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Fantastic word game

Bouillabaisse is not something I would want to have spill on my desk when it's being occupied by decks of Hollerith cards, nor would I want to have a bowl of it setting atop the line printer when the paper transport jams, the cover flies open and the computer terminal displays "lp0 on fire".

[size=8pt]I've never had bouillabaisse, and all I know is that it is made with fish. What is it specifically?
 
When the paper transport jams, the cover flies open and the computer terminal displays "lp0 on fire", it's time to get a new line printer.


Since Mr. IDBC didn't bother to acknowledge it, I will. Well done, everyone, on the alphabet game. Now....let's start with the Chinese alphabet.

I keed, I keed. ;D
 
A new line printer sounds like a capital idea, but just make sure his hands aren't too unsteady, because we had to send the last cigar lighter to his pension for that very reason.
 
Macaroni and glue crafting is down the hall, away from the kitchen, because in the kitchen we have been constructing a sugarplum castle.

Sugarplum castle:

Several paper towel rolls
a couple of small to medium styrofoam balls
Several bags of marshmallows (stones)
Small cardboard box - the empty cheap white zin box will do okay
Couple of boxes of confectioners sugar
gum drops
one box ice cream cones (for turrets)
Hershey Kisses (for "flags"/banners in turret tops)
toothpicks (to secure gum drops)
Necco wafers (if desired for window trim and roof shingles)
Blue food coloriing


Mix sugar, water and a drop of food coloring to make ice blue mortar.  Proceed one marshmallow at a time to cement marshmallows to paper towel rolls, which should be very close to the corners of the walls.  This usually takes about a month to complete, so you would be nearly finished had you been with us in the kitchen the day after Thanksgiving.  Be sure to cut some windows in the box and paper towel rolls before you start, as you will undoubtedly decide that you would like to add little cut out angels and kiddies to the windows, as well as some candles (not real of course).  When all are marshmallowed up, you may wish to make a gingerbread roof or use cardboard and cement Necco wafers to the roof.  At the tops of the paper towel rolls secure the styrofoam balls to one or two of the turrets/towers, and ice cream cones to the rest.  Before securing the ice cream cones, cut the points off and secure kisses so that they are showing through, and then place the cones pointed end up on the turrets, with flags showing.  Use toothpicks to secure gum drops to the styrofoam balls. You may wish to place all on a tin foil base, to give the effect of a moat, and use some ice cream cones, frosted with some confectioners sugar frosting with green food coloring for trees, which you will of course want to decorate with some sprinkles.  Continue decorating around it according to your originality, since we don't do the tv diva decorating thingy.

It is a labor of love by band campers who deliver to orphanages and nursing homes.
 
Gingerbread is hard to come by in the dmargalotti household so the little dmargalotti-ettes have to make due with visions of sugarplums and candycanes.


Unless Miss Silkie feels sorry for them and decided to send a truckload of Miss Silkie's Tasty Treats over to the house. ;)
 
Visions of sugarplums and candy canes, as well as dreams about Santa Claus are not unheard of in the adult population, and for the life of me I cannot believe that I still recall that epic dream, some 20 years later as though it occurred only yesterday.

Take it from Silkie, boys and girls, there is definitely a Santa Claus, just as there is a Sweetie Pie.
 
Only yesterday I had a toothache bigger than Hoover Dam, and now today it's gone.

[size=8pt]Guess I need to lay off the Orangina for a while......
 
Before December 19,I need to have my Christmas shopping done to avoid the week before Christmas shopping rush.
 
The week before Christmas shopping rush is usually filled by the husbands and boyfriends who haven't shopped since the same time last year.
 


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