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Ugh! I have heard about that on Prairie Home Companion. It sounds disgusting.:speechles My own food roots are pretty grim: British and Polish Jew. These cuisines involve a lot of boiled items, a lot of starch, and a lot of overcooked and cheap cuts of meats. :phanvan I never liked meat until I moved to France; it was there where I first learned that a grrl could eat it very rare. I wasn't fond of vegetables, either, until I was exposed to other, more southern cuisines. And Green now has become the Queen of garlic.:heh: But what I do retain from my childhood is an intense fondness for kosher style dill pickles, latkes, pierogies, and trifle.

I adore Italian cuisine and have always regretted that none of my mothers-in-common-law were Italian. My current one is German. I am not a big fan of Middle and Eastern European cuisine. Too heavy.

Although I am still reading avidly I am not contributing much at this moment. I am more interested in watching the Christians duke it out amongst themselves. I am sure that I will be jumping back in at some point. I did appreciate your choice of verses, TOM.

Green here is a strawberry blonde.

Oh yah, you're right.

*Teehee* Green is planning to use those bloomers to go parachuting some day.

What time, Yoda? Maybe we can connect? I need a fill and I am a TLBC-er.

Dude, you know what that soul of kittens stuff is all about, eh? There is a scary email making its rounds and it sez that everytime someone masturbates God kills a kitten. I know, I know........ I have a couple of cats of my own.:heh:

Serious, I believe that two things may happen on these long threads which one will often find in the Rants & Raves section of LBT. Sometimes people do have hidden agendas when they post but I am inclined to think that these threads are more often like being present at a lively, a very, very lively dinner party. Conversations and debates are entered into and because these discussions are not formal ones - there are no rules that we have to stick to - material which may seem ancillary to the main topic will inevitably be introduced. This particular thread has been kind of unusual, though. An email describing antisemitism in France was submitted by Cusano, a new member of LBT. When one of the other members, an individual whose information block states that she is a token atheist, questioned the bona fides of this particular document, Cusano responded by broaching the issue of her bona fides as an atheist. It was felt by some of the other members of this site that the language in which he conducted his inquiry was not neutral but, in fact, kinda judgemental. And thus the melee began. While I recognise that many LBT-ers are distressed by much of what takes place in R&R I must say that I am personally not against these barroom brawls. I think they serve a purpose and I am both pleased and astonished that the overseers of this site were wise enough to establish this corner. Let me explain my feelings on this issue. The world continues to be a complicated and disturbing environment. We are confronted with much more information, and we are much more sophisticated as a result, than our ancestors were. Because of this our environment becomes increasingly ambiguous and more interesting, both on a moral and intellectual level. There was a time when personal well-being hinged upon being able to house, feed, and clothe your family. You did right by God and the church and you helped out a neighbouring family who was in distress. This was life in the days of the pioneers. Life is obviously much more complex today and there are some of us who have a need to discuss these contentious 21st century issues. These discussions may appear brutal to those of you who drop in to R&R and who do not share the same taste for debate but there are some of us who derive considerable value from these brawls.

Yah, a fill! I've got to get off my BIG arse and arrange for that. I don't want to grow out of my new small clothes, do I? Argh!!!! (The burger was divine, by the way....big, juicy, and fully loaded!:hungry: )

:biggrin1: Green sez thanx. And she agrees about the yiddishkeit!

Yup, welcome aboard.

@TrueBlue: I always appreciate your posts but never more than when you touch upon the religious and cultural life of the Semitic peoples. I am very envious of your educational background, your knowledge and your life experiences. I trust that you will continue you to share your knowledge with the rest of us.

I think I need a fill. Last night I had dinner at the in-laws and then ate a whole hamburger on the way home. I was starving!

Thanks for letting me know, Wootsie. You should know that the entire population of Canada agrees with your assessment of Karla Homolka. She is a sociopath and should have been locked up for life. Unfortunately the Crown cut a deal with her before the tapes were discovered and for some reason wouldn't nullify this even though evidence of another crime which she committed later came to light. She was, however, required to spend her entire sentence in prison; there was no parole time for her.

Yah, I quite enjoyed my little shopping binge of last week. In fact I haven't got around to hanging any of the stuff up yet. I am enjoying looking at the pile of new clothes too much, I guess.:scared:

@Wootsie: In fact Karla Homolka is living in the Province of Quebec under the informal scrutiny of both the local police and the media. It would be impossible for her to cross the border unless one of your border guards was extremely inattentive. Where did you get your info from? I am curious.

And lo! His noodly juice is marinara sauce and His meat is hot Italian sausage and meat balls. And the words al dente shall be spoken by all of ye who dine here. Green has been a practising Pastafarian for many, many years now. It is this that has made her fat!

The FSM originated as a satirical website response to a debate as to whether Creationism/Intelligent Design should be taught in a local public school system. The dude who started the site said that he wanted his theory, that of the FSM, taught in addition to Creationism should this be allowed in the state school system. The site and the Noodly Dude Himself were achieving some underground degree of reknown even before those fabulous South Park boys ran with the FSM. (By the way, Green loves South Park. She continues to be a fan. She has also converted two Frenchies to the joys of South Park.)

LMAO Thanx for posting this.:biggrin1: I am very fond of this series of videos.

If you call being presented with the facts as being immoderate....well then, you may be right.:cry

Looking very good, grrl! Congratulations from Green, eh.

Have fun in China. I am so envious, grrl! As for the scale thing, I decided to stop weighing myself when I was 25 years old and since then I have become a wee bit phobic!!!!!! LOL

Up here in Canada we had abolished the death penalty a long, long time ago. We haven't seen anyone executed for the past 5 decades. This has proven to be a good thing; we have seen a number of long term prisoners released as new evidence, usually to do with advanced forensic techniques, comes to light. Of course the average citizen will find him or herself at times regretting the lack of the ultimate penalty. This is when we are confronted with an individual whose crimes have been truly monstrous, truly unfathomably grotesque. But detective work is not always, despite what we see on television, flawless. Sometimes the police settle on a likely suspect and make the facts of the crime fit the suspect. In rural areas and small towns the local police force may not have the same access to sophisticated methods or be as comfortable with sophisticated methodology as the urban forces are. This is often just a dollars and cents issue and nothing more but there may also be pressures exerted by the locals to find and convict and that might cloud the ability of the local force to function in a clear-headed and detached manner. In the mid 1990s we had a high profile case where an innocent man - Guy Morin - was found guilty of abducting and murdering a child. In his case the local police force felt that his profile filled the bill. He was a shy and sensitive man who still lived with his family. It was only later, much later in fact that it was discovered that a family member may have done it. It was forensics which cleared this individual. The aftermath of this botched affair was that the Province of Ontario paid him a whack of cash and gave him a formal apology. They didn't tell him that life can suck. Please note that although this is the case which I have chosen to describe there are a number of others which are similar. There is, for instance, the case of David Milgaard who had been in prison for 3 decades for a crime that would have earned him the death penalty in certain jurisdictions.

Completed Jew. Hmmm...I wonder what the survivors of the Holocaust would think of that terminology.