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There were only three of them. Did they start with three or end up with three? WW said one or two got eaten by the others. Maybe they had some Argentinian blood. On a different note, I have been helping WW with scrapbooking lately and it is really depressing me. I think I now understand why. I was looking at the clothes hamper in DDs' bathroom and noticed it was Ikea style. Then I started looking around at all the Ikea stuff I do have and began thinking of moving some day. It occurred to me that, as convenient as flatpacking is for moving, I hate it. It is just so sterile. There is no craftsmanship - no quality. It is so - average. And then it occurred to me that this is the problem with scrapbooking - I am flatpacking my life.
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You need to take up a hobby. I can completely endorse clamp collecting.
Can you explain, in English and in 25 words or less what scrapbooking is? Has there always been scrapbooking? I never heard of it until you posted about it.
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Okay I read the story. Can't decide if they were gone for 3 months or 11 months? Didn't anyone back home notice? Sorry but this whole thing sounds "fishy".
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I had a gradnuncle. Capitan. He got lost in the sea for three months in the 60's. It seems Mexican men have a proclivity to get lost. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
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I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head, I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.
I'd unravel ev'ry riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln,
If you only had a brain.
Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean's near the shore,
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more.
I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain--Whoa!
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It seems Mexican men have a proclivity to get lost. I know what you mean. Gemela says that during her childhood, her father would go missing for weeks and sometimes months at a time. Never went near the water though. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
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I had a gradnuncle. Capitan. He got lost in the sea for three months in the 60's. It seems Mexican men have a proclivity to get lost. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> And they share a malady with American men: they will not stop and ask for directions. Oh, and BTW, I just love gradnuncles. Especially cooked in rice with a lot of....what do you call that green herb?
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what do you call that green herb? GANJA? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Mrs. W
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That's it!! And now part 2 of the quiz. What do you call gradnuncle in English? Is it pigeon peas? Whether that is correct or not, why are pigeon peas called pigeon peas?
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what do you call that green herb? GANJA? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Mrs. W Hello Dawg, I am reasonably sure that is an STD.
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Cilantro is cilantro in every country in the free world except the USA where it is indeed "coriander". The USA does not call it "cilantro" because they refuse to pay the royalties to use that word so decided to make up their own.
I can't answer the 2nd question but I do know what I call it when a pidgeon peas on my car window.
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what do you call that green herb? GANJA? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Mrs. W Hello Dawg, I am reasonably sure that is an STD. Well Dawg, then whatever you do, DO NOT INHALE!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Mrs. W
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Well, in English that is the kitchen gadget one uses to strain water out of a mixture of sorts. For example, if you cook noodles, you simply pour the cooked noodles, water and all, into the coiander, the water passes through unharmed and you are left with waterless noodles.
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larousse, There should never be any food named "mari" in Spanish. Can you imagine just how much trouble you could get in if you said something like: "A mí, me encanta mari con salsa". Oh, the horror! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
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Well Dawg, then whatever you do, DO NOT INHALE!!! Based on that statement, you obviously know that I am running for President in 2008. That will be my tagline: Frankly I did not inhale.
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