Chromepoet

Member since: Oct 17th, 2005

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When is an emoticon inappropriate? (Download Squad)

Aug 1st 2007 8:35AM Use of emoticons depends on the reader. It would be wonderful if people could accept the convenience of emoticons to communicate, through text, some small portion of what is lost when body language is not available. It would be nice.

Emoticons are not the only taboo medium. In business writing poetics would often help to enhance communication but poetics too are taboo.

Perhaps it is not so that readers feel emoticons are unprofessional as they feel the message sent by emoticons is unprofessional in a "just give me the facts Jack" sort of way.

Haggis Blacklisted (Slashfood)

Jan 26th 2006 8:54AM Haggis is okay. The oatmeal gives a creamy texture that can disconcert until you remember the oats. I have read that the lights (lungs) cannot be bought in the U.S., so for Burn's Supper we didn't bother to find them and created a toned down version. Still, it's a sausage, and like cheese, sausage deserves some license. It's interesting that Haggis gets banged but the supersize meals do not.

The "worst" foods you can eat, according to MSN (Slashfood)

Jan 13th 2006 8:41AM Fast food: not so much food as a mind-altering substance that causes anger, lack of confidence and mighty love-handles.

I always question alcohol as a bad food. I think alcohol, like raw milk, suffers a chronic, conspiratorial attack by a medical community that fears we will drink ourselves healthy. But I could be wrong:)

After fast food, sugar. Just as the anti-drinking crowd generalizes alcohol as a very bad thing to ingest, I tend to generalize sugar as a very, very bad thing to ingest. In fact, one could generalize white powders as bad things to ingest but that probably goes beyond the scope of this post. In truth, rather than sugar in general, I guess I mean refined cane and beet sugar. Like fast food, refined sugar seems less a food than a mind-altering substance that causes short-temper, short attention span and significant amounts of babble (or is that just my reaction?). Not to mention that unhampered fruits and vegetables taste better when the tongue has not been stomped by the condensed sweet of sugar.

If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life (Slashfood)

Oct 19th 2005 8:09AM Brandy Manhattan dusted with vanilla

Squirrel (Slashfood)

Oct 17th 2005 7:04PM Wisconsin backwoodsman indeed! Up here in the Northwoods, not backwoods thank you, one can indulge in squirrel. Among game, squirrel is one of the best. In my opinion it cooks up better than cotton-tail, mallards or turkey. It tastes a whole bunch like...well..squirrel. Less fatty than beef, more meaty than chicken and not at all like perch.