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charlieg wrote: In England it rains.
- It looks likr rain sir?
- Yes, and it darned well tastes like it too.
Rain-tasting soup[^]
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But fortunately we are blessed with many US food outlets where we can purchase such culinary masterpieces as fried burgers, deep fried chicken and pizza.
By keeping some of our food fairly bland, your average Brit can still fit through a door without requiring the Fire Brigade to come and rescue them. 
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Well lets deal with the Brits or Europeans and food.
When I lived at the Grand Canyon I was friends with the chef at the El Tovar Hotel.
A Mexican chap who had a passion for cooking exotic food. Had special egg serving for breakfast when I felt like splurging for breakfast at the El Tovar.
Because of our relationship I was invited to the Chen Dinner where he cooked as he belonged to the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs was created under the 1901 French law regarding
Associations with an International Headquarters based in Paris.
You can learn more here
Chaine des Rotisseurs – Food & Wine Gastronomy Society[^]
The menu was printed on a dinner plate and presented as a gift. Still have mine some where. If the Brits have a chapter it would be nice to know. I doubt it.
I live in the White Mountains of Arizona and my home has gutters and I have 20 Ponderous Pine trees on my 3/4 acres of land with 3 apple trees that produce a lot of apples the elk steal the apples along with the deer. I am sure no manner of contraption can evade pine needles from piling up in said gutters. Monsoon Season is from June to late September 2 years ago the rain was so violent and turned to hail it stripped my apple trees of 50% of its leaves. DAM Solution is a leaf blower & step ladder around mid June or the gutters look like Niagara Falls.
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Choroid wrote: some where
somewhere 
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"I live in the White Mountains"
You are blessed and I hate you. Actually I envy you. I spent 3 years in Tucson, and I still miss it. That was back in the early 80s, I'd never go back the now. But high dessert mountains? I'm all in. If I had to retire and go live some place quiet, I'd normally aim for a cabin somewhere in New Mexico, but your area is looking fine.
I'll look up your cooking references. I live in a neighborhood with no HOA. I can do things in my backyard.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Nice to see the evergreen topic of food making the leap from the Facebook playground of the "DMC" to here. Not sure what the problem is with Yorkshire pudding, though. Light, airy, crispy, well risen, they're great.
The usual UK DMC riposte of course is biscuits and gravy; every picture I've seen of biscuits and gravy looks like something I once trod in in the dark when I had a cat 
Anyway, gutters.
We usually have semicircular (sometimes box section) channels collecting to downpipes which discharge into a drain - often a separate storm drain rather than a foul drain these days. In my garden the rain downpipe is teed into a water butt so that rainwater can be collected to water the plants.
There are various methods used to alleviate clogging, the most popular being the "hedgehog" which looks like a very long bottle brush; this fills the channel so that leaves etc run off over it, but water runs through it. Fairly effective, but not perfect. See above re needles.
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My dad called gravy on anything "sh*t on shingles" but he was navy.
Help me - what is DMC?
As for the gutter issue, i would love to see a picture of that hedgehog just out of intense curiosity.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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DMC is "Dull Men's Club".
There's a DWC, too.
This[^] is an example of a gutter hedgehog.
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umm, okay, going back to a previous post 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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well the reference to DMC - bite me. But it's okay, I too dive into conversations without context.
The Lounge is failing me - we introduce a topic with tongue in cheek for some humor and to banter about. Going to reply to the OP to get back on topic.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My replies were meant to be somewhat tongue in cheek, too.
Apart from the hedgehog - that's a real thing.
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I haven't received the Daily Developer News since August 29. I was on vacation last week, so I didn't notice. I checked my Junk Mail folder and it's not in there. Any one else having issues with receiving it?
Da Bomb
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Same, I haven't received one either since August 29th. I have received a Daily Build on 9/6 and 9/9 but no Daily Insider since August 29th.
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No. Nobody else is affected. It definitely hasn't been reported in the Site Bugs forum[^] - twice[^]. Nor in the Insider News forum[^]. 
I suspect either everyone's on holiday, or there's a technical problem and they're busy working to fix it.
Kent posted a message[^] in one of those threads last week, so we know he's still around. Hopefully we can get his morning dose of snark back soon.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I find it rather odd that no one from CodeProject central has responded to all these queries.
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Same here. Still not getting it. Have you learned anything?
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Nothing. It appears to have gone completely dark.
Da Bomb
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I stopped seeing her after that.
I'll get my coat if I can find it.
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Didn't see it coming. 
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Now you have a Poker Face?
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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No problems, love is blind
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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