<p>So sorry, violadad. </p>
<p>I hope your D enjoys her turkey and stuffing from your humble kitchen. Does she have the means to irradiate it after receipt in case of any lingering botulism or salmonella organisms?</p>
<p>Violadad: Sea turtles, mate.</p>
<p>mommusic, apologies accepted. Perhaps I was a bit harsh in my last reply and should have realized that not all posters have the mental ability or comprehension skills to absorb such voluminous information as this thread contains. I would like to offer you an autographed cd of d’s to make it up to you. (We can write this off as a valid promotional expense against d’s income.)</p>
<p>The salmonella and botulism concerns are valid, and I did address them when I asked for expertise in providing fresh versus prepared foodstuffs. I intended to freeze either, prior to shipping and will use dry ice if financial circumstances allow.</p>
<p>She also has a vast array of food preparation incantations, spells, and rituals to ward off any evil entities lurking in the ingredients.</p>
<p>UTas has adequate microwave facilities in each dorm, so I don’t see irradiation as being an issue. D also informed me early on that even most aboriginal villages have a microwave in each hut. UTas an outreach program, and d is involved in teaching digeridoo to the less fortunate. The native village to which she is assigned is not on the electrical grid, and in lieu of a generator, the villagers have devised a unique system of electrifying their huts. They have reclaimed a USMC WWII era Sherman tank, removed the threads, and somehow raised it on blocks. The various wheels and pulleys normally used to drive the tank threads now serve as seperate pulleys to drive palm frond and kangaroo hide woven belts to power a turbine, which in turn provides enough power to the village. With her knowledge of quantum mechanics, d was able to suggest a few minor modifications that has increased the efficiency of the mechanisms.</p>
<p>A few enterprising villagers have even disarmed the tank shells, and converted then to table lamps. One has a thriving internet business selling them.</p>
<p>Seems the Aussie government subsidizes the gas to keep the Sherman running, far cheaper than extending the electrical grid to this backwater community.</p>
<p>Harriet, are you suggesting a means of transport or a voyeuristic activity or a menu option? I’m confused.</p>
<p>Means of transport. (That comma was there for a reason.)</p>
<p>No customs foolishness. Seawater helps to preserve the carefully wrapped leftovers. No damage to the environment. And if your D chooses to, um, repurpose the couriers for her own ritualistic needs, then, as the little dears say, BoNuS1!1!</p>
<p>Violadad, I’m thinking outside the box here.</p>
<p>I think it would be cheaper to hire a couple of competing violinists to hand carry the meal. Violinists are a dime a dozen, and you only need two, so you should get them for less than a nickel. They will be thrilled to have the gig. Have to buy the plane tickets, of course, but I believe it would be cheaper than the amount of shipping, dry ice, etc otherwise involved.</p>
<p>And it needs to be **competing ** violinists in order to keep the atmosphere chilly enough for the food.</p>
<p>Do I win?</p>
<p>Harriet and binx, you have both proposed some very interesting possiblities. The competing violinists methodology is indeed fairly cheap, and if the talent level high enough can serve as backup musicians in the ensemble required for Harriet’s musical needs from an earlier post. Perhaps they can even be paid in leftovers.</p>
<p>Harriet’s use of sea turtles is also fascinating but requires a bit of quick research in terms of migratory patterns, my access to these routes, and travel time involved. The alternative uses of this means of carrier also raises some multi-dimensional possibilities as I previously mentioned, and expanded by Harriet. Maybe too late to use for this purpose, but could be a viable alternative in transporting d’s posessions back and forth from UTas, instrument and ritualistic cutlery excluded of course.</p>
<p>I shall ponder each carefully.</p>
<p>These are exactly the types of alternatives I was hoping for. More are welcome.</p>
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<p>As a longtime CC reader, I’ve learned to ignore most punctuation, as it tends to be incorrect. Particularly annoying is the improper use of the semi colon. And with the blatant spelling errors permeating many posts, I also assessed your response as “See turtles mate.” You could have been referencing a link which you forgot to include in your post.</p>
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<li><p>See [FOXNews.com</a> - Elderly Chinese Turtles Mate, but Don’t Breed - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433262,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433262,00.html)</p></li>
<li><p>ibid.</p></li>
<li><p>[WikiAnswers</a> - How do turtles mate](<a href=“http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_turtles_mate]WikiAnswers”>How do turtles mate? - Answers)</p></li>
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<p>4 op cit.</p>
<p>violadad–thanks, but I already have a huge stock of digeridoo CDs. More, really, than I have time to listen to. No offense to your D’s abilities which are, I’m sure, larger than life.</p>
<p>I wish I had more accordion and bagpipe CDs, however…</p>
<p>mommusic, we have a personal recording of d doing variations of Shostakovitch’s little known chamber works for digeridoo, accordian and bagpipe, which we illegally recorded at the Aspen festival a few years back. Jan Smengy of Smengy Brothers fame is on accordian, with Colin MacPherson of the NYPD Brotherhood of Bagpipers on the bag. You might recall Colin’s almost Hendrix-like rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at Yankee Stadium on the final game of their last world series win. If you wish, we can burn a cd. Of course, there is a small fee to cover postage and handling. Let me know.</p>
<p>My D is an accomplished accordion player, should I encourage her to put out her own CD so she can include that in her list of accomplishments? </p>
<p>Oh, and violadad, it’s spelled ‘a-c-c-o-r-d-i-o-n’.</p>
<p>Madison, just more proof that speeling errors are indeed rampant on CC posts, as I’ve previously indicated.</p>
<p>Speeling is an excellent hook. So few kids participate. Elite colleges are always looking for top speelers.</p>
<p>Speeling: a rare skill indeed!</p>
<p>It used to be that some shtick would get you in. Now everybody has shtick. Some shtick. A shtick. Whatever.</p>
<p>violadad–I remember that! SSB on the bagpipes rocked! One could almost see smoke coming out of the instrument. </p>
<p>Not enough smoke to suit some old fogies, however. They’d like to see the thing set on fire, I’m sure. The same people who didn’t like Hendrix’s rendition, either. Philistines.</p>
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<p>World class speeling is indeed an “in” at many top institutions. If you reference my prior post on hook classifications,<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061016685-post1073.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061016685-post1073.html</a> speeling would be designated a “tipping hook with an edge”, arguably the premier designation within the hook hierarchy.</p>
<p>This is not to be confused with spewing, a mundane and common occurence at both the high school and college levels. There may well be some world class spewers and to take nothing away from their prowess, the average college freshman’s spewing skills are quite advanced.</p>
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<p>The pipes do tend to create this reaction in a number of people. Can’t quite figure out why. Philistines is an accurate description. “Cretins” works as well.</p>
<p>I’ve been following the Obama puppy thread on the political side and the labradoodle/goldendoodle digressions. I feel there must be an EC in the dog breeding arena for Right Path students.</p>
<p>Right Path students can make an EC out of anything, if they show enough passion and commitment to it. The more unusual, the better. </p>
<p>Violadad, did your D breed her own sled dogs for the Iditarod? It’s probably buried in this thread somewhere, but I will violate the cardinal rules of CC and not re-read all 85 pages of this thread.</p>