1000 Post Club

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Clanny

All her kids are done in already, and since Shelob has no mates, she's the last of her kind

A common misconception, but untrue - I'm sure we could persuade a few to visit the 1k clubroom...

...Shelob, who haunted a network of tunnels watching the pass of Cirith Ungol, eking a living on the hapless Orcs of Sauron. She had offspring of her own, too, smaller than she but with a cruel intelligence, that spread throughout the Ephel Dúath and north into Mirkwood.

Encyclopedia of Arda: Spiders

[Clansman]

Originally Posted by pyan

A common misconception, but untrue - I'm sure we could persuade a few to visit the 1k clubroom...

Nope. Grim and I already killed 'em all, and the orcs in the cellar ate 'em (those that Grimward didn't dematerialize, that is). Just Shelob left, and she's out of fertilized eggs, and alas, no hunky male evil spiders around to, ah, well, help things along.

She'd better play her cards right, or else. She's still never recovered from that belly wound of hers.

[Grimward]

But you don't have a body, per se...

Amended; A disembodied, time-space anomaly does what it may....

A common misconception, but untrue - I'm sure we could persuade a few to visit the 1k clubroom...

Indeed....

*Squeezes disembodied fist and 5 dancing, fiery globes pop out of it.....*

We can always use more contestants for Dancing with the Spiders....

[Hilarious Joke]

I think it would be best if in the case of a spider invasion, I'll stand right up the back and direct the troops. That would be the most prudent thing to do, given my tactical nous.

[Majimaune]

Brrr I don't like spiders.

[Hilarious Joke]

The 1k Post Club just got....

COOKIE DOUGH!

*puts a hundred tubes of cookie dough in fridge*

[Majimaune]

Do we get to make cookies out of it all? I've never been a massive fan of raw cookie dough

[Grimward]

*Pulls a tube of choco chip dough out of the fridge, creates a spinning fiery disk under it, removes dough from tube, disposes of tube, slices dough into equal disks, then lets the thermals do the rest....*

[Ursa major]

* Wonders whether Grim can make hob-nobs. (Or, indeed, whether a hob** is necessary.) *









** - Perhaps this needs ferreting out.

[Parson]

Okay, you've gone all British on us colonials. In American English hobnob means to have a congenial visit. So what? "Is hob necessary?" And I suspect some sort of animal pun in "ferreting out."


I did my own dictionary work-- Google says: HobNob is a type of biscuit made from rolled oats and jumbo oats, similar to a flapjack/digestive biscuit hybrid. They are mainly sold in the United Kingdom. Invented by Julien Pike, the recipe was purchased by McVitie's who introduced the brand in Scotland in 1984. ...

Parson scratches his head. "Hmmm, let's see a biscuit in the UK is not a biscuit, but a cookie. But a flapjack is a form of a pancake? How does become a digestive? biscuit hybrid?

Sigh! Sometimes definitions are not worth the bytes they take to digest them.

[Grimward]

Am guessing that hobnobs would require hobnob dough.....

*checks the fridge to see what HJ brought*

Let's see.....peanut butter, sugar, chocolate chip, chocolate chip with macademia nuts....no rolled and jumbo oats, Urse.

*tenders a choc chip cookie, fresh from the "oven", to the bruin*

Have this instead, the tube said "Choco Leibniz recipe" on the side....

*Hands some to Parse, too, 'cuz looking up words and national translations is hungry work*

Sadly (read: Thankfully!), there weren't any ferret cookies, either....

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Grimward

...peanut butter, sugar, chocolate chip, chocolate chip with macademia nuts...

Perhaps I should rummage through some of the tins in the kitchen and see if there is anything left over from Christmas. Hmmm ... a plate of maple fudge and about a dozen caramel-nut-acorns.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by ColonialSpeaker

"Hmmm, let's see, a biscuit in the UK is not a biscuit, but a cookie. But a flapjack is a form of a pancake? How does become a digestive? biscuit hybrid?

No, 'biscuit' from the French bis cuit, cooked again, is something hard, dry and lasting, as in 'ship's biscuit', the hard-wearing hardtack that maintained sailors' jaw muscles between salt pork. It is not something spongy and enstaleable.

A 'digestive biscuit' is one that can be chewed and swallowed, and has rather too much sugar in its construction, but will still last for a fair while if maintained dry. Unless they're chocolate digestives.

Things like fig rolls deserve another classification along with jaffacakes and, I suspect, jammy dodgers.

Ferrets are too cuddly to eat.

[Ursa major]

And as long as no-one gets stoated, we may be okay.

[Parson]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

No, 'biscuit' from the French bis cuit, cooked again, is something hard, dry and lasting, as in 'ship's biscuit', the hard-wearing hardtack that maintained sailors' jaw muscles between salt pork. It is not something spongy and enstaleable.

A 'digestive biscuit' is one that can be chewed and swallowed, and has rather too much sugar in its construction, but will still last for a fair while if maintained dry. Unless they're chocolate digestives.

Things like fig rolls deserve another classification along with jaffacakes and, I suspect, jammy dodgers.

Ferrets are too cuddly to eat.

Chris, my level of understanding went from something lower than a worm's belly in a hole, to seeing through a glass darkly. Ship's biscuits I do understand as well as hardtack. I'm still a little fuzzy on the digestive part of it, but I'm starting to get the idea. Thanks for helping out.

The Parson sees a ferret heading down a rat hole in the 2 K cellar, pities rat.