SC - Cuskynole debate and the Florilegium

[Stefan li Rous]

- -Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
 
>> We still do this with chocolates (candy).  Descriptions of each filling are usually
>> written under a picture of the particular chocolate - on a card placed inside the
>> box.  Cadbury's Milk Tray does it.  The descriptions are always lavish and mention
>> ingredients from exotic places.

>Forgive me, all, if I seem preoccupied on the subject referenced below
>(normally I'm not, even slightly), but would the description "only the
>finest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed,
>flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with
>lark's vomit" sound about right? It was pretty funny even before I
>realized it had some basis in reality.  

It sounds disgustingly right to me!  Another "yes we're all fools aren't we" demo by 
Python et al methinks ;-)

Thank you for the chuckle Mr A. :-)
 
>> >ever see the Python
>> >routine about the self-defense against fresh fruit course? John Cleese,
>> >as the instructor, uses the term "red currant" and "raspberry"
>> >interchangably, having his students charge at him with deadly
>> >raspberries, using a Bengal tiger, as I recall, to defend himself. He
>> >says the great advantage of the tiger in unarmed combat is that 'e eats
>> >not only the fruit-laden foe, but also the red currants.
>> 
>> I don't know why I don't remember that one...

>So many sketches, so little time, and all. IMO, the only funnier
>material on the subject is Alexei Sayle's Oscar Wilde's School of
>Self-Defense routine...

Now that I have not seen, but I do know he was hilarious as the landlord in "The Young 
Ones"!;-)   

Elysant
  
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