Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:51:51 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <822fd426da6ede0746f00d5517fd9d78@www.novabbs.org> References: <7be29ab9e88b9196af3bc37d4a7be992@www.novabbs.org> <3716c0571f39b4dc590c9fdaa1faee1d@www.novabbs.org> <1oqOP.2638088$OrR5.1150342@fx18.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1862370"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="fvfMHpfyYaD/vlBz5lqYkjt6mNUTPbft/wBbWy6Ff1w"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 3a41f635759bc15db100ab3d5cacd588ab964edd X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$PbOhAYR3IaR84rlrwBhMX.WyE5ejOLr0K1BPDaLy7k4vMbqrLybcy On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 2:03:48 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: > On 2025-04-24, Ed P wrote: > >> My grandfather came from Poland in 1902. I just hope he did the >> paperwork correctly so I don't get deported. He came over on a Russian >> ship so I may get sent back to fight in the Russian army. > > > If he came after September, Dad was one year old. Ain't it great how, as > we age, time shrinks? Hell, I was born eighty two years after the Civil > War. I used to think that was a long time. > You and I have lived for about a third of this country's existence. Time > flies when you're having fun! > > Random thoughts on a Thursday It might be random but seeing time as a continuum rather than as being before and after one's birth-date is a good thing. What blows my mind is that all our American cowboy mythos takes place during a narrow period of time after the American Civil War and about the 1920's. Mixing up cowboys with the modern age just doesn't seem right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJmDzVXCx8