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Marie Curie discovered that rays emitted from uranium have an electrical effect as do electric eels which make great pets for those who do not have enough space for an electric cat or dog. Potential European electric eels owners should be aware that most eels are imported from South America, and will require modification or a transformer to drop the 220-240V mains supply in their homes down to the 120V required by the eels. The eel will need to be connected to an earthed outlet, and connected with a fuse of appropriate rating (the UL-rated power requirements of an individual eel can be found stamped on the eel's underbelly). Care must be taken to ensure that the eel has an ample power supply at all times Should you forget to plug your eel back in after vacuuming or in case of power failure the electric eel can be skinned and sliced through the backbone, lightly dusted in seaoned flour and sauted in olive oil/butter Vladimir Putin and high tea

Donald Fagen is one half of Steely Dan (named after the steel dildo in the Naked Lunch ) on their album Aja the song Black Cow tells the story of a husband seeing his cheating wife sitting in a NY bar (Rudy's) drinking a black cow which is a soda with icecream on the top, (I thought it was with coke but apparently root beer can be used instead) Sacha Baron Cohen and kudu steak

Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca is from Mozambique, the widow of Samora Machel LM prawns are named from the old capital of Mozambique, Lorenzo Marques sorry chef from clarens, my Maputo minibus gives me the inside info Haruki Murakami and roast lamb

Don't stay in the King World Hotel in Kunming. there are lots of 'international' type hotels in the city centre I second the mushroom restaurants...there is a whole street of them to choose from Hole in the wall cafes provide ridiculously cheap food. The muslim ones are delicious, we asked locals, stressing that we didn't want westernised food. Luckily our daughter is a fluent putonghua speaker, plus can read and write. Lijiang is a tad like Disneyland, beware touristy restaurants We actually preferred Dali which was not so contrived. p.s if you are flying it is a good idea to book morning flights...as the day goes on the delays pile up until if you have a late evening flight it is likely to be severely delayed, in our experience of several trips to Yunnan. p.p.s. give the website 'virtual tourist' a look.....it's where budget etc travellers post their ideas and is quite helpful

ah, prawns from Mozambique; guess you are from the south of the continent we own a quarter of a minibus in Maputo

chef from clarens excuse my ignorance what are LM prawns

thanx chef from clarens: clever the solution I held in my brain was: Shane Warne is an Oz cricketer sledging is a huge part of the sport (i.e. trying to put off your opponent by insulting him face to face) Shane Warne is quite pudgy When an English player asked him why he was so fat Shane answered that every time he f****d the English player's wife she gave him a biscuit anyway I thought it was funny

the biggest vegemite jar is 910 grams hehehehe..............big, but vegemite comes in squeezy tubes now, which are light to carry. can recommend the tim tams; have you tried cherry ripe ?(chocolate bars)

It is assumed that Einstein was cocking a snook at the world when he was photographed poking his tongue out as he left hospital in 1955 after being diagnosed with a huge aortic aneurism I can reveal now, for the first time, that Einstein's doctor, a famous Australian surgeon moonlighting in Brooklyn under a pseudonym, was an inveterate practical joker and had given his patient a slice of vegemite toast to eat, using the old ruse that it was better to apply the vegemite thickly to fully savour the taste. Taj al Din al Hilali and meat

Winston Churchill's son, Randolph, married Pamela Digby who a few marriages later as Pamela Harriman bankrolled Bill Clintons' 1992 presidential campaign Bill Clinton and collard greens,....nah sorry, Shane Warne and biscuits (cookies, that is )

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smells great Doddie

My 17 y.o. son came home from his kitchen for a 2 day break and I noticed immediately that he had a huge black eye. When I asked him WTF happened he laughed and said that the sous schef had been drunk at an after work wind down and accidentally punched him, so he had punched him back, but the sous chef couldn't remember that bit and had been saying sorry to him every 5 mins for the last week, and had also been the one to do his personal report

Scooby Doo is a famous cartoon dog who eats Scooby Snacks Hash cookies are sometimes called Scooby Snacks Shaggy: Hey Scoob like its the fuzz man, hide the Scooby Snacks!!! Scooby: rugh Roh Batata hara is a spicy potato dish from Lebanon Lebanon is also famous for its superlative hash, which is grown in the Baalbeck valley Gidget and roibois tea

there are 10 Mohammed Ali's listed in the NY phone book as living in Jamaica Jamaican pattie is the hamburger of the Caribbean Edith Wharton and fried rice

Art Buchwald famously said of the 18 1/2 minute gap in the Watergate tapes that it was Nixon humming In the mid seventies the Good Humour Co. went thru Ice Cream Gate when the company falsified records and knowingly sold millions of Wildberry Whammy, X-5 Jetstar Grape, Orange Push-Up and Chocolate Fudge Cake cones, bars and other ice cream confections containing far more than the legally allowable quantity of coliform bacteria Spumoni is a type of Italian ice cream Neil Hamburger and lemon meringue pie

I am sure when the old foodie comes online she will have an idea of the answer, or at least a good idea of how to forage for an answer as she is a history of food expert

Thanks so much Bruce, loved every minute, great to see the Brucelets cooking...they will be very popular with the opposite sex when it gets to college time... thanks for the Ikea kitchen guide as well as we are about to renovate the ghastly pit that is our kitchen and yours looks inspirational; we were about to spend too much on a custombuilt Kristee

Superlative deductive powers M. du Bois we are not worthy please feel free to rework my feeble Derrida solution. I am sure Henry was expecting at least a nod to Heidegger, dasein or existentialism, but I as usual in my life, I went for the cheap laughs.

a mushroom walks into a bar and orders a beer the barman says, 'sorry, I can't serve you.' the mushroom says, 'why, not, I'm a fun guy.'

My farmer neighbour here in rural Somerset keeps bees and he tells me that beekeeping suffers from the same problems here and govt. funding cuts have had a serious effect on the 'cottage' industry. I think it was in last October that a fossilised bee in amber was dated at 100 million years old, and it is interesting and apposite that prior to that time the earth's flora was mainly coniferous and that with the advent of the bee the great flowering of plants occurred. It is terrifying to think of how fragile is the chain that links all living things on earth and what the consequences of a falling bee population would be. and my neighbour's honey is superb

Hey, that's HK all over. Xmas, NY, CNY, Valentine's Day etc etc menus in the supposedly fine dining places cater to the high rollers and all end in the ubiquitous 888 and are normally some thousand per person.... lucky there are some thousand other choices of places to go save places like Gagnaire for their home cities unless you have an expense account or are a guest

Jacques Derrida, the deconstructionist philosopher is reported to have famously said of himself, 'I'm only as finite as my last sentence, no not that last one, this last one, no the previously aforementioned...err...bollocks' Green Gartside of the Welsh band Scritti Politti wrote a song called Jacques Derrida and then moved to New York where the Hershey Tower sticks out like dog's bollocks, and who manufacture the aforementioned whatchamacallit bar (excuse grammar) Jade Goody and papadoms

Hey Doddie, given the answer I have in my head for the Rockefeller poser I'd be the last one to be dissing your poser with Steve Irwin. It just felt close to home for me too as I'm from Oz