Re: Was There Ever Really a Beginning?

"On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:04:07 -0700, in article
<Ns2dndzIXMuKsBjRRVn_vwA@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Harshman stated..."

TomS wrote:
"On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:34:25 -0700 (PDT), in article
<bec0c965-8ad3-401e-ab42-8e26538a710d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Suzanne
stated..."
[...snip...]
By the way....the next time you go to a restaurant, try not to get
upset if the waiter or the chef that reads the order does not
consider what you literally ordered.

Baked Alaska.

One of my favorite Chinese dishes: ants in a tree.


Of course, Wikipedia has an article:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misleadingly-named_foods>


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---Tom S.
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold,
with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead
The Crime of Galileo (1976) by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167

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