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Gingerlily - The Full Wild
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Jul 26, 2014 01:41AM
From what Jim has said he doesn't have much of a wardrobe to agonise over.
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I don't think Jim agonises over very much at all anyway. Except his broadband speed.
And the sheep death rate.
Are the two related? Does sacrificing a sheep result in more broadbands? Or just fewer jumpers...
I don't know. Well have to wait until Jim comes along and ask him. But if what he has said before is right then sheep just die spontaneously and so don't need to be sacrificed.
True, I heard them described once as "suicides on four legs"
Jim gets to sleep by counting them dropping dead.
They've just confirmed the first Ebola death in Nigeria. So there's probably a few hundred. :(
M.T. wrote: "Do you agonise about your wardrobe Jim?Patti, phnark."
Not really, most of the clothes in it belong to my lady wife. Mine live on the floor (dirty and waiting for the washing machine) chair (clean and just out of the washing machine) or washing machine :-)
Tim wrote: "True, I heard them described once as "suicides on four legs""I was always told that you could never overstock with sheep, they just kept dying until you got down to the right number
(It's just that nobody knows how low the right number actually is)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "They've just confirmed the first Ebola death in Nigeria. So there's probably a few hundred. :("I noticed that as well. Struck me how little fuss is being made over it
Yeah, something to follow, I reckon.I can't see it being contained.
Jim wrote: "Tim wrote: "True, I heard them described once as "suicides on four legs""I was always told that you could never overstock with sheep, they just kept dying until you got down to the right number
(..."
Its probably a minus number. Or an imaginary number.
Dying is good.Tyrian purple from cochineal.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Dying is good.Tyrian purple from cochineal."
less smelly than making it from predatory shellfish
Erm. Back home Murex is an eye drop. I think.Gets the red out.
It's a kind of mollusc I thought, that imperial purple came from. Nice shell
Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Murex?"That's them Rosemary
According to Wiki,
Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, commonly called "murexes" or "rock snails"
Do they make dyes from the Tsarinan gastropods?
I read a book about the Victorian who invented - or discovered - purple dye. It was much more interesting than I thought it would be. Wish I could remember what it was called
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Do they make dyes from the Tsarinan gastropods?"Whilst the mucus is harvested and is the base of an interesting chemical industry, the Large Land Snail of Tsarina lacks the hypobranchial gland, which is apparently normally restricted to sea snails anyway.
Probably something to do with the dyes being bromine based organic compounds.
Mind you we've been quietly working through the press to lay the foundations for our export trade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/art...
Indeed there are cynics who say that the publishing of
is all part of a complicated marketing scheme designed to build acceptance for when the first ships come direct from Tsarina loaded with moisturisers and similar products.
Urgh! Count me out...
Jim wrote: "oh ye of little faith!"I have no faith in snail slime. I'd prefer to be wrinkly!
I think the eye drops might be Murine.
As opposed to Murrain which is a disease in cattle and sheep
Murine (adjective, zoology)"Relating to or affecting mice or related rodents"
Be careful what you stick in your eyes ;)
Or a moraine - dumped detritus from a melting glacier.I image murine is a contraction of mouse urine then? ;)
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Marine?"Or perhaps Marina? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ieqsyxnYlNo...
Interesting that I don't think I've ever used the word Marina in any of my books Now I know why, too many possibilities for confusion :-)
(sings) Mariiiiina, Aqua Mariiiina...What are these strange enchantments that start
Whenever you're neeear....
ahem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMDG... if anyone doesn't know the song
Didn't know you were a Stingray fan :-)
Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, all those. Even Terrahawks! :)
Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "I read a book about the Victorian who invented - or discovered - purple dye. It was much more interesting than I thought it would be. Wish I could remember what it was called"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mauve-Invente...
It's taken a whole day but I remembered!
Funnily enough we have a bottle of Parma Violet liqueurin the cupboard. Looks just like meths!
Tim wrote: "(sings) Mariiiiina, Aqua Mariiiina...What are these strange enchantments that start
Whenever you're neeear....
ahem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMDG... if anyone doesn't know the song"
I so had a crush on her when I was eight.
Gonna go watch my Stingray DVDs now! :)
Anything could happen in the next half hour, then
They don't make them like that any more.There's a whole genre of SF that will probably never be added to
Feeling quite chuffed. Youngest daughter asked me when the next story about Benor Dorfinngil is coming out. She said she'd felt a distinct sadness when she'd got to the end of the last book about him and realised that there wasn't any more available :-)
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