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Pepper is the more dangerous spice. It's dark and exotic and makes people sneeze. If you bite into a big chunk of pepper, it tastes awful. Pepper users live on the edge of good taste and disaster. Myself, I'm a salt person. And I don't use too much of that.
Salt and pepper. The pair of little shakers which sits on every properly set table. How many people actually use them? Do they taste their food first and then add some salt? Or is it a habit to sit down, shake some pepper on your food and then eat? I don't use much of either. I like bland food.
Yes, please. Even before he made the offer, she knew she'd accept. Go to dinner, spend the night, run away to Mongolia - yes, yes and yes. So it was more than a little anticlimactic when he offered her half of his fries.
Secretary is an old-fashioned word. It makes me think of "Mad Men." Isn't "assistant" or "executive" assistant the more PC term? I don't actually think I'd mind being called a secretary. It doesn't feel demeaning. But given a choice, I think I'd pick "assistant."
Luxurious, decadent. Silk sheets. When you want to indulge yourself. It also has an Asian feel to it. The first mental image I have is a kimono. Lots of lush colors, red, yellow.
My first thought, of course, is about the Titanic. Not just the Cameron film, but the concept of the enormous luxury liner sinking beneath the waves like it was never there. Kinda scary when you think about it.