The Battle For My Wallet V: Beyond the Number IV (Chapter Eighteen, p.75, 5/18)

[lisalonglash]

Excellent, moist, delectable, fresh and well-iced chapter, ZZub Although I have never personally had grilled cake of any variety, anything with caramel on it has my vote. Caramel makes me

RIP BGPC - I never knew ya, but I'll miss ya anyway

 

[lisalonglash]

Read again, Lord Marbury.

Seriously, all I could think of when reading this was Basil getting a tongue-lashing (again) from Sybil. And a briefcase filled with only bricks

Thanks for the giggle

 

[mikymouse]

Didn't Mel run off to a Cake Decorating Class before she disappeared?
Is the Cake Chapter simply a ploy to lure Mel back to the board?
How could Mel NOT response to this chapter?
Wondering minds what to know.

 

[Sneezie]

SNEEZIE!Where have you been?! Haven't seen a post from you in forever. Welcome back!

Wow! What a warm welcome! Is that a cake in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

So it's obvious now that we're kin, separated at birth no doubt.

I never had a doubt. You look just like my uncle on my mom's mother's cousin's side - twice removed - whatever that means.

This would be even funnier (if that's possible) if your name wasn't Tamara.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I have had "Congratulations Greta" spelled out on a cake before. Hey, a line was starting to form and I panicked, okay!

I've sworn off Red Velvet Cake. I've had my heart broken by it too many times. It always looks moist but rarely is. Plus, some idiots put nuts in it. That's full on gross. On the other hand, it does have cream cheese icing. You could put that on a turd and it'd be good. NOLaLa'shomecooking.

I so totally agree with that statement (sans the NOLaLa'shomecooking part)

Some cakes that I forgot to mention in my earlier list, along with the Red Velvet Cake, Italian Cream Cake, Strawberry Cake WITH Fresh Strawberries, Punchbowl Cake (in or out of the bowl), Doberge Cakes, Coconut Cake, Scarlett O'Hara Cake (only in the South). Heck, I'll even eat soap scum if its caked up!

 

[AshClan]

Didn't Mel run off to a Cake Decorating Class before she disappeared?
Is the Cake Chapter simply a ploy to lure Mel back to the board?
How could Mel NOT response to this chapter?
Wondering minds what to know.

mikymouse, you are a genius! Even if that wasn't Z's intention, I hope it works!!

Oh, and BTW, I am with Frick on your name. I always read it as "milkymouse"!

Finally, Z, I am a measly 6 years older than you. Or 6 yrs, 5 months, to be exact. I'm really seriously hoping that I'm closer to your age than your mom's. Cause that would just be horrifying. I know you're from the south and all, but even southerners usually wait until they're 14 or 15 to start having kids. Right?

 

[PISCESANGEL]

just read this post....


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1807181






And...another one bites the dust....







.

 

[ZZUB]

Zzub, aren't you supposed to be working - you know, writing a brief, preparing for a depo? And yet I find more and more posts by you during *ahem* working hours.

One nice thing about my job, I control my schedule mostly. And while I have to bill hours, I don't punch a time clock. I am free to use my time how I see fit (as long as my hours get billed). So periodically, I will rest my brain by reading stuff on here and posting responses.

Excellent, moist, delectable, fresh and well-iced chapter, ZZub

I like the way you phrased that. And I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I have had "Congratulations Greta" spelled out on a cake before. Hey, a line was starting to form and I panicked, okay!

This is 18 kinds of freakin funny! Seriously, the picture of you standing in line at the Winn Dixie surreptitiously ordering a birthday cake and getting flustered kills me DED. I read your post to my wife who laughed hysterically. She said, "that was funnier than your chapter."

So now she's on ignore.

But we're glad to see you posting again!

Finally, Z, I am a measly 6 years older than you. Or 6 yrs, 5 months, to be exact. I'm really seriously hoping that I'm closer to your age than your mom's. Cause that would just be horrifying.

Horrifying?! Really? I think car accidents are horrifying. Finding out your old feels more like depressing to me. Nevertheless, since I managed to squeeze a four year degree into five years, I was 23 when I graduated from undergrad. So it seemed impossible to me that your college graduation could be 25 years ago. My high school graduation wasn't even 25 years ago.

So . . .taking a page from the Obama playbook, I offer the following:

I never said you were as old as my mom.

I may have said you were as old as my mom. But you have to understand the context in which that statement was made. I am like my crazy uncle who is not unlike my white grandmother. Both of them think people they know through the internet are older than they actually are.

I cannot believe I said that! I do not agree with that statement at all!!! and !! I renounce, strongly renounce, that way of thinking! It is offensive to me, my family and to many, many Americans.

Hopefully, Ashclan, is as gullible as a frightening number of voters seem to be.

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I will be in a trial tomorrow morning so it try not to stink up the place while I'm gone. And for crying out loud: keep your hands off the cake in the fridge. It's mine!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

FYI: Your posts always make me laugh. Thanks.

Thank you. Means a lot to me that you said that. There's so much in this world to cry about (NOMonkeyCurrentlyInOffice) that laughter truly is the heart's best medicine.

Your posts also always put a smile on my face. And it always feels best on days when I feel like I have nothing else to smile about.

Like yesterday.

Thanks for being the ray of sunshine on an otherwise rainy Monday.

 

[Kimberly815]

ZZUB. . .I thought of you just a moment ago. . .

(Is it sad when you think of "imaginary internet people" when something happens in real life?)

I just remembered that today is 'Cake Day' at my company. They do it on the last Wednesday of every month to celebrate all the birthdays for the month. And today is April's Cake Day. Bring on the cake!

 

[New England Eeyore]

Just read the latest chapter. I feel your pain. Lately, all my WDW trips have been exclusively planned around food and while I never enjoyed the BGPC there are items I'd be inspired to write a eulogy about if they disappeared. The dips at Spoodles comes to mind. I'm not sure I'd have liked the BGPC though. I love cake, but not so much with the frosting. When they were younger, my Dad always used to be the official cake baker for my DsD's birthdays and he got quite good at it. He learned that to make the cakes look like a normal cake, you had to slice the tops off the two layers so you would be able to frost it easily. He'd put the broken up cake top pieces in a baggie for me and leave it in my fridge. I can't tell you how excited I would get when I found them.

BTW - in all these years of reading your reports, I never knew you were a Billy Joel fan! Good man.

 

[tina_la]

oh Obama That always cracks me up... and is very scary at the same time.

Loved the chapter Zzub. Read your TR in between calls at work and lightens the load. Thanks

 

[JKMJ441724]

FYI: Your posts always make me laugh. Thanks.

Thank you. Means a lot to me that you said that. There's so much in this world to cry about (NOMonkeyCurrentlyInOffice) that laughter truly is the heart's best medicine.

Your posts also always put a smile on my face. And it always feels best on days when I feel like I have nothing else to smile about.

ZZUB (and your other loyal readers) should jump over and read her pre-trippie. It is a hootenanny. If anyone does not enjoy it, I will give them double their money back.

Nikki, how was that for a shameless plug??

 

[scrapbookersdis]

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

and be you blithe and bonny, converting all your sounds of woe into hey, nonny, nonny.

I shall try that when we go in September. Assuming they haven't changed it by then. (Hey, you combined cake with SEE'S and chocolate. I'm sold!)

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

ZZUB (and your other loyal readers) should jump over and read her pre-trippie. It is a hootenanny. If anyone does not enjoy it, I will give them double their money back.

Nikki, how was that for a shameless plug??

Oh my. The shameless plugging never ceases.

I swear to you all, I don't pay her to do that (though maybe I should! LOL).

I'd lure you all over with promises of Butter Grilled Poundcake. But that would be a lie. As I'm sure it doesn't mail well. If you choose to visit, welcome, if not nifty. No pressure.

Besides, I don't think Z is a pre-trippie reader. And I mean really, with all the writing and posting he has to do here on the DIS and trial-ing and depo-ing and daddy-being and beggingMrs.Zforpoundcake-ing he has to do in his "real" life, I can see why.

I think I need to discuss with my therapist the extreme reactions I'm having to pictures of dessert. While not as extreme as the Butter Grilled Poundcake, I did see this picture and say to myself, "Self, get that. NOW."

::sigh:: Is update Monday really two weeks away?

 

[mikymouse]

Is there tier seating at LTT? We didn't have any of those yummy looking desserts this past March. We did get some apple pie crumble thing with ice cream but there was no carmel in that dish. I love me some carmel. In fact, one of my son's first big words was macchiato.

 

[tina_la]

QUOTE" Is there tier seating at LTT? We didn't have any of those yummy looking desserts this past March. We did get some apple pie crumble thing with ice cream but there was no carmel in that dish. I love me some carmel. In fact, one of my son's first big words was macchiato.' Quote

pretty sure they are talking about lunch which has a menu and what you are talking about is the dinner (?).

Dinner is a set menu with the cobbler as your desert and characters.

 

[scrapbookersdis]

and be you blithe and bonny ...

Hey, I thought all the in jokes here were Seinfeld and West Wing. I underestimated by a couple four centuries.

 

[PirateFish989]

I've sworn off Red Velvet Cake. I've had my heart broken by it too many times. It always looks moist but rarely is. Plus, some idiots put nuts in it. That's full on gross. On the other hand, it does have cream cheese icing. You could put that on a turd and it'd be good. NOLaLa'shomecooking.

You apparently haven't had my Red Velvet Cake. NUTS? You've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! I'm in total disgust at whoever would put NUTS on something as delicious as Red Velvet Cake. Total Disgust!

 

[ZZUB]

Did Scrapbookdis just call Butter Grilled Pound Cake much ado about nothing? Did GeorgiaAristocat join her? I don't know what is more troubling, that you peed on the best piece of cake I've ever tasted or that you're brining the Shakespeare.

I hate the Bard. I hate all people who like the Bard. And I REALLY hate people who quote the Bard.

So Scrapbookdis and GeorgiaAristocat can now join the ever growing list of people I have banished to Ignoreland. By the time I finish this TR, the only people left posting on it will be me and the Schpup!

My case this morning went great. Total hootenanny. I wish every trial was like this one.

Your posts also always put a smile on my face. And it always feels best on days when I feel like I have nothing else to smile about. Like yesterday.

Thanks for saying that. I like to bring the funny in the lives of other people. (except for:La2, Brindle, Frickles, Scapper, GA and Mel HappyHat who is shunning us!)

I just remembered that today is 'Cake Day' at my company. They do it on the last Wednesday of every month to celebrate all the birthdays for the month. And today is April's Cake Day. Bring on the cake!

Cake Day? Where do you work and do they have a legal department and are they hiring? Heck, I don't even care if they have a legal department, I'll work in the mail room. Sure it'll be a colossal cut in pay. But it's CAKE, dangit!

I'm not sure I'd have liked the BGPC though. I love cake, but not so much with the frosting.

That was the beauty of Butter Grilled Pound Cake it didn't have frosting. So people like you would love it. I'm a frosting guy myself, but the caramel sauce was so good, frosting was not required.

BTW - in all these years of reading your reports, I never knew you were a Billy Joel fan! Good man.

I think anyone my age HAS to like Billy Joel. One day I'll regale you with why I love Piano Man. It's actually a good story.

Read your TR in between calls at work and lightens the load. Thanks

That's ironic! I wrote it between calls at work.

Kidding!

The best dessert at Walt Disney World is still served by the Liberty Tree Tavern. It's the Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake -- "vanilla cake with a gooey toffee filling and caramel sauce."

I concede this looks like a hearty piece of cake. Butter Grilled Pound Cake it aint but it doesn't look like something to sneeze at. NOSneezie.

Sneezie: we went to bed last night still laughing at your post! My wife said, "ZZUB, she got so frazzled in line she had them write "Congratulations Greta. Why did she get anyone's name on the birthday cake at all? Why not just buy the cake?" I said, "Honey, I don't know. But Sneezie loves her some cake. And that makes her alright in my book.

"Cake is the reason my dog has a birthday party every year." That's just full on funny!