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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: Buying love |
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No. If you have your mind in the gutter of Texas Street, move on to another thread.
Last night I went out to eat with ���� and a couple of other teachers. ���� is an interesting person. He's written four books, two of them travel books. He has three homes, as far as I can tell. The wife and kid live in the one he visits least often. We ate �ѹ���, chicken boiled with 'traditional herbs' (I saw a ����, a long white root and a stick--the stick is good for your back and keeping ghosts away). Anyway, it was tastier than �����. The location was pretty nifty, too. Up a long one lane mountain road with a village on up at the top. The restaurant couldn't possibly have more than two or three customers a week.
When I got home I decided to make some banana bread because I wanted some and the last time I took some in to school to snack on, ���� , ���� and the new teacher's aide ate almost all of it. I also pulled a loaf of gingerbread out of the freezer.
Well, the faculty scarffed all the bread down. Got several compliments.
I figure I've bought their love for the week.
What do you do to buy your co-workers love? |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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personally I could've used more info on the herb used to scare away ghosts..
anyway, I find that bringing 10 or so little brown bottles of Bacchus-F of Vita-100 makes me popular. "Dweji bar" ice-creams have a similar effect |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I asked ���� about the stick in the chicken. It's called ������....He said it is an 'anti-ghost tree'. I'm not clear if it comes with a written warranty or not. I'll work on that. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Some fruit and ��� every now and then. Always goes down very well. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Homemade banana bread, fruit, and a giant can of Danish butter cookies for Christmas ( brought them in yesterday) |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Be out sick. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Where do you get the makings for banana bread? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Where do you get the makings for banana bread? |
I don't mean to sound smart-alecky, but I get them at the grocery store.
bananas, flour, eggs, oil, baking powder, baking soda, raisins, walnuts, sugar (I throw in dried fruit like papaya, apricot, mango or pineapple when I give the bread away...and use my blueberries when I keep the bread for myself).
[I'm leaving out my special magic ingredients because there is a competitor/baker lurking here at Dave's and I don't want her to steal my recipe, but they are also available here.]
I brought vanilla from home, but it is not essential. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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I keep mine very simple, but the co workers asked for the recipe, so it went over well.
Do you mean those dried blueberries at costco, or something more like real blueberries? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean those dried blueberries at costco, or something more like real blueberries?
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I don't know what you mean by those dried blueberries at costco. I have never been to a costco. I got my real, dried blueberries at the Dutchman's store in Cantril. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| They sell dried blueberries at costco here, but for a second there I thought you might have used fresh ones. I'm used to going and picking blueberries fresh from the bog, so dried ones just don't cut it for me. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: Buying love |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| What do you do to buy your co-workers love? |
Pay them on time.
Oh, you said co-workers... I used to spring for an occasional lunch on Friday (my last day of the workweek, though not theirs). Something from the bakery now and then. And when I had my own office, with my own coffeemaker, half the coffee and biscuits went to visiting co-workers.
What was that arse-kissing in aid of? Just felt like it, really. I wasn't trying to win them over, not consciously anyway. Nor was it an attempt to show them what a sweetie all of us overpaid whities are. (That would have failed in any case, as some of the overpaid whities treated the Koreans above and below them with a fair degree of surliness and disdain.)
There was a certain element of paying back kindness. The Korean staff went on business trips abroad far more often than I did, and they were always obliged to treat the entire office to a meal when they returned. I never came close to treating as often as I was treated. |
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neandergirl
Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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| They sell dried blueberries at costco here |
They do? Which Costco? The one in Daegu sells frozen ones, but they're the cultivated rather than wild version - bigger but not nearly as tasty. The only dried blueberries I've seen around have been coated in crappy milk chocolate. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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**Ignoring an earlier poster's offensive insinution... ** 
I bribe folks with cookies... usually snickerdoodles or oatmeal/raisin. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Buying love |
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What do you do to buy your co-workers love? |
Bring them a cake on their birthday. Get everyone to sing happy birthday. If I get adventurous and make my own pizza on Sunday or pasta salad, I bring it in for them. Christmas I always bring in a couple bottles of wine, some panetone Italian christmas cake, cheese, crackers, and lay out a nice spread. When I went back to Canada I brought them all smoked salmon and exotic Canadian chocolate bars...
This has earned me the nickname "chunsa" at work. |
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