I can see that.... ;) We used to drive by a sign for a fish market (in the middle of almost nowhere, well, between Wiiliamson and Sodus, on Rt 104) that advertised Giant Shrimp along with Clams and other stuff...

To be fair, usage of the term shrimp to mean shrimpy
is a relative newcomer.

True... but Richard almost always commented on the incongruity... :)

I'm sure he knows it's not really oxymoronic.

course not always of the best) my mother used to
actually believe that there were gremlins moving
things around. Also opening windows and stuff
like that. We come by our looniness over a long
period of time. It would be even more problematic
if the pills actually showed up labeled as each
other or, worse, something else altogether.

Then one might actually be tempted to believe in your mother's (alleged) gremlins.... :)

I haven't found any example so far of such
intensely spooky tampering. With the computer,
of course, anything goes. I wanted the location
of the nearest Bank of America ATM, and Google
just sent me to one in Geneva (New York, that is).
In this case I've tentatively traced it to the
router I'm connected to being haunted.

P.S. It turns out that actual closest one was
haunted, opening and closing its various orifices
seemingly at random. I watched some perhaps
slightly stoned guy standing enthralled by it for
several minutes. I asked him if he thought it was
broken, and he said he was scared to put his card
into it. I also refrained from doing so.

... Help stamp out and abolish redundancy!

Eliminate it too!

yup... :)

And get rid of it.

... Bread was the staff of life before humans became gluten intolerant.

I had an acquaintance once - she was a pianist and very
bright - who years later I heard had moved to New York
and joined the staff of Life.

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Title: Pretzels
Categories: Breads, Snacks
Yield: 6 servings

1 pk Yeast; Active, Dry 1 1/2 c ;Water, Warm,110-120 Degrees
1 ts Salt 1 tb Sugar
4 c Flour; Unbleached 1 ea Egg; Large, Beaten
1 x Salt; Coarse

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add salt and sugar to yeast mixture.
Blend
in flour and knead dough until smooth, about 7 to 8 minutes. Cover and
let
dough rise until double in bulk. Punch down. Cut dough into small
pieces
and roll into ropes. Twist ropes into pretzel shapes and place on
greased
cookie sheet. Using a pastry brush, bursh pretzels with egg and sprinkle
with coarse salt. Allow pretzels to rise until almost double in bulk.
Bake
at 425 degrees F. for 10 to 15 minutes or until browned. Best if eaten
immediately. If not, store in airtight container. Makes 12 6-inch
pretzels. Source unknown - please note that this recipe will not produce
the shiny-brown-coated cmmercial-style pretzels.

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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-15-19 07:56 <=-

I can see that.... ;) We used to drive by a sign for a fish market (in the middle of almost nowhere, well, between Wiiliamson and Sodus, on Rt 104) that advertised Giant Shrimp along with Clams and other stuff...

To be fair, usage of the term shrimp to mean shrimpy
is a relative newcomer.

True... but Richard almost always commented on the incongruity... :)

I'm sure he knows it's not really oxymoronic.

No doubt... It's just the image conjured up, and the way it struck him
as funny....

course not always of the best) my mother used to
actually believe that there were gremlins moving
things around. Also opening windows and stuff
like that. We come by our looniness over a long
period of time. It would be even more problematic
if the pills actually showed up labeled as each
other or, worse, something else altogether.

Then one might actually be tempted to believe in your mother's (alleged) gremlins.... :)

I haven't found any example so far of such
intensely spooky tampering. With the computer,
of course, anything goes. I wanted the location
of the nearest Bank of America ATM, and Google
just sent me to one in Geneva (New York, that is).
In this case I've tentatively traced it to the
router I'm connected to being haunted.

That could explain it...

P.S. It turns out that actual closest one was
haunted, opening and closing its various orifices
seemingly at random. I watched some perhaps
slightly stoned guy standing enthralled by it for
several minutes. I asked him if he thought it was
broken, and he said he was scared to put his card
into it. I also refrained from doing so.

Yeah... I wouldn't trust my card to that either.... Any "natural"
explanations of the phenomenon I could think of don't give any better confidence that one wouldn't lose the card....

... Bread was the staff of life before humans became gluten intolerant.

I had an acquaintance once - she was a pianist and very
bright - who years later I heard had moved to New York
and joined the staff of Life.

Just a slightly different take on it... :) Did she enjoy working for
that magazine....?

ttyl neb

... A cat is the visible soul of a home.

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