[Sca-cooks] Porridge, tobacco

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 17, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> At 02:52 PM 5/17/2006, you wrote:
>
>> On May 17, 2006, at 5:23 PM, marilyn traber 011221 wrote:
>>
>>>> Yes, a lot of 16th century sources talk about tobacco as the cure-
>>>> all. They even consumed distilled tobacco water. Why they didn't  
>>>> die
>>>> I don't know.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa,
>>>
>>> They DID die, Jadwiga- at least, do you see any of them alive?
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>
>> Dick Clark?
>>
>> Adamantius
>
> Geez- beat me to the punch. I was going to say Keith Richards. ;-D
>
> 'Lainie

That would be another good example. Then there's Julio Franco of the  
NY Mets, too. Recently he hit a home run and went on the record books  
as the oldest professional player on record to do that, and then the  
next day he stole a base and became the oldest player to do that  
since 1909... the joke going around is that the bat he used was cut  
from a tree his grandson planted during the Civil War.

He's pretty frightening, actually... His morning regimen involves  
eating a dozen egg whites and oatmeal for breakfast every morning,  
then working out for five or six hours. That's before going off to work.

I was thinking of asking him if he had encountered cuskynoles in his  
youth, and what they were like.

Adamantius


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