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Myddryn
Thanks for the visit.
Yes, one can be mortified in the sense of feeling hastened/humiliated.embarrassed, but the mortification of the inward parts referred to in my post seems to have been some form of festering or rotting of the innards.
Bit more interesting than a common cold, eh? Similarly, that mysterious " rising of the lights" to which many people succumbed. This was spelled with the long "s" so that it seemed to read " rifing".
The lights, of course are the entrails, which they were still called when I lived in Britain ; but what caused them to rise ; how far they rose, and with what precise effects ( except death of course ) we are not unfortunately informed.
One day soon, I shall post a piece about the exotic diseases of the past
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ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:52 AM
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Blanche
Thanks for dropping in, and your long, interesting comment.
I hope you aren't gonna get yourself all worked up about diet and stuff! Of course, even tho' I believe in eating and drinking what I like, and let come what comes, I don't overdo it. One has to use a modicum of commonsense
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ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:42 AM
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Babe
Thank you for your comment.
The poor old dude sounds like he was ... well, shall we say a mite accident prone?
But there you are, see, he did live to 96, didn't he? And what luck not to be on the Lusitania when she was torpedoed by a German U boat!
My mother had smoked cheap cigarettes since WW1, and she died at 89. I'm sure a lot of illness in in the mind
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ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:39 AM
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Anthony1wiley
Thanks for dropping by, and your comment.
Much better to drop in your tracks! We make ourselve mentally ill with all this obsession with diet. My motto is " Eat and drink what you like, and let come what may!"
At 74, I'm the oldest of our group of friends, most of them in their 50s/early 60s and I'm constantly amazed at what a sickly lot they are
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ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:36 AM
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Sarooster
Thanks for dropping in. Damned quacks! They oughta have a government health warning on their doors " Visiting your doctor can cause great cause numerous physical and mental illnesses!"
posted by
ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:32 AM
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Flame
I hope my good friend emerged victorious!!! Thanks for calling in
posted by
ariel70
on December 14, 2005 at 2:30 AM
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Perhap nutritionists will have to take a look at your post of today before some times making their suggestions. I have been leading a war with my wife, but thanks I will definatively emerge victorious today.
posted by
Flame-thrower
on December 13, 2005 at 2:30 AM
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That was some eating
I pretty much eat like that right now. My doctor wants to shoot me. I might just mention to her how the "old folks" ate and see what she says about that.
posted by
sarooster
on December 13, 2005 at 2:22 AM
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ariel70
I like your thinkin' hoss, yup, better to die on the way to the old folks warehouse with a full belly.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 12, 2005 at 9:08 PM
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My grandfather lived to be 96 on cheese, fat pork, butter, cookies and candy. He didn't care too much for fruits and vegetables. As a child he had just about every communicable disease....typhoid, scarlet fever and I don't know what all, and survived an appendectomy in the days when most surgeries were a failure. He was the most nervous, stressed out person I've ever known and he got diphtheria on the maiden voyage of the Lusitania.
posted by
babe_rocks
on December 12, 2005 at 4:54 PM
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Ariel70,
What a feast! Boiled mutton, spitchcocked eel, etc. doesn't exactly tickle my palate, but the sheer quantity of exotic delicacies sort of puts ours to shame. I am reading, albeit fitfully, a book on "Lower Your Cholesterol in 8 weeks", which I am threatened if I don't do, will have dire consequences.
But the director of Cardiology at Santa Monica hospital who endorsed the book in the preface confirmec what you've just written: prior to the middle of the 20th C., the biggest killer was infectious disease, probably people didn't live long enough to experience long-term diseases like cancer and heart disease, but stress has got to be a factor. By the mid-20th c., heart disease became the no. 1 killer, of veterans of wwII. How ironic, to survive a war to die of a heart disease. Now, I'm faced with counting fat grams, reading up n saturated fats and horror of horrors, possibly going on cholesterol lowering drugs. I do not want to take any more drugs if I can avoid it.
But the gist of your post is well-taken, was life more enjoyable, in an "eat drink and be mery for tomorrow we die, sort of way" If a workman got a gallon ale or beer, I'm sure he probably was, and that parson was living high on the hog, no wonder the clergy was an appealing career.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 12, 2005 at 4:00 PM
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Ariel,
A mortification of the inward parts that doesn't exsist today. Mmmmmmm........what was this again? 
Shadow
posted by
Keshet
on December 12, 2005 at 3:47 PM
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Flight
Ha Ha Ha
posted by
ariel70
on December 12, 2005 at 2:12 PM
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That's o.k., Ariel - a little plumbing is often required.
posted by
reasons
on December 12, 2005 at 2:09 PM
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Flight
Lady Ariela occasionally makes a boiled baby ( plumb pudding, boiled in a cloth ) and it really does plumb the depths!
Thanks for stopping in. Your place or mine for dinner? LOL
posted by
ariel70
on December 12, 2005 at 2:00 PM
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Plumb Pudding - Ominous name for Plum Pudding, indeed!!!
posted by
reasons
on December 12, 2005 at 1:55 PM
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