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[froodle]

Man, what the hell is going on with parsnips in this city? There is like a Leeds-wide shortage of parsnips. All Morrisons had were two lonesome prepacked bags of the most tiddly and pointless parsnips ever to be dragged from Gods green earth, and at my local greengrocer? Three. THREE! How am I supposed to make roast parsnips if the Parsnip Gods conspire against me in this way?

Well, my four day weekend was a veritable cornucopia of joy, cake, joy, pastries, joy, potroast, joy, Colin Farrell and joy. It was joyful. Went to A&Js, where the four of us cooked a big roast dinner, (well, three of us. James mostly just got in the way) watched TV and discussed such mind-boggling questions as

• Could Sunny Baudelaire bite through Dalek battlearmour?
  
• Is it possible to build a robot capable of defeating Mister T?
  
• What were the people responsible for the new Rocky movie thinking?

Of course, the rest of the week was the usual round of stupid customers, rude customers, customers who can't speak English and customers who for one reason or another are just plain annoying. Still, it is now Saturday, I have in the bag at my feet three parsnips and batteries for a remote control Dalek (which I shall be using to chase Bellatrix around the room until I get bored or she stops freaking out), and the sequel to Elizabeth Knox's fantastiful book, the Rainbow Opera, so if the idiot in the computer booth next to me would just stop his wittering, I'm pretty much set for 48 hours of gleeful lazification.

Comments

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

Could Sunny Baudelaire bite through Dalek battlearmour?

Definite yes.

[froodle]

Totally. And Klaus would read up on ways to disable them, and Violet would invent a way to get Sunny close enough, and together they would kick that Daleks arse.

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

No competition! It feels sort of cruel even pitting them against each other. I'm starting to feel sorry for the Daleks - that's sort of like admiring Liam Neeson's hair of doom in "High Spirits - very very wrong.

[froodle]

You think that's mean? Someone suggested they get Anthony Stuart Head to play the next Doctor. Can you imagine, the awesomeness of Giles combined with the Doctors time-travelling know-how? The poor Daleks would not stand a chance.

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

LJ just ate my comment so apologies if you get this twice! I was going to say that he'd waffle about blueberry scones and set Wesley on them - watchers are evil.

[froodle]

Wesley versus Daleks would be awesome, though; no matter who dies, the real winner is humanity.

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

So very true. I'd feel absolutely no remorse either

[froodle]

I might even be tempted to start printing and selling t-shirts with "Daleks YAY!" on them.

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

I want one! I want one! But what would you have on the back of the t-shirt?

[froodle]

I'm not sure; perhaps something vaguely educational, such as "say no to Wesley", or a picture of Wesley in a big red circle with a line through it?

[imbeiaiel.livejournal.com]

Works for me! Wesley... where did it all go wrong?

[froodle]

Possibly when Joss Whedon failed to kill him off after the first episode. Either that or, like so many of the things that went bad in Angel, it is something to do with Fred. She's the kiss of death for interesting characters.

[downandup.livejournal.com]

Asda had oodles of parsnips when i got dragged there at 4am yesterday morning!! then again it was asda at pudsey!!

[froodle]

As delicious as parsnips are, I'm not sure that they're worth either being up at 4am or setting foot in Pudsey...

[downandup.livejournal.com]

lol btw I need your mobi number again as my fone died and I lost all my numbers.
x

[froodle]

Are you still on your old number? Because I don't really want to put mine on the Intarwebs and also mine won't work over here, but I can text you when I return to civilization on Friday.

[downandup.livejournal.com]

yip yip Iv still got my regular number...

be good to meet up for a cuppa some time

[froodle]

Excellent, I shall text you upon my return and we shall arrange a time to meet up and imbibe delicious beverages.

[downandup.livejournal.com]

Fabtastic hunni
x

Parsnips, the universe and everything...

[miriglum.livejournal.com]

Mr T could only be defeated by a robot Mr. T. It stands to reason. Perhaps it could scream some strange amalagmation of 'I pity der fool' and 'exterminate'. I'll leave that one with you.

We had pasnips for tea the day before yesterday, roasted, with chickpea curry. It was quite scrumptous. I hope the parsnip lorry makes it "up north", though. We used to find bizarre leeds-wide shortages of vegetables - like brocolli - if one place didn't have it, don't even bother checking anywhere else, because sort sort of HIDEOUS BROCOLLI BEAST has obviously consumed it all. Obviously.

Miriam

Re: Parsnips, the universe and everything...

[froodle]

But surely the pure 100% pity-da-foo'-ness would cause circuit boards and the like to melt down due to helluva-toughness overloading? MAybe if the circuits were in fact made from Da T's gold chains... but then you'd have to defeat Mr T to get the chains off him, which you couldn't do unless you had a robot version of Mr T, which you couldn't make without Mr T's gold chains... it's all very confusifying.