# 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:** 4
**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:** [June 18, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/61 "2003-06-18T10:15:08Z")
**stargazer** - small box. At least that’s what I’ve always used. I suppose a big box would give you lots of pudding-y goodness, but if the cake mix also has pudding in it, I think you’d wind up with a mess. So be safe and go fo a small box. Or divide the contents of the big box in half, and make the remaining half into pudding, which can be used in a flirtatious environment, or flung at annoying people, or eaten on its own. I’ve heard of kindergarten teachers using pudding as edible finger paint, but that just sounds disgusting. Who’s going to hang a picture or dried out pudding on the refrigerator? You get enough of that from messy kid-fingers. And to answer your other question - don’t flirt with **welby** - it’ll give him an ego and that way lies madness. Besides, it’s more fun to poke at him with a pointy stick. It’s gotta be a long pointy stick, tho - you don’t want to get too close to him when he’s been poked. Same goes for **Ex** , and **swampy** , and even **Rue** - men get all whiny when you poke them with pointy sticks. Maybe you should just throw pudding. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/62 "2003-06-18T11:25:45Z")
You’ve got to be careful, **stargazer** , you’re female and you’re posting in here. Pretty soon **Rue** will have a petname for you and people will be casting unseemly glances and tying knots with their eyebrows. Next thing you know you’ll be one of the cool kids and writing stream of conciousness posts about really mundane things and posting links to your bellydancing photos (we hope). It’s a very slippery slope. Which is jake, but I’m just saying. ---
**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 18, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/63 "2003-06-18T11:28:30Z")
Flour tortillas. There’s a recipe in Jeffrey Steingarten’s new book, _It Must Have Been Something I Ate_, and I felt strangely compelled to try it. There were very good- much better than store-bought ones. I don’t, however, think they were good enough to make them often, since they involve two and a half straight hours of work. I spent ysterday getting m least friendly girlfriend make-uped at the MAC counter. She hated it. Her wedding is gonna be really interesting. Also, I almost talked my most easy-to-persuade friend into buying an ice cream maker. I think she ought to get one so I can use it. Poor **Ex**. Do you think he feels left out by all the flirting? Hey! Doesn’t he instigate flirting? Why’s he do that if he doesn’t like it? Dork. He’s just sore because **welby** ’s got **Wintermute**. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/64 "2003-06-18T11:32:54Z")
So **stargazer** , how _you_ doin’? Ignore **Exgineer** , he’s just bitter because he thought he was in good with the MMP women and I’ve taken them all and made them mine. Except for **Fairy Chat Mom**. She’s **Rue’s**. **Wintermute** , everyone knows my mind makes the filthiest of gutters look clean enough to eat a meal in. I’m lying, trying to keep up appearances. I’m a sick pervert. Truly. I’m not as sick as **Exgineer** , though. Ask him about his experience with skunk scent glands and whipped cream. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/65 "2003-06-18T11:34:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*. He’s just sore because **welby** ’s got **Wintermute**. \*\* And you **Lissla**. Whether you admit it or not, you’re mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/66 "2003-06-18T12:09:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wintermute \* > \*\*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\*\* Sure thing bay-bee. It’s all you bring these things to _that_ level. Uh-huh. Nothing like that _ever_ happened before you joined the crew. So I’d thank you very much to just clean up your act. Or link more pictures. Either way. And just what happened around here? I turn my back for two minutes and this is what I come back to. But you knew I’d be back didn’t you? I just can’t stay away. Watch the wimmins-claiming **welbs**. You never know when there’s a line about you might just cross. That’s all I’m saying. -Rue. (the cat) ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/67 "2003-06-18T12:41:07Z")
Jeepers **Rue** , if you want to lay claim to some of the other womens in the thread just do so. I won’t fight you, it’s your MMP after all. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/68 "2003-06-18T13:15:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*Flour tortillas. There’s a recipe in Jeffrey Steingarten’s new book, _It Must Have Been Something I Ate_, and I felt strangely compelled to try it. There were very good- much better than store-bought ones. I don’t, however, think they were good enough to make them often, since they involve two and a half straight hours of work. > > I spent ysterday getting m least friendly girlfriend make-uped at the MAC counter. She hated it. Her wedding is gonna be really interesting. > > Also, I almost talked my most easy-to-persuade friend into buying an ice cream maker. I think she ought to get one so I can use it. > > Poor **Ex**. Do you think he feels left out by all the flirting? Hey! Doesn’t he instigate flirting? Why’s he do that if he doesn’t like it? Dork. He’s just sore because **welby** ’s got **Wintermute**. \*\* Two and half hours!! :eek: Good thing you told me, because I was thinking, “Hey, how hard can it be? Maybe I’ll give it a shot.” Now? No way in hell. Store-bought is plenty good enough for me. Your friend _definitely_ needs an ice cream maker. Tell her I said so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/69 "2003-06-18T13:17:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > **Wintermute, everyone knows my mind makes the filthiest of gutters look clean enough to eat a meal in. I’m lying, trying to keep up appearances. I’m a sick pervert. Truly.** Well, that’s a relief. Glad to hear it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/70 "2003-06-18T13:30:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > \*\*Sure thing bay-bee. It’s all you bring these things to _that_ level. Uh-huh. Nothing like that _ever_ happened before you joined the crew. > > So I’d thank you very much to just clean up your act. Or link more pictures. Either way. > > And just what happened around here? I turn my back for two minutes and this is what I come back to. But you knew I’d be back didn’t you? I just can’t stay away. > > Watch the wimmins-claiming **welbs**. You never know when there’s a line about you might just cross. That’s all I’m saying. > -Rue. (the cat) \*\* Well, just remember that I went to a conservative Christian bible school, so the parameters by which I was judged are perhaps (just maybe) a little narrow. I mean, thinking for yourself? _That_ can’t be good! So maybe I’m not as evil as all that. But I will try very hard to be a good girl, since I don’t have any pictures that I would be comfortable posting. This is a PG-rated board, after all. (Too bad I don’t have a website, huh?) On the other hand, if you think I deserve punishment, well… 😉 ---
**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 18, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/71 "2003-06-18T13:31:39Z")
Well, you have to cook them individually, unless you have an enormous cast-iron griddle, which I don’t. The dough is actually pretty easy. I once spent _six hours_\* making Chinese dumplings. I was avoiding studying for an Art exam, and boy, it worked. And it was fine, since (on the visual identification part) the Art professor showed us images we hadn’t seen before and asked us to identify them. He was a good professor, he just vastly overrated us. ---
**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 18, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/72 "2003-06-18T13:33:39Z")
Ack! I have to go to work! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/73 "2003-06-18T13:42:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\* > I once spent _six hours_ making Chinese dumplings. I was \*\* Mmmm… Chinese dumplings! [/Homer] Why did it take you six hours. Mrs. ShibbOleth and Ms. A sometimes do this, they make a ton, and it only takes them an hour or two, tops. Do you actually make the wrappers by hand, or do you buy the dumpling wrappers at the Chinese Grocery? We do the latter, but even doing the former I can’t imagine it taking 6 hours. Unless you made all the wrappers by hand, stuffed/folder/pinched them, and COOKED them all. Plus the eating would be a lot of work, I’d suppose. And afterwards you’d be thirsty from the sauce, so you’d have to drink a lot of beer. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/74 "2003-06-18T14:52:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*Well, you have to cook them individually, unless you have an enormous cast-iron griddle, which I don’t. The dough is actually pretty easy. > > I once spent _six hours_\* making Chinese dumplings. I was avoiding studying for an Art exam, and boy, it worked. And it was fine, since (on the visual identification part) the Art professor showed us images we hadn’t seen before and asked us to identify them. He was a good professor, he just vastly overrated us. \*\* Ahh, it’s like pancakes. I don’t have a griddle or electric skillet, so I can only do one or two at a time and it takes forever. Since I have the attention span of a two-year-old, I cook everything on high and end up burning at least the first and last batches. Anyway, the local diner or IHOP makes much better pancakes than I do, so if I want pancakes, I just go out for them. (Notice a trend? Too much work to make = I don’t bother :)) Mmm, pancakes. I wonder what we’re doing this weekend. Maybe I can twist my sister’s arm into going to IHOP (not that it would take much twisting). Are you an artist, or just taking Art History? ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/75 "2003-06-18T17:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by the gracious welby \* > \*\*Jeepers **Rue** , if you want to lay claim to some of the other womens in the thread just do so. I won’t fight you, it’s your MMP after all. \*\* OK fine! They’re all mine! Bwa! Hahahahaha! **Snickers**? Mine! **Puddin’**? Mine! **dwyr**? Mine! **Elle** n **Cherry**? Mine! **Kn** just too hot **kers**? Mine! Princess **Lissla**? Mine! Mama **tanookie**? Mine! **Brynda**? Mine! (Do you see a trend here?) But I’ll tell you what. I’ll throw you a bone. You can keep **Wintermute** as long as she’ll have you. And **Ex** can keep **Angel Pants** if he wants. -Rue. (toying with **stargazer** ) ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/76 "2003-06-18T18:17:26Z")
_swooooon_ I’ve been claimed by **Rue**! And in honor of the occasion I learned how to use the **bold** tags 🙂 Yay me! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/77 "2003-06-18T18:34:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > **OK fine! They’re all mine! Bwa! Hahahahaha! > Snickers? Mine! > Puddin’? Mine! > dwyr? Mine! > Ellen Cherry? Mine! > Knjust too hot**kers_\*? Mine! > Princess **Lissla**? Mine! > Mama **tanookie**? Mine! > **Brynda**? Mine! > (Do you see a trend here?) > > But I’ll tell you what. I’ll throw you a bone. You can keep **Wintermute** as long as she’ll have you. And **Ex** can keep **Angel Pants** if he wants. > -Rue. (toying with **stargazer** ) \*\* I just can not express how _deeply_ wounded I am by this, **Rue**. ☹ Any self-esteem I might have gathered has been swept away like chaff in the wind. I must retire to a dark room to reconsider my life and its value. ::sniff:: No, don’t try to comfort me. I’m not worth it. ::wipes tear away:: And yet, at the same time, I am also highly offended. Throw him a bone? Throw him a _bone_!!! I am speechless. Just…speechless. I don’t even know where to _begin_ to respond to that. ::walks away shaking head in astonished disbelief:: Winter (mostly kidding) ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/78 "2003-06-18T18:39:26Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > **OK fine! They’re all mine! Bwa! Hahahahaha! > Snickers? Mine! > Puddin’? Mine! > dwyr? Mine! > Ellen Cherry? Mine! > Knjust too hot**kers_\*? Mine! > Princess **Lissla**? Mine! > Mama **tanookie**? Mine! > **Brynda**? Mine! > (Do you see a trend here?) > > But I’ll tell you what. I’ll throw you a bone. You can keep **Wintermute** as long as she’ll have you. And **Ex** can keep **Angel Pants** if he wants. > -Rue. (toying with **stargazer** ) \*\* Well _ **somebody’s** _ on a power trip today. I notice you didn’t claim **Stargazer** , though, so I’ll take her too. Leaving me with two and **Exgineer** with **Angel Pants**. And how dare you call my precious **Wintermute** a bone! If I ever get to meet you in real like I’m gonna poke you in the eye. Twice! -welby. (still has wimmen!) ---
**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:** [June 18, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/79 "2003-06-18T20:49:48Z")
No, **Rue** , my sweet, you can’t claim me because I already claimed you. Repeatedly. See - I wrote our names together in my notebook and drew a heart around them. That means we’re joined forever in a bond that cannot be broken. Unless you tick me off or someone comes along with a better offer, but I can’t imagine what’s better than you!! I’d claim **Ex** too, because he amuses me, but then I’d have **swampy** - no wait - he’s got a pool and he bought me dinner. OK, that works. I claim **Rue** first and foremost, with **Ex** and **swampy** as my auxiliaries. **welby** will be backup when he finally realizes that I’m more worthy of his attentions than any of the wimmins around here because I am, after all, me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183/80 "2003-06-18T21:05:58Z")
You boys are just rubbing me the wrong way today. > [@](#): > > \*\*And how dare you call my precious Wintermute a bone! \*\* First, it’s about time you got in here, **Welby** and defended my honor. Second, > [@](#): > > **If I ever get to meet you in real like I’m gonna poke you in the eye. Twice!** If you meet him in real _like_? You’ll poke him in the _EYE_?!?! What kind of threat is that?!?! I expect much better things from you. Third, > [@](#): > > \*\*Well somebody’s on a power trip today. > > I notice you didn’t claim Stargazer, though, so I’ll take her too. Leaving me with two and Exgineer with Angel Pants. > > -welby. (still has wimmen!)\*\* _Three_ women, **Welby**. I count THREE women, now; me, **Stargazer** and your wife. It’s gettin’ MIGHTY crowded around here. I’m not feeling the love. And, on preview, **FairyChatMom** wants you as her Emergency Backup Crush. How can I compete with _that_\*?! She bakes cake! I am NOT a happy camper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-isles-experience/182183.md?page=5)