Thread: How stupid I was to be chatting to a guest while cooking and carelessly deposit a heaped teaspoon of salt into the sauce instead of the 10 litres of simmering water, awaiting its pasta.
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Wayne Boatwright
 
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Default How stupid I was to be chatting to a guest while cooking and carelessly deposit a heaped teaspoon of salt into the sauce instead of the 10 litres of simmering water, awaiting its pasta.
On Fri 28 Oct 2005 04:51:03a, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> "Ward Abbott" > wrote
>
>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:14:18 -0700, sf >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>That's just plain mean. She asked an honest question and prefaced it
>>>with the reason why she needs to ask it.
>>
>> SHE OPENED the door and asked the question.
>
> A *rhetorical* question, it's this new thing. Just poking a little
> fun at themselves.
>
> nancy

Like, how stupid am I to be reading this? No, don't answer that. It's a
rhetorical question. :-)

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