Will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest? On the subject of things ecclesiastical, the pope went sailing on Thursday down the Rhine, courtesy I suppose of the Koln-Duesseldorfer Dampfschiffgesellschaft.
Dampfschiffgesellschaft is a word I don't know.What I do know is that the person who left it dangling there for us to deal with is a sadist who probably enjoys pulling the wings off butterflies.
Butterflies are Schmetterlingen in German and farfalle in Italian, just like those bowtie pasta shapes. Fancy naming a butterfly after a pasta shape.
Shape treated aesthetically is utterly subjective.One has only to study the work of Henry Moore to realise that.
That this thread has apparently died is very sad. Won't someone help me bring it back to life?
Life-Savers; isn't that a little American sweet like a Polo Mint? I've never tried one, and now probably I never shall.
Shall I explain Life-Savers for you, McT-? BTW I don't know of Polo Mints, but Life-Savers used to be made not far (1/2 hr. or so) from where I live. I grew up with them! They're shaped like those round 'life-saver' rings on ships or like life guards have/had, and they come in too many flavors to name.
Name an American sweet or candy, there has to be a transatlantic equivalent; we call those Polo Fruits, I think. Have you ever heard of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls?
Uhm . . . i'm sure Uncle Joe's testicles are very nice in their own way, but really . . .
I like dark chocolate, but it is found in too many candies . . . Cadbury has nice milk chocolate candies, but not much variety in the US, as of yet. Now in Canada, there's quite a range of Cadbury candies available.
Available candies, there are too many to recall! I have never heard of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, though. Is that a British tongue-in-cheek sort of thing?
(I mean the name for the sweet.)
When i worked at the University of Illinois, there was a drug-store on a corner of the street that divided Urbana from Champaign. Therein was a candy section the size of the greeting card section in most large drug stores. I used to go in there and stand there nearly paralyzed, agonizing over what to get, and what i had better not get . . .
devriesj wrote:Available candies, there are too many to recall! I have never heard of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, though. Is that a British tongue-in-cheek sort of thing?
(I mean the name for the sweet.)
Get...more information here than you could ever have wished for about this confectionery. As you can see, they really exist, and can evidently be procured even by mail-order.
http://www.uncle-joes.com/
Mail-order is useful for acquiring all sorts of things, including food! You can even order ribs from my favorite restaurant, The Rendezvous, in Memphis.(Tennessee)
Tennessee is one of those unusual placenames which crop up here and there in the USA, and which have more than their fair share of double letters; Mississippi is another one. Maybe they derive from native languages, is that a fair assumption?
It is the only reasonable assumption--it is the correct answer. Don't forget Illinois, Talahassee, Minnesota, Missouri, Allegheny . . . and many, many others . . .
A couple drives through Pascagoola, Mississippi, and finds it a charming and pretty town. Stopping at a fast food restaurant, they place their order, and then the husband says to the girl at the counter:
"This is such a lovely place. How do you say the name?"
"Bur-ger King."
King Set, how come you hadn't had time to read directions for this thread? In an anterior past you would do that.
I think that anterior burgers are too likely to lead to indigestion, which is why i mentioned Mississauga . . .
{As an aside and a true story, we went into the Roscoe Diner in up-state New York, which is a great place, I really recommend it. Outside, there is a sign announcing it as "The World-Famous Roscoe Diner" and so to be pleasant and friendly, once we were inside and had some good tucker inside us, my wife asked the waitress why it was world-famous.
Back came the reply "Because it's known all over the world!"
So there you are then.
I hastily and heartily disagree about the Roscoe Diner. I called absolutely nobody about it but they have never heard about it (well they haven't mentioned it to me
. The ego involved regarding this Roscoe place would sort of be like saying everybody has heard of Max&Erma's (I recommend the popular garbage burger by the way followed by a volcano blaster). Yes, I'm sorry to say the waitress may have fibbed.
Fibbed about the diner, indeed. I have never heard of it myself. Must be only famous to that area?
(BTW, there is a Max & Erma's here.)
