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Boudicca's Warpaint Puts Farmer On The Woad To Recovery
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 9-28-2003
| Sarah Lonsdale
Posted on 09/28/2003 4:36:12 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:36:12 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Cool!
To: stands2reason
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:41:49 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Over $100 per pound seems a tad expensive for a commercial dye, but, who knows? Maybe there'll be a market for it right there next to Belgian endives.
To: Batrachian
Witlof is truly a tremendous vegetable. Although cleaning it up and wrapping it in ham (then covered over with eggs and Edam cheese) can be a delightful experience (after about 45 minutes in the oven), the best way is to take the ears apart, leaf by leaf, stash them into a plastic bag in your refrigerator, then, each day, take out a few to toss in a salad.
Your basic $4.99 per pound veggie turns quickly into a condiment of exquisite power and bouquet, and when thought of in that manner, it's quite inexpensive!
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posted on
09/28/2003 4:54:34 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: blam
Knowing that "BO" is a prefix along the lines of "MAC", "MC" and "O" in the Gaelic world, that "UDICCA" quickly becomes "Arthur, Ruler (as queen)".
That works as long as you know that "AD" becomes pronounced "UD" after "BO" or the other tribal and clan prefixes. It helps to know that "AD" is the English "Arthur", and "DIC" always means "Ruler/King/Dictator", and "A" is feminine, making the whole thing Queen.
No wonder King Arthur wasn't terribly concerned with who Guenivere was sleeping with.
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posted on
09/28/2003 5:00:23 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: blam
After William Wallace was beheaded in the movie Braveheart a battle was fought in 1513 ??
This would have been toward the end of use of the dye.
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posted on
09/28/2003 5:11:59 PM PDT
by
TYVets
("An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlien & me)
To: blam
The blue threads in the Bayeux Tapestry were dyed using woad and the blue in the tapestry is the only colour not to have faded in more than 900 years. Too many machine washings with bleach.
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posted on
09/28/2003 5:20:33 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: VadeRetro
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posted on
09/28/2003 5:52:10 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
This guy is on -- ahem -- the woad to riches.
To: TYVets
Woad was a favorite attire of the Picts ("painted people") and early Britons, of course it had died out long, long before William Wallace was born . . . as the article points out that was a moviemaking anachronism (I guess just nekkid guys was a bit much - they would throw off their plaids and kick off their shoes and fight barefoot in their shirt-tails.)
And I've been waiting for YEARS to quote this song! It goes to the tune of "Men of Harlech" - the old Welsh ditty.
Woad
What's the use of wearing braces?
Vests and pants and boots with laces ?
Spats and hats you buy in places
Down the Brompton Road ?
What's the use of shirts of cotton ?
Studs that always get forgotten ?
These affairs are simply rotten,
Better far is woad.
Woad's the stuff to show men.
Woad to scare your foemen.
Boil it to a brilliant hue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Briton ne'er did hit on
Anything as good as woad to fit on
Neck or knees or where you sit on.
Tailors you be blowed !!
Romans came across the channel
All dressed up in tin and flannel
Half a pint of woad per man'll
Dress us more than these.
Saxons you can waste your stitches
Building beds for bugs in britches
We have woad to clothe us which is
Not a nest for fleas
Romans keep your armours,
Saxons your pyjamas.
Hairy coats were made for goats,
Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas
Tramp up Snowdon with your woad on,
Never mind if you get rained or blowed on
Never want a button sewed on.
Go it Ancient B's !!
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posted on
09/28/2003 6:03:30 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Nihil sub sole novum. . .)
To: AnAmericanMother
Glad you got your opportunity. An alternative last line I heard: Bottoms up with woad!
To: omega4412
. . . but that doesn't rhyme to "fleas" . . . ;-)
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posted on
09/28/2003 6:21:21 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Nihil sub sole novum. . .)
To: blam
In the 1995 film Braveheart, William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, wears woad in the battle scenes to dramatic effect, but this is probably an anachronism, as the dye was no longer in use.
Yeah, when I saw that, I thought William Wallace must have been a Carolina fan.
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posted on
09/28/2003 6:26:20 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
To: AnAmericanMother
"
...as the article points out that was a moviemaking anachronism (I guess just nekkid guys was a bit much - they would throw off their plaids and kick off their shoes and fight barefoot in their shirt-tails.)" I've read that the kilts worn in the movie were a few hundred years to early also.
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posted on
09/28/2003 6:47:24 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Scots have been wearing tartan kilts of all sorts for several thousand years ~ certainly since the days they lived in Bulgaria and traveled the Silk Road all the way to Japan.
Their mummified remains, wearing tartans, have been found in various ancient sites in China.
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posted on
09/28/2003 6:59:10 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
"Their mummified remains, wearing tartans, have been found in various ancient sites in China." The mummies found in the Tarim Basin were not wearing kilts. (Celtic like fabrics, yes) Read the book The Mummies Of Urumchi by Elizabeth Barber, a textile expert. One thing peculiar about the clothing worn by the mummies is that they were exactly the same as those found at the famous Celtic sites at Hallstadt. The material, patterns and manufacturing techniques were exactly the same.
It is my theory that the people found out there in the desert were refugees from the 5,600BC flood of the Black Sea...and they spoke Tocharian A & B.
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posted on
09/28/2003 7:40:07 PM PDT
by
blam
To: dr_who_2
Dern.... Wallace was fighting the Brits at the 1297 Battle of Falkirk and Stirling Bridge in 1296. He was killed in 1305.
To: Lion in Winter
He was killed in 1305.
Arrrrrrr! But if that Robert tha' Brruce werrent such a sissy, and Billy Connolly and Rob Roy were there with 'im, that LooongShanks woudn'a haed a wee chance atoll!
(The sound of bagpipes playing in the background was specially provided for our Scottish readers)
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:00:22 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:21:45 PM PDT
by
Consort
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