I had a whole section about civic pride.

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Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Steph L. - Feb 20, 2014 5:11:56 pm PST #20556 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I haven't made peanut butter cookies in an age. I should do that. Do you put the crosshatch fork marks in yours, Tep?

I do. I am WAY old school. The peanut butter cookies are the easiest thing in the world and are naturally gluten-free. They rule. (Of course, they're about 99% sugar, but hey. Nothing's perfect.)


Amy - Feb 20, 2014 5:13:36 pm PST #20557 of 30000
Because books.

Whoo, cheese! And old school peanut butter cookies!

My grandmother (the sort of crazy one) made great peanut butter cookies, as well as homemade cinnamon applesauce. She also set the table (full place settings) for breakfast the night before, but I let that slide.

Wait, Tep, yours don't have any flour at all?


-t - Feb 20, 2014 5:19:15 pm PST #20558 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I wonder how those cookies would come out made with splenda. Hm.

Or I could just eat peanut butter with a spoon. That's pretty satisfying.


Steph L. - Feb 20, 2014 5:22:41 pm PST #20559 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Wait, Tep, yours don't have any flour at all?

Nope -- 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, and (not totally required, but helpful) 1 teaspoon baking powder. Mix it all together, roll into balls, roll balls in extra sugar (not required but...come on), moosh cookie balls with tines of fork, bake for 10 minutes, let cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to cooling rack, let cool for 10 more minutes, then try not to eat them all in 2 days.


Ginger - Feb 20, 2014 5:42:47 pm PST #20560 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The iPad Air commercial with the Whitman quote wins the gold medal for pretension.


Cass - Feb 20, 2014 5:49:20 pm PST #20561 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

You know, you just don't see enough headlines about being stabbed with a samurai sword.

Mostly because I am not allowed to rule the world. If I were? More stabbings. With a variety of swords.


-t - Feb 20, 2014 5:57:31 pm PST #20562 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Interesting campaign promise, Cass. I'm not sure I'm gonna back you, but I'm willing to hear more.

Ginger, I hate that ad with the heat of a thousand suns. Every time it comes on and for whatever reason I can't fast forward or otherwise escape, I contemplate exactly why I hate it so much. I have concluded that it's mostly the narrator's voice, or tone of voice, maybe, and a little bit of a callback to my inexplicable hatred for the Gaiman "Make Good Art" speech.


sarameg - Feb 20, 2014 6:01:35 pm PST #20563 of 30000

We had a self-defense case where a samurai sword was fatally wielded against an intruder, over on the campus...not that long ago.


Steph L. - Feb 20, 2014 6:02:04 pm PST #20564 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have concluded that it's mostly the narrator's voice, or tone of voice, maybe

Isn't it ganked from Dead Poets' Society? (I mean, I know it's Whitman, but it sounds like Robin Williams, maybe slightly Autotuned.)


Ginger - Feb 20, 2014 6:13:08 pm PST #20565 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

A mentally ill young man here killed his grandmother with a samurai sword. It was particularly sad because his family and local law enforcement knew he could be violent, but couldn't get him the treatment he needed.