Comments on: Foxholes and Shoe Leather http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/12/05/foxholes-and-shoe-leather/ All the etcetera that's fit to read. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: arensb http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/12/05/foxholes-and-shoe-leather/comment-page-1/#comment-161464 arensb Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:41:20 +0000 http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/?p=638#comment-161464 <p>Troublesome Frog:</p> <p>I expect you're right. After all, it's essentially an animal product. There might be digestible parts of tree bark as well. But of course at this point we're arguing over degrees of negligible nutrition.</p> Troublesome Frog:

I expect you’re right. After all, it’s essentially an animal product. There might be digestible parts of tree bark as well. But of course at this point we’re arguing over degrees of negligible nutrition.

]]> By: Troublesome Frog http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/12/05/foxholes-and-shoe-leather/comment-page-1/#comment-161455 Troublesome Frog Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:18:45 +0000 http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/?p=638#comment-161455 <p>So, what kind of nutrition would you get from eating leather? Minus any dyes, I would think that leather could be at least a bit digestible. At least, better than most types of tree bark.</p> So, what kind of nutrition would you get from eating leather? Minus any dyes, I would think that leather could be at least a bit digestible. At least, better than most types of tree bark.

]]> By: Eamon Knight http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/12/05/foxholes-and-shoe-leather/comment-page-1/#comment-161433 Eamon Knight Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:53:27 +0000 http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/?p=638#comment-161433 <p><i>In the Middle Ages, plague-ridden towns would exterminate the local cat population, under the belief that said cats had to do with evil magic.</i></p> <p>...which, given that the cats were preying on the rodents, which carried the fleas, which harbored <i>Yersinia</i>, was one of the stupidest things they could have done.</p> In the Middle Ages, plague-ridden towns would exterminate the local cat population, under the belief that said cats had to do with evil magic.

…which, given that the cats were preying on the rodents, which carried the fleas, which harbored Yersinia, was one of the stupidest things they could have done.

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