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MMmmmmmm, LOVE marshmallows! Ate way too many last night. <smiles and takes another> Thank you!
<Eyeballs pieS and debates chances of selected pie being apple or peach, or having been made by someone who likes curry. (shudder) Decides "what the hey" and selects a piece from a front pie and looks for a fork.>
Stick: what you throw when you want the dog to come find you.
(alt: a tick on a S, but that was just too gross near the pies)
Define: session
<finds a seat, feeling a bit less nervous> <still wondering where the forks got to, and if anyone will notice me eating pie with no fork>
As you have probably spotted, most of the pies are marked with an "S" to indicate that they are small and hence small enough to be hand-held and eaten like a cupcake, so no forks are required and we try to keep sharp things away from most of the inmates here.
The larger pies, marked with an "S" as they are substantial, have been cut into slices to make eating easier, although the soggy ones (yes, you've guessed it) can still be messy. Do be careful, though, about selecting a pie from the front until you know whether when I put the pies out, where I was stood and so which is the back........
Spotting that you were posting from Tennessee was easy: your part address (alongside your name on a post) of ...asa.utk.edu indicates University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Ahhhh, sharp things. Got it. I'll stop looking for forks, and will laugh at any need for a knife...
<nibbles at pie cautiously. unsure of flavour, grateful for lack of curry.>
I understood how my address would give my location away, just was not expecting that my address would show anything identifiable to people in this group. Especially not immediately, although with "immediately!" as part of the subject of the thread, I don't know *what* I was thinking. At any rate, all I can figure out is New Zealand and Australia.
<is grateful that MuseSusan didn't mark the pie with "MS" as I would then have to return it to a a department store, or at least describe it as "Not just a pie, but.....">
Session: Search Engine Strategies used in the Priory of Sion
Brown: the color of a perfectly toasted marshmallow.
alt: the color you are looking for when the UPS man is supposed to be bringing your new toy but isn't here yet.
Midnight. Around the belly area of sir lancelot du lac
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Define: henceforth
<selects a pie, finds that it is stale, carefully marks it with an 's' and puts it back. Pies of this nature also carry a 'ps' or pre-slobbered>
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2010 02:15AM by Lymond.
Henceforth: A concluding interjection which usually follows an explanation of one's ranking in a competition, as in: "I didn't win the International Arboreal Llama-Shearing Competition because Jack, Mary, and Arnold did better than me; henceforth."
<Tries one of the pies Lymond had marked as stale and finds it not stale at all, but rather too soggy. Sees that it has already been labeled appropriately, however, and puts it back.>
Bread-box: an exciting sport in which two baked goods vie for the chance to knock each other out. If one fails to rise, the other is declared the winner.
Mothball: Another exciting sport or game, the rules of which have been put away long ago, to be retrieved in some indeterminate future. Thence the expression "mothballed".