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LEGALIZE RANCH!!!!!

LEGALIZE RANCH!!

  • legalize ranch

    Votes: 4 36.4%
  • legalize carrots

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • *** is eric andre?

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Total voters
    11
It's old English from Shakespearian times...

Here's an example used in context:-

" Wert the ethers so vile fot he tort.."

Aaaaaaaah! My memory is too good when it comes to useless information. I can still quite you the Preamble to the Canterbury Tales from my senior English class in 1989! No matter how hard I try I can't force it from my brain!
 
Aaaaaaaah! My memory is too good when it comes to useless information. I can still quite you the Preamble to the Canterbury Tales from my senior English class in 1989! No matter how hard I try I can't force it from my brain!

You mean this old thing? Don't feel bad, I had to memorize it too...........It was much easier than reading Beowulf in the original Old English (something from which I never recovered).



Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
 
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Aaaaaaaah! My memory is too good when it comes to useless information. I can still quite you the Preamble to the Canterbury Tales from my senior English class in 1989! No matter how hard I try I can't force it from my brain!
I can still mostly recite it and I learned it back in the late 70s. I didn't partake of the 70s seriously enough to wipe out all memories.

I would rather recite Chaucer than deal with slimy white stuff posing as food.
 
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Aaaaaaaah! My memory is too good when it comes to useless information. I can still quite you the Preamble to the Canterbury Tales from my senior English class in 1989! No matter how hard I try I can't force it from my brain!
That's what cigarette jingles in the 60's did to my brain. I can recite them all. Yet have to keep an handwitten list of nieces and nephews names in my wallet. Just can't find that danged delete button for those fifty year old cigarette jingles.
 
Salad dressing is gross. Anything more than a light spritzing of balsamic is too much. Maybe 1/4tsp for a large salad is about right.

Yep. A little olive oil with either balsamic or red wine vinager is killer. I found a place to get those glass bottles with the straw like they use in Italian restaurants. It's forcing me to not use sugary dressing or marinade. Been trying to kick the sugar habit this year. But ranch is good to dip carrots and broccoli so I say legalize it mon!
 
This thread reminds me of a poem written by Martin Niemoller.

First they came for the bleu cheese dressing, but I did not speak up, because I had never enjoyed a good slice of Roquefort

Then they came for the balsamic vinaigrette dressing, but I did not speak up, because I am allergic to Trebbiano grapes

Then they came for the Italian dressing, but I did not speak up, because I thought it was too tangy

...

:unsure:
 
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