Garlic Bella Italiano

[snohare]

o useful for the compost heap

You've never seen an elephant "leaking", have you Veggie ? Think fire hose...it would have to be an awfully big compost heap to survive !

[veggiechicken]

.... And this, Gentle Reader, is how threads on the Grapevine are led off track
One minute its about a Garlic order, the next, its all about an Elephant's liquid, or otherwise, output!
No wonder the Search facility comes up with some strange results
....and long may it be so

[veggiechicken]

You've never seen an elephant "leaking", have you Veggie ? Think fire hose...it would have to be an awfully big compost heap to survive !

Well, Sno, there was that time at the Sri Lankan Elephant orphanage, just after I'd fed the baby elephant with a giant Baby's bottle of milk...............

[snohare]

There's a coincidence Veggie, that is exactly where I saw an elephant leeking - at a Sri Lankan Elephant Orphanage ! (Don't remember anyone with a bottle of milk though )
Seven years and a month since I was there - the holiday of a lifetime. I got to see the Buddha's tooth as well...

[veggiechicken]

Did you see the 3 legged elephant, Sno? We could feed the babies with enormous baby bottles with teats on - and the babies had really hairy foreheads that you could scratch We went to the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy the evening before it was suicide bombed at 6am. Heard the explosion but didn't know what had happened.
Here we are - 25th January 1998 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I seem to make a habit of just missing disasters Holidays with me are not recommended unless you're well insured!

[snohare]

No Veggie, all the elephants we could see were entire and not missing bits. Well, who would have the job of circumcising an elephant...
When we went to the Temple there were several anti-vehicle barriers and so many soldiers that even I noticed the security,(I was ill that day, not entirely compos mentis) and when I asked, they told us about the bombing.
We were very honoured, probably because we were there under the auspices of Sri Lanka's Head of Police and arrived with a police escort; so instead of just getting inside the main courtyard as the monks paraded the glass case containing the tooth and then returned it to the inner sanctum, in small groups we were actually allowed to enter the small room where it is kept, and see it up close. This apparently is on a par with getting to meet the Pope.
I think it's safe to say, he didn't floss.
A �5 T&M voucher to anyone who can return this thread from whether or not Buddha flossed, to the original topic, in one link !

[veggiechicken]

The Buddha had no need to floss as it was well known to the Ancients that chewing garlic daily prevents Tooth erosion see:-
"Tooth Ache Remedies for Fast Relief
Garlic: Studies show that garlic is among effective tooth pain remedies. To get rid of tooth pain, place crushed garlic and salt on the tooth. Garlic contains effective antibiotics known as Allicin which are released when crushed. Allicin helps slow down bacterial activity in the mouth. You can also chew garlic daily to strengthen your teeth and prevent tooth decay or erosion."
I notice Snohare, that your group felt honoured in a manner akin to meeting the Pope. Very few people know this, but the Pope has his own favourite garlic that has always been grown in the Vatican gardens - this garlic is known as "Bella Italiano".

[snohare]

One voucher per person

[veggiechicken]

One voucher per person

How many of me do you think there are?

[snohare]

have sent Chesnok Red instead - AND a �5 Gift Voucher!
I'm happy Thank you T&M.

Good job you are already in balance with the cosmos, eh Veggie, or you might be disappointed !

[veggiechicken]

To be honest, Sno, I have 2 x �5 vouchers - do I have to send one to someone else?

[snohare]

Yes - I hear there is an impoverished Tamil Mahout who is saving for a prosthetic leg...you might manage to save him some money on feed for his elephant...(Don't tell me you are stumped for an address ! )

[veggiechicken]

I'll ring the Mahout - make a trunk cal!!
I've been wondering whether its possible to grow an Elephant garden.
There's Elephant grass (Miscanthus); Elephant's ears (Bergenia) and Elephant garlic, as we've discussed. Any more suggestions?

[snohare]

I've been wondering whether its possible to grow an Elephant garden.

Don't do it Veggie - one little bit of Myosurus minimus visible and the place would be pandemonium !!

[veggiechicken]

What was the old joke? Something about a team of elephants playing a team of mice at football.
An elephant and a mouse are running down the pitch after the ball when the elephant steps on the mouse and squashes him flat.
The ref blows his whistle and the game stops while they carry the mouse off the pitch.
"That's a foul", says the ref "why did you step on the mouse?"
And the elephant replies, shaking his head, bewildered "I was only trying to trip him up!"

I'll get my coat.........