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- From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Black Death Birthdays (Recipe Included)
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:26:23 GMT
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- In article <gf1vZhu00iUzI2_0o6@andrew.cmu.edu> mmbt+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
- >"Hey Mike, can you give me a hand with these doors?"
- >
- >"Sure thing, Merrigold." replies Mike, walking to the
- >back of the bar, and holding open the door to the callahan's
- >kitchen. "Hey, that does look good! "
- >
- >Merrigold backs into the room, pulling a chef's trolley.
- >She grins at Mike: "Thanks for letting me use your kitchen!"
- >then turns the trolley, and herself, around to face the room.
- >She is wearing a once-white chef's apron, now
- >liberally dusted with a covering of powdered Belgian
- >chocolate, and the chef's cap on her head reads
- >"Callebaut chocolate: the only *true* chocolate is dark chocolate"
- >Her hands have been washed clean, but there's still a streak
- >of chocolate down one cheek, which she seems to have missed.
- >
- >On the trolley before her sit (In Chorus: "OOOOhhhh, AAAAAAh")
- [EVIDENCE REMOVED FOR EXAMINATION BY COUNCEL :-) ]
- >
- >Merrigold lifts the knife, cuts the cake (you can see her *working*
- >to push the knife through the cake: it's *really* dense) and puts
- >the first two slices onto a pair of plates. She then loads them
- >with whipped cream, and adds forks.
- >
- >"Once I've handed these two slices out, the cake is fair game!
- >But I've brought this cake here in honour of two friends of mine,
- >Chris Welch (Urban Spaceman) and John Ockerbloom, and the first
- >two slices go to them. They're both celebrating birthdays this week
- >(Chris on the 16th and John on the 18th) and I wanted to celebrate them.
- >Since I can't manage to be in the UK, Chris, I hope you'll accept
- >this virtual cake, with virtual hugs, and warmth and affection.
- >And since John lives in Pittsburgh, I can offer him an actual hug!"
- >
- > "Happy Birthdays to you both!"
- >
- >"Oh, and Mike, could you mix me up a mint tea, please, and a
- >hot mulled cider? For Chris and John, to go with their cake..."
- >
- >"I don't normally do virtual birthdays, so I thought I would
- >justify this one by making it possible for people to make the
- >actual cake! Here's the recipe. P'relan, Toothpick, and
- >John Ockerbloom have had the chance to taste this in actuality,
- >in the past, so they can vouch that it's worth making (and eating).
- >As P'relan said 'It's to die for!' Hence the name. I hope
- >you'll all enjoy it. "
- >
- [RECIPE REMOVED AND PASTED INTO COOKBOOK :-) FOR THE SAFETY OF READERS, SOME
- OF WHOM MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE BEHELD IT WHILST POSSESSING AN EMPTY STOMACH!]
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Mary Mark email: mmbt+@andrew.cmu.edu
- >Department of Psychology
- >Carnegie Mellon University "Practice random kindness
- >Pittsburgh,PA and engage in senseless acts of beauty."
- >U.S.A.
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- "M'lud, honourable members of the jury, I put it to you that the defendant is
- guilty of intent to cause grievous culinary and dietary harm by means of a
- cocoa-based confectionary of extreme proportions. I further propose that the
- only possible conclusion is that the aforementioned confection be removed
- from this place and disposed of without further delay!"
-
- MonTemplar proceeds to put a small black square of cloth over his head.
-
- "I hereby do pass sentence upon this cake, that it shall be taken from this
- place, and drawn, quartered and scoffed until deceaced, may God have mercy on
- our souls."
-
- :-) :-)
- Do I get a piece now?
-
- --
- Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
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