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Peter Stickney wrote: There had to be something, at some level. Consider teh case of the Bezoar Stone. A Bezoar Stone is something that, when you put it into a goblet of Wine, will neutralize any poison dissolved in the Wine. (And thus highly prized by Kings & such). And in fact, Bezoar Stones exist. What they are is Calcified Goat Hairballs, which remain in the stomach of a Goat until, well, you can open up the goat to get them. That in and of itself wasn't so odd, folks had lots of odd ideas, in those days, The really strange thing is that it works. In an acidic environment, such as wine, the calcium in the Goat Hairball will bind up Arsenic, which was the most commonly used poison. One has to winder about the test program, though. So the vessel with the hairball should hold the drink of which you must be careful? :-) Pat |
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Pat Flannery writes: Peter Stickney wrote: There had to be something, at some level. Consider teh case of the Bezoar Stone. A Bezoar Stone is something that, when you put it into a goblet of Wine, will neutralize any So the vessel with the hairball should hold the drink of which you must be careful? :-) Unless of course it gets swapped for the Chalice Full of Malice. -- Pete Stickney I think I'll go open up Smuttynose Robust Porter - the Brew that is True. |
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"Peter Stickney" wrote in message ... In an acidic environment, such as wine, the calcium in the Goat Hairball will bind up Arsenic, which was the most commonly used poison. One has to winder about the test program, though. Just what in hell possessed the first person to try it? I mean, just what were the conditions that allowed someone to notice? Usually, if a goat hair ball were in my wine, I think I would have first done something unpleasant to the wine handler, then tossed it, and probably never noticed that this time I hadn't keeled over. |
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"Anthony Frost" wrote ...
Computerised lists and repeated nagging by post if an address doesn't show up as having a licence mostly. Tell me about it. Thanks to incorrect address data in their system my parents, and their next door neighbours, have been getting repeated 'warning' letters and no matter how many times we tell them we've paid and got the papers to prove it they haven't got their act together. There are a number of detector vans, some of which actually do have equipment inside, and a larger number of hand held detector sets. |
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Where? Without Italy, do the Axis bother with Greece or Yugoslavia? More to the point, instead of invading Italy, wouldn't we have possibly just done what was necessary to use Greece, for example, as a base? There were a number of islands and other plaes we could have concentrated resources on taking over, if invading Italy wasn't a justifiable option. Only if the Greeks allowed us, or we invaded them. |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: Just what in hell possessed the first person to try it? I mean, just what were the conditions that allowed someone to notice? Well... a goatherd was mixing a Martini...and he was out of olives....and then this goat coughed up a hairball.... Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Hedrick wrote: Just what in hell possessed the first person to try it? I mean, just what were the conditions that allowed someone to notice? Well... a goatherd was mixing a Martini...and he was out of olives....and then this goat coughed up a hairball.... Remember, it was a *calcified* hairball; those are the ones that *don't* get coughed up. (I have recently learned that horses have stones, also -- and again, nowhere as pretty as the oyster's pearl -- these are more like geodes!) /dps |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Well... a goatherd was mixing a Martini...and he was out of olives....and then this goat coughed up a hairball.... "Give me a martinus." "Don't you mean a martini?" "If I want two I'll ask for 'em!" |
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Neil Gerace wrote: "Give me a martinus." "Don't you mean a martini?" "If I want two I'll ask for 'em!" Ah ... a Wayne and Shuster fan! Nick |
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