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Questions and Answers - Part 3

  
  

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Evil Scientist
14:06 / 14.11.06
Even if you're thinking about Chloe?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:11 / 14.11.06
You can buy special write-on-T-shirt pens, Saveloy. Also crayons and paints. You normally just draw like with ordinary paper but iron them afterwards to make them stick. You can buy them at art shops, fabric shops and the haberdashery departments of big department stores.
 
 
Saveloy
11:04 / 15.11.06
Disco and Mordant: Thanks, guys!
 
 
Joggy Yoghurt
01:19 / 16.11.06
Why won't Suggs from Madness age?
 
 
Princess
10:57 / 16.11.06
Where can I get large amounts of beeswax from in the uk? I have an URGENT NEED home made cosmetics. I just want the wax, nothing else in it, and preferably at a price that is low,low,low.

Thanks in advance.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
11:03 / 16.11.06
There's a fantastic farmer's market at Moxon Street near Baker Street in Central London.

Beeswax sxpecialist stall there...loads of products, and more wax than you can shake a large yellow and black stripey stick at.

I go there every Sunday, so I'll get contact details for you if you like...
 
 
Saturn's nod
11:04 / 16.11.06
Do you need mail order? My local wholefood shop usually has a li'l stack of 25g beeswax blocks in the corner where furniture polish, cleaning stuff etc is. I think they're 99p each. Your local wholefood shop might have them too?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:28 / 16.11.06
Why won't Suggs from Madness age?

Beeswax?
 
 
Tsuga
11:33 / 16.11.06
I'm sure you live in some big city, but actually the best and cheapest way to get it is straight from beekeepers. Depending on where you live, it may not be possible for you to track them down and find them, and may not be much help to suggest it. But there it is.
 
 
Princess
12:58 / 16.11.06
I'll try the health-food shop idea. We seem to have about 600 health food shops round here so I'm sure at least one of them will have bee excretia.
We also have a farmers market, so that might be a good place to start looking.

Just out of interest, do any bees die in the making of beeswax? I tried to find out but the internet is seeming very non-committal in its response.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
13:05 / 16.11.06
No, bees don't die in the making of beeswax. Beeswax is made from the bees' home, the hexagonally-patterned hive bits.

They may be temporarily evicted from the hive in order to harvest parts of it for wax, but I'm guessing where beeswax is made, honey is also being made, so they'll end up being shifted to new hives to keep making honey.

So, no actual harming of bees, but plenty of farming of them.

(I could be wrong about this, but my Dad used to keep bees when I was little. From what I remember, none were ever killed.)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:07 / 16.11.06
Surely one or two were shot while trying to escape?
 
 
Princess
13:10 / 16.11.06
Thankyou all helpful Barbepeeps. You do, as always, roxxor my soxxors. Im off to go get some now. Thanks espescially to Disco, who has alleviated my bee related guilt.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:26 / 16.11.06
Beards of bees, on the other hand, to the best of my knowledge involve the deliberate killing of a queen bee, the resultant paste from whom is then smeared around the face.

I don't like beards of bees anymore.
 
 
Quantum
13:34 / 16.11.06
These Bees beards are OK because these Bees rock but this bee beard is not OK because it is made with mashed up queen bee. I'm not sure how OK a face full of bees is anyway, but there you go.
 
 
petunia
18:42 / 18.11.06
Is there anywhere online that i can find the letters that have been printed in the Daily Mail?

I wrote in (it's an experiment) but i'm not too fond on the idea of actually buying the paper to find out if my letter has been printed.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:07 / 18.11.06
I don't know if you can find them online but if it was contentious they might even come round and take your photo and then you'll know. I wrote a letter once after reading an article which basically said that young mothers were poor and stupid and bad mothers. It said that all the clever, well-off working women who hadn't had babies yet should get on with having babies to counteract the stupid kid influx of the poor young mothers. Lovely huh? And it was written by a woman.

I wrote this steamingly angry letter and they came round and took a photograph of me posing with The Lovely Boy and I was letter of the week or some such nonsense. The whole experience was a bit weird to be honest.

You could always ring them and ask.
 
 
Ex
19:08 / 18.11.06
Smallville was just at the forefront of my mind as a kind of prime mover of homoeroticism. Because of a blog I had recently read, which wondered how the series worked dramatically at all, unless the reader interprets Clark and Lex's relationship as romantic/sexual.

And it would work if I was thinking of Chloe while engaged in autoerotic acts, because that would be quite gay for me. Chloe is lovely, isn't she?
 
 
Char Aina
20:15 / 19.11.06
where would i find a large selection of instrumentals?

i'm hoping to find hip hop primarily, but would appreciate advice that related to any music with the vocal track(s) removed.
 
 
grant
16:04 / 20.11.06
What, like karaoke disks?
 
 
Char Aina
20:23 / 21.11.06
yeah?
are they the 'real' versions?
i always figured they'd be midi or cover versions.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
20:28 / 21.11.06
Not much help with hip-hop, but many sound effect companies like Sound Ideas sell sets of "production music," royalty-free instrumentals in a variety of styles. Cut to 15", 30", 60" and full-length versions of each track for radio production.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
09:43 / 22.11.06
Are there any ducks in London ponds at the moment? I mean, have they all flown home for the winter yet?If so, when do they usually go, and when do they come back?
 
 
Ron Stoppable
15:15 / 22.11.06
and while we're talking about fowl, where can I get a goose? For the eatin' rather than domestication.

For saturday.

I'm in London and would have thought I'd be able to stroll into any traditional-looking butchers and pick one up but apparently not. Online searches throw up plenty of mail-order goose resources but nothing at this short notice.

Can any of you gastronomes or farmer's market cognescenti help? I have made some ambitious dinner promises...
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:41 / 22.11.06
There's an organic butchers about 1 minute south of Kentish Town overground/tube who claim they can do geese. Can't remember the name but you can google shop and location ...
 
 
Char Aina
16:43 / 22.11.06
i'm thinking of using a picture of something that belongs to someone else.

can i freely use a sillhouette of a famous building? or the outline of a famous bridge? would it be better if the thing in question was a publicly owned thing?

is there a database of stuff that is and isnt fair game?
 
 
Ron Stoppable
17:25 / 22.11.06
Whisky Priestess, that's brilliant - thanks. And Kentish Town is incredibly convenient for me too.
 
 
Olulabelle
12:10 / 25.11.06
Does anyone know where I can buy poseable dragons for TLB for Christmas? He's fed up of rigid plastic ones since they do not correctly participate in battles and as I understand it, now only poseable ones will fight as they ought. I've done a search but I can only find ones which come with Megabloks sets, but Megabloks is not Lego and therefore certainly will not do, Lego apparently being the King of all things buildable.
 
 
Olulabelle
12:16 / 25.11.06
Toksik, you can use anything from any of the free images sites if it's not for commercial use, but if you already have an image in mind you really ought to check with the person who took it. Most people have copyright on their images and even if the picture is of something public, or a silhouette of something public the photo still belongs to the photographer unless it's been sold to an image site, in which case it belongs to the image site.

Most people are ok about their images being used for non-commercial use; my Dad used to let charities use his pictures for free, for example.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:18 / 25.11.06
Poseable Lego dragon! WITH VIKINGS!!!
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:06 / 25.11.06
What an amazing dragon. Take five to appreciate it.
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And relax. What I'd like to know is

a) Someone said there had been Egyptian, as in ancient, novels. What were they talking about?

b) I know something about Byzantine novels, but where would one go to get a hard copy of Ismene and Ismenias, or indeed any medieval novel?
 
 
Olulabelle
15:15 / 25.11.06
OMGDragonWooooo! That is a dragon to end all dragons and what is more, TLB (despite having gone through the Lego catalogue with a fine tooth comb) appears to have missed him.

Thank you very much Mordant.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
10:53 / 27.11.06
Allecto Regina: b) I know something about Byzantine novels, but where would one go to get a hard copy of Ismene and Ismenias, or indeed any medieval novel?

When you say 'go to get a hard copy', do you mean a copy you can put on your bookshelf and cover in marginal notes, or a copy you can physically hold in your hands at all? If the latter, I'd try a copyright library, most of which will have a rare books room and an online searchable catalogue -if you are currently a member of a university I don't think there will be a problem getting into any of the national libraries (including the BL) and it might be easier to get into anothe university library. If the former, umn.
 
 
Princess
12:29 / 27.11.06
I have seen beautiful, beautiful, beautiful pheaseant carcasses in the butcher. I would like very much to eat one. However, I'm working under some assumptions, can anyone tell me if they are right?

1. I'm pretty sure that pheasants aren't raised in battery farms or anything like that. AM I right in thinking that they just jolly around the fields and woods until a man comes and scares them into the air with a horn? Other than the being dead, it's not such an entirely bad deal for the bird, yes?

2. Plucking\gutting a bird is easy right?

Also, how does one prepare a bird, and what is a reasonable price to pay. How long should I keep it for. How exactly would one store it in a flat where people aren't used to the fact that meat is actually dead animals?

If anyone could tell me all teh tricks (like collecting unhatched eggs for custard etc) that would be really helpful as I know feck all about pheasant.

Recipes are also good.

Thanks all.
 
 
Saveloy
13:08 / 27.11.06
Q

Is there a simple animation app on the web that I can download for nowt? I want something I can stick jpegs into and play at 24 frames a second (or thereabouts) and then save as a wmv or an avi.
 
  

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