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USDA Buys Cranberries For Food Pantries And School Lunches: ‘It’s A Win-Win’
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Posted on 11/28/2014 11:04:37 AM PST by Incorrigible
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To: Incorrigible
So people who may not normally enjoy cranberries will be able to do that,” ...To me, that statement said “So people who don’t like the acerbic crap we sell will be able to have more acerbic crap they hate.” Am I wrong?
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posted on
11/28/2014 1:31:11 PM PST
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Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Incorrigible
My experience has been that kids don’t like cranberries. More food for them to throw away.
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posted on
11/28/2014 2:27:55 PM PST
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erkelly
To: bunster
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posted on
11/28/2014 2:52:16 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
Geez I love the internet. Your Nero Wolfe comment sure puzzled me ‘til I googled Nero Wolfe and cranberries — I’ve never read a Stout/Wolfe mystery —he sounds “endearing”.
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posted on
11/28/2014 3:26:34 PM PST
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bunster
To: bunster
If you want to read a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe story, some are better than others, of course. Some are also better suited for someone unfamiliar with the characters. My first book was “The Red Box”, which was most unsatisfactory.
I think the best overall pick is “Some Buried Caesar”, but “The Doorbell Rang” is also quite good. For the food angle, “Too Many Cooks” is also a very good choice (despite some anti-racial prejudice preachiness in the middle). After you have a couple under your belt, “And Be a Villain” is just fun. The novellas (three to a paperback) usually have at least one good read in them.
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11/28/2014 5:11:06 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
Thanks for the tips - always looking for a good book. Of the titles you listed my library has Zero, not even the unsatisfactory “Red Box”. But, did have 10 others.
I reserved “Murder by the Book” to meet this irascible, corpulent Nero. It, at least, got 5 stars by “the critical library users” — vs the others with 3-1/2 to 4 (I’m joking about that as I rarely agree with whoever rates these).
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posted on
11/29/2014 6:50:40 AM PST
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bunster
To: bunster
"Murder by the Book" is a very good choice, actually. That is, the characters are fully developed, and everything plays out as it is supposed to. Unlike say, Agatha Christie, characters and not the mystery puzzle are what makes these books. Once you read enough of these books, and you find Lt. Kramer taking Archie Goodwin in for questioning, or as a suspect, you KNOW how it's going to play out, but the payoff is still just as enjoyable. In the A&E series I linked to earlier in the thread, Timothy Hutton is a perfect Archie, and the fellow who plays Fritz Brenner is exceptional. Maury Chaykin as Nero gets a little too screechy/scratchy when he gets upset, whereas Stout's Wolfe simply bellows authoritatively.
The link below is a preview of "Gambit", chapter 1 alone will give you a taste of some of characters. It involves the famous scene of Nero Wolfe burning a Merriam-Webster's unabridged 3rd Edition Dictionary in buckram.
http://books.google.com/books?id=f_1ew0EvI3MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stout+gambit&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5uB5VIHOI4ahNpKigNgN&ved=0CCkQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=stout%20gambit&f=false
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11/29/2014 7:16:18 AM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
And that was just Chapter 1 — Lots of info. Not only what we’ve got but info needed to get Pops out of the clink all to the background sound and smell of paper burning. Yes, Stout will be fun.
Here are two back at you that came to mind while reading Chap 1. Maybe you’ve read Allen but this is always fun to re-read (short story, one of his best, and on the internet). “The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers” by Woody Allen.
On the non-fiction side - “The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary” by Simon Winchester
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posted on
11/29/2014 8:04:19 AM PST
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bunster
To: bunster
I did read the “Professor and the Madman”, and it was fun.
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11/29/2014 8:17:55 AM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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