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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