Two diuretic plants, one whose French name reflects this, and another whose seeds inspired a 20th century invention, were brought together to form a drink which was once thought to have been invented by a divinely inspired theologian. What are the names of the drink, the 20th century invention and the theologian involved?

romeomikegolf

The drink is dandelion and burdock, the theologian is St Thomas Aquinas and the invention, I believe, is Velcro. Apr 22 07, 11:04 PM

gmackematix

VG RMG, D&B it was. And as the Wiki-trail will have told you: The current French name for dandelion is "pissenlit". The seeds of the burdock stuck to a dog inspired Swiss inventor Mestral to develop Velcro. And according to a Victorian story St Thomas Aquinas let God guide him towards the two ingredients to make an inspiring drink... Apr 23 07, 12:31 AM

Baloo55th

It's not only the French that call the dandelion by a version of that name. When taking some Irish tinker children to school one day, I referred to dandelions (the taxi run involved going down some very country back tracks) and they'd never heard of them. When I pointed to some, they burst out laughing and called them 'piss-in-beds', thinking dandelion a very funny name. These were kids from really back country Ireland, with definite differences in their English. they would say 'I done it', 'he done it', 'we done it', but 'her done it'. The word 'she' was not used under any circumstances. It sounds too much like 'sidh' and you don't mention THEM just in case.... Apr 23 07, 6:27 AM