It's time to press "reset" on the federal government and start over again from scratch.
While we're distracted by Christmas shopping and the meltdown of Tiger Woods' career, the Democrats in Congress have rammed through the largest and most bloated budget our country has ever seen, spending 1.1 trillion dollars the nation does not have, putting us further into debt to a total which is expected to be over 14 trillion dollars by the end of the year.…
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76 - Cindy
Dr.D,
Pardon me for interrupting this exciting conversation, but I need your help. Or Christopher's or someone's...
You know the rolls they serve all over Europe (and IIRC the UK). They are round and crusty and they are pretty much the best rolls ever invented. They are made from white flour and are served with any meal. I have had them at dinner and breakfast. They are literally the roll that you get everywhere. They practically fall out of the sky over there.
I need to know what they are called. Do you know? Does anyone know? They have nothing half as delicious in the US. If I could name them I could get a recipe. TIA...
77 - Dr Dreadful
I dunno the official name for them, Cindy. I've always just called them rolls. Or bread rolls. Or sometimes crusty rolls.
They are indeed fantastic, at least when freshly baked. They go stale quickly though.
78 - Cindy
So, I guess you don't recommend I fly over there and fill up a carry-on full to take home.
Well, if you could do me a favor. If you know any cooks or bakers or whatnot...and you happen to be thinking of it...could you ask around? I don't think anyone knows what they are called...yet everyone there from Scotland to Austria is using the same recipe to make them.
If you do I will love you forever (or I will refrain from loving you forever, depending on your preference)...
:-)
79 - Cannonshop
#74 you sure they'll let us have JACKETS and not just brown sackcloth robes with a rope around the waist?
80 - Baronius
Cindy, you're not talking about croissants, are you?
81 - roger nowosielski
We use to call 'em "Kaiser rolls."
82 - roger nowosielski
A recipe, including the illustration.
83 - Cindy
Bar, (+ a p.s. for Dr.D)
Nope, not a croissant. It's really just an ordinary looking round crusty dinner roll. But it tastes different. I am pretty sure I have not had one that tastes the same here. Nope, not a hard roll (Kaiser), Roger.
p.s. Dr.D...Do you think this Spitzweck roll could be the one I want? I haven't seen one in a few years. I am remembering them as more round...but maybe they're not?
84 - Dr Dreadful
That could be it, Cindy, except the ones I remember are more round. That Spitzweck looks tasty though.
The rolls I have in mind are pretty much just white bread, baked as rolls rather than loaves.
85 - zingzing
"loaf" is probably the word i hate most in the english language. just sounds squishy and plump. "rumple" is another word i hate. put them together and you get "rumpleloaf," which just has to be the most disgusting thing ever.
86 - Dr Dreadful
[awkward silence]
Dr Evil: Riiiiight...
87 - zingzing
you don't worry about these things?
88 - Dr Dreadful
No, I don't, zing, and I suggest you follow suit by mixing yourself (or finding someone to mix for you) a nice Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Cheers.
89 - El Bicho
so then do you order your bread by the slice, zing?
90 - zingzing
eb, if there's one thing my neighborhood is missing, it's a bakery. so, i don't get to order bread too often. it's strange. i never really have to say the word. or i just pretend it's the verb whenever i'm forced to say it.
doc, RUMPLELOAF! RUMPLELOAF! gross.
91 - Dave Nalle
Cindy, you're looking for what the French call a "boulle"
Dave
92 - Cindy
you hate squishy and plump? you can't think of a single thing more horrifying than squishy and plump?
*makes a kind of italian gesture in zing's direction*
plump and squishy sounds lovely to me. sounds a lot like breasts that haven't been surgically implanted. even if i can't be gay, i think breasts look beautiful. what in the world is wrong with you zing? you don't like breasts?
93 - Cindy
Thanks, Dave. I will find a recipe and try making that. :-)
94 - Cannonshop
Squishy and plump is DEFINITELY superior to bony and dry.
95 - Cannonshop
Hmmm...come to think of it, it's also better than Squamous or Juddering...
96 - zingzing
cindy: "what in the world is wrong with you zing? you don't like breasts?"
do you bite your thumb at me, madam?
if they look like loaves, no. but you put a nipple on a loaf of bread, and i'm more interested. suckle. i must say i've never connected the two, but now you've fucked me up for life. thanks. jesus. gonna get excited every time i buy bread now.
97 - zingzing
also, going to start slicing breasts. you've made a ripper out of me.
98 - Christopher Rose
not much of a ripper if you can be reduced to a quivering wreck by the use of the word "rumpleloaf".
Ha!
Rumpleloaf.
RUMPLEloaf.
RUMPLELOAF!
Had enough yet?
;-)
99 - zingzing
luckily, the context for the word only exists in my mind, which, unfortunately, is out to get me. i felt the need to spread it. my mind, i mean. spreading my mind.
100 - roger nowosielski
Zing, the Ripper?
I'm with you, though. Tits should be soft and pliable. Bread crusty and resilient, something to sink one's teeth into.
Which isn't to say that the nipples aren't meant for biting, as long as you do it gently.
101 - Baronius
Zing's Rule: Never announce your pet peeves on a chat board.
102 - Ruvy
This article has been reduced to a commentary on tits and nipples (or is it shits and giggles?)
Is this a commentary to how low the Democrats have fallen - or the commenters?
103 - Cannonshop
102 Yes.
104 - Dr Dreadful
Definitely the commenters, Ruvy - which is why we aren't and shouldn't be allowed out unsupervised. :-)
105 - zingzing
"Is this a commentary to how low the Democrats have fallen - or the commenters?"
hope you're including yourself in that one, ruvster.
106 - roger nowosielski
Ruvster?
Yes, it fits.
107 - roger nowosielski
What's wrong with tits & ass? The finest in literature and philosophy is but a sublimation of the carnal dream.
108 - Baronius
You know, Ruvy, in a perfect world people would stick to the topic of the thread. But I've got a hunch that one more iteration of the same argument isn't going to change anyone's thinking, and this thread was kind of dying out on its own. A little frivolity isn't a crime.
Besides, it adds a new wrinkle. A new fold. A new, what's the word...
109 - roger nowosielski
It's certainly adding spice to Dave Nalle's rather predictable articles.
110 - roger nowosielski
And speaking of bread, you've got to check Italian, Cindy.
Here's one site.
Something to nibble at, besides nipples.
111 - Dr Dreadful
What Baronius said. Who cares if some BC threads go off-topic? That's what human conversations do, and since this site doesn't have a moderator one must assume that Eric and the rest of the cadre are quite happy for us to ramble on to our hearts' content about whatever tickles our tits.
Isn't this species of anarchy preferable to changing every discussion to the same subject, as some people are wont to do...? ;-)
112 - roger nowosielski
Whatever tickles our tits?
Wow, that's not my most sensitive spot, but I'll settle for it in lieu of anything better.
113 - roger nowosielski
Another good site with links galore.
114 - Dave Nalle
If I could give out free breasts to top Obamacare I would.
Dave
115 - roger nowosielski
Unfortunately, the suckers are buying it, and it ain't nothing even close to good sex.
116 - Cindy
do you bite your thumb at me, madam?
lol, nah, that is harsh...it was the gesture where you hold your hand out sort of in front of you and press all your fingers together and shake your hand back and forth and say, "whatsamattafahyou?"--like this.
(in the movies this is sometimes accompanied by a gentle slap in the head)
117 - Cindy
Roger, you sorta freak me out...I think I'll change the subject...(gulp)...
118 - roger nowosielski
Sorta went off on a tangent, Cindy. Sorry.
119 - Cindy
Besides, it adds a new wrinkle. A new fold. A new, what's the word...
er...rumple?
120 - roger nowosielski
a rumple with a dimple.
121 - Cindy
Just being silly, Rog...
You aren't really freaking me out...
zing the slasher was sorta creepy though...until Christopher made him fall into a crack in the earth...
122 - roger nowosielski
I thought you objected to sexual allusions. I'm glad, then, I haven't overstepped.
123 - Cindy
Roger, when I ride on a roller coaster, I just close my eyes for the parts I don't care to see. ;-)
124 - roger nowosielski
I did post something for you, Cindy. Awaiting your comments.