OT: Mail delivery rant

I was wondering what satisfaction you would get from damaging a knitted scarf when I realised that muffler (USA) = silencer (UK). Or were you really going to do something unmentionable to a scarf?

You are correct, muffler=silencer, but up here in Canada we do have the other mufflers too.

In this instance I was quoting a catchphrase, from I think LaughIn in the 70s "Gonna fix that muffler good". Someone may have a better memory from whence that came, might even have been a commercial catchphrase, I can't remember now!

Good thing! Otherwise 1) the mailman is getting up there in years 2) he had a VERY busy day once upon a time and 3) um, well, I won't say anything about your grandmothers. ;-)

Are they dipped in chocolate?

You trying to do her in ? I believe they are poisonous aren't they ?

They'll want to put up those cheap, ugly, aluminum "neighborhood" boxes on a post where they can--not necessarily anywhere near the building. They will be installed so that the back (the side accessed by the carrier) is facing the direction least likely to accumulate ice which means the side with the little doors (accessed by the residents) will frequently ice over in the winter. You'll have to carry a metal ice scraper out and chisel your way into the box to get your mail. Don't damage the door or you have to pay to replace the entire box.

My rant: My hometown did not offer delivery to each house due to the size of the town. Rural areas, small unincorporated villages, moderately sized towns, and large cities received this service but small towns of a certain size did not. Everyone had to rent a post office box or else live without mail. That meant everyone had to pay a ridiculous sum each year and inconveniently go downtown during business hours every day to get the mail. Finally, after several decades of complaints by civic leaders, the post office agreed that since house delivery was (by their code) unavailable to the community, it was unfair to charge box rent to those who just got the smallest available PO box (although individuals wanting a larger size box and all businesses still have to pay). Did they bother to refund the decades of improperly charged rent--no way! The real ripoff is those who live out in the country do receive delivery to their private mailbox (much bigger than the "standard" 4" x 3" PO box) in front of their house--delivered by a carrier based out of this same post office at no charge.

Brenda Lewis ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Possibly but I try to stay away from stuff like that there! I saw a recipe today for pumpkin fudge and thought, that would neat for Halloween then next thought, do I need it ? Click, pass on by lol

Actually - tulips are edible, it's daffodils that are poisonous. You'll note that squirrels (which I call furry-tailed rats) quite enjoy a meal of tulips. And, although I don't know if this is appocraphal or nor, but I read somewhere that at times in the last war, the Dutch were reduced to eating tulip bulbs.

Here's a website

pumpkin cheesecake is better Dora

yummy!!! Also pumpkin and wild rice soup!

MargW ( snipped-for-privacy@sympatico.ca) writes: (snip)

This is absolutely true. By the time the war was over, there were very few tulip bulbs left in The Netherlands. What is less well known is that 3 weeks *before* the war ended, the Canadians had an agreement with the Germans, and each day substantial convoys of Canadian trucks drove through the front line, and shipped food into The Netherlands. The Canadians were armed, as, of course, were the Germans, and the whole effort went on without a hitch.

I want that recipe! Cheryl

I think you're right, come to think about it.

"bungadora" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Usually do make one around this time of year but maybe not this year.

It is the reason I plant lots of daffodils and very few tulips and the tulips are ringed by daffodil bulbs. Nothing eats daffodils and their presence keeps the tulips from falling prey to deer, mice and other assorted vermin.

Cheryl

I'll get it later today after work.

Oh, YYYUIUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I discovered pumpkin fudge the year before last. I think you can guess whether or not I liked it! And now that you've reminded me..........

Joan

Cheryl, have you seen something there called Liquid Fence? It's essentially fox pee and works wonders on the "assorted vermin"! Of course, your garden may be too big for this to be feasible....but it does work very well and is all natural ingredients.

Joan