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I searched the site, but simply could not find any Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.


Then you shoud try this site.


Brilliant - thanks!


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...a pot of hottish water and a teabag on the side!


Hottish is a good word.


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Our pet peeve regarding tea served here in restaurants is not necessarily the quality of the tea itself...


I occasionally found good iced tea in the deep south (ice cold and syrupy sweet), but these western folks don't know from tea - all you can get out here (and up north I should think) is unsweetened tea!

Now what they don't understand about tea is, that it is extremely difficult to sweeten after it's already cold!


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Hottish is not a good word...tepid, now that's a word.


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

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I'm a bit lukewarm when it comes to "tepid".


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Curious, I have always found the word "putrid" quite a disgusting sounding word! (I believe my first aversion came in my youth while reading Steinbeck's "The Pony." Remember those buzzards?)
 
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Yes, put that way Phil I'm a tad warmish on it too, lukewarm is much better.

Putrid is a foul sounding word, Fjp. I think we associate the word with the image, yet so many words seem so appropriate, its uncanny. I have a definite lifelong fascination with words and reading.


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

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...and, of course, Mr. B's graceful line in DW from Col. Freeleigh's talk with the boys, about "Shiloh."

"There's never been a year in my life I haven't thought, what a lovely name and what a shame to see it only on battle records!"

How true! A lovely sounding word - with rich, historical origin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh_(Biblical)

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/shiloh/index.htm

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...and in honour of Mr. Poe, the last lines of "The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar" :

As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of 'dead! dead!' absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once--within the space of a single minute, or less, shrunk--crumbled--absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome--of detestable putrescence.
 
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Sundance, now there's a passage to read to the kiddies before one wishes them "Pleasant dreams!"
 
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...and, of course, Mr. B's graceful line in DW from Col. Freeleigh's talk with the boys, about "Shiloh."

"There's never been a year in my life I haven't thought, what a lovely name and what a shame to see it only on battle records!"


And Neil Diamond songs!


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Sundance, now there's a passage to read to the kiddies before one wishes them "Pleasant dreams!"


Indeed - especially if your kiddie's names are Wednesday and Pugsley!


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Good, a change in vibe has happened on this thread. It was getting a little ummm... you know.

As for Bond... I like the Lazenby movie best, but Connery is my favorite Bond. Grew up watching Roger Moore as Bond and still see him in my mind's eye when Bond is mentioned.

At work when things get hairy I'll often shout to no one specifically and everyone in general, "Get me Jack Bauer on the phone, NOW!!!"

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Got me a CTU coffee cup at work; the 24 one was sold out. Hope everyone got to see the 4hr season opener. No spoilers, but wow, how much can one man sacrifice for his country.
 
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As for Bond... I like the Lazenby movie best, but Connery is my favorite Bond.


I believe it was Maltin who said that OHMSS would have been the best Bond film ever, had Connery played the part.


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