billytea! [tacklehug]
t hits ground flailing, as usual
Hmph. This is just like my birthday.
Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.
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billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:12:17 am PST #3137 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 12:16:47 am PST #3138 of 9843
Roguish Laird
I just learned the Cloud 9 thing in a blog today
That's weird. The others are mostly correct though. Except that we don't really say "crisps" much, that's more of an English thing; we tend to use "chips" for both what the Americans call fries and what the English call crisps. Also, we don't say "Monday next" for "next Monday" unless we're being ironically quaint.
Oh, and Smarties aren't quite the same as M&Ms.
P.M. Marc - Apr 04, 2003 12:22:38 am PST #3139 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh, and Smarties aren't quite the same as M&Ms.
Because Smarties taste good. At least the Canadian ones.
Violet Crumble is semi-addictive, but I wouldn't call it good.
evil jimi - Apr 04, 2003 12:23:25 am PST #3140 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Angus ... yeah, I've seriously misused the term "collateral damage". What I'm trying to say is that I believe Jamal Islamia (I'm sure I've probably misspelt that) were primarily aiming to kill more Americans and if they happened to get some Aussies while they were at it, well that was just gravy (and a big ew! for that analogy). The fact they ended up killing more Australians was by "accident", not design because although we do get a lot of negative press nowadays, it seems to be mostly related to our belated actions in East Timor and not because we're the spawn of satan ( = Americans).
None of which diminishes the magnitude of the tragedy, or the appalling way the media and government have endeavoured to benefit from it.
Have you seen the latest 60 Minutes promo? "Bali: 6 Months Later" ... no guesses how those mob of pricks will handle the story.
billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:25:46 am PST #3141 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Violet Crumble is semi-addictive, but I wouldn't call it good.
I personally prefer Crunchie, which has (to me) a slightly smokier flavour, and a texture that gives me hope I'll still be consuming them when I'm 80 and living in a home gumming steaks.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 12:27:41 am PST #3142 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Yep, I agree with all that, and there has been a lot of rather unseemly "look at us, we're a terrorist target too!" nonsense from certain quarters.
Elena - Apr 04, 2003 12:28:35 am PST #3143 of 9843
Thanks for all the fish.
Is an Aussie Crunchie like a Canadian Crunchie?
Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2003 12:29:48 am PST #3144 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
What's a violet crumble?
I had violet pastilles as a little girl and I ADORED them. They lived in a little tin in my night stand and I'd only have one on really crappy days in order to cheer myself up.
billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:32:39 am PST #3145 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is an Aussie Crunchie like a Canadian Crunchie?
I think so. Chocolate-covered honeycomb? (I found them in Carmel, of all places.)
A violet crumble is notionally similar, but the honeycomb has greater structural integrity, and is therefore more likely to send shards flying across the room if you bite down vigorously.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 12:32:53 am PST #3146 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Yes, Crunchies are better and they used to have fantastically camp advertising too. Remember the ads where someone would take one bite of a Crunchie and suddenly a film of them doing something fun like rollerskating or disco dancing or windsurfing would be superimposed over the space where their t-shirt was? (The implication being that eating a Crunchie transports you mentally to your early 80s leisure activity of preference.)