Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for October 01, 2009
September 30, 2009
October 02, 2009
Transcript:
tyr: Look, ralston, in asgard we use every part of animal we kill....and at night we lay out their bones, cast a spell, and in the morning they come magically back to life! ralston: yeah, right! I'd like to see that! Tyr: You would? ralston: I'll just take your word for it! zzipp!! Tyr: Rats. he woulda made a nice axe cozy...
In Michael Crichton’s book “Eaters of the Dead”, he posits a Moslem traveler hitching along with a group of Norsemen as they prepare for a battle (it’s basically a retelling of “Beowulf”). At one point they offer their guest some mead, and he replies “I’m sorry, but my religion forbids that I partake of spirits of grape or grain.” One of his hosts then says “Ah, but mead is made from HONEY!”
Problem solved.