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From: Hatunen on 28 Sep 2006 13:28 On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:51:18 +0200, Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:11:31 -0500, erilar ><drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > >>In article <6i3lh2lh2umm6bh4nrkl86gmh21iit6tlb(a)4ax.com>, >> Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:22:01 +0200, Magda <chriscross(a)hey.eu> wrote: >>> >>> >What's a sun tea jar? >>> >>> Never heard of one myself. Nothing unusual when it comes to English to >>> hear a strange word and just assume its meaning. >> >>You put water and tea bags in a glass jar and set it in the sun for >>several hours. You can add other things to the jar as well, or use >>flavored tea. Any transparent jar will work(I've used a large former >>peanut butter jar) but some people have to have special ones. > >What does the sunlight do to the tea exactly? I'm not sure exactly, but it seems to remove some, um, bitterness you get from boiling water. Note, though, that sun tea is usually drunk as iced tea. We always have a gallon jar of sun tea in the frig here. Of course we have an awful lot of sunshine for making it. We use an old gallon pickle jar, but you can buy sun tea jars, which usually have a little spout near the bottom for pouring out. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Hatunen on 28 Sep 2006 13:29 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:47:10 +0200, B Vaughan<me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:11:31 -0500, erilar ><drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > >>You put water and tea bags in a glass jar and set it in the sun for >>several hours. You can add other things to the jar as well, or use >>flavored tea. Any transparent jar will work(I've used a large former >>peanut butter jar) but some people have to have special ones. > >I've never seen the point of "sun tea". It takes hours to make the tea >and the result is mediocre. There's no way to get decent tea without >boiling water. Sun tea is normally used as iced tea. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Giovanni Drogo on 28 Sep 2006 13:25 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, B Vaughan wrote: > That's odd; we have a neighbor named Ilario. I didn't know it was an > unusual name. Any place called S.Ilario nearby, or having S.Ilario as patron saint ? I guess in Fano you can find somebody called Paterniano, but I guess nowhere else in Italy. I have a cousin called Defendente Vladimiro. Now S.Defendente (*) is the patron saint of the place where he was born (50 km from here), and the name is used there. But I can still remember the blank stare of a nurse at a hospital here in Milan when his daughter gave her father's name ! (*) apparently this saint is one the Martyrs of the Theban Legion, which seem to have unusual names. At least we met another one in Crissolo (the village closest to the sources of the Po river), S.Chiaffredo. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nospam(a)mi.iasf.cnr.it is a newsreading account used by more persons to avoid unwanted spam. Any mail returning to this address will be rejected. Users can disclose their e-mail address in the article if they wish so.
From: Hatunen on 28 Sep 2006 13:45 On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:39:32 -0700, Dave Smith <adavid.smith(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: >"David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate" wrote: > >> >> > Good. Then stick to non smoking restaurants and let the smokers enjoy >> > themselves. >> >> It makes it easier to have a ban, and it makes more sense, seeing as >> most people don't smoke. Alernatively, I suppose you could always have >> some weird rule that a quarter of places could allow smoking. > >It makes it easier for you, but there are lots of people who smoke, and lots of >restaurants and bars make money off them. It would be much easier if it was left up to >the owners of the bars and restaurants to decide for themselves if they should allow >smoking or cater to non-smokers. That it not satisfactory to you and other rabid anti >smokers because you know that they are well aware of where their bread is buttered. >They would allow smoking because they know the majority of their customers either smoke >or don't care. Smokers are far more rabid than non-smokers, but, of course, the smokers are addicted and the non-smokers aren't. Because of their addiction, the smokers will squack the loudest and it will appear to restaurant and bar owners that they are in teh majority. Which of course they are as far as bars and restaurants go since the non-smokers tend to stay away. That doesn't, ipso facto, make the smokers the majority. >> > I find that hard to believe. His hissy fit started the moment he saw the >> > person lighting up...in the smoking area on the far side of the >> > restaurant, and it was a big enough restaurant that it was far enough away >> > that it should not have bothered him. I couldn't smell it. My wife, who >> > had never smoked in her life, could not smell it. >> >> So maybe he imagined it. I don't really care. > >Oh I an quite sure that he imagined it, just like all the other anti smokers who have a >pickle up their butts. Better a pickle up your butt than a monkey on your back. >> > > I object to smoke because I don't like it- don't like it in a really big >> > > way. >> > >> > I don't like it either. >> >> That contradicts what you wrote above- i.e. you thought tobacco >> "sometimes actually smells pretty good." > >Does it? The lingering smell is not pleasant, but sometimes the first few wisps of >smoke smell pretty good. The lingering smell is certainly not unpleasant to a smoker, or to a recently quit smoker. In fact, the lingering smell is one of the things that will coax a quitter to decide he or she would like a ciggy, just one, of course, every now and then. But once you're quit long enough to purge your body, and it can be a year or so, the lingering smoke becomes a genuine irritant. Despite decades of heavy smoking, the two decades since I quit have "cleansed" me enough that even a hint of cigarettte smoke gives me an incredible headache. There are two main effects of my quitting: food tastes a lot better than it used to and my sense of smell has become acute, and, unfortunately, the two decades of quit haven't allowed my lungs to be properly restored and I have been dignosed with moderate COPD. I'm really hoping I'm not going to have to trudge around with an oxygen bottle in future. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Keith Anderson on 28 Sep 2006 14:57
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:53:37 -0400, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote: >In passing, tho I am American, I rather like the British custom >of not regarding Mr, Dr etc as abbreviations and thus omitting >the period. When I was at school in the 1950s/60s, I was taught to use the full stop after Mrs. Dr. and so on. Having perused my "Practical English Usage" (Oxford University Press) it states that "modern" British English usually omits the full stop (period) after such abbreviations whereas US English doesn't. I honestly have no idea, therefore, what the author means by "modern", (!!!) Keith, Bristol, UK Mein Arbeitsplatz - Mein Kampfplatz f?r den Frieden! Email: usenet[dot]20[dot]keefy[at]spamgourmet[dot]com |