SC - Sekanjabin +
The Cheshire Cat
cheshire at southcom.com.au
Sun May 2 19:12:09 PDT 1999
Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/2/99 1:05:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
>
> << > >Life in the 1500's
>
> Obviously someone with too much time on their hands... >>
>
> Who didn't devote enough of their spare time to research. "Stopped eating
> tomatoes for 400 years because of the stuff leached out of the pewter plates
> by the acid"? yowch.
>
> Brangwayna
Which leaves open the question of why they still ate vinegar, wine,
gooseberries, lemons, etc...
I liked some of the linguistic speculation: my favorite was the part
about raining cats and dogs.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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