Answers to remaining lyrics meme questions

2. intergalactic, asteroid, green, Uranus, ETA: Mekon, ETA2: Treen

Leader of the Treens - Mrs. Ackroyd Band

3. raven, cursed, fists, haunts, ETA: hate, ETA: Michael

Crazy Man Michael - Sandy Denny w. Fairport Convention

4. bubbling, money, timbertops, apple, ETA: peevish, ETA2: lea

Linden Lea - Houseman set by Vaughan Williams. Thomas Allen singing on my recording.

8. school, stagnant, buttons, invisible, ETA: bankmanager, ETA: gold

Palaces of Gold - Leon Rosselson

9. bois, pigeon, donjon, carosse, ETA: bergère, ETA2: chasse

Le Roi se Va-t-en Chasse -trad - from a record of Britten/Pears folksong arrangements

10. provost, key, beguiled, whore, ETA: Scots, ETA2: flower

The Fair Flower of Northumberland - trad - in this case from a Dick Gaughan record

In case you needed proof that Chirac is an idiot

The president [Chirac], chatting to the German and Russian leaders in a Russian cafe, said: "The only thing [the British] have ever given European farming is mad cow."

Umm...

The seed drill
Modern crop rotations
Fodder crops
Over wintering of livestock
Scientific breeding
Reclamation of marshland
Marling
Nitrogen based fertilizers

Most of these while Chirac's ancestors were trying to squeeze the blood out of peasants whose methods hadn't improved much since the days of Charlemagne. Arguably they still haven't.

So what have the French contributed to European agriculture apart from an unprecedented ability to consume subidies?

(no subject)

The trouble with electric stoves is they don't have a gas oven.