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☯Emily
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Aug 27, 2024 01:32PM
Where could I find some good African restaurants?
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Xavier Martel, and he knew a thing or two, would have used his knowledge based on French colonialism to recommend one should begin in Paris.
Yesterday was an ordinary day like today.
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Aubergine, I think you may mean, to those suffused with Parisienne cuisine and too haute culture for their own good.
Burger King is an option for those with a taste for fast food.
Chick-fil-A is even more popular than Burger King.
Don't get me started on food I shouldn't eat - I want fish and chips now.
Eclairs are yummy, but I can't eat them.
Fish and chips for dinner and an eclair for dessert sound good to me.
Gastronomy - what's happened to it on Goodreads?
Happy to chat about other topics if anyone has suggestions.
Invertebrates - can they be relied on without a backbone?
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Much as lampreys may provide interest, may not a surfeit be fatal?
Not all lampreys are considered pests since the native ones in the North West are endangered and don't kill trout like the imported ones in the Great Lakes do.
Oh my goodness, I had to look up what lampreys are and the images are quite striking.
Photographs of lampreys were taken by me last week at a fishery that had a few lampreys going upstream to spawn and then die.
Quitting the subject of lampreys, how about rabbits?
Rabbits are plentiful this year, so hopefully the hawks are happy with a great supply of food.
Suppose rabbits, being persecuted, become more aggressive, perhaps hawks will think twice.
The trait of hopping into holes is one way to escape predators.
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Woodchucks, also known as groundhogs, love to make holes in the back yards of many homes in New Jersey.
Xenotransplantation could be used in New Jersey to graft woodchucks into rabbit hybrids which have a known adversity to the New Jersey soil structure - so I'm told.
You know....I'm befuddled by this....and can only keep thinking Rodent Of Unusual Size from The Princess Bride.
Zooming in here, I comment to say how much I enjoy The Princess Bride movie.
By the way, Fezzik the giant is my most favorite character.
Characters in Cheech and Chong's The Corsican Brothers look a lot like Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya,
Doesn't that sound very interesting to think about?
Elwes, Cary Elwes, that is, wrote a book about the making of The Princess Bride.
Frankly, that would be interesting to read.
Good heavens, I've never watched it preferring as I do Casablanca and The Third Man, and I still have a crush on Lauren Bacall.
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If only I had learned how to whistle properly, unfortunately putting my lips together and blowing produces a rude noise.
"...[Ju]st whistle" is a directive that's easier said than done for some.
King Richard III of England couldn't whistle either, that's why he never owned a dog.
Ludicrous reason not to own a dog when I'm sure he had the means to buy a whistle or have one custom-made for him.
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Of course it's not true, Richard could whistle the birds from the trees and he preferred cats anyway.
Perhaps we can discuss the ways that Richard has been maligned over the centuries.
Question, as I'm not in the know: What was Richard the Third most known for?
Richard III supposedly killed two Princes in the Tower of London in order to take the throne.
Shakespeare wrote a play called Richard III, but I've not read or seen it.
The execution of the Duke of Buckingham, a former ally, probably sent the wrong message to those who might have fought beside Richard at Bosworth.
Understanding that Shakespeare wrote to please the Tudor Dynasty will help you understand the slanted version of Richard III.
