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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Dec 7, 2004
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Eeeeuuuuwwww!!! (I think that's how it's spelled..)
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Madbeachcomber, I've done my spring cleaning, does that make me sad? Posted Dec 9, 2004
In 2000 (or 2001?) Denmark used cheese on their roads instead if salt, because it didn't get washed away and stopped the roads from icing up!! Theres a joke in there somewhere...
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HonestIago Posted Dec 9, 2004
There are a couple of Danish researchers who might be able to help us with that one? It'd be good if it was true
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
shropshire in england has traditionally used cheese instead of salt since Victorian times
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HonestIago Posted Dec 9, 2004
Wouldn't there also be environmental advantages? No salty run-off causing problems in farmers fields etc?
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 9, 2004
yeah and if the cheese ran off into a field of peas you have ready maede cheesy peas think of the labour that would be saved
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
yes that's why they started doing it in shropshire - cheesy pie is the county dish and served in the pubs at lunch time..mmmmm
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 9, 2004
Presumably they grate it first.
That's a job best done by women....because 'grater love hath no man'
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 9, 2004
tee hee quick ed to the joke thread before the idea gets cold in your head
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Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back Posted Dec 9, 2004
almost poetic
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
poetic comes from the dalmation meaning pointy hat
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Dec 9, 2004
Salonga park should look at Liwonde:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/646886.stm
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
seriousness can lead to a knobbly skull
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 9, 2004
That's the second person in 30 minutes who's told me that my chums are becoming extinct!
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
Let us return to the waterfalls that fall from heaven known by the secret society as fallsy falls
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 9, 2004
I don't believe those waterfalls exist. I thought this was supposed to be the useless facts thread.
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redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson Posted Dec 9, 2004
knowing of fallsey falls is a useless fact.....
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Dec 9, 2004
Back to cheese...do the Danes use their blue cheese, then?
Recently the Grauniad has had a flurry of letters on what's the world's smelliest cheese. Some scientists awarded the prize to a French one, but readers reckon that there are plenty of German candidates. When I visited a friend in Frankfurt, we discovered one (peculiarly delicious, actually) that we christened 'Alter Scheissburger'. And someone also mentioned a Norwegian candidate which is made by hand-folding fronds of fungi into it as they form.
But nobody has yet mentioned the one from Southern Italy which is meant to be at its best when half the maggots have actually turned into flies!
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 9, 2004
I thought it was Spain that had the maggoty cheese.
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- 981: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Dec 7, 2004)
- 982: Madbeachcomber, I've done my spring cleaning, does that make me sad? (Dec 9, 2004)
- 983: HonestIago (Dec 9, 2004)
- 984: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 985: HonestIago (Dec 9, 2004)
- 986: Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back (Dec 9, 2004)
- 987: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 988: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Dec 9, 2004)
- 989: The Groob (Dec 9, 2004)
- 990: Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back (Dec 9, 2004)
- 991: Musashi Himura, the ronin returns, is happy to be back (Dec 9, 2004)
- 992: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 993: clzoomer- a bit woobly (Dec 9, 2004)
- 994: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 995: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Dec 9, 2004)
- 996: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 997: Gnomon - time to move on (Dec 9, 2004)
- 998: redpeckhamthegreatpompomwithnobson (Dec 9, 2004)
- 999: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (Dec 9, 2004)
- 1000: Gnomon - time to move on (Dec 9, 2004)
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