From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Black Death Birthdays (Recipe Included)
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:26:23 GMT
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In article <gf1vZhu00iUzI2_0o6@andrew.cmu.edu> mmbt+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>"Hey Mike, can you give me a hand with these doors?"  
>
>"Sure thing, Merrigold."  replies Mike, walking to the
>back of the bar, and holding open the door to the callahan's
>kitchen.  "Hey, that does look good! "
>
>Merrigold backs into the room, pulling a chef's trolley. 
>She grins at Mike: "Thanks for letting me use your kitchen!"
>then turns the trolley, and herself, around to face the room.  
>She is wearing a once-white chef's apron, now
>liberally dusted with a covering of powdered Belgian
>chocolate, and the chef's cap on her head reads
>"Callebaut chocolate: the only *true* chocolate is dark chocolate"
>Her hands have been washed clean, but there's still a streak
>of chocolate down one cheek, which she seems to have missed.
>
>On the trolley before her sit (In Chorus: "OOOOhhhh, AAAAAAh")
[EVIDENCE REMOVED FOR EXAMINATION BY COUNCEL :-) ]
>
>Merrigold lifts the knife, cuts the cake (you can see her *working*
>to push the knife through the cake: it's *really* dense) and puts
>the first two slices onto a pair of plates.  She then loads them
>with whipped cream, and adds forks. 
>
>"Once I've handed these two slices out, the cake is fair game!
>But I've brought this cake here in honour of two friends of mine,
>Chris Welch (Urban Spaceman) and John Ockerbloom, and the first
>two slices go to them. They're both celebrating birthdays this week 
>(Chris on the 16th and John on the 18th) and I wanted to celebrate them.
>Since I can't manage to be in the UK, Chris, I hope you'll accept
>this virtual cake, with virtual hugs, and warmth and affection.  
>And since John lives in Pittsburgh, I can offer him an actual hug!"
>
>                    "Happy Birthdays to you both!"
>
>"Oh, and Mike, could you mix me up a mint tea, please, and a
>hot mulled cider?  For Chris and John, to go with their cake..."
>
>"I don't normally do virtual birthdays, so I thought I would
>justify this one by making it possible for people to make the 
>actual cake!  Here's the recipe.  P'relan, Toothpick, and
>John Ockerbloom have had the chance to taste this in actuality,
>in the past, so they can vouch that it's worth making (and eating).
>As P'relan said 'It's to die for!'  Hence the name.  I hope 
>you'll all enjoy it. "
>
[RECIPE REMOVED AND PASTED INTO COOKBOOK :-) FOR THE SAFETY OF READERS, SOME
OF WHOM MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE BEHELD IT WHILST POSSESSING AN EMPTY STOMACH!]
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>Mary Mark                    email: mmbt+@andrew.cmu.edu
>Department of Psychology       
>Carnegie Mellon University  "Practice random kindness
>Pittsburgh,PA                and engage in senseless acts of beauty."
>U.S.A.                       
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"M'lud, honourable members of the jury, I put it to you that the defendant is
guilty of intent to cause grievous culinary and dietary harm by means of a
cocoa-based confectionary of extreme proportions. I further propose that the
only possible conclusion is that the aforementioned confection be removed
from this place and disposed of without further delay!"

MonTemplar proceeds to put a small black square of cloth over his head.

"I hereby do pass sentence upon this cake, that it shall be taken from this
place, and drawn, quartered and scoffed until deceaced, may God have mercy on
our souls."

:-) :-)
Do I get a piece now?

--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
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