[Isabella White]

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Hello Mrs. White, I appreciate your concern, yes calisthenics seem to be used in a broader scope to encompass heinously suggestive homoerotic activity. Perhaps I choose the word poorly. The exercises at our youth community consist of push-ups, sit ups, breaking cement blocks, cobra battles, round robin capture the flag, and more.

They also don't wear scantily clad bikinis, thus inadvertently sexualizing minors, no ma'am. Work-out uniforms appear more like this:

Dear Mr. Hucker: Thank you so much for your assurance that your church athletics situation is not quite as I had feared. It is comforting to know that you are doing your best to keep Satan away from inviting people to leer at persons enjoying a bit of exercise. Now, I do have another concern, though, and it's based on the photo that you have provided of the young boy in his uniform. It's not that I'm being unnecessarily neurotic, or anything like that, but, dear Heaven above! That young boy is "perfect pickings" for passing-by homersexualists and their perverted fantasy situations. As you shall see in the photo that I am attaching, that boy's uniform is only but a couple of steps away from the situation in the picture. I do hope that you can give this some serious consideration before calamity strikes. Thank you for your understanding, Dear.

Yes, Sister, I did wonder. I don't know what calisthenics is/are, but the word has the ring of Greek Practices. I am glad that Mr Hucker has cleared this up, if only to some extent. The combination of that with the hat, as worn by the small boy with his hands so daintily on his hips, is worrying.

And I do thank you, dear Sister Joanna, for pointing out the situation with the boy in Mr. Hucker's photo. Yes, the way he is posed, with his hands on his hips, and wearing that "G.I. Joe" costume is very suspicious. This is, doubtless, just another of the devil's tricks to get curious children interested in various "dress up" situations. If this trend continues, why, we can expect only much worse situations, as you shall see below.

[Basilissa]

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I make my own mustard, and produce my own vinegar essence to brine the seed in.

Oh, you poor thing, you don't have a wife who would do ll the kitchen stuff for you?!

[upchucker67]

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Dear Mr. Hucker: Thank you so much for your assurance that your church athletics situation is not quite as I had feared. It is comforting to know that you are doing your best to keep Satan away from inviting people to leer at persons enjoying a bit of exercise. Now, I do have another concern, though, and it's based on the photo that you have provided of the young boy in his uniform. It's not that I'm being unnecessarily neurotic, or anything like that, but, dear Heaven above! That young boy is "perfect pickings" for passing-by homersexualists and their perverted fantasy situations. As you shall see in the photo that I am attaching, that boy's uniform is only but a couple of steps away from the situation in the picture. I do hope that you can give this some serious consideration before calamity strikes. Thank you for your understanding, Dear.





And I do thank you, dear Sister Joanna, for pointing out the situation with the boy in Mr. Hucker's photo. Yes, the way he is posed, with his hands on his hips, and wearing that "G.I. Joe" costume is very suspicious. This is, doubtless, just another of the devil's tricks to get curious children interested in various "dress up" situations. If this trend continues, why, we can expect only much worse situations, as you shall see below.

Hello Mrs. White, as a straight male, I don't know how homers tick, so your comparison never struck my imagination ever, but if you have any suggestions on how to properly costume these tykes (seam-stressing is a woman's talent, no?) I'm open ears. -Phil

[upchucker67]

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Oh, you poor thing, you don't have a wife who would do ll the kitchen stuff for you?!

Sue screwed up the batch last time when she put raspberry vignette instead of white vinegar. I had to chuck the concoction in her make-up kit so she could see what she did.


She's a fine woman for most kitchen duties, usually, but when it comes to my mustard seeds, some things are best left to me to be done right.

(I've been keeping a distance from her lately her face has been smelling of rancid raspberries )

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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Sue screwed up the batch last time when she put raspberry vignette instead of white vinegar.

I have no idea what "raspberry vignette" is. What would one normally use it for? Assuming it is useful, does Mrs Hucker have a recipe she would like to share with us Ladies of Landover?

[upchucker67]

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I have no idea what "raspberry vignette" is. What would one normally use it for? Assuming it is useful, does Mrs Hucker have a recipe she would like to share with us Ladies of Landover?

Raspberry Vignette is the name for this fruity essence she likes to spritz into a jam-spread. She might have a recipe filed away somewhere in her binders if you'd like her to fish it out.

[Vengeance Puriel]

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I have no idea what "raspberry vignette" is. What would one normally use it for? Assuming it is useful, does Mrs Hucker have a recipe she would like to share with us Ladies of Landover?

Salad

[upchucker67]

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Salad

That's the essence of it, yes.

[Isabella White]

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I have no idea what "raspberry vignette" is. What would one normally use it for? Assuming it is useful, does Mrs Hucker have a recipe she would like to share with us Ladies of Landover?

Raspberry Vignette is the name for this fruity essence she likes to spritz into a jam-spread. She might have a recipe filed away somewhere in her binders if you'd like her to fish it out.

Oh, this does sound so interesting, dear Mr. Hucker. As our beloved Sister Joanna has noted, I must say that I have never heard of this "raspberry vignette" before, either. If your dear wife would not mind searching through her stack of binders, I am sure that this would be most appreciatively received by the Ladies of .

Naturally, I would not wish to put your wife to any bother, so I did look online for this; but, all I could find was something about "stack overflow" (whatever that is.) This article has a bit about it:

"How to get rid of vignetting in Raspberry-Pi camera pictures"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48451492/how-to-get-rid-of-vignetting-in-raspberry-pi-camera-pictures

Somehow or another, I don't think that that is quite what your good wife has in her binders, though. I do thank you, so much, for kindly looking into this for us.

[Basilissa]

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Salad

That's the essence of it, yes.

How would anyone use vignettes in their salads? Do you apply them to a picture of a salad?

Naturally, I would not wish to put your wife to any bother, so I did look online for this; but, all I could find was something about "stack overflow" (whatever that is.) This article has a bit about it:

"How to get rid of vignetting in Raspberry-Pi camera pictures"

Thank you Sister! I didn't know that Raspberry PI now had a camera module - although it does not surprise me that it has a vignette problem. It is such a cute tiny computer, though, I use it as my travel laptop.

Now, all this unrelated salad talk made me hungry. I'm going to the kitchen to make myself a salad with cherry tomatoes and walnuts. Maybe raspberry vinaigrette dressing? I have no idea what made me think of it.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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The Godless British - particularly the northerners - make some strange concoction called raspberry vinegar, which is basically what it sounds like: raspberries, white vinegar and sugar. They pour it over ice-cream and Yorkshire puddings (though not at the same time) and it accounts for the state of the nation's teeth.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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My husband has just commented that although Sisters Isabella and Basilissa may well be correct, up to a point, he has only come across the word vignette in the context of a windshield sticker required in certain backward European countries, as an indication that the driver has paid the road tolls.

It is rare that an introductory thread inspires such an interesting* discussion.


(* for some value of "interesting" with which many of us had previously been unfamiliar)

[upchucker67]

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I have some personal favorite vinaigrettes from the Bible I would like to share with you sometime.

[Basilissa]

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It is rare that an introductory thread inspires such an interesting* discussion.

(* for some value of "interesting" with which many of us had previously been unfamiliar)

Indeed, Sister.

I have some personal favorite vinaigrettes from the Bible I would like to share with you sometime.

You searched for

"VINAIGRETTE" in the KJV Bible

'VINAIGRETTE' in the Bible

... No direct matches for your keyword exist in the King James Bible.

Nonetheless, please feel free to share any recipes in my The Most Delicious Foods of the Bible thread.

[Isabella White]

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My husband has just commented that although Sisters Isabella and Basilissa may well be correct, up to a point, he has only come across the word vignette in the context of a windshield sticker required in certain backward European countries, as an indication that the driver has paid the road tolls.

It is rare that an introductory thread inspires such an interesting* discussion.

Oh, my! The things that we learn here on are very interesting, indeed, dear Sister Joanna. And, I do thank your lovely husband for providing us with this tidbit of timeless trivia.

Now, then, one wonders if these stickers are meant to be placed only on the windshield of the car. I do see where someone has felt they are better displayed on the car door, as you shall see below.