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#160673 06/26/06 06:24 PM
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Igneous fatuous?


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Igneous fatuous?

See ignis fatuus.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Yep. Pun intended.


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the county granada all so owes its name to a seedy root



The country is Grenada, but Granada is a province and city in Spain, a department and city in Nicaragua, etc.




Just FTR, commenting on helen's spelling is like commenting on the character development in the Manhattan phone book.

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i know that book.. lots of interesting names and places, even if there isn't much of plot!

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granola - you know





No, I don't know. I've often seen it referred to in American sources but I don't know what it is.


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AKA muesli.

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As far as I know, muesli has horrid* flakes of cereal mixed into it. Granola just has the good stuff: dried fruits, nuts, maybe sweetened clumps of crisp, toasted oatmeal. Handy as energy food on the trail.
*get soggy in about one second

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It can also be compressed into a bar to be ingested in similar manner as a candy one; not to be confused with shinola.


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Those flakes must be the Raisin-Bran kind. Sometimes the cereal producers do include almonds to add some cyanide flavour.

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