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Word For The Day, Tuesday, December 6, 2005, VACUITY
Merriam-Webster | 12/06/05 | Slip 18

Posted on 12/06/2005 4:33:08 AM PST by Slip18

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To: Cyber Liberty

I've actually done that!!!! Just as good.

I just happen to have the mushrooms on hand, and am a bit over stoving at the moment :)


201 posted on 12/06/2005 2:35:17 PM PST by Gabz
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To: Gabz

Have you ever seen any of the recipe books from Campbells? I must plead guilty to seeing a few, and using them a lot back in my "single dad" days...


202 posted on 12/06/2005 2:38:13 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Slip18

The Demos are a terrible bunch,
They'll cut and they'll run in a crunch,
What they lack in acuity,
They make up in vacuity.
They really are out to lunch.


203 posted on 12/06/2005 3:00:53 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Somewhere in my massive collectiction of cookbooks there is at least one Campbells cookbook.

I also have several that are based on using name brand products.

I get a quarterly magazine from Kraft called Food and Family - I have no idea how I started getting it, because it comes in the mail and there is no way anyone in my household would PAY for the thing. However, with that said - it's got GREAT recipes........you can get it through their website.

My chicken dish that started this entire conversation is something I have been cooking for more than 25 years and eating far longer than that.....where it originally came from, I have no idea.


204 posted on 12/06/2005 3:01:52 PM PST by Gabz
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To: Cyber Liberty

Are you cooking tonight???


205 posted on 12/06/2005 3:17:53 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Gabz

I like that idea of waiting until they are nearly done with the job, then dropping the dime on the robber baron! I'll see if hubby will talk to her husband as soon as they start painting the stuff-what a lovely gotcha-thanks-it'll be too late for them to do anything but grit their teeth.

I just can't believe these people would be so dense as to not know that Hardi-plank is available in a variety of styles, including imitation stucco at Home Depot every day of the week, and that it is not expensive-most people would ask for product samples before making a choice-you and I certainly would-I mean it is a bit more of a project than just choosing a paint color for your dining room.


206 posted on 12/06/2005 3:19:02 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Warthogtjm
And you've got a great name, Warthog. I understand from Cyber that's a great war plane.

A++++ for you for your lovely poem!

207 posted on 12/06/2005 3:20:17 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Texan5

You want a project? Try ceramic floor tile...


208 posted on 12/06/2005 3:20:27 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Slip18

My former partner and I did all the tile on the kitchen drainboards, the bathroom and shower walls and floors in this house, and the rest of the floors downstairs were done by two other workers at the same time. I like to do ceramic tile, but my back has been injured too many times for me to be able to do floors any more-have to stick to doing walls and drainboards. By the way, y'all have the same pattern of tile in your kitchen that we have in ours, but yours is a different color.


209 posted on 12/06/2005 3:27:51 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Oh, and like you've ever done that. You did do all of the paneling and the stuff that goes around the doors. And you had your dad's help. You and your dad also put in all of the electrical wiring for all of our computers.

Remember, I sanded and put that clear paint on everything.

My handyman! But we're still not finished.

210 posted on 12/06/2005 3:28:03 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Slip18; Gabz

Hubby just called from the turn onto the park road-I've got to go put the burgers on the grill-back later...


211 posted on 12/06/2005 3:29:26 PM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Slip18

No. Not finished. Need more explosives....


212 posted on 12/06/2005 3:29:49 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Slip18

Hey, we watched those guys work.. Remember how hard it looked??


213 posted on 12/06/2005 3:30:52 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Texan5
That tile in the kitchen is all the way through the house, except two bedrooms and the study. The study has a different tile. I love tile. It's so easy to clean.

We had the house reroofed about a year ago before the storms hit hard here. But before that there were two leaks in the bedroom, and the popcorn stuff on the ceiling started getting that rust color in two different places. So I tried two different things. One was a product that said it would take it out. It didn't. The other was pure Clorox. The Clorox worked, but I spilled a few splotches on the carpet. Now we have to have the bedroom carpeted. It will drive me crazy. I've put the furniture touch-up stuff on it so I can't see it, but I know it's there.

My younger sister in CA had carpet put in about five years ago. Clorox will not stain it. Nothing will stain in. That's what we're getting.

214 posted on 12/06/2005 3:36:16 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Cyber Liberty

Hey, I can grill those pork chops and blow up the barbecue. Been there and done that twice.


215 posted on 12/06/2005 3:38:19 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Texan5

Good.......I like when an evil plans works out :)

Of course I would be checking out samples........I know I sure did before we chose the siding we're putting up. As much as the mistake of the paint color we chose for the outside trim kills me, it would be nothing compared the cost of such a mistake for the entire house.

Thankfully that hideous green mistake is now covered in industry dtandard royal brown.......what most folks would call chocolate brown :)


216 posted on 12/06/2005 4:09:55 PM PST by Gabz
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To: Slip18

The utter vacuity of DU brings out the rapier wit of FReepers.


217 posted on 12/06/2005 4:11:40 PM PST by MoochPooch (A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
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To: MoochPooch
You are so good, Moochie!

A++++ for you!

218 posted on 12/06/2005 5:27:41 PM PST by Slip18
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To: Fierce Allegiance

um...NO.


219 posted on 12/06/2005 6:03:06 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: Gabz

You had to say chocolate, didn't you? I think I'll go heat up a mug of it right now!


220 posted on 12/06/2005 7:04:54 PM PST by secret garden (bless your heart)
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