From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #98 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, April 13 2006 Volume 09 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] Sugar rush [Derek White ] Re: [idealcopy] the accent on accents................ [Derek White ] [idealcopy] O.T: for those who may wish to join a science 'list' [Ari Subject: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock wasn't that called 'five boys'? and had (of course) 5 pictures, all the same of a silhouette of a tousle-haired boy? A - --- MarkBursa@aol.com wrote: > dan, still bereft (as i wrote, i believe, yesterday > to mr bursa, > inadvertantly off-list) 30-plus years after the > fact over the disappearance of a fondly > remembered candy bar from either hershey or nestle > that consisted of layers > of milk, dark & i think white chocolate ... > guaranteed to rot a tooth at 50 > paces > > > > I do vaguely recall something like that being sold > here - but certainly it > wasn't a popular brand. > > Always been partial to plain chocolate rather than > milk - the arrival of the > dark chocolatre Kit-Kat has been a most welcome > addition to the world of > confectionery. > > Mark Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:47:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Sugar rush Doesn't jog mine, Fergus, and I've eaten pretty much the whole gamut at least once... Perhaps it was an Eire-only release ?............ Derek Fergus Kelly wrote: Here's one for the Mission of Bursa: Remember a bar called SCRUMBLE ? NONE of my contemporaries remember it... I'm certain about it though. I remember the ad featured a simple animation (vaguely Yellow Submarine style) of a plane whose vapour trail spelled out the product name. I think it was either Rowntrees or Nestles. Jog anyone's slacks ? Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/ - --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:52:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] the accent on accents................ No, I can usually get by with that one, so long as you ignore the intonation and pitch, which makes them always sound like they're asking a question, even when they're not........ DW Ari wrote: >>No:- as for "pressies" that's teenage scouse-talk, which has not a lot of points of contact with the English language..........(probably the 3rd most incomprehensible regional UK dialect after 1)Geordie and 2)Glaswegian.)<< and what about the 'Brummie' accent ar kid? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:09:54 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of Hindsight......") There's also the issue of not being able to smell the asparagus wee smell rather than the wee not smelling. This article suggests that Giluz, for one, may never have had the pleasure as 90% of the Israeli population cannot smell it: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band124/b124-7.html Dr another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of MarkBursa@aol.com Sent: 12 April 2006 01:45 To: keith.indoorminer@virgin.net; zak_blakk@yahoo.com; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of Hindsight......") Apparently, eating asparagus makes some people's wee smell awful. This effects 50% of British people, and 90% of Amrericans. I didn't know that this *didn't* affect some people!?! Doesn't smell awful, just asparagussy ;-) Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:42:57 +0000 From: dpbailey@att.net Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock i recall the name as being something like "3-in-1 bar," though i don't believe that was quite it. i found it once via google (pathetic, i know, but i'm pretty damned serious about my candy, as my filling-crown-&-cap-crammed oral orifice shows quite well ... i'm somewhat surprised there isn't a candy-nostaliga yahoo group, or at least wasn't the last time i looked a couple of years ago) but can't recall the details. mark, is the dark chocolate kit-kat being marketed over there as a "special limited edition" (or words very close to that), as it is over here (same with a white chocolate version, iirc)? makes me wonder if they'll show up on ebay in a few years hence ... if forced to choose amongst chocolates (which might be even tougher for me than being forced to choose between, say, wire albums), i'd probably go with dark. given your & other british listmembers' antipathy toward our standard hershey bar, i wonder how you think hersey's "special dark" bar stacks up (assuming it can be found over there)? dan - -------------- Original message from Ari : -------------- > wasn't that called 'five boys'? and had (of course) 5 > pictures, all the same of a silhouette of a > tousle-haired boy? A > > --- MarkBursa@aol.com wrote: > > > dan, still bereft (as i wrote, i believe, yesterday > > to mr bursa, > > inadvertantly off-list) 30-plus years after the > > fact over the disappearance of a fondly > > remembered candy bar from either hershey or nestle > > that consisted of layers > > of milk, dark & i think white chocolate ... > > guaranteed to rot a tooth at 50 > > paces > > > > > > > > I do vaguely recall something like that being sold > > here - but certainly it > > wasn't a popular brand. > > > > Always been partial to plain chocolate rather than > > milk - the arrival of the > > dark chocolatre Kit-Kat has been a most welcome > > addition to the world of > > confectionery. > > > > Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:24:21 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Spent. A smelly penny... was OT: Choc-stock Furthermore... If one parent has smelly wee after eating asparagus and the other doesn't, the child will!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Knight" To: ; ; ; Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of Hindsight......") > There's also the issue of not being able to smell the asparagus wee > smell rather than the wee not smelling. This article suggests that > Giluz, for one, may never have had the pleasure as 90% of the Israeli > population cannot smell it: > > http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band124/b124-7.html > > Dr another the Keith > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of MarkBursa@aol.com > Sent: 12 April 2006 01:45 > To: keith.indoorminer@virgin.net; zak_blakk@yahoo.com; > idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of > Hindsight......") > > Apparently, eating asparagus makes some people's wee smell awful. > > This effects 50% of British people, and 90% of Amrericans. > > > > I didn't know that this *didn't* affect some people!?! > > Doesn't smell awful, just asparagussy ;-) > > Mark > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/309 - Release Date: 11/04/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:59:53 +0300 From: giluz Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of Hindsight......") hahaha Actually I already heard about it: In Frederik Pohl's Gateway, when they take the voyage everyone on the spaceship hates the protagonist's girlfriend because she insists on a diet rich in asparagus. I have to say that I never smelled anything odd, so this might be one of the few things where I am part of the Israeli majority. giluz, after a family dinner, where I didn't touch asparagus (and there was some). On 4/12/06, Keith Knight wrote: > > There's also the issue of not being able to smell the asparagus wee > smell rather than the wee not smelling. This article suggests that > Giluz, for one, may never have had the pleasure as 90% of the Israeli > population cannot smell it: > > http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band124/b124-7.html > > Dr another the Keith > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of MarkBursa@aol.com > Sent: 12 April 2006 01:45 > To: keith.indoorminer@virgin.net; zak_blakk@yahoo.com; > idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: Choc-stock (was "With the Pinkness of > Hindsight......") > > Apparently, eating asparagus makes some people's wee smell awful. > > This effects 50% of British people, and 90% of Amrericans. > > > > I didn't know that this *didn't* affect some people!?! > > Doesn't smell awful, just asparagussy ;-) > > Mark > - -- Now playing: http://www.last.fm/user/giluz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] choc-block >>i wonder how you think hersey's "special dark" bar stacks up (assuming it can be found over there)? dan<< not nearly as good Dan, hershy's isn't 'nearly' as smooth and rich as most britt dark chocs, my fave is Terry's burnt almond, dunno if they make 'em any more though. and as for licorice, gimme 'Bassetts' any day of the year.of course if you 'really' want good chocolate you'll hafta go to Belgium/Holland and tour the many good small independant chocolate makers, there's even 'special tours' that cater for them specifically: bus driving job anyone? 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