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Maybe ... but if the ruthless despotic Obama government is communicating with its fifth columnists in Canada, surely I would understand the message lol! Carol President Emeritus, Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Otrder of the |Sacred Igloo Local 13

Does anybody else listen to AM radio? Mine is usually set on Hockey Central on the sports station, near the bottom of the dial and atop it are a couple news/talk stations. Anyway, the other night \I tuned up to one of those to get the latest Ford farces and the weather report, and into the room came this slow, low, insinuating voice, emphasizing numbers and Prince William and more numbers and then the |Middle Ages and all in the same sloooow relentless tone. I was stupefied - it seemed to be about the Illuminati and how everything in the world means something if you just add or subtract or select the right numbers. It was like being locked in a room with a delusional paranoid in full, earnest, irrefutable endless explanation. I was stunned by the senselessness of the content, what \I could grasp of it at all. I thought it was some sort of radio hacking - surely no news station would carry anything so weird - the guy never identified himself or anything,, especially here in good grey Canada! However the show has recurred whatever it is ... anybody ever encounter it?

lol but I don't think Obama cares what Adam eats unless it were his own words re the CinC, which he is not likely to do.

Ninth, Ginny was referring to my latest limerick. Ginny, help is at hand! Later today I will copy from the menu of the local poutine shack, which is conveniently located next to the pub. They have a Daily Poutine each one unique. It tastes like French Fries with gravy and cheese, with additions It is no doubt a key ingredient of the Quebecois Revanche de la Creche. A family even in the double digits would never starve, while yet remained a potato in the cellar and a cow in the byre. Tums are indeed in high demand here, but as mentioned elsewhere I forgo the elegance and expense of fancy packaging and opt for the simple efficacy of baking soda and water.

Real Amurican men don't eat bouillabaisse, especially Lombard Doms in Priest's clothing! So I've heard. Carol Still mortified that at my first French restaurant age 18 I ordered ratatouille thinking it was bouillabaisse, I hate ratatouille, yuck, it was awful pretending I wanted it, I think there was squash in it, oh awful.

Of the excellent, the best I have read is the completion of \austen's \T|he Watsons by John Coates. It contains this gem of advice from an older lady to a younger: "Remember my dear, that nothing will cool a gemtleman's ardour sooner than wit\'

I am glad you did not name names because I read a lot of Austen continuations, imitations and \regency knockoffs. A few are delightful and excellent, a lot are infuriatingly dull, plodding dreck. Lucky neither I nor your sister's books exist so |I will never have to judge!

Shut up, Jerry! Jeez -- you know the Secret Plan for when we lure the key OLers into \Canada. \mwahahah

Whatta game!l, Rask was Finn-omenal , he stole it from the Pens who are becoming tragic heroes. Very tired tragic heroes.

You honour me, sir. MP is actually about ethics and conscience. the balance of what is due oneself and what is due society, plus the usual quest for love and the pressing necessity for women to marry -- sounds dull, no? As if. \I am reading it for about the tenth time with the usual enchantment, \\\my favourite is actually Persuasion which contains my favourite of the heroines and the best of her heroes, Wentworth, much more real and attractive than Darcy. If you enjoyed the two you read I urge you to try these too,, MP also contains Austen's best villain, the evil Mrs \Norris.

A respectable old widow whose Hometown team kept persisting to lose Hit the skids and the bar Jar by sorrowful jar She disbursed her month's pension on booze (not really)

I am going next door to watch Boston v Pittsburgh (I predict fights) at the pub where they serve delicious bread puddings lightly flavoured with nutmeg and lots of vanilla and crème ecossaise .(it is just crème anglaise overpriced|)

Yes, they literally cannot understand "mild" as we do. a little bit of curry powder in a lot of sour cream does make a nice white sauce though, and I admit to putting four grains of cayenne in quiche. But that is as far as I go.

Hmmm...now that is fascinating... I will put my Catholic priest collar on, invite you into the confessional booth/Tardis, and, ... Don't do it Ginny! He takes pictures!

Yess! At last a straight black pepper person and not much of that who can empathize. Coincidentally |I had mussels for lunch today in a very very mild curry flavoured sauce which sent me straight to the baking soda \( much cheaper than tums\) I am surrounded here by best Indian, Thai etc cuisine most of which is wasted on me. And yes, vanilla in preference to chocolate.

"..amusement [too often raised ] at the expense of her judgment, when it was raised by pleasantry on subjects on people or subjects which she wished to be respected". - Fanny in Mansfield Park, 1814.

Just reading the ingredients is droolmaking. Still prefer my northrun Maine / NB seafood chowders though. Carol Bland of palate

Awshucks Adam, thanks. It's nice that you appreciate ladies unbound and ungagged|!

Tee, hee! this is the funnest birthday card ever. I dub thee Iconographer Royal. No doubt you will advise SC that the subject can be researched not only on the side but in almost any position!

Definitely it is in the south, if you ask me.

Lucie Marotte is your cousin? Was she touring the Maritimes in 1994 or 5? I think I saw her in Moncton!

You sound as if you think that Peikoff wanted to be a doctor. He did not. He very much did not want to be a doctor. He was being pushed into being a doctor by his father, who was a doctor. His early exchanges with Rand gave him the courage to do what he wanted to do, which was to study philosophy. He would have been a terrible doctor. My assertion, but it's true. Allan Blumenthal was not dissuaded from becoming a concert pianist. He couldn't get enough bookings to pursue a career as a concert pianist. I think that Nathan didn't want to marry Patrecia until after the blow-up with Rand. From the sound of his own memoirs, he kept hoping he'd come to his senses, as it were, and revert to being a proper Objectivist hero and desiring Rand. Part of the pickle he was in was his own belief in Rand's views on sex. It wouldn't have been acceptable for him to marry Patrecia, however, had he expressed to Rand a desire to do that. Her diaries make clear that she considered Patrecia an unacceptable choice. What might have happened if Barbara had said, and then insisted, that she didn't really want to marry Nathan.......? A whole lot different, I imagine. Ellen Your points are well taken Ellen. \About \Peikoff, I think the influence of powerful others - his father then \Rand, maybe always was paramount for him. I wonder if he had met, say, Saul Alinsky instead of Rand??-- Carol Alternate history fan

Tony, dear friend, I cannot let this one go by. To "level" her finest written theories with her personal doings may be mean-minded, but it is not an injustice. She explicitly and repeatedly said her ideas were a philosophy for living on earth, and that she knew real people who exemplified her fictional hero. I think she also felt that she exemplified her fictional heroines. I know well that the ideas live of themselves and should stand or fall by themselves. But she opened the door of "sense of life\", psychy0e-pistemology and all that, and invited her students to judge and prepare to be judged, and she cannot now untangle the individual She with "the individual"-- or as she would say, Man.

"Galveston" is one of my fave Glen Campbell songs.

Oui - as Cajun-tied coasters let's all also save the |Bay of Fundy!