[NBLUG/talk] Takoyaki redux

Jack Smith jack.delbert at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 04:40:25 PDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Walter Hansen <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:

> did I miss something. How did takoyaki come up? I make a mean sukiyaki
> and a mean oknomiyaki but so far  I only heated up frozen takoyaki or
> bought them at carnivals. And for even more yaki goodness my wife adores
> yakisoba which is really just the Japanese version of Chinese fried
> noodles. Yaki: to grill, bake or otherwise cook. The kanji looks like a
> oven on a table.
>

Still not sure how I do it, but once in a while nblug gets mail intended for
one of my daughters, Libby.  If I type an "l" in the "To" field in mozilla
her name comes up first and nblug second, so it's obviously me hitting the
wrong key next in a hurry but....

Anyway, the chain of coincidences got long enough to be funny.

-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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