• Re: Pop and fish

    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Fri Mar 22 08:52:10 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    I do prefer the Coke products to the Pepsi

    I can't really tell the difference.
    At home I only drink store brand, when I drink it. Sav-a-lot Bubba is
    really good.

    I always find it a bit amusing that St. Patrick's Day often (if not
    maybe always?) falls during Lent... and that doesn't stop people from
    having the "necessary" corned beef for the day.... :)

    Maybe St Pat's is considered a feast day, like Sunday's in Lent which
    are always feast and never fast days? :)
    Joe
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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Mar 26 15:37:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-22-19 08:52 <=-

    I do prefer the Coke products to the Pepsi
    I can't really tell the difference.
    At home I only drink store brand, when I drink it. Sav-a-lot Bubba
    is really good.

    Pepsi is too sweet.... but I'm not drinking any of them much any more,
    since I decided that the high-fructose corn syrup wasn't doing me any
    good.... Some store brand flavors taste fine, though.... :)

    I always find it a bit amusing that St. Patrick's Day often (if not
    maybe always?) falls during Lent... and that doesn't stop people from
    having the "necessary" corned beef for the day.... :)
    Maybe St Pat's is considered a feast day, like Sunday's in Lent
    which are always feast and never fast days? :)

    I suppose that's a possibility... Not being Catholic, I didn't know
    about the Sundays in Lent being feast not fast days....

    ttyl neb

    ... "Careful, we don't want to learn from this." - Calvin

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Wed Mar 27 07:34:08 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    Maybe St Pat's is considered a feast day, like Sunday's in Lent
    which are always feast and never fast days? :)

    I suppose that's a possibility... Not being Catholic, I didn't know
    about the Sundays in Lent being feast not fast days....

    Sunday, in the Catholic tradition, is always a feast day, never a fast
    day.
    (I've always wondered why fast days seem to move so slowly).
    And most fast days are merely fasting from certain foods, not going
    without food completely.
    Little history lesson.
    In the Middle Ages the church and king owned nearly all the land and
    whatever was on it. (Along with a few scattered noblemen). Thus for
    example even fallen tree limbs could not be picked up by the average
    peasant for fuel since the land the tree grew on was not theirs nor where
    the limbs that fell off.
    What the king/nobles didn't own the church/monasteries did.
    Thus if a river, stream, whatever flowed past the monastery (and most
    houses, whatever, did for the water) the monastery owned the fish in the
    river. These they would catch and sell. From this grew the tradition
    (it was never church law) of fish on Friday so the church would have a
    steady weekly income from the fish. This extended to the seas which the
    king owned, along with whatever was in it, to a certain point some miles
    from land. This in turn led to whatever country owning so much of the sea
    from the shore, which is still common with one being in national or international waters. During Prohibition one would could drink 12 miles
    off the coast, in international waters, leading to cruises were people
    would steam out 12 miles, get sloshed legally, then sail back home. (It
    was a bit tricky getting the illegal booze on board the ship in an
    American harbour to begin with, but that's another story).
    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Mar 27 12:23:00 2019
    Joe,

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later.

    Can I take my Dunce Cap now?? :P

    Daryl

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Mar 28 04:20:24 2019
    Daryl wrote --

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later.

    Can I take my Dunce Cap now?? :P

    I thought you still had it. Didn't I sew your name in it?
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Mar 28 10:00:00 2019
    Joe,

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later.

    Can I take my Dunce Cap now?? :P

    I thought you still had it. Didn't I sew your name in it?

    You can bring me a replacement when you come to visit. <BG>

    Daryl

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Sun Mar 31 21:22:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-27-19 07:34 <=-

    Nancy wrote --

    Maybe St Pat's is considered a feast day, like Sunday's in Lent
    which are always feast and never fast days? :)
    I suppose that's a possibility... Not being Catholic, I didn't know
    about the Sundays in Lent being feast not fast days....

    Sunday, in the Catholic tradition, is always a feast day, never a
    fast day.
    (I've always wondered why fast days seem to move so slowly).

    Obviously, not occupying one's time in the spiritual things that it's
    supposed to be enabling... <G>

    And most fast days are merely fasting from certain foods, not going without food completely.

    I did know that... :)

    Little history lesson.
    In the Middle Ages the church and king owned nearly all the land and whatever was on it. (Along with a few scattered noblemen). Thus for example even fallen tree limbs could not be picked up by the average peasant for fuel since the land the tree grew on was not theirs nor
    where the limbs that fell off.
    What the king/nobles didn't own the church/monasteries did.
    Thus if a river, stream, whatever flowed past the monastery (and
    most houses, whatever, did for the water) the monastery owned the fish
    in the river. These they would catch and sell. From this grew the tradition (it was never church law) of fish on Friday so the church
    would have a steady weekly income from the fish. This extended to the
    seas which the king owned, along with whatever was in it, to a certain point some miles from land. This in turn led to whatever country owning
    so much of the sea from the shore, which is still common with one being
    in national or international waters.

    Yup... knew that, too... :)

    During Prohibition one could drink 12 miles off the coast, in international waters, leading to cruises were people would steam out
    12 miles, get sloshed legally, then sail back home. (It was a bit
    tricky getting the illegal booze on board the ship in an American
    harbour to begin with, but that's another story).

    I'm not sure I knew all of that, though... ;) Makes sense, however... :)

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later. Joe

    Will this be on the test, or will the test be on the next part that you
    didn't get to yet....? ;)

    ttyl neb

    ... Pardon me, but are we by any chance consanguinous...

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Mon Apr 1 07:58:10 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    Sunday, in the Catholic tradition, is always a feast day, never a
    fast day.
    (I've always wondered why fast days seem to move so slowly).

    Obviously, not occupying one's time in the spiritual things that it's supposed to be enabling... <G>

    More so people wouldn't get discouraged when the period was a lot
    rougher than today.
    I always wondered how people in the Middle Ages made it.
    There often wasn't enough food to begin with then add fasting on top of that...

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later. Joe

    Will this be on the test, or will the test be on the next part that you didn't get to yet....? ;)

    Both. :)
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Mon Apr 1 12:20:00 2019
    Joe,

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later. Joe JM>>
    Will this be on the test, or will the test be on the next part that you JM>> didn't get to yet....? ;)

    Both. :)

    I'll take my Dunce Cap now, professor...here comes another "F". :P

    Daryl

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Apr 2 05:01:12 2019
    Daryl wrote --

    I'll take my Dunce Cap now, professor...here comes another "F". :P

    An F as in Fine?
    How did you do on that test?
    Fine.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Apr 2 11:01:00 2019
    Joe,

    I'll take my Dunce Cap now, professor...here comes another "F". :P

    An F as in Fine?
    How did you do on that test?
    Fine.

    That's how I like my eggs. <G>

    Or like the joke where in this restaurant, a customer asks the
    waitress if they serve poached eggs. Grinning wryly, she quipped "No,
    sir. We get ours from legitimate chickens". <G>

    Daryl

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Apr 3 05:00:16 2019
    Daryl wrote --

    Or like the joke where in this restaurant, a customer asks the
    waitress if they serve poached eggs. Grinning wryly, she quipped "No,
    sir. We get ours from legitimate chickens". <G>

    Groan
    Joe

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Apr 3 09:19:00 2019
    Joe,

    Or like the joke where in this restaurant, a customer asks the
    waitress if they serve poached eggs. Grinning wryly, she quipped "No,
    sir. We get ours from legitimate chickens". <G>

    Groan

    The beauty of the pun is in the groan of the recipient.

    It has also been shown that cows produce more milk when the farmers
    talk to them. That means the conversation goes in one ear, and out the
    udder.

    Yes, I'm milking this thread for all it's worth. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Apr 3 15:48:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-01-19 07:58 <=-

    Sunday, in the Catholic tradition, is always a feast day, never a
    fast day.
    (I've always wondered why fast days seem to move so slowly).
    Obviously, not occupying one's time in the spiritual things that it's supposed to be enabling... <G>

    More so people wouldn't get discouraged when the period was a lot
    rougher than today.
    I always wondered how people in the Middle Ages made it.
    There often wasn't enough food to begin with then add fasting on top
    of that...

    I'd've thought that the days of fasting wouldn't have been much
    different to them than a regular day would be... As you said, it isn't
    so much not eating at all as refraining from certain foods on the fast
    days... if they didn't get those foods anyway, there'd not be all that
    much difference...

    This ends today's history lesson. There will be a test later.
    Will this be on the test, or will the test be on the next part that you didn't get to yet....? ;)

    Both. :)

    Ah... the perfect test... <G>

    ttyl neb

    ... Hesitate to attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

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