garbled: will this help?

[Laurence Horn]

>Here is a message from Wilson that came in here / en clair/ labeled
>"Re: Hawaiianisms righteous" 1/14/06  6:54 [EST]
>
>
>"I'm only too familiar with Salisbury steak, that staple of school cafeterias
>and Army mess halls. So, that's what "hamburg(er) steak" is. FWIW, I've
>heard that the legendary mess-hall dish, "S.O.S." or "shit on a shingle" was
>creamed sliced beef over toast. In my day, it was hamburger - not in patty
>form, but "loose," whatever the term for that is -  over toast and covered
>with a sauce laughingly referred to as "cream." IMO, it wasn't nearly as bad
>as I'd heard that it was. Also FWIW, the *only* foodstuff served at *every*
>meal, three times a day, was potatoes.
>"-Wilson"
>
>AM
>(this machine is an old Mac quadra, armed with an early version
>[3.13] Eudora.)

My almost-as-early Eudora 4.3 (on a PowerBook running the antique
System 9) also has no problems receiving the Wilsonian proclamations.

Larry