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[Black_Train_Song]

Did your Ma come out of the kitchen with a loaf of pumpernickel that had candles stuffed in it while the family sang to you?

Is that what they call an idealist?

If so, that’s me.

[Kat]

@Aesiron

Animal crackers.

To create further confusion, although they’re called “animal crackers”, they are stocked in the cookie aisle.

[TheLoadedDog]

@GorillaMan

It’d be horrific. You’d have countless junctions where it would have to be prevented, either because of crossings as you identify, or because the visibilty to the right isn’t good enough. By the time you get down to the few junctions where it would be possible to do safely, you’d make little impact on traffic flow. The tories briefly talked about including it in their 2001 manifesto, before they actually sat down and thought it through.

(I note that it’s not allowed in Manhattan, where I should think the problems would be similar to what I’ve suggested)

I think they’ve got it more or less right here in New South Wales:
Left on red was prohibited universally until the late 1980s when “LEFT TURN ON RED PERMITTED AFTER STOPPING” signs started appearing here and there. This enabled the authorities to gradually introduce permitted turns to intersections where it is safe to do so whilst keeping the general prohibition, rather than suddenly changing the law to a general permission and then running around like blue-arsed flies trying to find which intersections are dangerous, and hurriedly nailing prohibition signs to posts.

[Ilsa_Lund]

@NoClueBoy

A DUCK!

amazing how that answers so many questions so well

one of these days I’ll have to find a new schtick, but until then…

Echo etc. etc. nobody knows.

1. Why?

2. Where’s the beef?

3. What is Rodney So’Dialo of the 2004 All Blacks Squad jersey number?

[Kitchen_Wench]

RE: crackers vs. cookies

According to last night’s episode of Unwrapped on the Food Network, the destinction between crackers and cookies is the way they’re made. To create a light and crispy texture, cracker dough is layered before being rolled out, stamped, cut or otherwise shaped and then baked. That is why Animal Crackers are not called cookies.
Nabisco’s Animal Crackers in the wee boxes are the only real ones out there. All the other brands just taste like vanilla cookies. Accept no substitues!

[MizQuirk]

@Hunter Hawk

For starters, did you RTFM?

My initial suggestion would be to select everything that’s formatted as light gray (make sure to include the closing paragraph mark), and change the style to “Normal”. That should reset it, provided you haven’t accidentally changed the definition of the Normal style. You can then reformat it to your heart’s content.

RTFM? What’s RTFM? I’d really like to try what you suggest, and appreciate your help, but I’m really having a hard time with MS Word. I don’t know where to change the style to “Normal” either.

[Khadaji]

Why didn’t the guy in the song just give the horse a damn name and be done with it?

[Shodan]

@MizQuirk

RTFM? What’s RTFM? I’d really like to try what you suggest, and appreciate your help, but I’m really having a hard time with MS Word. I don’t know where to change the style to “Normal” either.

RTFM = Read The Fornicating Manual.

You change the style to “Normal” by clicking Format at the top, and choose “Styles and Formatting”. Then use the window that pops up to highlight the text to change, and click on “Normal”.

This one probably should have gone to General Questions, where the response may have been a trifle less snarky.

Regards,
Shodan

[AskNott]

Re: When is a cracker not a cookie?

Cracker is also a fellow who gets into safes illegally.
Cracker is a cryptologist, a code breaker.
Cracker is a rude word to call a person from the southern US. Specifically, an ignorant rube.
Cookie (usually sharp cookie) is a quick-witted person, clearly not “an ignorant rube.”

[Ethilrist]

@Rooves

By the way, what’s the difference between a cake and a bread? :smack:

Well, obviously, cakes are used to make cookies and breads are used to make crackers.

[danceswithcats]

@Khadaji

Why didn’t the guy in the song just give the horse a damn name and be done with it?

'Cuz it felt good to be out on the range.

OTOH, why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

[akennett]

@danceswithcats

Answer: Breads is for sammitches and toast. Cakes is for decorating and dessertitude.

What about sweetbreads? If they’re sweet they should be for dessert, right?

[Ethilrist]

@danceswithcats

'Cuz it felt good to be out on the range.

:dubious:
… or in the desert, maybe?

[Black_Train_Song]

…The ocean is the desert with its life underground and the perfect disguise above.
:rolleyes:

[glee]

What is the difference between flammable and inflammable?

Why is abbreviated a long word?

P.S. Ilsa_Lund,

did you mean Rodney So’oialo? His number is 1028, apparently.

[Shirley_Ujest]

My burning question today: and I blame Rocky Horror Picture Show for this brain niggler

What happened to the Other Half of Wham?

I refuse to google it out of princepal. I’ve had this quesiton longer than google as we know it has been around.

[Chefguy]

@Ethilrist

Well, obviously, cakes are used to make cookies and breads are used to make crackers.

Uh…I thought crackers was crackers cuz they gots no bread…

[danceswithcats]

Crackers is crackers ‘cuz that’s what me Polly wants ya scurvy dog! Whoever heard of offerin’ a parrot a bread? ARRR!

Residual influence from TLAPD thread

[Tuckerfan]

Did Mel Blanc ever look at his wife after sex and say, “Th-th-th-that’s all folks!”?

[vivalostwages]

@akennett

What about sweetbreads? If they’re sweet they should be for dessert, right?

What are sweetmeats? Are they sweet and also meat? Are they for cannibals or can the rest of us have them too?