Re: Barbara

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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. 
>> 
>> Dinner is based on the people eat, not the food itself.
> But but but... different foods belong at different times of the day.
> Think of *breakfast* cereal and *lunch* meat and sunday roast *dinner*
> where all the family reluctanty interacts. Clearly pancakes are a
> dessert - or possibly for afternoon coffee instead of cake.
> 

I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
Try and stop me.

What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is at the same 
time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all the bases.

>> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
> There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example there
> are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi course
> meal. Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert - cheese or
> how many of those you wish to include.
> 
Or waffles and chicken.
What does the order of food matter?
Here we eat the entrée last. I heard in some cultures they eat the 
entrée first and the salad last.

>> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want when
>> you want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000 calories and
>> then go to bed.
> Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of
> port after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a nightcap.
> 

I can hear your arteries closing from here.

>>>> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
>>> Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.
>>>
>> So I need to ask a tourist if there are any weird Danish customs.
>> Years ago, when I was on Reddit a lot, one the threads concerned 
>> Americans who had a Swedish immigrant friends growing up. A lot
>> people posted that they would be playing at the Swedish kids house
>> and when the mother called the kid for lunch, the American kid was
>> not invited to eat. they had to either wait outside on the doorstep
>> or stay in the Swedish kids bedroom while the family ate. Weird. 
> Yes well - that's the swedes for you. Weird. Or maybe they served
> something strange that they didn't expect the other kids to want to
> eat anyway. Like lutefisk or surströmming.
> 

Maybe. It seemed to happen to a lot of people.

>> My mother would have fixed a plate for the visiting kid. And we were 
>> poor.
> I have no idea what would have happened in my home. I never had
> friends [over].
> 

Poor you. 

>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Google is your friend.
> Not if the nearest chinese restaurant suggested it 100Km away...
> (I don't know I didn't check but there isn't one in Bigtown so likely
> quite far anyway.)
> 
>>>>>> 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. 
>>>
>> I feel like you would have consumed it before that happened.
> That would depend on the wobbliness of the cone. It could all end up
> on the ground. In any case I only eat one ice-cream per year.
> 

I avoid it like the plague.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
> You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.
> 

Stop touching yourself.

>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Is this where you fix it but thumping it with your fist?
> Lard no. Thermostats are delicate and sensitive instruments. You have
> to carefully wriggle them back and forth a tiny bit. Repeatedly.
> 
So I need to get a professional in to fiddle with my knobs?

>>>> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
>>> I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.
>>>
>> I bet more people eat ice cream in the winter than jump off bridges.
> Possibly. Jumping off bridges is more of a once-in-a-lifetime
> experience. Eating ice-cream in winter just requires that the
> ice-cream shop is open. And money. And thermostatic misalignment.

Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?