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Eh? Norway or Sweden - and is that a made up name? Anything starting with Ivor should be a joke, but if it is then I don't get it. Am I being slow?

No. You are not slow. But your education needs a slight improvement. You can read up on Thord-Gray on the wiki page I link to at the end. And he can't be a joke since he fought for the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during WWI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Thord-Gray

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ORIGINAL: parusski

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Warspite1

Yeah, same as Sweden - it's just madness. Not having road signs written in English is just plain stooooopid, not to mention dangerous.

Well what do you expect in a nation that gave the world Ivor Thord-Gray, the brilliant soldier who sided and fought with Pancho Villa.

Warspite1

Eh? Norway or Sweden - and is that a made up name? Anything starting with Ivor should be a joke, but if it is then I don't get it. Am I being slow?

ORIGINAL: parusski

On this day:

Feb 01, 1884 Oxford Dictionary debuts with Peanut Brittle being the first and only word in that edition.

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On this day:

Feb 01, 1884 Oxford Dictionary debuts with Peanut Brittle being the first and only word in that edition.

Warspite1


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What was the definition they used?

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Pop quiz:

The 1885 version featured an additional word alongside Peanut Brittle.

But what was it, and what was the definition used.

ORIGINAL: parusski

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Pop quiz:

The 1885 version featured an additional word alongside Peanut Brittle.

But what was it, and what was the definition used.

Darn, my 1885 edition can't be opened, all the pages are stuck together with a brown substance mixed with peanuts.

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ORIGINAL: parusski

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Pop quiz:

The 1885 version featured an additional word alongside Peanut Brittle.

But what was it, and what was the definition used.

Darn, my 1885 edition can't be opened, all the pages are stuck together with a brown substance mixed with peanuts.

Warspite1

Aha! In order to boost sales of the 1885 version (bearing in mind the disappointing debut containing just one word) the publishers did two things;

a) they increased the wordage by 100% i.e. they added a second word
b) they gave every purchaser a free gift - a slab of Peanut Brittle.

Looks like your slab was never taken out of the book and it has subsequently melted...

Unlucky Steiner because had it not melted and been in mint condition, the book would have been worth $4.3m (based on what I auctioned my version for last week at Christies).

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Darn, my 1885 edition can't be opened, all the pages are stuck together with a brown substance mixed with peanuts.

Warspite1

Aha! In order to boost sales of the 1885 version (bearing in mind the disappointing debut containing just one word) the publishers did two things;

a) they increased the wordage by 100% i.e. they added a second word
b) they gave every purchaser a free gift - a slab of Peanut Brittle.

Looks like your slab was never taken out of the book and it has subsequently melted...

Unlucky Steiner because had it not melted and been in mint condition, the book would have been worth $4.3m (based on what I auctioned my version for last week at Christies).

AAAHH, that is one amazing post. Since we share a great love and knowledge of PB any chance you will buy me a 12th anniversary gift on May 9, 2012?

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Warspite1

Aha! In order to boost sales of the 1885 version (bearing in mind the disappointing debut containing just one word) the publishers did two things;

a) they increased the wordage by 100% i.e. they added a second word
b) they gave every purchaser a free gift - a slab of Peanut Brittle.

Looks like your slab was never taken out of the book and it has subsequently melted...

Unlucky Steiner because had it not melted and been in mint condition, the book would have been worth $4.3m (based on what I auctioned my version for last week at Christies).

AAAHH, that is one amazing post. Since we share a great love and knowledge of PB any chance you will buy me a 12th anniversary gift on May 9, 2012?

Warspite1

What sort of gift? What is the 12th anniversary? It's not an expensive one is it? Paper? cotton?

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Just thought I'd mention that there has only been one inanimate object ever to win an Oscar academy award.

In the 1986 film Cocoon the best supporting actor was to have gone to Don Ameche, however this was not to be the case.

In a scandalous case of product placement, Acme PB Incorporated (major shareholder Stephen Ambrose) decided to put its product in every scene possible; with dire consequences for Ameche.

Wailed Ameche, "I just can't live with this competition. This bar of PB is a genius."

Ameche was favourite for the prize but the Peanut brittle simply stole every scene it was in. "

"A moody, magnificent presence" wote one critic, "how to get your point of view across without saying anything" was another.

And true enough the peanut brittle walked off with the best supporting actor role.

Not a lot of people know that.

ORIGINAL: parusski

A bit of WW2 history with PB as the star.

From Stephen Ambrose's book The Death Of Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague' - "Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, did not die from metal fragments as previously claimed. New evidence has surfaced that shows Hedrich had large amounts of Brazilian Peanut Brittle surrounding him in his car when he was attacked. New DNA tests show Heydrich died from a deadly infection caused by the BPB entering his rectum. Heydrich was known to visit a Berlin BPB den with Goering and Himmler."

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A bit of WW2 history with PB as the star.

From Stephen Ambrose's book The Death Of Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague' - "Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, did not die from metal fragments as previously claimed. New evidence has surfaced that shows Hedrich had large amounts of Brazilian Peanut Brittle surrounding him in his car when he was attacked. New DNA tests show Heydrich died from a deadly infection caused by the BPB entering his rectum. Heydrich was known to visit a Berlin BPB den with Goering and Himmler."

Warspite1

So you are saying that BPB in the rectum is bad for you? ....only erm, I have a, um, friend who er, accidently sat on a piece of BPB by mistake and.... Should my friend be worried?

ORIGINAL: parusski

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ORIGINAL: parusski

A bit of WW2 history with PB as the star.

From Stephen Ambrose's book The Death Of Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague' - "Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942)—chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, did not die from metal fragments as previously claimed. New evidence has surfaced that shows Hedrich had large amounts of Brazilian Peanut Brittle surrounding him in his car when he was attacked. New DNA tests show Heydrich died from a deadly infection caused by the BPB entering his rectum. Heydrich was known to visit a Berlin BPB den with Goering and Himmler."

Warspite1

So you are saying that BPB in the rectum is bad for you? ....only erm, I have a, um, friend who er, accidently sat on a piece of BPB by mistake and.... Should my friend be worried?

Your, er, friend, ahem, might want to do what the mafia does-seek out a doctor who will keep his mouth shut. Oh, you can't see any but NHS doctor's, right? I mean your friend can't.

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Warspite1

So you are saying that BPB in the rectum is bad for you? ....only erm, I have a, um, friend who er, accidently sat on a piece of BPB by mistake and.... Should my friend be worried?

Your, er, friend, ahem, might want to do what the mafia does-seek out a doctor who will keep his mouth shut. Oh, you can't see any but NHS doctor's, right? I mean your friend can't.

Warspite1

No I....er I mean my friend has no choice but to visit the local NHS hospital. I'm - er - he's got an appointment sometime in 2013.

I hate it when BPB breaks in half - the edges aren't smooth are they?

ORIGINAL: parusski

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Your, er, friend, ahem, might want to do what the mafia does-seek out a doctor who will keep his mouth shut. Oh, you can't see any but NHS doctor's, right? I mean your friend can't.

Warspite1

No I....er I mean my friend has no choice but to visit the local NHS hospital. I'm - er - he's got an appointment sometime in 2013.

I hate it when BPB breaks in half - the edges aren't smooth are they?

2013? Your friend better find a doctor who works off grid.

The edges are sharp, so I have heard.

If you were in the evil States you could see an ER doc in a couple of hours. I mean your friend could.

Its okay when I sit on a cushion.....oh damn......its okay when he sits on a cushion, but he doesn't want to be accidently sitting on any more of the stuff.