Posts from 28th November 2004
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Nov 04
THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
“apple: generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts“
“botulism: derived via german from Latin botulus, sausage”
“cake: a flat round loaf of bread”
“chip: meaning piece of dried dung first attested 1946″
“pudding: a kind of sausage“
Which of the following is not a pie?
i. shepherd’s/cottage pie
ii. cheese flan/pizza
iii. scotch egg
iv. boiled egg
actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a stiff crackdown ordered on heretics and dissidents. Hunting last night for back-up for solid new outlier positions – i naturally supported iv. but did not come up with any of these – i discovered that the linguistic origins of the word “pie” are entirely uncertain: best guess, apparently, being that
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