Colour me purple, stap me vitals, Vientiane? I thought that was French for 21. Hey speaking of lunches with my cousin's daughter, never an inconsequential subject, what about the recipes for smoked garlic, folks?
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firefly
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Sat 21 Aug, 2004 11:50 pm
Folks I know (including me), have never been forunate enough to have any smoked garlic. I would think it would be delicious mashed and mixed with cheese for a spread, or crushed and tossed with freshly cooked vegetables.
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ossobuco
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 12:21 am
Vegetables are good, but I wouldn't put them with smoked garlic, necessarily; I'd just spread smoked garlic on some nice toasted hearth bread and probably have some smokey scotch with it, or if I didna drink the alcoholic stuff, I'd have some smoked fish too, and what, some nice bubbly spring water. Probably a bit of the green would be good, some crisp lettuces/cabbages/radicchios all tossed about with this or that furled about on them.
edit to add a semicolon
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drom et reve
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 05:17 am
'Them kids' makes little sense to me at all. How can people expect everyone to speak English, when many hardly know their own's rules?
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BoGoWo
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 07:40 am
Britannia; the word conjures up a myriad of opposing images, and ideas; a world of empiricism, and debauchery; and the sense of refinement, and elegance.
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McTag
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 07:53 am
(Hey easy on the debauchery, there)
Elegance can apparently be acquired as well as be innate. Pygmalion, and particularly the film of the book starring the divine Audrey Hepburn, examined this contention.
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firefly
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 08:01 am
Contention of some might be that, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". While you can teach manners, deportment, and the external trappings of superficial elegance, I don't think you can teach true grace.
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McTag
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 08:07 am
Grace? She could have played that part, for sure. But Ethel Merman, no.
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firefly
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Sun 22 Aug, 2004 09:15 am
No, no no--never Merman! But, on the other hand, I don't think the lovely Audrey Hepburn would ever have been right as moma Rose in "Gypsy".
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McTag
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 05:23 am
Gypsy violins, filling the night air with their sweet songs! Ah, those summer evenings in Bohemia, how young we were, how carefree.
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Setanta
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 05:24 am
How odd. As i read that, McT, the radio is playing "Sigournieweizen" (probably misspelled), works of gypsie song for the violin.
Cue the spooky music . . .
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McTag
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 09:16 am
Music called after an Alien actress, whatever next? How does that work for the other readers who were banging their skulls to Motorhead?
No, really, it's quite odd.
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Setanta
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 09:21 am
Timiothy Leary's dead
No, no, he's outside
Looking in . . .
He'll fly his astral plane
Take you trips around the bay
Bring you back the same day
Timothy Leary . . .
Along the coast
You'll hear them boast
About a light they say
That shines for miles
So raise your glass
We'll drink a toast
To the little man who
Sells you thrills along the peir
Timothy Leary . . .
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ossobuco
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 10:05 am
Leary, dearie, is another way of spelling 'leery',
though not correct. Be wary, lest weary minds
bring spelling fear upon us all.
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Setanta
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 10:08 am
Spells . . . cast a charm spell on your enemies, and get them to fight your fights for you . . . cast a chromatic orb spell at them and turn them to stone . . . cast a faerie light spell on yourself and charm all of your enemies . . .
Cast an emotion: hope spell on yourself, and avoid all enemas . . .
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drom et reve
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 10:30 am
Enemas are evil things. Apparently, in England, they are mandatory before childbirth, surprisingly.
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Clary
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Mon 23 Aug, 2004 09:14 pm
Surprisingly, I shall be undergoing 7 enemas in my fasting programme, also known as Clean Out, next week in Thailand. They are slightly uncomfortable and very useful, and not at all evil.
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drom et reve
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Tue 24 Aug, 2004 03:39 am
Evil is a subjective thing. We see that with the divergent opinions on Isræl and Palestine.
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Clary
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Tue 24 Aug, 2004 04:47 am
Palestine is truly an insoluble problem. It would be better if one's sense of history ended twenty years ago, and then conflicts would not go on and on.
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McTag
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Tue 24 Aug, 2004 05:21 am
On with the motley; come to the cabaret. All the world's a stage.
