Quartermaster James

I don't know about the clergy, but for judicial robes generally one takes off one's suit coat and dons one's robe. One continues to wear one's trousers, shirt, tie, vest, etc., under the robe.

I've noticed ammo "shortages" and fear-mongering since around November.

Yes. It is probably the most well known of mescaline producing plants. Well, it seems you have two different questions here: 1)Which drugs are native to the New World? 2)When did they become well known? Ayahuasca is a New World drug, but I can't cite any period references to it. Same too Salvia Divinorum. Actually, there are a lot of New World plants to consider; too many to list here. If you include Polynesia as New World, then you also have Kava to consider. Again, I have no period sources to offer. There are other New World plants that were used medicinally, such as Pau d'Arco (Tabebuia avellanedae) and the popular Echinacea Purpurea, but I gather your interest is in recreational drugs. This distinction is worthy of consideration in its own right. For example, I don't believe traditional uses of Peyote and Ayahuasca are properly considered recreational, whereas traditional Kava use might be. Chocolate, of course, is a New World drug.

Interesting. If I understood Bo correctly, the strong loyalty among club members is part of why he thought they differ from pyrates of old. If I am correct in this understanding, I agree with him: pyrates formed alliances of circumstance and fortune; loyalty as found in today's MC clubs and yes, even street gangs, did not exist among GAoP crew. As always, I welcome documentation to the contrary . But pyrates were! Common criminals, that is. The only distinction being that they were convicted of theft on the seas. That's not to say they weren't also thieves on land, among other crimes.

This Dutch Oven Cookbook has a lot of recipes that are either already vegetarian or easily converted to vegie/vegan. So does: Just Dutch Oven Recipes.com And here's a recipe ready to go! Vegan Dutch Oven Pot Pie

Flattery will get you everywhere! But back to bread pudding. It is a great way to use up old doughnuts, and you don't have to add any extra sugar! I recommend a well balance mixed of the raised and cake variety, with a few Devil's Food thrown in for good measure and contrast. Oh! And try a bit of saffron in the custard...

Vanilla's good. In addition to the other usual spices, I also like a lot of ginger, both the fresh and dried, in mine. Try some saffron sometime for an extra special kick

Welcome aboard! Ye be the third French pyrate of my acquaintance. The first two being Messrs. Portfolio Dossier and Trey Bouchet.

I've been thar! BTW: ever try doughnut bread pudding?

Petty annoyance: this damnable sore throat/cough that just won't go away!

+1 for Backgammon!

Well, what need to when you've got that sexy pout perfected?

I got rutabaga skins for the clothes that I wear. Rutabaga extract to wash my hair. Rutabaga vapor instead of gas. Rutabaga paper to wipe my ... nose. Do the rutabaga boogie. Come along with me. With a fresh rutabaga pulled right off the tree. Do the rutabaga boogie. Do it all the time. With a fresh rutabaga pulled right off the vine.

Uh...no. It is impossible to actually produce cat-rabbit hybrids as they are genetically incompatible despite their similar number of chromosomes. Additionally, cats and rabbits have different habits. Female cats are induced to ovulate by the tomcat's barbed penis, which scratches the female's vagina as he withdraws. Male rabbits have smooth penises and are not able to cause a female cat to ovulate. Thus, even when copulation takes place, there would be no egg to fertilize. Cabbits - What are they? Cabbit - Wikipedia

WTF!?!?

All the more reason to stick with bottles, corks and screw-caps!

There was an interesting discussion about pyrates recently on a reenacting board. It opened my mind to the idea that some people could find this hobby offensive; somewhat similarly I suppose to how I would react to a group of people playing at being SS partying after a day at the camps. Still, I think that's the rare occasion.

Yes, but on the left side of the illustration you can clearly see a larger homunculus emerging from the chest as if he was being extruded a la Play-doh Fun Factory.

I believe that's the trap door from which the homunculi pictured in the lower right emerge.

Like this? Trinity Marine

For having recently "met", you know me too well already! As to GEB, it had only recently been published when I was studying epistemology. I started on it, but became distracted. Perhaps it is time to revisit it? Thanks for reminding me of it!

Have you seen this one: Naval Surgeon's Amputation Kit? Yes, it is 100 years late but it does raise the question that perhaps tools and medicines were kept in different chests? Also, Goddard seems to think that little changed from Woodall's to Napoleonic times (The navy surgeon's chest: surgical instruments of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War). Another maritime medicine chest.

And the rest is history!

Mine? Basic Bach. Basic shades. Bach; two basics.

To the best of my knowledge, Cannabis is native to central Asia and not native to the Americas. Early on (1580's) a "hemp-like" plant was noted in what would become Virginia, but it proved to be Acnida cannabinum, a species of Dogbane, not Cannabis (Schaffer Library of Drug Policy). Any resources documenting that Cannabis was not first brought to the Americas by colonists would be greatly appreciated.