Murray's Random Thoughts #43

[murraynz]

1. My white woolly hat acts as a comfort blanket. In the night, I reach over, put it on and the world feels like a better place

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[clea]

5. hahahahahahahahahaHAHAAHAHA :-D

[murraynz]

It got better. Thank God.

[clea]

2. Yes, the English still call them "sweets". But whatever you might want to call em, the Brits invented em.

[clea]

Huh. Apparently the English SHOULD know what lollies are:

"Lollipop...The term lolly is an 18th century-century one for mouth, so a lollipop was something that one popped into one's mouth. It did not necessarily mean a sweet with a stick, as became usual later. A few old-fashioned boiled sweets sold by British confectioners are still called lollies though they are stickless....In the USA the other end of the word (pop) has been used as the bais for the...term popsicle."
---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999 (p. 459)

[murraynz]

They still looked at me strangely.