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Thread #57439   Message #904225
Posted By: sian, west wales
05-Mar-03 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Of Treacle Mines, Ice Worms and ???
Subject: RE: Folklore: Of Treacle Mines, Ice Worms and ???
So ... the fauxfur carp was so named because its fur was very similar to that of the faux which inhabits Ply forests (from which we get plywood)?

Speaking of trees, we must remember Richard Dimbleby's famous coverage of the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest in 1957:

"... the British news show, Panorama, broadcast a segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed to an unusually mild winter. The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched a rural Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets.

"The spaghetti harvest here in Switzerland is not, of course, carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian industry," Dimbleby informed the audience. "Many of you, I'm sure," he continued, "will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the Po valley. For the Swiss, however, it tends to be more of a family affair"

Yum. Swiss Spag-Bol.

sian