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- Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:46 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Went out for Navratan Korma last night. . .
- Replies: 9
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- Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Went out for Navratan Korma last night. . .
- Replies: 9
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Went out for Navratan Korma last night. . .
. . .at our favorite Indian place in West Hartford CT. As we sat down I realized that the ambient music was a whistle. An Irish whistle. Playing decidedly Irish music. I pointed out to Tyghre that I wasn't expecting to hear 'Kerry Dancers' in 'Taste of India'. That was followed by more Irish tunes, ...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:43 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Jugglers?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1961
I 'learned' to juggle walnuts in college while sitting under a footbridge. It kept my tosses from going too high. Then I managed about 15 tosses with balls before my concentration wavered. But my favorite are scarves. Three silk hankies. Instead of tossing them you pull them up in the air and let th...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:22 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: How long a gap in unemployment before you are doomed?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1286
If you're in a technical field, a year can be too much to overcome, unless you get proactive about using the time well. Take a course (even online or in a 'new horizons' sort of setting), do something to fill your portfolio, and realize that there are a lot of people out there in your situation, and...
- Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:36 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Candy Corn
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3217
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Today is my birthday!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3953
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:40 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Candy Corn
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3217
Candy corn is one of my favorite treats! I seem to be the only person in the candy corn eating population who has always recognized the standard variety as being honey flavored, tip to stern. The only reason the white is stiffer is because it is smaller and therefore has a higher carnuba wax percent...
- Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:15 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Does anyone know this movie?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 956
- Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:09 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Watermelon, a budgie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2192
Sorry to hear about your flock and Watermelon. I'm very fond of budgies too. This sounds like what was being called 'megabacteria' back when I worked for an avian vet. Hard to culture, easy to pass from bird to bird by regurgitative feeding, and rife in the really big breeding facilities. It was pre...
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:59 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Looks suspiciously Elbonian to me
- Replies: 11
- Views: 969
I'm with Jack on this one. I'm not an uber-consumer, have one coffee maker (for many years -- it brews, and holds it at a good temp without scalding) never owned an iPod, and tend to keep my cars for years. My house is full of things that give me great pleasure, save me time, and keep me reasonably ...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:27 am
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Hartford Wednesday Night Session - Arch Street Tavern
- Replies: 0
- Views: 761
Hartford Wednesday Night Session - Arch Street Tavern
The Wednesday night session of Hartford CT has been moved to a wonderful venue near the convention center. The Arch Street Tavern has been a Hartford institution for 25 years, and has welcomed the session with open arms. Close to 3 dozen musicians showed up last night to inaugurate our new weekly ho...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Bird Identification Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2396
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Cleaning whistles?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1675
I swab out my wooden whistles, and run a cloth over them on the outside with a bit of almond oil every so often. My brass whistles I let age for years, then go the other direction and decide to polish them up nice and pretty for a few months, then let them get old and patinaed for a few more years. ...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:41 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: business letter question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1773
I would have my name and address, the recipients title and address, and no salutation, go straight to the body of the letter. If I felt absolutely required to put in a salutation, it would be along the lines of To the Chair of the Whatever Committee: or I'm also comfy with Dear Sir or Madam. If the ...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:07 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: New Sweetheart Pro Whistles in plastic [Commercial Content]
- Replies: 56
- Views: 12114
Hi Benbrad! a really fine, utterly affordable instrument is the Syn whistle. I think they run about $45 The Sweetheart Pro, and other wooden and/or non-massed produced whistles , are high end because of the attention put into it by a handful of talented artisans who deserve adequate compensation for...