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As happens sometimes, I can't tell how serious you are. In the Poststructural Pub, I generally err towards "not serious at all" when assessing intent. Especially with Nano. BION, the word "pheasant" in my own post was a deliberate attempt to see what response I'd get. Nano rose ...

Nanohedron wrote:From an article on Ina Garten:

But it also looks like she enjoys the occasional Aperol sprtiz.

Up to now I had never heard of Aperol, much less a sprtiz. I'm such a peasant.

Sigh, I've never heard of Ina Garten. Does that make me a pheasant?

it seems the person who hand wrote all the tunes was not too particular about spellings I should point out that the idea of their being a "right" and "wrong" way to spell a word didn't exist in the 18th century. A person might spell the same word three different ways in the same...

Henry's book contains both an instructional section for the flute and then also a tune section. the above description: "Copybook containing instructions for the German flute copied from The Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (London: Chas. & Samuel Thompson, [1775]); and 317 tunes. "...

kkrell wrote:

walrii wrote:HEAR, HEAR! Well said, well said.

Too wordy.

Wait...give me a minute...there's a snappy comeback here somewhere...

kkrell wrote:I dislike having to watch (sometimes lengthy) videos to extract what could be concisely presented information. My own preference is for concise text.

HEAR, HEAR! Well said, well said.

OK. Here's one from a current article on the BBC's main news website, talking about the use of humour in an office situation. Can anyone translate this for me? It is completely beyond me. I've copied and pasted, by the way, so it is exactly as written, apart from the two explanatory words from me i...

Seems Beck was an American in Massachusetts who copied by hand a British book called "The Compleat Tutor for the German Flute." Below is Beck's entry in the bibliography from the website for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Link to the page "Music in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630...

Tunborough wrote:Are we talking summer squash (which are disgusting)...

Try slicing them medium thick, dip in milk and dredge thru very fine corn meal. Fry in hot oil just until the cornmeal gets a little crispy. Great with all sorts of food.

I nearly said "just about everything" but then realised that that could provoke the response, "Oh? What didn't you agree with?" Oh, my. First, that was very nice of you. Thank you. Second, at the risk of sounding ungrateful or perhaps even a little sarcastic (such is truly not m...

As a child growing up in South Carolina, I cannot recall ever seeing watermelon served without shakers of salt on the table. Everyone, including me, ate it that way. Nowadays, I eat watermelon "straight up" mostly because I usually eat someone else's watermelon and folks here in Texas don'...

[THREAD REVIVAL - MOD] And Texas. Oh. Right. We're a large country. Sorry, carry on. The coming land war between California, another large country, and Texas will be brutal. Fought on the fields of Arizona and New Mexico, and trampling all over the nice irrigated lawns. Then when the space aliens l...

I nearly said "just about everything" but then realised that that could provoke the response, "Oh? What didn't you agree with?" Oh, my. First, that was very nice of you. Thank you. Second, at the risk of sounding ungrateful or perhaps even a little sarcastic (such is truly not m...

Sun rising thru mist Hot e'en now in humid air There's fruitcake tonight! (My family makes fruitcakes every Christmas. My brother started a tradition some years back of freezing a few pieces then opening them on July 4th as a reminder of colder days and Christmas. The tradition is the flip side of o...

I'm in the "poor spelling and grammar taints the source" camp. More frustrating to me is the lack of precision in speech and the antecedent imprecise thought. I have conversations like the one below daily. "Did you go to the post office today?" "No." "Why not?"...