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The thing I seem to reread repeatedly is the instructions for the VCR.

For fifteen years I have been trying to get the blasted thing to do what I want but it seems that random fluctuations of the Universe make what was applicable yesterday no longer relevant in today's world.

This, and the instructions on the side of the pasta packet.

I *think* I can now make pasta without looking at the instructions.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

But can you make mashed potato?

I've been seeing avocados with writing in them, perhaps there would be a market for potatoes and other vegetables with lasered on recipes.

I know at least *one* person who would buy them!

Genetically engineered fruit and vegetables with their names emblazoned on the side so that ignorant people don't get confused?

A cornered market.

Yea! We are getting to the 'Doctrine of Signatures'.

As an aside: why are not the engineers of foodstuffs making the fruit and vegies grow in regular shapes so they don't take up so much room in the fridge and not roll out when the door is opened? This would be a better achievement than protecting tomatoes from tobacco mosaic virus or whatever it is they think they are doing.

Back to 'off topic'.........

We're re-reading the works of Chris Moore over in the boardello-
even though nobody showed up for the last chat, the man himself made it for the previous one...

Since I went to Rock City last month & spent a fair amount of time in the Fairyland Caverns,
I'm thinking I need to read the Nursery Crime books again...

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Yo-Ho-Ho and Roberto from The Island of the Sequinned Love Nun is almost a parrot, isn't he?

(Special Talk like a Pirate Day reference)

Beautiful plumage.

Even better: from the Goon show: two idiots talking about a parrot.

One asks: What colour was its plumage?

Other responds: I don't know. It was covered by feathers.

Which episode was that from? I don't remember that one. <makes note to self, listen to more Goon Shows>

*also makes that note*

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<looks around for paper to make note upon>

<finds chocolate instead>

<sneakily substitutes The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler for chocolate and runs for the horizon with stolen sweets>

Ah memories, and if looking at porn - mammaries, but how many of the younger generation, say 40 yo or less, actually have any knowledge of the events being parodied in the various Goon Shows?

Especially in the asides, such as in "the Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler' when the question is asked "Who would go around hurling batter puddings' and the response of 'Lady Docker' is followed up by 'Apart from the obvious ones."

How many people now remember (if I recall correctly) that Lady Docker was the wife of the then head of the Gas Board in the mid 1950s? Similarly with 'The Sinking Westminster Pier Affair' was a parody of the actual sinking of a special floating pier for royalty, use of, by the London (probably then Borough) Council.


My favourite Goon show is the one with Colonel Chinstrap as a special guest, and he comes from an earlier era of ITMA. Now we're getting back into ancient history, since ITMA commenced about 1938.

Bunyip: I do not get all of them. Many of them I have checked though.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I know I don't get all of them, but I was raised on em, and my walking encyclopedia has always lectured us on history, so I get enough to love em... But more importantly, so many are still relevant, if you just change the names...