I will take all of your frosting. Especially chocolate.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Sue - Apr 19, 2013 9:38:29 am PDT #19600 of 30001
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2013 9:44:23 am PDT #19601 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cupcake shops which do things like hide an extra ball of buttercream inside the cupcake?
Fucking stealth twinkie shit.
I think. I've never had a twinkie. Is that the twinkie value proposition?
We could negotiate a ball of ganache, though.
The only icing sugar involving frosting I eat is that rock hard sugar shell that goes on top of a marzipan layer for our traditional wedding cakes and some Christmas cakes. But I also eat maybe half a forkful per slice of cakey goodness.
Trudy Booth - Apr 19, 2013 9:44:57 am PDT #19602 of 30001
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
Been slammed all day at work and am just seeing any news now.
Dear God.
In other disaster news, a guy who in-person-saw the Boston Marathon bombing also saw the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas this week.
I have a friend who moved back home to Japan after finishing school in NYC. When I finally reached her three days after the tsunami (minor damage, all relatives alive) and asked her what it was like she said "It's a lot like 9/11"
That just seems unfair.
Consuela - Apr 19, 2013 9:46:05 am PDT #19603 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
What is so tragic about the fertilizer factory is that 11 of the 12 dead were volunteer first-responders. The plant caught fire, they went to put it out, and then it blew up and killed them. So awful.
Amy - Apr 19, 2013 9:46:05 am PDT #19604 of 30001
Because books.
Even I have limits on how much buttercream I can eat.
msbelle - Apr 19, 2013 9:47:59 am PDT #19605 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
West, TX fire
1/3 of the town's volunteer fire department are among the dead.
Jesse - Apr 19, 2013 9:49:11 am PDT #19606 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesus, msbelle, that's terrible.
Kate P. - Apr 19, 2013 9:51:41 am PDT #19607 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh god, that's so awful.
Polter-Cow - Apr 19, 2013 9:53:12 am PDT #19608 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What is so tragic about the fertilizer factory is that 11 of the 12 dead were volunteer first-responders. The plant caught fire, they went to put it out, and then it blew up and killed them. So awful.
Wow, I didn't know that. That's horrible.
1/3 of the town's volunteer fire department are among the dead.
Ugh.
Beverly - Apr 19, 2013 9:54:46 am PDT #19609 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Training house-burning is a lot of fun. A friend was with the volunteer fire department, which is a big thing in NC. I don't know about the rest of the country. City departments didn't respond beyond the city limits, so groups of people would volunteer, raise funds, buy trucks and equipment, do proper research and training with pro units, and set up volunteer stations within communities.
Anyway, they had a house donated, with no time limit for clearing the site, so they lit it up and practiced going through rooms looking for kids hiding, pets, putting out specific kinds of fires in various locations (attic, kitchen, upholstered furniture, insulation, electrical wiring), and putting it out without terminal damage so they could light it up and use it again: ladder access to second floor windows, chopping holes in the roof to guide a burn, all kinds of stuff.
We were invited to the house's final burn and funeral pyre. In spite of the very professional way the squad progressed through the evening, there was a "Yay! Burn!" atmosphere on site that night.
Nobody thought to bring hot dogs and marshmallows, though.
ET apologize for the awkward crosspost about volunteer responders.