Oh, buoy! A Dialect!

Jean-Joseph Cote jjcote at juno.com
Mon Jul 10 00:00:41 EDT 2000


Elliott asks:
>> JJ: I was under the impression that honey remained in fine
>> condition for an essentially indefinite length of time (or at
>> least for thousands of years).
>What's the story here?  Has someone dug up ancient Egyptian
>honey still edible?

Precisely.  Or that's my understanding, at least.  Could be baloney, I
suppose.  Did somebody actually eat it?  Don't know, but I've heard that
some Soviet archaeologists have dined on mammoth.

Jean-Joseph (who is pleased that the honey definition is evidence that
we're seeing Mr. Dominus again -- us hyphenated guys have to stick
together!)



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