Re: What are the odds, Ken?

On Fri, 02 May 2008 00:46:27 -0400, Tem****al Voyager
kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 a desperate attempt to change the alt.fan.british-accent timestream,
said:

>On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:09:20 -0700, Lorrill Buyens
><buyensl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:47:19 -0400, Tem****al Voyager
kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>in a desperate attempt to change the alt.fan.british-accent timestream,
said:
>>
>>>On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:35:24 -0700, Lorrill Buyens
>>><buyensl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>> (We went to the sandwich shop my half-sister works at when my
>>>>aunt was visiting the other week, and I had a truly excellent sub with
pickles,
>>>>mushrooms, cucumber, bean sprouts, black olives, cream cheese, pepper
jack and a
>>>>tad bit salad oil.)
>>
>>>Lorrill, Lorrill, Lorrill, pickles, mushrooms and olives are not
>>>vegetables.
>>
>>So are they animal or mineral, then?
>
>Mushrooms are a fungus.  Olives are fruit.  I guess pickles are
>technically vegetables.

Very few poeple are pedantic enough to classify mushrooms as anything
other than
a vegetable.  I'll give you olives.  And if pickles are only "technically"
a
vegetable, then I figure the same goes for mashed potatoes, stewed
tomatoes,
etc.

>>>>My "new" (for the last two years or so) favorite pizza combo is
spinach,
>>>>artichoke and giardiniera [sp]
>>>
>>>I think that's an infection <illegal>
>>
>>If it were, it'd be just my luck to catch it.  We've had some flu strain
or
>>other going around recently, and I was the first one in the house to
come down
>>with it.  At first, my mother and I thought it might be food poisoning
from this
>>truly execrable place we ate at the night before my aunt left.  (If you
have any
>>places by you with "California bistro" in the name, avoid 'em like the
plague.)
>
>Where are you, again?

Phoenix, AZ.


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