Wordie: Chainishness: Comments

Comment by dontcry, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:26:39 +0000

goodie, goodie!

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:53:56 +0000

Are you kidding, dontcry? Icing/frosting is the best part!

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:53:07 +0000

There is a big difference between frosting and icing. Frosting is thick and holds shapes like rosettes and shells like those you see piped around the edges of a birthday cake. It remains soft to the touch and has a creamy texture, and most people think it tastes better because of the creamy buttery flavor. Icing, on the other hand, is a thinner, more liquid substance, and as it dries it thins out, becomes very smooth across the surface of your cookie, and hardens. This is the icing to use for the most beautiful, professional results.
--Mimi Cummins, Christmas-cookies.com

Comment by dontcry, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:46:23 +0000

if you just kind of peck at the icing/frosting (i'm smack in the thick of it too) and never eat the cake, would that make you a bad person?

Comment by gangerh, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:55:27 +0000

And all the pages before were just the cupcake under the icing, eh, c_b?

Comment by gangerh, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:53:14 +0000

That's the frosting on the cupcake for you then, tippy toes?

Comment by gangerh, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:46:07 +0000

Fling not, reesetee, you know this bear doesn't like it. Probably can't catch.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:26:54 +0000

*my new favorite page*

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:20:12 +0000

Did I not just say we have plenty of cupcakes? Or--okay, muffins too (for extinct lagomorphs and giant prehistoric reptiles).

*handing out more treats*

Gracious. Good thing I'm just an old creole bon vivant who indiscriminately flings cupcakes. ;->

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:38:45 +0000

Hey, an extinct lagomorph here is starving... and this is discrimination. Defend uniformitarianism, treat extinct species just as the extant ones.
What do you think, pterodactyl?

Comment by pterodactyl, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:33:10 +0000

Speaking as a giant prehistoric reptile, I have to say that I don't really like cupcakes.

Muffins, though...

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:31:55 +0000

Henhouse? Eggs? Do I look like a chicken?

Anyway, we have plenty of cupcakes to go 'round. *spreads the cupcake love liberally*

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:39:31 +0000

*does a cupcake dance on tippy-toes, in a tutu*

Here, sionnach. *shares cupcakes* Make sure you don't accidentally drop it in your big fennec ears.

Comment by trivet, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:09:16 +0000

I think frosting is thicker, with more of a home-made feel than icing.

It is much harder for me envision a fox with frosting on his whiskers than a bear with icing on her nose. Maybe that's why you can't get any cupcake love, sionnach.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:28:51 +0000

*carefully hands chained_bear every last blessed cupcake*

Waaahhh. Ursine hegemony. What about unfulfilled vulpine cupcake needs?

Foxes have needs too!!! Shuffles off to the henhouse to puncture all your eggs.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:17:11 +0000

I think it is one of those regional variations in the United States--I'm not sure there is a substantive difference.

*tastes cupcakes from before reesetee edited comment, and after*

*tastes them again*

Nope, no substantive difference.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:14:39 +0000

Ah! I had a feeling that question would come up! I actually changed my last comment from "frosting" to "icing" because I use both words interchangeably and couldn't decide which one I wanted. Darn English.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:11:17 +0000

Oh, I Love Freedom. I do. However, I do not love angry, icing-besmirched mammals of the family Ursidae.

*carefully hands chained_bear every last blessed cupcake*

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:10:09 +0000

Speeaking of which, just what is the difference between icing and frosting anyway?

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:02:12 +0000

I think it's because reesetee probably reasonably fears I'll freak out about getting icing in my fur, or something. Or Is It... *eyes reesetee suspiciously*

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:55:32 +0000

Why do you ration the cupcakes so? Is it because you hate freedom?

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:59:06 +0000

*carefully places five cupcakes on c_b's extended paw*

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:55:31 +0000

*snarf*

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:36:32 +0000

Oh. Well...here. *carefully places cupcake on c_b's extended paw*

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:00:30 +0000

Ooh! Me! Me! (just don't throw it please)

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:39:26 +0000

Excellent. Anyone for a cupcake?

Comment by gangerh, 6 months ago

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:16:33 +0000

In homage to the _bear.