Hi Garry, Talking of "lip smacking good", there was stuff in Nelson's navy called 'portable soup' that was made by boiling a vat of soup until it attained the consistency of thick hide glue, then letting it cool. It was broken into slabs that could be re-constituted by the addition of hot water. I wouldn't be surprised if it was indistinguishable from hide glue. On the other hand, the sailors enjoyed it - but then I suppose it was nice compared to weevilly biscuits and salt beef that had circled the globe several times. Also they wouldn't have lived long enough for the prions to take effect. Bill From: Garry Warber <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 13:09 Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc. William, Hey, welcome to the mindset in the states... We are not known as "yanks" for nothing. :-) You are right, "loose lips sink ships", more or less. Of course, there is that prions not being harmed by cooking thing. But as far as I know, only one guy here thinks hide glue is "lip-smacking good!" :-)+LOL... Garry -----Original Message----- From: William Samson Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 3:18 AM To: [1][email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: William Samson <[2][email protected]> To: Garry Warber <[3][email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 8:12 Subject: Re: [LUTE] gut string, etc. >>Is hide glue now also banned in the EU? SHHH!!!! I hope none of these Eurocrats is reading this list!!! This'll give them the opportunity to appoint dozens more overpaid officials who get bonuses for imposing bans and senseless rules and regulations. Remember the 'straight banana' fiasco? Now they are denying they ever tried to ban curved ones . . . Still, the great thing about hide glue is that you can make your own by boiling up roadkill in a secret location where the thought police can't find you. Bill PS Orwell's '1984' was a long time coming, but it's with us now - metrication, never ending wars, three political blocs (take your pick), 'Newspeak', CCTV cameras everywhere, political correctness . . . PPS Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean . . . AARRRGGGHHH!!!! -- To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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