Are you man enough?

[MacBean]

Carobs or grasshoppers? Asks the long haired, misanthropic, Neo-Curmudgeonly hermit of the desert.

I think Bugbear and I need to get Forum Botanist titles as we always seem to get side tracked at the merest hint of a botany break.

Many have wondered why John the Baptist went about eating locusts in the desert. Carob is also known as St.John's Bread, and the tree the fruits come from is closely related to the locust tree of the Bean family.

[Bugbear]

I think Bugbear and I need to get Forum Botanist titles as we always seem to get side tracked at the merest hint of a botany break.

Many have wondered why John the Baptist went about eating locusts in the desert. Carob is also known as St.John's Bread, and the tree the fruits come from is closely related to the locust tree of the Bean family.

Oops, did I do that... again.

Carob hulls taste a little like cocoa, the actual seeds are teeth breakers though.

I would have to look into the wild honey to see if it "means what it means."

[piperdbh]

I would have to look into the wild honey to see if it "means what it means."

If you look into wild honey, you're liable to get stung.

[Bugbear]

If you look into wild honey, you're liable to get stung.

Ehh, I'm not turning up much information on wild honey anyway. It could be... bug scrapings or something like that. I do have a little information in an Oxford book that fried grasshoppers were eaten in the Middle East, so you never know...

I suppose if we learn to eat the bugs that eat our crops, we could get even with them.

[McElmurry]

Carobs or grasshoppers? Asks the long haired, misanthropic, Neo-Curmudgeonly hermit of the desert.

I remember that movie. Don Johnson played the boy. I don't remember who did the voice of the dog.

[Bugbear]

I remember that movie. Don Johnson played the boy. I don't remember who did the voice of the dog.

"A Boy and His Dog" based on the story by Harlan Ellison. That was a good movie.

I don't remember who did the dog's voice either, but they did leave out, in the movie, the explanation of why the dog could communicate with the boy.

I remember writing a paper on it in seventh grade, pointing out the boy was safer up top than down in the underworld.
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[wildrover]

kilt......is received wisdom, that shows where one comes from and where one fits into the culture, rather than carving out a statement about one's uniqueness.

That is worth a bottle of good scotch right there...that is probably the best statement regarding kilts that I have ever read, here or elsewhere.

I would have to look into the wild honey to see if it "means what it means."

I'm just gonna take it on assumption .

Surely somebody can make a joke about "wild honeys" can't they?

I never joke about wild honeys .

-Sean

*edit* Sigh...I'm not even gonna bother with a long post, because I've said it all before...

That picture right there is a complete and utter failure, when held to the light of gilmore's remark. A kilt may technically be a "skirt", but it is a traditional and cultural symbol, not a social marker, so stop trying to come in the back door by skirting around the #9 check, k boys?

The rest of the article...when you see people like that dressed in public and not on their to a convention, let me know. Torn up, patched shirts and jeans are sold at Nordstrom now, for crying out loud. I don't doubt they'll soon start putting brass plates on the stuff, too. It's mainstream.

[ggibby]

Wow, this has wandered into wilderness not anticipated by the OP, I suspect.

I just got a kick out of the grammar, even after seeing it's from the Polish version of Fashioner. Not sure who/what did the translation, but I think I got their point more clearly for the scrambled metaphors and lack of segue.

[wildrover]

Wow, this has wandered into wilderness not anticipated by the OP, I suspect.

That got me thinking...there are a lot of totally bogus costumes and runway abominations thrown in this forum (or rather, thrown on the forum somewhere that would eventually become this sub-forum), simply because, at some point, somebody notices the word "kilt" and then assumes it's all good...no vetting of any kind A/F/A whether the link is actually relevant, or just another outbreak of men in skirts or snarky sartorialists.

Wait...snarky sartorialists...isn't that redundant?

...Whatever. I will give them a run for their snark .

At any rate, you figure maybe we're "kilt blind"? Seeing only our beloved kilts...without seeing the context in which they're presented, or differentiating between a kilt and something that's a MUG but not a kilt?

[Bugbear]

I've never heard of them, MacLowlife...
I am finding more information suggesting that the locusts eaten by John the Baptist were in fact grasshoppers. I would guess it could be either or both; though it's looking a little more like it was, in fact, the grasshoppers.

Keeping in mind, the article suggests that one must eat wild honey and locus while wearing a kilt and "deconstructed T-shirt" to be "man enough."

So, MacLowlife, are you "man enough"?