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Re: How do occupy your time while flying?
I've never been able to do anything useful on planes. I can't even seem to concentrate enough to read, except maybe a magazine. If it's nighttime, I put on the headphones with some classical music, get out my own little pillow, put on my silk eye mask and sleep as much as I can. If the timing isn't conducive to sleeping, I'll just watch movies. But I don't mind any of it and, while it seems to be a general rule these days to abhor airports & flying, I never have. I'm going somewhere!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 26, 2015: Awash with colours
I had to put my sunglasses on just to gaze at that beautiful rainbow. It looks like silk -- do you know that's what these are made of?
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 26, 2015: Awash with colours
I suspect that they are all offered as "silk" but I equally suspect that if they are any sort of silk it is a very distant relation!!
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Re: Where in the World is Gumbo? (#119)
Time for today's clue. Gumbo and his fellow travelers are invited into the home of a local celebrity. In the early 1950s this man was a participant in a monumental historic achievement. The man is obviously elderly now but he and his wife serve us tea in the local manner. We are given gifts of a white silk scarf, as you can see in the bottom photo. The tall gentleman standing beside the local couple is the gentleman in the yellow coat from yesterday's clue. He is extremely well known in his...
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Re: Gallery: Thai street food
Fascinating, Mac! I have to admit some of the shellfish on sale look like something out of the Jurassic era, but with a little Chili peppers and lime juice, I'm sure they're extremely good. Did you and your lovely wife indulge in the feast at all?
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Re: Gallery: Thai street food
Ah yes Karl, we partook a little here and there but in retrospect were not sufficiently adventurous. We shall return! (apologies to Gen MacArthur).
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