just ignore and let this one die

vinegar in general is not my bag, baby. i enjoy it very sparingly.

but i do like a good balsamic mix with garlic, olive oil and "whatever" for the bread dipping.

Thank you and everyone else for the good thoughts and prayers. <333 I am getting all the paperwork together and had to travel home to do that. I return to internet-less land on Monday and onto [hopefully] the rehab stage of this process. It's funny that Scripps free wi-fi will let me surf all the SL and Xstreet blogs and post to my own, but their Tech Team disallows all Social and Gaming networks. I guess they are task focused and rightly so This thread is approaching the 100k mark. Wow! Carry on folks

can i have yours?

Yes..it has to be L and P, those pretenders don't make it.

Best wishes, Argus. And hurry back!

I must have missed something, but I'll add my good thoughts for whatever troubles you are having anyway.

*hugs* still sending good thoughts and prayers your way.

they are okay if you are cooking with it. the heat changes the flavor anyway. i get my cheapie knock off at the dollar store. but i agree, if you are going to splash all over something directly, L&P is the way to go.

This one actually got me curious, so of course I started searching. This is what I found as to the origins of the phrase:


(from http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/1615.html)

" : : : "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996). Mr. Titelman agrees that this saying has its roots in the Bible, specifically Jer. 5:21 (King James version): "Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not."

: : : "There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know. The proverb has been traced back in English to 1546 (John Heywood), and resembles the Biblical verse quoted (above). In 1738, it was used by Jonathan Swift in his 'Polite Conversation,' and is first attested in the United States in the 1713 'Works of Thomas Chalkley'..." "


I could not find any older references. Additionally, all of the oldest references use "There ARE none so blind" and only newer references use "There IS none so blind".

So......... has the phrase been changed to line up with what is considered proper English?

I am not claiming that the above is the definitive answer of which phrase is correct, only that I could not find anything giving me the origins of the phrase using IS.
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ETA -- I just now found the same references to the IS phrase as Arielyn posted.

A1 is far superior - sharper and less fruity than HP.

Pep (likes the cheapest brown sauce which used to be called Beetop, but is now own-branded by some of the bigger supermarkets.)

Nope, even in cooking I use the real McCoy.

We get a New Jersey resident's discount on large quantities.

*Joking.

Ah, all is explained . . .

Pep ( . . . but not necessarily forgiven.)

PS Although you did support me about the "none is" when I am sure you actually know that *either* "is" or "are" is actually acceptable.

PPS Which still makes Eli wrong because he said that "is" was wrong.

See Arielyn's post. I am in accord with the original saying, not some gibbering buffoon's lyrics.

Pep (I don't channel Ray Stevens or Ray Charles; I am, in fact, more likely to channel Ray Davies, if anyone.)

THUNK . . .

(It's hard to consult your copy of Fowler's, when your forehead is pressed against your desktop.)

I have decided that arguing with each other like that is apparently the highlight of their lives cuz no matter what is said by whom, one of them will take it as insult and make a dig back at the other. Though Pep is OFTEN the one instigating it, he is no longer the ONLY one doing so.

Thinking of you and him.

Pep (My Dad had what sounds like a similar growth taken out and is still playing golf thirty years later at 88.)

/me runs in and grabs a few for a mid-morning pick-me-up.

Is bigger always better?

On this particular issue, if he wasn't joking, then making constant reference to it is worse.

Useless factoid, but the original secret Lea & Perrins worcestershire sauce recipe was almost thrown away but was recovered from the garbage by the company's accountant. http://www.slashfood.com/2009/11/03/worcestershire-sauce-secret-recipe-found-in-trash/

and @Rhonda: pasta or bacon? I choose a carbonara!

i can only speculate as to someone else's thought process. he handled it after i posted that. so don't mind me.

I think this is a leftover of the part of my childhood where pretty much the only meat we ate was hamburger in some form. Meatloaf was a twice weekly meal because of how cheap it was - spaghetti was another dish we ate usually twice a week.. When I first graduated college, I would not touch ground beef in any dish for months. For some reason, the meatloaf part has stuck with me.

my new budget says the dollar store brand is allowable at this time. *sigh*

I can easily live without bacon, but cannot survive more than a few days without pasta.

i repeat.... just because someone in history once said something you are now quoting doesn't make it grammatically correct. it is wrong, and you are wrong.