Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 39 and Holding  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 6:23:24 am PDT #9513 of 10002

Cute requires fuzzy.


msbelle - Oct 28, 2005 6:26:36 am PDT #9514 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

does not.


sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 6:28:17 am PDT #9515 of 10002

Peperkoek

Is that a bread or a cookie? Because my grandma always used to make peparkokr (that's how she spelled it, who knows?- ah. Looks like it is pepparkakor) which was a really thin spice cookie. I've made them and they are a royal pain in the ass (so much rolling!) so I get by on Anna's Ginger Thins.


TomW - Oct 28, 2005 6:36:02 am PDT #9516 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

What I think of as Peperkoek is a cake/bread rather than a cookie. Dark ginger in color, comes in a rectangular log. Sometimes pre-sliced. Spicy and delicious with unsalted butter. In Belgium, there were also "Honeykoek" (I don't know if it's a variation) that came with pearl sugar pressed into the top.

The thin spice cookies are also delicious. I call them "Speculoos", which may be specific to Belgium. I have made them at home, courtesy of the book "Everybody eats well in Belgium".


sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 6:41:38 am PDT #9517 of 10002

Sound like they come from the same root. Pepparkakor is a swedish thing, but googling tells me it translates to pepper cake. Sounds like they kept the name as they changed the result.


Nutty - Oct 28, 2005 6:42:28 am PDT #9518 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

flea has a recipe for speculaas that she makes at Christmas. I know because I make a lame speculum joke every time I see the recipe lying around.


bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 6:45:32 am PDT #9519 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Maybe peppar maps onto "spice."


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 28, 2005 6:53:32 am PDT #9520 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I think there's good sense in NYCistas being worried. I'm sure Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 smelled pretty good at first, too.

I just placed a stock photo image that looks like the photographer traveled to Heaven to get the shot. Check out image FLW100 at : here


shrift - Oct 28, 2005 6:54:51 am PDT #9521 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Well, I've had my first official freak-out when I told a client on the phone that I would be out of the office this afternoon. She just flipped out like a mammal. It was great! I'm totally feeling the schadenfreude!


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 6:55:04 am PDT #9522 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I left home without my migraine meds.

D'oh.

I turned back to get them, of course.