OpenOffice.org has been forked

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/10/2010 22:29, Christopher Chan wrote:
>    
>>> Libre for LibreOffice is clearly in the sense of "freedom" in Romance
>>> languages, not as in "book".
>>>
>>>        
>> Possibly, but not definitively.
>>
>> I simply stated that it was "probably based on the song" by Neil
>> Diamond, "Canta Libre" which means a Book of Songs, or Songbook as it
>> now turns out.
>>
>> Then the hare bolted with the hounds in pursuit :-) .
>>      
> We love grammar/spelling/linguistic nazis. But don't ever argue with the
> cooking nazis. Stick and stones...
>    

Ah...but not when you have the book, "China - The Beautiful Cook Book" 
and have personally cooked all the authentic recipes in that book which 
go back millenia - then you CAN argue with the "cooking nazis" and win 
(occasionally that is :-D .)

The saddest part in my life is that after I was diagnosed with type #2 
diabetes some 5 years ago I had to give away consuming rice - and 
therefore, overall, Chinese cooking. Before then I could survive on 
having Chinese meals 5 times a day - until the diagnosis :'( . I am rice 
intolerant now :'( . One of the greatest misfortunes I now have is to 
forgo having Peking Duck. I was raised on it. (But one even cannot 
readily find the 'Loh baak'[1] locally here without which Peking Duck 
that I remember is 'tastleless'.). The pancakes, the Hoisin sauce, the 
spring onions, the 'lo-bah', the duck flesh, (we also used thinly sliced 
cucumber strips), all rolled into the pancake).......Ecstasy.....

Life's a bitch...... :'( . But that's another story......

[1] No, Loh Baak is not the Japanese Daikon. Loh Baak actually has a 
green flesh and is 'hot' just like a Western red radish when harvested 
at the right time. As I only ate Peking Duck in North China (Peking and 
Tientsin) I don't know what Loh Baak is called elsewhere in China, say 
Canton or even Hong Kong even though I had it in HK when 
leaving/visiting China.

BC

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