>  ML> Hardly. You've seen my eyes.
> But surely something that takes most of a day to walk around and blots
> the sun (when correctly positioned) should be detectable as large. And
> if you were in one you'd notice that the spacious back seat has enough
> room to lay your head and a few friends. 

My reference was the Mazda 6, which the Internet
tells me is in the 3500 lb range, vs. the LTC, in
the 4000 range. Okay, to a purist the Town Car
probably didn't qualify as a Lincoln, but it
would have been more my speed. In any case, the
manufacturer of an automobile obtrudes on my
senses about as much as that of a violin would to
yours. By the way, it was demonstrated at MIT 
that few if any professional ears could tell the
difference between a Stradivarius and any of the
better modern copies out there, at a distance of
I forget, twenty or fifty feet maybe.

>  > ... "Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure." --
>  > Errol Flynn
>  ML> That's getting on my philosophy.
> One of my favourite lines from a reading of a will (and this may be an
> urban legend) was "Being of sound mind - I spent it all."

I'm doubting anyone would have assisted in the
drafting and registering of such, but the 
shortest will in Guinness when I had a copy of
that dubious document was "all to wife," two
words in Czech.

>       Title: Poor Knights - Heirloom Recipe From 1500's Britain :)

Arme Ritter, which the Germans claim as their
own as well. I guess patriots of all sorts
would clamor to take credit for anything so
thrifty and delicious.

>   From Ron's Plaice in Blackpool:) Mar 1996.

Ah, I rather miss him and regret not having
taken the opportunity to search him out. He
had a chip shop in Blackpool actually called
Ron's Plaice. He also had a terrible though
abundant sense of humor, see below.

CHOCOLATE & ARMAGNAC SLICE 
categories: English, dessert
yield: 1 
 
A little butter for greasing
5 Tb Armagnac
75 g chopped prunes (pre soaked and stoned 
- take the pip out - not give it some marijuanna) :-)
250 g caster cane sugar
4 eggs
225 g butter (unsalted)
75 g plain flour
75 g cocoa powder
225 g good-quality plain (dark) chocolate
75 g chopped pecan nuts,
75 g chopped, stoned (Yeh Man!) dates
 
Preheat the oven to 180c/350F. Lightly gease an 8" flan case. 
Put prunes in a bowl, pour over the Armagnac and leave to soak. 
Beat together sugar & eggs making sure all the sugar dissolves 
completely. In a saucepan melt the butter and whisk in the
sugar and egg mix. Sieve the flour and cocoa powder into a
bowl. (Sieving serves two purposes. Lumps go and air is added.)
Add it to the egg mix. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan
of warm water. Stir that into the egg mix, together with the
pecans, dates and soaked prunes.

Pour the mix into the flan case and bake for 30 to 40 min.
Leave to cool and slice into wedge shapes. Delicious with
fresh cream.

This recipe is another from Northumberland and was 're-discovered'
by an English Chef called Gary Rhodes [submitted by Ron Curtis]