An "Ask Auntie Lowan" Digression.

Angora is the (typical) English corruption of a place name--what is today known as Ankara, the capital of Turkey. There are both Angora rabbits and Angora goats--and wool is harvested from both. When informed that Mustafa Kemal had made Ankara his capital, Winston Churchill remarked that the name of the city is Angora, and that he did not care what the Turks called it. Below is a picture of an Angora rabbit, bred in the Orkney Islands to provide its "wool" to be woven . . .

I assumed they got the rabbit fur the same way my boyfriend's blazer did...from shedding!!!

Goats? Hmm...maybe. It did feel more like rabbit fur, though. I suppose now I've made Gus mad, too.

Far as I know Gus is very fond of the feel of goat's wool...

Enough with the euphemisms Fortune!!!!!

Heehee....

Does the idea of Turkish cigarettes seem exciting and exotic to anyone else? Somehow, very Theda Bara.

Yeth.

Yeah, with a long, elegant, sort of art deco cigarette holder. Erte would love it.

Erte????

This is a typical Erte statue.

How lovely, Diane .

With Erte I always think Oriental Express and Hercule Poirot solving a murder amongst elegantly dressed people, draped in angora stoles--but not angora from wabbits in Australia. Many of them smoke cigarettes inserted into long, jeweled cigarette holders.

The Wabbits?

Auntie Lowan:

I don't know if you're still available to answer questions, but if you are:

What is the exact measurement of caffeine do you need to compensate for a night sleep. For example, if i didn't want to sleep for a week, how much coffee would i need to drink.

Is it possible for your eyes to be so bloodshot with tiredness that you go blind?

How much would i need to pay you for you to write an essay on embryological development of the head and neck by tomorrow morning. We're both in Adelaide, I believe, so I can come pick it up from a mutual place.

Is there really a pot smoking bunny wabbit wiht fangs sitting next to me threatening to push me off the building or institutionalise me if I don't join the neonazis?

Thanking you in advance

BTW I think i've met with this Hugh Jass dude. or at least a number of people who could claim that description.

1.You have to work the coffee out as you go along - don't take it in one hit - you will likely be very ill.

I would suggest just keep drinking it as you go along, and assess in an ongoing way.

2. No - you won't go blind, but everything might look red.

Are you sure it is JUST tiredness? Got any munchies, hmmmm.......?????

3. More than you have, my friend!!!

4. I sincerely hope not. But if there is, or isn't, I think you need help.

5. I hope you have! Hugh Jass is a treasure!

Dunno the answers to them ones Luv. But have a clue as to
what the answer was to "what'll we call it?" when they decided to ship all these criminals as faraway as possible: They said "Daland Downunda".

High comedy.

As in "puff"?

O, in Chuckster's glorious words...

Perhaps he needs a visit by Hugh Jass?

We ALL need such a visit!~