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Hank Rogers[_2_]

Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:05:14 -0500, wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:24:28 +1100, Bruce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:14:43 -0600, Hank Rogers >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Which key?
>
> In Forte Agent it's the letter O key. It helps a bit when you're
> reading their posts, but not when you're replying to them.
>
>> It's essentially only those two whose tying goes off the screen, most
>> everyone else wraps perfectly.
>
> Yes, it's only the Google Groups users.
>

Yoose are beginning to sound like yoose buddy Jill.