h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No rush on the recipe, I won't be moving out for another month or so anyway

But I suppose I shoulda guessed it would happen...office buildings around this area are pretty much heavily secure...but I didn't stop to think that their lifts would be the same

ok. i'll get it to you before teh months up.

still weird. i dont know... maybe there arent buildings like that here...

Much appreciated !

It could be because I work near the central business district and these days everypne's exceptionally paranoid about most htings...??

hmm... maybe thats it. i have quite a nice recepie for snickerdoodle cookies, if you'd like it...

Ummm....I'm assuming it's because we live on other parts of the world...or possibly because I'm a culinary ignoramus...

...but what on earth are snickerdoodle cookies ?

And why can't I stop laughing ??

Snickerdoodle Cookies

Cookie:
3 ¾ cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup of milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Topping:
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon


Method:
-Preset oven to 375 degrees
-Grease cookie sheet
-Stir together flour, soda, cream of tartar, and ½ teaspoon of salt
- In a different bowl, beat butter for approx. 30 seconds
-Add 2 cups of sugar to the beaten butter, and then stir till fluffy (I don’t know what that is… just stir it till it looks completely mixed)
-Add eggs and vanilla and stir well
-Now add the dry ingredients to the wet, beaten ingredients and stir well until they are fully combined
-Now make the topping. Stir together the 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tea spoon of ground cinnamon until they are well blended.
-Roll dough into round 1 inch balls.
-Roll each ball in the topping until completely covered, or however much you want.
-Place each ball 2 inches apart
-Flatten each ball slightly with the bottom of a drinking glass. This is the fun part…. If you want to have designs on your cookie take a fork and squish them using that instead. If you only squish it one way with the fork it will have stripes, and if you squish it in 2 different directions you can make a crisscross pattern, ect.
-Place cookies in the preheated oven (375 degrees) for about 8 minutes, or until golden brown. If you like your cookies squishy don’t let them get too brown
Have fun!!!


it may be becaue we are in different parts of the world... i gave this to someone in australia and they didnt know what they were either.
did you mean laughing or snickering??
they're really good... i managed to turn itinto a cake once... it was actualy really good.

Cool, I'm glad I'm not the only Aussie who hasn't heard of it then

Still, sounds like fun...I may have to try it out

I'm another aussie who hasn't heard of them, but the name's hilarious.

Tanzen, you're learning auslan? Awesome. I really wanna do that. I can do the sign language alphabet and in primary school I was taught 2 songs. I can also ask if someone wants tea, coffee, milk or suger.

Cat

nifty i can say my name is... and then spell my name but thats it, and in sign language. is that the same thing?

The funny thing is that the place we're learning it is just around the corner from where I work, and when we got there two of the girls who work at the place I go to lunch where there as well When they were asked why they cam along, they said because they got a lot of deaf people in (obviously because the vic deaf society is nearby) and they wanted to be able to ask people how they wanted their coffee

We've only had one lesson so far, so I can do the alphabet, basic "hi how are you?" stuff...I think as of next week it gets trickier. And because the teacher is deaf it's going to be more of a challenge.

Arisztid, yeah, it's the same *kind* of thing, but I think all countries have different sign, even if they all speak the same language...for example, Australia, England, USA and Canada would probably all have different sign even though they all speak English..

Apparently there is an international sign but it only gets used at huge conferences and gatherings, like the deaf olympics...

thanks for explaining it all for me. wait, hold on... there are deaf olymipcs!!??

These are just things I found out a little clearer on Monday...yeah, I hadn't heard of the deaf olympics either, but apparently they're down here in Melbourne in January next year!

wow, thats interesing. i didnt know there were def olympics. i wonder what others there are. there one for those who are physically handicapped isnt there? its not really fair that its not publiciesed like the regular olympics.....

Yeah, the paraolympics (I think I spelt that wrong ) is always held right after the olympics in the same country as the "normal" olympics...they're for people who couldn't physically compete with olympic athletes due to mental or physical disabilities. The deaf olympics is seperate again because they are "able bodied", but sports cater for the fact that they can't hear...

interesting.... i didnt know that.
just out of curiosity what skin do you view this in?? i've noticed some of the smileys are different colors in different skins...

Yeah, I didn't either til Monday

I am an alabaster girl, the other ones hurt my head too much

yeah. i use alabaster too. right now i'm trying to use goo but the layout isnt as good. and its harder and more time consuming. but i like the way it looks much better than in alabaster. oh well, i guess its back to alabaster...

I always thought alabaster made more sense...but that's possibly because I'm easily distracted, and bright colourful things make me forget what I'm supposed to be doing

I use Goo, Alabastor's too glarish and bright and ARGHHH!! MY EYES!!!! for me.

Goo makes it too obvious that I'm playing when I'm supposed to be w**king