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Trilobite cookies were first invented in Italy during the Renaissance, where they were eaten only by young maidens of good family but poor prospects...
*whack* Er, sorry.

That was so much fun! The cookies were totally upstaged by the bad, bad book that [livejournal.com profile] elynne and [livejournal.com profile] baxil brought with them from [livejournal.com profile] firecat and A. (Yikes, look at what the author wrote at that link. Also note that you can get the book used for a buck.)

Cookies did get made, though, and they're terribly cute. I am so tired this morning, though. I didn't kick people out because I was having too much fun, so nobody left until 12:30 or so. Oops.




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it sizzles!

Date: 2002-02-25 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
Oh my dear God, those reviews are so telling. 'Crap!' - a reader 'Utter crap!' - a reader 'Great! Smashing! Fabulous!' - the editor

Reviews were invented by the Greeks in 450 BC. Their simple yet complex way of reviewing books was simple, in that they were a plain-spoken people, and complex in that books would not be invented until 1452. I often think of my idol, 15th century printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg, and wonder about how our sense of adventure and love for fiddly bits of metal can help to bring humankind to its next evolutionary stage.

Trilobaking was fun! Getting very little sleep was not. Next time bake on a Saturday!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
TRI LO BITE

tapirs are prehistoric too, you know

*pouts* in her at home sickness

Date: 2002-02-25 09:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
I bet it would be much easier to find a tapir-sized autoclave. I wonder when autoclaves were invented?

Snout, it is probably much safer for you that you did not make it to tri lo bake.

Date: 2002-02-25 09:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
our little viral friends probably predate us all

Date: 2002-02-25 09:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
They're more fun at parties, too. Damn them! Damn their eyes!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
Their little candy bit eyes?

Date: 2002-02-25 09:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
There are still cookies remaining, and I will bring you some, o sick and coughing ungulate.

Re: it sizzles!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
Next time we're making llama sausage.

Date: 2002-02-25 09:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
they're not crumbly, are they, crumbly things will make
my cough worse.

no, really, that's great, how sweet! you will see me
all stoned out on cough syrup and watching tv all glassy
eyed with little tiny opiated out pupils.

hee!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
Hey, I wanna be stoned out on cough syrup! Then perhaps the memories of that terrible book will leave me alone for an hour or two.

Date: 2002-02-25 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
Which were invented in 1872.

Re: it sizzles!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
It's a good thing we have painstakingly detailled instructions!

Date: 2002-02-25 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
They are a little crumbly, but as long as you don't huff them I would think you'd be okay. Maybe I will go to Venus while I am on the Hill and order me that corset.

Date: 2002-02-25 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
bun, not to be a complete pig but I'm not sure what
I'd do if you came over in a corset and with
trilobite cookies.

Date: 2002-02-25 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
How can you say such things to me when I use my Cardcaptor Sakura icon? She is ten years old!

I didn't say I'd be wearing it, just that I might go try some on and order one in my size. Then I could be all cutely flushed from getting laced up, instead.

Hmm. Maybe I'll go there second.

Date: 2002-02-25 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marzipan-pig.livejournal.com
bitch.

I could help?

hee.

Date: 2002-02-25 10:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
I agree with the metal pig. Between this and your corset/PS2 thing, I suspect you're secretly trying to make our heads explode.

Date: 2002-02-25 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mittelbar.livejournal.com
Send those pics to Mr. Hart, eh.

(I read the reviews at Amazon. That guy and that V*nn* B*nt* person would make a nice couple.)

Re: it sizzles!

Date: 2002-02-25 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elynne.livejournal.com
It's a pity that the beer-making scene was so vague. I suppose they didn't give the author a handout in that class.

It sizzles! "A masterfully crafted story!" exclaims somebody paid to review the book by the magazine that was responsible for publishing the hideous pendulous trotting llama-meat book. Even so, he couldn't quite bring himself to praise anything specific about the story... I'd guess that they handed him a copy and said "Here, write a positive review," and after twenty pages he gagged, threw it across the room, and made some shit up. Or "she", I don't know which "Loren" is. Either way, I feel pity and sympathy. Sympathy, of course, was invented by the Babylonians in 4000 BC, which they first felt upon seeing the poor schmucks in the gulag (which had already itself existed for about 4000 years).

Oh dear....

Date: 2002-02-25 10:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] envoy.livejournal.com
Trilobite Cookie... I CHOOSE YOU!

Chocolate dip attack! Now!

Re: it sizzles!

Date: 2002-02-25 10:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torquemada.livejournal.com
No no, I suspect that editor guy is the one responsible for publishing the book. The author probably bugged him about how no one was buying it, and pleaded with him to write a review. It was only at the very end that the editor felt shame for what he had done, and he could not go so far as to lie a lot.

Wasn't Loren the Only Whore on Mars? Oh, no, that was Saron.

Date: 2002-02-25 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com
Oh those are so cute! I want to steal that idea. I love the pink-heart-eyed trilobyte. :)

Date: 2002-02-25 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
The web site with the recipe has been impossible of access for some time now, but dear beloved Google has a cached version (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:2uhnhdhkVEkC:www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html+trilobite+cookies&hl=en). We eventually figured out the proper dough consistency and cookie press action, and eating the errors was fun.

Date: 2002-02-25 11:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
Oh, good plan. I'll definitely email Mr. Hart.

One of many truly frightening things about that book is that it was fourth in a series. I'm sure there's still room for a collaboration, though.

Date: 2002-02-25 11:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elynne.livejournal.com
Natural selection in action. :) We didn't get to the purple sprinkles and butterfly-shaped eye-things... heeeeee... wanna do it again! I wish the frosting tubes had come out better. Big ol' splodges of frosting just weren't quite right. Maybe... hm. I'll have to think about that.
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