European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1fl columns the stabs and strikes monday August 11,1986 what to do with Oil the leftovers by Andy Hornev has there been a study done at Harvard or Stanford on leftovers Congress it working on the lax Bill and the presidents concerned Over what to do about South Africa but is anyone giving any attention to a major element in All our lives. What to do with what s left hat we can Tuse but is too Good to throw away the storage shelves in our House Are tiled Wilh All sorts of Good leftovers thai Aren t Good Tor anything i can spot useless junk everywhere in someone else Shouse. Iff difficult to find any in my own. Maybe Whai we need in this country ii Hornc fund of neighbourly Mutual help program. It s a lol easier to throw away someone else j leftovers than it is your own. We might work out some Exchange program whereby Friend or neighbor comes to our House while we go to theirs. Each would set aside sentimentality and clean the Lher i House of leftovers. The most conspicuous and persistent leftovers of course go in inc refrigerator in Little plastic boxes. At any Given Lime there Are eight id 10 lumps of leftovers aging on the shelves of our refrigerator just last night t Pul what amounted to about half a serving of summer Squash in a Container thai was big enough to hold 10 Lima thai much f know perfectly Well what the future holds for this pitiful Little morsel. It will sit there for a week gradually finding its Way to the Back of the refrigerator where it Jar of pickles sits. The pickles were opened six weeks ago. I Hope the Jar of pickles and the summer Squash can find something in common be cause they re going to spend a lol of Lime together. Then some Day Down the Road toward labor Day i la be rooting around Back there looking for the Mayon Naise and wonder what s in inc plastic Box. Lit open it up and Deled a strange odor emanating from the jump yellow in the Bottom. Yum garbage. I la say to myself and scrape it into the when something you be cooked is fresh and your palate is reminding your memory of How Good it was it s difficult to discard it. A Hon that same dish is tired and stale and nothing More than a space Laker in the refrigerator it Bucom a pleasure to cast in out. The trick to citing rid of leftovers is to anticipate How you re Gong to feel about those items in two weeks. And in in t just the refrigerator. There Are leftovers in life no matter what we re doing. Every time i buy an electrical appliance there Are pans in the Boxil comes in that i Don t use and can t throw away. As soon As a month later when i come across them in a drawer i can t figure out what they re for. Yesterday i bought a Small Antenna for the television set upstairs. It helps the reception but there Are three bolts a bracket and some kind of insulator left Over. These things arc All Brand new and it would be a crime to throw them away but the Kitchen drawer set aside for miscellaneous items is filled with leftover hardware. Paint makes a miserable leftover. It s almost impossible to plan a Job in such a Way that you buy just the right amount of paint and finish with none left Over. A quart of paint is so expensive that there Arent Many of us who can throw out what remains in the can eve though we rarely use it. There s a gallon can in the basement representing what was left Ove Rafler i painted the twins bedroom Blue 14 years ago. So much paint dripped Down the sides of the can that i am no longer Able to read the Label. 1 Don t even know for sure whether it s Oil or Wal erased paint. I doubt if it would make a noise if Shook it. There it is though. If i Ever need it i know just where to find it. It s a Good thing you Don t have to keep Paini in the refrigerator. C1rul�mmii Blip sch writers Hove some near misses by James kilpatr1ck when air planes get too close to one another i midair a report has to be made to Federal authorities. Until a few months ago i was calling these incidents near  then a letter came from s Pilot. Do you know what a near miss is he asked. A near missis a collision Well got to thinking about it and of course the Pilot was right. If one plane nearly misses another plane we May assume the planes went wha Nuho. Writ ers have some near miss problems of their own. Capitalism s grand vizier Donald Trump Erst while collector of professional football teams glitzy casinos and Gold plated Urban palaces on monday announced his latest addition to the global monopoly Board the world s tallest  the trouble Wil that sentence lies in  All thai is meant by erstwhile is in the past or  the Point of the Story was that Trump is still collecting prop erties. I Don t know what the writer intended but it was t  he just missed. In Denver a furniture store advertised a  reclines in an indefinite number of pot Lions indefinite it strikes me As a near miss. True indefinite can mean having no exact limits but the familiar meaning is simply Uncertain not fixed  maybe the and writer wanted infinite Large word for a chair. In Savannah ga., a spor writer paid tribute to some golfing greats Arnold Palmer the penultimate competitor does t really play for Money any  what s ibis penultimate stuff the word Means next to the last the 17th Hole is the penultimate Hole the 12th trick in Bridge is the penultimate Nick. If the writer had to have a fancy word he might have reached for quintessential which has taken on a gloss in recent years but he certainly did t mean  last month in Portland ore., a staff writer told of recent visit to Nevada no longer the superannuated town 1 remembered from almost two decades before Reno had become a menage of High Rise buildings and therefore a place like everywhere else these  menage a menage is a household and its staff. The gentleman must have meant melange a mixture of incongruous elements. Newsweek Magazine had a piece of Nezar Mansu Hindawi the would be terrorist who tried to blow up an Al Al Arliner. Hindawi purportedly told the authorities that intelligence officers at the syrian embassy helped him set up the Al  the adverb sounds off the Mart to me. Purported carries a connotation of rumoured or reputed with a faint overtone of phoniness reportedly would have been a belter Choice. In Birmingham. Ala., a reporter described the escape of a Birmingham Man from captors in Lebanon he used a makeshift rope to shimmy Down the tide Ofa  wrong word to shimmy is to shake As in the 1920s dance. The ingenious gentlemen shinned or shinned Down the building. From Atlanta the associated press provided a Story about two Sisters who had been separately adopted when their parents died in 1935. Fifty years later they were reunited through the efforts of a family member who tracked them Down. The heritage foundation   come nowt one of the Sisters was bom in 1923, the other in 1928. You could t exactly Cal them aged which is what gerontology ii All about. How about genealogical dam in most of these examples the trouble resulted from a writer s urge to use a big word or Ai least an unfamiliar word. Exotic words have their place but when they re misused wham Mol c unt Raduj pm today s crossword of Eugene Sheffer across1 handle roughly4 to nor. 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