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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:49:57 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

* Bread, for that matter, hadn't even been introduced to yeast rising.

Completely false. Raised bread goes back well into the BC era. (Else
why did the Jewish dietary laws have to differentiate between leavened
(raised) and unleavened breads? Not to mention the yeast breads found
in Pompeii and in Egyptian tombs.)

....Actually, this is a very correct point if we're dealing with
Medieval Englandland. This area of the world didn't discover the
method of letting bread dough sit for a while before baking until the
8th or 9th century by the accounts I've read. Now, if your SCA is
doing BC era sims, or is Kosher, or is doing the Roman Orgy Toga Party
schtick, then fine.

[Jay Windbag Mode OFF]

OM

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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:34:55 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

OM wrote:

...Maybe it's just me, but "Camelot" aside, I still can't grasp why
people get off pretending to live in an era whe

Aqueducts? ;-)

....THere were some left over from the Roman occupation, but as with
pretty much everything else they left behind, the protoLimeys didn't
have Clue One how they worked. Hence, when they broke down, they
either fell into permanent disrepair and/or were broken down for raw
materials. This was the fate of many of the paved roads the Romans had
built for their use - the individual pavestones wound up used for
building materials and other masonry uses. One even wound up as a
cookstone for a roadside inn!

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:13:51 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

"Saxon Dog! Spartan Pig! Spanish Fly!"

"French"

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:52:28 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

ROTFL. Don't trust a web page that names Arthur as a living
historical figure.

....Precisely. He's been dead for several centuries now :-P

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

Scott Hedrick wrote:

Of course, as soon as the power came back on, we all took nice showers

About 35 hours without power ~200 miles south of KSC. I second
the comment on nice showers. ;-)

"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message
. ..

My poor wussy wife, city girl that she is, panicked when the power went
down
for 9 hours. No A/C, and god forbid we actually have to deal with the
children instead of numbing them with the TV.

I thought it was great. Most of a day without all those namby-pamby
"modern
conveniences".

I had a chance to read three Peter David novels- part of his "Psi-Man"
series.

Of course, when the power came back on, she started singing and dancing.
Now
her cordless phone works.

We ought to have a mandatory power-out day once a year. Wimps.

when (Fran?) came through Atlanta back in '95 my entire apartment complex
lost power, and trees were down all through the neighborhood.

I learned how to cook on a gas stove and shower in cold water by
candlelight.

My candyass roommate went looking for a bar with electricity. I'd say God
forbid he should ever be in a really tight situation, but he'd just mooch
off other people and sweet-talk them into fixing things up for him, so he's
got nothing to worry about.

--
Terrell Miller


" A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ...
"David Sander" wrote in message
...
I think it's quite fair to say
it helps enormously in venting frustrations when you get kitted up in a
spangenhelm, maille hauberk, circular shield and fighting seax, and then
smashing twelve shades of snot out of your best mates with a bloody
great sword.


I'm remembering this bit!

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ...
"David Sander" wrote in message
...
I think it's quite fair to say
it helps enormously in venting frustrations when you get kitted up in a
spangenhelm, maille hauberk, circular shield and fighting seax, and then
smashing twelve shades of snot out of your best mates with a bloody
great sword.


I'm remembering this bit!

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ...
"David Sander" wrote in message
...
I think it's quite fair to say
it helps enormously in venting frustrations when you get kitted up in a
spangenhelm, maille hauberk, circular shield and fighting seax, and then
smashing twelve shades of snot out of your best mates with a bloody
great sword.


I'm remembering this bit!

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ...
"David Sander" wrote in message
...
I think it's quite fair to say
it helps enormously in venting frustrations when you get kitted up in a
spangenhelm, maille hauberk, circular shield and fighting seax, and then
smashing twelve shades of snot out of your best mates with a bloody
great sword.


I'm remembering this bit!