Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-29-19 15:08 <=-

Oh, ok... I have heard tales of that, just didn't recognize the initials...

It stands for Under the Gum Tree, apparently where idlers
like Kevin (who named the list) would hang out in Australia.

Ok, that makes sense.... :)

Makes extra sense when you know Glen and Kevin.

I do known their reputations... and Glen was still posting here when I
first came on board... :)

There are so many dubious quotes floating around there
from Einstein, Saint-Exupery, Obama, Nietzsche, Hitler,
Yogi Berra, Abraham Lincoln, ... . As I've noted, the
best way for someone to get a cockamamie (or even profound)
statement accepted and proliferated is to attribute it to
someone famous.

Even when it makes no sense, timewise.... And those famous persons have
said plenty of other things worth quoting.... :)

Don't believe everything you read online. - Aristotle

Yeah, right... good advice though... ;)

waters, especially unsugared ones, largely
an annoyance.

[snicker] We don't agree on everything... (G)

Just what I needed, a twin in Rochester.

You mean that doesn't make you feel special....? ;)

I've had people claim they were my twin separated at
birth only to discover that in some fundamental ways
we weren't.

I found some soul mates of a sort over the years... but never quite a
twin separated at birth sort... :)

I've read numerous stories of people who went into
banking, lawyering, or even medicine and then chucked
it all to do what they wanted to do in the first place,
cooking or acting or riding hogs or whatever.

Or music, even.... ;)

Gasp.

I know... can you believe it...!? ;)

I don't know what the guy's crimes consisted of, but
all I cared about was that they didn't involve me.

Yup, that would be important.... :)

It seemed that he made a feeler once, but I didn't
get felt. As with people's sexuality I don't care just
so long as you keep your hands off my butt; I don't
care what you do for business just so long as you keep
your hands out of my pocket.

Or implicate one....?

True... and often it's more CYA than actually poison... :)

Though I can't see what harm a bit of zinc oxide
in one's tum would do.

Small enough quantities, probably none at all... :)

I know that zinc supplements are generally gluconate;
the oxide is probably a lot less soluble so even less
likely to cause trouble.

I suppose. :)

Mome raths.

Out grabe....

There was a recent article in the Times about the
raisin crisis..

What raisin crisis...?

And today is quite different - I did okay in the Mexican
sun, but here in the tranquillity of my hotel room, I can't
read anything farther than 3 inches.

Not bright enough in the hotel room, probably....

Oddly, bright sun is worse for me now than dimmish
light, because of the glare (that's likely the
cataracts talking; other problems make other issues).

Sigh...

ttyl neb

... Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

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