> wrote:

> No way. The roll or bread is going to get sogged-out soon enough,
> esp. if you are packing these for later consumption e.g. fishing
> trips. I top brown the inside of the roll or one side of the bread
> to boot - anything to prevent sog thru.

Using a dense, whole-wheat bread also avoids sog-through.

Steve

On Jan 1, 1:59*pm, Kathleen > wrote:

> And, if the little ones are prone to bathtime play, food coloring in the
> water is much less likely to cause rashes than bubblebath. *Shaving
> cream makes for good, clean fun, and a rubber spatula is good for
> pretend shaving of the face or legs (depending on gender).

But doesn't the shaving cream recommendation go against the spirit of
the recommendation against bubble bath?

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:38:25 -0600, "Gregory Morrow" >
fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:

>Maybe what was called a "Normal School" back in the day, a teacher training
>college...

IIRC, that's how UCLA started out ("Los Angeles State Normal School")
in 1880. (?)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

"Lass Chance_2" > wrote in message
...
> "...if the little ones are prone to bathtime play, food coloring in the
> water is much less likely to cause rashes than bubble bath...." Kathleen
>
> I never thought of that, which is kind of strange, considering a big
> part of my mis-spent youth included crowding a dozen or more people into
> my bathroom, all of us stoned on weed or tripping on acid, dropping food
> coloring into the toilet and saying, "AHHHHH!" with each new plop of
> color.
>
> Once you get all the colors in and have watched each drop explode and
> mingle...you toss in a little Clorox and watch as the color simply
> disappears....
> Then you say, "Woooooo"
> OR, instead of the Clorox, squirt in a little baby oil. This makes the
> colors glob toget6her and produces a sort of irridescence. This is
> accompanied by saying, en masse, "Whoa! FAR OUT!"
>
> BIG fun. Yes, it's easy to see why they put Stoners in jail. We are
> VERY dangerous people.
>
> Lass

Ahhhhhhhh. Another fellow window pane user ................

Steve

In article
>,
aem > wrote:

> It's easy to believe that our way of doing things is universal even if
> it really isn't. This week a casual friend dropped by just when I was
> making a tuna sandwich. I spread the mayo on the bread and he was
> genuinely startled. Why do you need extra mayo when the tuna salad is
> already mayo-based? But you always put mayo on the bread, I said.
> Not when you're using tuna or egg salad with its own full ration of
> mayo, he said. Everyone knows that, we both said, meaning opposite
> things.
>
> So, do you 'dress' the bread/toast first or just spread the tuna/egg
> salad on directly?

The very thought of tuna salad or egg salad, especially in sandwiches,
gives me the dry heaves. I'm not a mayo fan.

In fact, American sandwiches often appear "drippy" or messy to me
because of the mayo or other dressing and stuff leaking out. Ew.

> What other 'everyone knows that' things have you discovered to be less
> than universal?

Mayo in sandwiches at all! Blech!

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> Lass Chance_2 wrote:

> > I had this friend who used to take a bath by taking off her clothes,
> > then getting in to the EMPTY bath tub...THEN turning on the water. We
> > were room mates and often in the bathroom at the same time. When I saw
> > her do this, I said, "ARE YOU MAD? Everybody KNOWS you put the water
> > in first!"
> >
> > She looked up at me, amazed. "Really?" "This is how my mother used to
> > bathe all of us...and I never thought of doing it the other way."
> >
> > I pointed out the advantage of NOT having to set your bare butt on the
> > COLD tub surface and she lit up like it was the greatest discovery in
> > the world.
>
>
> Ooh, and not only that, you add the hot water first, then add some cold
> as necessary so the faucet isn't hot so the babies in the bath water
> can't burn themselves on the plumbing...

When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first so
that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready, they
wouldn't get burned.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:35:01 +1300, Miche >
wrote:

>In article
>,
> aem > wrote:
>
>The very thought of tuna salad or egg salad, especially in sandwiches,
>gives me the dry heaves. I'm not a mayo fan.
>
>In fact, American sandwiches often appear "drippy" or messy to me
>because of the mayo or other dressing and stuff leaking out. Ew.
>
>> What other 'everyone knows that' things have you discovered to be less
>> than universal?
>
>Mayo in sandwiches at all! Blech!

So, Miche ... tell us how you feel about mayonnaise ...

Carol, running for cover

--
Change JamesBond to his agent number to reply.

In article >,
Miche > wrote:

> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:

> > Ooh, and not only that, you add the hot water first, then add some cold
> > as necessary so the faucet isn't hot so the babies in the bath water
> > can't burn themselves on the plumbing...
>
> When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first so
> that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready, they
> wouldn't get burned.

Ewww! The area under the tub isn't heated, and there's this huge window
(single glass) right above the tub dropping down cold air. We don't
have forced air heating, in fact there is no heat in the bathrooms. In
addition, the hot water pipe is full of cold water. I *always* run hot
water first, although it's most important now, since it's winter here.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

Miche wrote:
> Mayo in sandwiches at all! Blech!
>
> Miche
>

I just like a bare smattering on a sandwich with toast. If the bread
isn't toasted then no mayo, thanks.

Miche wrote:
> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:
>
>> Lass Chance_2 wrote:
>
>>> I had this friend who used to take a bath by taking off her clothes,
>>> then getting in to the EMPTY bath tub...THEN turning on the water. We
>>> were room mates and often in the bathroom at the same time. When I saw
>>> her do this, I said, "ARE YOU MAD? Everybody KNOWS you put the water
>>> in first!"
>>>
>>> She looked up at me, amazed. "Really?" "This is how my mother used to
>>> bathe all of us...and I never thought of doing it the other way."
>>>
>>> I pointed out the advantage of NOT having to set your bare butt on the
>>> COLD tub surface and she lit up like it was the greatest discovery in
>>> the world.
>>
>> Ooh, and not only that, you add the hot water first, then add some cold
>> as necessary so the faucet isn't hot so the babies in the bath water
>> can't burn themselves on the plumbing...
>
> When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first so
> that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready, they
> wouldn't get burned.
>
> Miche
>

I fill the bath then put the babies in.

Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Miche > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> Kathleen > wrote:
>
>>> Ooh, and not only that, you add the hot water first, then add some cold
>>> as necessary so the faucet isn't hot so the babies in the bath water
>>> can't burn themselves on the plumbing...
>> When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first so
>> that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready, they
>> wouldn't get burned.
>
> Ewww! The area under the tub isn't heated, and there's this huge window
> (single glass) right above the tub dropping down cold air. We don't
> have forced air heating, in fact there is no heat in the bathrooms. In
> addition, the hot water pipe is full of cold water. I *always* run hot
> water first, although it's most important now, since it's winter here.
>

Us as well. Theres a small radiator ( a foot and a half wide by 2 feet
tall) on the other side of the room but it's a huge bath room and there
is a window right above the bath tub.

Miche wrote:
> In article
> >,
> aem > wrote:
>
>> It's easy to believe that our way of doing things is universal even if
>> it really isn't. This week a casual friend dropped by just when I was
>> making a tuna sandwich. I spread the mayo on the bread and he was
>> genuinely startled. Why do you need extra mayo when the tuna salad is
>> already mayo-based? But you always put mayo on the bread, I said.
>> Not when you're using tuna or egg salad with its own full ration of
>> mayo, he said. Everyone knows that, we both said, meaning opposite
>> things.
>>
>> So, do you 'dress' the bread/toast first or just spread the tuna/egg
>> salad on directly?
>
> The very thought of tuna salad or egg salad, especially in sandwiches,
> gives me the dry heaves. I'm not a mayo fan.
>
> In fact, American sandwiches often appear "drippy" or messy to me
> because of the mayo or other dressing and stuff leaking out. Ew.
>
>> What other 'everyone knows that' things have you discovered to be less
>> than universal?
>
> Mayo in sandwiches at all! Blech!
>
> Miche
>
Just as sandwiches from YOUR neck of the woods sound oddly dry to me!

--
Jean B.

ravenlynne > wrote in
:


>>
>> When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first
>> so that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready,
>> they wouldn't get burned.
>>
>> Miche
>>
>
> I fill the bath then put the babies in.
>




I take the little buggers out the back and squirt them with the hose.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"The joys of the table belong equally to all ages, conditions, countries
and times; they mix with all other pleasures, and remain the last to
console us for their loss."
Jean Antheleme Brillet-Savarin,

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:52:18 +0100, ravenlynne
> wrote:

>>
>
>I fill the bath then put the babies in.

Be careful. You know what they say about babies and bath water.




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

Mae West

PeterL wrote:
> ravenlynne > wrote in
> :
>
> >>
> >> When my daughter was tiny we were taught to run the cold water first
> >> so that if the baby encountered the water before the bath was ready,
> >> they wouldn't get burned.
> >
> > I fill the bath then put the babies in.
> >
>
> I take the little buggers out the back and squirt them with the hose.

Whoops. Better correct my early morning brain fade.

Correction; I take the little squirts out the back and bugger them
with the hose.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

If we are not meant to eat dick, why are they made of meat?

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:46:28 -0500, cybercat wrote:

> "Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote
>
>>Although I use catsup in many dishes, I only
>> insist on it from the bottle on hot meat loaf.
>
> I just realized that I rarely use ketchup at all. I put it in my last batch
> of "sloppy joe" to get the sweetness my husband likes, and sometimes in bean
> soups just to give an appetizing color and a little tang.

yeah, i put ketchup in bean soup as well. but never in chili, unless it's
pretty wretched.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:32:55 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:10:08 GMT, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:09:22 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:28:31 -0700, Christine Dabney
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:37:23 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did I mention that I
>>>>>hate washing plastic?
>>>>>
>>>>>Carol
>>>>
>>>>That's why there is a top shelf in the dishwasher.
>>>
>>> You're talkin' to the dishwasher, and I ain't got no top shelf.
>>>
>>> Carol
>>
>>that's not what i heard. i heard it was pretty nice.
>
> Aw, you're a sweetie. It used to be something to behond, but no
> longer.
>
> Carol

i felt terrible after reading some subsequent posts. thanks for not
yelling at me.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:28:10 -0600, Kathleen wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:54:13 -0600, Kathleen wrote:
>>
>>>I still make homemade bath salts for the kids (currently 14 and 18). A
>>>carton of epsom salts, a good squirt of food coloring, a few drops of
>>>something smelly - peppermint extract, perfume, whatever - stir it all
>>>up and put it in a tin with a scoop.
>>>
>>>Somehow soaking in a tub of salty pink water that smells like roses is
>>>good for whatever ails you.
>>
>> not to get all faux-macho on you, but i hope they're girls.
>
> One of each. I used to do one batch pink and one batch blue, one with
> rose, the other with cedar or rosemary or some such, but both of them
> like rose. The scent doesn't linger.
>
> Besides, it takes a real man to admit he like the smell of flowers. We
> shall not discuss the candles or the brush-on peel-off facial masque...

yes, let's don't.

your pal,
blake