Re: Barbara

On 29.11.2023 15.31, Merlyne wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
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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!
Perhaps, but strange. Dinner is potatoes and meat and such... Or soup.

> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.

>>> 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.
I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.

>>> 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.
Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would fall out.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
Reason enough for me. Any reason is enough for me to stay off roofs,
really. Ladders too.

>>>>>>>> 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.
Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with floral
patterns. Pewter maybe.

>>> 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.
You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the thermostat
that's stuck. It happens sometimes.

> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.

>>>>>>> (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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BeH

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