Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Fwd: stew Date: Sun, 04 May 2025 19:28:10 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <68156c85$0$3832$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <681585c5$0$4266$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <68162269$0$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 04 May 2025 11:28:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="71deeaf9b8a4023e1f7a85a2ec3acdc8"; logging-data="1768809"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w9/5RUTmJPTzxt2dk82D7" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fvB0dEb+iEWbtalKfc4/Wp0w4vw= Bytes: 2386 On Sun, 4 May 2025 09:17:10 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton wrote: >On 2025-05-04, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >> On 2025-05-03, dsi1 wrote: >> >>> In our club, we say the American pledge of allegiance at the start of >>> meetings. I thought it was peculiar that the old guy next to me left out >>> the words "under God" which threw me off beat. I asked him about it and >>> he said that's the way he learned it and he gets mixed up sometimes. It >>> seems that those words were added to the pledge in 1954, when the >>> Americans were gripped with fear of the commies. It was added because a >>> commie can't say those words without stopping to spit. It was a way to >>> ferret out the true commies in our midst. >> >> Yup, I was in the third grade during the lyrics change, and it took a >> few renditions before everybody got in sync. >> Unfortunately, the commies adapted and call themselves "progressive" >> now. Ain't words great! > >Could you provide your definition of "communism"? Ouch. -- Bruce