[Sca-cooks] Questionable Kitchen Tool (oop)

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 04:01 PM 10/31/02 -0500, you wrote:
>"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>> I've always wanted to get one of those novelty
>> lights- the ones taht are usually on top of emergency
>> vehicles (but you can get them at Archie MacPhee's
>> IIRC) and wear it on top of my head and be the
>> Authenticity Police. But that in itself would be
>> inauthenic, and I'd have to give myself a ticket...
>
>Would it be "Good for all day?"  (as speeding tickets
>in Montana are said to be.)

Gosh. Wish they were in Oregon :-P

>OTOH, blue light ... very special.

Ow. That hurt.

>Regarding the basic idea ... how about using a candle
>in the hat?

Santa Lucia I'm not. And while I'm running around making the 'whoop!whoop!'
siren noise, wouldn't the candle blow out?

>As an alternative,  using a lantern to search for the
>truth is, without a doubt, very early period.

IIRC, Diogenes never did find his honest man. Do I really want to follow
that precedent? ;-)

'Lainie
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