At 09:05 PM 7/22/2002, Karen Cravens wrote:
>On 16 Jul 2002 at 6:51, Michael J. Feldhusen wrote:
>
> > Most addicts rationalize their addiction. . . .
>
>I'm not addicted to sewing.  Now, fabric shopping, that's
>different...

Ah yes, she who dies with the most fabric wins?

> > Actually, given the way the Gulf Stream works, the waters around here are
> > warmer than those off California most of the time.
>
>That's what they told me in California, only it was the Something-
>Something Current.

Then we'll just take you to a place you can look at it from afar, then.

>We have drive-in restaurants here (drive-in theaters, too, but that's
>not germane) which serve, among other things, slushes of various odd
>flavors.  One of them is "Ocean Water."  Carl keeps suggesting it,
>and I keep telling him it doesn't matter if it's been twenty-some
>years, that *still* calls to mind the taste of, well, ocean water.
>Yeccchhh.  (It's also a weird blue, and is, um, pina colada flavored
>or something.  Or so Carl says.  I don't eat or drink *anything* that
>color, no matter what it's named.)  I'll have a nice traditional
>grape slush, thankyouverymuch.

"Proper" slushes are pretty much unknown here in New England.  And no one 
would even *think* about calling one "Ocean Water".  And weird blue is 
reserved for raspberry.


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Michael Feldhusen                                       mike_f@io.com
                       http://www.io.com/~mike_f/

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