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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Breakfast boink [was Re: Goodies from America] |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:52:27 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:45:56 +0000, "Laura F. Spira"
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
All of this breakfast discussion reminds me that we vaguely
discussed a May Day boink in Oxford. This could mean a very early
start to hear the singers on Magdalen Tower at dawn, followed by
breakfast. Or a more conventional lunch time meeting.
Comments?
Can boinkers to the Tower sing along?
How's your Latin bel canto? If you want to practise, the words are
at:
http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/history/cc_hymnus.shtml
and the beautiful tune, _Hymnus Eucharisticus_, is at No 328 in _The
English Hymnal_. Must be on line somewhere.
But you'd probably get pushed in the river: audience participation is
déconseillé, as the musical experience is ethereal from a hundred and
fifty feet up.
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I'm sorry to say my voice is less than ethereal after the 40 or so
fags I've been smoking daily since my madrigal days. I do a fair
croak, though.
Charles Riggs --
There are no accented letters in my email address.
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:01 am
Post subject: Re: Goodies from America |
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R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> writes:
That's one kind.[1] They don't really "train" very well, in my
experience, though. They're more useful for people who want to use
chopsticks in a restaurant but can't do it well
Probably more traditional are
http://www.houserice.com/houserice/chiltraincho.html
http://www.buyphilly.com/Shop/Product.Asp?ProdID=1907
It's a normal (but small) pair of chopsticks with a loop on one that
goes around (I'd guess) the thumb so that you don't have to worry
about the bottom stick moving on you.
[1] You can actually make them yourself from a pair of disposable
chopsticks, a rubber band, and the folded up paper wrapper from
the chopsticks.
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:02 am
Post subject: Re: Goodies from America |
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don groves <dgroves@domain.net (see sig for domain)> writes:
| Quote: | In article <fju4415m43phugc9m60vb0o07sd8itn8a0@4ax.com>, Charles
The earlier the better. I was told by a group of Japanese diners
that when a person becomes skilled enough to pick up a piece of
flat writing paper with his chopsticks, his chopstick advancement
is as far as it can go -- practice makes perfect, to coin another
phrase.
I thought it was catching a fly in mid-air with chopsticks.
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Only if you catch it by the left front leg.
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:16 am
Post subject: Re: Goodies from America |
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Evan Kirshenbaum filted:
Did you happen to notice that your first link is for a store only about five
miles from my house?...
Kiyoko Goldhardt also sells what the site calls "cheater chopsticks", joined at
the top with festive animal insigniae, which approximate the description in your
footnote....
| Quote: | [1] You can actually make them yourself from a pair of disposable
chopsticks, a rubber band, and the folded up paper wrapper from
the chopsticks.
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Seriously bad chi!...you should *never* save disposable chopsticks; they should
be broken after one meal so as to make them unusable in case the foxes should
get ahold of them...if they ever accumulate ten thousand pair of used disposable
chopsticks, it's said that they can use them to cast a spell that will turn ten
thousand foxes into samurai and ten thousand samurai into foxes....r |
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Father Ignatius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:48 am
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d1v6bd02srq@drn.newsguy.com...
| Quote: | Father Ignatius filted:
"Linz" <spam@lindsayendell.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d1unh8$24gk$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
pointing at his sister very insistently. My colleague offered him a
pair of trainer chopsticks which he picked up and used to feed
WTF can "trainer chopsticks" possibly be?
We call them "cheater" chopsticks around here...they're joined at the
top,
enabling the user to concentrate on working the tips back and forth
without
worrying so much about holding onto the pair....r
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Um. Are these not simply disposable chopsticks that simply haven't been
snapped apart? |
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:13 am
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R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> writes:
| Quote: | Evan Kirshenbaum filted:
[1] You can actually make them yourself from a pair of disposable
chopsticks, a rubber band, and the folded up paper wrapper from
the chopsticks.
Seriously bad chi!...you should *never* save disposable chopsticks;
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Didn't mean to imply that you saved them. You make them at the
restaurant.
| Quote: | they should be broken after one meal so as to make them unusable in
case the foxes should get ahold of them...if they ever accumulate
ten thousand pair of used disposable chopsticks, it's said that they
can use them to cast a spell that will turn ten thousand foxes into
samurai and ten thousand samurai into foxes....r
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Hadn't heard that one.
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Robin Bignall
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:04 am
Post subject: Re: Goodies from America |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:48:54 +0200, "Father Ignatius"
<FatherIgnatius@ANTISPAMananzi.co.za> wrote:
| Quote: | "R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d1v6bd02srq@drn.newsguy.com...
Father Ignatius filted:
"Linz" <spam@lindsayendell.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d1unh8$24gk$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
pointing at his sister very insistently. My colleague offered him a
pair of trainer chopsticks which he picked up and used to feed
WTF can "trainer chopsticks" possibly be?
We call them "cheater" chopsticks around here...they're joined at the
top,
enabling the user to concentrate on working the tips back and forth
without
worrying so much about holding onto the pair....r
Um. Are these not simply disposable chopsticks that simply haven't been
snapped apart?
Those disposable chopsticks will immediately split apart if you try to |
separate the ends. I think these are the trainer version, with a
hinge.
http://www.dpent.ca/Images/18905.jpg
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wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:11 am
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Father Ignatius filted:
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d1v6bd02srq@drn.newsguy.com...
We call them "cheater" chopsticks around here...they're joined at the
top,
enabling the user to concentrate on working the tips back and forth
without
worrying so much about holding onto the pair....r
Um. Are these not simply disposable chopsticks that simply haven't been
snapped apart?
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Not at all...conjoined disposable chopsticks have no space between them for
placing parts of the hand...cheaters are typically made of plastic, and are
formed with the objective end apart...the small degree of freedom afforded by
the flexibility of the plastic allows the ends to be squeezed closer together to
pick up small bits of food....
There's a picture of them (try the search term "cheater") at the site Evan
linked to, www.houserice.com ...I got a pair with a camel figure at the top for
a camel-collecting cousin who, sadly, passed away recently before I could send
them to her....r |
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don groves
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:32 am
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In article <mzsr3bgx.fsf@hpl.hp.com>, Evan Kirshenbaum at
kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com hath writ:
| Quote: | don groves <dgroves@domain.net (see sig for domain)> writes:
In article <fju4415m43phugc9m60vb0o07sd8itn8a0@4ax.com>, Charles
The earlier the better. I was told by a group of Japanese diners
that when a person becomes skilled enough to pick up a piece of
flat writing paper with his chopsticks, his chopstick advancement
is as far as it can go -- practice makes perfect, to coin another
phrase.
I thought it was catching a fly in mid-air with chopsticks.
Only if you catch it by the left front leg.
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The way I play you can catch any leg but you must call it first
for it to count.
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R J Valentine
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:18 am
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On 25 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0800 R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote:
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} Did you happen to notice that your first link is for a store only about five
} miles from my house?...
I didn't, but I think my father lives about five miles from your
house. He's the one with the purple hippopotamus in the back yard.
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Father Ignatius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:16 pm
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"Robin Bignall" <docrobin@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:lk2941pk9d39829j6n9dri36f007b2vkqf@4ax.com...
| Quote: | Those disposable chopsticks will immediately split apart if you try to
separate the ends. I think these are the trainer version, with a
hinge.
http://www.dpent.ca/Images/18905.jpg
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Cool! Thank you. |
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Wood Avens
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:51 am
Post subject: Re: Breakfast boink [was Re: Goodies from America] |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:45:56 +0000, "Laura F. Spira"
<laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | All of this breakfast discussion reminds me that we vaguely discussed a
May Day boink in Oxford. This could mean a very early start to hear the
singers on Magdalen Tower at dawn, followed by breakfast. Or a more
conventional lunch time meeting.
Comments?
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I'm up for either of those.
--
Katy Jennison
spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ |
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:27 am
Post subject: Re: Breakfast boink [was Re: Goodies from America] |
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In message <4bmb41hkegk18fn3j9l2hs501mqrrfnaip@4ax.com>, Wood Avens
<woodavens@askjennison.com> writes
| Quote: | On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:45:56 +0000, "Laura F. Spira"
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
All of this breakfast discussion reminds me that we vaguely discussed a
May Day boink in Oxford. This could mean a very early start to hear the
singers on Magdalen Tower at dawn, followed by breakfast. Or a more
conventional lunch time meeting.
Comments?
I'm up for either of those.
I reckon that over 22,000 dawns have passed me by without my having |
risen for them, and I don't plan to break this habit of a lifetime yet.
But I could well debunk and shift myself 16 miles by lunchtime, seeing
as it's a Saturday, especially if a pub and good-hearted AUEers are
involved. My ideal would be an 11.30 rendezvous at Bardwell Road punt
station, and no falling in before the return trip...
--
Paul
In bocca al Lupo! |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:11 am
Post subject: Re: Breakfast boink [was Re: Goodies from America] |
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Paul Wolff wrote:
| Quote: | In message <4bmb41hkegk18fn3j9l2hs501mqrrfnaip@4ax.com>, Wood Avens
woodavens@askjennison.com> writes
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:45:56 +0000, "Laura F. Spira"
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
All of this breakfast discussion reminds me that we vaguely
discussed a May Day boink in Oxford. This could mean a very early
start to hear the singers on Magdalen Tower at dawn, followed by
breakfast. Or a more conventional lunch time meeting.
Comments?
I'm up for either of those.
I reckon that over 22,000 dawns have passed me by without my having
risen for them, and I don't plan to break this habit of a lifetime
yet. But I could well debunk and shift myself 16 miles by
lunchtime,
seeing as it's a Saturday, especially if a pub and good-hearted
AUEers are involved. My ideal would be an 11.30 rendezvous at
Bardwell Road punt station, and no falling in before the return
trip...
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I want the whole pagan dawn thing again. Perhaps this means we should
start the night before?
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Mike. |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:29 pm
Post subject: Re: Breakfast boink [was Re: Goodies from America] |
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 02:29:36 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Paul Wolff wrote:
In message <4bmb41hkegk18fn3j9l2hs501mqrrfnaip@4ax.com>, Wood Avens
woodavens@askjennison.com> writes
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:45:56 +0000, "Laura F. Spira"
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
All of this breakfast discussion reminds me that we vaguely
discussed a May Day boink in Oxford. This could mean a very early
start to hear the singers on Magdalen Tower at dawn, followed by
breakfast. Or a more conventional lunch time meeting.
Comments?
I'm up for either of those.
I reckon that over 22,000 dawns have passed me by without my having
risen for them, and I don't plan to break this habit of a lifetime
yet. But I could well debunk and shift myself 16 miles by
lunchtime,
seeing as it's a Saturday, especially if a pub and good-hearted
AUEers are involved. My ideal would be an 11.30 rendezvous at
Bardwell Road punt station, and no falling in before the return
trip...
I want the whole pagan dawn thing again. Perhaps this means we should
start the night before?
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Will we wait until the 22nd of December and hold it at Newgrange? We'd
best get our applications in early, if so.
Charles Riggs --
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