From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 15:59:14 PST
john_reeve41_at_yahoo.co.uk said:
> --- Andrew Beals <bandy_at_cinnamon.com> wrote: > [snip]
> But rife with steak and kidney pie, blood sausages,
> spotted dick, candy that's
> like nitric acid and the like.
>
> Andy "My ancestors left in 1638" Beals [snip]
> Have you ever been to the UK? Maybe the odd steak n kidney pie and spotted
> dick lurkin' around but blood sausages n nitic acid candy? (by the way, in
> the UK we refer to confectionary as "sweets").
> John.
No, I've never been, but my father has. The nitric acid sweets line I grabbed
from an exquisite scene from somewhere in the middle of "Gravity's Rainbow".
There's also the matter of "quark" to be dealt with.
Andy "My most recent relatives left in 1906" Beals
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