Posts by Joe Wylie
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But you where right to bow to the wheel, the almighty.
Isn't the wheel something you put your shoulder to?
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And the Hawkes Bay does in fact grow Pinot Gris, I saw them do it!
What, before your eyes? What did they water it with, asparagus urine?
BTW is there any such thing as a wine wheel? You're either having a lend of us, or you've confused wine with cheese.
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...some kind of genetic protective thingy was at work.
Interesting that, Islander. If you scroll to the bottom of the Wikipedia asparagus page there's some info that suggests that you may be among the 22% with the gift of being able to smell the phenomenon of "asparagus urine".
Who knows, maybe they'll isolate the prolier-than-thou gene, which makes single malt taste like bottled pomposity.
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. . . a wellknown scientifically established fact that fern shoots are carcinogenic!
So I believe, and it's borne out by the high rate of stomach cancer in Japan, where pickled fern fiddleheads are a major delicacy. Howevah aparagus, while commonly referred to as such on account of its feathery foliage, is not a fern. It's a flowering perennial. Implicated in causing gout, but not cancer.
There's a cemetery around these parts which produces rampant luscious shoots from the derelict graves, and though I've always loved the stuff, even from my taste-perverted infancy, the thought of helping myself to that particular patch is too much of a stretch.
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Therefore all you freaks that claim to like fresh tomatoes either did it to be cool, or you were sucked in by the red colour, and you've learnt to like them. Nyer.
Got red, green, yellow tomatoes growing here, and a previously untried variety that's claimed to be almost white. Pushing the envelope on pretension, nyer nyer.
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If you Email me your postal address, I will loan you my VHS copy of Transfigured
Just as well I was wrong eh? Really, I've seen enough Canadian art animation for one lifetime.
To be fair to Stephen X. Arthur, though, he doesn't seem to have succumbed to setting his visuals to French-language folksongs about flaying beavers.
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The conspiracy theory about John D. Rockefeller manipulating the american temperance movement has been debunked.
You mean Jon D. was such a lousy cross-dresser that no-one was fooled? (That'll be him snuggling up to the one in the centre with the interesting hat. What do I win?)
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Emma:
I used to love Fry's Turkish Delight, now I can't stomach it.
Me too, until I detected what I fancied was a faint undertaste of formaldehyde. Of course I have no idea of the real flavour of formaldehyde, but I'm a firm believer in the importance of imagination in most things.
Which, essentially, is why I find pretty much everything that BenWilson has to say on matters of taste to be a total crock.
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Joe, you wowser. Can't you handle your turps or something?
Sssh! A gallery mislabelled an item of mine as being oil a while back, so it seems I'm capable of giving the impression of being hairy-chested, even if I'm not. This is what comes of spilling one's guts on the web.