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Old 05-13-2008, 05:23 PM   #361
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I found this on Project Gutenberg:
The White House Cookbook (1887), by Mrs. F.L. Gillette

On pages 37-38 it offers the following improbable recipe:

"SQUIRREL SOUP.

Wash and quarter three or four good sized squirrels; put them on, with a small tablespoonful of salt, directly after breakfast, in a gallon of cold water. Cover the pot close, and set it on the back part of the stove to simmer gently, not boil. Add vegetables just the same as you do in case of other meat soups in the summer season, but especially good will you find corn, Irish potatoes, tomatoes and Lima beans. Strain the soup through a coarse colander when the meat has boiled to shreds, so as to get rid of the squirrels' troublesome little bones. Then return to the pot, and after boiling a while longer, thicken with a piece of butter rubbed in flour. Celery and parsley leaves chopped up are also considered an improvement by many. Toast two slices of bread, cut them into dice one-half inch square, fry them in butter, put them into the bottom of your tureen, and then pour the soup boiling hot upon them. Very good."

(I kid you not. Here's the link: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13923)

On which American president was this dish inflicted? I want to know. We don't make the Queen eat such things. Send them to Cthulu, I say. If his alimentary canal can cope with vivaldirules then squirrels should not be a problem. Failing that, Marc seems distressingly carniverous these days.
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Old 05-13-2008, 05:28 PM   #362
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"SQUIRREL SOUP.

Wash and quarter three or four good sized squirrels
Are those big enough?
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Old 05-13-2008, 05:31 PM   #363
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On which American president was this dish inflicted? I want to know. We don't make the Queen eat such things. Send them to Cthulu, I say. If his alimentary canal can cope with vivaldirules then squirrels should not be a problem. Failing that, Marc seems distressingly carniverous these days.
heh heh heh...

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NOOOOOOON !!! don't hurt them yvan !!! poor little squirrlies !! send them to me, i'll take care of them.
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Old 05-13-2008, 07:40 PM   #364
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Are those big enough?
At that size Yvan you may need 8 to 10.
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Old 05-13-2008, 07:51 PM   #365
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Aw, I liked the bathtub one best....

Second choice, the spinning pinwheel.
I'm sorry, but what is this? "Rag on Marc's Mad Art Skills Day". My creation is bloody brilliant, and you can all go and get stuffed (except for Luigino who is my new best friend - karma for you, BFFE).

No "Cheers" for you, since you've only got jeers for me,
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:00 PM   #366
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Now Marc, don't go away mad, just go away. (Drum rimshot. We'll be here all week folks, tell your friends, and don't forget to tip the waitress.)

Seriously, it was a brilliant expression of the primate school of art rendered in primary colors. You are simply demonstrating that you did learn something in your years with the Gibbons. Some people are just snobs (see HarryT's book on smobs for more information) and there is little that you can do about it. (Rather, there is little that you can do quickly and legally about it if they are outside of Oz.)
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:06 PM   #367
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now marc, don't go away.
*i* love it, and after all i'm the only one you care about, right ?
just please get rid of that horrid arachnid.

PLEASE.
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:28 PM   #368
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heh heh heh...



NOOOOOOON !!! don't hurt them yvan !!! poor little squirrlies !! send them to me, i'll take care of them.
Don't worry Zelda. Even with a name like mine I can't hurt a fly, only mosquitoes.(NASty inventions they are)
Those five cuties were Martha's third and last brood; as far as I know. That was 3 years ago. To get to them I had to fight my fear of hights and dismantle sofits in the second storey of the house to perform the squirrelectomy. I carefully put the pups in a cage trap behind an other mesh that I wired in. But Martha would not go in because she remembered my catching her in the same cage the preceding year. (I drove her 5 km away across a river and the $?*&% came back) She just circled around the cage, round and round without daring to go in. Then I had the idea of covering the cage with a rag so she could only see through the opening. She got in. This time I drove the whole family to my folk's property which is surrounded by woods, 25km away from my place. The next year I built safer scaffoldings to safely dismantle every soffit and rebuilt them with siliconed aluminum.
I did manage to find the main entry way which had been a mystery because Martha was always quick to get in. She used the trees adjoining the house for a four foot jump down to the roof, climbed over the top, then crawled through a 2 inch opening the roofers had left when they redid it. It's been a squirelless two years... until I find them here...
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Now Marc, don't go away mad, just go away. (Drum rimshot. We'll be here all week folks, tell your friends, and don't forget to tip the waitress.)
I can't go away. What's the point of getting a good sulk on if there's no-one to see and hear it.

(Ooooo, zen!)

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now marc, don't go away.
*i* love it, and after all i'm the only one you care about, right ?
just please get rid of that horrid arachnid.
PLEASE.
Fine. Inspired my the Good Mister Woods's incite...insight into my creative process, I have thus modified my avatar to credit my muse, Adrian, the Invisible and Inadvertently Violent Gibbon (you can see him, even though he's invisible, because it's like that "spirit photography" stuff, except for real rather than made up by the gullible and the charlatan).

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Old 05-13-2008, 08:34 PM   #370
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yvan, you is a good man. thank you for setting my heart at ease.

don't worry about the mosquitoes : i have a vendetta against them as well. evil things who torment me when i'm trying to sleep... pas de quartier !!!
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Uhm... Zelda you're making me with all others to write down something a story about a Zelda, a bathtub and squirrels... but I may add also...hmmm....a dog that barks at squirrels?...

(just remembering when I was in the USA over friends house where they had a dog which when looking outside the window he was barking at squirrels... what cute!)
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Ah, plus... just a question... lemme guess all those avatars for Zelda are made by others mobilereaders?... :-)

If yes I could make one too...that'd be fun ;-D
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now marc, don't go away.
*i* love it, and after all i'm the only one you care about, right ?
just please get rid of that horrid arachnid.

Is it just me, or is there not a certain arachnoid flavour to the new avatar?
(If you squint, and stand well back - no, further ... right back .... and dim the lights.)
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Is it just me, or is there not a certain arachnoid flavour to the new avatar?
(If you squint, and stand well back - no, further ... right back .... and dim the lights.)
Oh noes! Don't say that! Adrian will make my head start singing again!

...

....Her name was Lola
she was a showgirl...

AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

Cheers,
Marc (all of the above makes perfect sense in my head)
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Ah, plus... just a question... lemme guess all those avatars for Zelda are made by others mobilereaders?... :-)

If yes I could make one too...that'd be fun ;-D
Affirmative (because "yes" was too short, and couldn't ride on the big kid rides).
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