Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

On the uncommon occasions when I have ice cream, my cat gets to lick the spoon from the last scrape around the bowl. And she knows that. So whenever the bowl (that bowl) appears, she politely perches on the side table next to my seat and patiently waits. She can tell from the sound of the spoon on the bowl when it's time, and she rises, plants her front paws on the sofa arm and focuses that prey-stalking gaze into the bowl. She'll advance a paw but won't touch. And then, when the spoon moves toward her, she stretches her head forward and lap-lap-lap.

Ah, sweet kitty.

My mother and I took my grandniece to tour the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory while she was visiting. Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla is the best-selling single flavor of ice cream in the United States and Blue Bell is the third best-selling brand, even though it is only available in 22 states.

That must be some good vanilla.

I prefer chocolate myself, but my favorite is when I have a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of vanilla and a scoop of mocha on top.

Vanilla really is my favorite. You can hide a lot of faults in a flavored ice cream, but a good vanilla is the true test of a good ice cream. Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla receives the Rockhopper Lad Seal of Approval as a good vanilla.

I'll have to see if my cat likes Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla.

That's so thoughtful of you, LT. I can just imagine you taking your cat shopping and letting her taste everything before you decide what to buy.

I haven't met anyone yet who doesn't like it, Tracker!

*heads to the shop to see if any of that Blue Bell ice cream has made its way to the Philippines*

I think their intent is to get to at least the other 26 contiguous states before expanding to other countries.

Being in 22 states is already pretty good! Awesome for them.

Until about 25 years ago, it was only available in Texas. Before I moved here they had a famous commercial with a "singing" cow.

my favorite flavor is vanilla .. in the US the one i like is usually called "french vanilla".

A cow? Not as cute as little woodland creatures, but effective.

followed by

cookies and cream
pistachio
lemon ... i really like sour frozen yogurt and sorbet
rainbow sherbert
rocky road
mint chip ...

i like a lot of ice cream

cows are cute! they have floppy ears!

I didn't say they weren't cute, just that they weren't AS cute

as cute as what?

Now I can't stop thinking about the Man-Eating Cow from The Tick.

does the cow eat women?

Old Dutch the Super-Cow is one character I created whom I thought would be endlessly funny. Sort of Aunt Clara from Bewitched in bovine form. I don't think she has worked as well as I thought she would. Rockhopper Lass, on the other hand, was more or less created as an afterthought and has become very popular.

Well, there weren't that many female characters in The Tick. Maybe there were none to spare.

Sometimes the best characters were once throwaways. When I created Petty Officer Marvin I never thought he'd appear again, but to my surprise he was picked up in one of the tag team threads and would be revived by me in the Dark Oval novella.

Have we forgotten the awesome American Maid??