On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:28:42 +0000
soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:

> I rather I'd chalk it up as, as rare/common as people who can wiggle
> their ears ,

That (like the "Vulcan salute") and raising one eyebrow can be
learned.

> yes it is possible in some cases but it is not the vast
> majority who can do it.

Perhaps more like being able to blow smoke from your ears, I
managed it once after seeing it done and decided that it hurt far too much
to do again - the smoke irritated my ears horribly.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:28:42 +0000
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> I rather I'd chalk it up as, as rare/common as people who can wiggle
>> their ears ,
>
> That (like the "Vulcan salute") and raising one eyebrow can be
> learned.
>
>> yes it is possible in some cases but it is not the vast
>> majority who can do it.
>
> Perhaps more like being able to blow smoke from your ears, I
> managed it once after seeing it done and decided that it hurt far too much
> to do again - the smoke irritated my ears horribly.
>

Only possible if you have perforated eardrums. Most definitely not
“normal”.

Tim

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On 2023-02-21, soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 21/02/2023 07:07, Tim+ wrote:
>> nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 19/02/2023 16:16, Tone wrote:
>>>> On 19/02/2023 13:21, The Nomad wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:31:28 +0000, Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, if I hold my nose, shut my mouth, and pressurise as if playing a
>>>>>> didgeridoo, air leaks out of the inner corners of my eyes. Is that
>>>>>> normal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tone

A memory of what a man told me one time. He had a blockage in one of of those
spaces insice his head, so the doctor indicated the treatment. A small nurse
held each of his Arms, while a larger on got a strong syringe and pushed it into
that space (with some effort) and drained it. Repeat for several days. Back
in the 50-60's time.

--
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where is our money gone, Dude?

Mike Spencer said:
>
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>
>> On 19/02/2023 13:56, maus wrote:
>>
>>> that Worcester is basically fermented fish.
>>
>> Anchovies.
>> Doesn't it look gawping. Blech!
>
> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>
> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
> dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium
> glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes,
> nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite,
> activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar,
> nicotine, single-malt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn
> leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout,
> printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, blue chrysotile
> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>
> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?

Landfill ?

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:27:03 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2023 20:40:28 -0400
> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
>> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
>> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>> dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium
>> glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes,
>> nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite,
>> activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar,
>> nicotine, single-malt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn
>> leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout,
>> printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, blue chrysotile
>> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>
>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>
> The packaging on a box of McNuggets ?

ITYM Chicken McTumours.

On 21/02/2023 07:07, Tim+ wrote:
> nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 19/02/2023 16:16, Tone wrote:
>>> On 19/02/2023 13:21, The Nomad wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:31:28 +0000, Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Also, if I hold my nose, shut my mouth, and pressurise as if playing a
>>>>> didgeridoo, air leaks out of the inner corners of my eyes. Is that
>>>>> normal?
>>>>>
>>>>> Tone
>>>>
>>>> Yes, pretty much, there is a duct that drains excess tears into your
>>>> pharynx  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasolacrimal_duct> - normal
>>>> plumbing :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Never knew that! Cheers!
>>>
>> Scarily worryingly neither did the doctor at the eye clinic at the N&N
>> when I was referred to them for summat-or-other. He had never before
>> seen someone blow bubbles from the corner of an eye!
>>
>
> Not surprising. It’s not common nor normal.
>
> Tim
>

Another symptom I have had for over three years since covid, if I sneeze
once I sneeze at least a dozen times, or even more sometimes. This can
happen three or four times a day, and there is no apparent reason to
sneeze in the first place.

Tone

Tone wrote:

> Another symptom I have had for over three years since covid, if I sneeze
> once I sneeze at least a dozen times, or even more sometimes. This can
> happen three or four times a day, and there is no apparent reason to
> sneeze in the first place

I always used to sneeze in twos, now I usually sneeze in threes, I don't
think I blame covid though ...

On 21-Feb-23 17:57, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
> Tone wrote:
>
>> Another symptom I have had for over three years since covid, if I
>> sneeze once I sneeze at least a dozen times, or even more sometimes.
>> This can happen three or four times a day, and there is no apparent
>> reason to sneeze in the first place
>
> I always used to sneeze in twos, now I usually sneeze in threes, I don't
> think I blame covid though ...

SWMBO tends to sneeze in torrents.
My theory, wot is mine, is that she sneezes with such violence that she
irritates the nasal linings, which then initiates another sneeze -
repeat until exhaustion.

My sneezes are modest affairs but she throws everything, including the
kitchen sink, into the production.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 20-Feb-23 20:57, Tone wrote:
> On 20/02/2023 19:51, Sam Plusnet wrote:
Of Worcester sauce

>> There's sommat on Ubend showing it being produced.
>> It isn't likely to encourage people to try the product.

>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ns_U9IbFU

Yep.

> Love it! Put it on most things I eat.

Yep, well a fair few things.

> But I also like salad cream on chips, or fruit salad.

<Backs away muttering to himself>

--
Sam Plusnet

On 21/02/2023 15:44, Julian Macassey wrote:
> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,

On 21-Feb-23 0:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>
>> On 19/02/2023 13:56, maus wrote:
>>
>>> that Worcester is basically fermented fish.
>>
>> Anchovies.
>> Doesn't it look gawping. Blech!
>
> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>
> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
> dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium
> glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes,
> nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite,
> activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar,
> nicotine, single-malt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn
> leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout,
> printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, blue chrysotile
> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>
> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>
I was all in - until we got to that monosodium glutamate.

(No credit. Dunno.)

--
Sam Plusnet

On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>
>> On 19/02/2023 13:56, maus wrote:
>>
>>> that Worcester is basically fermented fish.
>>
>> Anchovies.
>> Doesn't it look gawping. Blech!
>
> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>
> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
> dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium
> glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes,
> nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite,
> activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar,
> nicotine, single-malt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn
> leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout,
> printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, blue chrysotile
> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>
> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
Didn't google, honest.

Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
> On 21/02/2023 07:07, Tim+ wrote:
>> nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 19/02/2023 16:16, Tone wrote:
>>>> On 19/02/2023 13:21, The Nomad wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:31:28 +0000, Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, if I hold my nose, shut my mouth, and pressurise as if playing a
>>>>>> didgeridoo, air leaks out of the inner corners of my eyes. Is that
>>>>>> normal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tone
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, pretty much, there is a duct that drains excess tears into your
>>>>> pharynx  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasolacrimal_duct> - normal
>>>>> plumbing :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Never knew that! Cheers!
>>>>
>>> Scarily worryingly neither did the doctor at the eye clinic at the N&N
>>> when I was referred to them for summat-or-other. He had never before
>>> seen someone blow bubbles from the corner of an eye!
>>>
>>
>> Not surprising. It’s not common nor normal.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>
> Another symptom I have had for over three years since covid, if I sneeze
> once I sneeze at least a dozen times, or even more sometimes. This can
> happen three or four times a day, and there is no apparent reason to
> sneeze in the first place.
>
> Tone
>

Well as a good sneeze is the next best thing to an orgasm, I don’t think
that’s a problem.

Tim

--
Please don't feed the trolls

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:57:09 +0000
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:

> I always used to sneeze in twos, now I usually sneeze in threes

I seem to be in transition, a little behind you. I used to always
sneeze in twos, now there's the occasional three - ooer ... if only.

When I hear someone sneeze in threes I usually inform them that
they are thrice blessed.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> When I hear someone sneeze in threes I usually inform them that
> they are thrice blessed.

I've annoyed a few people (and maybe amused a couple) by answering
"bless you" with "I don't need blessing" rather than "thank you".

In article <1004715146.698703301.660393.tim.downie-gmail.com@news.indivi
dual.net>, Tim+ <tim.downie@gmail.com> on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 20:19:14
awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>> On 21/02/2023 07:07, Tim+ wrote:
>>> nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 19/02/2023 16:16, Tone wrote:
>>>>> On 19/02/2023 13:21, The Nomad wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:31:28 +0000, Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, if I hold my nose, shut my mouth, and pressurise as if playing a
>>>>>>> didgeridoo, air leaks out of the inner corners of my eyes. Is that
>>>>>>> normal?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, pretty much, there is a duct that drains excess tears into your
>>>>>> pharynx  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasolacrimal_duct> - normal
>>>>>> plumbing :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Never knew that! Cheers!
>>>>>
>>>> Scarily worryingly neither did the doctor at the eye clinic at the N&N
>>>> when I was referred to them for summat-or-other. He had never before
>>>> seen someone blow bubbles from the corner of an eye!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not surprising. It’s not common nor normal.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>
>> Another symptom I have had for over three years since covid, if I sneeze
>> once I sneeze at least a dozen times, or even more sometimes. This can
>> happen three or four times a day, and there is no apparent reason to
>> sneeze in the first place.
>>
>> Tone
>>
>
>Well as a good sneeze is the next best thing to an orgasm, I don’t think
>that’s a problem.
>
Personally I always find that a good penc is the next best thing to an
orgasm. And there are usually less complications, unless you are Alan
Davis on Hampstead Heath (QI - passim). And your glasses do not fly off.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 21/02/2023 15:44, Julian Macassey wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:27:03 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On 20 Feb 2023 20:40:28 -0400
>> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>>> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>>> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
>>> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>>> dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium
>>> glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes,
>>> nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite,
>>> activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar,
>>> nicotine, single-malt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn
>>> leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout,
>>> printer's ink, laundry starch, drain cleaner, blue chrysotile
>>> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>>
>>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>>
>> The packaging on a box of McNuggets ?
>
> ITYM Chicken McTumours.

On 21/02/2023 20:40, Tease'n'Seize wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
>> When I hear someone sneeze in threes I usually inform them that
>> they are thrice blessed.
>
> I've annoyed a few people (and maybe amused a couple) by answering
> "bless you" with "I don't need blessing" rather than "thank you".

My biology teacher forgot hisdrift and repeated "A tissue, now, a
tissue, a tissue..." and I said: "Bless you!" Got sent to the4 beak and
received four of the best, in PE kit the following day, 'cos I'd only
just had four, minutes before the "Bless you!".

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:

> On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>>
>> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
>> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>> [snip]
>> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>
>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>>
> Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
>
> Didn't google, honest.

()()()() Full points!

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

On 22/02/2023 19:54, Mike Spencer wrote:
> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>
>> On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>>>
>>> Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>>> garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke,
>>> snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>>> [snip]
>>> asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>>
>>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>>>
>> Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
>>
>> Didn't google, honest.
>
>
> ()()()() Full points!
>
>
I'll put those points in the bank, next to all the Google money.

Oooops 'said' too much.

On 23/02/2023 17:13, soup wrote:
> On 22/02/2023 19:54, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>>>>
>>>>           Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>>>>           garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory
>>>> smoke,
>>>>           snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>>>>           [snip]
>>>>           asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>>>>
>>> Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
>>>
>>>    Didn't google, honest.
>>
>>
>> ()()()() Full points!
>>
>>
> I'll put those points in the bank, next to all the Google money.
>
> Oooops 'said' too much.

The money was just resting in your account, was it?

On 24/02/2023 00:13, Mike Fleming wrote:
> On 23/02/2023 17:13, soup wrote:
>> On 22/02/2023 19:54, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you read the fine print on the bottle under the dribbled scum?
>>>>>
>>>>>           Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,
>>>>>           garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory
>>>>> smoke,
>>>>>           snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guiness Stout fermentation
>>>>>           [snip]
>>>>>           asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
>>>>> For extra credit: Where did I plagiarize that from?
>>>>>
>>>> Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.
>>>>
>>>>    Didn't google, honest.
>>>
>>>
>>> ()()()() Full points!
>>>
>>>
>> I'll put those points in the bank, next to all the Google money.
>>
>> Oooops 'said' too much.
>
> The money was just resting in your account, was it?

Me an' Father Ted have both had suspicion heaped on us for that very
situation.

On 2023-02-25, soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 24/02/2023 00:13, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> On 23/02/2023 17:13, soup wrote:
>>> On 22/02/2023 19:54, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>> soup <invalid@invalid.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/02/2023 00:40, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>
>> The money was just resting in your account, was it?
>
> Me an' Father Ted have both had suspicion heaped on us for that very
> situation.
>

It was really Father Jack!

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