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I think it's about my third or fourth time, and I keep feeling like I shouldn't be here... like I've walked into the men's room by mistake *g*.
Okay, walking away from the computer. I just tried to filk the theme song from Courtship of Eddie's Father to fit Connor and Angel. I think I need an intervention.
I just tried to filk the theme song from Courtship of Eddie's Father to fit Connor and Angel.
Oh, do it, Deena. You know you want to.
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I kick ass at Scrabble. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
You'd think I could resign myself to the fact that I suck at that game, but my evil pride in my vocabulary (as personified by a mini-Wesley of Buffy S3, who sits on my shoulder and mouths sweet pompous nothings like 'diegetic', 'abstruse' and 'apotheosis' in my ear) has me by the balls. Metaphorically speaking.
Amyth, current season - I'm posting it to Angel. I shall blame you.
...a field's worth of potatoes, riced and buttered and baked.
So I'm guessing "riced" is some bizarre Murrican perversion of "mashed"?
How did you ever come up with that? "Riced" potatoes?
You put them through a ricer, it's sort of like a sieve, with tiny round holes.
I'll take the blame, Deena, gladly.
Leigh, thing is, being good at Scrabble isn't so much about vocab as it is about strategy and tricks. It took me a long time to realize this. A few years ago, I befriended a co-worker who was (and is) a Scrabble freak--like, subscribes to the Scrabble newsletter. He taught me a lot.
Hahhaha! Go Deena with the filking!!!
I'm very confused by the discussion re: Lurky McLurkerson who apparently filked Waltzing Matilda, but yay to him/her too!
Nah, we have both riced and mashed -- they're two different things. Riced potatoes are only very roughly mashed up rather than done until they're perfectly smooth; the little potato bits that result look sort of like rice grains. It's mainly a texture difference, and the two are served pretty much the same way.
Right.
A ricer is a food or grain mill, but operating on the "squeeze hard and push cooked bits through tiny holes for total smoothness" principle, instead of the "turn handle and grind" principle. Semantics, really. (edit: you have to put them through a ricer several times for total smooth - one time leaves ricey-sized bits)
Deena, hysterical filk, but what is"Courtship of Eddie's Father", please? I have no reference point damnit.
It's very important that you pronounce it "Neff Orf" if yuo want the proper Windsor cred.
But she didn't, did she? Truly, I'm remembering vaguely that that was why everyone was so finger-pointy and snickering behind their hands about it. Little Princess Posh-Knickers and her own accents for that phrase.