Olives, figs and honey

Californian black "Black Mission" desert figs, Peruvian jumbo olives, both sun-dried on the tree and Brazilian Marmelero wild mountain flowers honey were the special extra ingredients to season the thick vegetable stew mentioned further below...

On both Sundays, January 23 and January 30, not a single grown-up fart or mucky pup showed up in the Exterritorial™ Chat Rooms for the discussion on firearms. I was alone.

As my revenge, I post hereafter both transcripts where ">" stands for "CB". They speak for themselves.

Number One:

> Welcome to this chat room of BUTTERBACH.NET/EXTERRITORIAL.NET! The topic today is "For or against private firearm ownership".
> "Peace with a cudgel in hand is war." PORTUGUESE PROVERB
> "Stretch a bow to the very full,/ And you will wish you had stopped in time." LAOTSE
> "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner." TURKISH PROVERB
> "He has made his weapons his gods./ When his weapons win he is defeated himself." RABINDRANATH TAGORE
> [In war] the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
> "We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butt49 but with guns." PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS
> "Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature." ALEXANDER HAMILTON
> "It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive." BERTOLT BRECHT
> "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." ADLAI STEVENSON
> :-)
> If these quotes are not enough to trigger a discussion, nothing will...
> Of course, a discussion is not easy, if no one is present in the chat room but me... :-)
> No one seems to have accepted my appointment.
> Well, I would not want to have to rely on the defense by the kind of gun-toting libertarian that does not show up when her/his favourite subject is being dealt with...
> I guess I'll soon quit and topple a Bowmore instead...
> Till next Sunday then. Goodbye ALL!
> PS: I just notice that I slightly misquoted the subject of this discussion. The correct title was "For or against private ownership of firearms".
> Christian Butterbach: The Webmaster and Host of this discussion (January 23rd, 2005 ~ closed at 6:05 p.m. GMT)

Number Two:

> Welcome to this chat room of BUTTERBACH.NET/EXTERRITORIAL.NET! The topic today is "For or against private ownership of firearms".
> I will start with a few quotations that may trigger the discussion:
> "Peace with a cudgel in hand is war." PORTUGUESE PROVERB
> "Stretch a bow to the very full,/ And you will wish you had stopped in time." LAOTSE
> "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner." TURKISH PROVERB
> "He has made his weapons his gods./ When his weapons win he is defeated himself." RABINDRANATH TAGORE
> "[In war] the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
> "We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns." PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS
> "Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature." ALEXANDER HAMILTON
> "It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive." BERTOLT BRECHT
> "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." ADLAI STEVENSON
> :-)
> While I am waiting till all these gun aficionados (where are you, Mary Lou? and Neil, the man of The Atlanta Declaration?) show up here, I am going to the kitchen and pour me a soup-plate of soup...
> That's less dull than this absence pf shooting...
> Sorry for the typo, _of_ shooting of course.
> I meant mental shooting of course, the firework of the intellect!
> There is not even an undercover agent in this room!
> The German government is remarkably absent from this room!
> Does this mean that they installed one of these devices to record all I am typing while I was in the kitchen? :-)(
> My cat is getting impatient and about to jump on the mouse or the keyboard and that will terminate the session and then all content so far will be lost for the late-comers, when I start a new session.
> Where are you, big mouth Rick?
> ...
> I should have known it, 2nd amendment buffs are mostly of the religious right, they spend their Sundays in church... :-)
> So the next chat will have another topic.
> About something where you should preferably be in the buff!...I close this chat now, a bit earlier than last time, at 5:55 p.m. GMT.