On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:48:45 GMT, "Alan_B" > wrote:

>Michael Odom > wrote in
:
>
>> Noises of happiness that appear uncaused by the circumstances.
>> Forced. Canned. Synthetic. Affected. Reminding one of situations
>> that involve cocktails with the boss. Unpleasantly unrealistic.
>> Redolent of an out-take from a John Candy movie. Free of
>> authenticity. Given to contextually inappropriate expressions of
>> mirth. Risibility with no clear reason. Ejaculations of joy in the
>> face of an ordinary omelette. Chuckling excessively over the meal's
>> tab. Smacking of obsequious attempts at ingratiation. You know,
>> artificial.
>>
>> But she really looks good in jeans and a tee shirt. Really.
>>
>
>Excuse me? I do most of those things and not artifically. I do feel joy
>about cooking a good omlete. Hell, I've phoned people and bragged! I have
>chuckled about a bill for days. Sometimes stuff just strikes me as funny
>and I laff outloud, and my laff isn't your standard run of the mill tee-
>hee. But I don't look so good in jeans though. Maybe it is that you see way
>to many type A personalities.

Could be. Could also be that I didn't choose my words carefully
enough. It happens. You're right to take joy in cooking a good
omelette, of course. But an ordinary one? And can you really act in
a way that's "redolent of an out-take from a John Candy movie" and do
it without artificiality?
>
>But I don't think she is or has a good TV persona. I think it's her garbage
>bowl style ideas.

I use a grocery bag on the counter for the trash, myself. Why on the
counter? Can't be on the floor. Dogs.

OBFood: Leftovers for dinner tonight.


modom

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