Dick Smith

Good for the posture...

There's no zeddin' buses round here...

BB! Calling your mother what you want to! How very dare you!

If it is only a few months old I wouldn't open it up and possibly void the warranty, I'd send it back to Dell for repair.

Interesting, but I prefer to see what I am doing. But less messy than my Tormek!

[quote user="Boiling a frog"]That is wonderful news, I have been concerned about this for the last 40 years. [;-)][/quote] To the Vatican 40 years is but the blink of an eye.

[quote user="Patf"]Watching "Have I got News for You" last night, I wondered what items can be included in the 5 fruit or veg. Someone suggests that chips and tomato sauce are two items. [:D] What about fruit juice? If you make a veg. soup with several vegetables, can you count them all separately? Or should they be raw, as in salads? And should you have a mix of types, eg root, legumes, etc. Possibly this question should be in the Health section?   [/quote] How about the quote from QI? "In Scotland, when we buy chips we leave some and eat them cold the next day. We call that salad."

[quote user="odile"]sorry typo!  you won't loose weight. [/quote] A lot of my weight is pretty loose...

[quote user="Clair"][quote user="Dick Smith"]I love the way that a snide comment can be 'neutralised' by a smiley.  Not.[/quote] You just cannot abide anyone disagreeing with you. I make my confit d'oignons without sugar, you buy yours in jars... 'nough said, I think [:)] [/quote] Hilarious! Snider and snider! It's like being savaged by a sheep...

[quote user="Clair"][quote user="Dick Smith"]I knew you'd find some way of proving me wrong... Sorry it took up so much of your afternoon. I have contacted the manufacturers of the jars I have to tell them that they are fantasising. [/quote] Hissy fit![:D] [/quote] Nice comment. But hardly true... I love the way that a snide comment can be 'neutralised' by a smiley.  Not.

I knew you'd find some way of proving me wrong... Sorry it took up so much of your afternoon. I have contacted the manufacturers of the jars I have to tell them that they are fantasising.

[quote user="Clair"]No sugar in confit d'oignons. PS: no cheese in gratin dauphinois either![:D] [/quote] Loads of inaccurate recipes about then. I've just got a jar out of the cupboard (Eric Bur Confit d'Oignons) Ingredients (in descending order of quantity): Oignons grelots (65%) Sucre Vinaigre Poivron Rouge Vin Blanc then a load of other stuff. Also see the first 5 recettes off of Google (I only looked at 5): http://www.750g.com/recettes_confit_d_oignon.htm http://www.linternaute.com/femmes/cuisine/recette/309285/1290214572/confiture_d_oignons.shtml http://www.recipezaar.com/Confit-D-Oignon-French-Onion-Marmalade-211001 http://www.supertoinette.com/recettes/confiture_oignons_de_in.htm http://metsaventures.canalblog.com/archives/2006/12/17/3422748.html

[quote user="Clair"]Frenchie, c'est comme un confit d'oignons, mais avec plus de sauce [:D] [/quote] Mais non! Confit contains sugar, which would sweeten the gravy. This would not be a Good Thing. Caramelising the onions only adds the sugars of caramelisation, which is a different flavour.

[quote user="Frenchie"]I do !! [blink][:D] please explain the onions and mash, I don't get it .. Is it another trick from les anglais bizarres ?? [:D] [/quote] To get the best from sausages (I get mine from a local farm shop, made on the premises) they should be served with mashed potatoes (with a dash of mustard added) and either fried onions or, my preferred, onion gravy. Basically onions sliced and fried until they caramelise and then gently braised in the gravy until they impart their flavour. The onion gravy is then poured over the mashed potato. For a real Lord Snooty touch you can stick the sausages into the pile of mash like horns. Or serve the whole lot up in a big Yorkshire pudding. Blue ribbon!

The day people started believing everything they read in the Daily Mail?

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir." "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir." "Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it." Does it for me.

His real name is Ambrose Werbeniuk.

How long are you holding the button for?

I don't think I'd call it 'up market'. OK if you can't face cooking, though.

Good to 'see' you.

That is completely incredible.

So that would be the stealth version, or the pocket example? That must be a metre long and weigh what? 20 kilos?

[quote user="Cathy"]Me too - but I don't wear glasses and so I can never find them.  [:D] P.S. Get someone you know to make a bright coloured ScoobyDo and attach it to the key fob.  They are easier to spot.   [/quote] You mean the bright yellow rubber duck key fob might be a touch too subtle?

I'd have to find the d****ed things first! I think they are hiding out with my glasses...

[quote user="Clarkkent"][quote user="Frenchie"] If anyone can find the acceptance speech script , I d be grateful to be sent a link, because I will soon work on the topic of the American elections with my students, and it would be interesting to have this speech.. And I'm also interested in having any newspaper article concerning these elections , especially about the symbolic launching of the campain in Springfield,  Martin Luther King's daughter's reaction ,the TV debate of sept 27th , Sarah Palin's personality/values, etc..  , the neo nazis arrested while they were preparing a racial attack ,  Obama's incarnation of the American dream... ETC ... Thanks in advance Régine X [/quote] This may be of help - it is about Sarah Palin's religious influences. I find it rather frightening, how would French students find it? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/us/politics/25faith.html?_r=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&oref=slogin   [/quote] Here you go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/05/uselections2008-barackobama