# James Otto Sweet Heart and Damning Suicides to Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764 "2013-02-19T03:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 92
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1821 "2013-03-21T23:50:02Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > They are like regular chocolate chips except, um… dark. Personally I like my chocolate chip cookies straight from the back of the Tollhouse package, made with semi-sweet chocolate chips as the good lord intended, but I realize that there are some freaks out there who like to try out variations. M and Ms are a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1822 "2013-03-22T00:05:57Z")
I think all these recipes need to truly be highlighted in a special way for their brilliance. So, I’ve created this thread: > **[Awesomest Cookie Recipes Ever!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=685874)** > > Another thread has devolved into the glorious art of cookie bakery. I’m not much at making any sort of sweets that aren’t from a box, so I thought maybe we could continue the recipe swapping here. And you guys could elevate me beyond Pillsbury... …to get your baking groove on. See you all there! ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1823 "2013-03-22T00:07:03Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Why do you health nuts have to add a handful of oats to cookies and pastries??! Dammit, just eat a dry handul of oats and leave the banana bread alone! But oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are the best. I’ll just swipe the ones you won’t eat and you can have my plain flour cookies. Fair? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1824 "2013-03-22T00:11:39Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I think all these recipes need to truly be highlighted in a special way for their brilliance. So, I’ve created this thread: > > [Awesomest Cookie Recipes Ever! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=685874) > > …to get your baking groove on. See you all there! Bye bye this thread… He-llo to that one! ---
**Author:** ![liquorinthefront](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@liquorinthefront](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liquorinthefront)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1825 "2013-03-22T01:08:22Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > His favorite are chocolate chip cookies. Go [here](http://www.gactv.com/gac/pac_ctnt/text/0,,GAC_26058_100822,00.html) to see him tell all about it. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > God bless you and James always!!! > Holly > P.S. I’ve heard it said that if you see a turtle sitting up on a fence post, it had help getting up there and that right there is what I feel like thanks to all of you who have helped make this chat named after me as long as it is, 37 and still counting. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Mine too!!!:):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1826 "2013-03-22T01:26:01Z")
^^^ The recipe for them cookies that James tells about is underneath the clip of him telling about them. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and him always!!! Holly ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1827 "2013-03-22T01:46:31Z")
I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me make cookie recipes such a wonderful use of our time. It’s nice when folks can come together with a united cause of happiness in baking. 🙂 And here’s a bit to help your mojo in the kitchen: Remember, it may have been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise, but… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1828 "2013-03-22T02:01:47Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > You replace chocolate chips with some nasty fucking jujubes??!!! Jesus fucking christ, what a disappointment to fat people everywhere, you are. Don’t knock 'em 'til you try 'em! They are pretty good. And I don’t even like jujubes as they are. How about Smarties instead? The Canadian ones, which are milk chocolate and a candy shell. I bet that variation would be good. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1829 "2013-03-22T02:45:11Z")
On to the cookie thread!! See y’all there 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1830 "2013-03-22T04:21:23Z")
> [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > You mean people _eat_ jujubes? > > I thought they only existed to throw at the screen during a lame-ass movie. > > Putting them in cookies just… I mean… I… really… I’ll be under my desk sucking my thumb :eek: Yep. Here in China, you can even get jujube flavored yogurt and jujube flavored milk. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1831 "2013-03-22T04:22:49Z")
Ugh, jujubes. Satan’s candy. Or that other guy’s!! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1832 "2013-03-22T10:52:55Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > M and Ms are a nice touch. My mom makes a chocolate pie in which she mixes either M&Ms or broken up Twix. I like the Twix version better, but the M&M is pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1833 "2013-03-22T10:57:51Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > My mom makes a chocolate pie in which she mixes either M&Ms or broken up Twix. I like the Twix version better, but the M&M is pretty good too. Share it in faithfool’s great cookie thread we started! Please? ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1834 "2013-03-22T12:59:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yep. Here in China, you can even get jujube flavored yogurt and jujube flavored milk. Are they just jujube flavored, or are there actual jujubes floating around in there? I don’t mind the flavor, it’s the nasty sticky rubbery texture and that would only be exacerbated by being refrigerated. w00+! Cookie thread, I’m there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1835 "2013-03-22T14:29:18Z")
Yes, we have a cookie thread. It’s fantastic to finally be able to put an end to this one. As someone once said, “It just goes to prove, that even from shit, a flower can grow.” Truer words were never spoken. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1836 "2013-03-22T14:57:34Z")
Oh, fuck that noise. I was promised a reverse-chocolate-chip recipe (chocolate dough, white chips) and I have not yet seen one. _shakes fist_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1837 "2013-03-22T15:41:20Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Oh, fuck that noise. I was promised a reverse-chocolate-chip recipe (chocolate dough, white chips) and I have not yet seen one. _shakes fist_ OK, I promise it will be in the cookie thread before I leave work today at 1:30 PM CDT. Forgiven?😛 ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1838 "2013-03-22T17:44:53Z")
I was lurking again, but I just _had_ to come in to let you guys know how good your cookie and pastry recipes sound, and that flowers from shit are beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1839 "2013-03-22T21:57:21Z")
\*\*Jujuspection \*\*(joo’ joo spek shun): Holding jujubes up to the movie screen to see what flavor they are. This is my favorite sniglet. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/1840 "2013-03-24T06:32:51Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > What really makes this chat (heh) a wild ride is that some of you people who are engaging **JOSH** keep proving yourselves nuttier than she is. Where does this _come_ from??? > > Flying Spaghetti Monster bless you and her always! Fair enough. I’m not sure it proves we are nuttier than she is… I think it depends on how long one interacts with her and what kind of response we expect. The amazing thing to me is that she has continued to respond to this thread… I haven’t been back to the thread myself since I posted the note you quoted, and that was over 10 pages ago (I think). I’m amazed, and I’m also a bit saddened… She seems like a really strange and delusional person. Picking on her is like picking on a mentally retarded person; there is no fun or sport in that. I know I said I’d go and sign up as J.O.S.H., but that was meant as a joke. I mean, who really has the time? She can go to every site on the web for all I care. I think she’s obsessed. I, however, am not. I can’t speak for everyone in this thread, but I don’t think anyone else falls into the level of obsession she is demonstrating. I guess it could be an act, but she has some serious stamina if it’s just an act. Most people would have let it go 5 pages in. > [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ > > God bless you two and James always!!! > Holly This is her biggest mistake. She is using God’s name in blessing folks that are hammering her. She is not being sincere, and she knows it. She probably means it about James, but not about the rest of the people she uses it on. I’m sure she will come in here, tell me I’m wrong, and bless me and James, too. But she doesn’t mean it. She’s just trying to get under everyone’s skin. It’s amazing what the ignore button can do for ones blood pressure. She doesn’t make a blip on my radar any longer. So, as long as TPTB feel she is within the rules of this board, fine. I’ll never know it one way or the other unless an announcement about her is made in ATMB. And that is good enough for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764.md?page=91) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764.md?page=93)