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WaltA wrote:

Mind you, thinking of oleum in your other post, I have in the past,
a long time ago in my youth,,, played with a nitrating mixture of
fuming nitric and conc. sulphuric involving tol%^ne.
I wont mention the hoped-for product cos it'll set the "watchers" into
a tizzy ! ( if they are not already !)

We are.

Best regards,
A. Spook
(pp the Gnome Secretary).

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:49:15 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:31:01 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

It sounds like you have laurel - you'd know from the smell of it if it
were bay. Bay (surprisingly) smells of bay-leaves, and laurel a bit like
bitter almonds, due to the prussic acid content.

So, if you wish to avoid cyanide poisoning, don't use laurel as a
flavouring...


Not nearly enough cyanide to be dangerous. A couple of elderly
spinsters who lived near us when I was a child always used laurel
leaves to give an almond flavour to their rice puddings.

Are you sure they weren't widows?

Actually, IIRC, HCN is broken down or driven off in cooking.

Not all of it, as there wouldn't be any flavour left.

Do you eat almonds?


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/gnu.htm

We used similar stuff for giving fish a bit of a fright as well

An initial interest in fireworks led to an interest in colouring
them, which led to an interest in spectroscopy which led to an
interest in the electron structure of the shells (no not that kind of
shell Rusty ! ) of atoms which led all the way to Schrodinger and God
playing dice (Einstein - on quantum mechanics). Kids dont have that
kind of intro to science and engineering any more,,,
ooops, I think I just ranted again

I also tried it with a certain trihydric alcohol otherwise used in cake
icing, suppositories and to adulterate cheap wines to give them body.

Crumbs! I never even contemplated doing that, my hands were never
steady enough :-))

Once...

I would have thought that once was one more than was wise !

Nick wrote:
(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

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I also tried it with a certain trihydric alcohol otherwise used in cake
icing, suppositories and to adulterate cheap wines to give them body.

Crumbs! I never even contemplated doing that, my hands were never
steady enough :-))

Once...

I would have thought that once was one more than was wise !

It was done with the help of a pair of fast feet (I was about fourteen
or fifteen) and thereafter by remote control.

'Thereafter' isn't a bad word, under the circumstances.

--
Rusty
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Nick wrote:

(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

--
Rusty
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

Nah, they just a Lilo to layabout on

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:20:33 GMT,
(WaltA) wrote:


(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

Nah, they just a Lilo to layabout on

oops, or even -
just usr Lilo to be layabouts on.

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from (WaltA) contains these words:

(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

Nah, they just a Lilo to layabout on

I just Gnu you were going to say that.

--
Rusty
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:20:33 GMT,
(WaltA) wrote:


(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

Nah, they just a Lilo to layabout on

oops, or even -
just usr Lilo to be layabouts on.

Or even 'use'?

--
Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

just usr Lilo to be layabouts on.

Or even 'use'?

No, I meant usr ( as in usr/bin etc standard Linux directory
structure)
and I used it as rhyming substitute for "use a"

Just look what we've done to LOL's thread !
I think we ought to get our coats,
and perhaps our RedHats,
and leave quietly

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:19:03 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from (WaltA) contains these words:

(pp the Gnome Secretary).

Oh ! Are they running Echelon on Linux now

They Grub around everywhere.

Nah, they just a Lilo to layabout on

I just Gnu you were going to say that.

I think we need to take a break (^C) and brew some Java Beans,
perhaps even accompanied by a small side salad dressed with some Open
Sauce
oooh, I'm struggling

but if you Gnu that then oK DEar, you Gnu I would get back to a GUI
and say
Mornington Crescent ! QED
Or perhaps even Richmond, Virginia, if you'd Rather, Dan?

btw, hands up all who googled Echelon ??

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/snip/

btw, hands up all who googled Echelon ??

Which son-of-a-gun needs to?

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Rusty
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/