Is it Thursday?
Glenallan
have to switch on your computer to find out
what day of the week it is.
G
--
conwaycaine
"Glenallan" <robt....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> You know you have really retired when you have to switch on your computer
> to find out what day of the week it is.
Nah. That ain't old and retired.
Here's old and retired.
You check your seven day pill box to determine the correct day of the week.
Allan
"conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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But how do you know if it is Thursday - rather than Friday and you've
forgotten to take a pill?
Allan
Ian Smith
blurted oot this wisdom:
> You know you have really retired when you have to switch on your
> computer to find out what day of the week it is.
>
> G
It's actually Monday already. If you are still in Thursday, here are the
winning numbers for Saturday's lottery - 3, 11, 18, 27, 29, 41. All I ask
for is a 10% share of the jackpot. Good luck. ;-)
--
My semi-useful dynamic calendar - http://www.1r5.net
La N
ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
- nilita, could count on it on birthdays and Christmas ...
Cory Bhreckan
'a pill'? Your raw youth is showing! By the time you get to be Conway's
age it's a fist full of pills (and a suppository or two).
>
> Allan
--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall
Glenallan
"La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> G*d. I suddenly remembered the young girl's typical gift-from-hell in the
> ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
I still have mine but they get mixed up in the washing.
Nebulous
> ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
>
> - nilita, could count on it on birthdays and Christmas ...
I'm bad enough with day-of-the-week socks. A rather machiavellian gift if I
may say so myself.
Neb
La N
>
> "La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:POQ0m.32232$Db2.11414@edtnps83...
>> G*d. I suddenly remembered the young girl's typical gift-from-hell in
>> the ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
>
> I still have mine but they get mixed up in the washing.
>
Did your mother ever give you the same clean underwear advisory that I got
from mine? ("in case you ever get into an accident")
- nilita
Allan
> ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
Or if you're a lad months of the year underpants!
Allan
Cory Bhreckan
When I was working at the Northampton State (mental) Hospital one of the
young women working there got in an accident. I'm sure that her
underpants were clean but they had a big label on them that identified
them as property of the hospital (never sold). A lot of the career state
employees would pilfer the underwear and other clothing, I can only
speculate on what the paramedics thought. She was mortified of course.
La N
"Cory Bhreckan" <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>
>
> When I was working at the Northampton State (mental) Hospital
Umm ... could you expand on this ... . please?
- nil
Charles Ellson
wrote:
Presumably this establishment ? :-
http://www.smith.edu/nsh/entry.html
Rick
>
Nah! Your cellphone is used to check the TIME of day.
Your Computer is for the Day.
Now that I use a debit card instead of checks, I don't have to ask
somebody what year it is.
S Viemeister
> Nah! Your cellphone is used to check the TIME of day.
I have my phone set to display the time, day of the week, and date
(including the year).
I'm not always near the computer, but I almost always have my phone with me.
Cory Bhreckan
That's the one. I worked there as an MHA II (mental health assistant 2)
on the night shift for about 6 months in the early 1980s.
Only part of main buildings in your link were used, as administrative
offices. The patients were all in a smaller building across the road.
It's all closed now and the main buildings torn down. They had great
furniture, marble topped dressers etc... and 7' bathtubs, none of which
could be sold (state law). It was a strange experience.
Cory Bhreckan
La N
> Charles Ellson wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:36:32 GMT, "La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Cory Bhreckan" <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net> wrote in message
>>> news:HYS0m.1242$NF6...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>>>> When I was working at the Northampton State (mental) Hospital
>>> Umm ... could you expand on this ... . please?
>>>
>> Presumably this establishment ? :-
>> http://www.smith.edu/nsh/entry.html
>
> More pics at http://www.opacity.us/site13_northampton_state_hospital.htm
>
One notes that the movie Cider House Rules was filmed there. Good film
IIRC.
- nilita
Cory Bhreckan
> Rick wrote:
>
>> Nah! Your cellphone is used to check the TIME of day.
>
> I have my phone set to display the time, day of the week, and date
> (including the year).
> I'm not always near the computer, but I almost always have my phone with
> me.
Ok, how many of you reached for your cell phones just now. Let's see
some hands.
>
>> Your Computer is for the Day.
>> Now that I use a debit card instead of checks, I don't have to ask
>> somebody what year it is.
Glenallan
> One notes that the movie Cider House Rules was filmed there. Good film >
> IIRC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bxq94EkSPs
G
--
> - nilita
>
Charles Ellson
wrote:
>
IIRC Marty Feldman did a sketch on the subject but unfortunately it
does not seem to have reached YouTube.
The Phantom Piper
wrote:
>
> By the time you get to be Conway's age it's
> a fist full of pills (and a suppository or two).
I think he needs a Fistful Of Suppositories each day.
(By the way, does "suppository" mean someone
who is thought likely to be a Conservative?)
Pondering,
The Phantom Piper
Cory Bhreckan
> "Cory Bhreckan" <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:eLT0m.1252$NF6...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>> Charles Ellson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:36:32 GMT, "La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Cory Bhreckan" <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:HYS0m.1242$NF6...@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>>>>> When I was working at the Northampton State (mental) Hospital
>>>> Umm ... could you expand on this ... . please?
>>>>
>>> Presumably this establishment ? :-
>>> http://www.smith.edu/nsh/entry.html
>> More pics at http://www.opacity.us/site13_northampton_state_hospital.htm
>>
>
> One notes that the movie Cider House Rules was filmed there. Good film
> IIRC.
>
> - nilita
>
>
They were pretty imposing buildings, we were given a tour during our
training. Like I said before, only a small part of the main building was
still in use as administration offices, the rest was unheated. The paint
hung in strips from the ceilings and walls, it was musty, old and
creepy. There were orchards and fields that the patients used to tend
until about halfway through the 20th century. After then it was against
state law to have the patients work in any way. Keep in mind that for
the first hundred years or so, it wasn't just the mentally ill who were
stuck there. There were 'problem' children, unwed mothers and retarded
folks who were shipped there and never released.
'De-institutionalization' was in full swing while I was there, a lot of
the residents hung out in the streets of Northampton during the day
including 'Sun Tan Man' who stood on the corner of Main and Pleasant
streets with no shirt on, and a shaved head, in the middle of winter
with a big grin on his face and his arms held out. Then there was one of
the blokes on my ward who was harmless but would whip out his d*** on
the street near Smith College and get hustled back to G1 East (my ward)
every time for another stay. Some of my co-workers would slip him some
porn right before the (female) director was due to come through so he
could give her a show.
conwaycaine
"Allan" <al...@noemail.co.uk> wrote in message
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Well, that's the rub, you see.
One must take one's pills every day else all is for naught..................
conwaycaine
> Allan wrote:
>>
>> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:GuQ0m.15147$Xw4....@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
>>>
>>> "Glenallan" <robt....@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:G-GdnUI71dVAUd7X...@brightview.co.uk...
>>>> You know you have really retired when you have to switch on your
>>>> computer to find out what day of the week it is.
>>>
>>> Nah. That ain't old and retired.
>>> Here's old and retired.
>>> You check your seven day pill box to determine the correct day of the
>>> week.
>>
>> But how do you know if it is Thursday - rather than Friday and you've
>> forgotten to take a pill?
>
> 'a pill'? Your raw youth is showing! By the time you get to be Conway's
> age it's a fist full of pills (and a suppository or two).
You are absolutely correct.
I fight with me doctor on a regular basis in an effort to cut back on the
number and kinds of pills I take.
These guys really have no idea of the possible interaction of many different
meds on older people.
(A word to the wise here)
conwaycaine
> ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
>
> - nilita, could count on it on birthdays and Christmas ...
And Mom saying, "Nilita, where are your Thursday panties? They are not in
the wash"
conwaycaine
"Fred J. McCall" <fjmc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My computer is for everything.
Does your wife know that?????
Cory Bhreckan
I'm sure that it's a great relief to her.
La N
Senior citizens (i.e. anyone over the age of 65), take on the average
something like a dozen different pills. So, I learned a few years ago in a
class I took. Some of the interactions of the pills can cause, among other
things, dementia-like symptoms. [Cory may now insert his commentary] :)
- nilita
La N
How could you have known .....
The Phantom Piper
>
> I'm divorced
I'm shocked - *shocked* I say!
What sort of foolish woman would ever
consider leaving a Winner like you?!
My God! She must have had - oh, I don't
know - Morals, or - or Taste - or Class - or
(oh dear, can it be true?) *Self Respect*?
Just Guessing,
The Phantom Piper
P.S.: It wasn't Nilita, was it? Because
you can tell us (in strictest confidence,
of course), and it would really explain a
lot of your posts...
La N
>
> P.S.: It wasn't Nilita, was it? Because
> you can tell us (in strictest confidence,
> of course), and it would really explain a
> lot of your posts...
G*d, no! However, I have found it embarrassing through the years (in which
he has been in my killfile) for people to post asking him/me if he's one of
my spurned suitors because of his obsession.
- nilita, who has never even met or corresponded with this person
The Phantom Piper
>
> G*d, no!
(Yeah, I knew that. I only added that wee Sugarplum
to my post knowing the Effect it would have on him...)
*/:~D,
The Phantom Piper
Scotty
I only take seven, vitamin A, C, E, selenium, folic acid and zinc.
I ascribe my youthful good looks to never have had a beverage laced with
iodine, Oh, I nearly forgot and Omega 3
Cory Bhreckan
> On Jun 25, 1:14 pm, Cory Bhreckan <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net>
> wrote:
>> By the time you get to be Conway's age it's
>> a fist full of pills (and a suppository or two).
>
> I think he needs a Fistful Of Suppositories each day.
Judging by your loving relationship with Conway I would think that you
wanted him to have a fist *sized* suppository daily.
Not taking sides though.
>
> (By the way, does "suppository" mean someone
> who is thought likely to be a Conservative?)
>
>
> Pondering,
>
> The Phantom Piper
La N
> The Phantom Piper wrote:
>> On Jun 25, 1:14 pm, Cory Bhreckan <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>> By the time you get to be Conway's age it's
>>> a fist full of pills (and a suppository or two).
>>
>> I think he needs a Fistful Of Suppositories each day.
>
> Judging by your loving relationship with Conway I would think that you
> wanted him to have a fist *sized* suppository daily.
>
> Not taking sides though.
>
Somehow seeing PP masquerading as a proctologist ....
- nilita, just going on the visual set-up thanks to Cory ....
conwaycaine
> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> You are absolutely correct.
>> I fight with me doctor on a regular basis in an effort to cut back on the
>> number and kinds of pills I take.
>> These guys really have no idea of the possible interaction of many
>> different meds on older people.
>> (A word to the wise here)
>>
>>
>
> Senior citizens (i.e. anyone over the age of 65), take on the average
> something like a dozen different pills. So, I learned a few years ago in
> a class I took. Some of the interactions of the pills can cause, among
> other things, dementia-like symptoms. [Cory may now insert his
> commentary] :)
Good comment.
There have been more than a few cases where the pill intake of supposed
dementia patients was sharply curtailed in the old guys completely
recovered.
This pill interaction becomes especially dangerous when, in this world of
specialization, the old folks are seeing several different doctors.
conwaycaine
"Scotty" <nob...@home.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:08:46 -0400, "conwaycaine"
>>You are absolutely correct.
>>I fight with me doctor on a regular basis in an effort to cut back on the
>>number and kinds of pills I take.
>>These guys really have no idea of the possible interaction of many
>>different
>>meds on older people.
>>(A word to the wise here)
>
> I only take seven, vitamin A, C, E, selenium, folic acid and zinc.
>
> I ascribe my youthful good looks to never have had a beverage laced with
> iodine, Oh, I nearly forgot and Omega 3
That fish oil is a miracle.....
conwaycaine
I've heard stories.
Not about you but from other teen aged girls.
(It was a long time ago)
conwaycaine
> conwaycaine wrote:
>> "Fred J. McCall" <fjmc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:kp9845tsvgdk8m96s...@4ax.com...
>>
>>> My computer is for everything.
>>
>> Does your wife know that?????
>
> I'm sure that it's a great relief to her.
But is it a great relief for Fred?
conwaycaine
> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> :
> :"Fred J. McCall" <fjmc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> :news:kp9845tsvgdk8m96s...@4ax.com...
> :
> :> My computer is for everything.
> :
> :Does your wife know that?????
>
> I'm divorced, Conway...
I'm sorry, Fred.
I had forgotten.
conwaycaine
> The Phantom Piper wrote:
> Judging by your loving relationship with Conway I would think that you
> wanted him to have a fist *sized* suppository daily.
>
> Not taking sides though.
Sorry.
I don't do foul mouthed spooks.
But I might consider the Drac thingy.
(The impaler, not the blood sucker)
Nebulous
It's a great deal better to eat the fish than to take the supplements.
Neb
conwaycaine
"Nebulous" <jw...@pigtail.com> wrote in message
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Do you have any idea how much fish one would have to eat to equal the
recommended dosage for Triglyceride reduction?
conwaycaine
> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> No big thing, Conway (but the Phantom Pillock was predictably
> asinine).
Old Pee Pee.
Isn't it fun watching the tosser blow the bottom out of his own boat??
He should be slinking off any day now, perhaps to plague some other innocent
group..
Nebulous
No, how much do you need?
I had a rollmop herring and some herring in dill and cream sauce for lunch
today and a smoked mackerel yesterday.
As a general rule you need much less of most essential vitamins/trace
elements in food than as supplements to get the same effect. Absorption of
supplements is generally much poorer. So you are not really comparing like
for like if you are comparing the amount in a fish with the amount in a
supplement.
General nutritional recommendation is oily fish twice a week, which I pretty
much manage most weeks.
Neb
Ian Smith
blurted oot this wisdom:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:15:36 +0100, Glenallan wis temporarily glaikit
> then blurted oot this wisdom:
>
>> You know you have really retired when you have to switch on your
>> computer to find out what day of the week it is.
>>
>> G
>
> It's actually Monday already. If you are still in Thursday, here are the
> winning numbers for Saturday's lottery - 3, 11, 18, 27, 29, 41. All I
> ask for is a 10% share of the jackpot. Good luck. ;-)
Damn those time travel paradoxies...
The Phantom Piper
wrote:
>
>> The Phantom Piper wrote:
>
>> I think he needs a Fistful Of Suppositories each day.
>
> Judging by your loving relationship with Conway I would think
> that you wanted him to have a fist *sized* suppository daily.
By the way: "A Fistful Of Suppositories" - one of
the better Clint Eastwood films of his Later Career...
Woo-Eee-Ooh-Eee-Ooooh...,
The Phantom Piper
The Phantom Piper
>
> Somehow seeing PP masquerading as a proctologist ....
But Conway has no trouble at all
Pulling Things *Out* Of His Arse!
I'm Just Saying...,
The Phantom Piper
The Phantom Piper
wrote:
>
> Damn those time travel paradoxies...
That's a PairO'Dogs your speaking of!
Just Another Day In Paradox,
The Phantom Piper
Scotty
>>>>These guys really have no idea of the possible interaction of many
>>>>different
>>>>meds on older people.
>>>>(A word to the wise here)
>>>
>>> I only take seven, vitamin A, C, E, selenium, folic acid and zinc.
>>>
>>> I ascribe my youthful good looks to never have had a beverage laced with
>>> iodine, Oh, I nearly forgot and Omega 3
>>
>> That fish oil is a miracle.....
>
>It's a great deal better to eat the fish than to take the supplements.
>
>Neb
You're right Neb, I love fish, especially the oily ones usually recommended
as a source of fatty acids like mackerel. While I was in Cape Town I
discovered a delicious one that the locals call Butter fish, very "rich"
but very yummy.
http://www.panda.org.za/sassi/database/85.html
Some Google pages describe it as similar to flounder but it looks like a
cousin of mackerel.
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Poronotus_triacanthus.htm
My problem is that when I'm advised to eat more fish, it is always
accompanied with the caveat "but not more than two or three portions per
week", because of the mercury risk.
During the war, my mother pumped us full of cod liver oil and Scott's
emulsion. I don't know why it lasted only during the war years because it
stopped when the war ended. I distinctly remember, when the mercury scare
first started the source was attributed to German U-boats because they had
used mercury as ballast. Now what did I have for breakfast again? :-)
I don't understand how that can be true because elemental mercury is not
soluble in water and beside, there is a hell of a lot of water and a
relatively small number of U-boats sunk and that leaked mercury..
But if true, and the stuff accumulates in the fish liver, my mother
probably poisoned us with cod liver oil and probably accounts for my many
quirks... Eating German mercury might even account for why that idiot PP
thinks I'm a Nazi.
My hope is that the Omega fatty acids in capsules are synthesized and not
extracted from mercury contaminated fish.
Maybe if Deirdre is reading she could comment.
Scott.
La N
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:46:08 +0100, "Nebulous" <jw...@pigtail.com> wrote:
>
> During the war, my mother pumped us full of cod liver oil and Scott's
> emulsion. I don't know why it lasted only during the war years because it
> stopped when the war ended. I distinctly remember, when the mercury scare
> first started the source was attributed to German U-boats because they had
> used mercury as ballast. Now what did I have for breakfast again? :-)
>
We (tribe of) kids - well after the war years - were made to stand in line
each morning as our dad gave us our daily dose of cod liver oil. For some
reason, we always thought we would get deathly ill if we didn't have it.
But I can't remember when/why the ritual stopped.
- nilita
Custos Custodum
news:ptqe45p72f517tqg5...@4ax.com:
Under the right conditions, it readily forms organic compounds which then
find their way into the food chain. Apart from human pollution, there are
natural sources of mercury in the environment, such as volcanoes. I'm
sure Deirdre will be a mine of information on this topic.
Custos Custodum
Scotty
wrote:
>We (tribe of) kids - well after the war years - were made to stand in line
>each morning as our dad gave us our daily dose of cod liver oil. For some
>reason, we always thought we would get deathly ill if we didn't have it.
>But I can't remember when/why the ritual stopped.
>
>- nilita
Yep, that captures the mood surrounding the daily ritual. Thinking about
it, I'm surprised that we weren't made to wear a clove of garlic round our
necks.
Scotty
wrote:
>> During the war, my mother pumped us full of cod liver oil and Scott's
>> Emulsion. I don't know why it lasted only during the war years because
>> it stopped when the war ended. I distinctly remember, when the mercury
>> scare first started the source was attributed to German U-boats
>> because they had used mercury as ballast. Now what did I have for
>> breakfast again? :-)
>>
>> I don't understand how that can be true because elemental mercury is
>> not soluble in water and beside, there is a hell of a lot of water and
>> a relatively small number of U-boats sunk and that leaked mercury..
>
>Under the right conditions, it readily forms organic compounds which then
>find their way into the food chain. Apart from human pollution, there are
>natural sources of mercury in the environment, such as volcanoes. I'm
>sure Deirdre will be a mine of information on this topic.
Yes but, compounds don't have the same properties as the element. I throw
cyanuric acid into my pool and cyanoacrylate is used in surgery without
suffering cyanide poisoning.
I probably absorbed more mercury, recovered from various instruments and
thermometers as a kid rolling globs in the palm of my hand or rubbing it
onto coins to increase the value :-) than I would from a fish containing a
few ppm of mercury, to say nothing of a thick glass bottle in my cupboard
with a couple hundred grams of mercury and the three mercury column
barometers I have in various parts of the house. Still, the caveat is
always given...
I sure hope Deirdre is reading, she would know...
Ian Smith
glaikit then blurted oot this wisdom:
> On Jun 27, 1:45 pm, Ian Smith <ianinho...@btinternet.naespam.com> wrote:
At school I wore a "pair 'a docs" (Doc Martens), which sounds close
enough, eh?
Cory Bhreckan
Nowadays it's best to stick to fish low down on the food chain to avoid
concentrations of mercury, PCBs and other nasty pollutants. Mackerel
isn't *too* bad but herring, sardines, anchovies, shad (northeastern
Atlantic only) and whitebaits eat zoo-plankton, very low on the food
cahin. Tuna has enough mercury these days that you can take your own
temperature (mercury thermometers geddit?) if you eat it often at all.
Nebulous
"Ian Smith" <ianin...@btinternet.naespam.com> wrote in message
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As did I. Eight eyelet ones in oxblood to be precise.
Neb
The Phantom Piper
wrote:
>
> At school I wore a "pair 'a docs"
Did you learn things before they were taught to you?
Or was it that you were only ever able to
walk *halfway* to where you were going...
Either Dead Or Alive In A Pair O' Boxes,
The Phantom Piper
Nebulous
Hmmm
mercury in tuna clearly hasn't raised as many worries here as it has there.
However limiting its use makes sense. (everything in moderation)
So have you any idea where omega -3 supplements come from?
One of my friends who was a biologist used to laugh at vegetarians taking
vitamin supplements, as he claimed most of them came from offal. I was never
quite clear if he really meant it, or only saw it as a convenient weapon to
wind people up.
Neb
Cory Bhreckan
Flax seed, but not linen so don't eat your fivers.
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/flaxseed.htm
>
> One of my friends who was a biologist used to laugh at vegetarians taking
> vitamin supplements, as he claimed most of them came from offal.
> I was never
> quite clear if he really meant it, or only saw it as a convenient weapon to
> wind people up.
>
> Neb
Don't be surprised if your biologist friend isn't an expert in nutrition.
Cory Bhreckan
Didn't they wear 'bloomers' back in your day?
conwaycaine
>>>
>>> It's a great deal better to eat the fish than to take the supplements.
>>
>> Do you have any idea how much fish one would have to eat to equal the
>> recommended dosage for Triglyceride reduction?
>
> No, how much do you need?
I take 14 1000 milligrams a day.
Apparently it's working.
My Triglyceride count is way down and in the normal range.
conwaycaine
> conwaycaine wrote:
>> "La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Vq51m.32320$Db2.3797@edtnps83...
>>> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>>> news:kA31m.15461$Xw4....@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
>>>> "La N" <nilita20...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:POQ0m.32232$Db2.11414@edtnps83...
>>>>> G*d. I suddenly remembered the young girl's typical gift-from-hell in
>>>>> the ole days: Days-of-the-week panties.
>>>>>
>>>>> - nilita, could count on it on birthdays and Christmas ...
>>>> And Mom saying, "Nilita, where are your Thursday panties? They are not
>>>> in the wash"
>>>>
>>>>
>>> How could you have known .....
>>
>> I've heard stories.
>> Not about you but from other teen aged girls.
>> (It was a long time ago)
>
> Didn't they wear 'bloomers' back in your day?
Fundoshis............
The Phantom Piper
>
> So have you any idea where omega -3 supplements come from?
Planet Omega-3 in the galaxy of Andromeda?
(It's just to the left of Skyron.)
Eating A Blancmange,
The Phantom Piper
Cory Bhreckan
Teenage girls wore Fundoshis?!? Tennessee is stranger than I thought.
Did they wrestle as well?
Ian Smith
blurted oot this wisdom:
> "Ian Smith" <ianin...@btinternet.naespam.com> wrote in message
> news:4a47dd9d$0$10959$336...@unlimited.newshosting.com...
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:06:09 -0700, The Phantom Piper wis temporarily
>> glaikit then blurted oot this wisdom:
>>
>>> On Jun 27, 1:45 pm, Ian Smith <ianinho...@btinternet.naespam.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Damn those time travel paradoxies...
>>>
>>> That's a PairO'Dogs your speaking of!
>>>
>>>
>>> Just Another Day In Paradox,
>>>
>>> The Phantom Piper
>>
>>
>> At school I wore a "pair 'a docs" (Doc Martens), which sounds close
>> enough, eh?
>
> As did I. Eight eyelet ones in oxblood to be precise.
>
> Neb
Yours were posher than mine; black and certainly less than 8 high,
probably 6. Some shine on them though.
conwaycaine
In a manner of speaking, yes.
Cory Bhreckan
Nebulous
That's not quite the same thing. Shorter chains, not so many benefits.
>>
>> One of my friends who was a biologist used to laugh at vegetarians taking
>> vitamin supplements, as he claimed most of them came from offal.
>> I was never quite clear if he really meant it, or only saw it as a
>> convenient weapon to wind people up.
>>
>> Neb
>
> Don't be surprised if your biologist friend isn't an expert in nutrition.
Oh I know he wasn't. He was a bit of an expert on fish though, but that was
long ago. I'm pretty sure he did just like annoying veggies.
Neb
Deirdre Sholto Douglas
> My hope is that the Omega fatty acids in capsules are synthesized and not
> extracted from mercury contaminated fish.
>
> Maybe if Deirdre is reading she could comment.
If you know which fatty acid is in the capsule
you can make a fairly good stab at the source...
is it ALA or DHA and EPA/DHA? The former comes
from plants and the latter from fish.
Personally,if I was concerned about piscine heavy
metal in my supplements, I'd seek out the Vegan
alternative.
Deirdre
Custos Custodum
news:hljf451nmf844aq0h...@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:48:47 +0000 (UTC), Custos Custodum
> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>> During the war, my mother pumped us full of cod liver oil and
>>> Scott's Emulsion. I don't know why it lasted only during the war
>>> years because it stopped when the war ended. I distinctly remember,
>>> when the mercury scare first started the source was attributed to
>>> German U-boats because they had used mercury as ballast. Now what
>>> did I have for breakfast again? :-)
>>>
>>> I don't understand how that can be true because elemental mercury is
>>> not soluble in water and beside, there is a hell of a lot of water
>>> and a relatively small number of U-boats sunk and that leaked
>>> mercury..
>>
>>Under the right conditions, it readily forms organic compounds which
>>then find their way into the food chain. Apart from human pollution,
>>there are natural sources of mercury in the environment, such as
>>volcanoes. I'm sure Deirdre will be a mine of information on this
>>topic.
>
> Yes but, compounds don't have the same properties as the element.
Obviously. Sometimes they are far more toxic.
> I
> throw cyanuric acid into my pool and cyanoacrylate is used in surgery
> without suffering cyanide poisoning.
OTOH, carbon is relatively innocuous but carbon monoxide is highly toxic
and carbon dioxide somewhat less so. Then there are all the natural
carbon-based toxins (snake venom, etc.). It's all a question of how
easily these substances are absorbed into the body and how they are able
to interfere with metabolic processes once there.
> I probably absorbed more mercury, recovered from various instruments
> and thermometers as a kid rolling globs in the palm of my hand or
> rubbing it onto coins to increase the value :-) than I would from a
> fish containing a few ppm of mercury, to say nothing of a thick glass
> bottle in my cupboard with a couple hundred grams of mercury and the
> three mercury column barometers I have in various parts of the house.
> Still, the caveat is always given...
Probably less than you think. The problem with organic mercury compounds
is that they tend to accumulate in the body and are not excreted. The
further you are up the food chain, the more you are likely to ingest.
Deirdre Sholto Douglas
> Under the right conditions, it readily forms organic compounds which then
> find their way into the food chain. Apart from human pollution, there are
> natural sources of mercury in the environment, such as volcanoes. I'm
> sure Deirdre will be a mine of information on this topic.
A quicksilver mine, mayhap?
I was of the impression that most crustal Hg
is bound up as HgS and that it was reasonably
stable as a mineral. (Which, when you consider
how chemically promiscuous the individual com-
ponents are, is rather a miracle.)
I expect biogeochemistry might play a role in
releasing some to the biosphere though. Get a
bug in there messing about with co-dependent
atoms and next thing you know electrons are
being flung about everywhere. If, in the mid-
dle of things, mercury notices and hooks up
with the eye-candy chloride in the aqueous
phase, wafting off is a given...who doesn't
like to be motile? (It would be nice to hope
the spurned sulphur settles down with a nice
iron and they beget many Fe-S proteins.)
I seem to recall that granite has a rather high
proportion of Hg with which to bless itself...
something like 0.2 ppm (salmon, by way of com-
parison has 0.01ppm)...doesn't bode well for
poor Aberdeen, I can tell you. :-)
Deirdre
conwaycaine
Internet Explorer is still blowing out when accessing sites from these
messages.
It also blows out when accessing a second site from a link on the first
site.
"Cory Bhreckan" <corybhreckan@nospam_verizon.net> wrote in message
news:mY72m.1932>
> Like this? http://www.amateursumo.com/images/sumo.jpg
The Phantom Piper
>
> Internet Explorer is still blowing out
The only thing 'Blown Out' is your Windoze installation,
as Evidenced by the presence of that famous post-mortem
pathologist 'Dr. Watson'. 'The Internets' are *just fine* for
those of us who know how to keep the Series Of Tubes
unclogged and who don't fear to use such Newfangled
technomologicalisms as Google or Youtube - as you do.
Get a Clue.
"It was the Trojan with the Candlestick in the Bedroom."
(And here's the great thing: if you do nothing about it,
it will gradually get worse and worse until one fine day
[Callooh! Callay!] you will be unable to squeeze even
a single dusty, demented electron into The Tubes and
onto scs - thus [from our point of view] disappearing
like, well, like an Adam!)
I recommend that you either swear something along
the lines of "Damned Whippersnapper!" and hurl your
mouse at you monitor, possibly damaging both, or
take your rig to someone at the local `Puter Shoppe
who understands technology more advanced than the
Telegraph or the Gas Lamp and pay him to sort it for
you. This will also have the humourous side effect of
exposing all your personal pecadillos (downloaded
files, Most Recent Documents, etc.) to the staff at
the Com-Pu-Mart so they can all have a good laugh.
Looking Forward To It,
The Phantom Piper
Scotty
That looks like tango knickers to me. Conway was a lucky man..
Scotty
<conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>Sorry, Cory.
>Internet Explorer is still blowing out when accessing sites from these
>messages.
>It also blows out when accessing a second site from a link on the first
>site.
Conway, I at first got the impression that you had updated Outlook Express
but now it appears that it was IE version 8? There are a lot of "features"
built into IE8 to protect you from yourself... If so, look under the
"Tools" and the "Safety" buttons and turn off everything.
conwaycaine
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:25:16 -0400, "conwaycaine"
>
> but now it appears that it was IE version 8? There are a lot of "features"
> built into IE8 to protect you from yourself... If so, look under the
> "Tools" and the "Safety" buttons and turn off everything.
Yep. I installed Outlook Express.
I looked on the tool bar for "Tools", "Safety" and no such button was there.
(It's the accessing of websites that are blowing out. The Outlook Express
for newsgroups seem to be working fine.)
conwaycaine
"Fred J. McCall" <fjmc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:k08k451p4pigid15d...@4ax.com...
> "conwaycaine" <conwa...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> :
> :"Scotty" <nob...@home.net> wrote in message
>
> But you don't use Outlook Express to access websites. You (probably)
> use Internet Explorer for that. Check that your Internet Explorer
> settings are correct.
I mispoke.
It was IE 8 I installed.
I did find a safety button on a hidden command bar but no "turn off"
I did find a couple of tools button but no safety button.
There is somethoing weird going on.
> I'm not having any trouble seeing websites (although things were a
> little slow for a day or two). I checked my connection speed this
> morning and I'm seeing 30+ Mbs down...
The Phantom Piper
>
> But you don't use Outlook Express to access websites.
<Oh, this is going to be *rich*...>
Making Popcorn,
The Phantom Piper
The Phantom Piper
>
> I mispoke.
Which times are you confessing to?
(We only have so many years, you know.)
> There is somethoing weird going on.
Keep workoing on it.
Adding The Butter...,
The Phantom Piper
Peter Jason
"Custos Custodum" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:h2bleg$p1f$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
Surely there are specific sequestrants available to bind and
then eliminate the Hg?
They do this with Pb all the time.
Scotty
Ya, I haven't seen any noticeable drop in speed either.
Conway it seems that I have customized my installation, you get those
buttons readily at hand if you "turn it on".
Click on "View", slide your mouse over "Toolbars", and click on "Command
Bar". Then you will see a row of buttons on the right hand side of the Tool
Bar, Tools and Safety should be there now.
Another thing you can try is: Tools, Internet Options, and inspect the
"Security" and the "Privacy" tabs. I have both set to "Medium".
Of course this assumes that the installation went according to plan!
Are you able to connect to any sites or does it only hiccup on some sites
and is it consistently the same sites?
Scotty
wrote:
>Scotty <nob...@home.net> wrote in
>news:hljf451nmf844aq0h...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:48:47 +0000 (UTC), Custos Custodum
>> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> During the war, my mother pumped us full of cod liver oil and
>>>> Scott's Emulsion. I don't know why it lasted only during the war
>>>> years because it stopped when the war ended. I distinctly remember,
>>>> when the mercury scare first started the source was attributed to
>>>> German U-boats because they had used mercury as ballast. Now what
>>>> did I have for breakfast again? :-)
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand how that can be true because elemental mercury is
>>>> not soluble in water and beside, there is a hell of a lot of water
>>>> and a relatively small number of U-boats sunk and that leaked
>>>> mercury..
>>>
>>>Under the right conditions, it readily forms organic compounds which
>>>then find their way into the food chain. Apart from human pollution,
>>>there are natural sources of mercury in the environment, such as
>>>volcanoes. I'm sure Deirdre will be a mine of information on this
>>>topic.
>>
>> Yes but, compounds don't have the same properties as the element.
>
>Obviously. Sometimes they are far more toxic.
You're right, as pointed out by Fred, monomethylmercury is the culprit. I
guess it's journalise to shorten that to "mercury".
Scotty
:-) very good, thank you.
Scott.
Scotty
Ya, there is an interesting page on Mercury on Wiki, I should have done
some Googling before posing the questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
The para. dealing with "Releases in the environment" is a bit distressing,
65% from coal fired power stations! I would guess from that, that the
'mercury' content is trending upwards.
Neb has already commented on vegetable sources, I've already exceeded my
four score and ten by a fair margin, so I'll go with fish.
Thanks for help,
Scott.
--
If God hadn't intended us to eat animals,
He wouldn't have made them out of MEAT! - John Cleese
Deirdre Sholto Douglas
> The para. dealing with "Releases in the environment" is a bit distressing,
> 65% from coal fired power stations! I would guess from that, that the
> 'mercury' content is trending upwards.
<shrug> Arguably it was a part of the environment
prior to its "release" as well...it was merely
occupying a different niche. And from a geochem-
ical perspective, cycling through the biosphere
may be just the thing to ward off boredom this
epoch...
Actually, the Hg attempting to escape in the flue
gases can be recovered under the right circum-
stances...speciation of the critter counts, hm?
And it's a sight easier to recapture oxidised
mercury...so using a selective catalytic reduc-
tion (de-NOx) which favours the formation of
oxidised Hg get you partway there...push the
result of that process though a wet flue-gas de-
sulfurization process, you can sometimes seques-
ter as much as 90% of the Hg emitted.
It's not technological lack causing elemental
"release in the environment", it's cultural
short-sightedness. The means to control such
emissions exists and the protocols aren't even
all that esoteric...but it's the sort of tech-
nology you see employed by places like the
Netherlands (for a couple decades now) and dis-
regarded by places like China.
The loser in the game of Dueling Environmental
Policies is invariably the environment...coal
emissions are just the tip of _that_ iceberg. :-(
> Neb has already commented on vegetable sources, I've already exceeded my
> four score and ten by a fair margin, so I'll go with fish.
No reason why you shouldn't...I'm nowhere near
my four score and ten and I'd opt for the fish
also...preferably marinated in a soy/lime sauce
and steamed on a bed of gingered spinach.
Deirdre