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Whisky
Nov 12, 2005 13:28:25 GMT -7
Post by bescheid on Nov 12, 2005 13:28:25 GMT -7
Haaa, Dear Leslie, you are such a Britisher in all manners, I just love it (sociolally) speaking (where is that spell check when I need it) Well on the hard boiled eggs, I have not heard of Scotch eggs. You must remember, that in the Seattle Metro area, we have mainly viken or, most adviseable usage of the word, Norwegian folks. with us few Krauts in the area, we just tend to stay withen our selves and simply use what ever is evident withen our adoptive world.
Boiled eggs, soiked in venegar.
Also, we tend to soik in venegar, pork, beef and what ever. For my self, I must wait untill my wife leaves for at least, two days if more, before I begine to even think of cooking. She hates the smell, my neighbours are irritated and mad at me, and when the time my wife returns, and hears of what the blabbery mouth neighbours have to say, she is mad at me.
There is not justice in this world, or for that matter, place to hide.
Charles
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 0:34:54 GMT -7
Post by kaima on Nov 13, 2005 0:34:54 GMT -7
Hi Kai I see we are back on our old battling ground - great, but I miss Raytan to have a go at. Why do you call a back garden to a house a 'backyard' - a backyard is just a lot of concrete usually behind an old house!! Can I ask if you ever leave America?!!! Leslie (one of the Grumpy Old Men) ps I did a spellcheck on ths and it wanted me to change 'whisky' to 'whiskey' - the cheek of it!!!! Ah, my most notorious encounter with spell check was while living in Germany... writing to a mechanic friend in America, the spell checker wanted to change Opel to Opal, transaxel to transsexual, and Chevy to Chewy. Now a backyard does not have to be concrete nor a garden, it is simply a piece of real estate Americans feel no obligation to treat in a fixed manner, as perhaps the Britts do. Hmmm... the German Hof seems to relate to your use of "yard". It was concrete or paved as opposed to a front yard, side yard or back yard (in American) or garden in British. Thank God we civilized this brutish tongue a bit on this side of the Pond! (Even to the point of correctly spelling whiskey). Chears! Kai
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 1:37:16 GMT -7
Post by leslie on Nov 13, 2005 1:37:16 GMT -7
Pawiam This is all a matter of different cultures and the changing face of the system known as Training, Learning and Development. The basic concept now is that we cannot train people, it is they who learn from within themselves. So the Trainer is the one who, from his/her skill and experience, provide opportunities of input sessions, activities, videos, e-learning etc. from which the participants learn. But it is they who take that mental/physical action - we cannot force them to do so. They then return to work and implement the learning. This approach is not yet universal, there are still organizations/areas/even countries that talk about The Trainer training the Participant, but realisation is coming. I really consider myself when I am doing this as a Facilitator of learning rather than a Trainer. Leslie
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 1:42:31 GMT -7
Post by leslie on Nov 13, 2005 1:42:31 GMT -7
Charles If you have all your troubles as you recount with your wife and neighbours over your cooking, unless you have the skill to cover a hard-boiled egg in breadcrumbs as I mentioned, just stick to English/American Eggs, rather than Scotch Eggs - ie plain boiled, or scrambled or fried, or poached. Apart from anything else it is so much easier! Good cooking Leslie ;D
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 1:47:27 GMT -7
Post by leslie on Nov 13, 2005 1:47:27 GMT -7
Kai And you call that the civilisation of language! Thank God I'm English! BTW, you spell 'Cheers' with two 'ee' not 'ea'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D I do hope you still look on me as a friendly co-member of the forum - I would hate to be thought of as some people did of Raytan! Leslie
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 4:48:01 GMT -7
Post by justjohn on Nov 13, 2005 4:48:01 GMT -7
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women They will lead you to trouble They will drive you insane
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 4:53:27 GMT -7
Post by leslie on Nov 13, 2005 4:53:27 GMT -7
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women John How poetic you are! But you're not listening to me. Cigarettes - I don't smoke. Whisk Y - I like it but prefer wodka. Wild, wild women - bring 'em on! Leslie ;D
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 7:07:03 GMT -7
Post by justjohn on Nov 13, 2005 7:07:03 GMT -7
Actually Leslie,
These are some lyrics to a Country and Western song sung by
Jimmy Dickens
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 8:28:15 GMT -7
Post by kaima on Nov 13, 2005 8:28:15 GMT -7
Kai And you call that the civilisation of language! Thank God I'm English! BTW, you spell 'Cheers' with two 'ee' not 'ea'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D I do hope you still look on me as a friendly co-member of the forum - I would hate to be thought of as some people did of Raytan! Leslie Oh, no problem with friendly co-member status, that is one I hope to maintain as well. If we get serious about settling the whiskey-whisky question, I propose we sit down with a few bottles and conduct a few rounds of taste-testing to settle the question. I suspect that will quickly reveal the question to be quite unimportant. English on the Islands is a civilized language? How in the world do you fit so many dialects in such a small spot? As for my spelling, it is a throw back to the days when spelling was a free sport and creativity was appreciated! Yes, I have a lifelong problem with spelling. It started in grade school when they showed us American spelling and British, and I could not tell the difference! Of course the problem has only improved with time. Kai
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 12:33:22 GMT -7
Post by rdywenur on Nov 13, 2005 12:33:22 GMT -7
Charles, You left out my Margarita. Gimme some of that tequila...frozen in a nice tall glass, please. I use to drink Pinch but that was a long time ago.
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 16:45:09 GMT -7
Post by bescheid on Nov 13, 2005 16:45:09 GMT -7
rdywenur, Should I call you Chris?
Well, any way, what you are drinking is fine with me, I like those too!!! The past few years, I just had a water glass half filled with what ever voldka was available. That would last me through most of the evening. It is the mixer that makes my stomac uneasy.
If you exhale while drinking vodka, it will not make you caugh, it is the fumes other wise. Now, I just pour a gin tonic (maybe perhaps two) start up the computer or read. It makes a silent household tolerable unitll my wife comes home.
Now, that Margarita looks delicious. But what about the salt now? After a while, does it melt into the drink and make it all salty?
Charles
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Whisky
Nov 13, 2005 17:33:14 GMT -7
Post by Bob S on Nov 13, 2005 17:33:14 GMT -7
;D Leslie. Whoops there I go again as to that statement I made earlier in the thread about "Learning and Training". It was too simplistic and only a thought. Learning requires the use of logic, reason and understanding. A horse can be trained to run a race on a flat track, in a hunt or in a chase. A horse can be trained not to foul another horse running along side of it. The horse cannot reason why you do not foul another horse; it does not know that this is bad form, it is against the rules and time is lost. A horse is trained to know how a jocky sits and the commands a jocky gives, it cannot reason why. A jocky knows how to ride a horse, what commands to give and the reason why. An athlete knows why he/she wants to be an athlete and the athlete's logic dictates that the body must be trained a certain way in order to reach the desired goals. The muscles and nerves do not reason why they are used in a certain way or the logic behind it, they are just developed. An animal (other than human) can be trained to drive a car but it will not know or understand the reason behind the rules and regulations of the road. Teaching and Learning may be Victorean ideas but, they have always worked. A person does not train reading, writing, math, history etc. etc. I have never known a person who takes a course to train the subject but to learn it. Perhaps the acquisition of knowledge is not apparent and is not apparent for many years to come but it is there. As an example: Jaga and Nancy did not train their chosen fields but had to sit in classes to learn and gain the knowledge they have through the lectures of professors , confering with other students, reading books and writing papers. ;D Then there is the tale of a person who takes over the controls of an airplane during an emergency and tells all the passangers "Don't worry, I know how to fly this plane, I read all about it in a book" ;D.
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Whisky
Nov 14, 2005 3:17:55 GMT -7
Post by rdywenur on Nov 14, 2005 3:17:55 GMT -7
I cannot drink Vodka. I remember on my first date with my ex. We stopped for drink after a movie. He ordered a pitcher of martinis. I thought that was so cool...till I tasted it and thought I was drinking medicine. I still haven't acquired a taste for it and therefore have not bought into the new "Martini craze" out now. Scotch I did aqguire a taste for then switched to gin and tonic and from there to my margaritas. I keep my glass in fthe freezer so it is always nice and ready for me. Rim it with salt...it never really gets a chance to melt into my drink. I usually buy the rimming salt which is a bit different than regualr salt so maybe that it why it does not melt so quickly inot the glass. Cheers, Skol, Na drowjie, chin chin,proszit...to our health and to Poland. Over the lips and thru the gums, look out tummy cause here it comes.....LOL
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Whisky
Nov 14, 2005 3:56:40 GMT -7
Post by leslie on Nov 14, 2005 3:56:40 GMT -7
I remember on my first date with my ex. Hi Rdy... Noticed your reference to 'your ex'. Are you a naive young woman and only had one ex. I have now two ex-wives but I am following the proverb 'Pierwsza zona od Boga, druga od ludzi, trzecia od diabla. The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy. As I am not a heretic there will not be a third 'ex' or not!!!! Leslie
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Whisky
Nov 14, 2005 4:16:21 GMT -7
Post by justjohn on Nov 14, 2005 4:16:21 GMT -7
I cannot correct the spelling to Little Jimme thingyens. It just won't take it. Even the above is incorrect. Wow, this has never happened to me. Go to the following: www.littlejimmydickens.com/
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