Re: Barbara

On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> applies wherever she is.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Geez!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked me
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if she was in Arizona. A fact I do not have.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real place
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the world... 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was less a question and more an offering.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want Arizona.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I understand that it's full of elderly Americans... Not
>>>>>>>>>>>> really my thing. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I think you'd fit in perfectly.
>>>>>>>>>> With a bunch of old people who most likely drive around in
>>>>>>>>>> golf-carts and complain about everything? And eat dinner at
>>>>>>>>>> 17:00? I think not... 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Okie dokie.
>>>>>>>>> {Nope. Won't fit in at all}
>>>>>>>> Well I certainly don't eat dinner at 17:00... that's about the
>>>>>>>> time I might grab a bit of lunch if I feel peckish.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which is lunchtime in their time zone.
>>>>>>> This is all working out well for you!
>>>>>> That will only work as long as the jet lag persists.
>>>>> And then what happens?
>>>>
>>>> Then I will want to have dinner at eight and everywhere will have
>>>> already closed down. And locked up the golf cart parking, one
>>>> assumes. 
>>>
>>> You'll have to change your habits. Or go to IHOP for dinner.
>> Point one: NEVER! Point two: pancakes are for breakfast (or sometimes
>> for dessert, preferably with ice cream). Pancakes are not proper food
>> for a growing boy.
>>
> 
> I've had pancakes for dinner.
Yea, but you're an exotic canadian. No telling what strange customs you
have...
> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
acceptable.
> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.

>>>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And?
>>>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>>>> Eeekk!
>>>>> It will be good for you.
>>>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>>>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden work.
>>>
>>> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when working.
>>> It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you have an
>>> accident, the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof" "wroof"
>>> What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
>> I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of someone so
>> easily distracted by a stick...
>>
> Sometimes you have to take what you can get...
OR - and this is the correct choice - stay off the roof.

>>>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You new friends can do that.
>>>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5
>>>> o'clock dinner time?
>>>>
>>> Of course.
>>> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
>> Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of
>> soup in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for soup.
I have no idea what they eat in Arizona. They could be eating pancakes
for supper for all I know. Also even chicken soup will develop skin
given enough chicken fat (or ageing I suppose).
> They make cold soups too, like gazpacho.
> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in festive
colours.

> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice cream 
> in the winter. Right?
Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is what one
should really drink when it's  hot. Too much (or too cold) drinks will
hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's heat regulation. I expect
soup is similar.

>>>>> (also, I don't expect its hard)
>>>> (Most things are hard until you know how to do it...)
>>>>
>>> (some things are still hard after that)
>> (those are the things I elect to not do)
>>
> (Okie dokie)
> 

-- 
BeH

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