[NBLUG/talk] No such thing as coincidence?

[Steve Johnson]

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-Steve


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK guys, I was just over in Japan visiting Libby (my oldest daughter) and
> tried takoyaki.  Sort of a round pancake thingy sold on a stick.  It's made
> with fish broth and octopus and made in special pans with hemispherical
> dimples in it.  Libby goes on and on about how much she likes them and can't
> get them in the U.S.
>
> I decide to make her happy (and besides, I liked them too).
>
> I hunt all over Google and find recipes, but no takoyaki pans.
>
> Briana (youngest daughter) and I are watching a recorded TV show, maybe CSI,
> and a commercial comes on selling the pans to make "puff pancakes".  I don't
> write down the URL.
>
> Two days later, I can't remember it.  Briana can and I look it up.  While I
> still have it up on the computer, Amber (middle daughter) wakes up (works
> midnights) and walks by and says, "Oh yeah, we have those at Walgreens."
>
> I call and they're out.  Make plans for Amber to order one the next time
> she's in.
>
> Thursday night is the next night she works there, but she doesn't order it,
> because the same night a truck comes in carrying them.
>
> The next morning I buy one and try making pancakes in it with mixed results.
> That evening Linda (my ex) locks her keys in her car in Livonia and needs
> someone to let the dog out.  Both daughters are unavailable so I go over.
>
> When Linda shows up I tell her the story as an amusing coincidence.  She
> says, "Oh yeah, an ebleskuer pan".  Seems she knew someone whose mother made
> them.  From Denmark.  I look them up and they're called aebleskiver over
> there (no fish broth or octopus).
>
> Now it's a really amusing story so I send an e-mail to all three daughters.
> Somehow, I accidentally send the e-mail to NBLUG, in San Francisco, where it
> gets read.
>
> The person who reads it had a friend in school (think: 1984, 1985) whose mom
> made them at some kind of international day, and _recently_ he remembered
> them and was trying to remember what they were called.
>
>  So, no such thing as coincidence?
>
> --
> 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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