Re: I guess they're related or something?

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Be careful not to get too much cyanide. Both apricot pits and bitter almonds are known for it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 12:34 PM
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Yes, I know.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 12:42 PM
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Just so long as you know the right amount of cyanide.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 12:45 PM
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It is something. I would have expected them to smell like unrequited love.


Posted by: Gabardine Bathyscaphe | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 1:39 PM
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4: Redfox is the best blogger ever:

Jane, is it a festival of the senses? Does it smell like loneliness and taste like the number four?

Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 1:43 PM
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4.1 is entirely true. There has been a lot of AAAAH AM I MOVING this week in our house.


Posted by: Gabardine Bathyscaphe | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 2:02 PM
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And when I say 4.1, I mean 5.1.


Posted by: Gabardine Bathyscaphe | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 2:02 PM
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However, even sweet almond trees sometimes yield bitter almonds (up to 1 percent), and some sweet almond cultivars contain traces of bitter almond aroma.

Important safety tip? Or everyone knows this and not enough to matter?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 3:09 PM
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afaik, cyanide is not one of the many 'a little poison is good for you' poisons.

i do feel wasteful throwing out peach pits.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 7:59 PM
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You could throw them at cars go drive down your street too fast.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 8:07 PM
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Hey! Thanks, 5 & 6.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-19-11 11:12 PM
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It appears that Alan Turing committed suicide by putting cyanide in an apple and eating it. He was also a fan of the poison-apple-making scene in Snow White, which may have something to do with his choice of death method.

Via Wikipedia, of course, that's how we know things.


Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 1:44 PM
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Nietzsche's Abyss ...Dennis Perrin always cheers me up

The main reason why liberals aren't engaging the class war is because they'd have to oppose Obama. Openly. Radically. And we know that's not going to happen. Hysteria over Perry and Bachmann proves that. Liberals have waited for the GOP circus to commence so they can finally erupt. Based on feeds and links I've read, they've been suppressing a lot.

Remember how progressives were going to hold Obama's feet to the fire? How they were going to apply populist pressure? We now see where that energy went -- into a holding account marked Summer 2011.

Opposition to a Perry or Romney administration would be at best tactical. Liberals would be in a four-year holding pattern until they could support the Next Savior. President Franken? Why not? A comedian president would be a perfect fit. A looted and crumbling infrastructure should have a laughtrack, if only to muffle the cries of the screwed.

After ten years of this shit, I don't think I can survive any more of the blogosphere passionately devoting themselves to detailing and refuting the psychotic squawks of Republicans. So fucking pointless.

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Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 1:57 PM
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to: ttaM

re: question about Medieval Czech Documents

Hey ttaM, long time lurker, occasional poster, etc. I was hoping I might be able to ask you some questions about finding online caches of medieval documents relating to Prague. Your email isn't on this here blog, however, so I was wondering if you would be so kind to email me:
joshweiland (at) gmail dot com.

Thanks

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Posted by: Alfrek Macsteinie | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 2:34 PM
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I don't feel like this thread can be allowed to die without anyone using the word "drupe". It's such a delicious word.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 8:08 PM
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fuckin drupes. how do they work?


Posted by: cleek | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 8:47 PM
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I love both drupes and the word "drupes".


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08-20-11 8:49 PM
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