LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-07 AT 04:33 PM (EST)
 
>>A Torre da Carne -- without babelfishing, that sounds like it
>>means (or, at least, is intended to mean) "A Flood of Meat,"
>
>"The Tower of Meat", actually. Though yours is good too (in
>Portuguese that'd be "Uma Inundação da Carne").

Oh, yes, of course. How silly of me -- "torre" wouldn't be a cognate with "torrent" (as I had tagged it in my head for some reason) and I knew that "a" is a definite article in Portuguese, even though I don't speak the language at all. I blame sleep deprivation and recent stress (that is largely resolved, thankfully).

But, yes, "tower" is a good description, given the skewers said meat is usually served on. (... and now I find myself thinking of the grass-fed beef they served at Leblon... good thing I just finished eating an hour ago, or desire for it would be driving me crazy...) And A Torre da Carne sounds (slightly) more plausible as a restaurant name than the other one (though I doubt anyone running a churrascaria would have enough self-effacing irony to actually do it; they usually cater to a putatively upscale crowd that seems to lack the right kind of humor).

>Well, in G's case, at least, he was expecting no such thing.

I would've thought four hundred years or so would give him a bit more confidence in that respect; just a few years of relationship and marriage have done wonders for me :).

> Anyway,
>just because you can eat until you fall over at a
>churrascaria doesn't mean you have to. :)

Technically, I suppose, but to me that's a bit like going to Singapore and not having chicken rice (okay, I did that, but at the time I was still eating vegetarian), or going to New York City and not having pizza and/or food from a street vendor or Jewish deli while you're there :). There are other analogies I'm sure I could come up with that aren't related to food, but between Thanksgiving dinner and the above I don't have any coming to mind.

My wife looked over my shoulder as I was typing this -- she loves food and is going into the culinary program at a local community-tech (that is actually one of only a handful in NC accredited by the American Culinary Federation), and knows what being a professional chef involves and still wants to do it -- and couldn't bear discussion of it. Too much turkey today :).

>One doubts the uniform, if the division even has one, will look like
>that. However, keep in mind that Catherine's agreed to nothing, as
>far as we know, and that she has several months to consider it.

I arrived at both of those conclusions on my own after I posted this. Still, when my fatigued brain first realized what this "next-generation Lens" thing was (which, just as an indication of how tired I am, didn't happen instantly, but in post-reading digestion), the first interpretation it brought forth was an attempt to render Catherine in an outfit like Katma Tui's. Which prompted the above-described brain breakage :) -- it's not an unpleasant image, just an implausibly unlikely one (I know Catherine in canon put herself through school as an ecdysiast, but her show-era sensibilities seem rather violently at odds with such a display).

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_