From: "Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' )" 
Newsgroups: alt.energy.homepower misc.consumers.house misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: Re: Oil/Pellet Stoves?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:10:32 -0800
 money. Paying people in health care is like paying them in corn. It's 
 stupid.



Rod Speed wrote:
> 
> Sylvan Butler  wrote in
> message news:slrncp5c7v.8na.ZsdbUse1+noZs_0411@knoppix.internal...
> > Rod Speed  wrote
> 
> >> I used to but then spent months in a remote area and
> >> had those instant mashed potatoes every dinner and
> >> that has put me off mashed potatoes ever since.
> 
> > Of course, real potatoes mashed by hand so there are still little
> > lumps of potato (not done in a blender or food processor) are
> > so much different than "instant" they are like a different food.
> 
> Oh sure, its really just the association that puts me off.
> 
> I will eat it when out etc, I just dont bother making it myself anymore.
> 
> Potatoes zapped in their jackets in the microwave are so much quicker
> and easier too, just cant be bothered with peeling and mashing.
> 
> I do bother to peel baked/roast potatoes, but
> thats because that result is completely different.
> 
> > And with a nice from-drippings gravy...  Mmm, getting hungry.  :)
> 
> Wanna watch out, that lard arse is getting bigger by the day |-(
>
You think real gravy is bad for you compared to that store bought stuff?


-- 
So I was feeding the hummingbirds but not changing the feeder sugar
water quickly enough and it fermented into something like that stuff
that Hunter S Thompson was drinking in the Rum Diary, anyway, so I had
these drunk birds flying everywhere just like mosquitoes in Minnesota,
dashing up one side of me, darting down the other, crashing into the
windows, falling off their perches, didn't even know they perched,
flying backwards, flying backwards, it was like something out of the
Exorcist. After a while though, I got bored with it all. Next Summer I'm
going to Alaska to feed french bread soaked in Wild Turkey to polar
bears. Wish me luck!