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stew weather
Sheldon wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:07:41 -0800 (PST), GM
> > wrote:
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> >Ophelia wrote:
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> >> "GM" wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:38:40 -0500, wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Yes, a lovely stew. I was supposed to do pot roast today but woke up
> >> > > to 10" of snow and 22ºF. By the time I attached the plow and plowed
> >> > > it was 2 PM, not enough time for pot roast, will do it manana. Dinner
> >> > > tonight will consist of Pot Luck... plenty LOs in the freezer.
> >> >
> >> > The low in Greenville NY today was 26F (at Midnight, was 32 at 5:AM)
> >> > and there was .37 inches of precipitation - which translates to less
> >> > four inches of snow.
> >> >
> >> > Do those measurements only apply to the Greenville lowlands and you
> >> > live in the Greenville highlands? Or could it be that snow just
> >> > looks like 10" inches and feels like 22F because you're a
> >> > cold-blooded mental midget?
> >>
> >>
> >> We're *still* waiting for your apology, Steve, from when several days ago
> >> you called Sheldon a "liar!" his "8 - track video" comment...he was in
> >> fact *correct*, there was an 8*mm* video format in the 80's - early 90's.
> >> Just so you know, here is a reminder:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_video_format
> >>
> >> "The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette
> >> formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems. These are the
> >> original Video8 (analog recording) format and its improved successor Hi8
> >> (analog video and analog audio but with provision for digital audio), as
> >> well as a more recent digital recording format known as Digital8.
> >>
> >> Their user base consisted mainly of amateur camcorder users, although they
> >> also saw important use in the professional television production field..
> >>
> >> In January 1984, Eastman Kodak announced the new technology. In 1985, Sony
> >> of Japan introduced the Handycam, one of the first Video8 cameras with
> >> commercial success. Much smaller than the competition's VHS and Betamax
> >> video cameras, Video8 became very popular in the consumer camcorder
> >> market..."
> >>
> >>
> >> PS: nice turkey pic, Sheldon, very "Thanksgiving" - like...
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Greg
> >> ==
> >>
> >> When have you 'ever' seen him say anything kind to anyone?
> >
> >
> >I'm afraid we have to put his character into the "louche and dissolute" category, Ms. O....mayhaps there is a kind soul out there who will pray for him,,,!!!
>
> And I don't live in Greenville... I live 4.5 miles away, on a mountain
> ridge, however I get my mail at the Greenville POB simply because I do
> my shopping in Greenville. There's a post office in the town where I
> live but there is no shopping except for one small store that sells
> antiques, actually junk. Used to be a small gas station (two pumps)
> with a convenience store with outragious prices but it closed down ten
> years ago. At more than 1,200" higher elevation we don't
> have Greenville weather.
Exactly...your terrain has varying weather, and within very short distances....
> The dwarf lives in the southeast asshole of texass, nothing decent to
> buy for more than a hundred miles.. he lives on impoverished wetback
> grub... Taco Bell is far better than what the dwarf can get... he eats
> primarilly crappy OM tube steak. No way any texass dwarf can eat
> anywhere as well as even a Noo Yawker on welfare. As to food, even
> the wealthiest texans eat doodoo compared to the poorest Noo Yawkers.
Steve subsists on food bank gleanings...your critters dine *far* better than he...
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Best
Greg
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