Re: Picky Dinner Guests

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"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote

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I just bought a new Nissan Murano. Not sure how I'm going to like it. I
kept the Jeep... Just in case. The Jeep is 10 years old. I pay cash for
my cars but I put money into a savings account every month just like a
car payment. The Murano was all I could afford but I really wanted a BMW
X5. Those puppies are FAST. Besides, I did not want leather seats.
Leather in St. Louis sucks.

Arrgghhhhh! I LOVE the Murano! I saw it in a coppery color, and it, and
the Lexis, are the only vehicles of that kind that I like.

I WANT leather seats!

The Murano is one of the few vehicles other there that uses a CVT, or
Continuously Variable Transmission.

Boiled down it's two pulleys strapped together by a steel band. Each
pulled can widen and pull back, therefore you get an infinite set of
gear ratios.

I've ridden in one. You can't even tell the transmission is shifting.
It's a little unsettling.

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The Murano is one of the few vehicles other there that uses a CVT, or
Continuously Variable Transmission.

Boiled down it's two pulleys strapped together by a steel band. Each
pulled can widen and pull back, therefore you get an infinite set of
gear ratios.

I've ridden in one. You can't even tell the transmission is shifting.
It's a little unsettling.

Well that's pretty cool.

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I sense you are under a certain age. 🙂 It wasn't about the Mercedes. I
think
you had to be there. On the bad side, if you were there, you damn near
OLD! 🙂

Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm 52...
does that count as old?

Michael

It's that old joke: If you can remember the 60s, then you weren't
there.

Christine

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Amarantha said:

Or it could be neurobiological. Disorders on the autism spectrum, for
example, can cause severe food aversions in some.

Interesting. Tell me more. Do autism disorders ever cause slight food
aversions? Does it work in reverse? I'm thinking of adults I know who,
while not as extreme as the woman Jill described, are pretty picky.
Would it make sense to suspect an autism disorder in them?

A major factor in autism diagnoses is sensory integration problems. An
autistic person might be especially sensitive or insensitive to such things
as heat, cold, pain, bright light, loud or otherwise annoying noises,
certain textures, smells, flavours or colours and so on. They might be
unable to separate sounds heard at once, eg trying to have a conversation
when music is playing). ASDs are often co-morbid with synaesthesia. But
it varies from person to person.

By themselves, though, sensory integration issues are not enough to suspect
an autism spectrum disorder. It's a collection of signs and symptoms, of
which a person will have some but not others.

Food-specific problems could include the person being über-sensitive to
certain tastes, smells or textures, or it could be a problem with certain
colours that extends to foods of those colours, or it could be based on a
rigid idea ie all food with a certain meaning to the individual is 'bad'.
Of course some autistic people don't have any more food problems than the
average person and some go to the other extreme and will try pretty much
anything 🙂

K

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It's that old joke: If you can remember the 60s, then you weren't
there.

Well, you might have been there, but you were not participating in the
full spirit of the age. 🙂

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Oh pshaw, on Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:51:49a, cybercat meant to say...

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"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm
52... does that count as old?

You sound much younger! Anyway, I see that you get the context,
you'd just rather have a jeep. 🙂

Michael will never grow old or "grow up". That's part of his charm.
:-)

But none of us is old here. We are all beautiful and charming, rich and
clever🙂)))

Well most of us anyway🙂)

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> I'm atheist, but I recognize that it is fellow atheists who have
> been the worst villains in history, at least in total numbers.
> When you add up Stalin and Pol Pot...
> Marx described the church in Germany at the time as "opium." In
> modern America, I would say that it is sports that is the opium (GO
> TIGERS!), giving people something to feel like winners about when
> they are obviously losing in the cold war of class relations. The
> Christians in this country have been at the forefront of most of
> the positive, progressive movements. That said, the Religious
> Right are my sworn enemies.
> Anyway, America has one TRUE RELIGION, as described in The Bonobos'
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I swear though, what I find most profound is the people on death row.
They all of a sudden find religion. They butcher up countless people
and then they find religion. Blows my mind. I interviewed a serial
killer's father. I will not go into detail... ever but I will say
the father said his son was a killer from the outset. This is from my
crime group I used to sub to. BTW, do you know Cheech Maron? He is
a friend of mine. I think you 2 would hit it off.

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I thought it was spelled Marin.

That is correct. Do you know him?

No. I'm a spelling geek, and I guess that it extends to proper
nouns 🙂

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I sense you are under a certain age. 🙂 It wasn't about the
Mercedes. I think
you had to be there. On the bad side, if you were there, you damn
near OLD! 🙂

Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm
52... does that count as old?

Michael

It's that old joke: If you can remember the 60s, then you weren't
there.

Christine

I was a youngster. I was a 70s generation. I was part of the Gay Pride in
Chicago crowd. I didn't live there but went up there. We were shot at and
everything. I still can't believe all that happened. Then when I
graduated from college I got married... to a woman. Go figure.

Michael

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:02:07 -0500, "Dee.Dee" <[email hidden]>

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:36:35 -0500, "cybercat"
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>I WANT leather seats!

I've always had leather seats. They rock big time.

Here's the way it went with me -- I got leather seats and proceeded to
cover them with the fluffy wool - IIRC they were "Napa Valley Wool
seatcovers." Lordy, my!

Actually it probably saved the leather, as DH was just too darned big
to ride in a small car. He has a way of destroying seats.

I've never resorted to seat covers. Hubby isn't a "big guy" by any
stretch of the imagination, so he's easy on seats too. In fact, he
babies our cars so much that sometimes I think we should take a tax
deduction on them.

Neither of us is big, well except for me lately. I just hate leather
seats in the St. Louis heat during the summer months. It was so hot this
year my poor Jeep just couldn't keep up. I'm not kidding either. It took
a good 30 minutes too cool it off and by then I was so sweaty I didn't
care. I even took it in to have the air conditioning unit checked. They
just shrugged and said it was fine.

Michael

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Wayne Boatwright said:

Oh pshaw, on Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:51:49a, cybercat meant to say...

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"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote
> Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm
> 52... does that count as old?

You sound much younger! Anyway, I see that you get the context,
you'd just rather have a jeep. 🙂

Michael will never grow old or "grow up". That's part of his charm.
:-)

But none of us is old here. We are all beautiful and charming, rich

and

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clever🙂)))

Well most of us anyway🙂)

I'm not charming, rich or particularly clever 😉 I'll take the beauty
part though.

Michael

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I was a youngster. I was a 70s generation. I was part of the Gay Pride in
Chicago crowd. I didn't live there but went up there. We were shot at and
everything. I still can't believe all that happened. Then when I
graduated from college I got married... to a woman. Go figure.

Michael

Many of us have lived lives that we wouldn't have imagined for ourselves
when we were younger.
And
also have looked back on our younger years as being a stranger to ourselves.

Sometimes I cannot imagine certain paths I took. Mind you, no regrets.
Just -- what the hell was that all about!

A little a la profound thinking here this a.m. waiting for the HVAC people
to come -- Cripes! Maybe I could go 'hem pants.'

Dee Dee

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> I sense you are under a certain age. 🙂 It wasn't about the
> Mercedes. I think
> you had to be there. On the bad side, if you were there, you damn
> near OLD! 🙂

Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm
52... does that count as old?

Michael

It's that old joke: If you can remember the 60s, then you weren't
there.

Christine

I was a youngster. I was a 70s generation.

Me too! I was born in 1959--so was in my teens when the disco stuff started
happening, but at least I got a good taste of some great music before and
after!

I was part of the Gay Pride in

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Chicago crowd. I didn't live there but went up there. We were shot at and
everything. I still can't believe all that happened. Then when I
graduated from college I got married... to a woman. Go figure.

Well, at least you were keeping an open mind!

"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote

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. I just hate leather
seats in the St. Louis heat during the summer months. It was so hot this
year my poor Jeep just couldn't keep up. I'm not kidding either. It took
a good 30 minutes too cool it off and by then I was so sweaty I didn't
care. I even took it in to have the air conditioning unit checked. They
just shrugged and said it was fine.

Now you know NC is hot in the summer! I love leather seats because
I want to sliiiiide across the seat, like we could in the pontiacs of our
childhoods, which were of course vinyl. If I wore shorts in the summer,
I could see it. I don't like leather couches for that reason.

Ophie said:

But none of us is old here. We are all beautiful and charming, rich and
clever🙂)))

Heh. You can be all that and old. I'm middle-aged now, and I'll be
old soon, and I'm okay with that. :-)

Serene

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Wayne Boatwright said:

Oh pshaw, on Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:51:49a, cybercat meant to say...

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"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote
> Well, I'm old but don't feel it. But I hear what you're saying. I'm
> 52... does that count as old?

You sound much younger! Anyway, I see that you get the context,
you'd just rather have a jeep. 🙂

Michael will never grow old or "grow up". That's part of his charm.
:-)

But none of us is old here. We are all beautiful and charming, rich and
clever🙂)))

Well most of us anyway🙂)

you forgot thin.

your pal,
blake

Wayne Boatwright said:

Oh pshaw, on Sun 25 Nov 2007 10:21:22a, Dee.Dee meant to say...

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"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> Right.

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> Since I have no further aspirations in the auto department, I think

I'll

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> just get dressed and take a mile walk on my own trail and listen to the
> birds and look at the beautiful skies. I believe the Indians traversed
> here. I'll give thanks for their land which I have purchased.
>
> Toodle-doo.
> Dee Dee
>
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>

$24 in beads?

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Sorry to say, wampum has spiraled due to devaluation of the dollar. I'd
have to give it back, I think.
Dee Dee

I wouldn't worry to much. I don't think they scalp people anymore. :-)

they leave that to the bank.

your pal,
blake

Oh pshaw, on Mon 26 Nov 2007 11:49:54a, blake murphy meant to say...

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Oh pshaw, on Sun 25 Nov 2007 10:21:22a, Dee.Dee meant to say...

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"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> Right.
>> Since I have no further aspirations in the auto department, I think
>> I'll just get dressed and take a mile walk on my own trail and listen
>> to the birds and look at the beautiful skies. I believe the Indians
>> traversed here. I'll give thanks for their land which I have
>> purchased.
>>
>> Toodle-doo.
>> Dee Dee
>>
>>
>>
>
> $24 in beads?
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright

Sorry to say, wampum has spiraled due to devaluation of the dollar.

I'd

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have to give it back, I think.
Dee Dee

I wouldn't worry to much. I don't think they scalp people anymore. :-)

they leave that to the bank.

your pal,
blake

How true! Not to mention the oil companies.

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Michael \'Dog3\ said:

Neither of us is big, well except for me lately. I just hate leather
seats in the St. Louis heat during the summer months. It was so hot this
year my poor Jeep just couldn't keep up. I'm not kidding either. It took
a good 30 minutes too cool it off and by then I was so sweaty I didn't
care. I even took it in to have the air conditioning unit checked. They
just shrugged and said it was fine.

I can understand hot situations. My seats never get so hot I can't
stand it, but the steering wheel sure does on occasion. I don't have
a clue what the air conditioning problem was. Maybe you should have
gotten a second opinion. Your car should have been cool in 2 or 3
minutes.

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:47:27 -0500, "cybercat" <[email hidden]>

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"Michael "Dog3"" <[email hidden]> wrote

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. I just hate leather
seats in the St. Louis heat during the summer months. It was so hot this
year my poor Jeep just couldn't keep up. I'm not kidding either. It took
a good 30 minutes too cool it off and by then I was so sweaty I didn't
care. I even took it in to have the air conditioning unit checked. They
just shrugged and said it was fine.

Now you know NC is hot in the summer! I love leather seats because
I want to sliiiiide across the seat, like we could in the pontiacs of our
childhoods, which were of course vinyl. If I wore shorts in the summer,
I could see it. I don't like leather couches for that reason.

Heh. My dining room chairs are leather, I have two wing backed
leather chairs and we have two new leather couches (not black)...
well, one... the other one is "in the mail".

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But none of us is old here. We are all beautiful and charming, rich and
clever🙂)))

You missed one.... we *own the company*.

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