Curious about another Doper? Ask them here. (ping:Polycarp)

It’s the fifth level of Hell, I believe, for pun-lovers. :stuck_out_tongue:

Nevertheless, I continue, un-Dante-d.

groan

Stop!

I’m making it the ninth level. Right down in the Pit you go. You can be Asmodeus’ best friend.

The devil you say!

That’s quite allright. I’ll be running the place inside a week.

What are you doing, woman?? Don’t encourage him! :slight_smile:

Probably why they sent you back last time.

Do you have a better punishment for him? He makes puns!

Sorry, as long as I have the presence of mind to communicate, there’s a good chance of a pun being involved. :wink:

So a lobotomy is in order, then?

Get the ice pick!

Am I allowed to answer even though I’m not Polycarp?

<waits>
OK, nobody said no, so here goes.
“Smoking Bishop” is a heated, mulled, spiced wine. There you go. :slight_smile:

What, you want more? OK, OK…
Here is a recipe.
I notice the recipe doesn’t give you the “traditional” way to heat up the brew - using a hot poker. Really. They’d take the fire-poker, heat it up good, then quick stick it in the bowl of the mulled spiced wine. Much steam would ensue. Hence the “smoking” part of the name. Why “bishop”? I have no clue. Incidentally, it seems a rather unsanitary and disgusting way to heat up your wine, considering that you’re likely to get fireplace ashes in your wine. Bleagh.
You can see a bowl of the stuff, and its heating-by-hot-poker, in the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol. It’s the scene at Fred’s house, where he says, “Topper, the poker” and “Topper” brings the poker out of the fireplace and into the wine it goes.

It’s a dangerous place inside my skull, baby. Best not to breach the barrier. :cool:

Do you mean me? In which case I haven’t the foggiest idea what you’re on about. Not a scoobie old bean.

Um I know I’m not Mr. nor Owl, but I know how manky licks it takes to get the center of a Tootsie Pop! It takes 300. I’ve done this various times and it’s always taken me 300 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

300?

I think it takes me about 15.

What do you do with them? Never mind, don’t answer.

On reflection, you’re probably right.
Get the sledgehammer!

Dare I ask what you charming colonists are on about? Or will I regret it (like the whole “felching” debacle)?

No, you won’t regret it.

Back in the day (80’s? 90’?) there was an ad for the Tootsie Roll Pop.

There was this kid who kept asking “How many Licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?”

And he asks this big, fat owl on a tree branch. Who licks it three times, bites into it: Crunch! (the screen shakes) and remarks. “Three.”

Or something like that.

You are patient beyond your years.
Seriously. I can’t wait to get to the inside, so I eat those things quickly.

I’m already regretting it.

What pray tell is a “tootsie roll pop”. If I try to work this out in English english I get:

“Tootsie” a film about a cross dresser.

“Roll” something that comes with cheese or bacon in it

“pop” Fizzy drink.

So I am pretty confused.

I think I’m going to stick to skittles - I understand them

A Tootsie Roll Pop is a hard candy on a stick with a soft chocolate caramel center. The soft chocolate caramels are also sold by themselves, under the brand name Tootsie Roll.

They’re yummy, but a stale one’ll rip your fillings right out.

Back to the basics, eh? A Tootsie Roll Pop is a hard lollipop with a Tootsie Roll in the center.

A Tootsie Roll is a piece of funky-tasting chocolate that looks vaguely like a small doody.

See it’s supposed to be fun. Eat the lollipop, you get a treat in the end. They also have Charms Blowpops which are the same thing with bubble gum inside.

A tootsie roll pop is a lollipop that has a soft chewy chocolately center. Very similar to a blowpop, but the gum is replaced with the aforementioned candy.