On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:19:35 +1000, TimC wrote: Hopefully, our fearless state government leader (whiny bastard Iemma -- apparently it took the rest of the state 3 years longer than it took me to realise that he was bad news) will be toppled over the Winter break. That's what a lot of people in Merkia said four years ago, and look what happened. No matter how bad the rascals in office

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:43:46 GMT, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:12:50 +0100, Richard Gadsden wrote: If you mean that one has fruit in the ingredients list but is homogenised, while the other has identifiable bits of fruit in it, then the answer is that we don't, both of those are jam. No. In Merkia, if you're making jelly, you

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:08:39 GMT, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:40:08 +0200, Jasper Janssen wrote: Why would it be hard to get coffee flavour into jelly? I did a mean gelatine-infused coffee and ginger bavarois-style pudding, a while back. I'm not sure about RightPondian terminology here, but in Merkia that would be a coffee flavored

Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> wrote: "Maarten Wiltink" <maarten@kittensandcats.net> wrote: [...] Actual ground cows, ketjap, hagelslag... What more would you folks suggest? (My colleagues are going to be hiding under tables this time.) Maybe the condiment that has recently taken ketjup's place as Merkia's favorite: salsa. HP Sauce is made in the Netherlands these

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:46:42 GMT, Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> wrote: As Jerry points out, "No Child Left Behind means No Child Gets Ahead." However, isn't micromanaging everything by the central government part of socialism? What Merkia needs isn't more federal control of the schools, but less. We need to go back to a system of local control of schools so that each