Conference back40::soapbox

    a blueberry bagel

re: .0

Who really cares??   Why would you waste disk space storing this
crap for posterity?  Why would you waste network bandwidth by sending
this crap to every noter who happens upon this topic?  Why would you
waste the time of every noter that hits this note, since clearly
NOBODY GIVES A CRAP what you had for breakfast?

If you don't have something to say of political or social interest
JUST DON'T SAY IT.  Why is this so hard to understand?  What compels
you to say WRITE at the NOTES> prompt?  Can't you just do some work,
or tidy your office, or just go home?  Must we ALL be subjected to
YOUR boredom?

I sincerely hope you get a life.
\john

    -1 lighten up. 
    
       btw, why did you even bother responding? bored or sumthin?

	I had a pill. One for the swelling I have. Gotta get rid of the
swelling. I was running late, so I did not eat food. That is bad. I must eat
and take pill. 


Glen

    
    
    	coffee and two jelly-filled crullers......MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm...
    
    
    

    Sounds like John had peed on wheaties for breakfast.

    
      Harney should be sent to the minors, or else get a pointer from
     the frenchies.  Yer supposed to move it and append it to an
     arbitrary note-string.  Get with the program.
    
      bb

       re .3:
       
       > why did you even bother responding? 
       
       Perhaps because he, unlike you and several others, fail to
       recognize that there ought to be a difference between Soapbox and
       AIRHEADED-FRIENDS-IN-SEARCH-OF-A-LIFE-OR-BRAIN.NOTE.
       
       --Mr Topaz
       

    When I'm in SOAPBOX I don't GAS. Place this note in ::FRIENDS where it
    belongs.
    
    Yoghurt and fresh squeezed orange juice.

    Lots of vitimans, cerial and juice... O.J....

    
    	Smooth move in correcting the spelling error in that reply, Topaz.
    	
    	8^)
    

    take leap trapeze

              <<< Note 556.2 by ALPHAZ::HARNEY "John A Harney" >>>
                   -< I eat doofas noters for breakfast... >-

	Don't worry.. remember the 'Survival of the fittest' theory? It
applies everywhere, in all walks of life.. even for a base note..!

If it doesn't appeal to the noters.. it will have a premature death..
Noters are as conscious as you are and will ignore anything worth not discussing
In fact these topics serve as a reminder to other itchy finger noters to 
think twice before doing a WRITE..

Having said that...!


I LOVE THIS TOPIC! 

	I had a couple of rice pancakes and coffee this morning!

    -1 hootin' & hollarin'
    
       gee, is a little meaningless diversion really void of value?

    
    Packed with political and social interest:
    
       11  VAXWRK::HARNEY       17-NOV-1994  8870  Things to Like Today
    
    

    
    That topic has been a staple in every version of the box which I have
    been involved in, dating back to 1987.
    
    
    Mike
    

    
    And rightly so.  Let's hope the brekkie note enjoys such a long and
    happy life.  
    
    I was tempted by the apple spice muffins, but settled for a bowl of
    chex.

 In support of Mr. Harney, I will not respond to this topic.



 Besides, the waffles I had this morning seem to be causing a little grumbling
 in my stomach.  Or is it the coffee?




 Jim

    
    	And I'm sure Mr. Harney commends you for your restraint.
    

    
    some people have "brains & eggs".

I haven't had breakfast or lunch today   ;-(

It's my own fault.... I spent my lunch hour (well, actually a little
longer if truth be told) in 'Home Depot' (which really has become
my Visa card's best friend) and didn't have time to grab anything to
eat.

    Grits.
    
    I live north of the Mason-Dixon line.

    
    Harney, yo mama.

    
    isn't grit the stuff they use on roads to stop black ice ?     
    
    H (II)
    
    
    

    bloody hell another chef.

    It's all grits to the mill.

    oh and can I add to my last note.... An ignorant one too!

    
    It's feasible that a Brit might not know a grit,
    few Americans have knowledge of porridge.

    Hey pal, I'm a brit who's eaten a grit :*)
    
    Leave me alone in my taunting of the newcomer !!!!

    
    I'm obviously not as well travelled and worldly wise as you. 
    
    But at least I'm not rude. (well not in the way that you are).
    
    
    
    H

    

>                          -< Breakfast is for wimps >-

    	Ah, very intellectual....

    OD'ed on OJ

    is ir "Are-enthal" or "Or-enthal"?

    Lessee, O.J. Hmmmmmmmm, could it start with an O or an A?  I wonder, 
    hmmmmm, quite puzzling, quite.  

    
    > <<< Note 556.30 by CHEFS::ROBINSONH "Hayley Robinson" >>>
    
    every time I see this p_name, It looks like Harley Davidson.... :-(
    
    I NEEEEEED A NEEEEW BIIIIIIIIIIIIKE !!!!!.....
    
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! ! !
    
    
    <pant>,<gasp>,<pant>..... I'm ok now.... sorry about that... :-}
    

    Kidneys and grits fried in olive oil, coffee, arrowroot biscuits and a
    banana in the car on the way to work.
    

    Well, your disposition is explained, anyway.

    Potato and Chorizo burrito with cheese and meg's killer salsa.
    
    (Whole wheat tortilla as well)
    
    

 Now that is a breakfast!





 

    Well, you have to do something to keep from passing out in that thin
    air over there.

    I think the Cruel Spa is beginning to win.

    Left over lab drugs from test the night before.... GREaT cOloRS! Once grew
    a lizard tail and green scales... another time was exposed to nuke waiste...
    grew 26 stories.... then walked under doors.... Now I am sitting here
    waiting for a zillion volts to pass thru my head set!!:)
    

    See? It was prophetic.

    
>    I'm obviously not as well travelled and worldly wise as you. 
    
>    But at least I'm not rude. (well not in the way that you are).
    
    RUDE !!! You thought that was rude ? Pah, if that's what you think,
    then I fully agree with your first statement.
    
    Oh, and yes I am wise Obe Wan.

    .37
    
    Oh you are such a wit Levesque, such a wit.

    .42
    
    This confuses me.

    ... its simple.. we are all lab mice in this world.:)

    I would have had cheese for breakfast, had I not taken wrong turn in the
    maze.                                                  

    .48 from the looks of your tail and fur, you stepped on that electric
    plate and got a charge that you can skip the coffee for at least two
    days.;) 
    
    I had a friend who got shipped over to MIT for a one way quick ride to deep
    space.... going to miss him..:)
    
     

    As long as I don't get picked to be part of the mouse organ tonight.

    .... organ? Gee? I though you were going to be cat snack for the lab
    cat with the wires coming out of his scull. Guess they wanna see what
    the cat will do when he eats your drugged little body. Perhaps they
    want to see if the cat will twirl around a bunch.:) Maybe... turn
    purple and look like a dinasor!! Welp. I donno whats worse... being
    sent to space with no life support system or being fed to a cat.:)
    
    

    I squeek in the key of F, and fortunately F's are a dime a dozen.

    Here! Let me take this hammer and smash your tail. That should change
    your squeek!:)
    

    Nice thing about being a mouse is that there's always a mickey around
    when you need one.

    
    Yeah, but what about a Minnie?
    
    -b

    
    	Some would reply to that with "Love the one you're with".
    

    ...or Love means never having to say your sorry.:) I'm sorry your going
    to be fed to a cat, or lanched deep into space, or have your tail
    smashed so you change the key of F to something else.:)
    
    

    If you get smashed enough you will squeek flat.

    
    .48 from the looks of your tail and fur
    
    I have no fur, it was a Skinner box.

    
    
    Microwaved remnants of a chinese take-out. 
    All mixed/heaped into a bowl, left to marinate over night, and nuked
    for 3 mins appears to enhance the flavor.
    
    I prefer cereal before I go to bye bye's at night.
    
    /David  (Field Service....where day is night and versa vice)
    

    blueberry bagel and scrambled eggs loaded with Tabasco

    ceftin, naproxen and one other one that I don't remember.

       re .62:
       
       Eh bien, copain, did you choose a red or a white to accompany your
       petit d�jeuner?

    a brown.

 bowl of cheerios (well, the Shaw's version thereof) and a cup of coffee.





 Jim

    
    	Yuck ... I hate Cheerios.
    
    	Honey Bunches of Oats is one of the best cereals around.
    

    After dropping Erik off at school and returning home to drop off the
    car and catch my train, I was running late so gave up and took an hour
    out of the morning to catch the next train.  Gave me time to cook
    breakfast.  I sauteed some mushrooms with some smoked turkey, set that
    aside.  Pan-fried a left-over baked russett; scrambled two eggs and
    chopped them up with the potato, mushroom and turkey.  Had heated some
    green chile sauce on the side, added that just to get it all moist and
    suitable for a burrito.  Actually had too much, put some in the fridge
    for future quick burrito fixin's.  Put a tortilla in the skillet,
    flipped it a few times, added some cream cheese and the filling, rolled
    a burrito and let it melt for a few minutes in the still-warm skillet.
    
    Wrapped it in waxed paper and foil and caught my train- it was delicious
    and the envy of everyone in the car.
    
    DougO

       
       The approach of winter must be a dreary and unhappy time in
       Canada.

 Frozen waffles (well, I toasted them) and coffee, followed by a large
 dose of Gaviscon.





 Jim

re: .69

Thanks for explaining why you started this topic.

It's all clear now.
\john

    I had a spanish onion and chewed on some fresh garlic.
    
    Ahhh, peace and quiet.

    RE .70
    While I was riding my bike to work this afternoon I happened to think
    about the verbal abuse I littered upon our friend Mr. Harney. It was, I
    realized, a product of the physical and mental changes being forced
    upon me by the coming winter. The storm that blew through here this
    weekend ripped a good chunk of of leaves off the trees. All of a sudden
    we are into deep autumn. Days are shorter and the cool air bites at
    ones extremities. 
    
    I am responding to these changes in a number of ways. I am eating more.
    Hence my preoccupation with food and rituals associated with the
    preperation and consumption of it. In my mind I am recalling stories of
    last winter. I have had mild hallucinations, ie. seeing snow on the
    ground when there is none. I feel as if I have to leave. I like to
    think that this feeling has its home in some obscure gene configuration
    that inhabited the early hunter and gatherer.
    
    Mr. Topaz, your insight was remarkable. Treat yourself to some cookies
    and milk.
    
    chris

    It's good that you were thinking in your mind. This certainly is a step
    in the right direction.
    
    ;')

    consistency is not guaranteed
    

    
>    consistency is not guaranteed
    
    	I won't say it...:)
    
    

Breakfast is for gurlies and queeahs.  Unless, of course, it consists of
fried sausage, fried eggs, fried bacon, fried black pudding, mushy beans,
bread fried in lard, mushrooms and grilled tomato.  Oddly enough, this is
also the best cure for a hangover.

Chris.

    very primitive mr. lager lout. have you considered letting an
    archeologist study your behavior patterns?
    

    <<< Note 556.74 by POLAR::WILSONC "A dog is a womans best man" >>>
    
    last winter. I have had mild hallucinations, ie. seeing snow on the
    
    
                     <<< Note 556.78 by CBHVAX::CBH "Lager Lout" >>>
    
    Breakfast is for gurlies and queeahs.  Unless, of course, it consists
    of
    ...mushrooms
    
    
    
    Methinks these two have been breakfasting together.

    ...perhaps..... Mr. lout shoulD HaVE SomE OF MinD bREAfast!:) WOsers!
    What StRangE COloRRSSS~:) Whaz this AbouT BEing a Girlyman?:( 

    ....this morning.. I had some nuke waiste... I have turned green
    again.... and have grown a hard shell like thingie on my back.... Now I
    have this yen for pizza... donno why?;)
    

    two english muffins with peanut butter on one honey on the other, bowl
    of corn bran, bowl of yogurt three glasses of orange juice and a
    cup-o-coffee and a smoke.

 Blueberry waffles and a cup o' coffee (plus a cup of Dunkin' Donuts
 coffee later).



 Jim

    Hacker-Pschorr Brau Munchen

    Re .82 Rauh & his brekkie -- check out Kafka's "Metamorphosis."  Great
    reading to accompany your next one.
    
    Be sure to write, if you are still dexterous that is. 
    

    pancakes, o.j, coffee, smoke.

    .86 Sure!! Will do! :) Did you see 'Pinky and the Brain' last night?:)
    I can identify with them, for it seems, we are allllll lab mice in real
    life.:) Someone is going to test us with this or that..... etc.;) 
    
    

    .83 Sounded like a very healthy breakfast 'til you got to the part
    about the smoke :-)
    

    
    I had a cup of methanol, ethanol, butanol, methyl butanol,
    acetaldehyde, methyl formate, dimethyl sulfide, propionaldehyde,
    pyridine, acetic acid, furfural, furfuryl alcohol, acetone, methyl
    acetate, furan, methylfuran, diacetyl isoprene, water, and caffeine.
    
    
    Um...bluuurrrrgh.  Maybe I should switch to tea.
    
    

    sounds like copier toner. You definitely should switch to tea.

    Sounds like an edible oil product to me. 
    
    Er, fake cream?

    
    According to my new mug, it's coffee 8^p.
    

    For some reason I expected to see ethylmerman in that list.

    <best Rev Jim voice> ....aaaaaahhh.... Wow!!.... Some of that stuff I
    tried..... Went to Woodstock.... it was a year later when I figured the
    party was over... Sitting in the field by myself.....

    
    Suddenly I feel the need to stand up and belt out "Everything's Coming
    Up Roses"!
    
    

    
    <--- I'll have you know that I just guffawed with such gusto
         as to elicit several people to stand up and peer at
         me in my cubicle.
    
    -b

	deb, if you could follow that up with "god bless america",
	i'd really appreciate it.  thanks in advance.

    
    Naah, Kate Smith is tomorrow's alter ego 8^).
    

    
    Can you do `Smoke On The Water'?
    

    
>>    Naah, Kate Smith is tomorrow's alter ego 8^).

    aw shucks.  i miss her, i really do. 8^|
    

    
    I think the reason I laughed so hard at what Deb said is
    I subconsciously remembered when my old band "Network" was
    having auditions to replace our female lead singer. We
    had a song called "Sister Secret" which was about a
    nun the former singer had known while growing up in a
    convent school in Bolivia. Picture a song that a Suzanne
    Vega or Natalie Merchant would sing... delicate; full
    of complex emotion; feminine.

    We were cycling through the auditions at a pretty good
    clip. Each audition was recorded and videotaped so
    we could review them later. Well.... this one woman (name
    long ago forgotten) came in. Her credentials were that
    she sang in what is known as a "GB" (General Business)
    band... wedding schlock and the like. As soon as she
    told me that, the alarm bells started to ring. But
    when she launched into her Mermenesque interpretation
    of "Sister Secret", it was all we could do to keep from
    falling out of our chairs laughing. I still have that
    videotape somewhere... I'm gonna dig that out and
    keep it for when I really need a good laugh. Needless
    to say, she did not get the gig.

    -b

| <<< Note 556.99 by POWDML::HANGGELI "Little Chamber of OhOhOh/OwOwOw" >>>


| Naah, Kate Smith is tomorrow's alter ego 8^).

	Does this mean that tomorrow's alter ego is dead, or rotted?

When the mo-o-o-o-o-o-n
Comes o-o-ove-e-e-er the mount-a-a-a-ain
....

    Go ahead.  Be Ethel Merman.  Just don't marry Ernest
    Borgnine.  I refuse to dine with him.
    

I didn't think that E.B. was an option any more as a dining companion for 
anyone?


2 cups of tea
1/2 English muffin with plum jam, 1/2 English muffin with vegemite.


My kid is quite partial to croissants with vegemite.  So *there* M. Chirac!



\C

    
    I still have two more hours to be Ethel Merman today.  Didn't she do
    "Annie Get Your Gun"?  I could probably sing thru that in less than 2
    hours.
    
    
    

    I ate breakfast last night... right after dinner. I had a roight nice 
    bit a crumpet with crunchy peanut butter spread all over !!!! I did 
    too !! 
    
    I blame Lady Di for the peanut butter.... everytime I see your node 
    name I crave peanuts. 

    Just don't carry it over into the AM deb, I don't think Merman and
    hangovers go very well to-gether:-)
    
    
    joan

    Coffee, food pellets, a run on the rodent wheel, and a shot in the ass
    with some glowing orange drug..... hASnT ANy EFFEctsf yeT.?!@SERAV
    
    ;)
    

    
    re: .106
    
    >vegemite
    
    Bluuurgggggghhh!!!
    

re 556.111 

Philistine!


OK, vegemite looks like shoe polish, tastes salty, and smells a bit odd.
We like it :^), especially when compared against other "child-foods". Why do
grandmothers experiment so much on their grandchildren?  I *still* have
horrible memories of lamb-brains  (and having my hair washed with a raw egg -
and picking the shell out days after - eeuuughh)


\C
    

    marmite is better !!!

Marm is mite
Veg is mightier!

    Actually, the marmite over here isn't very nice. I prefer the stuff 
    at home. The peanut butter over here is very tasty indeed!!!!
    
    My fave Icecream is vanila with the real peanut butter swirls in it.
    That is just tooooo nice for words !! 

Try the Norco natural vanilla with macadamia nuts & a bit of Milo sprinkled on 
top (or malt if you're not a choc person)


\C

    For behfesss?
    
    Bluuuuuuurgh!

        When asked what Marmite is I usually tell 'em it's termite jam.
        A marmalade made from termites - mar_mite.
        
        &y (who just received a fresh new one pound jar straight from the
        UK and who has Vegemite on it's way from Oz, thatnks to a
        vacationing colleague who asked if I wanted anything brought
        back)

Nutella on toast can be pretty nice too, if you can cope with chocolate first 
thing in the mornings.

\C

    I'm sticking with the peanut butter !!! I just love that 6m calorie
    intake first thing in the am !! :*)

    A standard fitting 2 pieces of toast with marmite and soup from the
    canteen.
    
    Gosh. How bloody interesting.
    

    <-- That brings back some memories !!

    For anyone that might travel to Sydney in the future:
    
    There is a wonderful Austrian (yes, not Australian) Cafe called Una's
    that is situated on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. They make the most 
    wonderful breakfast and it's very cheap (for it's size!!) at $6.50(aussie)
    A very friendly atmosphere with wonderful Austrian hospitality. All round 
    a clean and pleasant environment.

    Do they charge for coffee by the cup?  Is the bottomless cup of coffee
    a purely American (and Canadian) diner tradition?  

    
    To the kitchen, where I defrosted surplus french toast left over
    from a previous breakfast.  I only write this by way of warning
    to others who may be tempted to do likewise and suffer accordingly.