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| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:48AM +1000 On Sat, 2 May 2020 04:57:11 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton >Compare your spelling "you're IQ" with my spelling "your IQ". >I don't generally bother correcting people's grammar or spelling on Usenet, >but this was too delicious to resist. Shall we continue this conversation in YOUR third language? Oh wait, you don't even have a second one. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:47AM +1000 >That was just speculation on my part. Dutch people wear >wooden shoes so it seemed natural that young babies might >wear paper shoes until they start walking outdoors? :) Only die-hard farmers wear wooden shoes :) |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:48AM +1000 On Sat, 02 May 2020 11:05:56 -0600, U.S. Janet B. <JB@nospam.com> wrote: >>Americans and post about something you actually *cook". Oh wait, you don't. >>Jill >Thank you Jill! Thank you for what? She doesn't even quote what I was commenting on. Dummies. |
| Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: May 02 12:59PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 3:16:25 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote: > replace a single dinner plate? Wow. Guess I got a deal. :) > I've yet to break any of them. > Jill Those are quite pretty. I only have everyday dinnerware. I've never seen the need for anything else. Cindy Hamilton |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 02 01:20PM -0700 Here's mine. https://i.postimg.cc/6qWXbqyT/Spring-Floral.jpg At least 35 years ago my bank was offering a 5-piece place setting for around $5 with every $25 deposit a customer made. My brother was picking me up a place setting every week and I was also getting a place setting. I was able to get service for 12 along with four platters, several serving bowls, a covered casserole, creamer, and sugar bowl as well as a covered butter dish. The bank offered two patterns but for the life of me I cannot remember what the other pattern looked like. |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 02 04:44PM -0400 On 5/2/2020 3:59 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: > Those are quite pretty. I only have everyday dinnerware. I've never > seen the need for anything else. > Cindy Hamilton I get what you're saying. I mostly don't use the other dinnerware I have. I honestly don't know why my mother had so many sets of dinnerware. It's not as if she entertained or had big family dinners. I gladly gave my oldest brother the Noritake bamboo pattern china after she died. No one wanted what we grew up with as her everyday Desert Rose Franciscan ware so it's in the kitchen cabinet. Then there is her "good" china that no one ever saw except on holidays. Oh well. I use the stuff I bought. I like the simple lattice pattern. :) Jill |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 02 04:45PM -0400 > butter dish. > The bank offered two patterns but for the life of me I cannot remember what > the other pattern looked like. Wow! A giveaway from the bank! It's pretty. :) Jill |
| jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 02 04:47PM -0400 On 5/2/2020 12:59 PM, Gary wrote: > Just in case anyone wondered. Old ugly set but I use them > myself most of the time. I don't care what they look like. > They work well. One of my brothers had that green flowered set. :) Jill |
| Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: May 02 12:55PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 3:44:51 PM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote: > know I would kill to protect my own and I would suffer for it > afterwards. > Janet US My husband has an unreasonable number of guns. He likes having stuff. (We also have an unreasonable amount of art glass for the same reason.) Don't get me started on the three bandsaws. He's got a .22 rifle for target shooting. Nice old piece with a wooden stock. He also has a .223 rifle that looks pretty damned military, but underneath it isn't much different from his .22 rifle. One trigger pull, one bullet. He likes it because his shoulder is wrecked and it doesn't have much of a kick. He took his deer with a .357 Magnum pistol because he can't shoulder a rifle big enough to kill a deer. For the most part, it's not about the gun. It's about the shooter. I'd like to see some meaningful laws in this country that would keep guns out of the hands of weirdos. A good first step would be to consistently enforce the laws that are in place. Cindy Hamilton |
| graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca>: May 02 12:36PM -0600 On 2020-05-02 9:47 a.m., Dave Smith wrote: > Ahh... the old pseudo intellectual association of fire arms and penis > size. That ranks up there with the irony of people assuming that all > cops are racists. The legislation should also have included an absolute ban on hand guns. And before you spit out your coffee, don't bother spouting that NRA crap that "it won't stop criminals" etc. That guy in Nova Scotia only became a criminal when he used the guns. |
| Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: May 02 12:57PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 3:48:13 PM UTC-4, Boron Elgar wrote: > with someone who is on the kind of pain meds your husband is on.. > As I said, don't play bullshitter with me. > . Fine. You don't respect my honest desire for information, so be it. Cindy Hamilton |
| Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 02 02:50PM -0400 On 2020-05-02 2:29 p.m., graham wrote: > He wasn't wrong! She was, and she had an agenda! Look up Eddie > Greenspan's commentary on the case in the G&M. That's the Toronto Globe > and Mail, not a RW PostMedia paper! That is a defense lawyer trying to justify plea bargains. Isn't he the same Brian Greenspan who represented some Liberal candidates who were charged with bribery? How appropriate that he should be trying to justify the PM trying to intervene in a bribery and corruption trial. Not everyone agrees with the argument the pro Liberal pro Trudeau lawyer made. https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/11783 https://lailayuile.com/2019/04/18/snc-lavalin-tried-to-manipulate-the-law-then-the-pm-and-now-you/ |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:32AM +1000 On Sat, 2 May 2020 06:00:18 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton >> tell me how to act either. >But some people do. I want the government to protect me from other people's >bad decisions. That's what it's there for. That's exactly it. Us RFC people are intelligent enough to take our own decisions based on the information. But the bloody riffraff! |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:35AM +1000 >wolf pack against Trump. Respond with your niftiest retort >but you ARE a bully just like those you don't like. >Your way is not necessarily the right way. When you become a high profile politician, you'll have defenders and detractors. It's part of the job. Not to mention the fact that Trump probably doesn't read RFC :) |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:36AM +1000 >> Oh...don't forget to go to church Sunday morning. >Do you have issues with people that go to church too? >Life is not all about YOU and what you believe. It's the hypocrisy. |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:41AM +1000 >I wouldn't mind carrying an auto with a clip while hiking >in bear country though. See an angry bear charging and >you would wish you had all ammo and the kitchen sink. Americans having a friendly discussion about what interests them the most :) |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:42AM +1000 >Remember - with this "Me Too" movement, the men are >automatically considered guilty and lose their jobs. >No trial necessary. Weinstein went to trial and is now in jail. Anything wrong with that? |
| Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 03 06:43AM +1000 >> conferences. >Yeah...for beloved Biden, he only innocently touched women >on their shoulders. Do I see a double standard here? I see one with you. |
| Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 02 02:37PM -0400 On 2020-05-02 2:21 p.m., U.S. Janet B. wrote: > https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/what-matters-may-1/index.html I went shopping at the butcher shop a couple miles down the road from me. I was amused at the sign in front..... We Have Flower and Yeast |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 02 01:27PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 1:21:37 PM UTC-5, U.S. Janet B. wrote: > https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/what-matters-may-1/index.html It's no secret that I am not a baker but I do notice when I go down the baking aisle at Kroger the flour shelves are empty. Empty every week but plenty of sugar. Cornmeal is rather scarce as well. |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 02 12:57PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 4:54:53 AM UTC-5, GM wrote: >Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)*, "Creature from the Black Lagoon" has been on TV twice with the last month on one of my satellite channels. HDNet? Besides Richard Carlson it also starred Richard Denning (the governor on "Hawaii Five-0) and the pretty Julia Adams who died last year. >Tarantula (1955), Was the first movie role for Clint Eastwood. He was the jet pilot who dropped the napalm on that 8-legged freak. |
| "itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: May 02 01:05PM -0700 On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 2:34:14 PM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote: > It was already an old movie by 1972. Heh. Walking home with all the > Spanish moss hanging from the trees... what's that? We scared ourselves. :) > Jill During WW2 my dad was working the night shift and my mother and two older brothers went to the movies to see "Frankenstein." They lived in an apartment at the back of a large house and the only thing separating those old houses were just a sidewalk. All of those old houses were quite close together. She said she could just feel the monster walking behind her between those dark houses. Hahahahaaaaaa |
| GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com>: May 02 01:13PM -0700 > >Tarantula (1955), > Was the first movie role for Clint Eastwood. He was the jet pilot who > dropped the napalm on that 8-legged freak. Ah, yes! -- Best Greg |
| GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com>: May 02 01:15PM -0700 jmcquown wrote: > >> This was a fun movie, though. I laughed when they took the crop duster > >> helicopter out over a practically barren desert. Why the heck would > >> they need a crop duster in the desert? Typical 1950's. :) Crop dusters in desert areas were used for irrigated crops...or maybe that was the only copter the production had access to... -- Best Greg |
| GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com>: May 02 01:04PM -0700 Gary wrote: > GM wrote: > > FYI just arrived in the post a SPLENDID biography of Mrs. Thatcher by Charles Moore, "Margaret Thatcher - At Her Zenith In London, Washington and Moscow"...when I finish I'd be glad to send it along to you...very entertaining...Helmut Kohl (who referred to her as "THAT WOMAN!") was somewhat afraid that she would bash him with her handbag, LOL...!!! > Like that old woman in the Benny Hill skits? funny stuff! If you want some funny parodies, google for some of the 80's UK "Spitting Images" satirical puppet shows - lacerating, and they *really* hated her, lol... Love her or hate her, Thatcher was an amazing character, you could not have invented her, she was so outrageous...reading this hefty - and multi-volume! - bio of her makes for a real page - turner, e.g. "WHAT will she say/do NEXT!?" There was one incident, when doing some negotations in a meeting, when Chancellor Kohl was so fed up with her that he "called in sick" to the meeting. A bit later in the day Thatcher was walking around the town (somewhere in Germany ISTR) and she espied Kohl enjoying sausages and beer at an outside cafe...AND their eyes met! The big towering popular Kohl was ambushed like a little kid, lol...!!! They had an "advesarial" relationship, making for some comedy "gold:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/03/germany.past Kohl tells of being battered by Iron Lady ·Former PM was 'ice cold in pursuit of her interests' · Adviser says book's claims 'complete codswallop' Luke Harding in Berlin - Wed 2 Nov 2005 "Germany's former chancellor, Helmut Kohl, yesterday gave a gripping account of his tumultuous encounters with Margaret Thatcher, recalling in his memoirs how she once told him: "We've beaten the Germans twice. Now they're back!" In the latest instalment of his recollections published yesterday, Mr Kohl recounts the furious reaction of Lady Thatcher - then Mrs Thatcher - when she discovered the Berlin Wall had collapsed. Mr Kohl, whose latest volume deals with the years 1982-1990, said Mrs Thatcher never made any secret of her hostility to the prospect of a reunited Germany. On November 10 1989, a day after the border between East and West Germany was opened, Mr Kohl made a "difficult" phone call to Mrs Thatcher, apprising her of the developments in Berlin. She was "uneasy", he said. The following month, at an EU summit in Strasbourg, Mrs Thatcher launched a "pretty hefty attack on me over the dessert", Mr Kohl says . "I told her that even Margaret Thatcher couldn't stop the Germans from pursuing their destiny." "Beside herself with rage, Thatcher stamped her feet and screamed: 'That's what you think!'" On another occasion Mrs Thatcher reached into her "famous handbag" and produced a map of Europe where she had coloured in territories lost by Germany to Poland after the second world war. "Her commentary was: 'The Germans will take all this and Czechoslovakia as well!'" More insults from "the Iron Lady" followed, Mr Kohl writes, when she was obliged in December 1989 to sign a text supporting German unity. "I will never forget Margaret Thatcher's angry observation: 'We have beaten the Germans twice. Now they're back'." In Berlin yesterday Mr Kohl, 75, spoke highly of Mrs Thatcher, however, saying that of all the European leaders confronted with the consequences of the sudden collapse of the Soviet bloc she was the most honest. He added: "She was one of the great personalities in the era I write about - highly intelligent, passionate, power conscious and not too choosy about how she exercised it ... it was very unpleasant to have her as an opponent. The enmity didn't finish at the end of the day. It carried on the next morning." Mr Kohl recalls his bruising early encounters with Mrs Thatcher soon after he became Germany's chancellor in 1982, especially over the vexed issue of Britain's EU rebate. "I took over the role of mediator between Thatcher and [France's president] Francois Mitterrand. It was a bit like being a horse trader who doesn't have any animals of his own to offer," Mr Kohl writes of a summit in Stuttgart the following year. "Mrs Thatcher was ice cold in the pursuit of her interests. Early in the morning she left the sitting in protest. At the end, when the prime minister appeared to be the victor, she didn't thank anyone but spoke of an insult to Her Majesty." The only subject on which Mr Kohl and Mrs Thatcher could agree was their shared enthusiasm for Winston Churchill. Even there, though, there were differences. "I once told her: 'Margaret, the difference between you and me is that I live in a time after Churchill and you live in the time before him.' She wasn't very happy." Last night Sir Tim Bell, Lady Thatcher's former adviser, cast doubt on Mr Kohl's version of events. "The idea that she was opposed to German reunification seems to me to be complete codswallop. The Berlin Wall was the greatest symbol of the cold war. She and Ronald Reagan were the biggest opponents of the cold war. They celebrated massively when it was over." He added: "The quote 'We have beaten the Germans twice' doesn't sound right. I have never heard her behave like that with the head of a foreign country." Mr Kohl is still writing the final volume of his memoirs, dealing with his fall from power in 1998..." </> |
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