[lit-ideas] Re: Parliamentary Sweetness
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- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:54:24 +0200
On Jun 15, 2016, David Ritchie wrote:
... parliamentary honey will soon be on sale in the gift shop.
To be served out in spoonfuls to help the ‘medicine’ (i.e., "a deficit of
fourteen point nine billion pounds”) go down?
Local honey is selling here at 5€ a jar — at current exchange rates: ₤3.98. So
if the gift shop sells a mere three point seven billion jars ...
Chris Bruce,
wondering why his word processing
software doesn’t accept ‘spoonsful’,
in Kiel, Germany
P.S. The current population of Scotland is around five and a half million, so
if each resident buys 681 jars …
Persons with Scottish relatives may now know what to expect as gifts on
Hogmanay this year.
- CB
P.P.S. Here is my donation — a recipe for mead:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Mead-Honey-Wine/?ALLSTEPS
"Mead is super easy to make. And turns out GREAT!! (most of the time) … just
don't hesitate, you only live once.”
(Knowing of the presence of several purists on the list and fearing otherwise
to offend them, I will refrain from posting any of the addresses found for
"Honey Whiskey Cocktail” recipes and the like.)
- CB
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