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Damn. When I read about it I just couldn't believe !!! US$5.00 !!!

It's not just $5.

It's $5 from a tip tray. It's $5 from some poor soul who's working a second job to pay for her son's new wheelchair.

Yeah, leaving the scene is a crime. Shouldn't a done that.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:

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Damn. When I read about it I just couldn't believe !!! US$5.00 !!!

It's not just $5.

It's $5 from a tip tray. It's $5 from some poor soul who's working a second job to pay for her son's new wheelchair.

Precisely. That's one of the things that make it unbelievable. Not to mention involving a neighbor in such trouble. Not to mention not assuming the fault and leaving the neighbor out of it.

A burning smell in the kitchen.

The oven is pre-heating to 450 dgress F, with a pizza stone. I'm working from "Artisan Bread in 5 min a day"

So, if all goes well and the kitchen doesn't burn down, I'll be eating homemade bread in another 45 min or so.

I was helping to move out of an apartment today, so the place where I live continues to demonstrate chaos, in several different forms.

Ugh, getting over a cold.

Nearly there. But the Hell's Angels did not make it easy.

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Originally posted by SRu:
A burning smell in the kitchen.

The oven is pre-heating to 450 dgress F, with a pizza stone. I'm working from "Artisan Bread in 5 min a day"

So, if all goes well and the kitchen doesn't burn down, I'll be eating homemade bread in another 45 min or so.

I was helping to move out of an apartment today, so the place where I live continues to demonstrate chaos, in several different forms.

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I can never get homemade bread to come out well. I guess its the bleached flour. I have tried different types of flour, whole wheat, rye etc.. but I can't get it to taste as good as the fresh baked stuff at the local deli.

You do know the difference between hard and soft flour, dawntreader? Or weak and strong flour, same thing.

dawntreader, i think maybe it tastes better if someone else bakes & cleans up the kitchen mess!

The other new thing I have been trying is a pizza stone to put the bread on. (round loaf, no pan)

Various cookbooks reccomend an empty broiler pan on the bottom shelf, pour in boiling water when you put the bread in. I've been doing that, too. The humidity during baking is supposed to create a crispier crust.

It's a pain, but it seems to be working.

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Originally posted by SRu:
It's a pain, but it seems to be working.

CROSS-LINGUISTIC PUN FOR TEH WIN!

You can either stick a pan full of water in the bottom, or get a spray bottle full of water and spritz the oven every ten minutes or so.

If I'd intended a pun, I would have said "It's a pain, but it's pain."

As is, I was thinking (trying to dredge up the highschool French) "Isn't it odd that paine is French for bread?"

I just came back from shopping at Costco. It's amazing how much stuff I saw that was "I want one, it's only $17 or so" and then reminded myself that if I'm collecting unemployment, it would be wise to restrict myself to purchases that I could eat later.

End result: $29 of food. Eggs, apples, and chocolate. Plus $2.50 worth of prints from my digital camera.

You're actually the second Wigber I've pull that "cross-linguistic pun" thing on.

I was chatting with another, who mentioned that shopping for is a pain.

Best bit: that Wigber was ArkanGL.

Also, French toast in France is called pain perdu. "Lost Bread." Which is a stereotypically romantic way of thinking about it.

'Course, you can't call French toast "Pain Francais" in France. That would be gauche.

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Originally posted by lithos:

'Course, you can't call French toast "Pain Francais" in France. That would be gauche.

In Paris, they would charge you twice the price, just for saying that

And four times the price if you want to eat it on the footpath.

Among the dogshit

I think Paul Carter had the best story about dogshit in Paris.

I rather like the motorcycle-mounted Parisian dogshit-removal squad.

Argued with creationists. It's a bad vice to have.

Arguing with them, I mean.

Same here, Bravus. Although it was more fundamentalist Christian hypocrites, who think that "It's in the Bible" is the be-all, end-all of any argument.

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Argued with creationists. It's a bad vice to have.

Love desperate tasks ?
You're ready to join the parisian dogshit-removal squad.