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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Today I picked up a roadkill weasel (maybe a mink?). The pelt is in excellent condition and I am considering trying to skin and cure it. Not that I have any experience with this sort of thing.
However, the short ride home with it in the car made it clear that the musk glands got squished. Does this mean the pelt will stink forever more?
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TubaMirum
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Originally posted by georgiaboy:
Along the same lines, am I correct that St Mary's, Rotherhithe is called 'Redriff'? (I don't trust my source.)
There's a "St. Mary's Redcliffe," I know...?
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TubaMirum
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(Actually, this page has something interesting about the "Rotherhithe/Redriff" issue. Quote:
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I wondered about where I live: the Rotherhithe peninsula in south east London. ...
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The answer to Henry’s question is that in non-rhotic accents such as RP and London /r/ and /h/ are mutually exclusive in names like this. In this respect Rotherhithe is comparable to Leatherhead and Wolverhampton. ...
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comet
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Jenn- my reply in "this land is your land". Let me know if I can be of any more help.
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Saw it and responded. I suppose we might limit the gross-out factor to the USA people, rather than littering Heaven. (Why do I hear this faint background noise of "Eeewwww, she picked up a dead animal and she wants to do what with it! Eeewwww."?
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Firenze
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I pick up bits of dead animal all the time (rub them with garlic, herbs and oil and cook them usually).
But OTOH, if you find something furry under the wheels of your car round here, it is apt to be cat.
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jedijudy
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What? They don't talk about skins and tanning on This Sceptred Isle? Or maybe about different forms of the words!
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Angel Wrestler
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Just an interesting question on my part. I have wide-ish feet 4E, and have not bought shoes off the rack for a few decades (One of the advantages of being in a wheelchair is that shoes last forever)
My "dress shoes" are beginning to look tacky. I was looking at a pair in a store which I quite like - they have velcro closings, and I have been informed that they are quite wide for a standard shoe.
So tell me, O shipmates, what width are standard off-the-rack shoes? The clerk couldn't help.
Pete - it may be too late, but the answer is D for men's shoes, and B for women's. Individual shoes or certain brands may run wider or narrower than others (Nike's, for example, tend to run narrower than the norm). It sounds like - wheelchair or no - those shoes would not allow proper blood circulation.
(I used to sell shoes in 2 different family shoe stores)
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TurquoiseTastic
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I am trying to remember the details / provenance of a folk tale / pious story I read years ago.
It involves an old hermit who has food delivered to him by a dove every day. One day a visitor tells him of a public hanging in a nearby town, and he says "Good! He probably deserved it". That day the dove ceases to come and he is told that this is a divine judgement because of his unsympathetic attitude. He has to wander the world begging from now on.
After several years of this he is attacked by bandits but the bandit chief's daughter (? I think) prevails upon them to spare him. He tells them his life story whereupon the bandit chief is terrified - "God did that to you just for *saying* something wrong? What sort of punishment are *we* going to get then?" - so all the bandits are immediately converted and become monks!!!
There is a happy ending because the hermit dies (frozen to death in the snow ISTR), but his staff sprouts some shoots to show that he has finally been forgiven...
Does anyone know where this somewhat ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) story comes from?
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I pick up bits of dead animal all the time (rub them with garlic, herbs and oil and cook them usually).
But OTOH, if you find something furry under the wheels of your car round here, it is apt to be cat.
Just had a fabulously maccabre conversation with my daughter about the lovely clothing you could make from cat hides. I think I'm going to hell.
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Originally posted by comet:
Just had a fabulously maccabre conversation with my daughter about the lovely clothing you could make from cat hides. I think I'm going to hell.
Well, I hope I see you there. I can quite relate to a discussion about clothing made from cat hides. Many kitties do have nice pelts, though not as soft as bunny skins.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I'll be the one in the siamese parka.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Gives a whole new dimension to the idea of a catsuit.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
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Originally posted by comet:
I'll be the one in the siamese parka.
Better watch out for Campbellite . ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I think it sounds like an excellent cooperative situation. Campbellite gets the meat and comet gets the skins.
Moo
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Piglet
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Would now be a bad time to mention this book? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Shipmate
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Originally posted by piglet:
Would now be a bad time to mention this book?
It sold very well from our Cathedral bookshop when first punlished. What it says about our book stockist and/or our customers I'm not sure.
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Come let us sing of a wonderful love (1933 MHB No 314)
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Ut unum sint
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My work here is done.
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Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Zappa:
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I've think I've lost the plot here
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
It's a reference to this thread in Limbo
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Jengie jon
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Given the conversation above does anyone want a Beagle which is known to kill kittens?
A cousin has one going spare.
Unfortunately I suspect on the wrong continent for most people here.
Jengie
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sharkshooter
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Given the conversation above does anyone want a Beagle which is known to kill kittens?
A cousin has one going spare.
Unfortunately I suspect on the wrong continent for most people here.
Jengie
[sharkshooter peeks in for just a moment, then realizes that he dislikes dogs even more than cats - especially ones too heavy to double as footballs.]
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mousethief
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Originally posted by TurquoiseTastic:
I am trying to remember the details / provenance of a folk tale / pious story I read years ago.
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Does anyone know where this somewhat story comes from?
Boy that sounds Russian! I've never heard it but then I've only read one anthology of Russian tales.
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