A whole lotta guajillo

[Bryan Simmons]

Some things are far less expensive when you buy in bulk. I just bought three 1# bags of powdered guajillo chilies. If you keep them in a dark place, chile powders last a long time. I *do* use a lot of that stuff, and those little 4oz packets don't last long.

--Bryan

[GM]

bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
> Some things are far less expensive when you buy in bulk. I just bought three 1# bags of powdered guajillo chilies. If you keep them in a dark place, chile powders last a long time. I *do* use a lot of that stuff, and those little 4oz packets don't last long.
>
> --Bryan

I've done the bulk buying thing over the years at ethnic stores (Asian, Indian, Mexican...) and also at Restaurant Depot. When I used to cook large amounts for entertaining it was worth it...now as a single I don't need such large quantities. You have peeps to cook for, so you will eventually use them...they look very "versatile"...

--
Best
Greg

[Hank Rogers]

Bryan Simmons wrote:
> Some things are far less expensive when you buy in bulk. I just bought three 1# bags of powdered guajillo chilies. If you keep them in a dark place, chile powders last a long time. I *do* use a lot of that stuff, and those little 4oz packets don't last long.
>
> --Bryan
>

You must like mexican chow. I do too. Chalupas, chiles relenos,
tamales. Hell, everything but the sweet stuff.

The best tamales I ever ate: A coworker's sister and mother from
old mexico visited with him, and they made a huge batch. They could
barely speak english, but were very gracious ladies. He invited us
and we took some home afterward. I never had such excellent
tamales, either before or after.

[Bryan Simmons]

As soon as I can motivate myself to go out into the cold, I'm driving
over to the East Side to buy salsas and perhaps a 6-pack of tamales.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/mi-tierra-mexican-store-fairmont-city-2

--Bryan

[dsi1]

Tamales are great but there's so few Mexicans around here that I've never heard of the Hawaiian word for them. The next time I go to the store, I'll pick up some cans of the stuff. They're not very good but they'er cheap and we'll eat the whole can with no problem.
Somewhat more available are pasteles. They're Puerto Rican tamales and you can find people selling them on the roadsides. My wife can get them from her friend at work. They are delish and they don't come in cans. The Hawaiians call the Puerto Ricans "borinques."
https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/pasteles-puerto-rican-holiday-dish/169440

[Bryan Simmons]

On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 1:20:38 AM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 11:50:37 AM UTC-10, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:16:18 PM UTC-6, Hank Rogers wrote:
> > > Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > > > Some things are far less expensive when you buy in bulk. I just bought three 1# bags of powdered guajillo chilies. If you keep them in a dark place, chile powders last a long time. I *do* use a lot of that stuff, and those little 4oz packets don't last long.
> > > >
> > > > --Bryan
> > > >
> > > You must like mexican chow. I do too. Chalupas, chiles relenos,
> > > tamales. Hell, everything but the sweet stuff.
> > >
> > > The best tamales I ever ate: A coworker's sister and mother from
> > > old mexico visited with him, and they made a huge batch. They could
> > > barely speak english, but were very gracious ladies. He invited us
> > > and we took some home afterward. I never had such excellent
> > > tamales, either before or after.
> > As soon as I can motivate myself to go out into the cold, I'm driving
> > over to the East Side to buy salsas and perhaps a 6-pack of tamales.
> >
> > https://www.yelp.com/biz/mi-tierra-mexican-store-fairmont-city-2
> >
> > --Bryan
> Tamales are great but there's so few Mexicans around here that I've never heard of the Hawaiian word for them. The next time I go to the store, I'll pick up some cans of the stuff. They're not very good but they'er cheap and we'll eat the whole can with no problem.
>

Canned tamales are nothing like real ones. The good news is that you
can make them yourself. The key is saving and sundrying corn husks.

>
> Somewhat more available are pasteles. They're Puerto Rican tamales and you can find people selling them on the roadsides. My wife can get them from her friend at work. They are delish and they don't come in cans. The Hawaiians call the Puerto Ricans "borinques."
> https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/pasteles-puerto-rican-holiday-dish/169440

They're not boring if you put salsa on them.

--Bryan

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 6:19:56 AM UTC-5, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:

> Canned tamales are nothing like real ones. The good news is that you
> can make them yourself. The key is saving and sundrying corn husks.

WTF? I can buy corn husks at the grocery store.

> Somewhat more available are pasteles. They're Puerto Rican tamales and you can find people
> selling them on the roadsides. My wife can get them from her friend at work. They are delish and
> they don't come in cans. The Hawaiians call the Puerto Ricans "borinques."

What roadsides? I can't find anybody selling anything on the roadside, except
the guy who has a trailer load of pumpkins every October.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bryan Simmons]

On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 5:29:09 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 6:19:56 AM UTC-5, bryang...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Canned tamales are nothing like real ones. The good news is that you
> > can make them yourself. The key is saving and sundrying corn husks.
> WTF? I can buy corn husks at the grocery store.
>

That's because there are Mexican Americans living near you. There are
There are very few Mexican Americans living in Hawai'i, so I assumed that
he'd need to dry his own. Puerto Rico has its own version of tamales that
use plaintain masa and plaintain leaf wrappers instead of corn. There is
a Oaxican restaurant near here that makes corn masa tamales, but they're
wrapped in banana leaves, and they also make pumokin flower quesadillas.
My wife loves both.

>
> > Somewhat more available are pasteles. They're Puerto Rican tamales and you can find people
> > selling them on the roadsides. My wife can get them from her friend at work. They are delish and
> > they don't come in cans. The Hawaiians call the Puerto Ricans "borinques."
>
> What roadsides? I can't find anybody selling anything on the roadside, except
> the guy who has a trailer load of pumpkins every October.
>

When we visited Puerto Rico July-Aug 2017, we bought food from roadside stands,
especially pinchos. I remember a good sized pork kebob was only $2. We were
talking earlier about spending some of our retirement in Puerto Rico, like November
through June, so we'd get a week or two of quenepas before we got the heck out of
hurricane season.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

--Bryan

[Sheldon Martin]

In most parts of NYC one can buy most anything from the roadway and
sidewalk in front of their house, and venders hawking their wares in
every alleyway between buildings... there's a steady stream of push
carts and horse drawn carts with venders selling most everything,
legal and illegal.

[dsi1]

The Hawaiians don't call the Puerto Ricans boring. That would be pretty insulting. When they came to Hawaii around 1906, they called their home island "Borinquen." The Spanish came over and renamed the island - that was not cool. The Borinque folk dance music is called "cachi-cachi" music in Hawaii. Here's a Hawaiian man singing about the Borinques and their music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeNHvJPF2g

[Cindy Hamilton]

By all means, let's all move to NYC so we can step in the shit from the
horse-drawn carts.

Cindy Hamilton

[Master Bruce]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:57:14 -0500, Sheldon Martin <penm...@aol.com>
wrote:

The older people get, the more they start living in the past, but this
is extreme.

[Bryan Simmons]

I was joking that they called the pasteles boring, which they are,
same as the Puerto Rican empanadas. The problem with Puerto
Rican food is too many plantains (the wrong bananas) and too
few chili peppers.
https://rathergood.com/2015/09/10/wrong-bananas/

--Bryan

[S Viemeister]

Horse drawn carts? I remember them from my childhood - which was a
_long_ time ago.

[Hank Rogers]

Popeye, are yoose sure yoose ain't in Mumbai?

[Hank Rogers]

That would sure attract master Fruce, but Popeye probably collects
it to throw out his window.

[Hank Rogers]

It sounds like 1890 dreamin.

[Ophelia]

"S Viemeister" wrote in message news:i61610...@mid.individual.net...

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LOL same here:))))

[Master Bruce]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:47:11 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>
wrote:

I remember a ragpicker (old-clothes-man?) with horse and cart going
through our street. But even back then he was considered something
from bygone days.

[Bryan Simmons]

*******
Ian, I think you're hard on yourself just because you're a boy."
"I'll give that some thought when I get over my astonishment at being
called a boy."
"I mean you grew up a boy, and in more old fashioned times."
Winter saw an opening. "Ian had to walk to school, and it was uphill
both ways. Miles, miles through deep snow. And his shoes had holes
in them."

...

"But didn't they have horse and buggy?"
"Buggy? Gosh no, Ann. There weren't even horses yet."
*******

--Bryan

[Bryan Simmons]

Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block
I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don't talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kh6K_-a0c4

--Bryan

[Graham]

Through the 50s and possibly into the 60s, farmers in my area of England
used horses to plough dead straight, marker furrows for tractor drawn
ploughs to follow. Nearly every farm had at least one draft horse,
always Suffolk Punches. Now that breed is endangered and there are a few
breeders in the UK trying to keep it going. Strangely, there is also a
breeder in Idaho.

[Master Bruce]

For the Idaho potato fields.

[Graham]

I made a mistake: there used to be a breeder in Idaho.

[Ophelia]

"Master Bruce" wrote in message
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Yes, it was mostly the 'rag and bone man':) I have to say though, I
remember that when his horse made a mess, he shovelled it up. For his
garden I believe:)

[Master Bruce]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:10:51 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>
wrote:

These days he could sell it :)

[Ophelia]

"Master Bruce" wrote in message

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Gosh! Who knew:)) LOL there are a lot of horses on the fields around us.
Are you saying I could follow them around and make a living <g>

[S Viemeister]

On 11/01/2021 10:10, Ophelia wrote:
>
>   Yes, it was mostly the 'rag and bone man':)  I have to say though, I
> remember that when his horse made a mess, he shovelled it up.  For his
> garden I believe:)
>

There were horse-drawn bakery and milk carts in Edinburgh through the
60s. I remember one very early morning in the Old Town (or late
night...it was during the Festival) a friend and I went out to find
stuff to make breakfast for the lazy bunch of people we'd been partying
with - my friend managed to persuade the bakery boy to let her take the
reins for a while.

[songbird]

Ophelia wrote:
...

> Yes, it was mostly the 'rag and bone man':) I have to say though, I
> remember that when his horse made a mess, he shovelled it up. For his
> garden I believe:)

horse and rabbit poo are worm heaven foods. :) and even better
yet they don't smell like pig, dog or people poo. some would
consider them to smell pretty good.


songbird

[Master Bruce]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:59:00 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>

I think so. Collect it and sell it to city people who have a garden,
but no horses or cattle :) Here, people put it on the streetside in
bags, for xx dollar per bag.

[Ophelia]

"songbird" wrote in message news:4eutch-...@anthive.com...

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LOL true:)))

[Ophelia]

"Master Bruce" wrote in message

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Hmmm think not <g>

[Dave Smith]

For a while I lived in St.Catharines and had a summer job in Welland in
1971-72 When I worked the day shift I often saw the horse drawn milk
cart on my way to work.

[Janet]

In article <i61610...@mid.individual.net>, firs...@lastname.oc.ku
says...

When I was in primary school, our milk man, the local rag and bone man
and several brewers delivering to pubs, still used horse drawn carts.
In my teens, a local GP still did all his city rounds (home visits to
patients) in a horse and trap. Here he is

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-hereford-doctor-1965-online


I also remember that whenever horses dropped manure on the road, it
never stayed there long; some keen gardener would rush out to collect
it.

Janet UK

[Cindy Hamilton]

By the time I was born in 1957, horse-drawn carts had pretty much
disappeared. In fact, Detroit banned them from the main thoroughfares
in 1922 (IIRC) in favor of motorized vehicles. They lingered on the
side streets for a couple of decades. Apparently there were one or
two still operating in the 1960s.

Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

On 2021-01-11 11:30 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> By the time I was born in 1957, horse-drawn carts had pretty much
> disappeared. In fact, Detroit banned them from the main thoroughfares
> in 1922 (IIRC) in favor of motorized vehicles. They lingered on the
> side streets for a couple of decades. Apparently there were one or
> two still operating in the 1960s.

We had them when I was a kid in Toronto in the early 50s. Then we moved
to a small town and had milk and bread delivered by truck. Then in 1971
and 72 I saw them in Welland.I think they were phased out shortly
after that.

We had milk delivery for a while when we moved out here in 1977. I don't
remember if we cancelled or if milk delivery was phased out, but I have
not seen a milk delivery truck in decades.

[Master Bruce]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:40:21 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>

Maybe you weren't waiting for a career change :)

[Cindy Hamilton]

My mother was getting milk delivered a decade ago. I don't know if she
still is, or if she simply has milk delivered with the rest of her groceries.
I think the insulated milk box is gone from her front porch, so probably
the latter.

Cindy Hamilton

[Sheldon Martin]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 Ophelia" wrote:
>"Master Bruce" wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jan 20 "Ophelia" wrote:
>>"Master Bruce" wrote:

>>On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 Ophelia wrote:
>>>"S Viemeister" wrote:

>>>On 10/01/2021 Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 Sheldon wrote:
>>>>> In most parts of NYC one can buy most anything from the roadway and
>>>>> sidewalk in front of their house, and venders hawking their wares in
>>>>> every alleyway between buildings... there's a steady stream of push
>>>>> carts and horse drawn carts with venders selling most everything,
>>>>> legal and illegal.
>>>>
>>>> By all means, let's all move to NYC so we can step in the shit from the
>>>> horse-drawn carts.

Don't laugh, lots of big city people headed outside early trying to be
first to collect the horse manure for their gardens. Back then there
were no stores selling any sort of fertilizer. My mom would snd me
out with a bucket and shovel to keep her garden supplied.

>>>Horse drawn carts? I remember them from my childhood - which was a
>>>_long_ time ago.
>>>
>>>===
>>>
>>> LOL same here:))))
>>
>>I remember a ragpicker (old-clothes-man?) with horse and cart going
>>through our street. But even back then he was considered something
>>from bygone days.
>>
>>====
>>
>> Yes, it was mostly the 'rag and bone man':) I have to say though, I
>>remember that when his horse made a mess, he shovelled it up. For his
>>garden I believe:)
>
>These days he could sell it :)
>
>===
>
>Gosh! Who knew:)) LOL there are a lot of horses on the fields around us.
>Are you saying I could follow them around and make a living <g>

You'd be surprised, even here in farm country where lots of livestock
is raised and the downstate race tracks winter their horses here in
gorgeous heated barns... they sell the horse manure. No one wants cow
flop and pig shit because the stench never disappates, the cow flop
contains too many weed seeds. We have a source of free racehorse
manure. Race horses are fed a special diet and put out to pasture in
fields where nothing harmful is growing but still we compost for a
year to kill any seeds... proper composting generates heat that cooks
the seeds and insect eggs. Our neighbor who stores his haying
equipment in our barn supplies the farmers with cordage for their wood
stoves and he's given more manure than he can ever use in a lifetime.
He no longer has a vegetable garden, with all his haying and wood
cutting he doesn't have time... we supply him with lots of fresh
veggies from our garden. He and his son take care of us too, with the
last big snow they came here with his huge tractor and moved most of
our snow with his front loader bucket.

[S Viemeister]

On 11/01/2021 16:14, Janet wrote:
>
> I also remember that whenever horses dropped manure on the road, it
> never stayed there long; some keen gardener would rush out to collect
> it.
>

The horse that pulled the milk cart past my Grandparents' home, almost
always dropped a load right in front of the house. Granpa always scooped
it up for the garden.

[Dave Smith]

No one wants cow shit? Don't bet your mini farm on that. Every big dairy
farm has a composting area for their manure. I have a tree nursery
behind me and Farmer John has cow shit delivered several times a year.
Much of it is fairly fresh. It is not uncommon around here to see
manure being spread on fields. The smell is nowhere near as bad as
chicken or pig shit.

I used to work near a race track and we used to see several tractor
trailer loads of horse shit and bedding being hauled out of their every
day. The trucks were owned by a mushroom farm.

[Master Bruce]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:12:06 -0500, Sheldon Martin <penm...@aol.com>
wrote:

>You'd be surprised, even here in farm country where lots of livestock
>is raised and the downstate race tracks winter their horses here in
>gorgeous heated barns... they sell the horse manure. No one wants cow
>flop and pig shit because the stench never disappates, the cow flop
>contains too many weed seeds.

Quite the opposite, as usual. Horse manure contains weed seeds, that
can still germinate. Cow manure doesn't.

[Graham]

I knew an arable farmer who had a very large load of manure delivered from
the municipal sewage works. No smell but the following Spring, the pile was
covered with tomato plants:-)

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:12:13 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 Ophelia" wrote:
> >"Master Bruce" wrote:
> >On Mon, 11 Jan 20 "Ophelia" wrote:
> >>"Master Bruce" wrote:
> >>On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 Ophelia wrote:
> >>>"S Viemeister" wrote:
> >>>On 10/01/2021 Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 Sheldon wrote:
> >>>>> In most parts of NYC one can buy most anything from the roadway and
> >>>>> sidewalk in front of their house, and venders hawking their wares in
> >>>>> every alleyway between buildings... there's a steady stream of push
> >>>>> carts and horse drawn carts with venders selling most everything,
> >>>>> legal and illegal.
> >>>>
> >>>> By all means, let's all move to NYC so we can step in the shit from the
> >>>> horse-drawn carts.
> Don't laugh, lots of big city people headed outside early trying to be
> first to collect the horse manure for their gardens.

Sheldon, you wrote that original paragraph in the present tense, as if horse-drawn
carts are still common on the streets of NYC.

Nobody wants horses in the city anymore, apart from mounted police
and those romantic carriage rides.

Cindy Hamilton

[Ophelia]

"Master Bruce" wrote in message

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Well there is that <g>

[dsi1]

On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 11:52:53 AM UTC-10, Master Bruce wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:47:11 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >"S Viemeister" wrote in message news:i61610...@mid.individual.net...
> >
> >On 10/01/2021 18:36, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 12:57:20 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> >>> In most parts of NYC one can buy most anything from the roadway and
> >>> sidewalk in front of their house, and venders hawking their wares in
> >>> every alleyway between buildings... there's a steady stream of push
> >>> carts and horse drawn carts with venders selling most everything,
> >>> legal and illegal.
> >>
> >> By all means, let's all move to NYC so we can step in the shit from the
> >> horse-drawn carts.
> >>
> >Horse drawn carts? I remember them from my childhood - which was a
> >_long_ time ago.
> >
> >
> >===
> >
> > LOL same here:))))
> I remember a ragpicker (old-clothes-man?) with horse and cart going
> through our street. But even back then he was considered something
> from bygone days.

Around here we had the manapua man. This was some old Chinese guy selling filled meat buns and what would be called dim sum on the mainland. He didn't have a horse. He had to carry large tin cans of food using a bamboo pole on his shoulder. Using a horse would be way too easy. We like to do things the hard way over here.
https://i0.wp.com/tastyislandhawaii.com/wp-content/uploads/manapua_man_.jpg

[Hank Rogers]

Nonsense. Popeye's horse shit is the finest shit in the universe!

[Ophelia]

"dsi1" wrote in message
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Gosh they look heavy!!! He looks very happy though:))

[dsi1]

Most people don't know about that manapua man. When I was a kid, I saw that guy come down our street a couple of times. Beats the heck out of me what he was doing there. Our street was in the middle of nowhere. He must have been lost! :)
The manapua man that most people know these days now drives a food truck. We were lucky because we've always had a manapua truck stop right in front of our condo. How perfect is that? Mostly I'd get steamed buns filled with pork, little steamed pork hash, friend chicken, crispy won ton, and a can of soda. The kids would get candy and ice cream.
Those old guys carrying the metal cans had a hard life. Even today, with the food trucks, it's still a very hard life. but those guys make our lives on this rock pretty darn awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAa0aGv3b-Q

[Ophelia]

"dsi1" wrote in message
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Lovely:)) We never had anything like that:)))

[Master Bruce]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:34:44 -0000, "Ophelia" <oph...@elsinore.me.uk>

wrote:

>"dsi1" wrote in message

>news:e88a6648-7681-4841...@googlegroups.com...

>
>Most people don't know about that manapua man. When I was a kid, I saw that
>guy come down our street a couple of times. Beats the heck out of me what he
>was doing there. Our street was in the middle of nowhere. He must have been
>lost! :)
>The manapua man that most people know these days now drives a food truck. We
>were lucky because we've always had a manapua truck stop right in front of
>our condo. How perfect is that? Mostly I'd get steamed buns filled with
>pork, little steamed pork hash, friend chicken, crispy won ton, and a can of
>soda. The kids would get candy and ice cream.
>Those old guys carrying the metal cans had a hard life. Even today, with the
>food trucks, it's still a very hard life. but those guys make our lives on
>this rock pretty darn awesome.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAa0aGv3b-Q
>
>====
>
> Lovely:)) We never had anything like that:)))

When my mother lived in Indonesia as a child, they had a Chinese man
walking around selling satay. Rumour had it that it wasn't made of
animal meat.

[Ophelia]

"Master Bruce" wrote in message

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Oh dear:(((

I have lived in many countries, but the longest one, was Malta! I haven't
seen anything like that:)))

[Leo]

On 2021 Jan 11, , S Viemeister wrote
(in article <i62thc...@mid.individual.net>):

> There were horse-drawn bakery and milk carts in Edinburgh through the
> 60s. I remember one very early morning in the Old Town (or late
> night...it was during the Festival) a friend and I went out to find
> stuff to make breakfast for the lazy bunch of people we'd been partying
> with - my friend managed to persuade the bakery boy to let her take the
> reins for a while.

I´m guessing your friend was a lovely lassie. Um...you too!

[S Viemeister]

Both of us had long hair, long legs, and short skirts, but she was a
natural blonde, and I was brunette, she was also an experienced
horsewoman, so she got to handle the reins. She was a good friend, and I
miss her. She died far too young due to a drunken idiot driving into her
as she walked home one night.

[Sheldon Martin]

It's not necessary to be a drunk to run into someone walking in the
road at night... most times the person walking in the roadways at
night are certifiable dingbats. Can people who drive into a 200 pound
deer at night claim the deer was drunk... people drive into deer here
most every day/night and they're not drunk, they're dingbats.

I see people walking these narrow winding UNlighted country
roads after dark often, and dressed in dark clothing, mostly females
walking their dog, and mostly black dogs. I don't drive between dusk
and dawn because that's when the roads are filled with critters. we
have a clear view of the road in front of our house from the front
windows. The road walkers make no attempt at making themselves
visible, night or day. There are all sorts of bright flashing LED
lights one can pin to clothing and hook to dog collars. We have LED
strobe lights on our bikes, front and rear, and we only ride on sunny
days and only on roads that have a shoulder, most roads here do not.
The road walkers should at minimum wear bright yellow clothing. On
the few occasions that we need to walk outside at night we have
reflective vests like what the road crews wear. A few years ago
someone was run down in her own driveway at night by someone who
pulled in to turn around, fortunately she didn't get badly hurt. Our
driveway is well lit by an LED floodlight... one night I drove into
the driveway and it was filled with a herd of deer, the next day I
bought the LED floodlight and had the electrition install it.

[dsi1]

The need to provide food for plantation workers was the origin of the manapua man. The manapua man was replaced by the lunch wagon for construction workers in Honolulu and manapua trucks for the kids. The lunch wagon originated on this tiny rock and has been putting smiles on people's faces since the 50's.

[Hank Rogers]

Yoose sure like to type Popeye. Ever think of writing a book about
yoose interesting life?

[dsi1]

Oh, they was made of animal meat alright. The only question is what kind of cat they were using.

[S Viemeister]

On 13/01/2021 16:23, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 08:16:18 +0000, S Viemeister
> <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:
>
>> On 12/01/2021 23:10, Leo wrote:
>>> On 2021 Jan 11, , S Viemeister wrote
>>> (in article <i62thc...@mid.individual.net>):
>>>
>>>> There were horse-drawn bakery and milk carts in Edinburgh through the
>>>> 60s. I remember one very early morning in the Old Town (or late
>>>> night...it was during the Festival) a friend and I went out to find
>>>> stuff to make breakfast for the lazy bunch of people we'd been partying
>>>> with - my friend managed to persuade the bakery boy to let her take the
>>>> reins for a while.
>>>
>>> I´m guessing your friend was a lovely lassie. Um...you too!
>>>
>> Both of us had long hair, long legs, and short skirts, but she was a
>> natural blonde, and I was brunette, she was also an experienced
>> horsewoman, so she got to handle the reins. She was a good friend, and I
>> miss her. She died far too young due to a drunken idiot driving into her
>> as she walked home one night.
>
> It's not necessary to be a drunk to run into someone walking in the
> road at night... most times the person walking in the roadways at
> night are certifiable dingbats. Can people who drive into a 200 pound
> deer at night claim the deer was drunk... people drive into deer here
> most every day/night and they're not drunk, they're dingbats.
>

She wasn't on the roadway, she had sense enough to walk on the side. She
was wearing light-coloured clothing, and the police said the driver was
drunk. She had a flashlight/torch with her, this was well before LED
wristbands were available.

[Graham]

There is no new low to which Sheldon doesn't sink!

[Master Bruce]

Sheldon, Hank and Greg Sorrow, the Holy Trinity of RFC.

[Hank Rogers]

<*TRIPLE-SNIFF*>

[GM]

If a guy is working in the field all day, having sex with his wife every night, fishing on Saturday with friends, and going to church on Sunday ... he will be content and happy. Below is what contributes to our malaise:

emasculation of the male
low church attendance (no meaning in life)
weak institutions in general
covid (lack of human interaction)
staring at a computer screen or a phone all day
arse - sniffers on the usenet

--
Best
Greg

[Bryan Simmons]

I prefer morning (*almost* every morning) and occasionally
mid-day sex. You can have my share of the fishing and the
church, and I get your share of having sex with a wife. That
seems fair, right?
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

--Bryan