2010 Conference

[Suzi]

Ooooooooooh this time last week!!!!
Was PURRFECT!!!!! and oooooooh the triumph!!

Got some great pics too!- check out my fb!!!.....safer! x

[mariab]

Hello Mr Carter,
yes, I've noticed myself that Ripperologists are extremely decent people and very intense communicators.

To Parker's Stem:
Also the tomatoes are 1 month old, but inexplicably they look like fresh from the market!! (All this due to the fact that I was away from this apartment for 1 month, came back last night, and today was too lazy to go fetch groceries.) And we used some of the basil leafs, as we're definite risk takers.
So, if you never hear from me again ...(you'd probably experience intense relief!)
I'm off now, gotta tend to my guests (victims?).

[packers stem]

Hello Maria,

As we saw last weekend, I think Ripperologists are a pretty decent bunch of people to communicate with, imho!

best wishes

Phil

And it's not something you can have a chat with your friends and neighbours about as they'd just think you're mad.
It's so easy now with the web ,in the eighties i used to get my mother to read all my ripper books after me just so i'd have someone to talk to about it all

[packers stem]

Hi Maria,i'm glad you like the moniker
Think i misread your earlier post,i thought the tomatoes were a month old not just the basil.

[Phil Carter]

Hello Maria,

As we saw last weekend, I think Ripperologists are a pretty decent bunch of people to communicate with, imho!

best wishes

Phil

[mariab]

Dear Packer's Stem,
(and you've really chosen one of the the coolest monikers on casebook),
I'm so sorry you missed the conference(s), but there'll be certainly many others, especially if you reside in the UK.
My friends are tried and proved on my cooking, not many worries here. It's the newbies I'd be most worried about.
I bet that the one you described with the chef dropping the veal on the kitchen floor, then picking it up saying "never mind, what the eye doesn't see, the chef gets away with" happens pretty regularly in kitchens. I still recall a Xmas Eve at my BFF's in Berlin a decade ago, when we were taking the bird out of the oven and we managed to drop it on the carpet, which wasn't clean. We ended up rinsing the bird and putting new condiments on it. But at least MY carpet is clean, if not right now, at least on Xmas Eve.
By the by, we're still debating about using that old basil, and maybe later I might introduce my friends to casebook.

Packer's Stem wrote:
One thing that did strike he on the first evening in Ipswich was the strange sensation that 'i knew these people' even though i couldn't possibly and this was before conversing with everyone-really strange,re-incarnation???
What's started to worry me is, nowdays I'm communicating more with Ripperologists than with my colleagues and friends. Is this real bad?

[packers stem]

Oh dear Maria,i think your friends need to be warned about your cooking.Reminds me of an episode of a comedy called 'fawlty towers' where the chef dropped the veal on the kitchen floor then picked it up saying 'never mind ,what the eye doesn't see the chef gets away with.
On topic though i'm sorry i got back into this too late to think about going to the conference and i'm a bit jealous looking at the fun time you all appear to have had,oh fun remember that....
I remember i really enjoyed the Ipswich and Norwich conferences in '96 and '98 but through divorce and house moves etc i may not have received a millenium invitation(if there was one?).One thing that did strike he on the first evening in Ipswich was the strange sensation that 'i knew these people' even though i couldn't possibly and this was before conversing with everyone-really strange,re-incarnation ???
All the best

[mariab]

No, C.D., Lewis Caroll never got in LEGAL trouble. But probably in other kinds of trouble. By the way, has anyone read that book about him with the anagrams? That's even better that your jokes, C.D.
My friends are here, and I'm still posting. You guys are interfering with my social life! Is there already a 12 step program for newbies addicted to casebook?
(And by the by, that 1 month bunch of basil in my fridge doesn't look too good. But maybe if we wash it thoroughly ...)

[Robert]

One of Cher's friends is reported to have said of one of her boyfriends, "She's got suspender belts older than this guy."

[c.d.]

On a more serious note -- Lewis Carroll never got in trouble did he?

c.d.

[mariab]

I'm in a very silly and lazy mood myself, Natalie. In fact, I was so lazy today (after arriving in Berlin last night) that I'm still in bed, with a bag of potato chips. Around 23.00ish some friends are coming for a cozy evening of watching DVDs and we'll make some pasta. I have some tomatos and basil 1 month old in the fridge, but they look OK! But I just remembered that when I cooked that for my mum when she was visiting in April, she got violently ill afterwards. (But that was because I made her overexert herself before, as I took her to the hills to see me snowboard and stuff.) Otherwise, what was the name of that lady, de Brinvilliers?

[Natalie Severn]

This has got me in a really silly mood Maria so before I say anything else that I may regret I"m off!
Night,
Norma

[mariab]

C.D. wrote:
My cousin is trying to convince a judge that 16 is the new 20.
That's what Lewis Carrol tried too. By the by, in Europe the legal age for consent is 15 and for drinking 18. Not like with the Puritans who went over with the Mayflower.

Natalie Severn wrote:
Except the internet is just ether Maria......like laughing gas and air!
Even the internet has consequences.
And I hope you didn't mean that “passing gas“ remains undetected in the internet. (OK, that was totally gross now.)

[Natalie Severn]

Wescott wrote:
Variety is the spice of life, I suppose.


Natalie,
the French say "Femme qui rit, femme à moitié dans ton lit."

Except the internet is just ether Maria......like laughing gas and air!

[c.d.]

I think it's the age we live in with people being more health conscious and taking better care of themselves. You constantly see articles like 60 is the new 50 or 40 is now the new 30. My cousin is trying to convince a judge that 16 is the new 20.

Ok. I'll quit now.

c.d.