.
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#60090
03/11/2002 2:48 PM
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Apple and cinnamon...
Oh how I hope that's not like whack a mole.
No, no, Ted--you whack a mole with avocados...
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#60091
03/11/2002 5:48 PM
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i'v only had turkey mole. never avacodo mole.
doesn't the almost black mole sause look unattractive with the avacado green?
(and not trying to make it a food thread, but how many whack do you need to make a whack a mole? how many does its serve? and do you serve it with nuts? (fresh, frozen or chopped?!)
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#60092
03/11/2002 9:37 PM
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Well, actually, Helen, I took "whack a mole" as a wordplay on guacamole.  Kentucky being where it is, we haven't yet had a vast influx of Hispanics, and here the word is pronounced gwa-ka-MOE-lee. I have no idea whether that is correct--I suspect not.
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#60093
03/11/2002 10:01 PM
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I originally learned origin of "avocado" as coming from Spanish for lawyer. Never heard logic of it. Looking it up now, dictionary says it is from Soanish word for "testicle". Because of its shape. That makes the name as tasteless as the fruit.
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#60094
03/11/2002 11:33 PM
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Oh Uncle Bill....avocados are very tasty fruit....I never noticed the testicular shape (till now)....hmm....not necessarily a turn-off Mais chacun a son gout, j'pense But to each his own, I think/suppose
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#60095
03/11/2002 11:43 PM
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Dear MG: your taste buds must be vastly superior to mine. I get no flavor at all. Of all the fruits available, I put them at the absolute bottom
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#60096
03/11/2002 11:55 PM
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#60097
03/12/2002 12:10 AM
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Jackie, my dear, you are probably very close with your pronunciation. All, or nearly all,unaccented Spanish words have the accented syllable in the next to last position. When a word requires the use of an accent is when the accent is not on the next to last syllable[whew-e] Everyone follow that? The brown, or dark brown sauce that of troy is refering to, mole, is a sauce made from ground dried chili peppers, cocoa, raisins, cinnamon, ground pumpkin seeds[hey, that's a nut, isn't it?], etc. and when made correctly, tastes like heaven. The stuff they sell in jars is not made correctly  . I have never seen anyone eat mole on guacamole. If they did, I would suspect a mental illness  . I love Haas avocados. Those huge bright green things they grow in Florida have no taste as far as I am concerned. I think they must be mutants.
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#60098
03/12/2002 12:26 AM
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#60099
03/12/2002 12:32 AM
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avocados are very tasty fruit....
Mais chacun a son gout, j'pense
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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#60100
03/12/2002 12:42 AM
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I'm sorry I caused your poor heart to leap for no reason. Please accept this humble human's apology. [prostrating myself at your feet-e]
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#60101
03/12/2002 2:10 AM
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Pauvre pauvre Max.
poor, poor Max
I don't understand how you are getting all these notices though. Don't we simply click reply on the last post on the thread to put in an answer.
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#60102
03/12/2002 10:45 AM
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And then you have the Chac Mool, Mezoamerican god of rain and lightning. Mool is pronounced with an accented long o and almost swallowing the l. Chac Mool was the god that figured prominently in human sacrifice. The sacrificial victim would lie on Chac's belly, face to the sky, while the priest cut out his/her heart with an obsidian knife. For some pictures of Chac Mool and other items of interest: http://www.dallas.net/~lalo/compare.html
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#60103
03/12/2002 11:07 AM
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That's one option Bel.. but in this case, Connie had already posted, so her "post" will be between mine and yours.. i can go back and click on any post...
this is were the differences between "flat" and "threaded" come into play.
i read "flat", but i tend to post threaded.. I go back to the post i want to respond to to, and click on it..
this means, i can ignore, or not reply to certain post that upset me. you should try threaded.. you might not like it.. but it will give you a better understanding.. One "way" of tracking threads in the in the subject.. while they still can be changed in threaded mode, they will tend to keep the subject (or something closely related to the original) subject.
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#60104
03/12/2002 3:40 PM
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Oh goodness! I didn't think there was anyone who wouldn't know what Whack a Mole was. This is what happens when your world is bounded by four- to six-year-olds.
Whack A Mole is an arcade game where moles po up out of holes on a console and the child's task is to whack the mole with a hammer (or perhaps just a fist). Someone above 9can't remember who it was) had made a reference to a great whack of nuts, meaning I assume a large portion.
I was puzzled by your reference to guacamole, but eventually figured you were just going on to the aboriginal word avocado, testicle. And you are perfectly correct in the pronunciation.
TEd
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#60105
03/12/2002 7:05 PM
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#60106
03/12/2002 7:18 PM
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I also. That is exactly my pattern - read flat, post threaded.
Moi aussi
parm my French
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#60107
03/12/2002 7:30 PM
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#60108
03/12/2002 8:05 PM
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Hello, max-- you made my day.. when i read your post about some flat moder clicking on your post, and your being upset about getting messages about posts unrelated to yours.. i though.. i almost never repy to any thing max has said.. his post are so complete, and so above me.. i just sit in awe.
and then, you second'd my post! wow! i am doing something right!
Bel, dear, if you follow the thread, you see how the subject matter has changed, and how the thread is broken..
Connie's post is (i think) linked to yours, and my post is linked to yours.. but my thread is not linked to connie's!
In real life we follow mutlithread discussions all the time. listening to hubby, and kids, and for kettle's whistle, and is that the door bell? or telephone? and we still can catch a word or two from the TV.
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#60109
03/12/2002 8:46 PM
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#60110
03/12/2002 9:02 PM
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actually, i think it is a newbie, problem. at first there is just so much to take in.. and when i started, it was acutally possible to go back and read all the old thread.
so i stumbled across some of the solutions.. and i began to see, you thread were organized.. and creating a mental map, and order to words, is one way i deal with dyslexia- i absolutely hate magazine article that are broken into dribs and drabs.. i want a whole page of text, please! its hard enought to read with out making things more complicated!
i can understand the threaded mode, but i have trouble reading that way.. i want each post, neatly open one after an other.. but i do sometimes use the threaded mode if i can't find a reference.
since i sometimes reply to a post that is several days old.. i really feel obligated to use threaded post. i need to go back and reread the post anyway!
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#60111
03/12/2002 9:17 PM
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At the moment it looks like you, the ASp and I are a troika
I hate to break up your troika, but I read flat and post threaded too.
I didn't always do it that way-- at some point, a thread discussion made me aware that threadnodists would appreciate it if we flatliners would click on the actual post we are responding to, not just the last post of the thread. In return, it would make flatliners happy if threadnodists would be kind enough to provide a bit of text from the post they are responding to, so that flatliners can follow the conversation properly.
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#60112
03/12/2002 10:18 PM
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Why not do both? Read flat (because it's faster), post flat (but respond to the post responded to rather than the latest one), and also quote a relevant part so that pure "flatters" will have a referent? Read by threaded mode when things get really complicated. Save mucho tiempo that way, I should think...
Ah, well. Whatever works, works.
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#60113
03/12/2002 10:55 PM
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#60114
03/13/2002 12:31 AM
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Well, I just trusted that everyone here was intelligent enough to figure things out. Guess I'll just have to talk to myself. Pffffffft !!![mooning-e] I'm doin' my best Foghorn Leghorn impression, folks, so please understand that I am making a joke.
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#60115
03/13/2002 12:37 AM
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I respond "threaded" as well (guess that makes a sextet now), but then I often include comments that relate to posts further down the list.
For example, I'm replying to Helen's original post, but referring to a sextet, because Max, Anna, rapunzel and wofa have already responded similar-like.
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03/13/2002 12:46 AM
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03/13/2002 2:13 AM
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Thank heavens I had a post already in this thread--that's the one I clicked on; otherwise I'd have been afraid to make this one. I remember the discussion Rapunzel mentioned. I said that, since I don't have response notices mailed to me, it had never occurred to me that anyone would be thinking that I was responding to something they'd said. So now, I do try to click on the one I am responding to. I do not ever go to threaded mode--those titles just go all over the screen, and, Faldage, though I thank you for your explanation then, it just isn't worth it to me to try and make any sense of threaded mode.
But I will also say that I often respond to more than one, per post--I still haven't gotten over remarks about how many posts I've made, and being accused of trying to run my numbers up. And if that bothers somebody, well then, fine, I'll stop posting for a while.
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#60118
03/13/2002 9:37 AM
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...whatever helen drives is a troika.Oh, Max. [shaking head-e] 
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03/13/2002 10:23 AM
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May I suggest that everyone stop posting from March 15th to the 25th? I will be gone on vacation and if y'all just hush while I'm gone, it'll make MY life easier when I come back Well, it was worth a try wasn't it?
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#60120
03/13/2002 11:56 AM
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Why certainly, Consuelo, we will comply with your request. [ eyes rolling e ]
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#60121
03/13/2002 5:09 PM
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At the momemt it looks like you, the ASp and I are a troika
Well, scooch over, 'cuz here's another one.
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#60122
03/13/2002 6:00 PM
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I may have misspoke. When I said that I "post threaded" I meant that I "respond to the post responded to rather than the latest one" I also make a habit of including a portion of the post to which I am replying.
[nodding head vigorously]
Indeed, Max. That way we please both Greeks and Trojans.
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03/13/2002 6:09 PM
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whatever helen drives is a troika.
a troika is some sort of vehicle? I drive it? i thought a troika was me, myself and I!
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#60124
03/13/2002 6:15 PM
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a troika is some sort of vehicle?
tsk tsk... Somebody's not reading her WADs....
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