[LMB] Bujold plot bits in the news?

[CatMtn at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/5/2006 1:08:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
alfredkelgarries at hotmail.com writes:

>Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum  barrel
>http://tinyurl.com/eohkv

or the bit with the runty king  of Thalesia from Eddings' Tamuli series!

(would be enough to put me on  the wagon if I wasn't already...)



M:
 
It makes me think of the Duke of Clarence, who "drowned in a butt of  
malmsey," although I believe that wasn't literal, but a reference to his  having 
consumed too many of them.
 
Mary