Topic 16 of 77: water
Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (13:08) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
We gotta have a water topic on the Spring.
How much water should you drink?
What's a good filter system?
What about bottled spring water vs. artificially purified?
83 responses total.
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Response 1 of 83: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (09:52) * 1 lines
In Colorado you should drink enough water so your eyeballs don't shrivel up from the inside.
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Response 2 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (10:59) * 2 lines
This would not be good.
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Response 3 of 83: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (11:06) * 1 lines
Painful at best.
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Response 4 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 17, 1997 (13:45) * 3 lines
Tell us the scoop on water filters Stacey, if you know which
one to get, etc. and what research you have done.
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Response 5 of 83: Katrina (katrina) * Fri, Dec 5, 1997 (23:43) * 1 lines
Whaat's the scoop Stacey?
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Response 6 of 83: Wolf (Wolf) * Sun, Dec 7, 1997 (22:59) * 3 lines
how much water? 2 quarts minimum, if it's hot, drink more.
bottled or tap? depends on your taste. tap is good if you can "swallow" it AND it's free (sans the utility cost).
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Response 7 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (09:34) * 1 lines
I never drink water - it doesn't taste of anything, that's why.
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Response 8 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (10:02) * 3 lines
Then you haven't seen the rows and rows of designer waters that line the
supermarket shelves.
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Response 9 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (10:52) * 2 lines
Not in Switzerland they don't! You've got mineral water with/without bubbles (in England at least some mineral water has peach or some other flavour), and loads of disgusting sodas, which I'm convinced contain NO water at all. I drink alot of those - Coke, that is, especially when I'm miserable or bored (what a $hitty thing to have to admit to), but for good water I put watermelons through my juice maker.
So what kind of designer waters do you drink? Dior? Calvin Klein?
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Response 10 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (12:50) * 3 lines
Mostly lime flavored Ozarka. Thought I picked up a few new ones on the
last market run.
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Response 11 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (13:04) * 3 lines
Never even heard of that!
God, why do the Swiss have to be so boring?
Do you know, here we only get two types of crisps. Non-flavoured, and paprika flavoured. And both taste pretty boring. In Africa and in England you get tomato ketchup, salt and vinegar, roast beef, cheese and onion, barbecue sauce, oh, you NAME it. ANYTHING. Is it like that in America too? When I go to England in a week's time, I'm going to by myself a crate full of crisps, I swear.
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Response 12 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (14:11) * 1 lines
Maybe you just live in too small a town, Riette.
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Response 13 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (14:45) * 4 lines
How dare you suggest such a thing? I don't!
I live in the center of Zürich - isn't that close enough to civilization? I mean, if they can come up with hundreds of different kinds of cheese, AND be inventive enough to punch holes in them, surely they can come up with NICE mineral water and NICE crisps (it's not like I expect them to punch holes in them too!).
Anyway, Zürich may be small, but Windhoek has nice cheese, nice mineral water AND nice crisps, and isn't even a third as big as Zürich. So there!
°snorting indignantly°
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Response 14 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (15:05) * 4 lines
I'm impressed already. Especially with the two dots above the u in
Zurich. Not small town, that. Do they have big health food or natural
foods stores there?
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Response 15 of 83: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (16:54) * 2 lines
you've only got two flavours of crisps in Zurich? Hahha...Switzerland really isn't very exciting, is it? :)
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Response 16 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (17:04) * 2 lines
Is that a cracker?
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Response 17 of 83: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (17:14) * 1 lines
crisps = chips?
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Response 18 of 83: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:53) * 3 lines
The chips here come in umpteen flavors (all unhealthy) and sometimes differ by region. For instance, we live on the Chesapeake Bay, which is known for its delicious steamed blue crabs, so the local chip companies market theirs seasoned with Old Bay crab seasoning (McCormick's spice is based here). The water is big too, but I just drink tap water with lemon slices all day. I refuse to pay for water (other than the water bill).
Terry, it's virtually impossible to get a vegetarian meal in Zurich, so I'm betting there are few or no health food stores. Riette?
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Response 19 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (01:11) * 4 lines
We have loads of BIO food stores in ZÜRICH - notice the correct spelling, naughty Terry, who won't stop teasing - but I'll never buy anything there, because they look foul, and are run by strange religious sects! They sell all sorts of supposedly vegan things there, but I tasted some honey biscuits there once, and nearly threw up. And they sell fruits and vegetables straight from the farm, but they were full of brown spots from being overripe, with these little fruit flies hovering above them. And then
there's the people who run these places. They look at you as if they're trying to hipnotize you, and ask you if you've gotten in touch with your vertical energy yet. Because horizontal energy is bad, vertical energy is good. They explained to me that pregnant women only have vertical energy, that's why they bloom (I only bloomed around my stomach, to be frank), and then after having given birth they switch back to horizontal energy, which is bad, and which explains the depression that follows - never m
nd the fact that pushing out a watermelon through a hole as small as the rim of a glass is just a little painful and traumatic, nevermind the fact that one's hormones suddenly have to switch back to being not-pregnant - and that is why one has to buy one of their vertical energy crystals . . . which, by the way, only cost about SFr. 300- a piece. How stupid must they think people, hey?!?! Silly buggers.
And Mike, yes, Switzerland is the most boring place on this planet, I'm sure.
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Response 20 of 83: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (04:06) * 1 lines
Got in touch with your vertical energy yet, everyone?
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Response 21 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:23) * 23 lines
The natural foods stores here are totally different. They are like
palaces, with the most mega stocks of the most exotic items imaginable,
the fruits and vegetables are awesomely healthy, and the most alluring
females peruse the aisles. I'm talking Whole Foods and Central Market in
Austin. These aren't just "health food stores" they are almost total
lifestyle centering points for some people. Obviously, this phenomenon
hasn't made it to Zurich yet, but it can't be that far off. Sounds like
Zurich is where Austin was 20 years ago in the natural foods department.
(by the way Austin 20 years ago was a very great state of being and a lot
of people miss it in this morass of "progress").
I stopped off at Whole Foods yesterday on my way home from work and it
was a whole experience, running into several friends, old and new. Carol
Price was there, chatting with a friend, a former girlfriend who stirs up
incredible memories of the Takilma River and the Farm in Tennessee. And
Douglas, the body worker who sold his land in Cedar Creek and bought an
rv. And like I said the most awesome array of awesome natural babes to
be found anywhere on planet earth.
The days of wierdo, cultish health food stores and tiny little co-ops
(with the exception of Wheatsville) have long passed in this groaning,
high tech milieu. Places like Whole Foods and Central Market are
becoming our modern day agora.
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Response 22 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (06:59) * 2 lines
Sounds nice. Do they also have mega-(but old!)-hunks parading between the shelves though, otherwise I don't want them near me! Hate staring into the faces of beautiful, tall women all the time - makes me fell worm-like.
But hey, that sort of thing will hit Zürich then when I'm hopefully long gone. Are you a bachelor, Terry?
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Response 23 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (12:16) * 2 lines
Yep! At this stage.
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Response 24 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (12:24) * 1 lines
How weird. I pictured you with six kids - you look quite friendly on the spring cam.
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Response 25 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (15:29) * 2 lines
I've been married twice, each time for 7 years. Maybe the third go
around ???
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Response 26 of 83: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (20:15) * 1 lines
did ya get that ole "seven year itch"?
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Response 27 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (20:48) * 1 lines
I don't think that was it. There were other factors.
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Response 28 of 83: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (20:50) * 3 lines
seven years seems like a long time...
but with all the women you've got hanging around (per our last conversation) which one would you possibly pick?!?!?
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Response 29 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (01:07) * 1 lines
I'm sorry to hear that, Terry. Divorce must me a painful thing to go through.
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Response 30 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (05:47) * 2 lines
Next time I'd like to have something really long term, lifetime,
if possible.
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Response 31 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (06:21) * 1 lines
Yes, that sounds a practical thing. But the way you live now sounds practical too.
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Response 32 of 83: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (15:30) * 1 lines
I would never remarry if we split up or my husband croaked. It's too much work! And I've got kids, a home, etc...all the things you get married for. I'd just sleep around. :-)
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Response 33 of 83: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (17:19) * 1 lines
um, how far around?
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Response 34 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (17:21) * 2 lines
It's too hypothetical, wer.
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Response 35 of 83: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (17:43) * 3 lines
so?
(still fun to talk about...)
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Response 36 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Jul 23, 1998 (01:07) * 1 lines
I don't ever want to sleep around again. It made me miserable.
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Response 37 of 83: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (21:29) * 1 lines
Well, let me clarify that by saying I would sleep around with men I genuinely cared for. I may be easy, but I'm no tramp. :-)
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Response 38 of 83: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (23:54) * 2 lines
Whew!
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Response 39 of 83: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (00:19) * 3 lines
*sigh*
so just a stable stable then, huh?
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Response 40 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (01:03) * 3 lines
ha-ha!
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Response 41 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (02:58) * 1 lines
Or a merry go 'round!
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Response 42 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (00:41) * 1 lines
Don't tempt me! I'm trying to be an honest woman here!
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Response 43 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (00:48) * 1 lines
just a piece of work!!!
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Response 44 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (06:54) * 2 lines
ha-ha!
°sticking my tongue out at you°
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Response 45 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Mon, Nov 23, 1998 (10:31) * 1 lines
OOH.....SEXY!!! French kissing got started that way, Riette. C'est vrai!!
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Response 46 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (00:25) * 1 lines
Only because the French would kiss anything remotely wet.
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Response 47 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Tue, Nov 24, 1998 (00:40) * 1 lines
You could stop that sentence with the word anything, Riette.
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Response 48 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (00:58) * 1 lines
They wouldn't kiss my mother in-law, I don't think.
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Response 49 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (08:51) * 2 lines
They will kiss a Frog. Why wouldn't they kiss your mother-in-law? Is she
German?
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Response 50 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (10:22) * 1 lines
No. English. But worse than a frog.
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Response 51 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Wed, Nov 25, 1998 (12:10) * 2 lines
Riette, I can't believe you said that. Anyway I was using a pun. Frog is slang
for a frenchman. Is she really that bad?
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Response 52 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (00:58) * 1 lines
She is the most utterly annoying person I have EVER come across.
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Response 53 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (01:30) * 2 lines
That is a really powerful statement, Riette. Being that you have been all over
Two continents and heading for a third.
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Response 54 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (10:01) * 1 lines
Maybe it's powerful, and I should probably not speak so. But the truth is that I've never met anyone as desperate to suffer as that woman. I find it difficult to respect people who are like that .
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Response 55 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Thu, Nov 26, 1998 (16:38) * 2 lines
Oh God, I know the type, Riette. I agree with you totally on this. Such a person
trys to make the lives of everyone around them, a living hell.
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Response 56 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (00:31) * 2 lines
Precisely. You know, she suffers from the type of mild diabetes that alot of people get when they get old, and are overweight - I mean, she doesn't even have to inject herself. She just has to test her urine every day to keep a check on it, and eat more healthily. So, whenever she's here, she comes into the living room, waving her pi$$ around, and going on how she had to make sure she doesn't have to go to hospital. It's foul! One would think she was the first person ever to have had an illness - nev
rmind all the people dying of cancer and aids and other horrible diseases. Silly bitch.
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Response 57 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (00:40) * 1 lines
Riette, those two words, pretty well sum it up.
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Response 58 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (00:48) * 1 lines
ha-ha!!! Pretty much!
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Response 59 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (00:55) * 2 lines
Riette, Iwonder if people like that have ever considered just how they look to
everyone else.
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Response 60 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (15:09) * 1 lines
They're too egotistical to consider other people's views/feelings. That I don't doubt for one minute. I mean, to me suffering like that is just another way of making the world revolve around your selfish self. And the stupidest thing about it is the way the always suffer 'in silence'. If only they WOULD!
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Response 61 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Fri, Nov 27, 1998 (15:16) * 1 lines
Riette, that type of person always haas to have center stage, or their not happy.
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Response 62 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (00:28) * 2 lines
I would not lose respect if only they could go stand on a rooftop, and shout: 'People, please give all your attention! I'm in desperate need of it!'
At least they'd be truthful about it.
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Response 63 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (00:34) * 1 lines
Riette, the psychologists of this world would be broke if people followed your suggestions.
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Response 64 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (14:40) * 1 lines
Not broke, more like unmasked! I've always thought them a bunch of thiefs in fancy outfits anyway. And to think that people with real problems are the source for those deceiving feathers of theirs.
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Response 65 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sat, Nov 28, 1998 (14:45) * 1 lines
Riette, you have such a way with words. And Vivid imagery.
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Response 66 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Nov 29, 1998 (01:01) * 1 lines
Tim, I must tell you something quickly, before it's gone. There is the STRANGEST light outside!!! The buildings are covered in a deep red glow, and the sky is as blue as blue can get!!! It's too weird! God, you should see it! I've never seen anything like it - perhaps the aliens have finally landed in their country of origin.
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Response 67 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 29, 1998 (01:07) * 1 lines
Riette, you are seeing the aurora borealis, Go out and watch it.
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Response 68 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Nov 29, 1998 (01:08) * 1 lines
It has a name?? It's all gone again now - that was really beautiful. You get that in Austin too?
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Response 69 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 29, 1998 (09:26) * 1 lines
Riette, I WISH we got the aurora borealis here, but we are too far south. Except for very rare occasions like last night, you are also too far south to see it.
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Response 70 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (00:53) * 1 lines
Yes, it was so weird - I've never seen anything like it before. Wish I had my camera ready.
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Response 71 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (01:05) * 1 lines
Don't worry Riette, a camera can't do it justice.
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Response 72 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (01:05) * 1 lines
Probably not. I'd love to see it in a REALLY cold place though. Up north somewhere.
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Response 73 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Mon, Nov 30, 1998 (01:05) * 1 lines
The only places that you can see it well are REALLY COLD!!!!!! Riette
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Response 74 of 83: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Dec 1, 1998 (00:39) * 1 lines
I wouldn't like that so much...
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Response 75 of 83: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Tue, Dec 8, 1998 (18:15) * 2 lines
I would love to see the aurora borealis while standing on the polar ice. Those
colors reflecting off the ice, magical!!
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Response 76 of 83: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jan 13, 2000 (00:02) * 1 lines
I drink lots of it - loads and loads...it is important and we get our tap water direct from the hand of God here...
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Response 77 of 83: Autumn (autumn) * Wed, Jan 19, 2000 (21:53) * 1 lines
Sounds great! Ours goes from God into the Chesapeake Bay, thru the municipal water plant, out my faucet, and into my Brita pitcher. The next best thing!
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Response 78 of 83: Alexander (aschuth) * Fri, Jan 21, 2000 (14:29) * 3 lines
I love the mineral waters of my county.
There are salty ones, sulfuric ones, and ironic ones. It's this mix - especially the ironic elements in it - that together with our sour apple cider gives our people this unique charme.
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Response 79 of 83: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jan 21, 2000 (16:40) * 2 lines
We have sulfur in our air, in the water in some places, and everywhere else. You must live in a once-volcanic area. Ironic ones? Thay is where your irony comes from ;) (Chalebeate is what it is called at the well in Glastonbury)
Yummm Love sour apple cider!! Tart, that is, not sour from turning into vinegar...!
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Response 80 of 83: Autumn (autumn) * Sun, Jan 23, 2000 (14:04) * 1 lines
I love the idea of drinking ironic water!
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Response 81 of 83: Alexander (aschuth) * Sun, Jan 23, 2000 (14:46) * 1 lines
We can serve all flavs here, and even export it. We even got our own Coke plant because of our water, not that a coke plant is something to write home about, but well...
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Response 82 of 83: Autumn (autumn) * Sun, Jan 23, 2000 (15:05) * 1 lines
Hey, we have a Coke and a Pepsi plant here! I get a kick out of seeing "Bottled in Havre de Grace, MD" in tiny print on the side of the can when I'm visiting someone who drinks it. I never thought about the fact that soft drink recipes would taste different depending on the water system where it is bottled...
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Response 83 of 83: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jan 23, 2000 (17:01) * 1 lines
Havre de Grace?! I know your home town. I have slews of relatives in Easton and learned to sail on the Choptank River.
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