Lola at the Coffee House

@farmerman,

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Clemens could say, in a single , comma-free phrase, what took several of your literary heros , several chapters to saythe same thing.

Ain't it something? Lola and I, just a few months ago, listened to a series of discs of Clemens' life and work as we traveled. I was, again, knocked out by the man. You can turn back to him at any point and be newly gratified and amazed. Of course, being his reader and being his child are different magesterium.

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There was a great game of football on the telly yesterday. Rugby football.

A proper game of football with no pads or helmets, no breaks for popcorn or TV commercials, just eighty minutes of controlled savagery, blood and snot, skill and valour, total commitment. I've never seen such a game for sheer entertainment.

And the right result too.

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@Lustig Andrei,

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Y'know it occurs to me that Setanta has a whole thread on the subject of farts going. Some of these stories would be just right for it. so, must we really discuss the subject here at Lola's?

I don't mind Andrew. Farts are as good a subject as any here in the Cafe. But if you would rather go to Set's fart thread, that's ok too.

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@McTag,

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just eighty minutes of controlled savagery, blood and snot, skill and valour, total commitment. I've never seen such a game for sheer entertainment.

Just goes to show you that you don't have to be talking about farting to have a good time.

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@spendius,

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but after Mrs Jolly won three years on the trot we gave it up. Nobody could hold a candle to her. Not without risking getting singed eyebrows. And she set the Christmas decorations alight.

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If genuine turtle soup is the starter the figures increase alarmingly and eateries which serve the Galapagos delicacy have gas masks hanging on the back of the chairs. In cheap joints fans are employed to diffuse the farts.

Very very very funny spendi. You've out done yourself. Keep em coming.

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@blatham,

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Ain't it something? Lola and I, just a few months ago, listened to a series of discs of Clemens' life and work as we traveled.

Yes we did.

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@Lola,

nd the point is?

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@Lustig Andrei,

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Angkor Vat

Which distillery is that? Vat 69 is the finest.

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@farmerman,

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and the point is?

I am pointlesss.

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@Lola,

I may apply for the position of cook, whether vacant or not, because I've just made a tagine and it smells lovely. It's got all sorts of things I never normally use: ginger, coriander, cinnamon. Olives, too, and saffron.
I saw the recipe in the paper somebody left behind, and I just fancied having a go.
I'll let you know how well it is received. Herself gets back from Holland (where they won the bronze medal) late tonight.

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@McTag,

ws a tagine and why should I want one?

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@Lola,

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I am pointlesss.

Thats not what blatham sed

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@McTag,

Smells great from here, McTag.

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@Lola,

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Very very very funny spendi. You've out done yourself. Keep em coming.

Do you know why?

It is because the other posts on this important function, without which we would look like dangerously expanded balloons, merely bring the notion of it to mind. I tried, however ineptly, to bring the feeling of it to the imagination.

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@McTag,

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Herself gets back from Holland (where they won the bronze medal) late tonight.

Congratulations to Herself and her group. And I'll have some of that tangine, whatever that is. Yumm, I'm sure.

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@farmerman,

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ws a tagine and why should I want one?

A tagine is a special cooking pot originating in North Africa. The usual ingredients which are in most things are used for the dish cooked in it.

You should want one because tagines reflect your status more floridly than pressure cookers, and ordinary utensils for stews, which are common as muck and as such unsuitable as vehicles for putting forth personal excellence and a refined aesthetic appreciation. The discriminating palate of the liberal intelligentsia is particularly sensitive in regard to these things.

In short, they are posh.

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@farmerman,

Blatham makes stuff up. He'll do anything for a laugh.

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@spendius,

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I tried, however ineptly, to bring the feeling of it to the imagination.

And well done too.

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@spendius,

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In short, they are posh.

NOBODY rides liners anymore, theyre like a petri dish in a cesspool of antibiotic immune pathogenes.
A plane really has no "Port out Starboard Home" views.

ACCording to McTee, a tagine is something he made. SO its just a POT?
DO we smoke it??

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