Re: We proudly present...

Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 09:29:53 GMT
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Mumble, mumble Sat, 24 May 2003 18:13:18 GMT mumble, "Jenny Jo"
<email-address-deleted> mumble, "A bidet of evil!", mumble, mumble
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>> Nah, just ask Reg what I was like after Ghost sent over a package of US
>> breakfast cereal. My baby brother and I made it a mission to try a bit
>> of everything and then I went to meet Reg. SugarHigh!Tree! Be afraid. Be
>> very, very afraid.
>>
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>I found this place in Ventura that sells British import food items...I asked
>about Tim-Tams (knowing, of course, that they are Australian, but hopeful
>nevertheless) and the lady said she didn't have them yet, but an Australian
>company was sending her a catalog.
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>I bought a couple of things, though...a Nestle bar I didn't recognize, but
>have now forgotten the name of, that said Not for Girls! Not Available in
>Pink! on it. It was tasty.
Yorkie Bar. The advert was very funny, sort of like the stoning sketch
from 'Life of Brian' but with a real woman trying to be a man.
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>I also got a thing called a Sherbet Fountain, a little paper tube of yucky
>tasting sweet powder (mostly baking soda, I think) with...horrors...a black
>licorice stick to dip into it-and it was that really weird,
Oh I loved Sherbet Fountains as a wee bairn, I'd scoff the licorice
[sp?] stick, then pour the tube into a bowl and eat it with a
teaspoon. Flying Saucers are nice if they are selling those too. The
cover is something that tastes a bit like pastic, but when the powder
inside hits your tongue, mmmmm.
>not-sweet-enough, european black licorice, too. Eeeeew. When it comes to
>the powdered candy genre, I much prefer pixie sticks and lick'm'aid...
Now that last one just sounds like an English folk dance move.
"Take your partners... now doe-si-doe and lick'm'aid..."
Loz
'This regime has a pathological affinity to provoking conflicts so it can
just stay in power. There have been so many incidents in a short time that
it is difficult to absorb them all.'
Women in Black, quoted in 'This is Serbia Calling' by Matthew Collin.