Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02

The Verbivores | 11/14/02 | Mistress Bella

[Slip18]

I thought John Merrick had elephant hide.

[Slip18]

I'm a googler. Hehehehehehe!

[xsmommy]

eek, he has Michael Jackson beat!

[Argh]

Great. Twenty-odd years it took me to get the photo out of my mind that was in Playboy of him having sex with a hooker, and you bring it all back in one swell foop. Well, not YOU, Miss Slip-to-the-lu-my-darling, but you posting that picture.

[Eala]

haggis (hàg´îs) noun
A Scottish dish consisting of a mixture of the minced heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep or calf mixed with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the slaughtered animal.

[Argh]

I've heard that. Or have I seen it on bathroom walls? Or have I been writing it on bathroom walls?

[Argh]

Enough to turn anyone into Sungirl. Although Scots all jump up and down claiming it's great.

[Eala]

Yuck, Miss Slip's gonna look up haggis in google, which means there are likely to be pictures.

Not much to see with a haggis. Looks like a giant sausage. Tastes like liver.

Great wi' neeps 'n tatties an' a dram o' whisky.

[Slip18]

John Merrick had *gulp* sex with a hooker?

[Eala]

Argh: Although Scots all jump up and down claiming it's great.

Eala: Great wi' neeps 'n tatties an' a dram o' whisky.

LOL!

[Argh]

Yup. And the two of them allowed pictures to be taken. Not a pretty sight.

[Slip18]

Actually, that sounds good, Eala. It's like stuffing a chicken or turkey, well, sort of.

What is suet? Is it a grain?

[Slip18]

Did other parts of his body appear to have the same skin as his face? I didn't ask that, did I?

[xsmommy]

garoosssssss, slippy! good grief!

[Eala]

Back to the dictionary: "The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow." Rather like lard (which is from a hog).

[Slip18]

John Merrick died in 1890. You were putting me on, Arghie!

[Argh]

"Suet" is what I'd like to do to haggis for existing, but then I'd have to hire some fancy-pants lawyer like xs so I won't bother.

Note to Eala: I admit I've never actually eaten haggis. But I don't want to, thanks.

[Slip18]

My brain just made that connection by accident, xs.

I don't think John Merrick could have been in Playboy. It's a figment of Arghie's vivid imagination.

[Slip18]

There's nothing better than a pie crust made with good old lard.

[Eala]

It's like stuffing a chicken or turkey, well, sort of.

More like a sausage, in that the covering supplies no meat. And a taste very much like liver.

Wife & I stopped at a lunch-counter before crossing the bridge to Skye (in Scotland). She saw "haggis" up on the board, along with the pizza and burgers and bangers and whatever, and ordered it. The proprietor almost wouldn't give it to her, knowing American tastes. (But she's had it many times.)