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just when one thought qq had kicked the bucket, anna cassar emails me that they want to use one of my threads for a programme.... does she know i am draculina tepes, niece of count vlad, in this incarnation.... i guess it was a safe bet to approach one of the undead..

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Hi ,
if Anna approached you between sunrise and dusk, I think she had a cheek.
Just like QQ has now rigid 'opening times', didn't she realise that the family also have similar, albeit rather incongruous ones - well compared to BBC MBs.

Which thread do they want to use? Surely not something to do with garlic and the Vlads! Or for that matter garlic and Don Quixote, for didn't he say something like 'Don't eat garlic because it will show you're a peasant'.
Poor Dulcinea, perhaps she always had a few mint leaves around in case DQ ever came by. And a jar of Crosse & Blackwell's hot mango chutney in the house, in case Count D ever took her by surprise in the night.

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ciao all...

it costantly surprises me that - apart from john norman, who truly appreciates the nick - noone seems to know that dulcinea del toboso does not exist... she is a pure figment of don quijote's imagination, he never meets her because she does not exist. even so he dedicates his heroics to her...



the balloon thread... dating back to june.... i guess if cervantes had written his stuff after the montgolfier brothers appeared, don quixote may well have taken a ride to survey his beloved landscape... easier to spot windmills that way...

Of course, Don Quixote was a figment of M. de Cervantes' imagination.

Arre, Rosinante ! Clip-clop, clip, clip-clop, clip, ...

yes ali... that makes me the figment of imagination of the figment of imagination the figment of imagination the figment of imagination .....

Hey metametametafigment; cool ta see ya here again. Do put me out of my misery and tell me what the beeb wanted to use. I could be pleasuring her majesty in a few days. Ouch!

Hi Draculina,

I don’t remember a balloon thread (my mind must have been elsewhere - probably dreaming of striding along the Europa Wanderweg 5 after liver and onions at Hoch Erlan, with the enchanting enchanted Dulcinea ).
Please tell what your thread/contribution was about and what bit interests anna and r4.

This coming weekend, if you’re high in your montgolfier, or out on the bat’s wing (or maybe you’re a flying ?), look out for me below. I’ll be striding along part of the Europa Wanderweg 4 for a few days.
Got any tips where and what to eat along that?
I'll presume it's you arriving if a mist envelopes the mountain, but watch out for those crosses on the summits, you don't want more turbulence!
"Don’t forget your Hanwag!"

i am afraid the only credit i take for this question is that i posed it.... the good answers came from people like JR

aren't pickled walnuts something french?

Was it the one about hot-air balloons and Archimedes?

I tried looking for it, but QQ archives now only seem to go back to page 12. I seem to recall it used to be about 30.

Hi

"aren't pickled walnuts something french?"
I suppose so, in an abstruse sort of way
Maybe you can say the same of Calvados and authentic Camembert.

Anyway, I know the big Walnut area just NW of Grenoble and can't remember seeing them there with the walnut oil, walnut vinegar, and other preserved and ground walnut items (I remember, however, the green Chartreuse from thereabouts - but not to ).

I think they're really just English - one of those traditional British foods which few people have ever actually tasted and even fewer will admit to liking. And so those, who do say they like them, run the risk (or savour the pleasure) of being branded in some way.

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