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[Sibyl Smirl]

Looks like Canadians are more logical than Kansans!

On 5/5/15 2:42 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
> I _preserve _stuff  in glass jars.  Canning would only be in a tin.
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> Marion, a pilgrim
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> On 5/5/2015 1:13 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>> On 5/4/15 11:30 PM, Lesley de Voil wrote:
>>> Oh, I see. Grace was still in Monday when she asked! Christofori was
>>> yesterday!
>>> <Sigh> This dateline thing still trips me up after all these years.
>>> It is, after all, already Tuesday afternoon here.
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>> Back when Gaynor McCartney was hanging out in #Anglican on dalnet IRC
>> chat with us, every day, even casual chat about gardening or cooking
>> could get really confusing, what with the differences in date, time of
>> day, and season of the year, not to mention the difference in Kiwi and
>> American English.  I changed computers, too, during that period, so I
>> kept a little international clock app on the new computer set to
>> Auckland time, which did help.  But then she'd talk of things like
>> "bottling" her homegrown peaches (when there was snow outside my
>> window! ;^) ).  Was she cooking "peach nectar" from them?  (I don't
>> know about Australian English, but in the US, a "bottle" has a narrow
>> neck, used only for liquids, or possibly something tiny like capers).
>> Turned out, that time, she was talking about the usual wide-mouthed
>> "canning" jars (which makes another bit of confusion or mental
>> disconnect, when you think about it: a "can" is a metal cylinder, but
>> when you do home "canning", it's almost always in glass jars, with
>> wide mouths. Not logical, even speaking American, but grooved into our
>> brains on automatic).  My brain could get surreal.  And we were both
>> typing English, near instantaneously!
>>
>> The world may be ready for global communications, but I'm not sure
>> that the human brain is.
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