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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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