On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:46:50 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>I learned a hell of a lot about cooking from the drunken but amusing
>Galloping Gourmet

Folks,

This is a story that has been going around for years. If you ever
read his biography, he was never drunk, or even drinking very much at
all. It was an act...and it came off as him being drunk.

Christine

In article >,
Christine Dabney > wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:46:50 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >I learned a hell of a lot about cooking from the drunken but amusing
> >Galloping Gourmet
>
> Folks,
>
> This is a story that has been going around for years. If you ever
> read his biography, he was never drunk, or even drinking very much at
> all. It was an act...and it came off as him being drunk.

I always wondered. And people's complaints that he was "boring" after
getting sober didn't sound right to me either. I think it was his heart
attack, switch to heart healthy foods, and his attempts to convince
people to cook those foods that struck people as not as entertaining.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
snip
> Heh. I've just set up a filter to get rid of *anything* that comes from
> foodbanter.com. I have yet to see a single post from any of their
> subscribers that I found the slightest bit interesting. Actually,
> they're usually just just full of cr*p.
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

If you don't mind me asking, what 'reader' do you use and how did you do it?

--
regards, piedmont (Mike)
The Practical BBQ'r - http://sites.google.com/site/thepracticalbbqr/
(mawil55)

On Apr 16, 7:30*pm, Dan Abel > wrote:
> In article >,
> *Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:46:50 -0400, Dave Smith
> > > wrote:
>
> > >I learned a hell of a lot about cooking from the drunken but amusing
> > >Galloping Gourmet
>
> > Folks,
>
> > This is a story that has been going around for years. *If you ever
> > read his biography, he was never drunk, or even drinking very much at
> > all. It was an act...and it came off as him being drunk. *
>
> I always wondered. *And people's complaints that he was "boring" after
> getting sober didn't sound right to me either. *I think it was his heart
> attack, switch to heart healthy foods, and his attempts to convince
> people to cook those foods that struck people as not as entertaining.
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
>

Floyd, though. Wasn't he a real drunk?

B

piedmont wrote:

>
> If you don't mind me asking, what 'reader' do you use and how did you
> do it?
>

Don't mind at all, I use both KNode and Pan (and I've already posted a
couple of links about them elsewhere in this thread).

As for "how to" - the newsreaders in question are slightly different as
far as the GUIs go, but the end result is the same. i.e. one just has
to add a filtering rule (or append an existing rule) indicating that if
the "Message-ID" header contains the sub-string "foodbanter.com" (for
example) the offending posts should have a lower score, be marked as
read, (or even deleted as one of them allows me to do as well) etc.
Takes all of 10 seconds ;-)

Of course these are not the only newsreaders on the planet that can do
this kind of filtering, but I've tried several others and I just like
the 'look and feel' and find said filtering capabilities of these two
powerful enough for my liking. YMMV.

p.s. Before anybody asks: GUI=Graphical User Interface
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

heyjoe wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:57:27 -0400, piedmont wrote:
>
>> If you don't mind me asking, what 'reader' do you use and how did you
>> do it?
>
> Don't think Chatty Cathy's news readers run on Windows (pssst - Chatty
> Cathy, what operating system/distro ARE you using?)

It would appear Pan has a Windoze version....

http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/

.... but for which version of Windoze (or if you would have to compile
the code yourself, I have no idea).


Not sure about KNode (which is a KDE offering) - looks like
they're 'working on it'...

http://www.winkde.org/

But anyway... I'm using Ubuntu (flavor of linux) so it don't matter to
me as they say <grin>
>
> Several news readers for Windows have good filtering capabilites.
> 40tude_Dialog is one of them <http://www.40tude.com/dialog/> -
> Message > Scoring and actions > Scoring and actions and add a news
> line > -20 From "foodbanter.com"
> Now all posts from foodbanter will be marked read, but you can get to
> them if you want, though will normally skip them, as they are already
> "read".

Yeah, heard good things about 40tude too but that's a Windoze only
newsreader. However, it doesn't seem to do anything over and above what
I have already (or need) for news so I'm not too fussed.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy