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Re: Oceans and pies
Posted By: Ellmyruh, on host 63.205.12.119
Date: Sunday, July 16, 2000, at 21:50:14
In Reply To: Re: Oceans and pies posted by Brunnen-G on Sunday, July 16, 2000, at 19:34:54:

> > Shoofly pie [not *shoe*-fly], according to Webster's, is "a rich pie of Pennsylvania-Dutch origin made of molasses or brown sugar sprinkled with a crumbly mixture of flour, sugar, and butter".
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> Whoa. A sugar pie, with sugar on top? No wonder those Pennsylvania Dutch are renowned for their insane, reckless and terminally hyped-up behaviour.
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> Brunnen-"I guess you build up an immunity"G

Ahem! I am part Pennsylvania Dutch (although I don't really consider that my true backgound, but that's beside the point) and I am not "reckless and terminally hyped-up!" Oh, but I DID get two speeding tickets by the time I was 19...

Ell"Really, I'm calm! I'm a calm person! I am!"myruh