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On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
> wrote:

>On May 23, 1:49*pm, Dan Abel > wrote:
>> In article >,
>> *Boron Elgar > wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
>> > > wrote:
>> > >Only ignorant slobs use Crisco.
>> > You're a ****ing idiot.
>>
>> He does OK until someone mentions something with transfats, at which
>> point he goes:
>>
>> http://www.chamaree.com/wp/wp-content/photos/bonobo.jpg
>>
>> I've seldom seen such religious furor. *There is a lot of concern about
>> transfats, and many of us restrict their use, but I have no concerns
>> about falling over dead over one taste.
>
>It's not the mention. It's suggesting that it's OK to cook with that
>junk.
>
>I'd go just as ape if someone suggested that selling meth to the
>neighborhood teenagers was a good thing to do.
>>

you're such a public-spirited citizen. i hope to see you ranting on a
street corner one day.

your pal,
blake

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On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:06:47 -0400, Kate Connally >
wrote:

>Dan Abel wrote:
>
>>
>> Weight is more accurate for recipes,
>
>Few recipes need such accurate measuring. Doing it
>by volume is close enough. Even then I don't bother
>doing all that ocd type stuff like scraping the top
>of the cup or teaspoon with a knife to make it
>perfectly level. I quit doing that years ago.
>
>but only if the recipe specifies
>> weight as the measure.
>
>Even if I did measure I wouldn't bother to make sure
>the needle was exactly on the mark. And who knows
>how accurate their scale is anyway. Unless you've
>bought a really high quality one and frequently
>check it for accuracy.
>
>Kate

doesn't everyone else use their triple-beam balance dope dealing
scale? true, it makes the coke a little gummy...

your pal,
blake

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On Fri, 23 May 2008 19:10:38 -0700, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>Boron Elgar wrote:
>>
>> I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not
>> an option. Still, I married well enough that I now have
>> every power tool the world has ever seen.
>
>I have a Branson 8200 ultrasonic welder.
>You can't top that, can you?
>
>I also have a Henes water welder. For fine work,
>these two machines are unlikely to be bested
>by anything you've got, right?

well, mark, i guess you showed her. yours is definitely longer.

your pal,
blake

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On May 24, 9:29*am, blake murphy > wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
>
>
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> >On May 23, 1:49*pm, Dan Abel > wrote:
> >> In article >,
> >> *Boron Elgar > wrote:
>
> >> > On Fri, 23 May 2008 08:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >Only ignorant slobs use Crisco.
> >> > You're a ****ing idiot.
>
> >> He does OK until someone mentions something with transfats, at which
> >> point he goes:
>
> >>http://www.chamaree.com/wp/wp-content/photos/bonobo.jpg
>
> >> I've seldom seen such religious furor. *There is a lot of concern about
> >> transfats, and many of us restrict their use, but I have no concerns
> >> about falling over dead over one taste.
>
> >It's not the mention. *It's suggesting that it's OK to cook with that
> >junk.
>
> >I'd go just as ape if someone suggested that selling meth to the
> >neighborhood teenagers was a good thing to do.
>
> you're such a public-spirited citizen.

Thank you.

> *i hope to see you ranting on a street corner one day.

Even better, I sing in a "public-spirited" punkrock band:

http://www.myspace.com/TheBonobos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SStEMsI4lqk
>
> your pal,
> blake

--Bryan

Easy way to measure shortening
 

On May 23, 2:12*pm, Janet Baraclough >
wrote:
> The message
> >
> from John Kane > contains these words:
>
> > I can make a decent pie crust but the recipe starts with something
> > like 10 lb flour, 7lb water and 3 lb lard/shortening. *Makes a bit too
> > much for domestic use.
>
> * *Too much what, glue? That's far too much water for 10 lbs flour.
>
> * *Janet

Well I've haven't used the recipe for years so I may have it off a
bit. ( Wonder if that' the bread recipe?)

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

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On May 23, 9:56*pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:08 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
>
>
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> >On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:01:09 -0400, Boron Elgar
> > fired up random neurons and synapses to
> >opine:
>
> >>I was taught the displacement method of measuring Crisco in an 8th
> >>grade Home Ec class. That was in 1963.
>
> >High five, girl, as I learned the same thing in Home Ec in 1964.
> >Doesn't work worth a damn, AFAICS, as you still get grease on the
> >glass measure, so what have you gained?
>
> >[And I bailed on that Home Ec class - only girls were "allowed" to
> >take Home Ec and only boys were "allowed" to take shop. I went to war
> >about it on my second or third day into the Home Ec class. My dear
> >aulde dad backed me *up. Upshot was, I got to take shop - and jammed a
> >cold chisel into my hand on my second or third day, thus
> >proving...okay, shaddup.]
>
> >Still mechanically inept as hell...
>
> >Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> >"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"
>
> > * *-- W.C. Fields
>
> We tortured that Home Ec teacher...probably to pay her back for
> teaching us about greasy measuring cups. I seem to remember we glued
> the flour canisters to the countertop.
>
> I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not an option.
> Still, I married well enough that I now have every power tool the
> world has ever seen.

Luckily my school didn't offer shop. I'd never had graduated if I had
to take it. We didn't have home ec either. Strangely enough we were
expected to learn both at home. I didn't pass the home version of
shop either. Whenever there was something needed to be done to the
car the question I always was asked was "Where's your sister?" .

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 08:09:52 -0700 (PDT), John Kane
> wrote:

>On May 23, 9:56*pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:

>>
>> I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not an option.
>> Still, I married well enough that I now have every power tool the
>> world has ever seen.
>
>Luckily my school didn't offer shop. I'd never had graduated if I had
>to take it. We didn't have home ec either. Strangely enough we were
>expected to learn both at home. I didn't pass the home version of
>shop either. Whenever there was something needed to be done to the
>car the question I always was asked was "Where's your sister?" .
>
>John Kane Kingston ON Canada


I could have taken home ec or shop or even HVAC in high school. It was
only the middle school, what we called "junior high" in those days,
that had such rigid gender regs.

And the high school served great lunches, too. All the food was
freshly prepared.

Boron

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On Sat 24 May 2008 04:26:15p, Boron Elgar told us...

> On Sat, 24 May 2008 08:09:52 -0700 (PDT), John Kane
> > wrote:
>
>>On May 23, 9:56*pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not an option.
>>> Still, I married well enough that I now have every power tool the
>>> world has ever seen.
>>
>>Luckily my school didn't offer shop. I'd never had graduated if I had
>>to take it. We didn't have home ec either. Strangely enough we were
>>expected to learn both at home. I didn't pass the home version of
>>shop either. Whenever there was something needed to be done to the
>>car the question I always was asked was "Where's your sister?" .
>>
>>John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>
>
> I could have taken home ec or shop or even HVAC in high school. It was
> only the middle school, what we called "junior high" in those days,
> that had such rigid gender regs.
>
> And the high school served great lunches, too. All the food was
> freshly prepared.
>
> Boron
>

I took shop in junior high and enjoyed it. My dad, as an engineer, was a
home shop enthusiast and I probably learned a lot more there than at
school. Boys weren't allowed to take home ec, or I would probably have
taken that, too.

Both our junior high and high had great lunches and the food was freshly
prepared. It must be the generation. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright
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On May 24, 6:41*pm, Wayne Boatwright >
wrote:
>
>
> Both our junior high and high had great lunches and the food was freshly
> prepared. *It must be the generation. :-)
>
Jeez, you must be ancient.

> --
> * * * * * * *Wayne Boatwright * * * * * *
>

--Bryan