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« Reply #240 on: October 03, 2007, 11:47:01 AM »

Congrats to Dear Edi and Peter!!!
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« Reply #241 on: October 03, 2007, 11:47:24 AM »

Dear Reader Edi-

C  O  N  G  R  A  T  S  !  !  !
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« Reply #242 on: October 03, 2007, 11:50:56 AM »

I thought The Party Animals were in NYC last week!
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« Reply #243 on: October 03, 2007, 11:51:19 AM »

Garment deemed NOT dressy enough for the wedding, but fine for work.
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« Reply #244 on: October 03, 2007, 11:52:12 AM »

LOL-And I'm sure much appreciated.  Does it fit & did she find a dress for the wedding?
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« Reply #245 on: October 03, 2007, 11:52:39 AM »

It's very much the consistency of carrot cake, but tasting predominantly of banana.  I may have the coconut thing wrong.  :)
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« Reply #246 on: October 03, 2007, 11:59:27 AM »

According to the Algonquin's own website, their Oak Room Cabaret first opened in November of 1939, fell in stature during WW2, and came back to prominence in the 1980's.  That gives something like forty years when it wasn't well known - more than a generation.

And those were the days my friend, a baby boomer, grew up in.  From roughly 1945-1985, mention Oak Room to any New Yorker, he'd think of the one in the Plaza, the setting for a famous scene in North By Northwest.  I've performed several times in that cabaret room at the Algonquin and never, until today, knew its name.
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« Reply #247 on: October 03, 2007, 12:14:40 PM »

I thought The Party Animals were in NYC last week!

 ;D  ;D  ;D
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« Reply #248 on: October 03, 2007, 12:15:12 PM »

Penny I haven't had monkey cake in years.  My description (couldn't find a good one on-line) is it is more like a sweet bread.  When I had it it tore apart in pieces.  It seems to have made a comeback recently & is popping up in bakeries again.

DR Jane, that's Monkey Bread.  Monkey Cake is more like carrot cake. It has pineapple in it, I heard that much from the guy at Amy's Bread
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« Reply #249 on: October 03, 2007, 12:17:03 PM »

I am MUNCHING  (a Singdaw reference) on a FAUX LEVAIN chocolate chip cookie. FAUX, I tell you, FAUX.

And after all that glorious food last week did you notice that now JOSE is talking about going to the gym?
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« Reply #250 on: October 03, 2007, 12:18:48 PM »

I think that before the next HHW NY reunion someone needs to call both Levain and Amy's Breads and give them a heads-up.
"Jose's friends are coming? Hey, Mack, double our production!"
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« Reply #251 on: October 03, 2007, 12:19:57 PM »

I want a job like Singdaw's where I can get paid to play on HHW all day.
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« Reply #252 on: October 03, 2007, 12:22:13 PM »

Obviously spoken by someone who knows the disappointments in trying to pick up an Indian taxi driver on the way to JFK!

Actually he was an Egyptian chauffeur, and how do you know I did not succeed  ;)
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« Reply #253 on: October 03, 2007, 12:22:48 PM »

DR Jane, that's Monkey Bread.  Monkey Cake is more like carrot cake. It has pineapple in it, I heard that much from the guy at Amy's Bread
I should have known that DR Dingdaw would get to this before me.  

Does Amy's ship monkey cake.....

DR Jeanne, you can buy Levain cookies online, you know. www.levainbakery.com
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« Reply #254 on: October 03, 2007, 12:23:11 PM »

I want a job like Singdaw's where I can get paid to play on HHW all day.

Shhh!  They don't know!  :)
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« Reply #255 on: October 03, 2007, 12:23:45 PM »

From the Levain website
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« Reply #256 on: October 03, 2007, 12:24:36 PM »

If that put us in cinamascope or whatever, sorry, but it is a Levain cookie and they are big.
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« Reply #257 on: October 03, 2007, 12:26:09 PM »

Wow DR Edisaurus, congrats!!

I do hope you noticed my raves about S and V a couple of weeks back!
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« Reply #258 on: October 03, 2007, 12:28:19 PM »

Here's the description of Monkey Cake from Amy's Bread website

Monkey Cake A monkey's delight, with fresh bananas, pineapple, and toasted pecans; dense, moist, and chunky; wrapped in cream cheese icing.  
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« Reply #259 on: October 03, 2007, 12:28:36 PM »


DR Jeanne, you can buy Levain cookies online, you know. www.levainbakery.com

Yes, but they won't be as fresh, will they? I'm hoping not to get THAT addicted!
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« Reply #260 on: October 03, 2007, 12:29:25 PM »

I do hope you noticed my raves about S and V a couple of weeks back!

Are you sure those weren't rants about S & M?   ;)
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« Reply #261 on: October 03, 2007, 12:30:16 PM »

Yes, but they won't be as fresh, will they? I'm hoping not to get THAT addicted!

I think they would be fresh, but they are so heavy that it's a fortune in shipping
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« Reply #262 on: October 03, 2007, 12:30:44 PM »

Back to work....I no longer have a job that will pay me to play on HHW all day  laters
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« Reply #263 on: October 03, 2007, 12:31:30 PM »

Of course almost everyone I know who is CREATIVE uses the MAC....
Except for "creative" engineers.

The PC and MAC had very different origins. At the micro-circuit level the DOS-PC was engineered for mathematical efficiency; the Apple/MAC line was engineered for graphics manipulation.

Early on graphic designers, publishers, etc. took to the MAC; accountants, engineers, etc. took to the PC. Because the software applications were so dissimilar, developers tended to migrate to one platform or the other. It was years before Microsoft developed "core" software modules that were then wrapped with machine-specific interfaces - and then Office for Windows and Office for MAC had the same look and feel, and files were easily interchanged.

Had it not been for Steve Jobs insistence on keeping MAC architecture proprietary, Apple would have overwhelmed the PC years ago. When I was at Hughes I headed a successful one-man campaign to keep the company from adopting the MAC as a company standard ; my winning argument was that because PC clones were so affordable, the work-force was buying those machines for home use and the computer learning experience could be done on the employees own time. The cheaper, more easily upgradeable DOS machines soon took over market numbers, and their greater market share caused software developers to move toward the PC (PC updates usually led MAC updates, PC applications were usually cheaper than the same for MAC, hardware upgrades were cheaper for PCs, and more applications became available on PCs.

End of lecture.

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« Reply #264 on: October 03, 2007, 12:38:12 PM »

Here's the description of Monkey Cake from Amy's Bread website

Monkey Cake A monkey's delight, with fresh bananas, pineapple, and toasted pecans; dense, moist, and chunky; wrapped in cream cheese icing.  

Good, no coconut.  And toasted pecans are much better than plain pecans.  I like pineapple.  I'm very willing to give it a try ;).  Those oatmeal raisin cookies at Levain's are really tempting.
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« Reply #265 on: October 03, 2007, 12:47:44 PM »

Just caught up, but I have nothing that i can say.
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« Reply #266 on: October 03, 2007, 12:50:15 PM »

DR FJL - you don't care to comment on the "micro-musicals" aspect of the NYMF?  ;)

A little birdie told me that Starfighter experienced this at the beginning of one of your performances.
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« Reply #268 on: October 03, 2007, 12:53:08 PM »

Actually he was an Egyptian chauffeur, and how do you know I did not succeed  ;)

I read about it in the Times.
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« Reply #269 on: October 03, 2007, 12:55:24 PM »

Just caught up, but I have nothing that i can say.

Don't believe it! Maybe nothing you should say.

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