Pantagathus

A most sagacious choice! Congrats Nomnia Domina!

Why does that saying not cease to be funny to me?

Ha! I'm so far behind I didn't see you answer with this right above me~!!!!!!! Great minds indeed!

Hmmm, what would Pliny the Elder say??? I'll go with constipation?

Nope! A Roman medicus would no doubt recommend cabbage soup! (Sorry I'm way out of order and behind)

I think it's odd that the article made mention of Octopus. Fire fishing is not really appropriate for them as they don't often move near the surface? Fishermen off Tunisia still use the tried and true method utilized all the way back in the Archaic by the Phoenicians (and by extension the Hebrews) & the Greeks... Clay pots are lowered by rope to the bottom in the evening and hauled up in the morning. Octopi crawl in there like it's a little cave. No bait other than the shelter is needed!

Very Happy Birthday wishes for UNRV

oooh new ones! "You politically illiterate human scum, we will annihilate you with a fresh revolutionary upswing!" You half-baked political dwarf, you have glaringly revealed your true colours!

Most certainly...

G-Manicus, these are awesome The babies on the RE cover are too much...

I happened to like: You ultra-right renegade! & You half-baked stooge!

Cool deal, that does change my perspective a bit. Glad you're getting it worked out. & LW, you know we're not disparaging your choices by any means we're just protective of our friends!

What a load of (*&%^ It *seems* that eBay is getting better at weeding out the direputables but in this case I'm sure that girl you bought it from knew what she was sending you. I hope you get it worked out to your advantage!

Who says you have to wait? I'll send you a nice bottle...

Obviously this reply is quite a bit untimely but I wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes! I had a bachelor party the next day and so the idea was to lay low but it didn't happen... We had a lot of out of town guests in the house and ended up sampling many fine beers, wine, tequilla, etc... A good birthday but not a great one. You guys are the best & I have missed the community tremendously in my absence

Quick little revisit to this thread because I've recently become enamored with a band by the name of Pharoah's Daughter whose front-lady: Basya Schechter is Jewish. PD's songs are usually in some way adaptaions of Jewish-Arabic spiritual poetry/music (typically sung in Aramaic & Hebrew) and when I was first listening to the new album I was caught off gaurd by a song in which I actually understood what was being said; there were Spanish words in there! Turns out to be a couple of songs in sung in Ladino adapted from Judeo-Spanish poets from the 11th-15th Centuries. Really quite awesome. Of course, I thought about the Doc & this thread immediately.

Thanks for reminding me of that Edgewaters, the Clonycavan man (and his mohawk) brings up an interesting point in regards to Ireland not being as isolated in the 4th ~ 3rd Centuries BC as people once assumed.

"They uncovered a pistol, a buoy knife, whisky flasks, a set of false teeth, two dog skulls and a blade from a set of sheep shears." What an egregious & ignorant mistake if my assumption is correct that they mean a Bowie Knife. Come on ABC! This is a Bouy...

Did you make it?

Ah, hence why I've also heard about B-complex vitamins helping. Well then why do the suckers still love me! I hate to admit it but good old deet works for me (don't know about the ecosystem)

Informative as always Pertinax

Have you tried brewer's yeast? I read that helps in regards to lowering the CO2 your body emits; which attracts them. Otherwise carry some robins around in a cage with you.