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2fs - 2008-02-13 23:57:01
As usual, my task here is to miss the main point and instead focus on trivia: specifically, your (probably somewhat intentionally amusing) abbreviation for that Eggers-edited collection...which abbrev. incorporated the sequence "2K7" for the year. My take on that: cut it out. First, does it really take any longer to type "2007" than "2K7"? No - in fact, it takes less time because you can avoid the shift key. And if you're really in a hurry to save keystrokes, simply "07" will in most contexts adequately convey that you're referring to the year. Of course, this is nothing as compared to the atrocity of people who write dates and omit the zero in the year column, resulting in horrifying things like last Wednesday's date being designated as "2/6/8"...which doesn't look like a date at all - more like some sort of alien shoe size. Why do people keep doing things that pointlessly annoy me, huh?
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Paula - 2008-02-14 00:20:11
"2K7" is much sexier. There.
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grigorss - 2008-02-14 03:39:38
I don"t know 2fs -- why do people keep doin' thing's that point-less-ly annoy U?!?@?
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MacValentine - 2008-02-14 06:28:05
2fs & Grigorss--you guys need to re-focus your angst on something righteous... like why the hell I can't find a real bagel outside the 5 boroughs of NYC! Seriously, will somebody tell these people that a bagel is not a kaiser roll with a hole!!! Anyway, today is a perfect day for heart-shaped bagels and lox because lox are sort of pink. May you all have a heart shaped bagel to chew on all day.
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MacConfounded - 2008-02-14 06:29:04
The anti-spam codes to get a message on here are really hard to read.
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Jestaplero - 2008-02-14 11:37:52
Re: bagels. The theory is that bagels not made with NYC tap water just don't work.
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Paula - 2008-02-14 11:53:04
Another aspect of the problem is that some bakers do not boil and then bake, which is the key bagel-making method. They just bake, which produces kaiser-roll faux-gels.
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Paula - 2008-02-14 11:55:05
Incidentally, I am *so* glad that Diaryland has finally instituted the "captcha" feature on comments. You wouldn't believe the amount of spam comments I get--I don't even delete them anymore because it's an involved process and the spammers usually target entries from several months back that no one's looking at anymore.
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amy - 2008-02-14 12:54:19
I don't know -- I've had some pretty fine bagels baked in Brookline, Mass. Bialys, too.
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Mr Lojban - 2008-02-15 12:37:03
No bagel dispute is complete without the Montreal Question. Montreal bagels are completely different: smaller, sweeter, denser. But, are they better? People from both towns are fiercely partisan. I would have to say -- apples and oranges.
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