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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


smonster - Jan 17, 2010 11:28:33 am PST #2151 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

> do we think my downstairs neighbor would have to kill me if I started tapping with tap shoes in my kitchen?

Speaking as someone who once lived under a tapper/clogger, I'ma say yes.

Clothes folded and put away. Receipts not entered, but that will have to wait until after church, methinks.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2010 11:39:46 am PST #2152 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Speaking as someone who once lived under a tapper/clogger, I'ma say yes.

This is what I thought. I wonder if I tapped in the attic (above my apartment) if it would dampen the sound enough for her on the first floor. I haven't tapped since high school, but it seems to be the only form of physical exercise that I enoy and is semi-practical (I enjoy cross-country skiing as well, but almost impossible for a single woman in the city without a car. And you can only do it when there is enough snow.). I mean, I enjoy things like hop-scotch and jumpr roping rhymes, too, but those also seem like they would annoy my downstairs neighbor unless I did them outside, in which case, I think the men in white coats would be coming to take me away.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2010 11:41:21 am PST #2153 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Speaking of childhood exercise things, my boss got an "exercise" hula hoop a while back, and got it delivered to the office, so of course we all tried it. It was so fun! I should get one of those.


flea - Jan 17, 2010 11:42:08 am PST #2154 of 30001
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Hula hooping is huge down here, as an exercise/art form thing.


Mala - Jan 17, 2010 11:44:48 am PST #2155 of 30001

I love that they order you "DON'T STIR TOO MUCH!"

I've been making no-knead bread with great success, because my cooking "style" involves doing as little as possible. This weekend Spouse made the no-knead bread for the first time (I had to work a lot) and he cannot stand not to over-work bread or pie crusts. It was causing him pain apparently, having to stop stirring before beating the dough into submission.

I want to learn to bake popovers like in Maine.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2010 11:49:00 am PST #2156 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I hope hop scotch is the next hipster fad. That would be awesome.


Beverly - Jan 17, 2010 11:54:11 am PST #2157 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Before my problems with wheat manifested, I used to make bread whenever I felt a little...tense. Beating the snot out of the dough was therapy. Nice results, too.

My MiL's white yeast bread recipe was versatile: standard loaf pans, two large braids or circled braids, four small straight or crescent braids or freeform loaves, a couple of braids or freeform loaves and a dozen crescent rolls. Two dozen crescent rolls, yadda. For years my contribution to potlucks was bread, a pretty cutting board, a good knife, a crock of sweet butter. I miss both the making and the eating of bread.


Tom Scola - Jan 17, 2010 11:54:55 am PST #2158 of 30001
hwæt

They could rip out the bocce lanes at the bars and replace them with hopscotch! Brilliant!


Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2010 12:01:59 pm PST #2159 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Hipster play bocce!?! The only bocce in Rochester that I know of is in the basement of the Italian American Community Center!


shrift - Jan 17, 2010 12:33:01 pm PST #2160 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Damn it, now I'm hungry.