<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's what I talking about.....real fruit cake! Not the store bought kind that gets re-gifted until the end of time.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><i>Al -</i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><i>High Point, NC</i></font></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div>On Dec 31, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Susan Kline <<a href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">My mom's fruitcake would keep for months in a cool place, but always got eaten to the last crumb in the end. Aside from all <br> the fruit, and just enough cake to hold it together, she's soak it in apricot brandy. Now there's fruit! Apricots! <br> <br> Never could stand anyone else's, after that. <br> <br> Susan<br> </font><br> Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BLU0-SMTP162FB2024D6B25312527C97DD3C0@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html "> <base href="x-msg://43/">I want to know why they call it fruit cake when there is no cake in it? The one's I've gotten look like pressed fruit, but I can't find the cake :~). <div><br> </div> <div>Besides, from what I understand, there is only one fruit cake in the US, (which may be all fruit or all cake) which has been re-gifted from the beginning of time.</div> <div><br> <div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "> <div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; "> <div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; "> <div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; "> <div style=""> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Al -</i></span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><i>High Point, NC</i></font></div> </div> </span></div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> </span></div> On Dec 31, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Greg Newell <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">gnewell@ameritech.net</a>> wrote:</div> <div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" lang="EN-US"> <div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="">Why do they call it fruit cake when there’s no fruit in it?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" name="_MailEndCompose"> </a></div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:pianotech">mailto:pianotech</a>-<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:bounces@ptg.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">bounces@ptg.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Dale Erwin<br> <b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, December 31, 2012 9:14 AM<br> <b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[pianotech] A Happy New year?<o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy;">Anybody out there? I've not heard a peep for days. Too much fruit cake, family parties? Hmmmm. you bet.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy;">Well not the fruit cake anyway. I am hoping for a year of prosperity and good will.<o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy;"> </span></div> </div> <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy;">  "they say that I'm a dreamer.....but I'm not the only one." 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