What's a violet crumble?

I had violet pastilles as a little girl and I ADORED them. They lived in a little tin in my night stand and I'd only have one on really crappy days in order to cheer myself up.

Is an Aussie Crunchie like a Canadian Crunchie?

I think so. Chocolate-covered honeycomb? (I found them in Carmel, of all places.)

A violet crumble is notionally similar, but the honeycomb has greater structural integrity, and is therefore more likely to send shards flying across the room if you bite down vigorously.

Yes, Crunchies are better and they used to have fantastically camp advertising too. Remember the ads where someone would take one bite of a Crunchie and suddenly a film of them doing something fun like rollerskating or disco dancing or windsurfing would be superimposed over the space where their t-shirt was? (The implication being that eating a Crunchie transports you mentally to your early 80s leisure activity of preference.)

Yes, Cruchies are better and they used to have fantastically camp advertising too. Remember the ads where someone would take one bite of a Crunchie and suddenly a film of them doing something fun like rollerskating or disco dancing or windsurfing would be superimposed over the space where their t-shirt was? (The implication being that eating a Crunchie transports you mentally to your early 80s leisure activity of choice.)

Yeah, I remember those. (Always liked the ridiculously simple, but quite enthusiastic "CRUNCHIE!" vocalisation.) All I remember of violet crumble's advertising was them taking egregious liberties with Australian colonial history.

For those who feel up to a little Aussie humour,

Q. When does Saddam Hussein have his dinner
A. When Tariq Aziz

Q. Have you heard about the new Iraqi air force exercise program?
A. Each morning you raise your hands above your head, and leave them there.

Q. What's the five-day forecast for Baghdad?
A. Two days.

Q. What do Miss Muffet and Saddam Hussein have in common?
A. They both have Kurds in their way.

Q. What is the best Iraqi job?
A. Foreign ambassador.

Q. Did you hear that it is twice as easy to train Iraqi fighter pilots?
A. You only have to teach them to take off.

Q. What is the Iraqi air force motto?
A. I came, I saw, Iran.

Q. Why does the Iraqi navy have glass bottom boats?
A. So they can see their air force.

Q. How do you play Iraqi bingo?
A. B-52 ... F-16 ... B-2

Q. What is Iraq's national bird?
A. Duck.

Q. What do Saddam Hussein and General Custer have in common?
A. They both want to know where the hell those Tomahawks are coming from!

For sale on Ebay: French Army rifle - Never shot. Dropped once

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." - Jacques Chirac,
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." - Rush Limbaugh

Billytea, Not sure if these will help with your homesickness!

So they don't taste like violets?

Billytea, Not sure if these will help with your homesickness!

Hee. Not yet, but I've almost finished another study unit and then sweet oblivion will do wonders.

So they don't taste like violets?

Nah. Their packaging is predominantly violet. I don't think there's any more profound connection.

t Trudy throws up her hands in disgust

Chocolate-covered honeycomb?

By honeycomb do you mean sponge toffee? Because, then, yeah. Side note - I can make sponge toffee. It contains corn syrup and baking soda. And it's yummy.

Also American humour,

David Letterman:

"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president either."

"The last time the French ask for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."

Jay Leno:

"In a speech earlier today, President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies, housing, education ? anything that's needed. Isn't that amazing? He finally comes up with a domestic agenda ? and it's for Iraq. Maybe we could bring that here if it works out."

"President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida."

"War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realised that spells 'OIL'."

"I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France."

Conan O'Brien:

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates Americans, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French."

Dennis Miller:

"The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven we've found truffles in Iraq."

"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against DisneyWorld and Big Macs than the Nazis?

Bill Maher:

"The president boasted at the top of his press conference that we have the support now of Britain and Spain for our attack on Iraq. You know, when you want to make it perfectly clear to the world that you're not an imperialist, the people you want in your corner are Britain and Spain" (countries that were two of the world's biggest imperialist powers).

Craig Kilborn:

"New rumours that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut."