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How Low Can You Go? Everybody Limbo!
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How Low Can You Go? Everybody Limbo!
Only if there is a chiropractor that can twist me back into shape is present also!
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We have one; the 'London Eye' [a tricky thing to install, by all accounts].
I've never seen that photo of the eye.
What happens in the smoke tends to be ignored round here.
Interesting conicidence: The first ferris wheel opened to the public in Chicago 125 years ago this week.
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The daughter of a work colleague’s partner asked him recently if it’s true you can buy a strawberry sundae on a Saturday. She’s 20.
I hadn't thought that chocolate & strawberry were that alike. .
Strawberries are associated with the Summer Solstice, a time of sexual licence and role reversal, pretty much around the Northern Hemisphere, from Canada's Cree to Scandinavia's Swedes.
Chocolate (Xocolotl in Nahuatl) was the Central American elixir of the gods and aphrodisiac supreme.
For us modern North Americans, Chocolate rules the season from Hallowe'en to Easter; Strawberries reign over the summer season. Together, there is completeness, yin and yang in one, all pleasures are possible.
Have fun, HP.
Thank you for that bit of knowledge:
And that reminder that I have some strawberries in my 'fridge.
Cocoa is theobromos, food of the gods. Only demons shun it.
Theobromine is the active agent. Theobromos is the food's name. At least, that's what Kage Baker said in her Company books. Her manufactured immortal time-traveling slaves were addicted to theobromos. Much hilarity in the scene in the Ghirardelli Chocolate tasting room.Is that the same as theobromine ?
It really is amazing how often a bit of understanding of ancient Geek or Latin can really help with understanding.
Unfortunately, classical languages have been dropped from so many high schools' curricula. Latin in particular.
Going back more than 40 years ago, I can remember Latin being offered as an option for English credits in high school.
Course, I can also remember having the option of being a photographer for the school newspaper and/or yearbook counting as English credits too. While it made almost no sense at all, I took full advantage of that loophole to wipe out more than half of the requirement for graduation.
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Easy way out. We had English, then Latin, then French. But most of us felt we needed more, and so in Sophmore year, we all (80 of us - a small school) independently studied another language - Greek, Spanish, Norwegian, Yiddish, German,... I took Irish Gaelic.