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Post by Calenture on Mar 30, 2008 21:39:13 GMT
Worry: is the whole of that whole blog-site unreadable by anyone but me and nobody has told me over the years about this because, probably, nobody has attempted to enter it before? Anyway I have now additionally put this very brief vegetable debate fiction here: weirdmonger.blog-city.com/exegesis.htmI wondered if people needed to be registered and logged in to Expressblogs, so... I registered and logged in, then tried searching for Exegesis. Sorry, that blog appears hopeless! I did read the story on the other page, and it made me smile. Possibly your funniest story.
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 30, 2008 22:04:14 GMT
Sorry, that blog appears hopeless! I did read the story on the other page, and it made me smile. Possibly your funniest story. Thanks for both things above, Rog. I've loads of stories on Expressblogs - have done so for years - and they all work for me -
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 30, 2008 22:07:28 GMT
I read your exegesis elsewhere and was quite taken with what it had to say regarding the practice of cutting little crosses in the base of sprouts. Thanks. It is an actual practice to do this. My grandmother did it to sprouts.
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Post by Calenture on Mar 30, 2008 22:12:32 GMT
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 30, 2008 23:39:19 GMT
It is an actual practice to do this. My grandmother did it to sprouts. Indeed. I've done it myself many times but never for religious reasons. The spiritual dimension of sprouts is something I'd never really considered before. But now you mention it... I think Rog has hit upon the problem with those last couple of links, all of which work fine. Was the original link to "Exegesis" on expressblogs incomplete?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 31, 2008 5:54:26 GMT
worked for me
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 31, 2008 7:28:59 GMT
Was the original link to "Exegesis" on expressblogs incomplete? No, it was a complete version of the link. That particular blog-site is only one among many blog-sites on the 'The Weirdmonger Wheel' - and I'm grateful to hear that there may be a problem with Expressblogs (named 'Simonymous'). A cross in the base of a brussel sprout to keep the Devil out is a genuine superstition I grew up with in the Fifties. des
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Post by Johnlprobert on Mar 31, 2008 8:48:39 GMT
Is that because the sprout is the devil's favourite food, and the crosses work as an exorcising agent?
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 31, 2008 9:43:50 GMT
Now I know why I love them.
David
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Post by Johnlprobert on Mar 31, 2008 10:17:13 GMT
Which means the Witchsmeller Pursuivant got it wrong:
"For in the Book of Jeremoth in the appendix to the apocrypha does it not say that thou shalt not eat of the tree known as the carrot tree?"
Good old Frank Finlay
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Post by troo on Mar 31, 2008 12:46:57 GMT
Sprouts are fantastic. Peas are gorgeous, but they have to be fresh - frozen peas are tasteless.
I'm quite surprised today by how much I'm enjoying garlic-stuffed olives. Nom nom nom!
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 31, 2008 12:47:35 GMT
Is that because the sprout is the devil's favourite food, and the crosses work as an exorcising agent? Exactly. Except it didn't work for me. The devil's in the detail ... or the faeces.
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coral
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Post by coral on Apr 1, 2008 23:25:46 GMT
Lovely! Thanks Des.
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coral
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Post by coral on Apr 1, 2008 23:30:01 GMT
Hang on, I just noticed that, garlic stuffed olives. I can't even BEGIN to tell you what's wrong with that. Have you no taste buds woman? I'm having difficulty even believing that such a thing exists, I'm in shock.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 2, 2008 4:59:41 GMT
I'm afraid they do Coral and I'm afraid Troo and me would be in there at the buffet digigng in
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