Thread: Just One Successful Setup

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

Yeah, X. The custard cup/mug combo came about mostly by accident. I first started using a little aluminum bowl but it cooled too fast . Then I started using the custard cup (a ceramic custard cup would be nice) which I think is the right size for me -you can really manipulate it while whipping up some lather ---but I was using it with one of those cup warmers and it over heated the lather. Then I bought the ceramic mug and it just so happened to fit well with the custard cup. I like the look of stainless but I think it cools too fast as well. As far as the et al. thing it was supposed to be a friendly dig on my Canadian and Aussie friends --but like most things written late at night , they're never quite as humorous the following day.

Justin

Justin:

I commented on the et al thing not realizing it was a friendly jab. You had posted a comment on a thread asking me a question and I used "Justin, et al" I had thought you were just imitating How does et al refer to Aussies and Canadians? I understood it to be a Latin thing for "the rest"

As to traveling, I do limited domestic air travel (once a year or so) so I am just looking for a good way to protect it in my checked baggage.

Originally Posted by steve

Justin:

I commented on the et al thing not realizing it was a friendly jab. You had posted a comment on a thread asking me a question and I used "Justin, et al" I had thought you were just imitating How does et al refer to Aussies and Canadians? I understood it to be a Latin thing for "the rest"

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Usually when you see the et al , it's used to designate a study or work done by a group of people. For instance, let's say Fournet et al, ---- this would usually imply that Fournet was the leader of the research party and the et al were the associates and people generally lower on the totem poll. What I was implying (rather badly) is that ,because I'm American as well as you, that you would always be more important and the Canadians and Aussies would be the et al or people not worth mentioning. Again, now I will stop trying to be funny late at night because I realize how contrived and stupid it sounds ---just a bad attempt at a little country to country picking ---I feel a certain brotherhood with countries of English/British origins like Canadians and Australians --and admire both greatly but have also a general friendly feeling of competition --a whose the best on the block thing. But, again it was stupid , silly, and contrived --if not in bad taste. (but friendly)


Justin

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

Usually when you see the et al , it's used to designate a study or work done by a group of people. For instance, let's say Fournet et al, ---- this would usually imply that Fournet was the leader of the research party and the et al were the associates and people generally lower on the totem poll. What I was implying (rather badly) is that ,because I'm American as well as you, that you would always be more important and the Canadians and Aussies would be the et al or people not worth mentioning. Again, now I will stop trying to be funny late at night because I realize how contrived and stupid it sounds ---just a bad attempt at a little country to country picking ---I feel a certain brotherhood with countries of English/British origins like Canadians and Australians --and admire both greatly but have also a general friendly feeling of competition --a whose the best on the block thing. But, again it was stupid , silly, and contrived --if not in bad taste. (but friendly)


Justin

Ah! *lightbulb goes off in dimly lit head*

Give up! be like me. My humor is bad morning, noon and night.

Originally Posted by steve

Ah! *lightbulb goes off in dimly lit head*

Give up! be like me. My humor is bad morning, noon and night.

Yeah I'll keep with the Blazing Saddles type humor --it tends to work every time --at least for the sickies out there.

If humor isn't obvious within a few minutes or without taking a trip to the local library's Reference Sectiion --then it can't be that funny --yeah for me it's Mel Brooks from now on.

Justin