In article >, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>Phred wrote:
>> G'day Jill,
>>
>> Glad to hear you're okay.
>>
>I thank you, my cat thanks you, my bird thanks you.

How come you can have a cat AND a bird? BIG bird? :-)

[snip]

>Watch out for lightening. And, this is the absolute season for tornadoes.

Okay. My ignorance of these things knows no bounds. Somehow I sort
of saw them as a mid-summer phenomenon... But now that you've
mentioned it, our worst storms are usually in late spring too, just
before the wet season. (Except cyclones, of course, which tend to be
mid to late summer. Bit bigger than a "storm" though -- but not
usually as certainly destructive as tornadoes.)

>They used to always show that film 'The Wizard of Oz' this time of year,
>right around Easter, which I thought was funny given it *is* tornado season
> Oh well, I'm pretty sure if my apartment gets picked up and tossed
>somewhere I won't be surrounded by munchkins when I walk outside.

Being in a food group, I presume you mean the last in this list:

<quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchkin >
As a result of the popularity of the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the
term "munchkin" has entered the English language as a reference to
small children, dwarves, small bits of fried dough, ...
</quoting>

Here's quite a selection of them to surround you. ;-)
<http://home.comcast.net/~osoono/ethnic-doughs.htm>

[Not all of them seem to have recipes, but there are several in the
"Fritter - Worldwide" link on the page.]

Cheers, Phred.

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LID