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Yes, It's Robinsons Old Tom. Well done you. It's not a competition.... :D J.W.Lees can be all right (maybe) if the landlords clean out their pipes or whatever it is, but I've had a few bad pints of it and I'd just rather avoid it in future. Perhaps it's just the pubs that I end up in... It is tellin...

Nanohedron wrote:
Roots, lye, olive oil and sheep poo. Who thinks this stuff up?

I'd like to know who thought of using goats' urine for tempering sword-steel. On second thoughts, no, I wouldn't.

I echo Nanohedron's sentiment about over-hoppiness. In fact, since I learned that mugwort was used to flavour beer before hops were introduced to the UK ("Hops, Reformation, baize and beer, came into England all in a year.") I've wondered what that would taste like. If anyone hears of a mu...

Faskinating stuff! Thank you, DB!

I found out the meaning of "Turkey". There is a dye, called "Turkey Red". It was in the news around 1890, because the German manufacturers had previously had a monopoly on it, which caused some distress to weavers in Scotland and Ireland. Scottish Weavers set up a co-operative, t...

Because the shape of the human hand vaguely resembles the profile of a turkey. When I was in primary school (albeit a long time ago) in the USA, we drew pictures of turkeys for Thanksgiving holiday by tracing our hands and colouring them, and adding turkey legs and feet underneath. The thumb outlin...

Here's an update for anyone who is interested. There's a picture of the people involved!
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... -in-rwanda

We are currently reading "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. One of the footnotes, in particular, has puzzled me. It reads "A pandybat is a reinforced leather strap, used for punishment in schools. Mr Barrett calls it a turkey because it makes the hands, when struc...

"Pique slang" in the context of 15yo girls is completely appropriate (in my experience).

Time was it were apples, like, and cider.

One of the pieces I do is a solo Folk Opera based on (libretto!) a short story by Somerset Maugh called "Winter Cruise". Part of the story hinges on St Sylvester's Day - December 31st, which was traditionally observed in parts of Germany more than Christmas was. Or so I'm told. Another son...

Happy New Year, Big Davy and all!

The Hawaiian Twelve Days of Christmas (as I know it. There are a few versions.)

https://youtu.be/51iJPt-8IeY

Back at yez.

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In case anyone is feeling generous.