[A] for Carpe Jugulum
Lisa Green
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Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but the stone witch found
at the entrance of the cave where Granny Weatherwax is hiding out,
sounds remarkably similar to the stone "witch" found at the Wookey Hole
caves in Somerset. Not been there for a few years, wonder if the guides
are still doing to whole "A long, long time ago......." bit!! As I
remember it though, the Wookey Hole witch's cat also got turned to
stone. [1]
Lisa
[1] As I remember it, when the guide was showing you the shadow cast by
the stone when you shone a torch on it, you had to squint, turn upside
down and imagine very hard before you saw what they said was there.
Gideon Hallett
was a jolly decent type and shared with us:
I think you're almost certainly dead on the money; didn't know
whether it had been noted yet, but since Pterry is a
sort-of-local, I'm sure that's where it comes from.
<snip>
>[1] As I remember it, when the guide was showing you the shadow cast by
>the stone when you shone a torch on it, you had to squint, turn upside
>down and imagine very hard before you saw what they said was there.
My thoughts were "...nah, it's a couple of rocks"
Gideon.
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Lisa Green wrote in message <369608B5...@sanger.ac.uk>...
[ Totally unrelated Trivia ]
In Chattanooga, Tennessee, there is a mountain called Lookout Mountain. One
edge of it is called "The Witch" because it looks like a witch's face.
[ /Totally unrelated trivia]
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Rocky Frisco
Went past the road to that place on the way to Glastonbury Tor with MEG
a couple of months ago. I *really* want to check it out next time. I
just loved the walk through Alderley Edge with Dave Le Good this last
time too; what a great cave! There's one really large room way back in
the darkness; you have to crawl or duckwalk to get back there.
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<snipped OFiaH, sorry>
>Went past the road to that place on the way to Glastonbury Tor with
>MEG a couple of months ago. I *really* want to check it out next
time.
>I just loved the walk through Alderley Edge with Dave Le Good this
last
>time too; what a great cave! There's one really large room way
back in
>the darkness; you have to crawl or duckwalk to get back there.
Next time, mate, next time.
My dodgy memory of the visit to WH (the kids'll remember better)
claimed to show me the petrified remains of the witch. Mind you,
when the lights go out, you can believe anything :-/
The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
yeeesh !
- MEG
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(ouch!) ;)
> >Went past the road to that place on the way to Glastonbury Tor with
> >MEG a couple of months ago. I *really* want to check it out next time.
> >I just loved the walk through Alderley Edge with Dave Le Good this last
> >time too; what a great cave! There's one really large room way back in
> >the darkness; you have to crawl or duckwalk to get back there.
>
> Next time, mate, next time.
Bet on it! :)
> My dodgy memory of the visit to WH (the kids'll remember better)
> claimed to show me the petrified remains of the witch. Mind you,
> when the lights go out, you can believe anything :-/
Is *that* where religions come from? ;)
> The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
> yeeesh !
I'll bet they had some sort of intoxicant to help while away the idle
hours.
LoneWolf
<l...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>caves in Somerset. Not been there for a few years, wonder if the guides
>are still doing to whole "A long, long time ago......." bit!!
Apparently, it's been outfitted with a light-show, and made really naff
since, unfortunately. One piece of advice to anyone who's intending on
seeing the caves at Cheddar - don't, go to Wookey Hole instead (for the
caves, anyway), unless you want to spend a fair amount of money on
several caves which aren't a patch on Wookey. Still, it's a nice town to
visit[2].
[2] Esp. if you're fond of cheese
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MEG
>MEG wrote about Wookey Hole:
>> The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
>> yeeesh !
>Rock :
>I'll bet they had some sort of intoxicant to help while away the
idle
>hours.
Sorry, I can't take that bet. If'n us educated, civilised, highly
developed peeps have alcohol, nicotine, adrenaline, 'grass' et al...
??
Mebbe there was no need for to use the intoxicants ? The adrenaline
rush from fear in those days must've kept most peeps on a permanent
high. My bet would be that there was lots of chanting around the
fire on a Friday night. Dancing to the drum beat; flirting with the
local HOT; sharing the latest kill.... maybe I should get out more ?
- MEG
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>
> Rocky Frisco wrote in message <3696B9...@earthlink.net>...
>
> >MEG wrote about Wookey Hole:
> >> The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
> >> yeeesh !
>
> >Rock :
> >I'll bet they had some sort of intoxicant to help while away the
> idle
> >hours.
>
> Sorry, I can't take that bet. If'n us educated, civilised, highly
> developed peeps have alcohol, nicotine, adrenaline, 'grass' et al...
> ??
>
> Mebbe there was no need for to use the intoxicants ? The adrenaline
> rush from fear in those days must've kept most peeps on a permanent
> high. My bet would be that there was lots of chanting around the
> fire on a Friday night. Dancing to the drum beat; flirting with the
> local HOT; sharing the latest kill.... maybe I should get out more ?
Reminds me of that pub I wandered into in Reading. ;)
(Especially the adrenalin rush from fear)
-Rock (I'll get me bearskin tunic)
Cliff
MEG wrote in message <7781su$e09$1...@library.lspace.org>...
>rush from fear in those days must've kept most peeps on a permanent
>high
>
Mebbe if you got intoxicated, you got dead. Life really was just
that brutish.
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On 1999-01-08 Gideon_...@3Com.com(GideonHallett) said:
>On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:31:33 +0000, Lisa Green <l...@sanger.ac.uk>
>was a jolly decent type and shared with us:
><snip>
>>[1] As I remember it, when the guide was showing you the shadow
>>cast by the stone when you shone a torch on it, you had to squint,
>>turn upside down and imagine very hard before you saw what they
>>said was there.
> My thoughts were "...nah, it's a couple of rocks"
>Gideon.
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Mine were "Aaargh ! Now is *not* a good time to discover
I get claustrophobic in caves !" And then came the walk
over that narrow metal bridge, thirty feet over some
*very* deep water - aaargh again....
And if you call me a coward I'll just have to ....totally
agree with you of course :).
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Lisa Green
>
> Apparently, it's been outfitted with a light-show, and made really naff
> since, unfortunately. One piece of advice to anyone who's intending on
> seeing the caves at Cheddar - don't, go to Wookey Hole instead (for the
> caves, anyway), unless you want to spend a fair amount of money on
> several caves which aren't a patch on Wookey. Still, it's a nice town to
> visit[2].
>
> [2] Esp. if you're fond of cheese
>
Being a long time resident of the area (from Shipham......a small, well
very small! village 2 miles from Cheddar, I must disagree. You have to
remember that Cheddar is not all about the caves. There is the Gorge to see
too, although bits of it are attacked with explosives once a year to keep
it safe, but also there are more than a couple of decent pubs too. If
anyones thinking of visiting in the summer, let me know, I'll show you the
back way to climbe Jacobs Ladder (so you don't have to pay!!), and at least
one of the pubs that I cut my teeth in[1].
Lisa
[1] Probably the one opposite my SO house, that way there's not far to
stumble home, well his house anyway.
Gideon Hallett
<M...@djilibeybi.ankhfree-online.co.uk> was a jolly decent type
and shared with us:
>Rocky Frisco wrote in message <3696B9...@earthlink.net>...
>
>>MEG wrote about Wookey Hole:
>>> The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
>>> yeeesh !
>
>
>>Rock :
>>I'll bet they had some sort of intoxicant to help while away the
>idle
>>hours.
>
>
>Sorry, I can't take that bet. If'n us educated, civilised, highly
>developed peeps have alcohol, nicotine, adrenaline, 'grass' et al...
>??
Possibly not; 'shrooms do grow in that area of the country, hemp
will grow *anywhere* (but prefers police stations[1]) and alcohol
has been with humanity for many thousands of years (c.f. the
Egyptian story of how Ra abated Hathor's bloodlust by getting her
thoroughly pissed...)
Terence McKenna (who is prolly not to be taken *entirely*
seriously, but does have some interesting points, famously
hypothesised that it was the semi-accidental ingestion of
hallucinogenics (in things like mushrooms, ergot and mescal
cacti) that caused humanity to start thinking about the world in
abstract terms; which would make psychedelics partially
responsible for human society as we know it[2].
>
>Mebbe there was no need for to use the intoxicants ? The adrenaline
>rush from fear in those days must've kept most peeps on a permanent
>high. My bet would be that there was lots of chanting around the
>fire on a Friday night. Dancing to the drum beat; flirting with the
>local HOT; sharing the latest kill.... maybe I should get out more ?
Umm, there is very good evidence that consumption of psychedelics
and intoxicants was a fairly important religious event in
prehistoric Europe (like the gut contents of "bog people"[3])
Gideon.
[1] About a year and a half ago (IIRC) there was a minor stir in
my home city of Bath. The police station has these large circular
plant pots (about a metre across) outside the front doors. It was
discovered by an observant member of the public that one of these
pots was happily growing a cannabis plant, obviously planted by
someone with a sense of humour. It should be noted that the thing
was 18 inches high (half a metre) before *anyone* actually
noticed it. Cue red faces for the police, who had been letting
the thing grow on their premises for a couple of months without
noticing it was there...and who had to be told by the public that
they were growing illegal substances.
[2] There are times, both good and bad, when a quick look at
society *does* give you the impression that a career acidhead
made up the rules.
[3] Sacrificial victims, generally bound, garrotted and lobbed
into a bog to appease the local deities. Frequently also fed a
last meal of hallucinogens (possibly to enable them to
communicate with the gods better).
Gideon Hallett
<M...@djilibeybi.ankhfree-online.co.uk> was a jolly decent type
and shared with us:
>Rocky Frisco wrote in message <3696B9...@earthlink.net>...
>
>>MEG wrote about Wookey Hole:
>>> The thought of people living in there all those years ago....
>>> yeeesh !
>
>
>>Rock :
>>I'll bet they had some sort of intoxicant to help while away the
>idle
>>hours.
>
Actually, interesting little thingy; if you sit for long enough
in a completely dark environment, you start (apparently) to
hallucinate random objects. Not done it myself (don't like
enclosed spaces like caves) but am assured that it's pretty
spectacular. Wonder if it's due to the psychedelics the human
body produces naturally (e.g. dimethyltryptamine or DMT for
short)?
Gideon.
Sam
>
>Possibly not; 'shrooms do grow in that area of the country, hemp
>will grow *anywhere* (but prefers police stations[1]) and alcohol
>has been with humanity for many thousands of years (c.f. the
>Egyptian story of how Ra abated Hathor's bloodlust by getting her
>thoroughly pissed...)
<pedant>
Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
</pedant>
Sam
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Sam wrote in message <3699e53b....@news.dircon.co.uk>...
><pedant>
>Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
>intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
>lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
></pedant>
And you know this because.......
OFL
Oh dear.
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wrote:
<snippedy doo-dah>
>Apparently, it's been outfitted with a light-show, and made really naff
>since, unfortunately. One piece of advice to anyone who's intending on
>seeing the caves at Cheddar - don't, go to Wookey Hole instead (for the
>caves, anyway), unless you want to spend a fair amount of money on
>several caves which aren't a patch on Wookey. Still, it's a nice town to
>visit[2].
>
>[2] Esp. if you're fond of cheese
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You LIE!!!!!
I've visited all the supermarkets and other cheese emporia in the
Greater Manchester area and they all laugh at me in a derisory fashion
when I ask for Wookey Cheese.
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>Gideon Hallett put digit to keypad, to say:
>>
>>Possibly not; 'shrooms do grow in that area of the country, hemp
>>will grow *anywhere* (but prefers police stations[1]) and alcohol
>>has been with humanity for many thousands of years (c.f. the
>>Egyptian story of how Ra abated Hathor's bloodlust by getting her
>>thoroughly pissed...)
>
><pedant>
>Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
>intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
>lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
></pedant>
<pedant>
Depends on the strain. Obviously, C. Indica prefers it equatorial
and standard hemp rope (C. Sativa) isn't going to get you stoned,
but the Ruderalis atrain is comparatively hardy; crossbreed a
strong Indica with a Ruderalis and you will get something that is
less powerful than Indica, but much hardier.
(not speaking from personal experience; just from a book I read a
while back. Honest.)
</pedant>
Gideon.
(yes, it's useless knowledge. So?)
LoneWolf
Ancient) wrote:
>On Sat, 09 Jan 1999 16:52:56 GMT, lone...@btinternet.com (LoneWolf)
>wrote:
>
><snippedy doo-dah>
>
>>Apparently, it's been outfitted with a light-show, and made really naff
>>since, unfortunately. One piece of advice to anyone who's intending on
>>seeing the caves at Cheddar - don't, go to Wookey Hole instead (for the
>>caves, anyway), unless you want to spend a fair amount of money on
>>several caves which aren't a patch on Wookey. Still, it's a nice town to
>>visit[2].
>>
>>[2] Esp. if you're fond of cheese
>
>You LIE!!!!!
>
>I've visited all the supermarkets and other cheese emporia in the
>Greater Manchester area and they all laugh at me in a derisory fashion
>when I ask for Wookey Cheese.
C|N>K
The first time I read that, I was wondering how you got cheese from
Chewbacca, hmm, I really must get my mind out of the gutter someday.
Actually, I was referring to Cheddar with the cheese footnote, not
Wookey Hole.
LoneWolf
><pedant>
>Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
>intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
>lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
></pedant>
Actually, as long as such plants receive enough light, and enough warmth
to grow to any degree, such factors have little effect on the effects of
the produce. A greater influence is how the plant is treated *after*
growing[2]. This is all according to the most common variety around
these parts, tho' - and a more exotic breed may well exhibit different
characteristics.
Oh, and if you're referring to the plant for which the slogan 'Free the
Weed' is often in reference to, then hemp might not be the most accurate
term, as it includes the much less prohibited strains.
HTH - HAND
[2] Or so I'm well informed
doc.
following wisdom:
>
> (not speaking from personal experience; just from a book I read a
> while back. Honest.)
And it's true.
Me? I'm a professional, i oughtta know...
> (yes, it's useless knowledge. So?)
It bloody well isn't.
Dr"gardeningisfun"Vielgut.
Richard Eney
LoneWolf <lone...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>S...@NOSPAMsmeldrum.dircon.co.uk (Sam) wrote:
>><pedant>
>>Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
>>intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
>>lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
>></pedant>
>
>Actually, as long as such plants receive enough light, and enough warmth
>to grow to any degree, such factors have little effect on the effects of
>the produce. A greater influence is how the plant is treated *after*
>[2] Or so I'm well informed
People who live in Alaska (where it's legal to grow and use your own but
not to sell or buy) tell me that it is both the variety (there seem to be
several sub-species, some of which are very different) and the treatment
_while growing_ that determine final potency. The kind of hemp that is
grown to make rope and other useful fiber objects has little or no THC in
it and is scorned by smokers (it's called K-pot, because it grows wild in
Kansas, where it was grown for rope in WWII). The kind of hemp that has
more THC will have it concentrated if the plant is carefully pinched back
and made to branch multiply rather than growing into a tall raggedy weed,
and harvested at the right time. I don't smoke at all myself and never
did, but people have this odd tendency to tell me things.
=Tamar
Slarvibarglhee the Comparatively Ancient
wrote:
<snip>
>C|N>K
>
>The first time I read that, I was wondering how you got cheese from
>Chewbacca, hmm, I really must get my mind out of the gutter someday.
>Actually, I was referring to Cheddar with the cheese footnote, not
>Wookey Hole.
>--
>LoneWolf
>Lone...@btinternet.com
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I know, and *I* was trying to be amusing, but it loses some of the
impact when I have to explain.
esmi
>Actually, interesting little thingy; if you sit for long enough
>in a completely dark environment, you start (apparently) to
>hallucinate random objects. Not done it myself (don't like
>enclosed spaces like caves) but am assured that it's pretty
>spectacular. Wonder if it's due to the psychedelics the human
>body produces naturally (e.g. dimethyltryptamine or DMT for
>short)?
I've heard about this too but I've always thought it had either
something to do with the cells in the retina beginning to fire
randomly or that it was the result of the brain being
understimulated. A sort of neural thumb-twiddling. ;-)
The only similar thing I have experienced is the aura I get right
before a migraine. OK...so it's followed by hours of intense pain
but, while it lasts, that's some light show with colours that are
far more intense than any I've ever seen in RL. Strangely enough,
the aura is often preceded by a natural high (sometimes called
"pre-migraine euphoria") that is rather similar to the effects of
alcohol but with none of the side effects like slurred speech or
dizziness etc. The only two disadvantages of this are:
1) trying to convince people that I haven't been drinking
and
2) having to apologise to people a day or so later for things I
may have said or done. *blush*
ah well....at least it's a free high...
esmi
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esmi wrote in message <369a77e3...@news.lspace.org>...<SNIP>
>
>The only similar thing I have experienced is the aura I get right
>before a migraine. OK...so it's followed by hours of intense pain
>but, while it lasts, that's some light show with colours that are
>far more intense than any I've ever seen in RL. Strangely enough,
>the aura is often preceded by a natural high (sometimes called
>"pre-migraine euphoria") that is rather similar to the effects of
>alcohol but with none of the side effects like slurred speech or
>dizziness etc. The only two disadvantages of this are:
>
>1) trying to convince people that I haven't been drinking
>
>and
>
>2) having to apologise to people a day or so later for things I
>may have said or done. *blush*
>
Some would add that the hangover-like splitting headache that follows the
"high" could be called a further disadvantage :)
Charles.
in...@fdhoekstra.nl
>
> lone...@btinternet.com (LoneWolf) wrote:
>
> >C|N>K
>
> That translates as Coffee all over nose and down keyboard.
_Through_ nose (it's a pipe, after all) _into_ keyboard.
> Support Specialist, DBA and BOFH in training
Hrmph. RTFMP.
Richard
LoneWolf
Ancient) wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:00:33 GMT, lone...@btinternet.com (LoneWolf)
>wrote:
>
><snip>
>>Actually, I was referring to Cheddar with the cheese footnote, not
>>Wookey Hole.
>
>I know, and *I* was trying to be amusing, but it loses some of the
>impact when I have to explain.
Subtlety doesn't work on everyone (inc. me), so it might have been an
idea to have put a smiley or a <g> at the end to indicate the humourous
intent of the post, just for us without the ability to distinguish
intentional jokes and innocent misunderstandings (both of which are in
quite high proportions in such a large group).
LoneWolf
(Richard Eney) wrote:
>In article <369d5a37...@news.btinternet.com>,
>LoneWolf <lone...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>S...@NOSPAMsmeldrum.dircon.co.uk (Sam) wrote:
>>><pedant>
>>>Hemp will grow anywhere, but does not produce very much of the
>>>intoxicating substance for which it is well known unless the
>>>lighting and temperature conditions are 'right'.
>>></pedant>
>>
>>Actually, as long as such plants receive enough light, and enough warmth
>>to grow to any degree, such factors have little effect on the effects of
>>the produce. A greater influence is how the plant is treated *after*
>>growing. [snip]
>
>People who live in Alaska tell me that it is both the variety and the treatment
>_while growing_ that determine final potency. The kind of hemp that has
>more THC will have it concentrated if the plant is carefully pinched back
>and made to branch multiply rather than growing into a tall raggedy weed,
>and harvested at the right time.
Indeed, I must concur with this, but my main point was that the
light/heat conditions have little of an effect on the depressant
produced, not the general care of the plant (and also the use of an
organic or synthetic fertilizer, which also has a profound effect, btw).
p_a...@cableinet.co.uk
> >in a completely dark environment, you start (apparently) to
> >hallucinate random objects. Not done it myself (don't like
> >enclosed spaces like caves) but am assured that it's pretty
> >spectacular. Wonder if it's due to the psychedelics the human
> >body produces naturally (e.g. dimethyltryptamine or DMT for
> >short)?
Once i tried cloing my eyes and rubbing them (Don't ask why, I can't
remember why :P), and this produced some wierd effects such as blackand
white lines and stuff. Actually it's more heard by your brain than seen
by your eyes, like deaths voice is supposed to be. I dont know why this
happens, but the effect is definitely like that afterglow after you look
at a lightbulb.
"FLIP!!!!!" -Adun, Me
Mike Knell
In article <36acd940....@news.demon.co.uk>,
Stephen Booth <stephe...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:00:33 GMT, lone...@btinternet.com
>(LoneWolf) wrote:
>
>
>That translates as Coffee all over nose and down keyboard.
No it doesn't. coffee | nose > keyboard
(i.e. "the coffee I was drinking just came out of my nose and splashed on
my keyboard, as a result of the mirth occasioned by reading this")
It's a pipe, he said helpfully.
m.