[Sca-cooks] flat

[Weems, Lora]

Remember the song, "Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend"?
'...
A kiss on the hand
may be quite continental
but diamonds are a girls' best friend.
A kiss may be grand,
but it won't pay the rental
on your humble flat
or help you at
the automat' (food content)

But that was back in the '40's, as the last automat went out of
business in the late 50's or early 60's.

Leofwinn
who now can't get that silly song out of my head,
thankyouverymuch


p.s. Dear Lady Olwen,
I made my 1st batch of marzipan this weekend.  (copying
some of the ideas on this list, I made my House Badge for
my Head of Household). Are there any tricks to getting the
Marzipan really WHITE?  The colors looked good, but I am in
House Whiteshark, not House cream- or beige- shark.
Thanks for any hints...
L


Message: 7
From: "A. F. Murphy" <afmmurphy at earthlink.net>
To: "sca-cooks at ansteorra.org" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1111 - 16 msgs
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:11:32 -0500
Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

It is? Where on the East Coast? We certainly don't use it in New York or
New Jersey - I've lived in apartments my entire life!

I do know the word, I read British books...

[Original Message]
> From: Decker, Terry D. <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
>
> A flat is an apartment on one floor of a building.  The term is used in
the
> U.S., primarily on the East Coast.


A. F. Murphy wrote:

> It is? Where on the East Coast? We certainly don't use it in New York or
> New Jersey - I've lived in apartments my entire life!

I think you need to travel through time, as well as some ways East, to
get where Bear is talking about. It appears in, for example, books by
Milt Gross in the 1920's, set in New York. But I agree (even though I
never lived in an apartment except for a year as a teenager, and after
getting married), it's not commonly used in New York today, AFAIK.

Adamantius