A2K Antarctica gathering

kickycan wrote:

dlowan and Caprice told me they'd like to entertain the group in the love tent by wrestling naked in a vat of cheeze wiz. I told them I'd have to check with you Gus. What do you think?

Focus k.c.! You're confusing your fantasies with reality again. Sheesh! You're getting to be as bad as Gus!

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Damn, Piffka, that was beautiful and just a little odd. Joe

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*looks in vain for Piffka's post*

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more from the Chaucer of Cheese, James McIntyre

Lines Read At A Dairymen's Supper

It almost now seems all in vain
For to expect high price for grain,
Wheat is grown on Egyptian soil
On the banks of mighty Nile.

And where the Ganges it doth flow,
In India fine wheat doth grow,
And price of labor is so cheap
That it they can successful reap.

Then let the farmers justly prize
The cows for land they fertilize,
And let us all with songs and glees
Invoke success into the cheese.

http://www.firstfoot.com/Great%20Scot/mcintyre.htm

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Hmm I wonder why Bill and SCoates havent appeared on this thread anymore recently ...

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I suspect they're busy writing in their journals, and freeze-drying cheese, in anticipation of the trip to Antarctica. Why aren't you? Shocked

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Please remember that I am an idiot, I meant ehbeth. Embarrassed

and the odd cheese verses and NOW there are more of them (shudder....um scheddder)

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hehehehehehehehe

I haven't even brought out my favourite cheese poem yet. I guess I'll have to save it til Joe Nation recovers.

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you have a favorite cheese poem. I'm um, so jealous.

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ehBeth wrote:

I suspect they're busy writing in their journals, and freeze-drying cheese, in anticipation of the trip to Antarctica. Why aren't you?

Actually I'm presently shrinking my clothes - so I can take more.

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What's the southernmost civilized jumping off point on a trek to the antarctic, and do they have a Krispy Kreme donut shop? Starbucks?

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I'm only familiar with Ushuaia. On my visit there last year, I did not see a Starbucks or a Krispy Kreme shop. It's only a matter of time. Wink

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cicerone imposter wrote:

I'm only familiar with Ushuaia. On my visit there last year, I did not see a Starbucks or a Krispy Kreme shop. It's only a matter of time.

How interesting. Ushuaia is new to me, had to look it up. Sad to say, but I'd venture to guess that the average person in the US, knows less about South America, than any other continent. Now about a Starbuck's franchise...

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Ushuaia, damn I wish that wasn't a place! What a great word for Scrabble!

And neither Starbucks nor Krispy Creme (why can't American children spell?) how do they live? What a place of utter desperation!!

So I should pack the mini-expresso machine and the grinder?

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Starbucks <sigh>

Do you actually know what to order at Starbucks, Joe Nation?
Someone gave me Starbucks card loaded with $20 at Christmas - and a tiny instruction guide for ordering. Two and a half months later I still haven't figured out how to ask for a cup of tea.

<sigh>

I think I'd probably do better in the Antarctic. At least I've got all the good cold weather gear. And I know some great cheese poetry to entertain people with :wink:

(who's gonna tell nimh that if he's shrinking his clothes, well, he might get kinda cold?)

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Joe Nation, I hope you're ready for this ...

G.K. Chesterton

Sonnet to a Stilton Cheese
Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour
And so thou art. Nor losest grace thereby;
England has need of thee, and so have I--
She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour,
League after grassy league from Lincoln tower
To Stilton in the fields, she is a Fen.
Yet this high cheese, by choice of fenland men,
Like a tall green volcano rose in power.

Plain living and long drinking are no more,
And pure religion reading 'Household Words',
And sturdy manhood sitting still all day
Shrink, like this cheese that crumbles to its core;
While my digestion, like the House of Lords,
The heaviest burdens on herself doth lay.

Chapter II - the poet and the cheese

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Ok, ok... I give up! This is now officially a "cheese" thread. I'm turning the reins over to Occom Bill since he is the resident cheese expert.

I hope you people are happy.

(I'm sure there are other people on this site who have interest in dancing naked women and card playing on the South Pole.)

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This is Ushuaia, the southermost city in the world.

http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v97/imposter222/usuaia.jpg

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This is the 'optional' train ride at the 'end of the world' offered by the Celebrity cruise lines at $130 per person. I did this on my own by hiring a cab, paid for the trian ride, and saw some of the other sites in the national park for $25.

http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v97/imposter222/train_in_Ushuaia.jpg

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Joe Nation wrote:

And neither Starbucks nor Krispy Creme (why can't American children spell?) how do they live? What a place of utter desperation!!

So I should pack the mini-expresso machine and the grinder?

It is Krispy Kreme with two K's, and as long as they keep making them, they can spell it anyway they want. Besides, hasn't outcome-based education made spelling irrelevant? :wink:

By all means bring the expresso machine. Can you imagine this group in caffeine withdrawal? Shocked

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