Comments on: The runcibleness of a baked blackbird pie http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bonnie http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3792 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:19:20 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3792 It is cloudy here, drizzle forecast, but no hail.

Now darn you I will be singing 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. :-)

]]> By: Dee http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3791 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:01:54 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3791 Ah, runcible! One of my favorite words. Wikipedia does a good cover of it, showing a remarkably rich history for a made-up word — one which even its originator doesn’t seem to have had a definition. I like best this, though: “The word also has connotations in behaviour and suggests a mischievous, but not malicious, attitude. Thus: “I’m just being runcible”; “You runcible fellow!”; “No, not naughty, just runcible!”.” See, John? You can be runcible all day long and it’ll only make us smile.

]]> By: Wendy, NC http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3790 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:37:18 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3790 John, do you suppose the sounds of the hail storms, with hail hitting buildings in particular, might rattle around in your subconscious as the sound of gunshot from your earliest days? That would be enough to make anyone grumpy.

Me? Now I have “Sing a Song of Sixpence” stuck in my head and a very mixed memory of driving my mother to distraction with questions about numbers of birds and volumes of pie pans and related matters.

]]> By: Mage Bailey http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3789 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:36:47 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3789 Loved the bit about the nose. You could suggest whips and chains too. Pie…..Chicken pie here, perhaps. Thanks for the idea. :)

]]> By: ~ Sil in Corea http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3788 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:27:50 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3788 Your conversation with Graham not only gave me a fit of the giggles, it set me to dredging my Mother Goose memories. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie… But, it was the maid hanging out the clothes who lost her nose to the bird, wasn’t it? They were humourous political commentary, I guess, though the maid lost her head in real life.

]]> By: Bex http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3787 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:43:18 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3787 I’m still mulling over your mention the other day of “Stilton soup” John. I went on-line and printed out a recipe from the Food Network that is courtesy of a Mr. William Broderick, Port Charlotte Hotel, Scotland.

As a rule, I don’t make cheese soups since husband does not love (or even like much) cheese, but this may be one exception to my rule. Thanks for the mention of it. I’ll let you know if it turns into a reality for me.

I hope you’ll enjoy, Bex. My rule of thumb on stilton (very highly flavoured) is no more than 10% in any cooked dish. A little goes a long way!

]]> By: gary http://oldgreypoet.com/2009/11/29/the-runcibleness-of-a-baked-blackbird-pie/#comment-3786 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:25 +0000 http://oldgreypoet.com/?p=1291#comment-3786 Mmmm, I know, somehow the very dark days will make a person feel gloomy sometimes.

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