Licorice is a bit much. I like fennel and its cousins fairly well, but not with THAT.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 5:42:28 pm PST #950 of 10006
Betsy HP - Nov 02, 2005 5:43:27 pm PST #951 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
I think you mean The Great Influenza. The Great Mortality was about the Black Death.
Le oops. You're quite right. I picked up the wrong book from the floor next to the bed.
I can do you a good line of recommendations in poisons, too.
aurelia - Nov 02, 2005 5:53:05 pm PST #952 of 10006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A year after a given strain hits your immune system, its surviving descendants are very likely to be completely unrecognizable as far as your antibodies are concerned.
I had a very nasty flu (doc's couldn't identify it, so it must've been a new one) just before my sophomore year in college. I didn't catch another flu for at least 6 years after that and I know I was exposed plenty. Even in the last couple of years, when I've been surrouded by sickies I've sometimes felt tired and achey for a day and then felt fine after that. I think my antibodies are pretty good at the recognition thing.
Of course this means something like the 1918 influenza would turn me into a puddle of white cell goo.
Kathy A - Nov 02, 2005 6:08:36 pm PST #953 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yup -- the one plague in history where being outside the 20-40-and-healthy demographic was a plus.
IIRC, the second wave of Black Death in 1361 hit the teen-30 population worse than the next older group, which was a big difference from the 1347 inital outbreak. After that, the occasional outbreaks seemed to hit new populations that hadn't been born during the prior outbreak the worst.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2005 6:15:42 pm PST #954 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But...NO. I like it fresh and painfully tart.
Mmmm... me too.
P.M. Marc - Nov 02, 2005 6:24:39 pm PST #955 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We usually have a relish and a cooked sauce made with cranberries, port, and various spices.
Consuela - Nov 02, 2005 6:25:23 pm PST #956 of 10006
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Last year I got a killer cranberry sauce recipe off LJ: it calls for fresh ginger and oranges. OMG so good. I'm never making straight cranberry sauce again.
My brother-the-doctor was on NPR a couple of months ago, talking about avian flu. He wasn't optimistic.
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 6:25:30 pm PST #957 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The BBC will tell you how smart you are -- scroll over to the right and down.
So far I'm a lot better at geography than at history, but not that good at either.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 6:28:58 pm PST #958 of 10006
Oh fun. I just got to call 911. Over a girlfight apparently going on below me. Not sure at all what is/was going on, but when there are "get out of my house" and thumps that disturb neighbors not above them, that's what I do.
There is a section of wrought iron lyingon the grass. What else am I supposed to do?
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 6:30:32 pm PST #959 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's not the good sort of exciting, sara. Want me to come over and break it up?
I'm better at French than geo or hist. Ironically -- my three worst high school subjects. And I did quite decently at the French quiz.
I'm scared to take a quiz in something I was good at.