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« Reply #100 on: June 28, 2007, 03:39:20 am » |
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Well, that's as maybe. And all above board and reasonable...... But where do you stand on the all important question of waffles? Make or buy?
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« Reply #101 on: June 28, 2007, 04:26:22 am » |
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The following is a quote from Mr. Waffleiron at the goldenwaffles forum which bothered me a little: My family has made and eaten waffles ever since it was first invented by Hans Novecsh after seeing that inspiring clump of mud fall from someone's soccer cleate. So, I propose that waffle fans be sectioned into groups.
The first group is what I would happen to fall into. That group could be designated as Wafflers. Wafflers are the ultra cool segment who mix their own batter, use a waffle iron, and cook it over an open flame. These are the true wafflers and many come from generations of wafflers.
The second group is best described as Wafflease . . . ease as in easy because while these waffle fans might enjoy waffles, they fall away from the purists, in that, they take shortcuts in waffle preparation ranging from using an electric waffle iron to using store-bought waffle mix. These types are not real waffle fans because they do not have the experience, know-how, or equipment that I have invested so much time and money into to make waffles.
The third category I shall name the Waffle Posers. These people only eat waffles and have taken no interest in making waffles the right way. Some waffle posers even buy Eggo waffles which are basically cheap, nonfunctional toy waffles. These Eggo-eaters would rather spend precious time on the internet then get in the kitchen and practice making a waffle from scratch. They use waffles as a badge merely to set themselves apart from their equally posing pancake friends. |
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« Reply #102 on: June 28, 2007, 04:30:27 am » |
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I am going to randomly state right now that this thread caused me to make waffles and I'm eating them with lingonberry jam and powdered sugar.
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« Reply #103 on: June 28, 2007, 04:40:10 am » |
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I am going to randomly state right now that this thread caused me to make waffles and I'm eating them with lingonberry jam and powdered sugar.
Oooh! Lingonberry jam..I would prefer them with orange marmalade, myself. The waffle analogies always make me laugh |
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« Reply #104 on: June 28, 2007, 05:08:43 am » |
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subculture status points. Oh no! Not steampoints! ( >< ) It makes me want to cry. |
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« Reply #105 on: June 28, 2007, 06:31:36 am » |
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Well, that's as maybe. And all above board and reasonable...... But where do you stand on the all important question of waffles? Make or buy?
Make. Definitely make. What better excuse to mix fire and a giant metal press than to make a delicious treat? . . . I may be in love. As for myself, I prefer to buy, though if handed a recipie, I could certainly make them. But buying is usually best for me. |
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« Reply #106 on: June 28, 2007, 07:45:14 am » |
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I am going to randomly state right now that this thread caused me to make waffles and I'm eating them with lingonberry jam and powdered sugar.
Oh, get in! Morriganslayde, standing over a roaring fire, with read hot tongs, drizzling lingonberry jam and dusting powdered sugar? Hang on 8 of you, one of me, That sounds like pims O'clock! http://www.powerpoint2go.com/video/pimms.mov |
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« Reply #107 on: June 28, 2007, 07:46:24 am » |
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I would like shame Mr. Cory for dragging our Waffly goodness into his silly little argument about whatever he's fighting bout.
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« Reply #108 on: June 30, 2007, 03:14:45 am » |
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Well I can see what your saying. Lord only knows I can. It just maybe preferable that if they have fundimental differences here that (despite the high intent) end in tit for tat reprisol spanning the board...... That maybe........just.......maybe. They could take them to to pm and leave us to think about morriganslayde, waffles and orange marmalade. Or for the ladies [insert steamy male steampunk here] striped to the waist cooking waffles as you recline gently on the sofa tapping your riding crop against a thigh high boot. Seem fair?  |
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« Reply #109 on: June 30, 2007, 04:04:04 am » |
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Yes! The orange marmalade!!! FOR THE MARMALADE!!
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« Reply #110 on: June 30, 2007, 04:10:01 am » |
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Ohhhhh god, orange marmalade! Don't Start Please! Victorian sexual oppression in small doses, it's fantastically useful! Ooooooo ankles!
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« Reply #111 on: June 30, 2007, 04:33:15 pm » |
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Actually, he did try to PM me, which basically amounted to a chance for him to throw insults at me without looking bad in public. If he wants to say that my fundamental problem is that I need to get laid, he can certainly do that in front of everybody.
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« Reply #112 on: June 30, 2007, 09:54:38 pm » |
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Pardon me, but how do I copy that "Threadjack Railroader" image into my sig?
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« Reply #113 on: July 01, 2007, 02:37:29 am » |
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Pardon me, but how do I copy that "Threadjack Railroader" image into my sig?
If you're actually a threadjacker, you got a nice PM saying so along with how to post it... I, however, have not posted mine yet. |
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« Reply #114 on: July 01, 2007, 03:05:41 am » |
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oh, please let Mr. Fugu have one..I'm quite sure he'll do his very best to completely sideline a thread if necessary.
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« Reply #115 on: July 01, 2007, 03:58:13 am » |
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OK, fine. Guess Peeps™ don't quite cut it. |
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« Reply #116 on: July 01, 2007, 04:29:17 am » |
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Hey, i get one too! I started the party in steampunk is not new with a *tink*
AND brought up Samosas!
And mammoths, and chuck norris. I win.
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« Reply #117 on: July 01, 2007, 02:11:07 pm » |
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« Reply #118 on: July 01, 2007, 07:03:25 pm » |
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Ok, well since I don't get a threadjacker badge, I now declare myself General Daemon of The Glorious Peep Army!
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« Reply #119 on: July 01, 2007, 07:12:28 pm » |
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Am I not the Threadjack tracker?
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« Reply #120 on: July 01, 2007, 09:40:15 pm » |
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For the sake of beating dead horses and giving a proper introduction to this forum, I think I will make what I hope will be a fairly concise response to the intent of the thread author here (yes, this means I'm threadjacking the threadjackers. Hoo-sha.)
This whole serious business talk reminds me vaguely of what my young mind knows of the "punk" sub-culture and its legacy. Needless to say, I am of a small camp that believes such a thing didn't really ever exist. While I love steampunk so very, very heartily, to make it into a sub-culture that can be categorized by a simple definition and has some kind of "goal" has, risks. It's been pointed out that not everyone with interest in the genre has a serious technical bent. Personally, I apply a philosophy based on my interests, something I would term "etherpunk" rather than steam-based because for me the fascination goes beyond simple cogs and wheels. What this thing is about to me is taking the old and re-evaluating the new, and creating a future out of What Could Have Been™ rather than abandon it. Tesla, Verne, Asimov, Bakunin, Mills, Bentham, and even Smith and Marx (as wholly conflicting as they are) all can contribute to our understanding of how the past informs the future. We must not necessarily reject the new (I myself tend to embrace a post-modern philosophical outlook), yet we cannot fully discard that history. That doesn't just go for philosophy, but science as well! Which was my reason for the reterming, considering how we have discarded the ideas of elements, alchemy, ether, and quintessence for the cold hard truth of chemistry which still has yet to give any explanation for some of the basest parts of our existence.
After that rant, I think I should get to the point.
The internet is the first invention that truly has given us an ability to instantly network. It's an improvement. I'm an avid advocate of free information and complete de-regulation of the internet (amongst other things, but this is not a political forum or one that needs this discussion) because it provides an avenue to direct networking that may be currently wasted on inanity, still provides us an option to build for something.
I don't have heritage in steam mechanics. In fact, steam mechanics do not interest me as much as the aesthetic of retrofuturism. At least, not at first, but now as I do research into it, the potential for steam as a replacement for internal combustion engine (considered by me to be one of the worst inventions in the course of history for its long term impact) in a world without fossil fuels (a completely different discussion, but I digress.) But that does not diminish my interest. Where did all this interest spark?
Books, actually. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was one of my first ever books. I am an avowed science-fiction fan, and from Verne I moved outside of the nascent steampunk genre to Asimov, and from there to the technognosticism of Philip K. Dick and the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Needless to say my interests are vareid, and my interest in the historical ranges from pre-Stalinist Soviet Russia to the Great War, from the classic gaslit era of steampunk Victoriana fiction to the Roaring Twenties of most pulp fiction. It doesn't matter the era, it's all "etherpunk" to me.
And regardless of whether or not I own various Nintendo products (and I do), a mp3 player heavily modified (and I do), various mind numbing video games in addition to the rare few that are actually intellectually stimulating interactive epics (and I do), or surf the web (and I do, alot), it's all of part of who I am, seperate of this sub-cultural niche I have finally found for myself.
So I will continue to try and change the world, taking the old and remaking the new. I will continue to work towards my big goal of a doctorate degree in philosophy at some college I can never get into, all the while indulging in my hobbies of steam trains, writing fiction, and practicing my theremin (or aetherphone, if you will) in hopes that my fellow etherpunks will take my idea for a post-rock band seriously.
So, enough malarky, back to the lack of topic at hand, eh?
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« Reply #121 on: July 02, 2007, 12:43:19 am » |
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Eeew. It's back on topic.
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« Reply #122 on: July 02, 2007, 05:12:18 am » |
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Ok, well since I don't get a threadjacker badge, I now declare myself General Daemon of The Glorious Peep Army!
The Peeps are a comin'! Raul, fetch me my good fork! We shall consume them individually, lest they overtake us with their marshmallow and sugary delight! |
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« Reply #123 on: July 02, 2007, 05:21:04 am » |
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*prepares the mechanical exiter of atoms for the destroy-ation of the peeps.*
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« Reply #124 on: July 02, 2007, 06:08:27 am » |
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Don't you know that mechanical excitation of atoms only increases the sizes of my Peep infantry!?
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