So... syrup tart?
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Laga - Mar 08, 2011 3:11:47 pm PST #14053 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
flea - Mar 08, 2011 3:14:33 pm PST #14054 of 28286
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I sort of think of it like Karo. Which is nasty. But you do use it in pecan pie, which is good. Which I'm pretty sure they don't make in Britain.
Anne W. - Mar 08, 2011 3:15:22 pm PST #14055 of 28286
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The pictures of treacle tart I googled do look very much like pecanless pecan pie.
DavidS - Mar 08, 2011 3:19:37 pm PST #14056 of 28286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Treacle is syrup made from cane sugar.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 08, 2011 3:30:53 pm PST #14057 of 28286
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow, flea is me! I was REALLY confused about "Electric Torch". Instead of a flashlight, I pictured some sort of fake plastic flaming stick of wood.
Laga - Mar 08, 2011 3:37:33 pm PST #14058 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was surprised to find out how many people didn't know a punt is a type of boat and thought Filch was drop-kicking students across the Weasley swamp.
Cass - Mar 08, 2011 3:47:28 pm PST #14059 of 28286
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I pictured some sort of fake plastic flaming stick of wood.
I still do.
Oh, I know what it really means but if I could buy a flashlight that looked like a flaming stick of wood, I totally would. I prefer to think that Brits can and do.
Strix - Mar 08, 2011 4:47:47 pm PST #14060 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I remember this kid called me a faggot in 3rd grade and I was SO confused, because my reading had only taught me a faggot was a bundle of wood.
I was all "How is this an insult? Huh?"
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 5:19:03 pm PST #14061 of 28286
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Growing up in Jamaica, the shit we had and didn't have meant really random hits with kids books. In some ways, the colonial stories set in India were closest except! Foreign languages! Religion! Tigers and elephants! But the food was closest, and I think that was what I cared about most.
Kathy A - Mar 08, 2011 6:50:39 pm PST #14062 of 28286
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know I loved the Little House books but that was because of the other worldliness.
I also loved the other worldliness of those books, but I think I really connected with them because both Laura and Mary were so real. LIW did a great job of showing us what their characters were all about, as well as everyone else, that when I finally saw real photos of the people at the time of those books, I wasn't surprised at all.
There was a great photo taken after the Long Winter of the three older girls (Mary, Laura, and Carrie), and it wraps up all three of them at that time in one snapshot. Mary is stoic and calmly seated, with her lips firmly pressed together and hands correctly crossed, the epitome of the proper young 19th century woman, Carrie looks frail and weak, obviously still suffering from the harshness of the recently passed season, and Laura stands with her eyes flashing and her fist clenched, just as I always pictured her.
