Help me, Will

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Tue Apr 1 14:32:15 CST 1997


I wrote:
> > But I'm confused about that "slaps of Batter."  I understand the "slaps of
> > Spoon" but why would an annoyed cook slap with batter?  and why are the
> > slaps rhythmic?

and Joe V. wrote:
> I understood this as the children in a room with a cook who is stirring up
> a bowl of some kind of batter, giving you the rhythmic "slapping" sounds
> of the batter being stirred by/with the spoon.

Well I feel stupid.  And why did I assume the children were getting 
whacked on the noggin?  Maybe reading too much Dickens at an
impressionable age.

	Steve Maas

> > 
> > (This isn't Dkipen's own April Fool's Day joke is it?)
> > 
> 
> Now that would be funny.
> 
> Joe
> Ain't got a clue as to the altered word
> 
> 




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