elag wrote:
> > Yurk! Fish sauce! I bought a chinese cookbook (love the stuff!) and it
> > mentioned stuff like oyster sauce all the way through. Of course we
> > bought bottles of this and bottles of that, all used just the once...
> > ach, why would I want my chicken to taste of fish? :O)
> > The only strong smell I can tolerate is meat cooking.
>
> Fish sauce actually works quite well in Vietnamese fish dishes. I
> substitute Vietnamese fish sauce (Nuoc mam) for Garum even though it's
> likely somewhat different. The Romans used it as the equivalent of soy
> sauce... the Fishy flavor didn't always predominate. I've found that if
> you add just enough so that the fish flavor is just below the threshold
> of detection it really enriches nearly any dish.
>
And here was me thinking I had a light touch :O)
> > :O) There was a time when I would have done the same, except the Paris
> > bit (haven't ever been abroad) but one of the serious points of OCD is
> > the omen or portent angle. You start to do something, or try to stop
> > doing something, and suddenly your brain starts screaming warnings of
> > impending doom. Something as harmless as collecting a discarded thing
> > becomes a huge and terrible event. As a child I was a scavenger, as an
> > adult i can't dispose of unwanted things and have to go through hell to
> > replace or try out new things.
>
> As long as you throw out the chicken bones and orange rinds...
and banana peel. :O)
> > > Well, now you have some nice trivia for livening up you next party.
> > >
> > > "Hey, anybody want to hear about the woolsack?"
> >
> > It would send them screaming for the door :O)
>
> Probably... but you could lure them back w/ a few good Thatcher impressions.
I find it difficult to do the sparking eyes and smoke coming out the
ears
>
> >
> > > > > Sure, he's dead... I still think of him every time I hear a bad voice job.
> > > >
> > > > Aye, his son does some now?
> > >
> > > So I hear. He did Tiny Toons... but Mel is still the giant in the field.
> >
> > Yes, without doubt. The Muppet people are good,
>
> ...especially the guys who did Rigel and Pilot on Farscape.
I'm not sure we've had farscape here.
>
> > and the folks who do theSimpsons etc.
>
> ...abso-diddly-lutely
Heh, the episode where Ned's a werewolf, and still says 'diddly'!
>
> > We have some good satirical animated comedies over here
> > atm. 2DTV and something called Monkey Dust are both excellent, topical
> > and well done. But none of them have a voice which you know will live
> > forever, such as Mel's.
>
> I've never seen those... yes, I think the "man of 1000 voices" will
> amuse people even 100 years hence.
2DTV does an excellent Bush, who has to have everything explained to him
via a sock puppet called Professor Liebstraum. It is hilarious.
http://www.2dtv.co.uk/#
> > The BBC used to play them often, but now it's left to Cartoon Network
> > etc. We used to get series of the best animators, so you knew you would
> > get a big lump of them then.
>
> Unfortunately, CN - US is favoring mostly anime these days, little of
> which interests me.
Yep, tons of it over here too. Fox kids is popular for some strange
reason.
>
> > Our favourites were the wolf ones, all the whistling and howling at the
> > table while the woman does her torch song. The asides are brilliant and
> > the originals of the jaw dropping and eye popping are the peak of
> > animation lunacy.
>
> That's the classic stuff, of course. It's been copied so often that its
> originality seems somewhat dampened, these days. I'd love to see his
> Lantz stuff (Chilly Willy, &tc.) again.
We get all that too :O)
>
> > Everyone else seems to warn you five minutes in
> > advance that a joke is coming, while Tex just hit you over and over and
> > over. The newer Tom and Jerrys were very bad for telegraphing jokes, or
> > dragging them out until they just weren't funny anymore.
>
> Yes, the later ones are terrible, they even became friends! I guess the
> producers hadn,t heard that comedy and drama are based on conflict.
The tv nannies caused it. That's all we ever heard, how T & J were
ruining our childhoods.
>
> And the less said about the degradingly infantile "Tom and Jerry Kids",
> the better.
>
> Basically, once the toons moved from theatricals to TV they were mostly
> transformed into pap for infinks. Most of that stuff can never compare
> to the theatrical ones which were written for adults.
The newer American stuff, all the Groening stuff and the excellent
Family Guy make up for a lot of it. Family Guy has to be the most
surreal animation in years.
--
Paul. (I never agreed to be Your holy one)
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