Saturday, 15 December 2007 7 biscuits for cheese
Friday, 14 December 2007 7 drinking vessels
- Saxon Ale Bucket - made without foot or stand so that the contents had to be drunk before putting the container down.
- Norse Skull Cup – literally the skull of the Norse man’s enemy used in barbaric drinking sessions.
- Mazer – a drinking vessel made from maple wood.
- Fuddling Cup – a puzzle jug that would spill the contents when the drinker attempted to drink from it.
- Biblical Bottle – made from the complete skin of a kid.
- Black-jack – Made of a large piece of leather stitched up the back and often lined with pitch
- Toby Jug – Made from glazed pottery and shaped in the form of a rotund seated toper.
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Tags: Food+Drink
Thursday, 13 December 2007 7 largest libraries in the World
- Library of Congress - Washington DC, USA - 29 million books
- National Library of China - Beijing, China - 22 million books
- Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences - St Petersburg, Russia - 20 million books
- National Library of Canada - Ottawa, Canada - 18.8 million books
- Deutsche Biblothek - Frankfurt, Germany - 18.5 million books
- British Library - London, England - 16 million books
- Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow, Russia - 13.5 Million Books
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Tags: Fact
Wednesday, 12 December 2007 7 tech/geek blogs well worth checking out
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Tags: Technology
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 7 board games from my childhood
- Mousetrap
- Operation
- Buckaroo
- Kerplunk
- Pick-up-Monkeys
- Guess Who?
- Buccaneer
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Tags: Nostalgia
Monday, 10 December 2007 7 facts about living with catarrh
Today's list was kindly donated by Bekie, thanks honey :)
- It can appear to others that you may have the lurgy, when you are in fact not remotely contagious
- At any given moment a sinal headache could attack and possibly debilitate you thereby ruining the rest of your day
- You spend a great deal of your life smelling like a peppermint/menthol tree
- On those rare occasions that your airways become completely clear, the sensation of fresh air can be so shocking that it makes your eyes water & you feel the urge to shout "Morning"!
- The phrase 'feeling a little under the weather' is literal
- Decongestants can leave you feeling as if you need to drink an entire Volvic factory
- Sometimes it can feel as though you are on a plane with a woolly sheep in your head and a leek stuck down your throat
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Tags: Irritations, Opinion, Submission
Sunday, 9 December 2007 7 things that were wrong with our carvery lunch today
- The white wine was only barely cold
- The 'waiter' said he'd get a wine cooler but it never appeared
- 'Roast' potatoes were terrible, really bad!
- Meat was carved too thick
- Sprouts were undercooked
- Gravy had been left standing so long it had a thick skin on the top
- The photocopied menus were printed so badly they were smeared with toner
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Tags: Food+Drink, Irritations
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