Although I don't think I'd trust the 2000 year old variety, and Roman hygeine wasn't the greatest. Modern fish sauces are generally bottled using more sanitary methods.

You're right Cobwebs. It's basically the same as Nam Pla and has been compared to anchovy paste, which nobody thinks is all that outrageous. It got its bad reputation from the manufacturing process, which apparently smelled pretty objectionable, but was supposed to have smelled fine when it was completely fermented and properly stored.

If you use these, you might want to check out my post on the beer goggle effect.

I tried one of these last year and threw the rest out. They are absolutely horrible.

Seems appropriate somehow.

With the popularity of Dale Chihuly, there's got to be an enormous potential market. These guys were artistically way ahead of their time.

The oregano oil kills the e coli and the apple puree keeps the oregano oil from slipping off the apple.

BASE. That's short for Building Assisted Suicide Equipment, right?

My dissertation director, many years ago, was interested in a folding chair mentioned in an Old English Manuscript from, I think, the eleventh century, so he wrote to a scholar in England who was supposed to be an expert in Old English folding chairs. He got back a letter saying, sorry, I can't help you, my area of expertise istenth-century Old English folding chairs.

This is just grotesque

And if you're doing a Hendrix piece, you can't set fire to your shirt.

At first I thought it said "hypnotizes and CONSUMES lizards."

Hey, if we can put a man on the moon, we should be able to kill and season a turkey at the same time.

I was thinking "politicians"

I didn't want to be critical, but I thought that people who were not artists or not familiar with artistic techniques might take it the wrong way, as if working from a preexisting image were inartistic in some way.