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Yet Another Kill This Thread!

The following rules were established by Kent at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:

The rules:

1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!

2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and responses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.

3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.

4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.



Okay, time to kill!

I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac

Time for me to bore cleome to death with stories about Filipino cuisine!

IN a superhero role playing game I created a villain assassin called the Bore. He could drone on in a monotone that would put people to sleep and then he would kill them.

on second thought... I don't want to kill cleome, especially not by boring her.

Un-possible! I love to talk about cooking. I remember IB sent me that cool-sounding soup recipe that I never had a chance to try.

I'm hoping to make some vegetarian borscht soup this week, trendy Russophobia be damned!

I miss cooking! All I have now is a fridge and a microwave. on the plus side, I now know how to cook eggs and potatoes in a microwave.

Microwaves are great for potatoes, but I've never used mine for eggs.

Alas, I need to cut down on egg dishes that aren't super well-done, or aren't reheated to be super-hot. My stomach's become more sensitive since they changed my meds, so a lot of things which used to agree with me just don't anymore.

We had Dim Sum out yesterday, and I was afraid to order the custard tarts, which I used to love. So we got some coconut jelly/pudding instead, which was delicious.

Coconut is interesting. I don't think I have ever encountered coconut in Chinese dishes before.

Not sure how traditional it is back in China proper, but I have seen it in one old-time touristy mini-Chinese cookbook I have, dating back to the late 50s or early 60s. It's on a lot of Dim Sum menus around here.

Most places serve it cut into cubes, like regular fruit gelatin (which several places around here also serve). But it's not nearly as sweet as fruit gelatin. And there's a very thin coating of vegetable oil on the surface, probably to keep it from sticking when the cook cuts up the squares.

One of our favorite Dim Sum places was forced out of business about five years back. (Grrr... Local university wanted the property and pulled eminent domain on them.) We had so many Xmases and birthdays with friends there, I lost track. One time, somebody who'd never been there with us before saw some cubes of what looked like a chocolate dessert on the cart, and ordered them. Turns out they were liver! Several people went ahead and ate them anyway, though.

Unfortunately, coconut is one of my food allergies. It gives me serious hives. Raw citrus peel can cause a burn to me, but if cooked it breaks the protein chain that causes the problem. I am fine it is is peeled for me and if juiced, either way. The doctor said I was also allergic to Lima beans, so I had to eat them ever again, hooray! But my worst nemesis is melons, includes cucumbers which are a melon, which cause me to use an Epi-Pen. I used to love watermelon too. Means I have to be very careful at restaurants. You would not believe how many people forget pickles are cucumber.

That sucks, J. My food issues are mere intolerances, in that I can be made very uncomfortable, but no one needs to call an ambulance.

I don't know if this is true or mere folktale, but supposedly cockroaches will literally eat any damn thing, including stamp glue and your eyebrows, except that they won't touch cucumbers and will starve if there's nothing else for them to eat.

So cucumbers will i herit the Earth and not cockroaches? Sci fi has let me down.

Sentient cucumbers. Well, why not?

pickles are immature cucumbers soaked in a brine/vinegar solution

Immature sentient pickles. that does not sound fun

It's the raspberry blowing they do from the jar, every time I open the cupboard I object to.

I'm doomed if they win the evolutionary war. Probably the first to go. Sniff.

Inspired by this thread, JPops saves humanity from the Cosmic Cucumber Invasion by constructing a city sized jar to contain them. It's named Candor.

After a day, the bottle city is defaced with rude graffiti.

What is it with people who feel they have to deface everything with their scrawls?

It's their way of releasing pent-up feelings, I guess

Well keeping those feelings bottled up will lead to problems down the road.

We should let them out of their bottle, then.

I hope they behave, though.

Jeannie lived in a bottle in the show I Dream of Jeannie

The Genie in Aladdin lived in a lamp.