Dana told Neil:
I've even hinted that clone might be haploid, with only half the full set of chromosomes, but I'm not sure if that's biologically feasible. Though apparently it works for frogs.
That's because the Scots invented them.
I was just about to ask Iain - what was the Scotsman on who invented the Blue Poison-dart Frog?
Jarriet
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Harriet Monkhouse wrote:
I was just about to ask Iain - what was the Scotsman on who invented the Blue Poison-dart Frog?
Buckfast and jellies -- what else?
Iain
PS
BUCKFAST: Buckfast tonic wine, a sweet, fortified wine made in Buckfast Abbey (somewhere in the southwest of England), 80% of whose output goes to the west of Scotland. Beloved of the poor and under-aged, its popularity led a deputation from Glasgow City Council to go to the Abbey and ask them to stop producing this corrupting drink. The monks replied that if the Glasgow neds weren't on Buckie, they'd just use something else: the rationale of the heroin dealer. It is arguable that the popularity of Buckie is due not only to its alcoholic strength and its large amounts of sugar and caffeine, but also the fact that the bottle is an ideal shape for a weapon.
JELLIES: A slang term for Temazepam, a prescription tranquilizer. In order to prevent abuse of this drug, the manufacturers put it into a thick jelly pill, encased in a hard shell. This did not stop the dedicated users of Glasgow, who have sacrificed whole limbs in pursuit of that beanie buzz.
BUCKFAST: Buckfast tonic wine, a sweet, fortified wine made in Buckfast Abbey (somewhere in the southwest of England),
3 miles away from the noble Town of Totnes, in Devon, where I grew up and where my parents still live.
80% of whose output goes to the west of Scotland. Beloved of the poor and under-aged, its popularity led a deputation from Glasgow City Council to go to the Abbey and ask them to stop producing this corrupting drink. The monks replied that if the Glasgow neds weren't on Buckie, they'd just use something else: the rationale of the heroin dealer. It is arguable that the popularity of Buckie is due not only to its alcoholic strength and its large amounts of sugar and caffeine, but also the fact that the bottle is an ideal shape for a weapon.
A friend's father sings in the choir at Buckfast Abbey on occasion. From what I hear the good monks of Buckfast are not averse to a drop of the stuff themselves. However I am not aware of any anti-social incidents involving Benedictines and Buckfast Tonic Wine, suggesting that the problem may be more properly attributed to social conditions in Glasgow rather than a small monastic cottage industry. (I've yet to hear of any municipal authority having a pop at Messrs Tennants and Carlsberg).
Ob B7: The stuff tastes absolutely vile but I'm sure Vila wouldn't have been fussy.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Date wrote:
It is arguable that the popularity of Buckie is due not only to its alcoholic strength and its large amounts of sugar and caffeine, but also the fact that the bottle is an ideal shape for a weapon.
A friend's father sings in the choir at Buckfast Abbey on occasion. From what I hear the good monks of Buckfast are not averse to a drop of the stuff themselves. However I am not aware of any anti-social incidents involving Benedictines and Buckfast Tonic Wine, suggesting that the problem may be more properly attributed to social conditions in Glasgow rather than a small monastic cottage industry. (I've yet to hear of any municipal authority having a pop at Messrs Tennants and Carlsberg).
Perhaps the monks aren't drinking it properly? The accepted ettiquette is to down the entire bottle in the space of a minute or so. This leads to the fascinating phenomenon of 'Buckie Mouth", whereby someone transforms from articulate sobriety to drooling incoherence half-way through a sentence. Something like this: 'As Popper says in "The Open Society and its Enemies", social engineering is necessarily a aaa ffff thhgyu keee-anto, me boay! Gaaaahhhhhh...'
Iain
Iain (re Buckfast):-
Perhaps the monks aren't drinking it properly? The accepted ettiquette is to down the entire bottle in the space of a minute or so.
Or indeed perhaps they aren't having the obligatory cough syrup chaser, which would aid their singing voices yet further...
Emma
(from the rougher end of Glasgow..)
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