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What would you hope would be the result of a introducing a toad, and a baguette to a live chicken and then conducting a union with a ginger midget and a monk called "Roger" on a vineyard in Belgium?

Google and Wikipedia are forbidden. There ARE klaxons so be bold, preferably interesting but never obvious.

Good luck.

Obvious? How could you be "obvious" with a question like that

I'll start by expressing puzzlement. A vineyard in Belgium?

Clive, is that:

'introducing a toad and a baguette to a live chicken, and then conducting a union with a ginger midget and a monk called "Roger" on a vineyard in Belgium?'

Is the chicken directly linked to "Roger", or more specifically to the ginger midget and "Roger", or are they mutually exclusive?

Also is the midget male or female?

Belgium immediately makes me think , one of the best things made in Belgium, unless you like , of course...

MMF

Ok, I'll take a possibly obvious stab : is it a Trappist monk?

>>Obvious? How could you be "obvious" with a question like that?<<

- have I been missed that much?

>>I'll start by expressing puzzlement. A vineyard in Belgium?<<

Mmm yes... you've picked up on the bit I was most unsure of. I have need of a derivative of grape for this question and as far as I can figure it the monk lived in territory - which is now - in Belgium, and later he travels to Germany, so I played a little bit fast and loose with the known facts but since he describes using this stuff I am presuming somebody somewhere had a field of grapes to donate.

>>Is the chicken directly linked to "Roger"<<

Given the practical details involved I imagine that the chicken belonged to Roger, yes. You wouldn't want to do this to somebody else's chicken it would be a breach of taste and decency at a minimum.


>>Are the ginger midget and "Roger" mutually exclusive?<<

They may well have been, I've nothing to suggest that Roger *wasn't* short and orange but let's pretend that for the moment that he was a strapping Dane and recruited someone for the task.


>>is the midget male or female?<<
The midget MUST be male. I cannot further elaborate, you'll just have to use your imaginations!

The monk was not a Trappist, as far as I know but he was a Benedictine.

I remember hearing mention of some consumable that, during the process to its production, is intentionally passed through the digestive system of a chicken. I can't what the consumable is, or why such an thing would be done though.

I may even have got the avian wrong also. 'Tis a dim memory.


Geggs

>>I remember hearing mention of some consumable that, during the process to its production, is intentionally passed through the digestive system of a chicken. <<

The Mcnugget - possibly?

Have DGI +1, however, for "digestion" becuase there is a little of that involved.

Geggs: you might be thinking of Kopi Luwak, A33314933

So what dose 'Here be dragons' have to do with this I wonder. It also sort of points to Wales

>>So what dose 'Here be dragons' have to do with this I wonder.<<




It's a curious one....

I wondered about civet coffee too!

How we could go from there to 'passing through chickens', I'm not entirely sure. We'll have to let Geggs explain their unusual associations!

If only I could! I did say it was a dim memory. Clearly it was so dim the only the digustive system bit remained, everything else, includinng the creature in question, had got distorted!


Geggs

Ok
monk called "Roger" ... Roger Bacon perghaps, that leads to gunpowder, the dragon connection in the title could refer to a dragonette a type of early cannon.

Now a vineyard in Belgium coule be an obscure ref to Burgundy which in turn could be the Count of Burgundy...

The live chicken referance could be a wheel lock refreance a Snapenhaunce lock this was because it looked like a pecking hen.

Go on I know I am wrong just how wrong

HaHaHa - Brilliant, just brilliant. Wrong, but brilliant.

If I could reward such effort with points, I would but each step you make Bob is very far wide of the mark. Sorry.

What of the toad and the ginger midget or the baguette?


But because I am kind have a DGI +1 for "it looked like a pecking hen"

That's possibly relevant to the back-story but won't help explain why Roger wanted to assemble such an odd collection of objects together in one spot, which is really what I am after.

If fear it shall alas forever remain a mystery.

So what era are we talking about

12th century.

is it all to do with heraldry??