Post #75,413
1/18/03 3:51:39 PM
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Goddamit, I CAN'T TAKE THIS BULLSHIT ANY MORE!
imric Skips along: I think you underestimate the Stockholm-syndrome effect on MS-Junkies. They'd hail it as the best thing to happen since sliced bread - like almost all MS 'developments'. The simple fact is, for all intents and purposes, sliced bread _S_U_C_K_S_!!! So fer fuck's sake, will you all just please STOP using it in that way (implying, as it does, that it's a good thing)! Thank you.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #75,419
1/18/03 4:09:42 PM
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typical euro thinks bricks are bread, no wonder :-)
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Post #75,420
1/18/03 4:11:05 PM
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I like rolls bettre than bread...
Or I rip a piece off..
Only thing Sliced bread is good for, Uniform Sandwiches.
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Post #75,456
1/18/03 7:07:56 PM
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Sliced Bread
Pre-packaged, standardized slices with portions determined by the 'manufacturer'...
The sad fact is that this type of bread would be very appealing to MSoftheads.
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- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #75,457
1/18/03 7:12:39 PM
8/21/07 6:25:38 AM
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Ditto
I think perhaps the thing I will miss most about France when I leave is the bread.
I get it warm out of the oven on the way home from work and we tear into it with dinner.
Who slices bread?
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
--Alan Perlis
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Post #75,465
1/18/03 10:09:24 PM
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It's like this -
See, it's convenient for all those tawdry reasons. And like Mickey D: it's all homogeneously tasteless! No Surprises there, ever. (Kids don't complain when it's slathered with peanut butter - what have they got to compare with?)
Then too, slicing - immediately exposes ~40X the surface area to oxygen and all those other thingies in the air. To keep That effect from rotting things, drying too fast, curling.. ya gots to add these Mmmmmm preservatives (and the aeration to make the mix light and fluffy).
Still, there are real bakeries using real flour and none of that crap - even here. (Though the Supermarket 'bakeries' massively-produce their stuff natch, and manage to make even the uncut loaf taste about like the processed stuff). But then we also have the Japanese transistorized bake-at-home on computer-timer Machines: put in good stuff and - some of those I've tasted are damn good, even!
Ashton
"Wonder Bread" represented the nadir of Murican Bizness Enterprise doing its normal thing: texture of sponge rubber, squishy as a snowflake and guaranteed to have all the nutritious ingredients milled out so's to be Rilly White. Don't think I've seen that brand in years.. but then I don't usually even glance in that department.
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Post #75,471
1/18/03 10:58:06 PM
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There is an alternate way to interpret the saying...
Namely that, "It is the best thing since sliced bread made everything suck."
:-)
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #75,607
1/20/03 1:05:49 AM
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If I can't get brochen, I'll settle for sliced bread.
Sliced bread is GREAT for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
And tuna sandwiches.
Everything else goes on brochen or bagels.
Although I have recently experimented with making burritoes out of nan.
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Post #75,662
1/20/03 12:05:33 PM
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nan?
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Post #75,671
1/20/03 12:20:25 PM
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Indian flatbread.
India indian, not native american.
Goes great with hummus.
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
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Post #75,673
1/20/03 12:26:22 PM
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chappati's as opposed to Pita bread?
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Post #75,832
1/21/03 2:36:14 AM
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Uhm, "as opposed to Pita bread"? Are you saing Pita bread...
...is what you usually make your burritos with?
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #75,863
1/21/03 8:54:11 AM
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Pita Bread is thick enough to introduce a pocket
a chappati is thin but not "quite" as thin as a cornmeal tortilla. Eggroll wrappers are thinner than tortillas.
thanx,
bill
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Post #75,676
1/20/03 12:38:03 PM
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Served in Afghani restaurants too.
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Post #75,833
1/21/03 2:39:58 AM
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Brochen wth is this like chai?
"Cha-" being the multi-lingual phoneme for "tea". Can't stand to see products being sold as "chai tea"; it's like saying "tea tea".
So is brochen really something different or are you all just horribly misspelling "br\ufffdtchen"?
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #76,196
1/22/03 3:47:55 PM
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German rolls. Crispy outside, fluffy inside.
The ultimate sandwich bread.
For breakfast, hot and fresh stuffed with butter and jam.
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Post #76,275
1/23/03 12:59:19 AM
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He knew that - you were just horribly misspelling it.
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Post #76,389
1/23/03 2:00:42 PM
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Yes and no.
I was willing to learn that there was a "new" product/thing called brochen which was somehow almost, but not quite, entirely unlike rolls. However, you're right in that I had strong suspicions.
Now the question is: how do you who write "brochen" pronounce it? /bro-chen/ or /bro-ken/ or /bri-chen/ or what?
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #76,429
1/23/03 3:27:43 PM
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Guilty.
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Post #75,684
1/20/03 1:04:18 PM
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Sliced white bread rulz...
Having a bad week herr Conrad? Brochen and such are okay, but nothing like sliced Wonder bread to put your peanut butter and jelly on... Nothing quite like taking an authentic German brat and throwing it in between a good old hot dog bun (pre-sliced of course).
Sliced bread is a symbol of refinement and convenience. It is symbolic of just how great our civilization has become that we no longer even have to slice our own bread if we choose not to. Whole loaves of bread are just too high maintenance. I usually just punch my fist down on the top and use them as ashtrays... puff... of course, not in public.
Guten abend. Bis bald. Tschush(sp?).
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
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Post #75,699
1/20/03 1:48:21 PM
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All that smoking has murdered your tastebuds.
I use sliced bread on my sandwiches. I've also eaten fresh whole loaf bread.
I prefer the latter, not from a snooty european "fuck you, we've eaten civilizations that have been around longer than your piddling little farceocracy" standpoint, but from a "hey, this tastes good!" standpoint.
Oh, and talk about sooty, er, snooty attitudes? Using whole bread as a fucking ashtray?
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
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Post #75,710
1/20/03 2:36:10 PM
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What can I say that I haven't already said to
Doug Marker in another thread? I don't even pretend to f*&^ing care anymore...
:-)
Jus' yankin' the boys chain, ya know. Blowin a little smoke up his keister. Just saying hey there! Every so often CRC becomes so refined. I feel a need to tell him to "loosen up" every once in a while.
To wit; I eat good tasting loaves (non-sliced like marbled ryes and sour doughs and ... to really wit: I still get brochen from the local bakery...shhhh, don't tell you know who...) of bread as well. I still don't have a problem with the expression "sliced bread".
If they made some sort of underwear filter that made farts smell good... then maybe we could change the expression?
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
"It's the best thing since scented underwear filters!"
Some kid, a.d. 2083
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Post #75,713
1/20/03 2:51:55 PM
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Fair 'nuff...
...just yankin' yer chain right back. :)
Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.
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Post #75,718
1/20/03 3:01:28 PM
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Change away...
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Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #75,733
1/20/03 4:22:51 PM
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that would ruin the sbd elevator experience!
large office building with express elevators loose a grease cutter and get off on the first stop, press down and catch the folk that got on ahead(above) you. Glare at someone.
thanx,
bill
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Post #75,738
1/20/03 4:58:46 PM
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It's impressive alrighty, but
I am not going to give up the "bread" expression for under-ease until the product actually makes farts smell "good". This product merely neutralizes them...
I want spring breeze farts and summer mist ones too. Even a tropical fruit blast might do the trick.
I've emailed the company... Standing by to change way of expression.
Thanks for the link though, I've ordered a few dozen for presents next Xmas.
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
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Post #75,748
1/20/03 5:56:54 PM
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I had a tropical fruit blast once, stained too
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Post #75,749
1/20/03 6:01:39 PM
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T.F.M.I.
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Post #75,803
1/20/03 8:57:46 PM
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where didja think the flavor tooty frooty came from?
bouquet of tropical fruits and an undefinable sharp note.
thanx,
bill
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Post #75,781
1/20/03 7:48:26 PM
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You Be So
B A A A D . . ,
Stinky..
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Post #75,857
1/21/03 7:35:05 AM
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WTF have I to do with your sliced bread :-)
pray tell, mein herr Schreamer !
Cheers
Doug
(Just love DeliFrance's baguettes)
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Post #75,836
1/21/03 2:51:06 AM
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Dan, you and Brandi (at least) have one thing in common:
Dan Reck-lessly Screams: Brochen and such are okay, but nothing like sliced Wonder bread to put your peanut butter and jelly on... You both spell 'Brötchen' without the 't'. Now, I can see that the dots over the 'o' are scrapped in English; you probably can't even type them on your inferior keyboards... But, since the word 'Brötchen' is derived(*) from 'Brot', dropping the 't' just doesn't make any sense. Nothing quite like taking an authentic German brat and throwing it in between a good old hot dog bun (pre-sliced of course). You must have been reading too much Swift... But then, you *do* have (at least some, IIRC) Irish ancestry, right? Tschüss! ;^)
(*): A diminutive, to be exact, as indicated by the '-chen' ending(+); meaning, taken together, "small bread" or "little breads". (+): Looks kind of familiar, right, Thane? :-)
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #75,850
1/21/03 6:29:19 AM
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\ufffdhh N\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd
N\ufffd es una pr\ufffdblema, though it takes an experienced technologist of course, to master the more subtle aspects of the
ASCII table. Coders aren't trained in actual English usage, of course. They have secretaries for that stuff.. ;-)
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald Knuth via wharris
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Post #75,877
1/21/03 10:00:53 AM
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CRC, you're the best thing since...
fresh fjord springs farts...
Thank you for correcting me on the "recent" origin of the English word bread (yeah, I know, English is a Germanic language). I must now find the dreaded ASCII umlaut character to employ in further correspondence...
Panis (lat. - Bread) head...
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
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