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 >>> PS she cointinued I am "assigned" a dish at each christmas brunch. 
 >>> Admittedly, I get a choice of things to bring, but it's a short list. 
 >>> Choose one: bagels, hash browns, juice, muffins. But it's a list, 
 >>> nonetheless. They never say "Bring anything at all." I always choose 
 >>> hash browns, cause it's easy. Last year I got annoyed because there is 
 >>> never anything I like at these brunches, and I end up having 6 glasses 
 >>> of water for brunch every year, so I strayed from the list, and brought 
 >>> gravlax (decidely NOT on the list) in addition to the assigned hash 
 >>> browns, and I thought I'd end up taking 5 lbs of gravlax home myself. It 
 >>> was gone within 3 minutes after I walked through the door with it. They 
 >>> all but licked the empty plate clean. Instead, I ended up taking 5 lbs 
 >>> of hash browns home and throwing them in the trash. 
 >>> 
 >>> PS "What an unpalatable mess." Hilarious. Quote of the week. 
 >>> 
 >>> "marika"  wrote in message news:... 
 >>>> last year my aunt got invited to a party but wanted to make hot dog 
 >>>> casserole.  it was a graduation party and the kids were from pretty 
 >>>> affluent families.  the girl whose party it was wanted lasagna and 
 >>>> asked my aunt not to bring embarrassing hot dogs.  so my aunt excused 
 >>>> herself from the party. my sister said yea probably because Too much 
 >>>> work. Though nowadays you can buy prepared lasagna that's just as 
 >>>> easy to "make" as hotdogs: 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 1) Buy 
 >>>> 2) Open 
 >>>> 3) Heat 
 >>>> 4) Eat 
 >>>> 
 >>>> More importantly, my sister continues WHY would one be offended at 
 >>>> being told precisely what to 
 >>>> bring in the first place?  my sister further I get an "assigment" of 
 >>>> what to bring to every 
 >>>> party I go to. she said I never eat what I bring because I usually hate 
 >>>> it... 
 >>>> but I BRING it, cause that's what the host needs/wants. It's not that 
 >>>> big a 
 >>>> deal. I'd bring boiled pig's tongue, if that's what they wanted. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> mk5000 
 >>>> 
 >>>> "amazing and totally nerve racking"--ferras 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>> 
 >> 
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