From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #19 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Wednesday, January 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Sweet Home Chicago [Meg Evans ] Re: Rentals (PERILOUSLY DEVOID OF BASIA CONTENT) [Whipple930@aol.com] Replies To Ashoke [Jan Johnson ] Re: basia-digest V4 #18 [lmc@dmr.com] Re: Recycling letters [Mike Nice ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:46:16 -0600 From: Meg Evans Subject: Sweet Home Chicago Ray, First of all, THANK YOU for all the quaint Basia interviews. Oh, I am DYING to see those pictures of her! (As the "happy housewife???") >Oh, I never even left Poland, not to mention Europe, but I'd love to see >Ohio through your eyes... Just for the record, I am from the northern suburbs of Chicago. My parents moved to Cleveland seven years ago (it's very pretty and much more affordable) so that is my Ohio connection. If you want to see Ohio through someone's eyes, I will concede to Richard, Ashoke, Jackie and Joe. And don't worry about never having left Poland. My adorable Polish co-worker, Renata, showed me photos and has described the train ride to her mother-in-law's home in the mountains. Poland is absolutely beautiful and I would love to go there someday. You just stay put so we have someone to visit! Meg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:06:21 EST From: Whipple930@aol.com Subject: Re: Rentals (PERILOUSLY DEVOID OF BASIA CONTENT) Sorry to hear about the car. But MORE importantly, are you OK? At 5'1" you should really not have a problem with height in the car. Now I have customers that are 4'9" and less that have booster seats in their Porsches. Now that is a sight. Again sorry to hear about it. What were you driving? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:40:29 +0000 From: Jan Johnson Subject: Replies To Ashoke >Sorry to hear about all the setbacks. Hope your compatriot is well on her >way to recovery. Well, there's always a next time, Jan. Sorry if I didn't explain things very well in the last post. Our friend had the heart attack at a Cincinnati doctor's surgery and was rushed to hospital. We heard about it just before we were due to fly out and were tempted to cancel, but the rest of the family pleaded with us to come anyway. What I meant was, we couldn't travel out of Cincinnati whilst we were there - we were too busy!! Anyway our friend's Mother (we met the whole family on the internet a few years ago) is well on the road to recovery. So am I, if it comes to that! Being as they are a Catholic family, to which was added a maiden aunt, boyfriend of eldest girl there were rather a lot of mouths to feed! Cooking Christmas dinner for Americans was interesting. As to shopping for supplies in the supermarket...mass confusion. To give an example, over here 'Surge' is a washing powder, whereas for you guys it is a soft drink! So there was rather a lot of hilarious mistakes. Also, some of the things we tend to cook at Christmas, such as kilties and roast potatoes (link breakfast sausage wrapped in streaky bacon 'kilts' and baked in the oven, and part boiled potatoes basted in turkey stock in the oven) are rather more designed to be eaten the British way, with a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left, rather than with a fork alone. Forgive me, but I always think that Americans always look suprisingly cack-handed when you see them trying to cut their food with a knife and fork!! >BTW, London is one of the top five in my favorite cities, you know, and I >haven't been there in over 2 years. So I can imagine a trip to London and >Amsterdam coming up sometime in the not-too-distant future. And the next >time I am there, you'de better set aside some time for a cup of coffee or >tea, lady! Yes, I promise to make it, even if London is an 750 mile round trip!! Not that I consider that a problem, unlike most Brits I think nothing of doing a 100 mile round trip every two months to visit a particularly good supermarket. I am referring of course to the old adage "The main difference between Americans and British people is that Americans consider 100 years to be a long time and the British consider 100 miles to be a long way" !!! >And yes, occasionally, I still do take my tea with mail and sugar! > >No it was NOT a typo. You see, the house I live in is one of many that were >built in the 40s and has a milk box. However, in winter, it (milk box) >being more accessible than the mailbox (the front steps are covered with ice >and snow), the mail frequently gets delivered in the milk box! It's a >common thing in Cleveland Hts and South Euclid! Hence, it's a standard >joke. No, we don't have milk delivered in the mail box, thank god! > >I should have explained. Anyway, the message behind that metonym was "I >take my tea with milk and sugar!" But you knew that, right? Now I've discovered the rather interesting story behind this one....You'll be right at home over here, where bottles of milk are still delivered to the doorstep!! Mostly we drink our tea with milk alone and have 'trained' our Ohio friends to do likewise. They've even acquired their own electric kettle to boil the water. I have to say that I have become rather partial to Snackwell chocolate chip cookies with my tea, a habit I acquired in South Carolina in the summer. Fast running out of supplies, though, as you can't get them over here.....!! >>I keep meaning to email Ms Gilberto to ask if she knows about the song. >> >She does. Basia said (in an interview somewhere) that she actually got her >producers to arrange for a backstage meeting with Astrud after one of the >latter's shows. And Astrud did know about the song. Thanks for that piece of information. I wonder what she thought of it, though? Does anyone know which interview this is, and how I can get hold of a copy? Jan Who is currently listening to The Corrs' 'Talk On Corners' Special Edition and thinking how suprisingly good it is!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:48:05 -0500 From: lmc@dmr.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #18 There was at least one more article on Basia that I had, but I can't find it; it has at least mentioned Kevin as Basia's love, which made me rather confused, as I also thought that Danny was her husband. Don't flame me! I was 16 then :D >>Don't feel bad, I always did too until I joined this list and I'm a "little" older >>than 16!!!! I actually thought Ms. T and Mr. W. were a match made in heaven, >>true soulmates, like probably everyone in their heart is searching for. In 1980 Basia Trzetrzelewska left her family Silesian Jaworzno for London, where her English fiancee worked as the educator in orphanage. The bad knowledge of English was a boundary when Basia was looking for a job. In the popular musical weekly "Melody Maker" she found an ad of a band looking for a female vocalist. When the boss of the band heard her Polish accent, he frowned and said no. The sound engineer, Danny White, also attended the audition and he decided that the sound of this petite Polish girl is more important than her poor English. This way Basia began working with Matt Bianco. >>I add my thanks to Ray. One thing, I thought I read somewhere, either >>on this list or in one of the articles posted on the website, that, in fact, >>Danny White was the one who at first thought Basia did NOT fit into >>Matt Bianco??? Mostly clear but still a little fuzzy on the Basia story Linda ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 99 20:25:27 -0500 From: Mike Nice Subject: Re: Recycling letters In <3.0.3.32.19990117135349.007a7700@pop3.demon.co.uk>, on 01/17/99 at 01:53 PM, Jan Johnson said: >I don't know if anyone noticed, but the post I sent which appeared in the >above Digest on January 17th was dated January 10th. So it actually >appeared exactly a week after I sent it!! Can anybody provide an >explanation for why it took so long? Is it like a postdated check where it won't be delivered before the date on the check? :-) Seriously, there was nothing wrong with the message. According to the dates in the message header, it appears as though smoe (the mailing list computer) might be getting confused or having a disk restored that causes the message to be redelivered. - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- Mike Nice - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #19 **************************