Re: Notes on the notes on the book
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polly (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 05, 2002 01:56PM
<HTML>Another great job, Jon.
I think it was Elizabeth Schwartzkopf who selected 8 of her own recordings on Desert Island discs. Callas may well have done it too, though. The format has been much parodied, including in one of Tom Stoppard's plays ( I forget the title; it was one of the less memorable ones). The usual old joke about Bach nicking Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" crops up.
You don't cook then? Other than Spag Bol, that is? Take the nearest prose portal into one of St Delia of Smith's books. Shallots and spring onions are entirely different - er- onions (avoiding the culinary confusion of introducing kettles of fish). Apparently, supermarkets are no longer allowed to call them spring onions, as Brussels deem it season-ist or some silly idea. Our colonial cousins (ducking attacks with blunt objects from AAC here, g, ) may know them as scallions. Shallots are small, mild onions, similar to the picked variety.
On a point of total pedantry - 60 women hung? Now, if you'd said men, maybe. I think the women may have been hanged. OK, now pick out all the grammatical errors in my posts :)) (Actually, please don't, it may take too long!)
Oh - I hate Marmite too. And Wagon wheels. Not too sure about the two combined though, it could be an improvement on them individually, but I'm not volunteering to try.</HTML>