# 25 days of Christmas food fight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203 "2001-11-30T21:18:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/21 "2001-12-03T10:15:51Z")

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::looks at crowd::  
weeeelllllll . . . like my new outfit?  
_finds some cold mashed potato bits to fling at **cougar** and loads it on a spoon_  
_FWING_  
d&r

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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/22 "2001-12-03T10:18:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Goo \*  
> **: creeps up on Cougar while he’s distracted by his own art work :**

Rrrrgh! _Her_, **her** , _ **HER** _!!!

_grabs the mashed potato bits in midair and any other food nearby, including Hell-o, potatoes, yams, pie, and custard, and flings wildly in the general direction of Goo_

Heyyyy, why are you all picking on me?! Pick on… uh… _glances around_ DRAGON SHADOW!

_splats Dragon with a classic cream pie_

_ducks_

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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/23 "2001-12-03T10:22:47Z")

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_grabs wings full of “stinky tofu” and tosses it at **cougar** _  
_SPAT!_  
ohhh . . .  
slips out of the room

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/24 "2001-12-03T10:26:55Z")

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Humus? Who brought _humus_?

Oh well…  
:begins slinging humus gobs at passers-by:

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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/25 "2001-12-03T10:32:13Z")

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_flings one last gob of… humus?! at Dragon as she walks out the door_

SPLAT!

(Yes, I must always have the last word. Deal with it.)

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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/26 "2001-12-03T10:36:28Z")

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_burns a hole through the door and fire is spit at **cougar** _ . . . barbequed food . . . enjoy the meal!  
_flys off, leaving a hole in the ceiling_

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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/27 "2001-12-03T10:39:47Z")

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Rrrrrrrrgh!

_jumps up, barely catching Dragon’s tail, and smashes the bbq food into Dragon’s eyes, sending her crashing to the ground_

_leaps away in time_

_smugly swaggers back into the food fight room_

_walks into a booby trap_

SPLAT!

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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/28 "2001-12-03T10:41:55Z")

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_SWOOP_  
_flies away carrying **cougar** _

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/29 "2001-12-03T10:55:56Z")

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::gets dish of unpitted Colossol Mega-Jumbo black olives and a spoon::

::flings one at DragonShadow, hitting her in the eye, causing DS to drop Cougarfang safely from low altitude::

::commences to flinging olives at various folk in the thread::

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/30 "2001-12-03T11:01:26Z")

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: walks back in carrying a huge bowl of creamy potato salad :

: looks around for **Cougar** but the only sign of him is a few mangy tufts of fur on the rug :

: turns and sees **ozonebaby** and **swampbear** nervously eyeing each other, and lugs a potato salad bomb at them :

: dives under the couch, and sees them both turn to look at her, covered in creamy potato salad :

😃

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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/31 "2001-12-03T11:09:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Goo \*  
> **: looks around for Cougar but the only sign of him is a few mangy tufts of fur on the rug :**

_ **HER!!!** _

_grabs bowl of potato salad and smushes it on Goo’s back_

Thanks screech-owl…

_flings gobs of potato salad at Dragon_

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/32 "2001-12-03T11:19:07Z")

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: stays warily out of \*\* Cougar’s\*\* way :

: finds a punch bowl and balances it above the mod door… guaranteed to cover the first mod to enter to be covered in punch :

hehehehe

: throws some glazed chicken legs at **screech-owl** :

dives back under the couch.

😃

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/33 "2001-12-03T12:36:05Z")

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Mmmmm. Chicken. Yum.

::flings a chunk of baclava at **Goo** ::

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/34 "2001-12-03T17:12:39Z")

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Looks around. Spies an untouched velveeta and spam loaf (hey, I **TOLD** y’all not to invite my family to a potluck dinner)picks it up and hurls it a Goo. Bullseye! hehhehehheh! That stuff will never wash out of your hair!

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**Author:** ![ozonebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ozonebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozonebaby)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/35 "2001-12-03T21:21:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by swampbear \*  
> \*\*Crawls out from under table where he’s been munching on the ham thrown by ozonebaby. Spies screech-owl’s hell-o mold, grabs it and goes on another hell-o flinging spree. Damn these things make good weapons. Knew they had to be good for something!😃 \*\*

ham, what ham?

_wipes potato out of her eyes_

_puts on hot(the ones that keep you hands safe, just in case) mittens and picks up 2 hams that have just come out of the oven, hurls one at Goo_

BULLSEYE!!!

_hurls the other at Cougar just because everyone else is picking on him_

another bullseye!!!

_dives under coach and waits for her next chance to strike_

hehe!

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/36 "2001-12-03T23:10:39Z")

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:: has trouble dodging flying food, because clothes are saturated ::

:: has a brilliant idea ::

:: peels off clothes caked in Hell-o, yams, pies, custard, mashed potato, creamy potato salad and humus and runs nekkid through the thread flinging peas and corn at everyone ::

:: runs into the table, tipping apple pie over **swampbear’s** head ::

:: grabs tablecloth, and wraps it around body (ancient rome-style) and pivots to face the room with a juicy fruit salad ::

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/37 "2001-12-03T23:26:07Z")

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MMMMMMMMMM…any ice cream to go with the apple pie? Oh good…here’s one of those hams ozonebaby threw. Suppertime here. OK full now. Looks around…aha! A whole bowl of marinated carrots…and damn they are hard! Finds plastic serving spoon…oh yeah…nice and bendy! Loads carrots in spoon and flings! Spoon after spoon of carrots flying round room. **YEHAAAAAAAAAAAA**

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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Dragon\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/38 "2001-12-04T00:26:39Z")

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_SPLAT_  
and now you see **screech-owl** with a face of apple pie. oh? i’m sorry! you wanted cherry pie!  
_SPLAT!_  
don’t you love the classics?

_ducks the food thrown at her_

_finds an oversixed soup spoon_  
_FLING FLING FLING_  
ohhh! i wouldn’t want to be **cougar** right now . . .

WATCH OUT **GOO**! DUCK!  
_dives down along with **goo** _

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**Author:** ![ozonebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ozonebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozonebaby)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/39 "2001-12-04T00:30:51Z")

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_discovers a spoon and a whole bowl of old icky cranberrys from Thanksgiving_

ah-ha!!!

_leaps out from under coach and begins to use the spoon to catapulte cranberrys at everyone, especially swampbear_

ha, take that! now give me back the ketchup you stole from me here!  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102097](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102097)

_swampbear drops the bottle of ketchup in her struggle to escape the mushy cranberrys and trips over Goo who has been hit in the eye with one of the things_

sorry Goo, ment to hit you here!

_ozonebaby flings a cranberry up Goo’s nose and he runs out of the thread to the nearest doctor_

Victory is mine! ahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-days-of-christmas-food-fight/96203/40 "2001-12-04T00:54:05Z")

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watches from safety underneath an over-turned couch, and pauses occasionally in savoring pilfered fudge to kick away anything that comes into foot’s reach.

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