I understood immediately.
I knew it had to refer to the chile recipe published in Sunset that year (re-published in 1992).
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n1_v188/ai_11764043
Really and truly? Wow! You know, I’ve had my share of compliments, but no one to date has asked to know the exact workings, the great gears of cogitation grinding facts into truth… It is unique in my experience. One blushes to admit one is teased by even the most minor of puzzles, partly as a check towards deterioration by age, partly from being a natural-born smartass. And the little light went on. Which is good, I dread the day it doesn’t. That’s all, really. And then something shiny happened, and I forget all about it till the stink. I thank you for your kind attention and only hope…wait a second. Do I detect a note of sarcasm. Hmmm. True, some folks like me well enough, but no one to date has been actually fascinated! Probably sarcasm.
(Sidebar: remember it well. I was 24. Hated Nixon. Loathed Kissingers soulless realpolitik. Saw in Allende a flash of hope, colored by the worry that he was too doctrinaire a Marxist. He was claiming an ownership of resources that was contrary to the interests of America’s ruling cla…business community. And then he was dead, and this pufffed up martinet was running things. Remember the National Lampoon’ joke about how Allende committed suicide by shooting himself 6 times in the head with an M-16. Such was hilarity in the Dark Years)
Not to be rude, but I haven’t paid enough attention to you to have any idea. Sorry.
Like as not, I suppose. More complicated than taking him at this word. Complications are tiresome, they require justifications.
See above, regarding complications, conjectures, and ESP.
Got my faults, Brother Ponder, Lord knows its a long list. “Stupid” ain’t on it.
Tru dat. There’s about twenty or so posters whom I recognize that way. But I bet you know what mine are. They are hard won biases, I wear them with pride.
I guessed. Its ok to guess when you’re right. Whats the big hairy ass deal?
Bless your heart, of course you are! Just as you say, there is a paucity of information. Intuitive leaps are pretty much all you got, and they are usually based on experience/biases. What else?
What about this pisses you off so much? Chill.
What I don’t get is why WildfireMM** hasn’t been banned yet, if he’s such a huge troll?
:dubious:
No limericks. No haiku. No bad puns. That’s twenty points right there.
Hey! So where does that leave me? :eek:
The way this thread is going? The correct answer is “Above the fray.”
I’m married, so my ego is too shriveled up for anything of that sort. I was just reading this thread as a popcorn-munching bystandard and was as surprised as everyone else when John decided to name-drop me for Primus-knows-what reason.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to make more popcorn…