From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Subject: Re: General Body Meeting of the M.S.
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:06:03 GMT

In article <Aug30.010137.30761@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> 
kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
>
>Well, I'm feeling reckless. Let's take it the distance. No cops yet, so who
>bells the cat? (You go first.) :->

>Old hands returning with nostalgia - I must've missed that one. Or do you
>mean the Swastika thread? Maybe I kill with too much zeal.  

I mean the Swastika thread. I abhor all forms of killing.
That reminds me. This thread is probably setting records for
being found in most kill-files, I am sure. That may explain
the lack of policing. Title-change police are probably just
waiting to pounce, at the first opportunity.

>>skills after his brief foray into the grease-pit.
>
>Since you bring up Mumbai and pao bhaji in the same breath, I'll stick 
>my neck out and carry the nostalgia motif a notch further. (Such brash 
>recklessness will no doubt be my net.nemesis at some point.)
>
>From your native Mulund, or wherever (since my record on the matter of 
>deducing backyard co-ordinates doesn't show any medal-prospects)  you 
>have no doubt, in your commutes southward, hopped off the 6:12 fast on
>platform # 12 and followed the herd further south-south-west, about a
>hundred and fifty yards across the street, to tuck into a hearty meal 
>at "Canon"? Bhaji pao at its best. A divine creation, to use that theistic
>expression, served straight off the stove, with every melting-mouthful 
>engraving upon one's memory the warning worth remembering, that in life, one 
>must always watch out for cheap imitations.    

No need to worry. My native Mulund is quite accurate. However, such 
precision when it comes to predicting platform numbers is bound to
raise questioning eyebrows - at least a pair in Hawaii (in case the
specimen got caught in kill-files the reference is to one Fafat.) 
Anyway, the  name escapes me - though I remember one Vithal Bhel-puri 
place with serpentine queues snaking their way outside. Such usages as 
Bhaji pao are a bit grating, to pick nits. Tends to take one back
to the colonial days. (Perhaps, some experts can weigh in.) The 
precedence order as I know it: pao - bhaji; vada - pao: use the
sandwich mnemonic.

>Allusion to Master and grease-pit escapes me. (No doubt, because I'm not
>following enough threads on the net. In a word, who and what are we 
>talking about?)

Prolixity I feel, should be the norm when it comes to the Master. It 
comes as quite a disappointment from the quoter of Ajay Palvayantheeswaran.
Anyway, the reference is to the scribe Ramesh Mahadevan's recipe for a
biryani using almost as much butter as rice; and, his subsequent return
to episodic posts with the one about his "Uncle and cousin (LONG)."

>>PS. Could this encounter brewing between Colorado net.denizens be
>>termed a conference of sorts? No herbivores in Colorado, it seems.
>
>No phones have rung yet. About herbivores, I must correct you. If your
>fortunes do bring you to beautiful Boulder, Colorado, don't bring your 
>steak knife. Bring instead a healthy appetite and watch your waitress nod
>approvingly as you turn straight to the page of strictly-vegetarian delights. 

Maybe, Icarus has really hit the books (well, instead of throwing them
around, I mean.) It is quite heartening to hear about the latest
trends around Colorado (or is this limited to Boulder?) Heard similar
things from Moffett Field (Bay area). The Waste Management conference
organizers in Tucson obviously were under no such illusions, however.
Anyway, I am not quite used to carrying my own cutlery around - not that
steak knives are any part of it, being a strict herbivore myself, not
even inclined to breaking shells, except on occasion. And, usually my
appetite is the only thing healthy about me. Tempting though the phrase
"vegetarian delight" sounds, my long experience in sampling some of the
named offerings have left me wondering. Judgment reserved.

>What you _don't_ want to do, even by mistake or in a careless or reckless
>moment, is utter the words, "How about some Rocky Mountain oysters?" :->

Having, in a silly moment spoiled a finicky friend's enjoyment of 
rossogollas with the ill-conceived joke of calling them by this name, 
I have no intention of ever mentioning them except when some of the 
favored dishes include them. I have heard stories about why some of
the Basque preparations include a lot of entrails and why chitlins
and similar preparations are found here, whats with the oysters?

Sthan.

>kannan 
>
>ps - don't forget the cat. 

PS. I hope cats love oysters. Icarus used to say five rounds
and time for a change of pace. Where are we? Five more for nine?
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