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"It just doesn't get any better than this" - oh, yes it does!

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Lew

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Dec 19, 2009, 11:10:21 PM12/19/09
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My wife and I had a holiday dinner out with friends tonight. It was
$100+ per person fine dining. As one of my close friends held up a
glass of $90 Pinot and said, "It doesn't get any better than this", I
thought about sitting around a campfire with a beer in my hand eating
hot dogs with my riding buddies, all of us with our tents pitched next
to our bikes. I didn't say anything - he wouldn't have understood -
but I was thinking I could have gotten a new riding jacket with that
$200. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the dinner and the
company. It's just I'm a beer/hot dog/barbecue/motorcycle kind of guy.
If nothing else, it's good to know who you are.

--
Lew

J. Clarke

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Dec 19, 2009, 11:52:57 PM12/19/09
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It's amazing how much better a cheap bear tastes after a day of hard work
than an expensive wine after a day of sitting on your butt trying to stay
awake through a bunch of meetings.

Road Glidin' Don

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Dec 20, 2009, 12:39:24 AM12/20/09
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True words spoken, Lew!

Merry Christmas.


Gaidheal

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Dec 20, 2009, 9:57:11 AM12/20/09
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On Dec 19, 8:10 pm, Lew <no...@notmindspring.invalid.com> wrote:
>  As one of my close friends held up a
> glass of $90 Pinot and said, "It doesn't get any better than this", I
> thought about sitting around a campfire with a beer in my hand eating
> hot dogs with my riding buddies, all of us with our tents pitched next
> to our bikes.

Camping? Hot dogs? Sounds sort of *latent* to me...

Next time you go camping, take some cycle sluts, so you can trade 'em
around...

Outback Jon

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:32:37 AM12/20/09
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Gaidheal wrote:
> On Dec 19, 8:10 pm, Lew <no...@notmindspring.invalid.com> wrote:
>> As one of my close friends held up a
>> glass of $90 Pinot and said, "It doesn't get any better than this", I
>> thought about sitting around a campfire with a beer in my hand eating
>> hot dogs with my riding buddies, all of us with our tents pitched next
>> to our bikes.
>
> Camping? Hot dogs? Sounds sort of *latent* to me...

Yeah, they probably smoke cigars, too.

Check into it, you're probably related to them anyway...

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Bob Mann

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:55:15 AM12/20/09
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Lew <no...@notmindspring.invalid.com> wrote in
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I'd settle for something in between.
Beer and Bar-b-que at a Dave's for instance.

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Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Dec 20, 2009, 11:44:00 AM12/20/09
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J. Clarke wrote:

> It's amazing how much better a cheap bear tastes

You should check your local upscale supermarket. Look for the grizzly
aisle!

--
-bts
-Could. Not. Resist.

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 12:13:57 PM12/20/09
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You can keep the hotdogs...now, hold some nice THICK pork chops over
the fire that you picked up when you stopped for lunch, that I could
go for. 8^) Doesn't help that I be underwhelmed by all pino wines. Now
a nice rich amontialldo and decent pallea cooked over a fire? That's
the drink and food of the ghods. 8^)
--
Keith
I'm normal...it's the rest of y'all that's weird.

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 12:14:44 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 7:57 am, Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:

oh piss off monkey spanker.

Road Glidin' Don

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Dec 20, 2009, 3:44:26 PM12/20/09
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I'm more into steaks-over-the-fire accompanied by the missus, both our
bikes gleaming to the reflection of the flames, a few beers, lots of
firewood, a clear, starry sky and an ample supply of smokes. Might
have to cut out the latter someday, but I sure do enjoy the
combination.


Gaidheal

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:07:44 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 9:13 am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Now a nice rich amontialldo and decent pallea cooked over a fire? That's
> the drink and food of the ghods. 8^)

You can't even fucking *spell* paella, much less know how to cook
it...

Most bikers wouldn't have a paella pan with them on a ride anyway, but
you can improvise with an old Oldsmobile hubcap, the lid of a steel
garbage can, or whatever.

Mexicans use an old cultivator disk for a paella pan, so the result is
called "discada".

You sautee whatever meat, poultry or sea food you have available in a
low flat pan over an open fire, and then add rice and cover the rice
with about 1.5 inches of water and then cover the pan and steam the
rice for half an hour.

Mexicans won't have seafood if they're a long way from the ocean, so
they use chorizo or any kind of sausage, hot dogs, bratwurst, or even
canned Spam to flavor their paella.

They might not have rice, either, so they use beans.

> I'm normal...it's the rest of y'all that's weird.

Wrong. Gong!!!!! It's *you* that's way strange.

Gaidheal

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:08:30 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 9:14 am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> oh piss off monkey spanker.

You're the monkey that's begging to be spanked. You love the
attention.

The Older Gentleman

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:12:10 PM12/20/09
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Gaidheal <breogan...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can't even fucking *spell* paella,

<snip>
>
> You sautee

And you can't even fucking spell 'saute'

Isn't it a rule of Usenet that a spelling flame *always* backfires?


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Mark Olson

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:15:22 PM12/20/09
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The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Gaidheal <breogan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You can't even fucking *spell* paella,
>
> <snip>
>> You sautee
>
> And you can't even fucking spell 'saute'
>
> Isn't it a rule of Usenet that a spelling flame *always* backfires?

Pointing out that Smee can't spell is like telling us that fish prefer
a bit of damp.

The Older Gentleman

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:18:29 PM12/20/09
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Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:

You're starting to get the hang of this 'irony and understatment' thing,
aren't you?

Mark Olson

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:40:41 PM12/20/09
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The Older Gentleman wrote:

> You're starting to get the hang of this 'irony and understatment' thing,
> aren't you?

I fear it may be partially due to reading the Discworld series more or
less nonstop on my ebook reader over the last few weeks.


S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:45:18 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 2:07 pm, Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 9:13 am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now a nice rich amontialldo and decent pallea cooked over a fire? That's
> > the drink and food of the ghods. 8^)
>
> You can't even fucking *spell* paella, much less know how to cook
> it...
>
> Most bikers wouldn't have a paella pan with them on a ride anyway, but
> you can improvise with an old Oldsmobile hubcap, the lid of a steel
> garbage can, or whatever.

Yeah if you are trailer trash like YOU...good you serfs are of such
low class it's a wonder we let you leave europe.

> Mexicans use an old cultivator disk for a paella pan, so the result is
> called "discada".

Nope and FYI I know more about that than you do...

> You sautee whatever meat, poultry or sea food you have available in a
> low flat pan over an open fire, and then add rice and cover the rice
> with about 1.5 inches of water and then cover the pan and steam the
> rice for half an hour.
>

Only semi-correct. Then again...when traveling the serfs give me what
I need.

> Mexicans won't have seafood if they're a long way from the ocean, so
> they use chorizo or any kind of sausage, hot dogs, bratwurst, or even
> canned Spam to flavor their paella.

Shows what you know cock sucker. You want oysters? I got them, sole?
got it! squid? Got it! (though for that dish you need squid ink and
that is hard to get anywhere but the most obscure gourmate grocery)

If I want it I get it...anywhere in N. America. Your claims are the
claims of a lying little freak that never left prison.

> They might not have rice, either, so they use beans.

Then it isn't pallea.

> > I'm normal...it's the rest of y'all that's weird.
>
> Wrong. Gong!!!!! It's *you* that's way strange.

Uh actually you humourless fuck... I AM normal. YOTOH are a freak of
nature and a walking criminal act. Hell you don't even actually OWN
much less ride a motocycle...though I do grant that you probally stole
one of those hover round scooters or something similar and putter
around the prison grounds on it.

Must be nice living at the publics expense at a minimum security
prison. Must be fun as a lifer.

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:45:55 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 2:18 pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older

Gentleman) wrote:
> Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
> > The Older Gentleman wrote:
> > > Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > >> You can't even fucking *spell* paella,
>
> > > <snip>
> > >> You sautee
>
> > > And you can't even fucking spell 'saute'
>
> > > Isn't it a rule of Usenet that a spelling flame *always* backfires?
>
> > Pointing out that Smee can't spell is like telling us that fish prefer
> > a bit of damp.
>
> You're starting to get the hang of this 'irony and understatment' thing,
> aren't you?

Could be, could be.

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:46:47 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 2:12 pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

> Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > You can't even fucking *spell* paella,
>
> <snip>
>
>
>
> > You sautee
>
> And you can't even fucking spell 'saute'
>
> Isn't it a rule of Usenet that a spelling flame *always* backfires?

USENET has rules? When did THAT HAPPEN!

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:48:24 PM12/20/09
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Sorry con, but you aren't my spieces much less my type..hell you
aren't even my prefered gender (well I sure as hell hope you aren't
female) that would be disgusting.

Gaidheal

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Dec 20, 2009, 7:51:23 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 1:45 pm, "S'mee" <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2:07 pm, Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > They might not have rice, either, so they use beans.
>
> Then it isn't pallea.

Listen up, dipshit! Paella refers to the *pan* that the rice, beans
(1), seafood, chicken, snails, or whatever is cooked in the pan, but
the result is *not* the pan.

There are many similar confusions when referring to Spanish or Mexican
cooking.

For instance, "cocido" simply means "cooked", but if you ordered
Cocido de Res in a Mexican restaurant, you'd get beef stew.

"Fritada" simply means "fried", but you might find that "fritada"
refers to fried fish in Mexico or Spain.

If you went into a "tapas" bar, you could order a variety of hors
d'oeuvres that might be kept in little clay pots known as "barros".
The lids for the pots are called
"tapas", but you sure as heck could *eat* a tapa.

Back to paella. "Paella" is a Catalan word which comes from the Latin
"patella", meaning "little pan". Patella, in turn comes from the Latin
"patina", which means "pan".

Obviously you cannot eat the *pan* itself, but you can eat what's
cooked in the paella, and most Americans believe that's what the name
of the recipe is.

Yes, the recipe commonly known as "Valencian paella" often contains
*beans*, of which the Spanish Jews were so fond, they were called
"judios".

S'mee

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Dec 20, 2009, 8:52:38 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 20, 5:51 pm, Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Keep babbling you lying fraud...someday you'll lie well enough to
finally score a young man. Untill then...you just keep trying to be a
real man. Those of us who are real men find your floppingn and
flailing about hilarious you rotten chickenhawk.

You stupid fucker... I learned and forgot more about food before I was
20 than your sorry ass could learn from a library full of cook books.

Mike Hunt

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:05:32 PM12/20/09
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"Road Glidin' Don" <d.la...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Well, I guess it is a whole lot better than relaxing up on BrokeBack
Mountain with your buddies...

Lew

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Dec 20, 2009, 10:34:26 PM12/20/09
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On 20 Dec 2009, Road Glidin' Don wrote in
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m

OK, you got me. I'd choose steaks on the fire over the hot dogs.

--
Lew

The Older Gentleman

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Dec 21, 2009, 2:16:38 AM12/21/09
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Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:

Ah. I like the Watch characters best. And the Witches.

S'mee

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Dec 21, 2009, 9:43:10 AM12/21/09
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On Dec 20, 8:05 pm, "Mike Hunt" <Mike.H...@home.com> wrote:

> Well, I guess it is a whole lot better than relaxing up on BrokeBack
> Mountain with your buddies...

Awwwwwww Krusty will be SO disapointed.

High Plains Thumper

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Dec 22, 2009, 5:11:00 AM12/22/09
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J. Clarke wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>
>> My wife and I had a holiday dinner out with friends tonight. It
>> was $100+ per person fine dining. As one of my close friends held
>> up a glass of $90 Pinot and said, "It doesn't get any better than
>> this", I thought about sitting around a campfire with a beer in my
>> hand eating hot dogs with my riding buddies, all of us with our
>> tents pitched next to our bikes. I didn't say anything - he
>> wouldn't have understood - but I was thinking I could have gotten a
>> new riding jacket with that $200. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly
>> enjoyed the dinner and the company. It's just I'm a beer/hot
>> dog/barbecue/motorcycle kind of guy. If nothing else, it's good to
>> know who you are.

Agreed. Personally I prefer a stop at a place like Po' Boys restaurant.

> It's amazing how much better a cheap bear tastes after a day of hard
> work than an expensive wine after a day of sitting on your butt
> trying to stay awake through a bunch of meetings.

During riding stops I enjoy connoisseur truck stop coffee (quantity over
quality).

--
HPT

High Plains Thumper

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Dec 22, 2009, 5:13:11 AM12/22/09
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S'mee wrote:

> "Mike Hunt" wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess it is a whole lot better than relaxing up on
>> BrokeBack Mountain with your buddies...
>
> Awwwwwww Krusty will be SO disapointed.

Is he a partner of Flatfish?

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S'mee

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:49:57 AM12/22/09
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On Dec 22, 3:13 am, High Plains Thumper

<highplainsthum...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> S'mee wrote:
> > "Mike Hunt" wrote:
>
> >> Well, I guess it is a whole lot better than relaxing up on
> >> BrokeBack Mountain with your buddies...
>
> > Awwwwwww Krusty will be SO disapointed.
>
> Is he a partner of Flatfish?

Third cousin twice removed...from playgrounds.

S'mee

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:52:38 AM12/22/09
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On Dec 22, 3:11 am, High Plains Thumper

<highplainsthum...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
> > Lew wrote:
>
> >> My wife and I had a holiday dinner out with friends tonight.  It
> >> was $100+ per person fine dining.  As one of my close friends held
> >> up a glass of $90 Pinot and said, "It doesn't get any better than
> >> this", I thought about sitting around a campfire with a beer in my
> >> hand eating hot dogs with my riding buddies, all of us with our
> >> tents pitched next to our bikes.  I didn't say anything - he
> >> wouldn't have understood - but I was thinking I could have gotten a
> >> new riding jacket with that $200.  Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly
> >> enjoyed the dinner and the company. It's just I'm a beer/hot
> >> dog/barbecue/motorcycle kind of guy. If nothing else, it's good to
> >> know who you are.
>
> Agreed.  Personally I prefer a stop at a place like Po' Boys restaurant.

Frozen burrito (nuked) whilst I get gas for both of us. ;^) 64oz Mt
Dew if it's hot out...copious coffee iffn it's not.

> > It's amazing how much better a cheap bear tastes after a day of hard
> > work than an expensive wine after a day of sitting on your butt
> > trying to stay awake through a bunch of meetings.
>
> During riding stops I enjoy connoisseur truck stop coffee (quantity over
> quality).

heh, you got your ears on ghood buddy. (oblibatory feedback from a 300
watt linear amp)

tomorrowat...@yahoo.com

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Dec 22, 2009, 10:51:00 AM12/22/09
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On Dec 20, 10:05 pm, "Mike Hunt" <Mike.H...@home.com> wrote:

> Well, I guess it is a whole lot better than relaxing up on BrokeBack
> Mountain with your buddies...

Learn to quote, pussy.

High Plains Thumper

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Dec 23, 2009, 12:03:05 AM12/23/09
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S'mee wrote:

> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>
>> Agreed. Personally I prefer a stop at a place like Po' Boys
>> restaurant.
>
> Frozen burrito (nuked) whilst I get gas for both of us. ;^) 64oz Mt
> Dew if it's hot out...copious coffee iffn it's not.

I prefer the Alsups burritos. They're made prestale at the factory so
they won't get any worse in the stores. :-)

>> During riding stops I enjoy connoisseur truck stop coffee (quantity
>> over quality).
>
> heh, you got your ears on ghood buddy. (oblibatory feedback from a
> 300 watt linear amp)

or 1300 watt microwave?

--
HPT

S'mee

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Dec 23, 2009, 12:11:01 AM12/23/09
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Non commercial microwave ovens had 1300watts back in the mid 70's??? I
dunno, didn't pay attention then (to microwave ovens) and still don't.

Mike Hunt

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Dec 23, 2009, 1:15:33 AM12/23/09
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"tomo...@erols.com" <tomorrowat...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Learn to quote, pussy.

Hey- you learn to not speak until my dick is finished in your mouth.


S'mee

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Dec 23, 2009, 7:04:14 AM12/23/09
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On Dec 22, 11:15 pm, "Mike Hunt" <Mike.H...@home.com> wrote:
> "tomor...@erols.com" <tomorrowaterolsdot...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

Weellll prick face...he is correct. The way you are posting NOW
doesn't indicate what is new content and what is qouted content...only
a fucking moron posts like that.

High Plains Thumper

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Dec 23, 2009, 7:21:46 AM12/23/09
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I bought as a gift for my parents an Amana Radar Range back in 1974. It
was built like a tank, was powerful, they still had it back in 1994,
never failed them in the 20 years they had it. Only reason why they got
rid of it was because of moving, and they needed to lighten the load.

OTOH, my Sharp Carousel went bad after 5 years, put a new microwave tube
in it. Then as a few of the switches started to go bad, took it to work
and let co-workers use it. (Funniest thing was watching a co-worker
litterally nuke his microwavable macaroni. Thought it was only 700 or
800 watts and set the time for such, burnt the contents to a crisp.)

I've had a number of microwaves, they seem to go bad after about 5 years
for one reason or another.

The Amana cost $400 back then. Due to inflation, I imagine the price
equivalent now would be at least 3 times, or $1200 today. However, the
latest Microwave I purchased, an Emerson 1100 watt was only $54 at
Wal-Mart. That justifies buying a new one every 4 or 5 years.

Thus, this deviation is on topic:

- "It just doesn't get any better than this" - oh, yes it does!

--
HPT

tomorrowat...@yahoo.com

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Dec 23, 2009, 6:57:24 PM12/23/09
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He's the kind of poster who gives decent homosexuals a bad name.....

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