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M4L- It’s like the pizza/burger comparison I make.
You go anywhere other than the New York and surrounding area and say lets order pizza and out comes a Domino’s or Papa John’s menu. You say let’s get burgers and it’s a fast food joint like McD’s or the like.
Now, if I say I want pizza or a burger this is NOT what I mean. I want a real slice or a real hamburger from a grill. You can’t substitute it with Domino’s or McD’s.
Sometime I do actually crave Domino’s or McD’s but it’s a specific craving for fast food. Not the real thing.
Kens, a little education for my naive friend:
(1) pork fried rice is left over rice + left over pork
(2) lobster source is simply starch + egg white source; no lobster; just in the name
(3)egg drop is starch + egg yolk
(4) fried wonton – cant be sure but I suspect they’re left over steamed wonton
“told them those dishes are concoctions for american mkt only and those are the worst of the bunch”
Oy vey, I love the american market concoctions then.
THL, I posted that right after I gave lecture to co-workers here who were excited about placing delivery order for (1) fried wonton, (2) egg drop soup (& extra bag of fried noodles please), (3) pork fried rice, and (4) lobster source. told them those dishes are concoctions for american mkt only and those are the worst of the bunch
No worries, I grew up on Lawng Guyland so maybe I oy vey’ed, meh’ed or oy gevalted enough times for you to make the leap.
And I did say I’d stayed at the Concord Hotel!
June 17th, Biff’s house. Table for 20 PLUSAs please.
sorry THL, my assumption was incorrect.
I don’t remember what you said that gave me that idea.
I was born a generic Christian Church of Armenia on one side and Church of England on the other.
I figure if there can be this many different types of Christianity how can any of us know who’s got it right. So I just try to do the right thing and I’ll find out when I croak, or not, who knows???
M4L- Don’t be such a snob. We can’t all eat at Biff’s house (maybe we can, I guess we’d have to clear it with Mrs. Biff). We all know there are good (enough) delivery places out there.
“let heteros have their thing. jeez. and strip the heteros of any tax benefits tho for being married. people shouldnt get all the benefits they get just because they get “married””
Rob, I explained to you once before, and of course you refuse to listen, that married people generally pay higher taxes than single couples. M4L at @10:23 has it right, and you have it wrong. As usual.
If two people, gay are o/w, are co-habiting and make a salary of 80k each per year, they pay taxes each on only 80k of salary. When they get married, they pay tax on 160k in a higher tax bracket.
The tax code was designed, way back when, to allow for a tax break for the ‘traditional family’, i.e., daddy went to work and mommy stayed home. Daddy got the tax breaks.
However there are a lot fewer ‘traditional families’ today. In most cases, both spouses work, altho one may take off a bit to have children.
Therefore the more usual scenario is the ‘marriage penalty’ where it is actually cheaper to co-habit than to marry. This has frustrated conservatives to no end and there have been half-assed attempts to eliminate or reduce it, but the problem always is that the reduced taxes paid must be made up from somewhere else, like defense spending (lol).