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An "Ask Auntie Lowan" Digression.

 
 
blatham
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 06:58 pm
Martin Eggington invited me over for lunch one school day in grade seven. He set to work in the kitchen and in short order set in front of me a plate of 'beans on toast'. It changed my life. I think I likely had that meal half of the days through the rest of the year.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 07:09 pm
What kind of toast was it, blatham? Pointed, pithy, particular, or a little bit of all wrapped up into one?
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blatham
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 08:01 pm
Effusive - though neither false nor patronizing for that, a tad in the direction of grandiose, not, thank goodness, overlong though louder than one might wish, and a touch unseemly in content. Why do you inquire?
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Diane
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 08:13 pm
Effusive toast? Or would that be petard?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 09:29 pm
Now - THIS is digressing!
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Diane
 
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Reply Thu 11 Dec, 2003 09:32 pm
Well let's hoist one to all those effusive Canajuns.
Cheers!!!
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 02:47 am
blatham wrote:
(edit...and Gautaum who is dirty dirty dirty)


Shocked me dirty ? Even when I mud wrestling, I am immaculate !!!
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 02:56 am
Laughing Mud-wrestling?

Gautam, you imagine yourself having a penis for a head; if that isn't dirty, nothing is.
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 03:00 am
1. My penis is not dirty Laughing
2. Right now I will just settle for a head for my penis Twisted Evil

<I can't believe I said that Shocked>
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 03:04 am
What kind of head, Gautam...

OMG, I don't want to know...
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 04:55 am
A dick head?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 04:56 am
Awwwwww! Craven's done li'l chrisymas hats for the buttons at the bottom of our messages!
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 07:16 am
dlowan wrote:
A dick head?


No, guess again Laughing
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 07:47 am
dlowan wrote:
Awwwwww! Craven's done li'l chrisymas hats for the buttons at the bottom of our messages!


I know Very Happy! If this isn't evidence that Craven is a reveller, rather than a moaner, I don't know what is. Very Happy

Patiodog and fellow scrooges should just give up now.

Someone else's head (and... mouth)??? Shocked
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 07:54 am
I inquire, blatham, for the sake of knowledge. I was curious that you simply didn't say "whole wheat", or "seven grain", but "effusive" is good. I swear that most of the time, my toast treats me effusively, but then again, I might just be paranoid.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 08:44 am
My toast is grating.
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margo
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 01:34 pm
I've never considered the effusiveness (effusivity?), or not, of toast before.

Mostly it just seems to sit there sullenly, expressing passive dissatisfaction at having been toasted at all. Sometimes, it is evil, and manages to hold itself down in the toaster, until the smoke wakes me up - hopefully, just before it wakes up the smoke alarm.

I wonder if some sorts of bread are more effusive than others, originally, or when toasted. I usually use a fairly heavy sort of grain bread. It maintains a solid demeanour, both before and after toasting. This is quite satisfactory, I feel, especially at breakfast time.

I have had the experience, though, of putting just one slice of that particularly tasteless, airy white bread in the toaster. After it felt it had been heated enough, it flew out of the toaster and on to the floor! That must have been a particularly skittish loaf! Perhaps it was a wit-loaf!.
Laughing Confused
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 01:47 pm
Hot toast makes the butterfly.

I have often made a toasting bread. The recipe is largely the same as any ordinary bread recipe, except that one tries to keep the dough ball as moist as possible, working in less flour when kneading the loaf. If you can handle the dough properly while using less flour, you will produce a very moist loaf with a very short shelf life. It will only keep a few days, well wrapped, but it produces wonderful toast, and is best baked when you know you'll have a group of people who can dispose of the loaf quickly.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 03:17 pm
"I have often made a toasting bread."

Lovely, classic, cadence, that - "My father had a daughter loved a man."

Nice to see such fine diction on our threads.

I no longer eat bread, or hardly ever, but toast always seemed light, witty, effusive and cheerful to me - especially with marmalade.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 12 Dec, 2003 03:21 pm
Aw garsh . . . blush-blush . . . thankee, Lovely Coney . . .
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