NO BIGGIES NIC

AM USED TO POSTING ALONE

BUT SHARE YOUR REGARDS ... AS RUNNING INTO SOMEONE HERE

BREAKS WHAT COULD BE MUNDANE .....

READING AND RESPONDING.......

SO YOU WERE HERE FOR AWHILE??

SCHOOL???

OR JUST FOR THE EXPERIENCE ???

WHERE ARE YOU NOW???

I GENERALLY LIKE IT HERE MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE CLIMATE

EXTREME COLD AND METAL BODY COMPONENTS DON'T COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER WELL

HAVE TO AGREE WITH YA ON THE PEEPS HERE

ATTITUDES DIFFER IN SEVERAL ASPECTS

BUT SLOWLY I DO RECOGNIZE NEGS THAT PLAGUE THE CONTINENT

CREEPING INTO THE ISLANDS POPULATION...

BUT FOR THE MOST PART ......THE MAJORITY

STILL ENJOY THE COLORS OF LIFE

AND BY THE POPULATION GROWTH

SOME REALLY REALLY ......INTENSE

BACON MAKIN

SORRY HAD TO WORK THAT IN SOMEHOW

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

MAN NIC ....................

WHAT YOU GOT???????? HOPE IT AIN'T THE SUPER FLU



WELL THE BACON MAKIN AIN'T OVER YET

BUT HEY

HOW ABOUT A TAD BIT MORE SPAM

THIS ONES KINDA WIERD ..............BY AL

Spam in the place where I live (ham and pork)
Think about nutrition, wonder what's inside it now (oh boy)
Spam in my luchbox at work (it's the best)
Really makes a darn good sandwhich any way you slice it at all

If you're running low, go to the store
Carry some money to help you buy more
The tab is there to open the can
The can is there to hold in the spam

Oh, spam on the table at home (ham and pork)
Think about selection, are there different flavors now (let's eat)
Spam in my office at work (it's the best)
Think about the stuff its made from, wonder if it's mystery of meat

If you need a spoon, keep one around
Carry a thermose to help wash it down
Now, if there's some left, don't just throw it out
Use it for spackle or bathroom grout, now

Spam in my pantry at home (have some more)
Think of expiration, better read the lable (oh boy)
Spam breakfast, dinner, or lunch (it's the best)
Think about how it's been precooked, wonder if I'll just eat it cold

Now, once you start in, you can't put it down
Don't leave it sitting or it'll turn brown
The key is going to open the tin
The tin is there to keep the spam in

Oh, spam (spam)
Ham and pork
Think about nutrition, wonder what's inside it now (oh boy)
Spam (spam)
It's the best
Really makes a darn good sandwhich any way you slice it

Spam in the place where I live (have some more)
Think about addiction, wonder if I'm a junkie now (let's eat)
Spam in the place where I work (you're obsessed)
Think about the way it's processed, wonder if it's some kind of meat

Spam in the back of my car (ham and pork)
Spam any place that you are (ham and pork)
The tab is there to open the can (spam any place that you are) (ham and pork)
The can is there to hold in the spam (spam any place that you are) (ham and pork)



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

POLITICAL PORK...BARRELLIN

SHRUG

BEING A CENTERLINER

JUST HOPE THERES ENOUGH LEFTOVERS

FOR THE .................

MAKIN OF BACON



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

I hope this hasn't already been addressed...But IMHO...The second most important thing(After makking a fantastic chocolate ganache[MoHub?])is to take the time(and expence)to find "long stem" strawberries...It just adds that right bit of polish...The restaurant trade gets most of the crop...

Not being able to comment on the latter...I will comment on the former... ...Both Fine Cooking Magazine, and Cooking Illustrated, have given the Lodge, Enemaled Dutch Oven, VERY high marks...Comparable in almost every way with a LeCreuset...At around $40-$50 well worth a look anyway...

She's MINE Bi+ch... ...

Yeah... but wouldn't ya rather see me OUT of uniform... ...And at "attention"... ...OMG did I say that???!!!

HEY NIC

SEEMS THERE ARE MORE WAKING UP



WOW EITHER THAT WAS AWHILE AGO...

OR YOU WERE ON MOLOKAI OR SUMTHIN

AS A KID HERE ON OAHU

ALWAYS LOCKED THE DOORS....BUT ON THE BIG ISLAND

AT THE TIME IT WASN'T NECESSARY

MAN THOSE WHERE THE DAYS



COOL .....ONE THING I ALSO ENJOYIED WHILE IN THE MILITARY.........

NO OTHER JOB TAKES YOU TO SOOOO MANY DIF PLACES



SOUNDS CHALLENGING................

A GOOD THING.......

MUST KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES



SUCH IS LIFE EH NIC

TOO BAD AS SOCIETY PROGRESSES

CIVILIZATION OFTEN MOVES BACKWARDS

TOO MANY PARANOIYAS

TOO MANY NEEDS

NOT ENOUGH SOULUTIONS



WIERDEST PART OF IT IS.............

PEEPS CONFINED HERE ARE MORE "CLOSED" IN THIER ATTITUDES..........

AND THE ONES WHO LEFT TO COME BACK

ARE THE ONES WHO CHERISH THE LIFESTYLE MOST

INTERESTING TO OBSERVE ................

BUT DOES MAKE ONE WONDER HOW AND WHAT

THE FUTURE OF HAWAII WILL BE



I HOPE SO NIC

SOMETIMES I'M A BIT OFF CENTER.........

BUT TRY TO STAY CENTERLINED

WHILST MAKIN BACON

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

I'm out y'all g'night/g'day...

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

THAT'S ROUGH NIC

CANCER???

SHRUG

NO MAKIN FUN OF BACON ON THIS REPLY

CAN'T IMAGINE THE DISCOMFORT YOU MUST HAVE

BUT AT LEAST YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO

KEEP ON KEEPIN ON

WHERE MANY MIGHT COWAR

I'M NOT GOING TO INQUIRE ABOUT ANY FUTURE PROGNOSIS

WILL WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN ALL YOU ENDEAVOR TO DO

AND IF THE END COMES TOO SOON

THE WAY YOU HAVE LIVED

IS THE WAY YOU NEEDED TO BE



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

DANG PS

FOUR POSTS ????????????????????

YOU MADE ANY BACON???????????

GONNA CHECK

SEE YA ON THE FLIPSIDE

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLL RIGHT

THE PERFECT SEGWAY FOR THE SECOND QUESTION

OF THE Q&A FEST

NOW............................................

SINCE WE HAD FUN MAKIN BACON................

WOULD IT BE PRUDENT TO INDULGE IN

THE PARTAKING OF SPAM?????????



RIGHT AND WRONG ANSWERS WILL BE ACCEPTED

QUESTIONING WILL BE TOLERATED

SO WHAT SENSIBILITIES WILL BE REVEALED???

PARTICIPATION......WOULD BE THE DECIDING

FACTOR

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

INTERESTING OUTLOOK YOU GOT THERE PG

AS IT SEEMS A BATTLE BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT

CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL

IS FUTILE AT BEST

IF IT HASN'T YET BEEN REALIZED BY PEEPS WHO

CONTINUE THAT VENTURE

WE AS A POPULATION ARE NOTHING BUT

STATISTICS .........

TO POLITICIANS AND THIER ANALISTS

SAD FACT BUT TRUE........

BUT YES YOUR GRASPING OF THEM "HAM HOCKS"

IS A PRETTY GOOD SYNOPSIS

AS IT IS WELL KNOWN

POLITICIANS NO MATTER WHICH HOUSE THE BE IN

DO INDULGE IN THE PRACTICE OF HOCKIN HAMS

TO FINANCE THINGS THEY HAVE LISTED

IN THIER "PORK BARRELS"

LEAVING US WITH MEAGER SCRAPS

FOR THE CREATION OF

SPAM......................

AND NOTHING BETTER TO DO

BUT

MAKE BACON

YOU ARE WISE INDEED



TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

Don't mind ya asking, the damage that is done is done, no further damage expected. Prognosis - uncharted waters based on amount of damage. I feel much depends on me - I respect doctors and their opinions, but I am the one who has to walk things out and I am the one who ultimately has to decide what I can live with and what I can't. Doctors want to medicate a lot, I don't choose to live like that. Have been living with it for years now, and really is not so bad - does not stop me from doing what is most important to me. I have a good life and much to be thankful for. I am content.

Thanks for best wishes (did not mean to bring you down) also wish the best for you in Aloha land.

And in Brillke's defense, I think your criticism of her "martyr" comment is unfounded. Please go back and read this post, paying attention to every word of the original that Brillke was replying to.

If you take a step back, you'll notice that the mention of death in the original was about 1% of what was posted, yet you're making it sound like the response was in direct reply to that 1%.

I don't believe Brillke's "martyr" remark had one whit to do with the death of KK's mother. It had, instead, everything to do with the rest of the post--i.e., the frequent and backhanded barrage of passive-aggressive insults those of us not attending Camp KK this season are subjected to at her every opportunity.

Posts like the one above, and others like this illustrate that. "Pathological Obsession," are you kidding me? It looks rather like someone's mislabeled "Passive Aggression" for "Pathological Obsession" here, because the "obsessed one" doesn't seem to be the responder but the claimant. We're like the "elephant in the room" that no one wants to acknowledge, except in the sketchiest of terms, and it gets downright tiring being unnecessarily made out to be the bad guys all the time. I mean, if we're gonna be the bad guys, at least give us gadgets or cool clothes or something!

In the end, I think what this all boiled down to was the seeming oddness & displacedness of a reply to topchefan's post here where all she did was ask "Does anyone know how to order Top Chef Season One on CD, DVD, or download?"

The resulting reply, here, was a little out of left field, don't you think? Come on, now, in whose "lexicon of normalcy" is there a passage that says it should be common practice that a plea for technological/entertainment assistance on an internet message board (or anywhere, for that matter) should be followed by an abrupt and wholly personal reference to death and emotional upheaval? Not only that, but what on earth did "I think some peeps don't post as they know they would get eaten alive by the big smart bad men. The cretins roam.....man do they roam" have the least little bit to do with tofchefan's post or inquiry? The answer is "nothing," because it was posted as yet another passive-aggressive dig at those who have taken KK to task or called her into question before. If it wasn't, then please prove to me otherwise.

The death of a family member is horrible, whether it be of the human or animal variety, but even amid the chaos of death, there's a delicate latticework of structure underlying it. KK's reply seemed in direct counterpoint to that structure, so there was, as expected, fallout.

Maludi, you have every right to defend KK against the "threats" she sees through her spyglass, but please be sure the threats are real and legitimate before you go defending. By the same token as hers, we have just as much right to defend our own against her. It's sad that she's chosen to make this an "Us Versus Them" mentality, because she does so out of spite, not legitimacy.

Goodness, this reads like an episode of The Tudors!

I think you are leaning in the right direction.

I have no idea on question one. As for #2, one of the things you could tell her is that, as this is her only daughter's wedding (and hopefully her daughter's only wedding), she - your sister - should leave as much to the professionals as possible so that she might more enjoy the process and the wedding itself - connecting with her daughter instead of the stove. It would be terrible for her to run herself ragged (reminding her how hard she worked on her own, much smaller one) and create alot of bad memories of this wedding. And it would be worse if everything didn't go as planned and she was left blaming herself for it. If she is the type to be critical of her own work, it may not matter how much others rave, she might still end up feeling that it could/should have been better.

Hope that helps and Congrats to your neice!

I don't know about web sites but I have a reference book called Food Lover's Companion (Sharon Tyler Herbst - Barron - I think its in the 4th edition now). It is great for basic definitions and there has been very little mentioned on TC that I don't find in it. It sits in my lap like a kitten while I watch the show every week (though I haven't needed it much this season ). The book is paperback, has nearly 6,000 definitions, is around 800 pages and costs just under $20.

Hi, computer-savvy, much-younger-than-I-am folks. A number of you use the word "sai" from time to time. I have a feeling it's intended to mean something like "sweet one, kind one"; but here's what old Webster has to say. Can someone bring me up to speed?
sai

Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See Capoch.]

1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.

A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott.

2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai. ( Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella. © A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.

Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

No.... we are hiding behind that brick in the wall.

I have a big, fat Larousse Gastronomique, which is one of my treasures. I probably need an updated version, though, as a bunch of new techniques and accompanying terminology have come into being since my edition came out in 1974.

Heck, my version predates molecular gastronomy and sous-vide!

Dealing with pain control is the hardest part of long term illness. I know so many persons that have not been able to function due to pain... you have my best wishes for the ability to work through your problems and my highest respect for choosing to try and avoid too much doping.

I understand how you feel. My mother lives in a retirement apartment (not assisted living or a nursing home, despite the Life Alert ads using the terms interchangeably), and the building has a resident doctor whose sole function in life seems to be filling the residents full of pills. My mother doesn't use him, sees her own outside doctor, and is on a minimum of medications, and she's appalled at the mini-pharmacies her friends have.

It's good that you're standing by your choices and doing what feels right for you. The mental boost of being in charge of your own course will in the long run do you more physical good than a boatload of prescriptions.

My psh! I missed your original post--but my prayers are with you and your folks. Can your new place be near a public library with free internet?

Does anybody really care?

Ah, Welsh. Thanks!

Here's the real skinny:
US Timeclock

First in then out (do with that what you will!) and yes.

Thanks, I think I'll get that.

LOL!

You're welcome! I use mine all the time.

I have seen that one, too. It looks great!!

Ah. Merci!

Question: When making blueberry muffins, what should I do to ensure the berries don't drop to the bottom of the muffin cup?

If you shake the berries in a light coating of flour, they should stay suspended in the batter.

I keep mine in a bottle in memory of Jim Croce.

here's mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAK1Nzi_zZM

BTW, hello darling! Don't think I haven't noticed your wicked, wicked flirting with others! It will not go unpunished.

Actually I think "Time has come Today"...............

Thanks!

Well, your evil plan is working!

Dance? Yes, let's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO5KWIMZUo
(not any kind of "commentary" - I just think it is one of the HOTTEST "dance" scenes of which I can think!)

My wife has been an RN for 40 years and has seen it all. It just kills her that the neighbor across the street who is perfectly healthy is on medicaid and my wife has had to treat her. The neighbor claims that she has some kind of mental problem that prevents her from working in an office. Then there are the Puerto Ricans who come into the ER flashing their medicaid cards. I could go on and on about the "dirt bags" who come in for every cotton pickin' thing, no matter how minor such as a cold, while tying up the system for those who really need medical attention. It's not the older ones that the wife objects to, but the young, healthy ones, with the manicured finger nails, and with the three or four illegitimate kids, who claim that they can't work because they can't afford a baby sitter.

In summary, there are too many on medicaid who shouldn't be there. These people claim they can't find work or are unable to work. In reality they are just plain lazy but know how to milk the system and we are paying for them.

Thanks.

The system is broken!! - seriously.

Colbert in '08!

NOW WHY IS THERE AN UPSIDE TO THIS

SMART POIN

VERY SMART

HECK MUST BE THE SPAM

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

KK,

I want to let you and anyone else reading these post and slapping their heads that I in no way wanted to drag past BS up. You made a very strange reply to a very simple question. I commented and expressed concern. We all saw what happened after that. I stand by my every word. I hope everyone else can say the same.


I dont know who David is or why you would bring him up but as for the Christmas Eve BS,feel free to drag out any of my past sins. In fact,I will post that one myself. I doubted your mother passed away. The amount of time you spent on the boards and your even more overboard then usual attention seeking ways made me think it was a sick ploy to have all eyes on you. I never posted my theories on the boards but I did share them in an email and a PM. I later found out several others felt the same way. It got back to KK,a friend had sent a PM to someone he thought was a friend and that person told KK, that some people felt she had made the passing of her mother up and it got very ugly. I dont want to drag anymore BS up but feel free to go back and read for yourselves,if you want to. Theres nothing enjoyable in those post and we all sunk to levels that were pretty low. There are many post you cant read thanks to the BBB deleting them but one thread did get saved and I think you will see just how both sides were involved,it was not one sided.


Im not proud of some of my post but I own what I did. Ive made apologies for things I felt Ive done wrong but I will not apologize for expressing opinions and concern.


I choose to ignore the rest of your post. It will only make things worse and I feel that was its intent. I offered a do over to you but you choose to ignore it. I in no way want to seek out your friendship but I felt we could be more adult like in our stay on these boards but I guess I was wrong.


Please know that any concerns or fears for your safety and sanity will be kept to myself from now on. I wish you no harm,never have,but it would seem my concerns either frighten or enrage you and your friends so lips zipped as we used to say as kids.


My apologies to anyone reading this who was there when it all went down and was forced to witness the ugliness or any n00b who has no idea what went on and is probably pretty confused right now. Ive said what I need to say and Im done.

Thank you for your post Lia. You always say what I try to say so well but I end up screwing it up,LOL. Im sorry that your post was dismissed so easily but sometimes the truth hurts. Im done with it though and if people want to have breakdowns for all to see,Im not gonna express any concerns anymore.

As for the Tudors,OMG,isnt this season even hotter then the first one?