# The British Isles Experience **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183 "2003-06-16T10:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/41 "2003-06-17T13:15:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellen Cherry \* > \*\*Where’s **welby**? We want **welby**! Woe! Wretchedness! Winsome **Wintermute** wants **welby**. > > Weird, **welby** lessness. > > That was harder than it looked. \*\* You see, **Exgineer**? Not only does **Wintermute** want me, but Ellen Cherry does too. Plus I suspect I’m the reserve “Man of **Fairy Chat Mom’s** Dreams.” Of course, I only get to take the place if something happens to **Rue**. Like his brakes failing while driving down a steep mountain road, for example. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/42 "2003-06-17T13:23:10Z")
So I missed Monday. That’s okay- I get to post _after_ the fantastic-looking cake recipe. I notice everyone is worrying about **welby** not showing up, but no one’s said, “Hey! I’m worried about **Lissla**! She should be here by now!” I spent Moday evening hand-making tortillas. I think I went crazy. Very soon I’ll be trying to do homemade croissants again. I shouldn’t be allowed to have cookbooks, really. Or recipes. Oh, and I’m not sulky about lots of **other** (not me) people meeting **Rue**. _sulk_ _sulk_ There was a girl wearing a really, really short kilt at the club on Friday. I think the vinyl bra she’d chosen to accesorize it with ruined the Scottish effect. So I did something fun on the weekend, even though it didn’t involve Dopers. And eight million friends (roughly) showed up on Saturday night, and we played drunken Monopoly. It was pretty fun. I need coffee. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/43 "2003-06-17T13:35:37Z")
Yum that cheese cake recipe sounds good 🙂 I just told my hubby that there was a turtle cheesecake recipe in rue’s thread and he got all grossed out for a minute… he thought it contained real turtle and that you baked it in the shell! I had to explain the whole turtle is caramel and nutty goodness thing 🙂 Oh and I like rue’s suggestion about progressive parenting. I think in a few years I may just employ that same filter to the munchkin’s body decoration requests 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/44 "2003-06-17T13:40:51Z")
**Tanookie** , that’s by far my best cheesecake recipe, though I have about a dozen of them. It’s taken me a few years to get the proportions just right, but it’s tasty as hell. Of course, it’s also a pain to make, and takes a long time, so I only make it on special occasions. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/45 "2003-06-17T13:44:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*Bah! He’s no Victor. He’s more of a Mortimer, or an Edwin. Plus he whines about not being able to mow the lawn. What kind of person complains about that? > > Ah, yes. A pansy. > > Geez **Wintermute** , I get a little busy for a day and you’re already looking for a replacement. I’m wounded. \*\* What? Never! I heard you had a wet suit. How could I resist a man in neoprene? Or the cute way your knees look in that kilt? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/46 "2003-06-17T13:48:03Z")
mmm… handmade tortillas… now that and **Lissla** are worth drooling over. Maybe **Lissla** rolled up in a handmade tortilla… yumm! And they said the flirt threads had died, then I come in here and see arguments about skirts, flashing breasts and amorous wiggling eyebrows. Not to mention the two he-rams of the pack, **welby** and **Exgineer** locking horns over the women. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/47 "2003-06-17T13:53:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*Bah! He’s no Victor. He’s more of a Mortimer, or an Edwin. Plus he whines about not being able to mow the lawn. What kind of person complains about that? > > Ah, yes. A pansy. > > Geez **Wintermute** , I get a little busy for a day and you’re already looking for a replacement. I’m wounded. \*\* Maybe I was just looking for another spanking. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/48 "2003-06-17T13:59:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*I spent Moday evening hand-making tortillas. I think I went crazy. Very soon I’ll be trying to do homemade croissants again. I shouldn’t be allowed to have cookbooks, really. Or recipes. > \*\* Hand-made tortillas! I loves me some tortillas! Did you make corn or flour? And what did you put in them? My mom used to make these great overstuffed burritos with everything but the kitchen sink in them. Well, she might still make them but I’m 3000 miles away. So she doesn’t make them for me anymore. I have to make my own. And avocados are so expensive on the east coast! I love avocados. I could and do eat them right out of the shell with a little salt. Yum! Winter (having a very Rue moment). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/49 "2003-06-17T14:08:16Z")
My grandmother has an avocado tree in her backyard. It’s lousy with avocados. They’re everywhere. Sadly she’s also about 2000 miles away, maybe more. Why can’t they create an avocado that stands up to our winters, 'mute? And you should all be happy that I’ve not trotted out a joke about avocado’s number ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/50 "2003-06-17T14:34:30Z")
I’m feeling you, **Shibb**. I don’t even know if they are working on one, but they need to hurry up with that cold-tolerant avocado. $1.50 is too damn much to spend on one sad little avocado when I know they go four for a buck in CA. When I was a very little girl, my grandparents lived in Pasadena. They had an orange tree and a guava tree in their front yard, the neighbor across the street had an avocado tree and the next-door neighbor had a banana tree. The banana tree didn’t bear fruit (still too cold, I think), but the others did. On the other hand, if you could see the mountains through the smog, it was something to be remarked upon. Life is a compromise. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/51 "2003-06-17T16:53:06Z")
Jeez, and now you’re feeling **Shibb**??!?!! That spanking’s a coming sugarlips. Just you wait. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/52 "2003-06-17T17:24:48Z")
My grandmother is in Whittier. But I wish she were in Pasadena. Then I could be related to the little old lady from Pasadena go baby, go baby, go baby go! Actually, she was banned for driving for a while because she couldn’t pass her vision test and she’s too vain (at 88?) to wear glasses while she drives. And on preview, get your mind out of the gutter, **welby** : it’s crowding the rest of us! ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/53 "2003-06-17T17:31:21Z")
My mind hasn’t been in the gutter for hours. I think you’re getting crowded by something else. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/54 "2003-06-17T18:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*My mind hasn’t been in the gutter for hours. I think you’re getting crowded by something else. \*\* Either you’re lying or you’re not the man I thought you were. Or, if you _are_ telling the truth, let me drag you down to my level. I’m pretty good at that. There are people to this day who are forbidden to play with me. I’ve been told I’m a ‘bad influence’. 😃 Doubt me? Take a look at these threads since I’ve joined. Every single one of them dragged right into the mud. (I’m sorry, everyone, I really can’t help it. I do _try_ to keep it clean.) [garbage]…Hey, boy, take a look at me; let me dirty up your mind…[/garbage] ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/55 "2003-06-17T18:11:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*My grandmother is in Whittier. But I wish she were in Pasadena. Then I could be related to the little old lady from Pasadena go baby, go baby, go baby go! > > Actually, she was banned for driving for a while because she couldn’t pass her vision test and she’s too vain (at 88?) to wear glasses while she drives.\*\* She even, for a while, drove one of those huge, 1970’s Chrysler muscle cars. She got teased a lot, but I think it all just went over her head. (Not hard, she’s like, 5-nothing) She stopped driving at night once she hit 88 or 89, but still drove during the day until 92. Then she had a stroke, and you know, it’s been downhill little by little. She’s still around, though; she celebrated her 100th this last Dec. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/56 "2003-06-17T18:18:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*Jeez, and now you’re feeling **Shibb**??!?!! > > That spanking’s a coming sugarlips. Just you wait. \*\* Whoo! Whoo-hoo! I’m all tingly just thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/57 "2003-06-17T23:54:29Z")
Now I’m scared. Really. If the MMP threads are going to devolve into “flirting” threads, I’m not gonna’ participate any more. I’m just here for the hijacks. We can talk about cakes, recipes for cakes, swimming pools, weird American “British” festivals, kilts, sharp pointy things and the children who can’t resist them, what a pansy **welby** is, and water taxis. We can even talk about sex and violence, if you like. But just in general. Otherwise, I’m out. I don’t want to see a **Superdude** -esque meltdown again. Really, I don’t. And don’t worry about my opinion of you, **Angel Pants**. You are most definitely written in on the “manly” side of the ledger. In ink. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/58 "2003-06-18T02:19:46Z")
Hey, **FairyChatMom**? That pudding in your cake – is that a small box of pudding or a big box? I only have a big one at home, and that cake is calling to me… 😛 -stargazer (paying attention) ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/59 "2003-06-18T02:38:39Z")
Here we see the power of **FairyChatMom**. All she has to do is post a cake recipe, and chronic lurkers pop up. Hi, **stargazer** , welcome to the club. It’s an easy club to get into, because all you have to do is not be yelled at by **Rue**. Since **Rue** is a really nice guy, and he never yells at anybody, you’re jake. Watch out for that **welby** guy, though. he might make a play for your wife/girlfriend/sister/cousin, as appropriate. Unless you happen to be female, in which case he’ll make a play for you. So, be careful. Ex - (we’re supposed to sign this drivel?) ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/60 "2003-06-18T03:13:24Z")
yikes, I’ve been spotted! I’ve been watching quietly for quite some time now, and I even posted about clotted cream\*, in whichever threat _that_ was. And no one yelled at me for that, so I think I’m jake. And I’m most definitely female. The question is, though: to flirt or not to flirt with **welby**? Because, you know, he really _needs_ more women around here to flirt with him. 😉 What if I flirted with someone else instead? 😃 \*what’s that? me, focused on food? why would you think that? -stargazer (hungrily. or flirtatiously. take yer pick.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183.md?page=4)