Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
> > ChattyCathy wrote:
> > > http://www.recfoodcooking.com
> > >
> > > Gonna blame Nancy Young's thread for this one.
> >
> > We probably remember our bags 70% of the time or so. When we
> > don't, I just get paper ones and use them for things like
> > collecting paper recyclables, setting out Freecycle goods, and
> > draining fried foods.
>
> Draining fried foods?

Yep. Plain brown paper bags work better than paper towels for absorbing
excess grease from (deep) fried foods. Mom taught me that trick years ago.

Nancy Young wrote:

> Pete C. wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> maxine in ri wrote:
>>>> On Aug 5, 2:12 pm, ChattyCathy > wrote:
>>>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
>>>> I've been using my own bags for over 30 years. Got some cloth
>>>> ones, and fought the store personnel for years to be allowed to
>>>> a) bring the bags into the store, and
>>>> b) use the bags to stow my purchases.
>>>
>>> How funny is that. I guess they thought they weren't sanitary?
>>> Like your pocketbook is presumably cleaner?
>>
>> Think shoplifting.
>
> True enough, but many women's pocketbooks are cavernous.
> If they were looking to shoplift, bringing special bags wouldn't
> be necessary. Plus she said they didn't want her putting her
> purchases in her own bags after she paid for them.

Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
supply in your neck of the woods?

We used to get them for nothing at the checkouts - I think this may have
been a way to discourage shoplifting i.e. there was no excuse to have
to bring your own bags etc. into the stores/markets... However, that
all came to stop a few years ago; the 'powers that be' around here
decided that these plastic bags were not exactly environmentally
friendly - so they passed a law that all the stores had to start
charging their customers for them. They did this to encourage folks to
either recycle the bags and/or bring their own bags/whatever to tote
their groceries away in. So these days the stores can't object to you
using 'your own'. But, the stores only charge a few cents for the bags,
so a lot of people just buy them anyway...

BTW, large paper bags have never been that common here - I've only seen
small ones offered (sometimes) in the bakery/butchery/deli sections of
certain food markets for those particular goods; the checkouts only
offer plastic.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Egg tastes better when it's not on your face...

ChattyCathy wrote:

> Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
> supply in your neck of the woods?

Yes, and it's due to the environmentalists who thusly sougth to reduce theyr
use and, consequently, theyr production. They called it a victory, someone
else calls it thievery.
I don't have an opinion on that, I don't know if it's a good thing or what
else. Sure it's not a big issue the .10 euros a bag.
--
Vilco
Mai guardare Trailer park Boys senza
qualcosa da bere a portata di mano

jmcquown wrote:

>>> We probably remember our bags 70% of the time or so. When we
>>> don't, I just get paper ones and use them for things like
>>> collecting paper recyclables, setting out Freecycle goods, and
>>> draining fried foods.

>> Draining fried foods?

> Yep. Plain brown paper bags work better than paper towels for
> absorbing excess grease from (deep) fried foods. Mom taught me that
> trick years ago.

True, and it makes me remember that in Veneto they serve "scartosso de
pesse" in brown paper, and it's just a bunch of small fried fishes and small
fried squids. An old street-food born in the northern adriatic coast.
--
Vilco
Mai guardare Trailer park Boys senza
qualcosa da bere a portata di mano

ChattyCathy wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> True enough, but many women's pocketbooks are cavernous.
>> If they were looking to shoplift, bringing special bags wouldn't
>> be necessary. Plus she said they didn't want her putting her
>> purchases in her own bags after she paid for them.
>
> Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
> supply in your neck of the woods?

I'm going to say no, but I don't speak for the whole country.
Bags are free, and you can choose paper or plastic.

Nothing against the bags, really, I do use some of them for
things around the house. Plastic bags come in very handy, just
not the wads of them that accumulate in no time. Paper bags,
they're very handy to have and sometimes I specifically ask for
them.

> We used to get them for nothing at the checkouts - I think this may
> have been a way to discourage shoplifting i.e. there was no excuse to
> have to bring your own bags etc. into the stores/markets... However,
> that all came to stop a few years ago; the 'powers that be' around
> here decided that these plastic bags were not exactly environmentally
> friendly - so they passed a law that all the stores had to start
> charging their customers for them.

What's funny is that the stores are the worst offenders, if they do
any bagging they are notorious for way under-loading the bags.
One or two items per bag. That's really when I wind up with wads
of the things.

They do provide bins for you to return the bags to be recycled, for
what that's worth.

>They did this to encourage folks to
> either recycle the bags and/or bring their own bags/whatever to tote
> their groceries away in. So these days the stores can't object to you
> using 'your own'. But, the stores only charge a few cents for the
> bags, so a lot of people just buy them anyway...

Not much of a deterrent.

> BTW, large paper bags have never been that common here - I've only
> seen small ones offered (sometimes) in the bakery/butchery/deli
> sections of certain food markets for those particular goods; the
> checkouts only offer plastic.

But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

>
> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??

Heh. We used to get rolls of brown paper back in those days, but most of
our teachers in primary school wanted them covered in clear plastic
too.. But in high school they weren't fussy about the paper being
brown, we were allowed to use colored 'wrapping paper' - as long as the
books were covered they were OK with it.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Egg tastes better when it's not on your face...

Nancy Young said...

> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
> nancy


I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking back, I
don't remember why.

Andy

Andy wrote:
> Nancy Young said...
>
>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??

> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
> back, I don't remember why.
>

You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.

nancy

Vilco wrote:

> ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>> Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
>> supply in your neck of the woods?
>
> Yes, and it's due to the environmentalists who thusly sougth to reduce
> theyr use and, consequently, theyr production. They called it a
> victory, someone else calls it thievery.
> I don't have an opinion on that, I don't know if it's a good thing or
> what else. Sure it's not a big issue the .10 euros a bag.

Well, there was a bit of a 'hoo-ha' about it here too when they first
passed the law. Some people were miffed about having to pay for
something that they had gotten for 'nothing' for years and years...

I found this old news article about it, if you're interested:

http://tinyurl.com/6l43qa

or

http://www.fin24.com/articles/defaul...518-25_1355520

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Egg tastes better when it's not on your face...

"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

> Andy wrote:
>> Nancy Young said...
>>
>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>> back, I don't remember why.
>>
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> nancy
>

Back when they invented dirt, they used the same books for more than 1 or
2 years in a row. And if you damaged one you had to pay for it at the end
of the year. So they wanted you to use covers to protect them.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

Nancy Young said...

> Andy wrote:
>> Nancy Young said...
>>
>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>> back, I don't remember why.
>>
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> nancy


That's right! Now I remember. Our first lesson in anality!!!

Andy

ChattyCathy wrote:
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
> Gonna blame Nancy Young's thread for this one.

Well, virtually everywhere I shop has free bags.
Aldi's is the exception but I rarely shop there.
When I do naturally I usually forget the bags.
Since I keep some bags in my truck for various
purposes I can always bag my stuff after I get it
back to the car.
At TJ's I try to remember to reuse bags but often
forget. At regular supermarkets and other places
I don't worry about it.
Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

hahabogus said...

> "Nancy Young" > wrote in
> :
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>> Nancy Young said...
>>>
>>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>
>>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>>> back, I don't remember why.
>>>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>
> Back when they invented dirt, they used the same books for more than 1 or
> 2 years in a row. And if you damaged one you had to pay for it at the end
> of the year. So they wanted you to use covers to protect them.


I never paid for school textbooks until college. Payback?!?

By high school they were all paperback anyway.

Andy

Nancy Young wrote:

>
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.

When I was in elementary school the first thing we did when we got our text
books was to put covers on them, usually with plain old brown paper. We
could put whatever we wanted on the outside of the covers but would be in
deep doodoo if we wrote in the books. It seems much different today. Kids
do not cover the the books, doodle all over the outside and write inside
them and underline or highlight sections.

Dave Smith wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> When I was in elementary school the first thing we did when we got our text
> books was to put covers on them, usually with plain old brown paper. We
> could put whatever we wanted on the outside of the covers but would be in
> deep doodoo if we wrote in the books. It seems much different today. Kids
> do not cover the the books, doodle all over the outside and write inside
> them and underline or highlight sections.
>
>
Here, anyway, the books still get covered. But now they have
those reusable cloth covers, which theoretically fit many sizes,
and actually don't fit any but a lucky few well.

--
Jean B.

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:13:30 GMT, "Vilco" > wrote:

>
>True, and it makes me remember that in Veneto they serve "scartosso de
>pesse" in brown paper, and it's just a bunch of small fried fishes and small
>fried squids. An old street-food born in the northern adriatic coast.

We used to buy fish & chips wrapped in newspaper.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

sf said...

> We used to buy fish & chips wrapped in newspaper.


At Edinburgh Castle, they served it up that way, some 25 years ago.

Best, well, the only fish & chips I ever had in San Francisco. Great bar,
too!!!

Andy

Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 885-4074

Nancy Young wrote:
>
> Andy wrote:
> > Nancy Young said...
> >
> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
> > back, I don't remember why.
> >
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> nancy


Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
alternative. But covered they had to be.

Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as did
lost books.

Arri London > wrote in :

>
>
> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> Andy wrote:
>> > Nancy Young said...
>> >
>> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>
>> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>> > back, I don't remember why.
>> >
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>>
>> nancy
>
>
> Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
> still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
> primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
> alternative. But covered they had to be.
>
> Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
> then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as did
> lost books.
>

Some used brown paper and picture stencils and then colored the pictures
on the covers...

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

hahabogus said...

> Arri London > wrote in :
>
>>
>>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> Andy wrote:
>>> > Nancy Young said...
>>> >
>>> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>>
>>> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>>> > back, I don't remember why.
>>> >
>>>
>>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>
>>
>> Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
>> still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
>> primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
>> alternative. But covered they had to be.
>>
>> Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
>> then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as did
>> lost books.
>>
>
> Some used brown paper and picture stencils and then colored the pictures
> on the covers...


Yep. I remember you could be as creative as you wanted on the covers.

Probably accounted for a +/- on your grade!

Best,

Andy

On Aug 6, 7:44*am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> > Pete C. wrote:
> >> Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >>> maxine in ri wrote:
> >>>> On Aug 5, 2:12 pm, ChattyCathy > wrote:
> >>>>>http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
> >>>> I've been using my own bags for over 30 years. *Got some cloth
> >>>> ones, and fought the store personnel for years to be allowed to
> >>>> a) bring the bags into the store, and
> >>>> b) use the bags to stow my purchases.
>
> >>> How funny is that. *I guess they thought they weren't sanitary?
> >>> Like your pocketbook is presumably cleaner?
>
> >> Think shoplifting.
>
> > True enough, but many women's pocketbooks are cavernous.
> > If they were looking to shoplift, bringing special bags wouldn't
> > be necessary. *Plus she said they didn't want her putting her
> > purchases in her own bags after she paid for them.
>
> Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
> supply in your neck of the woods?

My two cut-price ones charge $.05 per bag. The two gouging (err full-
service) ones give them away free.

The provinical Liquor Stores has just stopped giving out plastic bags
at all. This is a real pain as they used to have some of the best high-
quality bags around. Now I have to go and see if I can beg some from
the Universiy Book Store.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

On Aug 6, 10:34*am, hahabogus > wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote m:
>
> > Andy wrote:
> >> Nancy Young said...
>
> >>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
> >> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
> >> back, I don't remember why.
>
> > You had to! *To protect the books. *Heaven forbid you
> > showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> > nancy
>
> Back when they invented dirt, they used the same books for more than 1 or
> 2 years in a row. And if you damaged one you had to pay for it at the end
> of the year. So they wanted you to use covers to protect them.

I had my sister's Latin text which seems to have come from one of her
friend's brother who got it from someone else. It think I documented
at least 4 users before me, which is not bad as the book covered a 3
or 4 year course.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

On Aug 6, 10:47*am, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > You had to! *To protect the books. *Heaven forbid you
> > showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> When I was in elementary school the first thing we did when we got our text
> books was to put covers on them, usually with plain old brown paper. We
> could put whatever we wanted on the outside of the covers but would be in
> deep doodoo if we wrote in the books. It seems much different today. Kids
> do not cover the the books, doodle all over the outside and write inside
> them and underline or highlight sections.

But some of that is new technology. We did not have undeliners or
highlighters back then. A fountain pen just did not work.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

On Aug 5, 10:23*pm, maxine in ri > wrote:
> On Aug 5, 9:10 pm, sf wrote:> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:03:26 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
> > wrote:
>
> > >I should get a cooler bag for frozen stuff I buy at Costco.
> > >It could be another thing I leave home.
>
> > I used to keep an igloo in my car trunk for those things.
>
> Didn't it melt in the summertime? (she asks innocently...)

packed in sawdust, an igloo should last all summer although this may
not be true in Florida or Cairns.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

Nancy Young wrote:

> I'm going to say no, but I don't speak for the whole country.
> Bags are free, and you can choose paper or plastic.
>
> Nothing against the bags, really, I do use some of them for things
> around the house. Plastic bags come in very handy, just
> not the wads of them that accumulate in no time. Paper bags,
> they're very handy to have and sometimes I specifically ask for
> them.

We always prefer the paper bags as that is what we used to line our
kitchen waste can. I just didn't want to pay money for trashbags! Now
I'm using more of the plastic bags for the daily kitty litter can duty.


> What's funny is that the stores are the worst offenders, if they do
> any bagging they are notorious for way under-loading the bags.
> One or two items per bag. That's really when I wind up with wads
> of the things.
> They do provide bins for you to return the bags to be recycled, for
> what that's worth.

I returned a bunch of small glass lamp globes to Lowes this morning.
Each had been wrapped in a plastic bag by the cashier when I purchased
them, and they were still in the bags when returned. She was throwing
them away as she handled the refund. I asked her why she didn't just
put them at the bag area for reuse? They were spanking clean and new. I
ended up grabbing a handful and shoving them in my purse just because
I'll use them and hate to just toss them out for no good reason.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:12:59 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
>Gonna blame Nancy Young's thread for this one.

Short answer - never! I consider myself lucky that I finally got
around to bagging up the vast mountain of used grocery bags and taking
some of them back to the store for recycling - now I can feel a tiny
bit less guilty about collecting them all! lol

"Vilco wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
> >>> We probably remember our bags 70% of the time or so. When we
> >>> don't, I just get paper ones and use them for things like
> >>> collecting paper recyclables, setting out Freecycle goods, and
> >>> draining fried foods.
>
> >> Draining fried foods?
>
> > Yep. Plain brown paper bags work better than paper towels for
> > absorbing excess grease from (deep) fried foods. Mom taught me that
> > trick years ago.
>
> True, and it makes me remember that in Veneto they serve "scartosso de
> pesse" in brown paper, and it's just a bunch of small fried fishes and
small
> fried squids...


Heh, that's what "cybercat" wears for panties...


--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow said...


> Heh, that's what "cybercat" wears for panties...


Gregory Sorrow,

You're awfully moldy old.

Leave cybercat alone.

Get a life. You're not an r.f.c entertainer, or haven't you noticed?!?

Kiss up with sqwertz and do yourselves a favor!

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message

>
> I never paid for school textbooks until college. Payback?!?
>
> Andy

Sure you do. You pay taxes don't you?

"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
> Gonna blame Nancy Young's thread for this one.
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy
>
> Egg tastes better when it's not on your face...

If you had really cool hand made and wonderfully designed bags ... you would
remember
Well, at least there would be more of a chance lol
EVERY time I go to the mkt, I get asked where I bought my bags (I make
them). I even sold a bag that I was using for $50 at the mkt to some nutty
woman that "couldn't live without" one.

Edwin Pawlowski said...

>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message
>
>>
>> I never paid for school textbooks until college. Payback?!?
>>
>> Andy
>
> Sure you do. You pay taxes don't you?


I used to!

Andy

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:31 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> Andy wrote:
>> Nancy Young said...
>>
>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>
>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>> back, I don't remember why.
>>
>
> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> nancy

times have changed. now the teachers are afraid of the kids.

your pal,
blake

A quick and easy way to make a reusable, washable shopping bag is out of
an old tank top. Turn the shirt inside out and sew the bottom closed.
Turn right-side out and use the shoulder straps as bag handles.

Denise

Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> "Gregory Morrow" >
> m: in rec.food.cooking
>
> >
> >
> >
> > "Vilco wrote:
> >
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >> >>> We probably remember our bags 70% of the time or so. When we
> >> >>> don't, I just get paper ones and use them for things like
> >> >>> collecting paper recyclables, setting out Freecycle goods, and
> >> >>> draining fried foods.
> >>
> >> >> Draining fried foods?
> >>
> >> > Yep. Plain brown paper bags work better than paper towels for
> >> > absorbing excess grease from (deep) fried foods. Mom taught me that
> >> > trick years ago.
> >>
> >> True, and it makes me remember that in Veneto they serve "scartosso de
> >> pesse" in brown paper, and it's just a bunch of small fried fishes and
> > small
> >> fried squids...
> >
> >
> > Heh, that's what "cybercat" wears for panties...
>
> <splurt> My firs chuckle of the day.
>
> Michael <- searching for paper towels to wipe off the monitor
>


I've tried to be "good" and not fiddle around with the cyberthang too much
but it's really difficult, like quitting smoking or something!

I guess I am Groucho Marx to cybercat's Margaret Dumont...

:-)


--
Best
Greg

Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> Andy <q> : in rec.food.cooking
>
> > Gregory Morrow said...
> >
> >
> >> Heh, that's what "cybercat" wears for panties...
> >
> >
> > Gregory Sorrow,
> >
> > You're awfully moldy old.
> >
> > Leave cybercat alone.
> >
> > Get a life. You're not an r.f.c entertainer, or haven't you noticed?!?
> >
> > Kiss up with sqwertz and do yourselves a favor!
>
> Cyberthing doesn't deserve anything.


Except for one of Andy Pandy The PANDERER's ridiculous "breakfasts"...I'd
suggest weeks - old cold gruel and eye of newt for her!

;-)

And Steve Wertz is refusing my usual blandishments even though he now has a
gig installing glory holes in toilets. I'm CRUSHED but I 'spose I'll have
to live with it...<sob>

<chuckle>


--
Best
Greg

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:56:10 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:31 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>> Nancy Young said...
>>>
>>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>
>>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>>> back, I don't remember why.
>>>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>>
>> nancy

Sounds Catlick to me. I went to a backwoods country school and never
had to cover my books.
>
>times have changed. now the teachers are afraid of the kids.
>
True dat... so is the administration. Everybody thinks they can do
the job better than the people hired to do it. I say teach for a year
and we'll talk.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:56:10 GMT, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:31 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>> Nancy Young said...
>>>>
>>>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>>
>>>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!!
>>>> Thinking back, I don't remember why.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.

> Sounds Catlick to me. I went to a backwoods country school and never
> had to cover my books.

Catholic, me? No, this was just the city school system. The books
had to last more than a semester.

nancy

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:47:31 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:56:10 GMT, blake murphy
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:31 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>> Nancy Young said...
>>>>>
>>>>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>>>
>>>>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!!
>>>>> Thinking back, I don't remember why.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>>>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
>> Sounds Catlick to me. I went to a backwoods country school and never
>> had to cover my books.
>
>Catholic, me? No, this was just the city school system. The books
>had to last more than a semester.
>

ours did too. guess us country bumpkins were easier on our books!




--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:52:25 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

>
> I've tried to be "good" and not fiddle around with the cyberthang too much
> but it's really difficult, like quitting smoking or something!
>
> I guess I am Groucho Marx to cybercat's Margaret Dumont...
>
> :-)

what a load of crap. you're not even smart enough for the three stooges.

blake

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:58:47 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

>
> And Steve Wertz is refusing my usual blandishments even though he now has a
> gig installing glory holes in toilets. I'm CRUSHED but I 'spose I'll have
> to live with it...<sob>
>
> <chuckle>

if you're nice to him, maybe he'll tell you where they are. you could meet
some new people. well, part of them.

blake