AdamSmith

Very screwy. I cannot post in reply to Oz's post, only here in reply to wayout's post.

Wanker. My paternal grandfather and paternal grandmother were from 2 families that had intermarried since the beginning of the 1700s.

The places MsGuy and I come from, cousins from the same two or three families in an area have been intermarrying for so many generations that by now they are just as good as brother and sister. Or daddy and son, or whatever permutation blows your dress up.

Delighted to be of service, lookin! ...and -- her name! I fairly often fall into talking to myself when out in public. After falling under the spell of the first Phibes film, it took me some time to notice the odd effect it has on people to overhear a stranger muttering, "Vulnavia!"

Were there?! I never heard that! Fascinating.

Thank you too much. (As my Japanese friends say. ) One has of course seen the film several times. The whole shebang is readily available for streaming online. But this delicious final scene alone I had not been able to find an online clip of until now.

Been looking for this on the interwebs for ages and finally found it.

The article does duly quote a gastroenterologist pointing out that colon cleansing is snake oil, in that it purports to do what bowel movements already take care of entirely satisfactorily.

LMAO (as it were ) I'd give 'em 2.4 hours...

What Getting a Colonic Actually Feels Like Good Housekeeping Fri, Apr 15 9:31 AM PDT https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/getting-colonic-actually-feels-163122117.html

The computer programmed to sing that gave Clarke the idea to have HAL do this.

Was awfully tempted to drop this into some Other Forum...

Always. In fact I try to resist reading general newspaper articles about technical subjects I may know anything about. But usually I can't stop from looking to see how creatively they got it wrong. I frequently find myself wishing I had some of whatever drug they must have been on.

Definitely not healthy. But we are a short time living and a long time dead! 15 Just Desserts, Picked for the Most Demanding Appetites http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/london-s-best-desserts-from-heston-blumenthal-to-hawksmoor