From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #88 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, April 2 1998 Volume 03 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: lard with lard sauce [bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via ] Alloy: Not Latest Dolby ["Stephen M. Tilson" ] Re: Alloy: lard with lard sauce [John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark] Re: Alloy: blue paper bags of salt & the origin of the species + "fagots" [Tim_Dunn@jba.co] Re: Alloy: availability of fagots [I T Manager Hey, now -- you may laugh, but I have actually been served straight lard on >bread. And I ate some. It turns out that minced lard on bread is a very >common traditional dish in Slovenia. My story on this is actually quite funny, if it doesn't lose something in the electronic translation. I visited Prague with two friends last summer. We walked all over, then like true Americans, got hungry at 5:30. We found one restaurant that had just opened its doors, so we went in, but naturally, we were the only ones there. We had a truly laughable/ ridiculous time ordering, because there was a staff of about 8, none of whom knew English, and we only knew "hello" in Czech, which didn't help when we were wondering if those were really the prices or if they had dropped a few zeros on the menu (full duck dinner with wine=US$8???). Anyway, they kept sending a different person out to deal with us, then they would return to the kitchen and laugh at us. About 3/4 of the way through our meal, they brought out a bowls of white stuff and set them out on all the tables. We had no idea what it was. We at first thought sugar or sour cream, so I poked my fork in it to figure out the consistency. It stood straight up, so we knew it was solid. Paraffin? Light butter? So finally I scraped off a chunk with a knife and put it in my mouth. When I realized I had a mouthful of LARD, I just busted up laughing. My friends just sat there staring until I finally choked out that it was lard. Then the three of us fell over laughing. After about 10 minutes, a staff person came out, picked up our bowl of lard, stared curiously at the fork sticking up and the bite out of it, then brought it back to the kitchen where we heard peals of hysterical laughter. Then, another server came out and brought us a pristine bowl of lard. It cracks me up just thinking about it. We wrote postcards home that said simply, "Prague: Barb eats lard." On another lard note, I once saw someone with a T-shirt that showed a quintessential 50's family around a kitchen table, with the caption, "They're happy because they eat lard." Waht I wouldn't do to find one of those for myself!! :) *B* Barbara Cohen Cosmochemical Cocktail Mixer, PhD to be ****************************************** I haven't come far enough and don't call me baby. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:36:56 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Not Latest Dolby In other Dolby items of note . . . Our Founder has had his share of industrial razzing apparently. Movie-industry, I mean. I ran across some interesting information about his soundtrack work at the Internet Movie Database . If you are interested, go to the IMDb and look up Thomas Dolby. Follow the links to Fever Pitch (1985), and Howard the Duck. Then follow each movie's "Awards" link. Yours in AllThingsDolby, /\/\iles the |-|eretic ********************************************************************* Funny thing about Luck: The harder I work, the more I have. ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:36:58 -0500 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Latest Dolby Recently one of the gang, Dabb, asked the inevitably recurring "What's TMDR done lately?" question which causes me to share the following . . . The Gate To The Mind's Eye is being re-released on Laserdisc in the new DTS format. DTS, Digital Theater Systems, a software format for 6 channel theater surround sound systems, is newly available for home theater. Available on music CDs and Laserdiscs (DVDs soon) it provides left, center, right, left-surround, right-surround, and subwoofer channels in a low-compression 20-bit format which requires a DTS decoder and a discrete six-channel amplification / reproduction system (or five channels with a powered subwoofer). It is very impressive in the showroom. It is also in direct competition with the Dolby Labs "Dolby Digital" aka Dolby 5.1 or AC-3 surround sound reproduction system. Point your browser at dolby.com and dtstech.com for more information. I am sure we would like to hear from Thomas, or perhaps Mary Coller about the background and technicalities of this re-release by Miramar. I was not aware The Gate was mastered for theater surround sound, and am curious if the work has been freshly remixed to six-channel surround, or was it originally available that way? If not, who supervised and approved the new master? One can only hope Our Founder had a hand in it . . . The Gate To The Mind's Eye / DTS, originally scheduled for release in January, looks to be available this month. Street price, about 28USD. /\/\iles the |-|eretic, who is nonetheless one of the faithful ********************************************************************* Love is like whiskey --- one prefers a double. ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:16:28 -0600 From: John_Hanson_at_FRMA01@ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com Subject: Re: Alloy: lard with lard sauce - --IMA.Boundary.851814198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Alloy: lard with lard sauce Author: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) at Internet Date: 31/03/98 23:48 >On another lard note, I once saw someone with a T-shirt that showed >a quintessential 50's family around a kitchen table, with the >caption, "They're happy because they eat lard." Waht I wouldn't do to >find one of those for myself!! :) You can find these at: http://www.viz.co.uk/stuff/order.htm But beware, it's VIZ, and the pages can be a bit naughty (not porno, but a bit schoolboy humourish). MTCBWY & your frying pan John - --IMA.Boundary.851814198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="RFC822 message headers" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RFC822 message headers" Received: from ns1.baxter.com (159.198.180.56) by ccmailgw.mcgawpark.baxter.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.1 Enterprise) id 003925E0; Wed, 1 Apr 98 00:47:47 - -0600 Received: from mermaid.shore.net (mermaid.shore.net [207.244.124.6]) by ns1.baxter.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id BAA12033 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 01:01:55 - -0600 (CST) Received: from smoe.org [204.167.97.154] (root) by mermaid.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) id 0yKHXB-0004D6-00; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 02:02:05 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) with SMTP id BAA19914; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 01:54:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by smoe.org (bulk_mailer v1.5); Wed, 1 Apr 1998 01:54:20 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/listq-jane) id BAA19888 for alloy-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 01:52:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from apocalypse.LPL.Arizona.EDU (apocalypse.LPL.Arizona.EDU [128.196.64.186]) by smoe.org (8.8.7/8.8.7/daemon-mode-relay2) with SMTP id BAA19884 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 01:52:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by apocalypse.LPL.Arizona.EDU (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA07780; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:48:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:48:10 -0700 From: bcohen@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Barbara A Cohen via apocalypse ) Message-Id: <199804010648.XAA07780@apocalypse.LPL.Arizona.EDU> To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: lard with lard sauce X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-alloy@smoe.org Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. Precedence: bulk - --IMA.Boundary.851814198-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:41:15 +0000 From: Tim_Dunn@jba.co.uk Subject: Re: Alloy: blue paper bags of salt & the origin of the species + "fagots" You're right about the aforementioned 'meat patties' which were indeed called fag(g)ots and were quite a favourite of mine when I was very little. According to my recollection they always came in gravy, but certainly haven't been sold under that name for years, for some strange reason.......... the_copse ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:58:44 -0500 From: I T Manager Subject: Re: Alloy: availability of fagots Tim_Dunn@jba.co.uk wrote: > > You're right about the aforementioned 'meat patties' which were indeed > called fag(g)ots and were quite a favourite of mine when I was very little. > According to my recollection they always came in gravy, but certainly > haven't been sold under that name for years, for some strange > reason.......... > > the_copse I'm sure I've seen them in Safeway's within the last couple of weeks. To make matters worse, the manufacturer's name is Brain, so you can buy a nice foil wrapped pack of Brain's Faggots. Somehow I just can't bring myself to try 'em. Slarv ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #88 **************************