[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Feb 7 18:17:31 PST 2005
Also sprach Bill Fisher:
>On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:26:38 -0800, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:
>> Just a note, folks- I posted questions about lemons/citrus fruit on
>> Chaucernet, and replies are beginning to dribble in. Some of them very
>> interesting. When I have sorted them into some semblance of order, I'll
>> pass them on.
>>
>> 'Lainie
>
>Woooo! Sounds like interesting stuff.
>
>
>Cadoc
>(remembers having to explain the religious significance of the
>Canterbury tales
>in his college Medieval lit class...)
And nobody accepts my theory that the Canterbury Tales is the
medieval equivalent of The Three Stooges...
Adamantius (nyuck-nyuck-nyuck... woowoowoowoo)
--
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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