Re: Oceans and pies
Ellmyruh, on host 63.205.12.119
Sunday, July 16, 2000, at 21:50:14
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". > > Whoa. A sugar pie, with sugar on top? No wonder those Pennsylvania Dutch are renowned for their insane, reckless and terminally hyped-up behaviour. > > 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
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