Mickey is home

On 8/20/2011 10:44 PM, Sherry wrote:
On Aug 20, 7:09 pm, wrote:
I don't know if you were reading here way back when (but even if you did
it's a good tip to the newbies anyway) the group, as a whole, decided
that recipes and food are never an off-topic post so you don't have to
put an OT in the subject line. For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here and
it was discussed so much (before all this I used to bike up to 30 miles
a day), but I think all or most of the bikers moved to FB or other
greener pastures (like Helen and Monique to name too) and abandoned the
group for the most part.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

I so do not remember this. It must have been "before my time" but I do
remember Helen& Nathan's
biking adventures and Monique. So if biking was collectively
"allowed", then which OT subjects
were NOT allowed? I already know about declaw, animal abuse,
etc.etc.etc. but IIRC any topic
was fair game without a decision to "be allowed."

Sherry

???? Of course any topic is fair game without being "allowed", as far
as I know (but there *has* been some objection to this lately, not from
me). What I was talking about was whether or not it was "netiquette" in
*this* group to put an "OT" in the subject line depending on the
subject. Please anyone out there who remembers, let me know if I'm
wrong, I'm the first to admit my memory is sh*t. But for a while, when
almost every other post seemed to be about biking, I or someone else
asked the group collectively, (paraphrasing here) "can we make this
topic on-topic since so many people and so many posts were about
biking?" No, we didn't do a vote or a poll, but I seem to remember
several people agreeing and *I* don't remember a single post objecting
to that.

As far as food, recipes and cooking is concerned, I'll have to check the
FAQ, but when I "came back*" to the group after being away for a couple
of years, it was just generally understood that those posts did not need
an "OT" in the subject line.

*I was here back when rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was still rec.pets.cats.
A few years after the group broke up into different groups, I "was
abducted by the mother ship" for a while, mostly just lurking before
actually posting again.

Sherry, if I have offended you again, please just let me know. I can't
take any more of these "subtle" put-downs, and *please* don't play
innocent as if you were just asking a question. Why ask *ME* which OT
topics are not allowed, I think after this last bru-ha-ha we already
know my opinion about OT posts (*NOT* my medical posts, just OT posts in
general). *NOWHERE* in this post did I use the word "allowed"!

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
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On Aug 20, 11:37*pm, CatNipped wrote:

I don't know if you were reading here way back when (but even if you did
it's a good tip to the newbies anyway) the group, as a whole, decided
that recipes and food are never an off-topic post so you don't have to
put an OT in the subject line. *For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here and
it was discussed so much (before all this I used to bike up to 30 miles
a day), but I think all or most of the bikers moved to FB *or other
greener pastures (like Helen and Monique to name too) and abandoned the
group for the most part.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

Sherry wrote:'

I so do not remember this. It must have been "before my time" but I do
remember Helen& *Nathan's
biking adventures and Monique. So if biking was collectively
"allowed", then which OT subjects
were NOT allowed? I already know about declaw, animal abuse,
etc.etc.etc. but IIRC any topic
was fair game without a decision to "be allowed."

Sherry

???? *Of course any topic is fair game without being "allowed", as far
as I know (but there *has* been some objection to this lately, not from
me). *What I was talking about was whether or not it was "netiquette" in
*this* group to put an "OT" in the subject line depending on the
subject. *Please anyone out there who remembers, let me know if I'm
wrong, I'm the first to admit my memory is sh*t. *But for a while, when
almost every other post seemed to be about biking, I or someone else
asked the group collectively, (paraphrasing here) "can we make this
topic on-topic since so many people and so many posts were about
biking?" *No, we didn't do a vote or a poll, but I seem to remember
several people agreeing and *I* don't remember a single post objecting
to that.

As far as food, recipes and cooking is concerned, I'll have to check the
FAQ, but when I "came back*" to the group after being away for a couple
of years, it was just generally understood that those posts did not need
an "OT" in the subject line.

*I was here back when rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was still rec.pets.cats.
A few years after the group broke up into different groups, I "was
abducted by the mother ship" for a while, mostly just lurking before
actually posting again.

Sherry, if I have offended you again, please just let me know. *I can't
take any more of these "subtle" put-downs, and *please* don't play
innocent as if you were just asking a question. *Why ask *ME* which OT
topics are not allowed, I think after this last bru-ha-ha we already
know my opinion about OT posts (*NOT* my medical posts, just OT posts in
general). **NOWHERE* in this post did I use the word "allowed"!

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

First of all, I am not making a "subtle put-down". I guess it's just
the way I write.

I simply thought it bizarre that we might have well been talking about
different groups,
because I remember things so differently than you do. It doesn't make
a hill of beans
to me whether subject lines were prefaced with "OT". Is that all you
were talking about?

You said: "For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here ..

Allowing. That phrase led me to believe that on the other hand, other
subjects were disallowed.

My recollection of rpca was that it was so laid-back that nothing
other than usual volatile subjects
were discouraged. I think we talked about just about everything, so it
was peculiar that biking was
singled out as a subject "we were allowing".

But you're simply talking about the "OT" preference then. Forget it.
My bad. I thought you were talking
about posts as a whole being allowed. (or not).

There were hundreds of posts a day back then, no? I remember barely
being able to keep up with all of them.
But that was a long time ago, and it doesn't really matter anyway. I
apologize for the perceived "putdown."

Sherry

On 8/20/2011 11:58 PM, Sherry wrote:
On Aug 20, 11:37 pm, wrote:

I don't know if you were reading here way back when (but even if you did
it's a good tip to the newbies anyway) the group, as a whole, decided
that recipes and food are never an off-topic post so you don't have to
put an OT in the subject line. For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here and
it was discussed so much (before all this I used to bike up to 30 miles
a day), but I think all or most of the bikers moved to FB or other
greener pastures (like Helen and Monique to name too) and abandoned the
group for the most part.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

Sherry wrote:'

I so do not remember this. It must have been "before my time" but I do
remember Helen& Nathan's
biking adventures and Monique. So if biking was collectively
"allowed", then which OT subjects
were NOT allowed? I already know about declaw, animal abuse,
etc.etc.etc. but IIRC any topic
was fair game without a decision to "be allowed."

Sherry

???? Of course any topic is fair game without being "allowed", as far
as I know (but there *has* been some objection to this lately, not from
me). What I was talking about was whether or not it was "netiquette" in
*this* group to put an "OT" in the subject line depending on the
subject. Please anyone out there who remembers, let me know if I'm
wrong, I'm the first to admit my memory is sh*t. But for a while, when
almost every other post seemed to be about biking, I or someone else
asked the group collectively, (paraphrasing here) "can we make this
topic on-topic since so many people and so many posts were about
biking?" No, we didn't do a vote or a poll, but I seem to remember
several people agreeing and *I* don't remember a single post objecting
to that.

As far as food, recipes and cooking is concerned, I'll have to check the
FAQ, but when I "came back*" to the group after being away for a couple
of years, it was just generally understood that those posts did not need
an "OT" in the subject line.

*I was here back when rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was still rec.pets.cats.
A few years after the group broke up into different groups, I "was
abducted by the mother ship" for a while, mostly just lurking before
actually posting again.

Sherry, if I have offended you again, please just let me know. I can't
take any more of these "subtle" put-downs, and *please* don't play
innocent as if you were just asking a question. Why ask *ME* which OT
topics are not allowed, I think after this last bru-ha-ha we already
know my opinion about OT posts (*NOT* my medical posts, just OT posts in
general). *NOWHERE* in this post did I use the word "allowed"!

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

First of all, I am not making a "subtle put-down". I guess it's just
the way I write.

I simply thought it bizarre that we might have well been talking about
different groups,
because I remember things so differently than you do. It doesn't make
a hill of beans
to me whether subject lines were prefaced with "OT". Is that all you
were talking about?

You said: "For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here ..

Allowing. That phrase led me to believe that on the other hand, other
subjects were disallowed.

My recollection of rpca was that it was so laid-back that nothing
other than usual volatile subjects
were discouraged. I think we talked about just about everything, so it
was peculiar that biking was
singled out as a subject "we were allowing".

But you're simply talking about the "OT" preference then. Forget it.
My bad. I thought you were talking
about posts as a whole being allowed. (or not).

There were hundreds of posts a day back then, no? I remember barely
being able to keep up with all of them.
But that was a long time ago, and it doesn't really matter anyway. I
apologize for the perceived "putdown."

Sherry


I'm sorry, you were right, I *did* write the word "allowing" - I can
only guess that when I read it back I was focusing on a subject being
*on topic* in the quote "allowing biking to be [an] on-topic subject" so
skipped over the word "allowing". My apologies for taking offense if
was offered.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/

Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net

Sherry wrote:

On Aug 20, 7:09*pm, CatNipped wrote:
I don't know if you were reading here way back when (but even if you did
it's a good tip to the newbies anyway) the group, as a whole, decided
that recipes and food are never an off-topic post so you don't have to
put an OT in the subject line. *For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here and
it was discussed so much (before all this I used to bike up to 30 miles
a day), but I think all or most of the bikers moved to FB *or other
greener pastures (like Helen and Monique to name too) and abandoned the
group for the most part.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

I so do not remember this. It must have been "before my time" but I do
remember Helen & Nathan's
biking adventures and Monique. So if biking was collectively
"allowed", then which OT subjects
were NOT allowed? I already know about declaw, animal abuse,
etc.etc.etc. but IIRC any topic
was fair game without a decision to "be allowed."

I think this rule about food threads automatically being allowed applies
to all Usenet groups. As they say on another group, "All food become
food threads." It's just a natural progression.

Now, what's this about cornmeal dumplings?

Joyce

--
- Your mom and I are going to divorce next month.
- What??? Why! Call me please?
- I wrote Disney and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney.
-- damnyouautocorrect.com

CatNipped wrote:

Please anyone out there who remembers, let me know if I'm
wrong, I'm the first to admit my memory is sh*t. *But for a while, when
almost every other post seemed to be about biking, I or someone else
asked the group collectively, (paraphrasing here) "can we make this
topic on-topic since so many people and so many posts were about
biking?" *No, we didn't do a vote or a poll, but I seem to remember
several people agreeing and *I* don't remember a single post objecting
to that.

Are you referring to a time before Sept. 1999? That's when I joined
this group, and I do not remember any time when so many posts were
about biking. The only biking posts I remember were from Helen S, and
while she was a regular, she didn't post huge volumes of messages.

Joyce

--
- Your mom and I are going to divorce next month.
- What??? Why! Call me please?
- I wrote Disney and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney.
-- damnyouautocorrect.com

Sherry wrote:

Any vet worth his salt knows that pain inhibits healing. By giving
them meds, they're
not just making the cat more comfortable, they're helping the healing
process. Yoda
always got 2mg Tramadol (Human form, from a compounding pharmacy).
The first day or two are the worst. I'm puzzled why the vet didn't
give him a pain
injection before he came home.
Anyway, I'm glad he's better.
I never got angrier at a vet than I did when I took a stray in for
spay; the vet advsied
me that pain medication would be "an extra twenty dollars." I was
specifically
angry for three reasons; One, there should be no question about
whether or not to
administer pain meds after surgery. Two, The way he presented it to me
i felt as if
I was being held hostage for 20 bucks; Three, this must have been at
least a hundred
percent markup on the drug itself.

And he presented it like it was an optional luxury, not a necessity.

Yeah, buddy - you try it without pain meds and see how well that works!

Joyce

--
- Your mom and I are going to divorce next month.
- What??? Why! Call me please?
- I wrote Disney and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney.
-- damnyouautocorrect.com

I wrote:

I think this rule about food threads automatically being allowed applies
to all Usenet groups. As they say on another group, "All food become
food threads." It's just a natural progression.

"All food become food threads." Really?

That should have said "All *threads* become food threads." But you all
probably figured that out.

Joyce

--
There is no alternative to being yourself.

wrote
"All *threads* become food threads."

I've got a few extra spools around in case I get hungry.

wrote in message
...
Sherry wrote:

On Aug 20, 7:09 pm, CatNipped wrote:
I don't know if you were reading here way back when (but even if you
did
it's a good tip to the newbies anyway) the group, as a whole, decided
that recipes and food are never an off-topic post so you don't have to
put an OT in the subject line. For a while we were allowing biking to
be on-topic subject as well because there were so many bikers here and
it was discussed so much (before all this I used to bike up to 30 miles
a day), but I think all or most of the bikers moved to FB or other
greener pastures (like Helen and Monique to name too) and abandoned the
group for the most part.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped

I so do not remember this. It must have been "before my time" but I do
remember Helen & Nathan's
biking adventures and Monique. So if biking was collectively
"allowed", then which OT subjects
were NOT allowed? I already know about declaw, animal abuse,
etc.etc.etc. but IIRC any topic
was fair game without a decision to "be allowed."

I think this rule about food threads automatically being allowed applies
to all Usenet groups. As they say on another group, "All food become
food threads." It's just a natural progression.

Now, what's this about cornmeal dumplings?

Joyce

--
In case you missed it:

Chicken Stew with Cornmeal Dumplings
(adapted from the American Heart Association Cookbook, 25th anniversary
edition)

The Stew:

4 boneless chicken breast halves (about 2-1/2 lbs), skinned
5 c. water
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. dried basil, crumbled
1 tsp. dried oregano, crumbled
1/4 tsp. salt (I'm more generous with it than that)
1/4 tsp. ground sage
1/4 tsp. pepper (I use cayenne, I like spice!)
1 medium zucchini, sliced
1 medium yellow (crookneck) squash, sliced

Cornmeal Dumplings:

1/2 c. all purpose flour
1/3 c. cornmeal
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
dash of black pepper
1 large egg
1 Tbs. vegetable shortening
1/4 c. non-fat milk

Combine all the stew ingredients except the squash and bring to a boil over
medium high heat. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook, covered, 30 minutes or
until chicken is tender. Add the zucchini and yellow squash to the stew
mixture. (It doesn't take long for summer squash to cook.)

Meanwhile, prepare the dumplings. Blend together the dry ingredients and
cut the shortening into the mixture with a fork. Add the egg and milk and
stir until blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls into the bubbling hot stew. Cook
uncovered 10 minutes, then cover and cook 10 minutes more.

Jill

On Aug 21, 5:40*am, "jmcquown" wrote:


In case you missed it:

Chicken Stew with Cornmeal Dumplings

I do something similar but with carrots and onions rather than
zuchinni and squash (both considered a bit "exotic" around here-
although one local pub does a homemade soup using butternut squash
that is to die for!) but what is cornmeal? Is it available in the UK?
I'm a serious dumpling lover but the ones we have are made with suet
so hardly qualify as healthy eating!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs