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Old May 16th 04, 10:01 PM
Pat Flannery
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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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Old May 17th 04, 02:53 AM
Peter Stickney
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In article ,
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.

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Pete Stickney
I think I'll go open up Smuttynose Robust Porter - the Brew that is
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Old May 17th 04, 04:32 AM
Scott Hedrick
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"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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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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Old May 17th 04, 10:43 AM
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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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Old May 17th 04, 06:32 PM
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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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Old May 17th 04, 06:50 PM
Pat Flannery
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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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Old May 18th 04, 04:36 AM
dave schneider
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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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Old May 18th 04, 05:07 AM
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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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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Old May 18th 04, 05:19 AM
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In article ,
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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