Undercooked is better than overcooked, for brownies, right?
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2012 2:25:19 pm PST #26018 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Atropa - Mar 09, 2012 2:26:11 pm PST #26019 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh. I love those sorts of tests.
You read 703 words per minute. That makes you 181% faster than the national average.
Hi, my mutant power is speed-reading. This is not news to me.
Dana - Mar 09, 2012 2:26:17 pm PST #26020 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Undercooked is better than overcooked, for brownies, right?
Yes. This is why people eat batter from the bowl.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2012 2:30:16 pm PST #26021 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I read 824 words per minute, but I only got the questions right by guessing. I have never been good at comprehension, because I can't NOT skim unless I'm really working at it.
Hil R. - Mar 09, 2012 2:31:28 pm PST #26022 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
If its personal choice then that is ok. If it ever gets political and Government forces you to eat a certain way then that is Tyranny! I believe in personnal freedom and our constitution. We need to keep government and laws out of our business! Vote all Statists out of office! We need conservatives!
Wow. That's some quality paranoia there.
Cass - Mar 09, 2012 2:32:29 pm PST #26023 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Undercooked is better than overcooked, for brownies, right?
I prefer my brownies squidgy, so yes.
One day I too will have cranky bloomers. If I can ever get myself off my unlabeled but cranky and pants-covered thing and find the base.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2012 2:35:39 pm PST #26024 of 30001
"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 rated 363 words per minute, about the same as an 11th grader. Bear in mind, this is at the end of a long workday in which I have been squinting at edits on this same computer screen.
javachik - Mar 09, 2012 2:36:06 pm PST #26025 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I took the reading test several times out of curiosity because the reading samples vary. For HG Wells, I was around 500 words a minute and for Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz, I was almost 1200. So I think the results vary dramatically whether or not it's familiar text to you and whether the style is simple narrative or has lots of dialogue (the HG Wells had dialogue, and that is trickier for me to read).
Polter-Cow - Mar 09, 2012 2:43:22 pm PST #26026 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I had 600 words per minute, 140% faster than the national average.
askye - Mar 09, 2012 2:49:06 pm PST #26027 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I just saw a link to this and I had to share it with you guys -
A Fisherman's Language is an autobiography by James Arruda Henry who learned to read and write when he was inhis mid 90s! He's 98! He wrote a book!
[link] is a blog about him and he's even gone to schools to share his story.