[Sca-cooks] My Christmas dinner & LOOT

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Patricia Collum:
>Dinner was a quiet roast beef and potatoes.

You know, many would argue that a noisy or talkative roast beef would 
positively put most people off their food. How about one that sings 
in a squeaky voice, just slightly off-key? Or squeaks when you poke 
it with a fork?

>  I also supplied some ham slices
>for my tender-hearted boy who had seen too many news reports with staggering
>cattle, and didn't want to look at a piece of cow on his plate. (He had no
>prob with spaghetti and meat sauce the next day)

Fear knows not logic... but I sympathize. What comes as a shock is 
not so much the scare, but the fact that we've gotten away from it as 
long as we have. This seems to be one of the few cases in which the 
fast food industry has collectively acted to alleviate a problem 
(never mind that they have, in large part, created or contributed to 
the severity of the problem). But considering the size of the eight 
(it _is_ eight, at this point?) states known to be affected, it's 
conceivable that a crackdown on a scale similar to the one in the UK 
might actually solve this problem, since we essentially have extant 
blueprints for a solution.

>  As far as loot, I asked the
>family to forgo it for me this year

I did, too. I told everybody to pay their bills, that nothing larger 
than six inches on a side was allowed in my home, and that I wanted a 
Brooklyn Cyclones cap and a new president for Christmas.

Adamantius