H1ppychick
We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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Urgh the annual cringefest of Children In Need has started for earnest in my office with the usual karaoke competition, dressed up as the reality competition du jour (this year it's the Pudsey Factor).
There's no escaping it as they're doing it down in the communal street area of the office, and my floor has open sides with a balcony overlooking the scene of the crime.
First girl was actually really good, she did Use Somebody in a soul diva kind of way.
Unfortunately we've just had a team of middle-aged women trussed up in sexy Santa outfits murdering a medley of Santa Baby and the Roy Wood Christmas song (whatever the actual title of it is I can't remember. Is it The Chain?)
Only two more ritual humiliations to suffer. I'm counting down the minutes.
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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O God
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: can I go home now? I feel like I should have some sort of exemption or pass due to the mental cruelty I've just experienced.
A harsh way to refer to Benway's 2005 persona.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm moving in with my girlfriend.
Good luck! I've done this twice now (I mean... not with your girlfriend, obviously). Once was a horrible mistake, the second time was brilliant. The interesting thing was that both times it was obvious within the first five minutes whether it was the right thing to do or not.
I too have done this twice with similar consequences. strangly though, both times were with the same girl.
The first time we moved into a house share in london together. Couples shouldn't live in just one room. You just piss each other off too much. That lasted 6 months before she moved out (and moved 2 hours away) A year later after only seeing each other at weekends, i moved out to worstershire and its all gone much smoother this time.
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I especially like my little line about picking the wrong week to give up the gamecube - a great reuse of a joke originally found in Airplane.
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By the way, anyone with any gift vouchers for Borders would be well advised to spend them asap. Looks like they're 'doing a Zavvi'.
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I should collect up everything I've written on tmo and publish it in a book, in chronological order, with no posts from anybody else.
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I would totally buy that book. Well. I probably wouldn't as I can read it on the internet, but I would pretend to have bought it and give it a good review on Amazon which is almost as good, perhaps better.
I have braved the rain to go across the road to the cafeteria and have come back with tomato, "bacon" and rosemary soup. I put bacon in quotation marks as there is no actual bacon in there, just bacon fat which is probably less pleasant than if they did the soup with just tomato and rosemary.
I also have some croutons sitting in it. Well. It's cut up toast. I have no idea if something special has to be done to cut up toast to make it a crouton. Does it have to be fried or something? Anyway. Cut up toast is in the soup. This may count as croutons.
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Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I have no idea if something special has to be done to cut up toast to make it a crouton. Does it have to be fried or something?
No. A crouton is just a very small cube of bread that is toasted on all sides. Being cubular and multi-side toasted makes it a crouton, and not toast. If you slice toast in half after toasting it and toast the untoasted side you make it into melba toast. If you type the word toast enough times it starts to look really peculiar and you begin to wonder if you're spelling it correctly.
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Melba toast sounds like it's just a really thin bit of toast that is cold on one side from your description. Is that accurate?
And what does melba mean. You get peach melba, but I bet that isn't a peach cut in half and heated up on one side. Although it could be.
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H1ppychick
We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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They're both dishes invented by Escoffier for Nellie Melba, the Australian opera singer.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I love egg mayo. Is a baton different from a baguette?
Baton is like a solid lump of metal or plastic that you can either hit people with or pass to them in a relay race. Baguette is like - you know. Bread.
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If something is literally exactly the same as a baguette, but shorter and narrower then the correct term is 'a small baguette'.
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