[Sca-cooks] Must be tired tonight...

AEllin Olafs dotter aellin at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 11 10:02:45 PST 2004


And you plant this in my brain a week before St. Patrick's Day in New 
York... You sadist.

As if Phlip's plaid pastes weren't bad enough.

Oh, yes, I've always called it Londonderry Air...  

AEllin

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>
> While not food-related, I'm reminded of an infamous incident in the 
> Chronicle of My Family, wherein I, as a kid, am watching the 1939 
> "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" on television. Holmes plays a tune on 
> the violin, a tune which sounds vaguely familiar (it's now normally 
> associated with a lyric which gets it called "Danny Boy" by fake Irish 
> people everywhere; as an instrumental it is known by at least one 
> other title). I ask my Mom what that tune is, and she looks up from 
> her Saturday Review of Literature, or whatever it is, and replies, 
> "That's 'The Londonderry Air'"
>
> This is pretty perplexing. "'The London Derriere'? Really? Are you 
> sure? How did it get a name like that?"
>
> <snip>
>
> Adamantius
>
>
>




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