<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Naw, you are not going to eat the cream of celery, are you? I am certainly not going to eat a bagful of dried shiitake mushrooms or garbanzo beans. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am going out tomorrow for phys therapy for my back and will stop at Walmart and buy a mouse (logitech trackball if you are interested). The reason I will keep going to the stores is Breyer's vanilla ice cream. I cannot find enough to hoard a bunch of cartons so I must go back. Life is not worth living without it and Nutty Bars mixed in with it. Nutella is great too - tried to make it myself before I read the label - you cannot make it from milk chocolate and roasted hazelnuts - added flavors (can cover a lot of things, eh?) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">My understanding is that the mask is for not infecting other people, not protecting oneself, unless someone coughs in my face, which if it happens will insure that he does not die of the virus. And yeah, my yard man thought that there was a curfew. Nope, not even in NYC.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Three cheers for Amazon! Still delivering on time - Prime member. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1225733044652386807WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] quote of the day<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">I am happy to report that the naked are not being clothed</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">What, no photos? We want EVIDENCE! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cool, that’s the spirit, lad.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Failed food? Is that akin to used food? </span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">No, it is stuff you bought a long time ago when you went to the grocery store hungry, looked good at the time, you came home, gobbled the fried chicken, then the exotic stuff doesn’t look so good and was never devoured, but was pushed to the back of the cabinet behind the cream of celery and forgotten.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Working with the food bank and from experimentation with my own failed food, I already know the sell-by date on canned food is irrelevant. That stuff can be years old and be indistinguishable from fresh. I am not kidding: see if you can find a 5 yr old can or something back there, try it. I found some canned peaches that were over 10 yrs old. Nothing wrong with them.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Aren't the chefs in SF doing something newsworthy? Seems I saw something in the NYT about them the other day</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I don’t know BillW. I didn’t employ them before and haven’t taken it up since. I don’t think the people working behind the counter at Taco Bell, Burger King and KFC qualify as chefs, or if so, I know of nothing newsworthy. They are still handing their product out the window as before.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Since the gov's order, streets are bare - a few people in masks, flaunting the laws against wearing masks. Robbers welcome in stores..Gloves rare. Tp isle bare. Cooking out of the freezer mainly - black beans and rice today w/ Italian sausage (no andouille available). bill w <u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Streets are mostly bare here too, as many proles think it is illegal go outdoors. It isn’t, but plenty of the locals think it is. So… I am lonely out there, which is perfectly OK with me. I am determined to devour every morsel of food in my home before I return to the merchants. So far so good.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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