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[Sally, la reina]

Ugh. She did not say that.

[mark]

Sally i really think you need to be more supportive of alternate lifestyle choices. it's 2012! eat up, LG, i agree that that cake looks delish.

[Youndyc]

That cake is green. There's just something not right about green cake. I prefer my cake to be a chocolate bar.

[janine]

But it's pistachio. Pistachio is delicious!

[Cynthia]

My Aunt Susan used to make a cake like that with a package of Pistachio pudding mix in it. It was awesome.

[Youndyc]

janine wrote: "But it's pistachio. Pistachio is delicious!"

Sorry, I'm not sold. I love pecans and cashews and macadamias and pine nuts and almonds and various other nuts, but pistachios not so much.

[janine]

Cynthia wrote: "My Aunt Susan used to make a cake like that with a package of Pistachio pudding mix in it. It was awesome."

I used to love pistachio pudding mix when I was younger. Maybe I should try to find some.

[mark]

i know that it is pistachio, but that cake looks just like a midori flavored cake i had the other day. so it looks truly delicious to me. i'm not sure what a pistachio flavored cake would even taste like.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just adore a Bundt cake, and that shade of green is not only beautiful, but also makes me really hungry. I used to love pistachio pudding mix too.

[Sally, la reina]

My finger itches again.

[Félix]

Not again.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

You know what's annoying and uncalled for is when someone you don't know PMs you and requests that you follow them. Huh? Why would I do that?

[Cyril]

Lobstergirl wrote: "You know what's annoying and uncalled for is when someone you don't know PMs you and requests that you follow them. Huh? Why would I do that?"

So I take that as a "no".

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It's a no. No go.

[mark]

Lobstergirl wrote: "You know what's annoying and uncalled for is when someone you don't know PMs you and requests that you follow them. Huh? Why would I do that?"

that is... hilarious! i have never experienced that. i wonder if they are an author. the idea that someone just wants to increase their number of followers and this is how they are going about doing it is mind-boggling. and highly amusing.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I believe it is an author.

[mark]

ah. well that explains things. and now that i think about it, i have actually experienced the same thing before. i remember posting that i wanted suggestions for "Schools in Space" type scifi books in the Reader's Advisory group, and an author notified me that i should follow her because she was working on just such a novel. she also apologized for the request and said that she would have friended me, but apparently she had reached her daily limit (??). i ignored.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Daily limit, good one! A HAHAHAHA!

I do have a friend who has a policy of only liking a maximum of 3 reviews per day. I guess he doesn't want to spread his benevolence too wide, as it will get diluted.

[mark]

i'm rather slutty with my likes. i tend to like nearly all of my friends' reviews, even if i have no intention of reading the book reviewed, if only because i like the reviewer's voice. i'm easy, just too easy.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I don't have minimums or maxiumums....to be honest, most people's reviews are so boring I keep on walking.

You don't get extra points for length with me, either. I'd rather read a shorter review packed with relevance. Or something that makes me laugh. If you spend most of the review telling a personal story about yourself (which granted I have done a few times, but I'm just saying) that subtracts points.

[Phil]

I won't follow anyone whose reviews are a summary of the book. If it starts with, "Julie was a young girl growing up bored on a Nebraska farm, until a murder in town changed all that."

That's the shit you get from the blurbs on the dust jacket.

[Jim]

In the shade of the old apple tree.

[Félix]

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.2.1

[Jim]

Félix wrote: "502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.2.1"

Huh?

[Félix]

That's what I always say.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Phil wrote: "I won't follow anyone whose reviews are a summary of the book. If it starts with, "Julie was a young girl growing up bored on a Nebraska farm, until a murder in town changed all that."

That's the..."

I mostly agree with you, but sometimes (occasionally) I'm writing a review for myself as much as someone else. It's a library book, I'm going to return it and never see it again, and if I don't summarize at least some plot I'll forget what the book was about within 4 months. This is for books that have no book description and are probably out of print, so you can't go somewhere else for a summary or a description.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Tardis, I really am not sure what you're asking!

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Tardis you can always pm me and not irritate the shit out of me and pretend it's Lobstergirl...

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Hops up and down... :D

[Jammies]

*drops in to not irritate the shit out of kogi*

[evie]

I'm confused. Who's irritated?

[Félix]

Who's on first.

[Jim]

I don't know.

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

No irritation except it's a 100 here.

[Félix]

Jim wrote: "I don't know."

Third base.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Totally forgot what I came in here to post.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oh, I know. Today seems so much more like a Wednesday than a Tuesday.

[Félix]

So are the days of our lives.

[evie]

It's Wednesday where I am.

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Same here.

[Emily]

Wednesday night here, almost the weekend!

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Hump day!

[Emily]

Yay :)

[evie]

It's Thursday.

[Jim]

Slow down evie, you are getting a head of yourself.

[Phil]

A head?

[evie]

That's not me.

[Félix]

Green Springs Ave.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I love it when people post in the comments section after a Chicago Tribune article: "It's the troof!"

The article is totally hilarious....typical Chicagoland. A DOT worker doing aerial surveillance spotted a bunch of cars submerged in various lakes and ponds in the suburbs. (Lol....) Yet when divers went into the lakes and ponds, they couldn't find the cars, even with the help of sonar.

And the commenters have all sorts of ideas: Jesse Jackson Jr. is in the trunk of one! (he's gone on "medical leave," but no one will say where...)

People bought cars they couldn't afford under Obama's Cash for Clunkers plan, then they lost their jobs, and drove the cars into the ponds!

Over-mileage lease vehicles!

Very, very bad parking jobs!

Will parking tickets be issued?

It's Cook County, what do you think?

"Hard to think that submerging an unaffordable new vehicle in a northwest suburban pond is more the go-to strategy than leaving the keys on the seat in an iffy neighborhood, but "What to do if you're broke and stupid" thinking doesn't come as easily to me.

By the way, berries I bought Sunday have already started turning; how did Obama cause this?"