Comments on: This is Why People Smoke http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:41:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: CDR Salamander http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11361 CDR Salamander Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:17:48 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11361 <p>Viva la box hedge!</p> <p>You know, I saw that typo on the orig and did not correct it. My bad Ninme. Sorry.</p> Viva la box hedge!

You know, I saw that typo on the orig and did not correct it. My bad Ninme. Sorry.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11360 ninme Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:52:08 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11360 <p>But there's lots of oil in a bean salad. I can cook for a week without using a drop of oil. Though I usually don't. But even that's just a little rice bran oil. And who said anything about cold rice?</p> <p>I'm fond of the lacquer ashtrays in Chinatown. I remember though when I was young even we had an ashtray, though no one ever smoked in our house that I can remember. I wonder if that thing's still there...</p> But there’s lots of oil in a bean salad. I can cook for a week without using a drop of oil. Though I usually don’t. But even that’s just a little rice bran oil. And who said anything about cold rice?

I’m fond of the lacquer ashtrays in Chinatown. I remember though when I was young even we had an ashtray, though no one ever smoked in our house that I can remember. I wonder if that thing’s still there…

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11359 Rueful Red Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:25:15 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11359 <p>Well I'm eating tinned oily fish and 10-bean salad for lunch most days now so that must help. Not that keen on cold rice, somehow.</p> <p>Art deco ashtrays are the best.</p> Well I’m eating tinned oily fish and 10-bean salad for lunch most days now so that must help. Not that keen on cold rice, somehow.

Art deco ashtrays are the best.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11358 ninme Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:14:53 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11358 <p>Dinner chez ninme is certainly not what most mid-twenty-year-olds eat on a daily basis.</p> <p>Apparently, and I only discovered this last night looking for a picture (there aren't a lot out there), it's the most "yang" vegetable in Zen macrobiotic cooking. I just think it's really good.</p> <p>(Continuing the theme from the other day: You should try Japanese. The weight just oozes off of you. Peter hadn't weight himself in a while but his pants were really loose so he weighed himself and had a minor heart attack. I reassured him that it had been happening gradually and perfectly healthfully and he was just surprised.)</p> <p>I love ashtrays. A lost art that you can get pretty cheap since no one wants theirs anymore.</p> Dinner chez ninme is certainly not what most mid-twenty-year-olds eat on a daily basis.

Apparently, and I only discovered this last night looking for a picture (there aren’t a lot out there), it’s the most “yang” vegetable in Zen macrobiotic cooking. I just think it’s really good.

(Continuing the theme from the other day: You should try Japanese. The weight just oozes off of you. Peter hadn’t weight himself in a while but his pants were really loose so he weighed himself and had a minor heart attack. I reassured him that it had been happening gradually and perfectly healthfully and he was just surprised.)

I love ashtrays. A lost art that you can get pretty cheap since no one wants theirs anymore.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11357 Rueful Red Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:27:59 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11357 <p>I don't believe this. Dandelion and burdock is the favourite drink of The Hoff.</p> <p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion<em>and</em>burdock I really don't believe this.</p> I don’t believe this. Dandelion and burdock is the favourite drink of The Hoff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelionandburdock I really don’t believe this.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11356 Rueful Red Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:58:20 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11356 <p>Then of course there was the 60s nuclear war thriller "Fail Safe" by Eugene Burdock and Harvey Wheeler.</p> Then of course there was the 60s nuclear war thriller “Fail Safe” by Eugene Burdock and Harvey Wheeler.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11355 Rueful Red Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:56:11 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11355 <p>Mrs Red had never smoked in the first place and so was delighted to get rid of the paraphernalia.</p> <p>Can't help thinking dinner chez ninme could get a bit exotic. Worth having a net with the chopsticks beforehand, I reckon.</p> <p>See the Aussie cricketers, who'd clearly been dying of boredom, let England win one.</p> Mrs Red had never smoked in the first place and so was delighted to get rid of the paraphernalia.

Can’t help thinking dinner chez ninme could get a bit exotic. Worth having a net with the chopsticks beforehand, I reckon.

See the Aussie cricketers, who’d clearly been dying of boredom, let England win one.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11354 Brett_McS Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:47:41 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11354 <p>Did Mrs Red kick the habit at the same time?</p> <p>So that's what something I have never heard of looks like! Fancy that!</p> Did Mrs Red kick the habit at the same time?

So that’s what something I have never heard of looks like! Fancy that!

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11353 Rueful Red Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:08:39 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11353 <p>So that's what burdock looks like! The local soda of choice where I come from used to be dandelion and burdock, but I'd not the foggiest idea what they look like. Ten months of not smoking now. Can't do a table lighter, but I've got a nice selection of ash trays.</p> So that’s what burdock looks like! The local soda of choice where I come from used to be dandelion and burdock, but I’d not the foggiest idea what they look like. Ten months of not smoking now. Can’t do a table lighter, but I’ve got a nice selection of ash trays.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/02/this_is_why_peo.html#comment-11352 ninme Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:04:13 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/02/01/this_is_why_people_smoke.html#comment-11352 <p>But I don't got 'em. I depleted my reserves years ago.</p> <p>A table lighter. I like that. I'll keep it with my supply of nuke pills. Open In Case of Coming Apocalypse.</p> But I don’t got ‘em. I depleted my reserves years ago.

A table lighter. I like that. I’ll keep it with my supply of nuke pills. Open In Case of Coming Apocalypse.

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