# Letter to the Teacher **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089 "2005-08-29T13:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/161 "2005-08-31T18:19:02Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Draelin** you should wear your super hero (ine?) outfit for Hallowe’en. You’d be a hit. And post pictures. **Swampy** those look like sanddollars. BTW, had Chinese for dinner last night, (curried chicken) and I saved this one for you: You find beauty in ordinary things. Do not lose this ability. In bed! \ > [@Draelin](#): > > I used to be the only person in my former company who knew where the paper was kept. When the company was shutting down and they started laying us off in stages, despite the fact that I knew nobody else would find the paper (because it was, rather cleverly, concealed in a big cabinet that said “paper” on it), I didn’t divulge its secret location. > > A week later, the remaining VP called me at home, looking for the paper and begging me to come back as a “consultant” until the company officially closed. I spent a whole summer making $20 an hour for knowing where the paper was. A similar thing happened to me. I’ve talked about this before, but some of the newer MMPers might not know. A little over 4 years ago, I was a highly paid senior programmer/analyst for a local company. On a certain monday, the boss called me into his office and gave me ‘the speech’, complete with severence check and ambiguous RIF letter. 7:30 the next morning the phone rang. Ex-boss: “the AS400 isn’t running!” Me: “Why are you telling me? I don’t work for you anymore.” (I’m paraphrasing here.) The upshot of it was that they offered to pay me $50.00/hr to pull their ignorant asses out of the fire on a regular basis. Until a couple of years ago, when I got really pissed off at their asshattery and told them I wasn’t ever talking to them again. Nowadays they pay me $75.00/hr. I’m thinking about getting pissed off at them again. P.S. I hate! Hate! HATE! oysters. Love scallops and clams however. Crab and lobster? Very good if it’s done right. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/162 "2005-08-31T18:22:08Z")
**Bumba** , that’s fantastic. You’ve got to finance your soap venture, somehow! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/163 "2005-08-31T18:33:22Z")
**Ex** , \<_snerk_\>. I just went out, and I’m glad I decided to wear slacks today. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/164 "2005-08-31T18:55:20Z")
Okay, if we are narrowing down the meal to seafood, I’d have to say the Nova Scotia Lobster tails my BIL grilled last summer at the beach house. To effin die for. I love almost all seafood. Orsters are nummy. I luuurves them all icey raw with some racey cocktail sauce. Clamseys, too. Allmost all fish except shark. Srimps is lurvely almost anyways ceptin’ raw. Scallops is good, too. Crabs are a lotta work but I like the big Snow Crab legs. Escargot is just an excuse for a butter and garlic feast. Plus I don’t do mucousy worms. 😛 **swampy** , good on you bein’ the hero dude. Bet that made you feel all warm and gooshy inside. Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/165 "2005-08-31T19:25:54Z")
The damn bread isn’t rising fast enough. Maybe shouting at it would help. On the up side, I had crumpets and strawberry jam for breakfast. I’m hungry again. Leftover roast potatoes with roasted garlic, or leftover butter chicken? Drat. Mr. Lissar is getting up (he’s working nights this week). That means I’ll have to share. I think the best food I ever had was an omelette with sauteed potatoes, onions, and swiss cheese. Really. It was the Platonic Ideal of food. Right after that is anything my stepmother-in-law cooks. Right after that are the _pain au chocolate_ at the bakery nearbye. Is that spelled right? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/166 "2005-08-31T19:27:13Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > Okay, if we are narrowing down the meal to seafood, I’d have to say the Nova Scotia Lobster tails my BIL grilled last summer at the beach house. To effin die for. > > I love almost all seafood. Orsters are nummy. I luuurves them all icey raw with some racey cocktail sauce. Clamseys, too. Allmost all fish except shark. Srimps is lurvely almost anyways ceptin’ raw. Scallops is good, too. Crabs are a lotta work but I like the big Snow Crab legs. > > Escargot is just an excuse for a butter and garlic feast. Plus I don’t do mucousy worms. 😛 > > **swampy** , good on you bein’ the hero dude. Bet that made you feel all warm and gooshy inside. > > Tupug Aah! Eeeew! Seafood! ( **chaoticdonkey** , who likes tuna, shrimp, scallops, and generic white fleshed- fish when cooked, and who is addicted to all sorts of sushi. I just don’t like bivalves, except scallops.) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/167 "2005-08-31T19:33:37Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > The damn bread isn’t rising fast enough. Maybe shouting at it would help. Yes, **Lissla** , making a loud noise very near rising bread will certainly solve your problem. Let us know how it works for you. **VBob** I understand why people make fun of Red Lobster, but I’ve always have a good meal when I go there. Just lucky, I guess. Or maybe I have diminished expectations, so I am always pleased that they manage to present something edible. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/168 "2005-08-31T19:33:44Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Aah! Eeeew! Seafood! > > ( **chaoticdonkey** , who likes tuna, shrimp, scallops, and generic white fleshed- fish when cooked, and who is addicted to all sorts of sushi. I just don’t like bivalves, except scallops.) Yeah, what about escargot? I am now craving escargot. There’s one restaurant in this town that I can get it. Guess I’m gonna have to go there soon. **Puggy** it did make an otherwise crappy day a little brighter. **Bumba** seems to me it’s time for a raise in the ol’ consulting fee there. I’m thinkin’ a hunnert a hour. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/169 "2005-08-31T20:04:09Z")
mmmmmmmmmmm, seafood! I loves it all, except for oysters. To quote some stupid sitcom I saw eons ago “I won’t eat anything that looks like it came out of a ox’s nose.” That pretty much sums up oysters for me. But everything else, assuming it’s fresh, of course, is nummerrific!! There’s a local joint near us - Capt. Leonard’s Seafood - where they serve wonderful crab cakes and shrimp and scallops and a bunch of other stuff, but those 3 are my favorites. We were just there last weekend. I’m thinking we need to go back this weekend. Tonight even. I loves me some seafood! ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/170 "2005-08-31T21:30:31Z")
Escargot = yum Plus you get to make the other people at your table all oogy if they’ve never had some. I don’t believe that loud noises will make bread fall. Oh sure, shaking it and/or maybe changing the air pressure by slamming a door could make it fall. So \*\*Lissla \*\* should yell at her bread and just generally have a nasty arguement, but shouldn’t slam the door or smack the table next to the bread. [sup]I have no idea whether this is true, but I want to see if I can get someone to yell at bread dough. I don’t know why.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/171 "2005-08-31T22:16:19Z")
Yell at the dough in Swahili. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/172 "2005-08-31T23:00:47Z")
Amazing meals, hmmmm…seems like mine split up into good food and great company or great food and good company. Very few double-great experiences. Maybe a couple in Germany: dinner at home with my housemates, cooked by an Egyptian friend. I don’t remember exactly what we ate, but it was delicious. Also, dinner at a little Thai restaurant in Lüneberg. Again, I don’t remember exactly what we ate, but the sauce was a curry with coconut milk and it was AMAZING. Oh, and the people were fun too. Seafood: had a really nice fish last year in Mexico. The sides weren’t all that exciting, but the fish was perfect. Can’t remember the name of the fish - it has a funny name in Spanish and one I’d never heard of in English. Warmest people memories are probably holidays when I was a kid. We would get together with a couple of families and have wonderful food and lots of fun. Always felt like family even though we weren’t - technically. We got 3 inches of rain between yesterday afternoon and this morning, but it was slow and steady, so it actually greened everything up quite nicely. I’m tired (how many times have I said this recently), so I’m going to be lazy tonight. Really need to clean up around here and also mow the lawn, but that’ll keep till tomorrow. GT ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/173 "2005-09-01T00:01:10Z")
The bread’s done. I think I should have put a little more salt in it, but it’ll primarily be used for peanut butter and nutella conveyance, so I’m not too worried about the taste. Pthibbit to all of your useful suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/174 "2005-09-01T02:33:50Z")
I wanted to make snerky comments about the Mennonite sausage balls and the being put off of seafood due to once bringing home a buttload of it (I’m sure that would put anyone off seafood), however I have a cold and I feel like crap so I’m too tired to go back and find those posts to quote. Besides it’s probably not as funny as my fevered brain seems to think. What really sucks about getting sick now is I am taking my first real “leave town” vacation in a very long time this weekend, going to Dragon\*Con in Atlanta. I have always wanted to go to one but I can never coordinate getting time off work or having enough money. So now I get to go and meet celebrities who will run away from me screaming because I’m all germy. I decided it’s the boyfriends fault. He asked me a week or so ago, “You’re not going to get sick are you?”. So he jinxed me and I got sick. Then tonight he said “Well, just don’t get worse.” So tomorrow I will probably be in the hospital with pneumonia. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/175 "2005-09-01T02:52:22Z")
Coming soon from Atlantic Records: Tattered Moist Remains, by Katrina And The Waves 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/176 "2005-09-01T02:54:32Z")
\<----banging head on dest. Damn my wine-besotted sense of hummah. I shoulda said, " Coming soon from Merchant Ivory Records: Tattered Moist Remains Of The Day: :smack: ( side note to **Lissla Lissar** : Nutella. Mmmmmmmmmm, lawdy yes. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/177 "2005-09-01T12:48:30Z")
Well, for everbody who wants to know and the rest of y’all, too, ah hem, this is my birfday eve. That’s right! As of Friday, September 2, I’ll be sliding that much closer to my sixth decade. ::gulp smilie:: It’s all good, though, considering the alternative. 😃 And in honor of aforementioned day, I am taking a vacation day tommory so that I will have a wunnerful four-day weekend. ::aaahhhh smilie:: The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] and Mr. Anachi are cooking up something for dinner tomorrow night…literally. I don’t know all the details but I’m sure it will be nummy. **toons** , just give it up and post whatever. We all find it totally entertaining. 😉 **lissla** , excellent interpretative spelling of a rasberry. Tupug The Elder ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/178 "2005-09-01T13:31:58Z")
This morning, I got an angry e-mail from a woman who’s wondering where her order is. It was supposed to be sent two-day air, sez she, and it’s been four business days now. Gee … I don’t know, lady. Maybe it’s because you live in Lafayette, Louisiana, and people are a little busy down there. Did you _notice_ the big hurricane? Maybe the Red Cross has your damn camera battery. You live 135 miles from New Orleans. Sure, that’s a decent ways … but I’m pretty sure everybody in that general area has better things to do than worry about whether or not your camera works. Luckily, I have refrained from responding with any of that. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/179 "2005-09-01T13:39:04Z")
You are all making me crave seafood. Specifically scallops. I hope you’re all happy now! Susan ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089/180 "2005-09-01T13:50:09Z")
Happy early Birthday, **Tupug**! **Draelin** , you should have just said, “Have a drink lady, and sit back and watch the news!” There’s bigger things going on than her little problems. Actually, with all these seafood jokes, I remembered we are going ot have seafood this weekend - homemade shrimp scampi. Yum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-the-teacher/319089.md?page=10)