Et in arcadia ego.

[zotz]

A few months ago there was a news article about some ex-Bletchley park people considering a mysterious inscription on a monument in Staffordshire, reputedly containing information about the Holy Grail. Well, they don't think so. This is entirely unsurprising. The Holy Blood And The Wholly Specious has a lot to answer for, even if it has managed to indirectly pay for the Roslin Chapel's restoration.

There's a page about the Poussin in question here.

Rather more practically, here's an article about a possible treatment for rabies, previously 100% fatal once it became symptomatic (bar one single person in the sixties, I believe).

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Excellent word, I shall try to slip it into conversation whenever possible!
Did you see the recent article about the image of the Virgin Mary on someone's toasted cheese sandwich?

[zotz]

Yes. Case in point, of course.

Whenever I see the photo, I think of those little kitchen blowtorches you use to scorch puddings. Can't imagine why.

$28 000? Excuse me, I have some puddings to scorch . . .

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

*grin* same thing occurred to me, actually.
Some years ago, an ex of mine gave me, as a birthday present, a pen-sized (well, if your pens are large-ish) blow-torch, specifically for the purposes of addressing toast, and cooking steak. I never got round to doing the former, but I did try the latter. It was fine for _one_ steak, but if you're doing two, you have to stop and re-fill it half way through, which is not do good.

[zotz]

Addressing toast? Are we getting back to us posting you stuff? Or did you just mean writing people's names on the toast to make sure they don't steal each other's slices?

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I was intending to send someone some toast, but never got around to it. Although having gone out with childeric for almost four years, I'm amazing that i never thought of addressing food in that way!

[zotz]

You'd have thought that under those circumstances it would be obvious.

[zotz]

He'll be along in a minute to complain about being maligned. But he likes it really.