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Syzygy
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 17:49 |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Wilcey
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 17:51 |
mmmmmmmmmmmmm squashed fly cakes ..................
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 17:53 |
^ damn, there was I busily typing my "Well, I wouldn't have thought there's not much call for 19th century Italian military heroes in the village" gag when you two snuck in before me with the dead-fly line...
...I really should think less and type more.
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Syzygy
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 18:06 |
As Alexei Sayle once put it 'It's amazing how many revolutionaries became kinds of biscuits. You've got your Bourbons, your Garibaldis, Peak Frean's Trotsky assortment....'
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 18:15 |
Have you seen the Wiki description for a Bourbon biscuit:
"It is similar in construction to the circular Hydrox, Oreo and the slightly smaller custard cream, but different in ingredients and taste."
...that's got to be the best wikiism yet.
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Wilcey
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 18:29 |
oreo? vile excuse for a biscuit!
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 20:00 |
yeah I've grown out of Oreos, lard and sugar between two stale chocolate cookies just doesn't do it for me anymore
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 23:15 |
Oreos really are horrid. I love Bourbons though, they're my all time favourite biscuit! They have to have chocolate filling in though. I do love my pink wafers (oi, I heard that sn****r, Jim!) though, it has to be said. Edit: silly P.A. censoring! I do understand why though.
Edited by James - September 11 2008 at 23:16
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 23:19 |
Pepperidge Farm used to make a Dutch chocolate cookie that was amazing, can't find it anymore , Bahlsen makes a good inexpensive line of biscuits and cookies too
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 01:59 |
Syzygy wrote:
As Alexei Sayle once put it 'It's amazing how many revolutionaries became kinds of biscuits. You've got your Bourbons, your Garibaldis, Peak Frean's Trotsky assortment....' |
...pass me one of those Che Guevaras..
I think i'll also have a Lenin Crunch...
Edited by mystic fred - September 12 2008 at 02:01
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 03:28 |
Syzygy wrote:
It's your first day doing this so I won't be too harsh Rico, but:
- The tea is about right, but I did specify a MUG, not a sissy cup and saucer
- They're scones,not biscuits - but as Jim pointed out, add clotted cream and strawberries and you'd get away with it.
If you were tea boy on a building site in England I dread to think what would have happened to you if you'd served that up ! |
If I were a tea boy, I'd probably be sort of more qualified too - thinking that I never went in my life to McDonalds just for the extra penny (or any penny at all, I haven't earned my money so far, except some contests and concerts) - there's, after all, an art in everything. Besides, this was the understandably error-risked "serve to be acknowledged"; next time you all can virtually imagine how I perfectly served again tea and everything else.
Edited by Ricochet - September 12 2008 at 03:29
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 03:42 |
prog-chick wrote:
having a tough 24 hours, I treated myself to a packet of fig rolls |
Fig rolls... drool
Appalling, horribly foreshortened pastry wrapped around a thick fig & sugar paste (in which the sugar/fig ratio is approx 80:20); now that's what I call the perfect biscuit
And not a dead revolutionary in sight (unless he got between me and my fig rolls).
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 03:46 |
James wrote:
I do love my pink wafers (oi, I heard that sneer, Jim!) |
I wouldn't sneer James, just shake my head sadly - the pink wafer is one of those confectionary items which really should have been consigned to the kitchen bin of historical culinary mistakes.
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 03:52 |
we have Fig Newtons, one of my favorites too ..they also have a strawberry, but fig is best
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 04:04 |
Wouldn't an Apple Newton be more appropriate?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Dean
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 04:25 |
Atavachron wrote:
we have Fig Newtons, one of my favorites too ..they also have a strawberry, but fig is best |
Same:
You say either and I say either, You say neither and I say neither Either, either Neither, neither, Let's call the whole thing off. You like potato and I like potato, You like tomato and I like tomato Potato, potato, Tomato, tomato, Let's...
...actually I don't see anything wrong with this relationship.
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 04:26 |
Jim Garten wrote:
Wouldn't an Apple Newton be more appropriate? |
har har har ..wait, I think they have apple Newtons
Edited by Atavachron - September 12 2008 at 04:27
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 04:45 |
Joke of the Week
"Hello?" the child says on the phone.
"Hi, honey, this is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No, Daddy," says the little girl. "She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh, yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now."
Dad takes a deep breath. "Okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down, run upstairs, knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay, Daddy, just a minute," says the little girl. A few minutes later, the little girl comes back to the phone. "I did it, Daddy."
"What happened, honey?" he asks.
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't moving at all."
"Oh, my God! What about your Uncle Paul?" asks Dad in a panic.
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out all the water last week to clean the pool. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."
There's a long pause on the phone.
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool? Is this 486-5731?"
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song_of_copper
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 04:50 |
Ha. My joke of the week is this: What comes between fear and sex? Funf. (Attributed to Barry Cryer...)
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chopper
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Posted: September 12 2008 at 05:35 |
mystic fred wrote:
Joke of the Week
"Hello?" the child says on the phone.
"Hi, honey, this is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No, Daddy," says the little girl. "She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh, yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now."
Dad takes a deep breath. "Okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down, run upstairs, knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay, Daddy, just a minute," says the little girl. A few minutes later, the little girl comes back to the phone. "I did it, Daddy."
"What happened, honey?" he asks.
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't moving at all."
"Oh, my God! What about your Uncle Paul?" asks Dad in a panic.
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out all the water last week to clean the pool. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."
There's a long pause on the phone.
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool? Is this 486-5731?"
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Nice one Steve
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