XPost: can.politics, rec.food.cooking   
   From: j63840576@gmail.com   
      
   Doc Hammerslack wrote:   
   > At Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:51:55 +0000, marg  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:41:02 +0000, Mr Ön!on wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Ed P  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2/22/2026 9:20 PM, Mr Ön!on wrote:   
   >>>>> phoenix  wrote:   
   >>>>>> Mr Ön!on wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Mars Sellus  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> onion@anon.invalid (Mr Ön!on) wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Really?  @webtv?  You dinosaur!   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> dialup and..audrey for mail   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> [modem squeaks, boing-boing]  [connect]   
   >>>>>>> Hooray!  [click... no carrier]  Grrr!  $%^*£@...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> But but but it's Joan not JoAnn, the boss of rec.food.cooking.   
   >>>>>> How you gonna disrespect her?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I don't know what rec.food.cooking is; should I?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It is where the thread started but someone cross posted to other   
   >>>> groups.  If not into cooking, just ignore it.   
   >>>   
   >>> I like food but cooking is a chore, I leave that to the experts.   
   >>   
   >> I agree about cooking being a chore and I vacillate between doing it   
   >> and not doing it.  It depends on my mood.  Most of the time I do my   
   >> own because (not to brag), MY cooking tastes better than most of   
   >> what there is available to buy.  I particularly like making salmon with   
   >> brown rice and asparagus.  I think I'll have that tonight.   
   >   
   > Sounds delicious, even though I would pass on the asparagus.  (I can't   
   > eat it -- it's too much like a weed, and the texture will literally   
   > make me spit it up.[*]   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> I was just amused to see somebody still using a webtv address.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't even notice. (Shame on me.)   
   >>   
   >>> There can't be many of us left who remember what WebTV was. ISTR that a   
   >>> jolly jape was to set a header to (something like) WebTV-Stationery:   
   >>> text red, background red to tease WebTV-ers. It was a very long time ago   
   >>> and memory is a bit unreliable now.   
   >   
   > [*] I hope that's a genteel way of putting it... ;)   
   >   
   What he's saying is he didn't like them so he tricked them. We only had   
   one webtv visitor and she became the group poet. One day she left after   
   I told her about feeling squigglies crawling in my pubes. Her last words   
   to me were, "You're sensitive!"   
      
   --   
   Through you we push down our foes;   
   through your name we tread down   
   those who rise up   
   against us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)