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18106. jayackroyd - 1/4/2006 3:41:24 AM We had a local bakery that used to make these things called Boston Cream Pies...they were really one layer of sponge cake covered in a film of vanilla pudding and the top was divided into four sections, each of which were covered with fruit topping: strawberry, pineapple, blueberry, and apple. Then, the edge of the top was piped with white buttercream frosting and the sides of the cake were frosted in chocolate.
One of my earliest on-line acquaintences (in the days of compuserv)was a guy who went by the monicker of Orville Fudpucker. He was a freight pilot based in Plano, TX, and he baked what he called Texas Sized Jelly Doughnuts--18 inch square yeast cakes with a jelly center, ranging from blueberry to jalepeno. 18107. judithathome - 1/4/2006 6:44:53 AM Wow! Is he still alive? 18108. thoughtful - 1/4/2006 3:45:44 PM One time I had cream puffs where the cream was laced with bailey's irish cream...it was very tasty. 18109. alistairconnor - 1/4/2006 5:15:26 PM pavlovas... back in style
Never went out of style, Jen. Never could. (lust. time I made one. might have saved my marriage if I'd made more pavlovas)
molten chocolate baby cakes
baby molten chocolate cakes
molten baby-chocolate cakes
chocolate molten-baby cakes
rubber baby buggy bumper 18110. thoughtful - 1/4/2006 5:21:58 PM Forget rubber baby buggy bumper
Try this:
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer 18111. judithathome - 1/4/2006 9:24:38 PM For those of you in the USA, don't forget that postage rates go up to $.39 on Sunday. I had just finished putting $.37 stamps on 48 envelopes when someone on a another forum mentioned it. However, the $.02 stamps are lovely. 18112. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/5/2006 8:09:33 PM This kept me alive as a sub in an inner city grammar school when I first started teaching. I could say it and then challenge the kids to try it. The ensuing laughs broke the ice and disarmed them enough for me to start teaching. You have to speak it aloud in under four seconds to appreciate the effect of it.
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart. 18113. Macnas - 1/5/2006 8:26:26 PM I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
And I'm only plucking pheasants
'till the pheasant plucker comes. 18114. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:27:35 AM I''ve never heard Wiz's, but that's one I may use in my senior English class.
I've heard Mac's, and I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Except I learned it "fig plucker's." 18115. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:29:08 AM Pheasants makes a lot more sense than figs. 18116. Ms. No - 1/6/2006 1:05:31 AM There was a segment on NPR last week or maybe only earlier this week about a woman in NY who teaches at an immigrant school. She was having a hard time getting the kids to do some particular English project and instead got them talking about tongue twisters and nursery rhymes they'd learned in their own languages. So behind the commentary she was doing there are these incredibly intricate sounding tongue-twisters and rhymes going on in different languages. It was really cool to hear. 18117. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 1:29:04 AM I had the funniest thing happen at work today (something funny happens at least once every day, but this was different).
Our campus is multiple buildings fairly close together, and people walk on the grounds from building to building. I was heading from my building to another one, when a little boy started walking toward me from the cafeteria. He hollered "Hey!" and I didn't pay much attention, figuring he was hollering at someone else. After the third time, I said, "Are you talking to me?" He said, "Yes. Do you go to high school?" I said, "I teach high school." He asked my name and I told him. I asked what grade he was in and he said, "third." I told him I'd see him in about ten years. He was so cute. 18118. wabbit - 1/6/2006 4:03:59 PM I'm not the pheasant plucker
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate
And I only pluck the pheasants
when the pheasant plucker 's late. 18119. wabbit - 1/6/2006 4:07:40 PM My favorite tongue twister:
The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. 18120. Magoseph - 1/6/2006 4:41:17 PM Mine:
Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.
(A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his hunting dog.)
Le dandy dodelinant dodeline de la tête devant le dindon dodu
(The shaky foppish man shakes his head in front of the obese turkey.) 18121. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/6/2006 6:36:44 PM The big black bug, bled black blood! 18122. DanDillon - 1/6/2006 9:03:00 PM thoughful,
Thanks for your kind comments about my wife's work.
18123. wabbit - 1/6/2006 9:04:11 PM Hey DanD!
I just saw your wife's website, beautiful photos! Good to see you and hear that all is well with you and yours. 18124. thoughtful - 1/6/2006 9:39:05 PM I was a bit stunned the other day.
Making a long story short, events happened over xmas with a friend where with travel and all his daughter was in absolute tears because she thought Santa had forgotten her. Quick action on mother's part amended the situation...tears over..all was well.
The stunning part to me was this gal is 12! I don't recall exactly but I'm sure by about 7 I'd figured out that reindeer don't really fly, that fat old men don't really go down chimneys, and that there's no way one guy can cover the entire world's children in a single night with gifts, even if you limit it to just the xtian ones.
Does anyone else find this surprising? Or is it just me? 18125. arkymalarky - 1/7/2006 12:45:07 AM I think it's weird, unless she's home-schooled and has no peers.
On tongue-twisters, Wabbit's reminded me of one about a sheet slitter, but I can't remember it. I'm sure y'all can figure out the gist of it.
There's also the drinking one that starts "one duck...."
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