Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:41:41 +0000

another shitey rant regarding how “academic freedom suppressed by TEH MARXIMS” in today’s SMH.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/academic-freedom-exit-far-left/2008/10/20/1224351149797.html

the dumbshit young liberal can’t even distinguish between the student union and the academic body.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:23:53 +0000

Insert ‘e’ where appropriate in previous comment.

Insert drug-related punchline in this one.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:22:19 +0000

Jane, if you show desperation by distributing large crustaceans, then I can’t imagine you go wanting for much!

I’ll be in Adelaide this weekend for a gig, but I’m being supplied with a drumset by the venue so not doing the drive this time. Otherwise I’d make it REALLY easy for you to give me a cray!

As it is just email LP admin, to whom I herwith give permission to pass on my email.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:53:49 +0000

Well, why not FDB @37? That way I could bludge some of those porcini stock cubes for my mushroom risotto and saucy and soupy substances. Where I live in the sticks in SE SA, such delicacies don’t come my way. Sigh!
I’ll trade you a crayfish a rooly, rooly big one, for some. (I hope my desperation isn’t showing.)

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:40:27 +0000

FDB,
We actually have spme exotic delis in Armidale. I’ll check them out. Would imagine they have it. (I mean, if you can pick up crock steaks here you should be able to get anything.)

By: BilB

BilB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:56:44 +0000

Helen,

Older people tend to remember things in a flow once triggered by a suggestion. I say tend because there are many who are extremely lucid and can recall most of their life at will. But for the rest of us a good start is to lay out a time line of events, then start filling in the gaps session by session. And “what happened,……, after such and such,”? is a natural conversation.

There is one lady I know whose story should have been collected because it spanned some extraordinary events. As a young girl of seventeen she was canoodling with her boy friend on the harbour shores in Rabaul when she noticed rocks leaping out of the water far further out. This was the start of a volcano that became an island. The continuing eruption devastated Rabaul and every one was evacuated. Soon after that the Japanese invaded and all of the young men were collected and put on a ship for a voyage from which they never returned, her boyfriend included. In between all of this here mother earned an MBE (I think an MBE) for her work in supporting the population.

There are so many wonderful lives and they should not go unrecorded. There is no need to be subtle, because it will take some time.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:20:47 +0000

I am not, nor have I ever been, in the employ of Star Bouillioniers Inc.

By: FDB

FDB — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:17:06 +0000

Paul – if you like mushroomy soups on a budget, try porcini stock cubes. Star brand for example. Also for risotto or anything with mushrooms and liquid involved.

Although I seem to recall you living in an area not famed for diverse shopping experiences. Get my email from LP if you want me to send you a few boxes from ol’ Brunswick Town. I’m serious. My evangelical attitude to this product knows no bounds.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:04:56 +0000

Improvement on above recipe. (I have a book review to write which means I always procrastinate cooking, usually inventing new cheap long-lasting pensioner affordable dishes.)
Here goes. Add a packet of chopped mushrooms, and a chopped parsnip, before cooking. When simmering, simmer till the chicken is off the bone.
I’m right now trying it out. It very nice, but very very rich tasting.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:09:27 +0000

Have new soup recipe. Its presently cooking, and I’m not sure how it will taste, but bored with the old one.
6 chicken legs. 3 diced carrots and 2 diced onions. 1 diced capsicum. 3 quartered tomatoes. 1 Chinese vegetable which looks like an oniony leeky thng with large leaves, diced. Add all to pot with water, some salt, Worcester sauce. Bring to boil till chicken is cooked. Simmer for a few hours.
Hope it tastes okay.