Re: Barbara

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> On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
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>>> On 08.11.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>> On 25.10.2023 16.26, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 18.10.2023 13.55, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, 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...

Sounds like a yummy custom to me!
Like there are no weird Danish customs.

>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
> acceptable.

You should have the Mooshu pancakes.

>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
> 
Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.

>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
> 
Agreed. Stay off the roof, it upsets the dog.

>>>>>>> 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.

The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.

> 
>> 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.
> 

My body regulator is already broken.
I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.

>>>>>> (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)
>> 
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