Melba Does Manhattan - The Postmortem

Melba's Jammin said:

It was wonderful. I am pooped. I am home. Margaret is generous to a fault. I asked to keep the
Magic Card she bought for me that was my bus ticket for a week. Oh, the places it's been.

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I got pooped just reading it all :> Glad you're home safe.

Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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It was wonderful. I am pooped. I am home. Margaret is generous to a fault. I asked to keep the
Magic Card she bought for me that was my bus ticket for a week. Oh, the places it's been.

I told you about the cab thing at Zabar's? Today I arrived at LaGuardia with 2-1/2 hours to spare,
went to my gate and discovered a flight to MSP departing in 20 minutes. They put me on it. It was
one-third full. I had a row to myself. I managed to get the 50# bag in the overhead. It contained
these things from Zabar's and Mme. Suran's: Halvah, Russian Coffee Cake, Black and White Cookies

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[censored]! It's not nice to make me feel so jealous! Except for the Cel-Ray stuff. What's Cel-Ray? Sounds
like some kind of medicinal tonic. But Russian Coffee Cake? Sounds rich and yummy--I'm not sure why.
I don't even know what Russian Coffee Cake is!

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My car driver offered me a free book on the Second Coming. It's not often that one gets offered
religion from a hired driver, I think. I must have looked depraved.

He could probably smell all the food in your luggage. Gluttony is a sin, doncha know! (It's my
favourite one, too!)

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I left some clothes to be mailed; there was no room in my two bags, one of which was a big sucker
that Margaret produced. The schmatteh undies were schmattehed. "Hmm, I wonder what's in this bag.
. . . Eeeew! Schmatteh!"

Schmatteh? I'm a little afraid to ask...Any relation to schmuck?

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Sigh! All that food and great company and hospitality! It's enough to make a girl weep with envy!

rona
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Quoted message said:

It was wonderful. I am pooped. I am home. Margaret is generous to a fault. I asked to keep the
Magic Card she bought for me that was my bus ticket for a week. Oh, the places it's been.

I'm so glad, I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad!

Damn, it was lotsa fun hangin with you and Margaret Saturday night. Yep, was lotsa fun.

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I told you about the cab thing at Zabar's? Today I arrived at LaGuardia with 2-1/2 hours to spare,
went to my gate and discovered a flight to MSP departing in 20 minutes. They put me on it. It was
one-third full. I had a row to myself. I managed to get the 50# bag in the overhead. It contained
these things from Zabar's and Mme. Suran's: Halvah, Russian Coffee Cake, Black and White Cookies.
Cream Herring. Two containers of Chopped Chicken Liver. Those olives. Trois Petits Cochons Dry
Sausage. A six pack of Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray stuff. (What the hell was I thinking? Steve, I told
Margaret you'd have your stuff tomorrow. ) A box of imported Belgian Chocolates (the kind you must
refrigerate). (Nyaah, nyaah.) Chocolate rugelach. Saint Andre Triple Cream Cheese from Fairway
(not as good as the stuff Mimi served me on Sunday). My sun-dried tomatoes from Zabar's. What did
I forget, Margaret? Rob's going to love the sausage!

Yeah, but I got a bunch of the Sülze; and some Hungarian salami that I gave to my new friends on the
Metro North on saturday night....or mighta been sunday morning; they were a lotta fun.

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My car driver offered me a free book on the Second Coming. It's not often that one gets offered
religion from a hired driver, I think. I must have looked depraved.

Yeah, I was gonna say something but something else said 'you'd better not'.

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I left some clothes to be mailed; there was no room in my two bags, one of which was a big sucker
that Margaret produced. The schmatteh undies were schmattehed. "Hmm, I wonder what's in this bag.
. . . Eeeew! Schmatteh!"

Pfui! Du bist ja der Struwelpeter! Miao Mioo!!

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It took us about twice as long to get home tonight (weather was crappy) from the airport. Had I
taken my scheduled flight, I'd still be on the road. Rob is sick. I made him some Thai packaged
Hot Sour Soup (and threw in a few extra cruhed chili seeds) and sent him to bed.

Margaret rocks. She drinks a lot, but that's part of her charm. "-) Margaret, I drank one TaB and
two cans of Bloody Mary Mix on the plane. The rugelach were in my bag in the overhead three rows
up. Couldn't get to them. Just as well.

Sounds like a nice flight home; I'm glad, I'm glad I'm glad. I had so much fun seeing you I can't
describe it. So I won't.

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"Goodnight, Gracie." I'm going to look at my digital pictures now. Haven't done that yet.

Jack Amigo

Hark! I heard Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]> say:

Quoted message said:

It was wonderful. I am pooped. I am home. Margaret is generous to a fault. I asked to keep the
Magic Card she bought for me that was my bus ticket for a week. Oh, the places it's been.

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Ooohhh, it sounds like you had a fantastic time! That's too cool. Hope Rob gets to feeling better,
though... :-)

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j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~ ..fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

Quoted message said:

[censored]! It's not nice to make me feel so jealous! Except for the Cel-Ray stuff. What's Cel-Ray?
Sounds like some kind of medicinal tonic.

Almost. It is a soda pop with celery as the flavour. I like it cold in the hot summer, and room
temp when I have a have one of those sore throats so puffy you are nauseated. I also like warm
Vernors for that. You have that in Canada, right? come visit me and I'll feed you Cel-Ray from
Pacific Importers

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Schmatteh? I'm a little afraid to ask...Any relation to schmuck?

It means "rags". Since I dress in sweat pants and a droopy shirt and ragg socks most of the time, I
am officially dressed in Schmatteh, or so my more reeee-fined Jewish co-workers in NY told me.

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Sigh! All that food and great company and hospitality! It's enough to make a girl weep with envy!

Its enough to make me reconsider motherhood, but baby just started walking around the room in my Dr.
Scholls about 10 minutes ago, and it is darned cute. blacksalt

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Yuthasastrakosol said:

"Melba's Jammin'" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:barbschaller-
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I left some clothes to be mailed; there was no room in my two bags, one of which was a big
sucker that Margaret produced. The schmatteh undies were schmattehed. "Hmm, I wonder what's in
this bag. . . . Eeeew! Schmatteh!"

Quoted message said:

Schmatteh? I'm a little afraid to ask...Any relation to schmuck?

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies. No
laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.
--
-Barb <www.jamlady.eboard.com> "If you're ever in a jam, here I am."

Melba's Jammin said:

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies. No
laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.

Does this method work for lengthy European travel?

Boron

Boron Elgar said:

Melba's Jammin said:

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies.
No laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.

Does this method work for lengthy European travel?

Boron

You have to save your ragged underwear for several years prior to a lengthy trip. So get busy
wearing them out!

Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Boron Elgar said:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:47:01 -0600, Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies.
No laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.

Does this method work for lengthy European travel?

Depends on how much raggedy underwear you have saved up.

I did something similar with socks on a socks-mandatory trip -- bought a cheap 6-pack at Woolworth's
(this was some time ago) and just wore and tossed. IMHO, people tend to overpack. Someone I Know
generally drags 3 large pieces of luggage around for a long weekend, so as to have the 'correct'
outfit for any possibility. Incl. shoes. Since she wasn't hit by a taxi, I doubt anyone in NYC was
in a position to criticize Barb's smallclothes. And look at what she was able to bring back!

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My car driver offered me a free book on the Second Coming. It's not often that one gets offered
religion from a hired driver, I think. I must have looked depraved.

-Barb

Glutonny - one of the seven deadlies. Why did you let him look in your bags?

Greg Zywicki

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Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

Quoted message said:

[censored]! It's not nice to make me feel so jealous! Except for the Cel-Ray stuff. What's Cel-Ray?
Sounds like some kind of medicinal tonic.

Almost. It is a soda pop with celery as the flavour. I like it cold in the hot summer, and room
temp when I have a have one of those sore throats so puffy you are nauseated. I also like warm
Vernors for that. You have that in Canada, right? come visit me and I'll feed you Cel-Ray from
Pacific Importers

All in due time :-). I'm due in Chicago at the beginning of March, then am probably leaving at the
end of March. I'm hoping for a stopover in the Portland area for at least a few days or maybe a
week. It would probably be better to fly to Seattle, rent a car, and drive down to Portland and
stopover to see you on the way down (or way up?). WA state will let me drive a WA-plate car with a
Canadian driver's licence, but OR won't. Oh the bureaucracy of it all!

We don't have Vernor's in Winnipeg. We do have Canada Dry and Schwepp's--it's ginger ale, right?
Ginger ale is one of my mother's cure-alls, along with bananas. Are you feeling sick? Have some
ginger ale/bananas. Once when I was throwing up everything including water, she offered me sardines
after I had turned down ginger ale and bananas.

I like celery, but for some reason celery flavoured soft drinks seem a bit odd to me. It sounds like
it would be good mixed with tomato juice, but I don't like tomato juice, either :-).

Quoted message said:

Its enough to make me reconsider motherhood, but baby just started walking around the room in my
Dr. Scholls about 10 minutes ago, and it is darned cute. blacksalt

Any more pictures? I haven't seen any in *ages*!

rona

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Quoted message said:

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies.
No laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.
--
-Barb <www.jamlady.eboard.com> "If you're ever in a jam, here I am."

Maybe I should do that my next trip with regular clothes, except donate them to the Salvation Army
or something. All my schmatteh underwear rides up my butt, so they aren't comfortable enough wearing
while travelling :-). (Was that too much information?)

rona

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Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

We don't have Vernor's in Winnipeg. We do have Canada Dry and Schwepp's--it's ginger ale, right?

Vernor's is ginger ale on steroids. Great stuff!

---jkb

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"Bam!"

-- Bam-Bam Rubble

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Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

I like celery, but for some reason celery flavoured soft drinks seem a bit odd to me. It sounds
like it would be good mixed with tomato juice, but I don't like tomato juice, either :-).

Cel-Ray has a very light sweet flavor. Think of a lemon-lime drink (like 7-Up or Sierra Mist)
without the intense sweetness and with a light celery undertone instead of citrus. It's sweet enough
that I wouldn't think of mixing it with tomato juice (and _I_ like tomato juice!).

Cel-Ray _is_ an acquired taste, which is why I think it's so hard to find out here (it's not hard to
find other Dr. Brown's flavors, but Cel-Ray is darn near impossible). But I find it refreshing --
and different.

If you ever come out again to Barb's and my neck of the woods, a can of Cel-Ray will have your name
on it so you can try it. I don't think you'll have a problem driving here with a Canadian driver's
license. Based on the behavior I see on the roads, they'll let anyone drive here.
:-p

sd

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Boron Elgar said:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:47:01 -0600, Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My Secret-That's-No-Secret-Packing For A Trip Trick: I bring along my schmatteh (ragged) undies.
No laundry. Just toss 'em. Yer welcome.

Does this method work for lengthy European travel?

Depends on how much raggedy underwear you have saved up.

I did something similar with socks on a socks-mandatory trip -- bought a cheap 6-pack at
Woolworth's (this was some time ago) and just wore and tossed. IMHO, people tend to overpack.
Someone I Know generally drags 3 large pieces of luggage around for a long weekend, so as to have
the 'correct' outfit for any possibility. Incl. shoes. Since she wasn't hit by a taxi, I doubt
anyone in NYC was in a position to criticize Barb's smallclothes. And look at what she was able to
bring back!

That luggage thang? When Niece Jo and I traveled to Czechoslovakia when it still was that, she
allowed as how I should only pack what I could tote, because SHE sure as hell wasn't carrying
MY stuff. I got the message. Most of the stuff I hauled back fit in the bags, too, because she
also taught me about ditching all packaging and wrapping things (breakables, e.g.) in clothes.
What a deal!
--
-Barb <www.jamlady.eboard.com> "If you're ever in a jam, here I am."

Jeff Bienstadt said:

Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

We don't have Vernor's in Winnipeg. We do have Canada Dry and Schwepp's--it's ginger ale, right?

Vernor's is ginger ale on steroids. Great stuff!

Wow! Wish I'd thought of that! Vernor's is so totally unlike other "regular" ginger ales that I
hardly think of it as ginger ale at all - just Vernor's. I can't drink it all the time but every
once in a while I get a craving for it. A little goes a long way.

Kate

--
Kate Connally “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.” Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that
smiles back, Until you bite their heads off.” What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all
about? "][email hidden]

Melba's Jammin said:

That luggage thang? When Niece Jo and I traveled to Czechoslovakia when it still was that, she
allowed as how I should only pack what I could tote, because SHE sure as hell wasn't carrying
MY stuff. I got the message. Most of the stuff I hauled back fit in the bags, too, because she
also taught me about ditching all packaging and wrapping things (breakables, e.g.) in clothes.
What a deal!

Oh yeah.. did that quite a few times over there after big shopping trips in Prague. Wonderful
crystal. Did you ever go into the old Russian Department store there? It was almost surreal in its
austerity, yet had some gems to be found. Goomba

Kate Connally said:

Jeff Bienstadt said:

Rona Yuthasastrakosol said:

We don't have Vernor's in Winnipeg. We do have Canada Dry and Schwepp's--it's ginger ale,
right?

Vernor's is ginger ale on steroids. Great stuff!

Wow! Wish I'd thought of that! Vernor's is so totally unlike other "regular" ginger ales that I
hardly think of it as ginger ale at all - just Vernor's. I can't drink it all the time but every
once in a while I get a craving for it. A little goes a long way.

It really does. A few years ago, a friend who had never heard of Vernor's wanted to try some of
mine. He almost choked when the glass got near his nose :-)

---jkb

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-- Ford Prefect

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:37:03 -0800, Jeff Bienstadt
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this:

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It really does. A few years ago, a friend who had never heard of Vernor's wanted to try some of
mine. He almost choked when the glass got near his nose :-)

The DH *loves* Vernor's. I'm a 7 Up and ginger ale fan, so the one and only time I tried his
Vernor's, I felt like I'd swallowed medicine. Bleah.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the
bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very good dinner." Anonymous.

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