Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 07:19:27 -0700
Title: Hedonist tendencies?

Jake is towel drying  the metal mugs and trays because
the new dishwashing machine doesn't get hot enough to actually
dry the "dishes" (they are, after all, completely metal).  Instead it
just creates a hot foggy humid atmosphere which, if left to its own
devices, would slowly rust and rot everything inside it.  The last
batch of Garlic Chicken, although it had a dominant garlic flavor,
 tasted like green or white mold. In fact the special drink tasted like
Jake had used crushed pip in it, along with the usual de-fatted,
chilled chicken broth and vodka. (He named it Russian Broth.  Many
prefer the Mexican Broth).
*pip n [origin unknown] (1604) : an individual rootstock of the lily
of the valley.

"Why don't you buy a new dishwasher, one that will wash & dry?
You spend plenty of time back there drying, drying ,drying dented
pieces of metal,"  Tod mumbles  from several barstools away.

"We just replaced the old one with this one.  The trade-off is that
if we fix the heat controls, adjust the vent system and allow
the unit to get as hot as it should,  the disposal system would get so
hot it would  burn out.  I'd rather wipe metal mugs than mop up
and unstop  drains! That's what I call pragmatic hedonism!"

"Not me!  I can't see WORKING for pleasure.  I believe when ya
wake up in the mornin' you should start pleasure right there and
for the rest of the day, pursue pleasure's path.  Like one of them
Cyrenaics."
*Cy.re.na.ic n [L cyrenaicus, fr. Gk kyrenaikos, fr. Kyrene
Cyrene, Africa, home of Aristippus, author of the doctrine]
(1586): an adherent of the doctrine that pleasure is the chief
end of life -- Cyrenaic adj -- Cy.re.na.icism n .

"Same thing.  It just depends on whether you want the pain of
begging for beer and food," Jake says seriously.

"Workin' IS a form of begging!  You do what the boss wants you to
do and you do it the way the boss wants you to do it.  No difference
between workers and beggars, man.  Same shit no matter what."

"Anyway the dishwasher-dryer I wanted wouldn't have fit in our
kitchen area.  The damned thing was of Brobdignagian proportions
and the boss wouldn't have stood for it's cost anyway."
*Brob.ding.nag.ian adj [Brobdingnag, imaginary land of giants in
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift] (1728): marked by tremendous size --
 Brobdingnagian n.


Happy Monday to all you Monday JULY 3rd workers.
luv ya,
d.






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