Tuesday, April 5, 2011

misc.consumers.frugal-living - 7 new messages in 3 topics - digest

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Today's topics:

* DAY OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER: MAY 21, 2011 - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/2ca345c40d485471?hl=en
* If every roof was a solar panel - 4 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/dd0a5af9cc4337f6?hl=en
* strawberry jam vs grape jam - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/ede431f53718cbc7?hl=en

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TOPIC: DAY OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER: MAY 21, 2011
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/2ca345c40d485471?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 4:44 pm
From: David Brown


On Apr 4, 3:28 pm, Bob Casanova <nos...@buzz.off> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:39:31 -0700, the following appeared in
> sci.skeptic, posted by "WLJ" <wljoxs...@hotmail.com>:
>
>
>
> >THE END OF THE WORLD IS ALMOST HERE!
> >HOLY GOD WILL BRING JUDGMENT DAY ON
> >MAY 21, 2011
>
> Get back to me on 22 May about that.
>
> <snip rant>
> --
>
> Bob C.
>
> "Evidence confirming an observation is
> evidence that the observation is wrong."
>                           - McNameless

BUT... what if the world ended and nobody noticed? A joke I've been
meaning to work into a story. And, a humorous treatment of
apocalyptic prophecy I wrote last year, then turned into a story-
within-a-story in "Castaway":
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5613771/1/Cassandra


== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 6:14 pm
From: Jimmy John


In article
<3af8611a-9893-4c74-a1b6-dd5547e98479@z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com>,
AllSeeing-I <allseeingi@usa.com> wrote:

> Sorry pookie boob
>
> The end draws near. You have quite a shock coming

Actually, there is no reliable evidence that there is anything after
death, except the grave, or possibly the urn.

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TOPIC: If every roof was a solar panel
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/dd0a5af9cc4337f6?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 6:18 pm
From: "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds"


In article <8vv09aFvg4U1@mid.individual.net>,
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> me@privacy.net wrote
> > gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) wrote
>
> >> Whe have a place, at Yucca Mountain. However,
> >> a bunch of scaremongers caused it to be shut down.
>
> > I say we put it in YOUR backyard
>
> Makes a lot more sense to use Yucca Mountain.

You're not afraid of a little harmless nuclear waste, are you?


== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 8:12 pm
From: "Rod Speed"


Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> me@privacy.net wrote
>>> gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) wrote

>>>> Whe have a place, at Yucca Mountain. However,
>>>> a bunch of scaremongers caused it to be shut down.

>>> I say we put it in YOUR backyard

>> Makes a lot more sense to use Yucca Mountain.

> You're not afraid of a little harmless nuclear waste, are you?

I dont have anything like Yucca Mountain in my backyard, fool.


== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 8:47 pm
From: "Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds"


In article <8vvfk6FvleU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote
> > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
> >> me@privacy.net wrote
> >>> gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) wrote
>
> >>>> Whe have a place, at Yucca Mountain. However,
> >>>> a bunch of scaremongers caused it to be shut down.
>
> >>> I say we put it in YOUR backyard
>
> >> Makes a lot more sense to use Yucca Mountain.
>
> > You're not afraid of a little harmless nuclear waste, are you?
>
> I dont have anything like Yucca Mountain in my backyard, fool.

Failed, once again to answer a direct question, old man


== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 9:37 pm
From: "Rod Speed"


Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> me@privacy.net wrote
>>>>> gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) wrote

>>>>>> Whe have a place, at Yucca Mountain. However,
>>>>>> a bunch of scaremongers caused it to be shut down.

>>>>> I say we put it in YOUR backyard

>>>> Makes a lot more sense to use Yucca Mountain.

>>> You're not afraid of a little harmless nuclear waste, are you?

>> I dont have anything like Yucca Mountain in my backyard, fool.

> Failed, once again to answer a direct question

Everyone can see for themselves that you are lying, as always.

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TOPIC: strawberry jam vs grape jam
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/ede431f53718cbc7?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 4 2011 11:28 pm
From: Jeff


Ohioguy <none@none.net> wrote in
news:4d99f6aa$0$4945$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com:

>> then you know that strawberries suitably ripe for jam-making are
>> exceedingly fragile -- at least as much so as ripe blueberries. They
>> bruise easily and oxidize rapidly even when chilled.
>
> Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. We had to replant the strawberries
> every 5 years or so to keep production up. I think grape vines can be
> productive for decades, so that would explain part of it.
>
> I guess because we had loads of strawberries, and I saw other folks
> around the area with strawberries, I tended to think of them as more
> readily available than grapes.

Another consideration is harvesting time. Grapes are cut off in bunches at
once versus one at a time for strawberries.


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