Oddities... (Was RE: [Sca-cooks] Good News from Drakey
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Sep 2 18:05:09 PDT 2002
Also sprach Gorgeous Muiredach:
>>Thanks. Taffy and I almost got thrown out of the Australian National
>>Library in Hysterics after finding a period haemaroid cure that involved
>>a brandy soaked flaming fig... I do enjoy finding the little oddities
>>of medieval life...
>
>Oh shit! I spewed out Coke all over my keyboard! Thanks....
That's even better than the 18th-century cure for chronic drunkenness
which involves serving the afflicted person wine or ale full of live,
baby eels...
Adamantius
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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
-DONALD FOSTER
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