Invisible wrote:

> 
> Especially at *my* library! Last time I checked, they still use two-tone 
> brown dumb terminals with green screens for searching the library 
> catelogue.
> 

Not terribly dissimilar to what pizza delivery places (that actually 
have a computerized system) use, I imagine. Everything ran off of the 
manager's computer, with serial cables. It was some specialized 
multi-tasking form of DOS. Weird stuff.

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>> Especially at *my* library! Last time I checked, they still use 
>> two-tone brown dumb terminals with green screens for searching the 
>> library catelogue.
> 
> WTF!

What? It's a library funded by a county counsil. What's to explain? 
Technically it does what it's meant to do...

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > "Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Vitamin C" [Found on some cheap lemonade.]
>
> I liked the bit I had this morning.  "... Natural banana flavoring
> (water, fruit juice, organic sugar) ..."
>
> I wasn't aware you could juice a banana, myself.

Who said that's banana juice? They said banana flavoring and fruit juice.
They didn't say *what* fruit.

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:40 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:

>
>"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
>news:480fc89a$1@news.povray.org...
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> > "Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Vitamin C" [Found on some cheap lemonade.]
>>
>> I liked the bit I had this morning.  "... Natural banana flavoring
>> (water, fruit juice, organic sugar) ..."
>>
>> I wasn't aware you could juice a banana, myself.
>
>Who said that's banana juice? They said banana flavoring and fruit juice.
>They didn't say *what* fruit.
>

You can still juice a banana :)
With milk they are really nice IMHO.
Have you tried carrot and apple juiced?
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     Stephen

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Phil Cook wrote:
> GIYF or more precise WIYF - Phobos the Robot Planet by Paul Capon? Not 
> one I've read.

Actually, it looks more like "Lost, a Moon". No mention of Phobos in the 
title. Phobos the Robot Planet was published the same year. I'm 
suspecting it was the same story published under two names. The cover of 
"Lost, a Moon" is definitely something I remember.

Cool! Thanks!  (And yes, I did google it, but I obviously got the wrong 
words to search.)

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Stephen wrote:
> I don't do that, it spoils my appetite :)

<LaurieAnderson> And you're eating, and you're reading, and you're 
eating, and you suddenly realize that what you're eating is what you're 
reading. But by then, it's much too late. </LaurieAnderson>

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:480fc89a$1@news.povray.org...
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> "Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Vitamin C" [Found on some cheap lemonade.]
>> I liked the bit I had this morning.  "... Natural banana flavoring
>> (water, fruit juice, organic sugar) ..."
>>
>> I wasn't aware you could juice a banana, myself.
> 
> Who said that's banana juice? They said banana flavoring and fruit juice.
> They didn't say *what* fruit.

Oh, I know. It was just a bit odd that the "natural banana flavoring" 
apparently had no banana in it. Not the naive interpretation of 
"natural" I was expecting. It was more an amused comment than anything.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Gail Shaw wrote:
> They are excellent and surprisingly, the movie 'The Golden Compass' follows
> the book almost exactly.

To a large extent, yes. Didn't they skip the trek with the gypsies (or 
whatever they're called in the book) or was that the second novel?

And yah, the movie ended about a chapter earlier, which was kind of an 
interesting choice, given the final chapter of the book.

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:18:48 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
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>Stephen wrote:
>> I don't do that, it spoils my appetite :)
>
><LaurieAnderson> And you're eating, and you're reading, and you're 
>eating, and you suddenly realize that what you're eating is what you're 
>reading. But by then, it's much too late. </LaurieAnderson>

LOL
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Regards
     Stephen

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Oh, I know. It was just a bit odd that the "natural banana flavoring" 
> apparently had no banana in it. Not the naive interpretation of 
> "natural" I was expecting. It was more an amused comment than anything.
> 

Yep. I remember a long time ago watching a show about some of what goes 
on behind the scenes with manufactured food products. I remember some 
person in a lab with dozens of tiny vials mixing and matching the 
compounds, and giving it a taste. The host asked about the distinction 
between natural and artificial flavorings. The person in the lab 
basically stated a natural flavor may have no relevance to what it's 
trying to mimic, but is extracted from a natural source, whereas 
artificial flavor is a molecule synthesized to mimic the flavor of 
something. Something like almond flavoring isn't derived from the 
almonds you can buy at the supermarket, but rather an extract toxic 
variety that is bitter to the taste.

Not sure what they could use to get "natural" banana flavor...

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