Betsy and I had a laugh over the story I came across of an English farmer and her over-the-top holiday main course. Some how she has stuffed 48 birds, twelve different species into one another. It’s kind of a Russian doll affair. As you cut through it the is layer after layer of different formerly flying things. This is all inspired by recipes from Tudor times and seems like a serious amount of work. Oh, it will feed you and 124 of your closest friends and/or relatives. See more here.

We lose a million every 40 minutes or so. Thankfully not dollars, but…skin cells (eeeeyuuuu! Time to change the sheets). Don of Walnut Creek had the answer, and as caller 12 picks up the very comfortable, stylish and cool KDFC baseball cap and a copy of last years Classical Christmas 3 sampler (out of print). Your chance to win three times a day all week during the 6:30 am Commuter Quiz, the noontime Lunch Box with Dianne and the Prize @ 5 with John Evans.

World leaders generally don’t lead their troops into battle anymore. The last English king, George II, was the last to lead his troops into the fray during the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria during our Blind Date year 1743, the year the world first heard the carol O come all ye faithful.

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