Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:
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> Crap! It's not nice to make me feel so jealous! Except for the Cel-Ray
> stuff. What's Cel-Ray? Sounds like some kind of medicinal tonic.

Almost. It is a soda pop with celery as the flavour. I like it cold in
the hot summer, and room temp when I have a have one of those sore
throats so puffy you are nauseated. I also like warm Vernors for that.
You have that in Canada, right?
come visit me and I'll feed you Cel-Ray from Pacific Importers
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> Schmatteh? I'm a little afraid to ask...Any relation to schmuck?

It means "rags". Since I dress in sweat pants and a droopy shirt and
ragg socks most of the time, I am officially dressed in Schmatteh, or so
my more reeee-fined Jewish co-workers in NY told me.
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> Sigh! All that food and great company and hospitality! It's enough to make
> a girl weep with envy!

Its enough to make me reconsider motherhood, but baby just started
walking around the room in my Dr. Scholls about 10 minutes ago, and it
is darned cute.
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