Someone here told me that the reason my cat freaks out over mint is that it and catnip are both in the same family.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
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Kathy A - Apr 22, 2009 1:12:16 pm PDT #7548 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2009 1:15:19 pm PDT #7549 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
amych - Apr 22, 2009 1:17:10 pm PDT #7550 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
the reason my cat freaks out over mint is that it and catnip are both in the same family.
I'm a little skeptical about that, just because the mint family incudes thousands of species, including most of the common herbs (mint, basil, oregano, marjoram, thyme, lavender, savory, rosemary, sage... all mints). So, if that were the reason, why just those two?
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 1:23:23 pm PDT #7551 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I feel like baking. What should I bake, bread or cupcakes? The cupcakes are easier and faster and yum, but I'm trying to be healthy. The bread is actually also pretty good -- the recipe calls for some leftover cooked grains, and I usually use rice, since that's what I have around, and the rice I have now is rice I cooked with saffron, and that makes really good bread. But if I make cupcakes, then I can bring them into the office and be Vegan Propaganda Girl tomorrow.
Laga - Apr 22, 2009 1:26:31 pm PDT #7552 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It's too hard to decide. Make both.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2009 1:34:18 pm PDT #7553 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm a little skeptical about that, just because the mint family incudes thousands of species, including most of the common herbs (mint, basil, oregano, marjoram, thyme, lavender, savory, rosemary, sage... all mints). So, if that were the reason, why just those two?
It seems like the most logical explanation for why my cat tries to cram her head in my mouth after I brush my teeth.
amych - Apr 22, 2009 1:37:41 pm PDT #7554 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Nah, the reason she stuffs her head in your mouth is that she wants to eat your nummy tonsils. She just waits until you have good breath to do it, because ewww.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2009 1:42:00 pm PDT #7555 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I should tell her that I had my tonsils removed when I was four....
Fay - Apr 22, 2009 2:11:03 pm PDT #7556 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P-C, that guy! With the tattoos! Who understands about Indian people getting grumpy about being called Pakistani! And who once chauffered another brown person from a different continent!
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...dude. I have no words. But I anticipate seeing you appear on Youtube, at least, if not on the actual telly, because surely to God he cannot have been for real?
And also - OMG, cilantro is just another word for coriander?
FINALLY I can weigh in on this timeless Buffista debate!
Coriander = yum.
There we are. All settled now.
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 2:18:17 pm PDT #7557 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And also - OMG, cilantro is just another word for coriander?
Was I right about them both being called coriander in the UK? Here, we use it two ways -- grind up the seeds as a spice, and eat the plant as an herb -- and the seeds are called coriander, but the herb is cilantro. Both are coriander in the UK?
(On one of my trips to Israel, after we'd been having the cilantro debate and Nilly hadn't been able to find the word in the dictionary and didn't know what we were talking about, I saw some in a grocery store and copied down the Hebrew label for it to give to Nilly when I saw her. Turned out she'd already figured it out, from a better dictionary. But the Hebrew is kusbara! It's fun to say.)