Re: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions
Where were you people during the sixties, and have none of you ever gone to a health food store? Look at a vegan brownie, and odds'll getcha that it has carob rather than cocoa. I know we're not supposed to be OF the world, but every once in a while you can go out into it! :-) Jon P.S. I dispise carob! - Original Message - From: Marc A. Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions I knew it was familiar for some reason, although I can't say I'd ever heard of it being used in place of or with cocoa (but it does explain one thing I remember: cans labelled Karob in German supermarkets next to the coffee and tea). And I'm sorry, I've already forgotten who it was who posted the excellent lttle article on carobs yesterday, because I wanted to add a comment to that. Its other names are locust bean and St. John's Bread in the belief that when it said in the NT that John the Baptist ate honey and locust, modern translators couldn't see him actually eating insects. Besides the yuck factor, they thought it wasn't kosher. However, locusts are indeed kosher, it turns out, (Leviticus 11:20-21) and the Greek word in the NT refers quite clearly to an insect. So he really did eat bugs. Elmer L. Fairbank wrote: At 19:45 12/18/2002 -0700, M Marc wrote: There is a carob bean, actually, and I know it's grown in tropical climates, but that's about all I know about it. I'm not sure what they do with it, except perhaps use its oil (like canola, linseed or safflower). Haven't you ever had carob brownies? It's often used around here as a cocoa substitute. Dang, lad, you need to make a pilgrimage to Ithaca. Till // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. - Lord Chesterfield Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author's employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions
I knew it was familiar for some reason, although I can't say I'd ever heard of it being used in place of or with cocoa (but it does explain one thing I remember: cans labelled Karob in German supermarkets next to the coffee and tea). And I'm sorry, I've already forgotten who it was who posted the excellent lttle article on carobs yesterday, because I wanted to add a comment to that. Its other names are locust bean and St. John's Bread in the belief that when it said in the NT that John the Baptist ate honey and locust, modern translators couldn't see him actually eating insects. Besides the yuck factor, they thought it wasn't kosher. However, locusts are indeed kosher, it turns out, (Leviticus 11:20-21) and the Greek word in the NT refers quite clearly to an insect. So he really did eat bugs. Elmer L. Fairbank wrote: At 19:45 12/18/2002 -0700, M Marc wrote: There is a carob bean, actually, and I know it's grown in tropical climates, but that's about all I know about it. I'm not sure what they do with it, except perhaps use its oil (like canola, linseed or safflower). Haven't you ever had carob brownies? It's often used around here as a cocoa substitute. Dang, lad, you need to make a pilgrimage to Ithaca. Till // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. Lord Chesterfield Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the authors employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
RE: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions
-Marc- No wonder Microsoft's spellchecker is so lousy ;-) (carabiners, from a German word for carbine hook. Ah. I had never seen/heard the term, and the guy (Russian) called/spelled them carob-beaners. I wondered how that term had come about. What's a carob bean, anyway? But I had nothing to do with Microsoft's spell-checker. Otherwise, it wouldn't suggest Bereft every time I write my name. IIRC, aren't Italy's alpine police known as carabinieri?) Yes, the special forces guys who carry machine guns. Also known as carob-beaners. Stephen // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions
OK. How do you pronounce the word iron? Do you say I earn or do you say I Ron or what? Jon - Original Message - From: Marc A. Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [ZION] Microsoft interview questions There is a carob bean, actually, and I know it's grown in tropical climates, but that's about all I know about it. I'm not sure what they do with it, except perhaps use its oil (like canola, linseed or safflower). This reminds me of an incident that happened when JWR was at our house. I said the word amalgam but pronounced it AM-al-gam. John wanted to know if that was a Canadian pronunciation, as he'd always said ah-MAL-gam. And he was right -- I had put the em-PHAS-is on the wrong syl-LAB-le. I guess I just hadn't heard the word spoken often enough for its pronunciation to sink in. There are a lot of words like that that I've encountered while reading, that I'd be too embarrassed to say out loud for fear I'd be mangling the pronunciation -- the sure sign of an over-dilettantish but sincere amateur ;-) ...I just did a google search and found an FAO publication which says it's also known as the locust bean, and its gum is apparently used as a laxative. Now you know I couldn't have just made that one up! Ya learn something knew every day... Stephen Beecroft wrote: -Marc- No wonder Microsoft's spellchecker is so lousy ;-) (carabiners, from a German word for carbine hook. Ah. I had never seen/heard the term, and the guy (Russian) called/spelled them carob-beaners. I wondered how that term had come about. What's a carob bean, anyway? But I had nothing to do with Microsoft's spell-checker. Otherwise, it wouldn't suggest Bereft every time I write my name. IIRC, aren't Italy's alpine police known as carabinieri?) Yes, the special forces guys who carry machine guns. Also known as carob-beaners. Ah, so maybe carob is the north Italian word (what's that funny Rhaeto-Romanish dialect they speak up in some of the valleys in the Alps near the Swiss border, Ladino or something like that?) for head. They bop people on the carobs with their machine guns. -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. - Lord Chesterfield Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author's employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
