[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 9, Issue 76

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:58 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:

> Better check your sources. I read recently that the "high rate of
> tooth decay" may have been considerably less than we moderns suppose.

I've come to the conclusion that anybody who thinks they know much in  
the way of empirical fact is eventually in for some enormous  
surprises...

> Who invented the
>> hamburger? The cave men or New Havenites? (Mind you my mother was  
>> born
>> and raised there!)
>> Susan
>
> Which- among the cavemen, or among the New Havenites? And, is there a
> difference?
>
> ;-)

It depends on whether the cavemen are Yale undergrads or graduates of  
The Yale School of Business.

"I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa..."

Adamantius




"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