# Serendipity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346 "2005-09-19T12:04:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/181 "2005-09-22T17:00:30Z")
I’m not the guy to be authenticating recipes. I can barely boil water. The baking part seems a little dubious. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/182 "2005-09-22T17:02:11Z")
**ACK! ACK! GAG!** What is that smell! **GEEZ!** If’n I just didn’t know better I’d say there be a polecat somwhar’s around here. It’s kinda what it smells like. **EWWWWWW!!!** **donkey** just because you have been given bear status is no sign that you can start slackin’ off. Attend your classes young man! You hear me? Good. Let’s not let that happen again. I’m making chicken fried steak tonight. I got a hankerin’ for some. Did I mention I sold a church? Well, not all by myself, but I helped. See, my church’s Vestry of which I am a member, just approved the sale of our buildings. Now we get to start on building the new church. And moving and storing tons of stuff. My life is so interesting. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/183 "2005-09-22T17:06:18Z")
_Pssssst! Hey buddy! Wanna buy a church??_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/184 "2005-09-22T17:14:19Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > _Pssssst! Hey buddy! Wanna buy a church??_ How does one fit a steeple under a trenchcoat? I typed out that whole comment before realizing how truly \worthy it was. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/185 "2005-09-22T17:17:26Z")
Aw, geez, **Draelin** , don’t get **swampy** started. He’s got a hair trigger on his naughty-talk arrester. 😛 ---
**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:** [September 22, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/186 "2005-09-22T17:18:01Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > How does one fit a steeple under a trenchcoat? > > I typed out that whole comment before realizing how truly \worthy it was. 😃 Wanna see my \ _steeple_? \ ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/187 "2005-09-22T17:39:37Z")
**Taters,** I hope you aren’t coming down with a cold or something. Make sure you wash your hands before you use your computer, so we don’t catch your cold. 😛 I just got back from lunch. Spent almost $50 on food for the bunnies. :eek: Yes, they’re spoiled rotten. Nice, fresh, yummy hay. It smells really good. I’m glad I have rabbits, not cats, because cat food stinks. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/188 "2005-09-22T18:07:00Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > **Taters,** I hope you aren’t coming down with a cold or something. Make sure you wash your hands before you use your computer, so we don’t catch your cold. 😛 > > I just got back from lunch. Spent almost $50 on food for the bunnies. :eek: Yes, they’re spoiled rotten. Nice, fresh, yummy hay. It smells really good. I’m glad I have rabbits, not cats, because cat food stinks. Coming down with a cold? I already have a cold, and it seems to be worsening. I could feel it coming on Sunday, and fought it for a couple of days, but I lost the battle. I have progressed to drippy nose and watery eye stage now. I always wash my hands. I’m kind of fastidious that way. Besides, I work in a hospital where there are lots of sick people. **Swampy,** **Mr. Taters** is going just love your snerky steeple comment. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/189 "2005-09-22T18:07:11Z")
Yay! Yay! Doughnuts! Doughnuts! I just had various types of dip for lunch. I should buy some gum before work. Right now breathing on people is not a good idea. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/190 "2005-09-22T18:16:53Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > Swampy, Mr. Taters is going just love your snerky steeple comment. I liked the man for his urbane wit when I first met him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/191 "2005-09-22T18:21:05Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Wanna see my \ _steeple_? \ Alas, knowing your orientation, it would be nothing but a steeple-tease. 😃 I managed to drip honey all over my shirt at lunch. It’s amazing I don’t have men falling at my feet, given how smooth and sophisticated I am. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/192 "2005-09-22T18:41:04Z")
Yay! I gets cider doughnuts! I will, however, refrain from saying **Neener neener!** I might think it though. > [@swampbear](#): > > Wanna see my \ _steeple_? \ That’s exactly what I thought of when I read **FCM** ’s post, but **Swampy** beat me to it. Quick and dirty impoverished student doughnuts: Get some whomp biscuits (biscuit-dough-inna-can sorta thing.) Whomp 'em on the edge of the counter. Get the dough out and poke a hole in the middle of each piece with your finger. (wash your finger first.) Heat up some oil really hot. (peanut oil if ya got it.) Put the holey biscuit dough pieces in the oil. When they get brown on the bottom (they float) turn 'em over. When they’re done throw them into a bag into which you have placed sugar and cinnamon. (if you like that sorta thing. You can glaze 'em if you wanna.) Eat. If whomp biscuits aren’t cheap-cheap anymore (I don’t know) go to Dunkin Doughnuts. **Draelin** , but at least you’re very popupar with the bees. There’s that. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/193 "2005-09-22T18:52:53Z")
**Bumba** , I thought only my college roommate and I ever came up with that donut-biscuit idea. Nice to know it happened everywhere. Although we were usually too stoned to poke holes and just broke each biscuit into two or three little balls and made Munchkins instead. Man, we _lived_ on those biscuits, in one form or another. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/194 "2005-09-22T20:29:40Z")
No, no, **Draelin** Those aren’t Munchkins, they’re Timbits. From Tim Horton’s. Lissla(very Canadian) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/195 "2005-09-22T20:36:38Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > No, no, **Draelin** Those aren’t Munchkins, they’re Timbits. From Tim Horton’s. Death to you, Infidel!!! Well, not really. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/196 "2005-09-22T20:42:44Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Wanna see my \ _steeple_? \ \ Is that a steeple in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?\ ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/197 "2005-09-22T21:19:02Z")
OK, my sheet-count. I have about 12 pairs on rotation. Some (flannel) don’t actually enter the rotation 'til winter, though. The higher the thread-count, the better. Right now I’m lusting after a silk sheet-set, but I’m trying to find them at a fairly reasonable price. I love really yummy linens-towels too! So very snuggly! Yes, I’m very boring and so is my life. Sigh. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/198 "2005-09-22T21:53:15Z")
Welcome **Cranky Hermit**! The MMP is all about _anything_ you want to post. The further you hijack from the OP the better. BTW, I don’t own any flannel sheets. They’d be kinda silly here in south Jawja even when it’s cold. Plus, as hot natured as I am, I’d be kickin’ em all over the place. Also, if I need something to keep me warm, I can just pull ACBG over on top of me. 😃 The critter’s a real fur ball. He’s in a meeting tonight so we don’t get to see each other til tomorrow. Then I have a mammoth (probably) meeting on Saturday about finalizing the sale of the church. I swear, seems like sometimes all either of us do is go to meetings when we’re supposed to be having fun together. It ain’t fair! -swampbear (I’ve had a couple or five beers. Does it show?) ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/199 "2005-09-22T22:47:59Z")
Somehow we’re getting a rather large San Diego-ish contingency in the MMP. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346/200 "2005-09-22T23:09:01Z")
No fair!!! I missed out on cider doughnuts just because I was actually at work, working during the special one-time offer. [/whine] We went to the Chinese buffet for lunch today and I actually remembered to save my fortune. It’s rather…hmmm…_you_ fill in the word: Ask a friend to join you on your next voyage. Lucky Numbers: 4,6,18,21,23,40 I think we should elect **Ex** vice president of the MMP just because he took the initiative to keep us organized during our period of **Rue** -lessness. ( **Rue** is, of course, the president for life, even when absent.) **Taters** , I’m worried about **Rue** (and the entire DeDay family) too. (I’m a natural-born worry-wart.) Hope your cold is getting better. Thank you for not passing us the germs through the keyboard. **MagicEyes** , Tibetan potatoes sound intriguing, so I’ll echo: recipe? I’m sure I missed something, but I’m falling asleep - need to take a nap… GT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/322346.md?page=11)