ahems at Trudy
tommyrot beat me to the weird foodstuff answer -- as they say, hunger is the best sauce... but seriously, you get desperate enough, you'll try eating dirt soup. (They do, in The Good Earth, btw.)
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2006 12:11:20 pm PST #4443 of 10007
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2006 12:13:25 pm PST #4444 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
sluuuuuuuuuuuuut
brenda m - Dec 04, 2006 12:16:33 pm PST #4445 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Now I want a bowl of tasty stone soup.
Of course, it'd be even better with a little...
Amy - Dec 04, 2006 12:19:51 pm PST #4446 of 10007
Because books.
There's pica, too (I think that's the name of it) where people with malnutrition will start to crave dirt or paper and other things. Apparently a lot of underprivileged pregnant women get it, I guess because the nutrients in the soil (um, yuck) actually count for something.
As much as brains squick me, I can't see any people who had to hunt and kill their own food turning up their noses at any part of any animal. Seems more reasonable to put the whole thing over the fire than wrestle with a pineapple or a coconut, actually.
sarameg - Dec 04, 2006 12:22:31 pm PST #4447 of 10007
Wasn't that in Grapes of Wrath? Chalk in the soil.
aurelia - Dec 04, 2006 12:28:05 pm PST #4448 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
people will eat bark, roots, leather
It's an odd segue, but...
Does anyone have suggestions on how to minimise the appearance of tooth marks on leather?
Kathy A - Dec 04, 2006 12:35:04 pm PST #4449 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Make more tooth marks to create a beautiful pattern!
Ginger - Dec 04, 2006 12:36:00 pm PST #4450 of 10007
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Does anyone have suggestions on how to minimise the appearance of tooth marks on leather?
You chewed your way through the restraints again?
aurelia - Dec 04, 2006 12:41:13 pm PST #4451 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
You chewed your way through the restraints again?
shhhh
Gilda seems to think that Doc Martens are chew toys. I don't care so much about the old, work-beaten pair, but she really worked over (just the right shoe) an otherwise newish one.
sarameg - Dec 04, 2006 12:44:11 pm PST #4452 of 10007
Someone just came into my office and pointed out that the buttons on the side of my new monitor look like nipples. Jeez, people. At least I had mini-telescopes to throw at her.