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Plain TiffSir, I disagree with the premise of your suit, since any tiff you and I might have would not, by our very natures, be plain. You reside in or near the Rocky Mountains, not the plains. Respectfully submitted, Your Humble Servant, Titfor Tat PS: Here's a napkin - 
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We don't want any Tiffs on the board. Tiffs could lead to another flame war.
And dear Geoff, to show class, offer him a serviette.
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to show class, offer him a serviette.
Pourquoi? Est-ce-qu'il est Francais? I shall offer him a freshly laundered, sterilized napkin, and hope that we may avoid litigation. Hmmm... Litigate? Wasn't that a lawyer's scandal? BTW, weren't we talking about salt? Is the originator of this thread beating her head against the wall and sobbing by now?
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Oops, sorry, Dr. Bill, I thought Alexis started this thread. Ignore the previous post, please.
Now, speaking of salt, anybody want a first edition copy of Thomas Costain's novel, Below the Salt? I got one. Too darned many books!
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Dear Geoff: that business about "below the salt" bothers me. The fancy salt that the rich may have had still wasn't expensive enough to warrant insulting any guest . I wonder if it may not have been at least partly related to question of nowasheenuffy hands of guests on social lowerarchy since salt was probably in a cellar, and taken out by fingers.
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Dr bill, about being insulted (by being seated below the salt)- maybe, but maybe not.
i am a sponsering member of a local museum (ie, i give them a pot of money) they, in return, invite me to some some of the posh events at the museum, and frequently ask me for more money.
as some of the events, there are special (hidden) goings ons,(--very discrete, but still going on). do i feel insulted that i am not part of them? Nah. i give a pot of money cause i really like the museum, and what it does. and once in a while, i get to rub shoulders with the upper crust of NY society.
should i want, i could do more.. why last year, they invited me to the fall gala, a dinner dance. i could have come with date, (only $1000 per person!) or i could have bought a whole table for 10 of my nearest and dearest, for $10,000, or fancier tables for up to $50,000 (still just 10 guests)To bad you all don't live in NY-- i might have invited you!
do you think that the floral displays are the same on each table? or do you think they are different? and how much time does the president of the museum spend at the $10,000 table? and at the $50,000 table?
i never feel slighted at these functions, and yet, i am aware, there are goings on i am not privy too, and important people i never meet.
i think is fun and privledge, to be part, even at a distance,of the goings on.
Should, Queen Elizabeth, or Queen Betrice of the Netherlands, or any other monarch of the day invite me to a state dinner, and seat me below the salt, i would also feel privledged.
i know my place.. class is not the same here as in England, but we all know, $50,000 donors are treated differently than $500 donors.
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TEd says to geoff "[Y]ou will be receiving a summons to small claims court, where I am sueing you for the damages to my keyboard caused by snorting coffee out through my nose."
TEd, do you really wish to establish a precedent that puns are actionable?
And by the way, anything that came from my nose would not be a matter for "small" claims court. [batten down the hatches, Maude; there's a hurricane a-comin' thru]
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< at some of the events, there are special (hidden) goings ons,(--very discrete, but still going on). do i feel insulted that i am not part of them? Nah. I agree completely, o launcher of thousands, it's no worse than all that white writing that I can't read (sobbing into his Sunday chardonnay). lusy 
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it's no worse than all that white writing that I can't read
I can't read it either, thus the need to left click on it and drag the cursor across it so it shows up with contrast. Drat this presbyopia!
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Salt is still a very important economic item. The Jordanians have a big project isolating salt and other compounds from the Dead Sea. They get large amounts of potassiumsalts for fertilizer, and magnesium compounds for wallboard. A couple years ago Mitsubishi had plans to put a huge plant on east side of Gulf of California to make salt from seawater. There was overwhelming opposition to it on grounds it could adversely affect whale population there.
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