From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #224 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, August 16 1999 Volume 04 : Number 224 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: [OT] A moment's silence: Jennifer Paterson [Paul Baily ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:27:37 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: [OT] A moment's silence: Jennifer Paterson Hi all, Before I go on, I should make two confessions: 1) I'm a big fan of British produced television, and 2) I know this sounds strange, but I find it really soothing watching GOOD cooking programmes. It's okay, go on and laugh, I'll wait while you finish :-) No really, though I'm hardly a gourmet chef, I really love mucking about in the kitchen creating stuff off the top of my head, especially cooking for close friends (even if some of them would retort with 'what did I ever do to you to deserve this!?') Yes, I'm always learning, though I should say that these days I can cook a pretty mean Thai Green Chicken curry, even if I do say so myself! Many a time I've gone around to Jan & Gary's with a shopping bag full of jasmine rice (smells divine when you cook it right), a little chicken (no, I mean a small quantity, not a young chook) and countless yummy vegies, herbs and spices saying 'Got a wok?' - they in turn ply me with alcohol and the best of company. It makes for a good night. Suffice to say though that I'm always on the lookout for new ideas. In fact someone who will always be preciously dear to me as I once hoped I was to her used to (rightly) pay me out for actually having a cookbook in my collection that focussed purely on how many different ways you could prepare all manner of different varients of potatoes. I kid you not. Anyway, on to the important stuff. Because I find creating food for friends a relaxing, rewarding and enjoyable thing to do, I always like watching really good cooking programmes. I'm not talking the trashy 'and this is what you can create with the SlicerDicerMixMaster 3000 in just FIVE minutes!' - I'm talking the low-key presentations with good people. If you find a really good quality programme, it's food for the soul just watching. If you were ever fortunate enough to catch it, if I mention the name "Two Fat Ladies", you'll know exactly what I mean. To some of you, the name Jennifer Paterson may not mean anything, to others it may ring a vague bell. Jennifer Paterson along with Clarissa Dickson Wright made the BBC TV series "Two Fat Ladies." "Two Fat Ladies" was a charming, nay endearing cooking programme. Jennifer and Clarissa, clearly very old friends, made each programme with a warming 'this how we are, deal with it' attitude; made with a sense of relaxed, sometimes irreverent, always good-natured fun. Just a pleasure to watch them interact and welcome you into their company in whatever kitchen they happened to be gracing (or should that be hijacking?) It was almost as if you were in the kitchen with them, just gossiping and cackling away over a glass (or three) of the finest quaffing red. These two were, I think, the David Attenborough's of cooking personalities. Clearly very talented intelligent, endearing in manner, and so unassuming and full of enjoying the relaxed, simple niceties, and clearly both with such tremendous spirit and heart. Jennifer, aged 71, passed away earlier this week, this writer for one, will miss her presence. http://www.foodtv.com/fn/recipes/reclist/rladies.htm stay well, and in your hectic lives, please, once in a while stop and smell the roses, Paul. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:05:29 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) In a message dated 14/08/99 16:10:25 GMT Daylight Time, RThurF@aol.com writes: << The woman said "It was a great wedding - not a single corpse!" ... since getting through an entire traditional wedding in Poland without at least one death is extremely unusual (given the gallons of vodka, fighting, and sub-zero temperatures involved.. not the healthiest combination...) >> Wow, this makes ours sound like a children's birthday party in comparison. << What are the words to 'Hokey Kokey'? Do you put your right foot in, and put your right foot out, and so on? >> Yeah, that's the one, when everybody smashes into each other and falls down in a drunken stupor at the end! It's funny how language works and how the same annoying party songs spread themselves around the globe! I bet you even have the "Birdie Song" and "Superman" over there, not to mention "The Time Warp"? Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:45:41 -0400 From: MacSuirtain Subject: Alloy: OT: Poetic Magnetism I am a fridge magnet nut, and I'm quite fond of Poetry Magnets. When I got my first set as a birthday gift, as god is my witness, the following phrases were connected in the box: "blow me death puppy" and "please incubate the meat pole" I can only assume that someone in the Poetry Magnet factory has a really whacked sense of humor (either that or random fate has a whacked sense of humor). Anyway, here's a site for those who are fond of magnetic, poetic creativity, but don't feel like blowing $19.95 for the experience: http://prominence.com/java/poetry/ Cheers, Melissa, happy to be home from work before 10 p.m. on a Sunday night! Whoo-hoo - -- Melissa R. Jordan Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios Unique Wearable Art in Large Sizes & Handstamped Handicrafts http://www.erols.com/jamesq/crs/welcome.htm ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #224 ***************************