[Sca-cooks] OT (semi): unexpected foodie reference

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Yeah, "Bones", while highly formulaic, often has moments of brilliant 
hilarious intelligent (or at least pseudo-intellectual) dialogue, 
especially when it involves "the squints" = the highly educated and 
often over competitive youthful male and female scientists. I mean, 
c'mon, how many TV shows feature as the main character a *forensic 
anthropologist*?

I'm sorry but i'll be missing it this year, though, because i'm 
taking an Arabic language class on Tuesday nights. In our first class 
we were given "workbooks" to fill in the letters of the alphabet and 
practice words that feature the letter. We got through the first 6 
letters. Of course i recognized two words that began with the 
featured letter... one was "tuffah" = apple, and the other was "thum" 
= garlic.

The very first word in the workbook was for rabbit (begins with 
alif... obviously i need to go study, cuz i don't quite remember it). 
The teacher, a cheerful and enthusiastic Egyptian, no doubt from 
pretty far up the Nile, said it was cute. I said it was tasty, which 
lead to him discussing an Egyptian dish featuring rabbit and mallow 
leaves, which is served to honored guests...
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita