Santa calls...

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers

>So claims of a Geordie past are exaggerated?
>

Oh no. I was born & brought up in Geordieland. However, the ancestral roots are
part-Irish, part-Scot & part-German. I was not allowed to ever forget the
Scottish part ;-)

Cheers, helen s


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David Martin

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
>>Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..
>
>
> Obviously you can't do it correctly so they are not reduced to a mush ;-)

Get pan of water to boil, take sprout, say 'that is a pan of boiling
water'. Sprout is now cooked.

Enjoy

;-)

...d (off to peel sprouts ready for the morrow.)

Patrick Herring

Mark McNeill <marknospam33@gesualdo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

| Response to Jon is Away!:
| > Bizarre one this. I found that people gave me much more room when
| > riding a trike.
|
| I think just about everyone finds this.

Perhaps it's because they think you might possibly be Prof Pat Pending
and about to metamorphose into a flying boat or something.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph.html

Pete Biggs

David Martin wrote:
> dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
>> so all I have to do is boil the brussels & carve the meat!
>
> Noooo! Steam them gently until they think about being a bit soft.
> That's long enough (unless you got the monster sized ones which never
> cook right.)
>
> Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..

Sprouts can be lightly steamed in the back pocket during the ride, and
instead of carving up a big bird, perch bite-size goslings atop Lumicycle
35W lamps to roast nicely.

~PB

Velvet

Pete Biggs wrote:
> David Martin wrote:
>
>>dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
>>
>>>so all I have to do is boil the brussels & carve the meat!
>>
>>Noooo! Steam them gently until they think about being a bit soft.
>>That's long enough (unless you got the monster sized ones which never
>>cook right.)
>>
>>Boiling non-root vegetables should be banned..
>
>
> Sprouts can be lightly steamed in the back pocket during the ride, and
> instead of carving up a big bird, perch bite-size goslings atop Lumicycle
> 35W lamps to roast nicely.
>
> ~PB
>
>

:-D

And of course you've probably got spuds on the bike already...

--


Velvet

Simon Brooke

in message <20041224090620.06450.00001809@mb-m22.aol.com>,
dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers ('wafflycathcs@aol.compomcom') wrote:

> Santa, is that you?

I have no comment to make (besides envy).

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

Carol Hague

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers <wafflycathcs@aol.compomcom> wrote:


>
> I am now the proud owner of a Trice Ice T.

Oh, splendid! Welcome to the Dark Side :-)

So does this mean you'll have to modify your logo to be "Fat Bird On A
Trike" then <grin>

<snippage>
>
> p.p.s. Darth Kevin is a jolly and kind chappie.

He is, isn't he? All the better to lure people to the way of the Sith
:-)


--
Carol
"Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"

Carol Hague

Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:


> Blimey, three in one day - I've been reading too much Terry Pratchett,
> haven't I?

It is not possible to read too much Terry Pratchett :-)

--
Carol
"Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"

Carol Hague

Dave Kahn <dkahn400@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


> Wise words. I suspect the reason so many people claim to hate sprouts is
> that they've always been given the boiled-to-death version. A properly
> cooked sprout is delicious.

Quite agree. I could never stand sprouts until I started cooking them
myself - previously I'd only had ones which had been boiled until they
screamed for mercy and then boiled a bit more to be on the safe side.

Having said that, I do boil mine, just not for very long.

--
Carol
"Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:22:10 +0000, carol@wrhpv.com (Carol Hague)
wrote in message <1gpeyn4.1qbwuy51w9aig7N%carol@wrhpv.com>:

>It is not possible to read too much Terry Pratchett :-)

In aggregate, maybe, but within a defined period of time it
undoubtedly is. Though not to anything like the same extent as with
Robert Rankin.

Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers

>I have no comment to make (besides envy).

Well if you ever come down to these foreign parts, Simon, I'll let you have a
go ;-)

Cheers, helen s


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dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers

>So does this mean you'll have to modify your logo to be "Fat Bird On A
>Trike" then <grin>
>

It'll be Fatbirdonatrikewithyouinatrice ;-)


All I need now is a flag of flourescent pink, with a one-eyed black cat on it,
and I'm sorted!

Festive cheers, helen s


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Carol Hague

Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:22:10 +0000, carol@wrhpv.com (Carol Hague)
> wrote in message <1gpeyn4.1qbwuy51w9aig7N%carol@wrhpv.com>:
>
> >It is not possible to read too much Terry Pratchett :-)
>
> In aggregate, maybe, but within a defined period of time it
> undoubtedly is. Though not to anything like the same extent as with
> Robert Rankin.

Well Rankin's not nearly as funny IMO. I forced myself to read all of
_Armageddon, The Musical_ and got the impression that he was way too
impressed with his own cleverness. _The Antipope_ was rather better
though. And, to inject a smidgeon of on-topicness, it features Marchant
the Wonder Bike :-)

Jasper Fforde suffers a bit from "look how clever I am! " syndrome too,
but not nearly as much as Rankin - plus he writes much more sympathetic
characters which helps a lot.
--
Carol
"Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"

David Martin

Carol Hague wrote:

> Well Rankin's not nearly as funny IMO. I forced myself to read all of
> _Armageddon, The Musical_ and got the impression that he was way too
> impressed with his own cleverness. _The Antipope_ was rather better
> though. And, to inject a smidgeon of on-topicness, it features Marchant
> the Wonder Bike :-)

I'd go along with that. Pratchett went through a phase when he wasn't so
funny (IMHO) but seems to have reverted to form with the more recent
books. Rankin seemed to be trying too hard to be funny, rather than
creating characters and an environment that is in itself funny.

...d