Dec 03 2005

Brie = consistently producing forgettable dreams

category: cheese & wines
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Eating phase (cheese supper):

All 6/6 nights consistently produced looooooooong, dull, dream sequences.  Dream content was forgotten quickly.  I did manage to remember scenes of ‘packing’ and work related problem solving.  Yawn.  With one disturbing exception the dreams were soooooooo dull they sent me straight back to deep sleep!  The exception on the 3rd night suddenly woke me from a dream of my death (Saber plunged into my heart).

Unlike the British cheeseboard study participants, I would not summarise the dreams as either ‘Nice’ or ‘Cryptic’.

Decontamination phase (no cheese supper):

1 night. No awareness of any dreams. 

Conclusion?

For me,  Brie produces dull, forgettable, dreams. 

Not recommended.

This week I’ll be eating a cheese with a very promising, US relevant,  name: Philadelphia, ‘brotherly love’

W cheese-o-phile

Dec 03 2005

Phonological Similarity IV: Spanish

category: miss interpreted
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This Diner conversation dumbfounded me:

Wendy: “I thought I’d ordered a SPANISH omelette”

Waitress: “I thought you ordered a SWISS CHEESE AND BACON  omelette“

‘Spanish’ sounds like ‘Swiss cheese and bacon’?

I couldn’t hear the similarty.  Later I engaged the waitress in small-talk.  She found my speech very difficult to hear even when I used my best Queen’s English and diction.  No mumbling.  It reminded me of when I first arrived in the US.  Just listening to people talk had been suprisingly, physically, tiring.   I gave her a big tip for trying so hard to overcome the difficulties of my poor spoken ‘American’.

W Miss-Understood

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