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Date Posted: 17:02:02 11/05/03 Wed
Author: dtort
Subject: Re: OK Pot
In reply to: Pot 's message, "Re: OK Pot" on 10:22:54 11/05/03 Wed

>>New thread because I'm too lazy to scroll down for
>>each reply... "Mo ichi-do itte kudasai" just means
>>"Tell us more please" I meant about your trip north.
>>Nothing else going on on this board. No one even bit
>>on my World Series/Tv programming troll....
>
>I kinda thought that's what you meant, but the "itte"
>threw me a bit. I read it as the basic verb "to do".
>In the dialect I learned...or the prof I learned it
>from...they leaned toward the more formal verbs. BTW,
>Mo ichi-do means "one more time" or "once more". Been
>too many years since I used it, so CRS doncha know.
>
>I have this email buddy who is from near Osaka, but
>now lives in Tokyo. She and her 5-year old daughter
>came to see us about four years ago. They speak a
>little different dialect than I learned, but we got
>along. The little girl was smart as a whip, but
>hadn't been exposed to different dialects. As a
>jovial way of saying "let's go" when we were about to
>leave the house, I would say "Ikimasho". She thought
>it was a new English word she'd never heard before.
>Laughed my butt off. Around Osaka they use the Kanto
>dialect and most of their verb forms are the
>basic/stem types.
>
>Anyway, trip north. It had been about 12 years since
>we had been there. It's about 75 miles west of St
>Louis, 45 miles east of Columbia just off I-70. Was
>colder than I care for even though it was up to
>mid/high 50s in the day.
>
>My friend piddles with a garden or two and had several
>varieties of peppers. Some I had never seen or heard
>of. Not that that means a lot since I'm certainly not
>an expert on peppers. He gave me a big sackful of
>different types. One was called a chocolate bell
>pepper. I'd never heard of it. It's a bell pepper
>'cept it's chocolate in color...actually, it looks
>more like a dark egg plant. 3-4 varieties of
>jalapenos, anaheims, 4 different bells plus the
>chocolate. There was one blazing hot one. He didn't
>know what it was, but I think they were some kind of
>souped up tabasco pepper. I canned several jars of
>picante sauce last night using them. Gotta go get
>some more jars this morning so I can finish using them
>before they go limp. Know whadda mean?
>
>Did just a little browsing of the local German
>heritage area. Visited one of the German type
>wineries along the Mo. river. There's over 20 of them
>along the river. We did most of them the last time we
>were up there. Didn't feel like getting that
>shitfaced this time. When you taste test several
>different wines at each winery, you tend to talk and
>walk a little strange by the time you visit 15-16 of
>them.
>
>Enough for now.

Well!!!! I was shocked to see a reply in less than 72 hrs on this bbs... Nice story. It's weird to go back to a place you haven't been in years... I try to never go to the same place twice.... I'm running out of places but I don't have any bad memories......

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Re: OK Pot -- dtort, 17:06:21 11/05/03 Wed

Re: OK Pot -- dtort, 17:14:32 11/05/03 Wed

Re: OK Pot -- Marv, 18:15:43 11/05/03 Wed