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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:14:43 -0600, Hank Rogers >
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>Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:41:40 -0500, wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:12:18 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 9:02:47 AM UTC-10, Nancy2 wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 8:22:32 PM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:26:29 -0800 (PST), Nancy2 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You have taken a position with no knowledg of the small appliance we are talking about, and
>>>>>>> that position is one of ignorance about that appliance, and now are too stubborn to quit
>>>>>>> and say you were mistaken. It's a sorry position.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not mistaken at all. My mother used to have an egg cooker, as I
>>>>>> implied in a previous post. I had used it a couple times and was
>>>>>> glad when I accidentally dropped it on the floor and broke it. As
>>>>>> it wasn't taking up valuable counter space and I didn't have to drag
>>>>>> it out of the cupboard when she needed it. Using the egg cooker is
>>>>>> no more convenient than using a pan. And the pan is infinitely more
>>>>>> useful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we can call this argument over, if not a truce.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll agree to a truce, with a couple final points: it takes a lot more water to boil eggs on top the stove, and a pot to do it with takes up more space in a cupboard than an egg cooker. Second, it takes a lot more energy to boil a pot of water than it does for a cooker to do its thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> There, I'm finished. ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> N.
>>>>
>>>> If you had an automatic rice cooker you could probably do the same thing. Use a steamer basket and the same amount of water. It is unfortunate that my daughter threw out my beautiful rice cooker else I would be steaming eggs at this very moment.
>>>
>>> I much prefer an ordinary pot for cooking rice... and I can use the
>>> same pot to boil eggs, and I do... that 2 qt Farberware pot is the
>>> only pot that lives on my stove... that one pot is used to cook many
>>> other things.
>>>
>>> BTW, I can't only read a small portion of your's and nancy2's posts...
>>> one day yoose may fix your word wrap... how ironic that yoose are
>>> touting automatic cookery.

>>
>> Wait until you see a post by Greg Morrow, where he quotes an entire
>> article with endless lines. Screen pollution.
>>

>
>It's probably yoose and Popeye's software. I don't have a problem
>reading them. See if yoose can find a setting to wrap the lines instead
>of having to rely on other people to compose just for yoose.


It's Google Group's fault. It uses a non standard line length, or no
line length at all, more likely.

I can press a key to make it wrap, so it doesn't run off the screen,
but you're still looking at lines that are the width of your entire
screen.