# Thought I would touch base and say hello **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930 "2011-07-31T15:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/161 "2011-08-05T00:09:07Z")
mmmmmmmm toenail clippings… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/162 "2011-08-05T00:34:44Z")
> [@VitrolicBump](#): > > **Baker** , I will def take those scones, even if **Eve** doesn’t. 😛 6 ounces butter 3 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 5 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg 7/8 cup light cream(half and half) 1/8 cup(two tablespoons) orange marmalade 3.5 ounces dried apricots, chopped fine 3.0 ounces cranberry raisins Cut the flour, sugar, bp and salt into the butter until the mix is a flaky texture. Toss with the dried apricots and cranberry raisins. Make a well in the dry mix and add the egg, cream and marmalade. Mix just enough for the dry to absorb the wet ingredients. Gather the dough into a ball and roll into a flat disk, cutting it into eight parts. Place on parchment paper on a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until lightly browned. You can make smaller scones by dividing the dough in half, rolling and cutting into a smaller disk and again cutting into eight parts. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/163 "2011-08-05T01:04:03Z")
OMG…you are awesome. I should really make them but we are making bread pudding with whiskey sauce tonight…I will make scones though. _bows to **Baker** _ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/164 "2011-08-05T01:07:29Z")
Welcome back, Eve. Nice to see you. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/165 "2011-08-05T01:17:14Z")
But you haven’t sung _Everything’s As If We Never Said Goodbye_ yet and it took me forever to find a combination ring-cigarette holder that matches an ocelot fur lined gold lame kaftan! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/166 "2011-08-05T02:49:02Z")
I guess I should go on vacation more often. I leave for five days and look what happens while I’m gone. Welcome back **Eve**! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/167 "2011-08-05T03:13:59Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hello, hello, hello to all and sundry! Lovely to see you all again, but I have run out of tea and the scones are going even staler than usual, so I guess we better let this thread drop slowly out of sight . . . I’ll be flitting around MPSIMS and Cafe Society (though avoiding Great Debates and the Pit, where one only gets annoyed and into trouble). Just promise us you won’t disappear entirely. Post an occasional bon mot or two to raise the overall tenor of the board. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sealemon2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/168 "2011-08-05T05:48:43Z")
Well hi there, **Eve!** I was just thinking that it’s kinda sad that I hardly see any names here that I recognize anymore, and here you are! Cool. Signed: Another long-time poster who mainly lurks here nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/169 "2011-08-05T06:09:24Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hello, hello, hello to all and sundry! Lovely to see you all again, but I have run out of tea and the scones are going even staler than usual, so I guess we better let this thread drop slowly out of sight . . . I’ll be flitting around MPSIMS and Cafe Society (though avoiding Great Debates and the Pit, where one only gets annoyed and into trouble). Isn’t getting annoyed and into trouble what one goes to New York City for, as well? Then again, New York does have the theatre, which seems to be sorely lacking in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/170 "2011-08-05T10:16:57Z")
Hi, Eve! We have missed you so much. Please don’t stay away so long, next time. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/171 "2011-08-05T13:32:52Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Isn’t getting annoyed and into trouble what one goes to New York City for, as well? Then again, New York does have the theatre, which seems to be sorely lacking in the Pit. The Pit has theat_er_, but that’s a whole different ball game. Yes **Eve** , please do stick around awhile. I wanna know there’s someone who will understand when I make references to prehistoric pop songs. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/172 "2011-08-05T13:38:32Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > The Pit has theat_er_, but that’s a whole different ball game. (totally off topic) You make a distinction between “theatre” and “theater”? What’s the distinction? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/173 "2011-08-05T15:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > You make a distinction between “theatre” and “theater”? What’s the distinction? “Theater” is American. “Theatre” is British. “The_ay_-ter” is a touring stock company production of _East Lynne_. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/174 "2011-08-05T20:32:08Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Hi, **Eve**! Y’know, yours is one of the usernames I always get excited to see, only to find out that it’s a zombie thread. ☹ Same here…I was just reading the “Ross & Rachel” thread, saw **Eve** ’s name, and thought “Ah, crap…I’m wasting time in another thread from four yea…_waitaminute!_”. Very nice of you to drop by! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/175 "2011-08-05T20:46:51Z")
Ahh, yes! _East Lynne_…complete with tinny piano and Oleo Acts. Hello, Eve. I played that tinny piano for _East Lynne_ at a theay-ter once. That’s been almost fifty years ago. I’m still in touch with a few of the cast members. Glad you came back so that I can find out the correct number of strands of pearls to wear this fall. Has it changed? What’s up in publishing? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/176 "2011-08-05T23:21:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Glad you came back so that I can find out the correct number of strands of pearls to wear this fall. Has it changed? It will \*never \*change: one or three strands. Five if you are a dowager empress with a stately monobosom. > [@](#): > > What’s up in publishing? Not my royalties, that’s for damn sure. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/177 "2011-08-06T01:52:29Z")
**Eve** , I don’t know you, but I’ve been here long enough to have noticed other posters allude to your posts. You are infamous here. Don’t disappear again. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/178 "2011-08-06T02:22:40Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > It will \*never \*change: one or three strands. Five if you are a dowager empress with a stately monobosom. > … Wrong! It is now and always has been, one strand plus one additional strand per neck wattle. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/179 "2011-08-06T02:53:48Z")
> [@vix](#): > > Welcome back, Eve. Nice to see you. How are you doing **vix**? I haven’t seen you around in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/180 "2011-08-06T14:33:47Z")
Oh sure, wait till I leave for vacation! Welcome back, hope you stick around for a while. **twicks** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930.md?page=10)