Subj : Cooking Basics #2 To : Daryl Stout From : Dave Drum Date : Tue Mar 01 2022 06:18 am -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> We're a pretty friendly bunch - with a common interest in feeding our DD> faces. We're even had "eats" in there before - who seldom/never cooked DD> anything. Without eats cooks would have no purpose. Bv)= DS> I joke that with amateur radio operators (also known as Hams, and DS> Sean Dennis is one, as I am), that "H.A.M. stands for H)ave A)nother DS> M)eal, and you don't call us "Late For Dinner". My house-mate is a Hambone. His "shack" is in a corner of the living room. I used to was - but haven't picked up a mike nor tapped a key in dogs years. My call was K9DDQ .... may still be. I dunno if good old Uncle Charlie re-assigns or not. Seeing the newer calls I'm going to assume - not. DS> I even run a "food net" on the 3rd Saturday of every month. I've DS> heard some exchanges where a ham radio operator told what his wife was DS> cooking for dinner...and another ham quipped "I'll be your dinner guest DS> in 10 minutes". DS> Daryl, WX4QZ DS> P.S. Look at the tagline below -- thanks to the late Nancy Backus for DS> that one. :) DS> ... Who needs veggies and nutrition? Give me the luscious fat!! Nancy was a neat lady - who used to come to Cooking Echo picnics - which were once an annual "thing". She also played a mean game of Scrabble. When she passed, Richard let me know "you've lost a Scrabble partner". .... "When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick." - George Burns --- MultiMail/Win * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200) .