On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:38:43 -0600, Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article > ,
> "Peter-Lucas" > wrote:
>
>> "Giusi" > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> "Peter-Lucas" ha scritto nel messaggio > "Pandora"
>>>>
>>>>> You have speak of this pie and I thinck I would like it very much
>>>>> because I like lemon and I like meringue. Have you got a good recipe
>>>>> and a pic of it? TIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pandora, this one is *fantastic*. Very simple recipe, no weird
>>>> ingredients, and very easy to make.
>
>>>
>>> This may very well be a lovely pie, but it is not what I meant when
>>> I called it my favorite.
>>
>> When did you say that??
>>
>>> It's way more elaborate and not at all the
>>> homey favorite I love.
>>
>> Then don't make it. I was posting this for Pandora, not you.
>
> You're getting prickly again, Peter.
>
> When you post anything that the whole world can *see*, whether it was
> directed to the world at large or to a specific individual, you pretty
> much have to expect that you've opened yourself to commentary from
> anyone with a keyboard and web access.
>
> Critiquing recipes (often solicited); e.g., "I might have done thus and
> such instead; it would have produced a different sort of whatever," and
> criticizing recipes (unsolicited); e.g., "I can't imagine why anyone
> with half a brain would use this or that in a recipe for thus and such;
> it simply has no place ‹ and besides, I don't like it" happens here all
> the time. You know that.
>
> Sometimes the latter is done good-naturedly (I'm thinking of boiled dirt
> chunks), sometimes not so much. And often the nuances and inflections
> of spoken conversation do not translate well to paper, leading to some
> to get their panties and their chute straps all knotted up for no
> reason. (That'd be you.)
>

peter's a sensitive guy. it's part of him being a trained killer and all.

your pal,
blake