No surprise

[magid]

With all the LJ wonkiness, someone asked me which cluster I was on (since not all clusters are having problems, apparently). I checked here, and found that I am on Chef Cluster. How thoughtful of them!

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[bitty.livejournal.com]

me, too :)

Its because I'm so giving

[majes.livejournal.com]

I'm on the Santa cluster. Clearly they know about my compulsive gift purchasing behavior.

Re: Its because I'm so giving

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize Santa was a consumer, as well as a producer. (Now if you'd said gift-giving behavior... :-)

[gingicat]

That's the cluster they took down for repair last night.

[magid.livejournal.com]

So I gathered, with all the issues I was having until midmorning...

You need to watch more TV

[majes.livejournal.com]

Don't you watch holiday advertising? It clearly shows Santa running out to stores like Radio Shack and Target and picking up gifts for those hard-to-find-gift-for folks. Clearly, they would never use the image of Santa in this way if it weren't absolutely consistent with the image Santa wishes to maintain; Santa has a fleet of elf lawyers that work all year round making sure that no one inappropriately co-ops his image for their own purposes. Given this, clearly Santa is a consumer as well as a producer. Also, look at that weight. That didn't get there on its own. There was some distinct consuming going on at some point. My logic on this Santa related subject is irrefutable.

Re: You need to watch more TV

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ah, obviously I am indeed lacking in hours spent watching holiday advertising! I hadn't realized Santa had liscenced his image so aggressively...

Santa may have been consuming, but wouldn't all of that running around shopping have worked some of it off? Perhaps he has a genetic disposition to it? Hm. Now that Santa doesn't have any more shopping to do, perhaps someone should be buying him a gym membership...
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Re: You need to watch more TV

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Santa may have been consuming, but wouldn't all of that running
around shopping have worked some of it off?

the commercials lie. he actually shops on-line; can you see Santa waiting around in line?

[magid.livejournal.com]

...just dip us in chocolate...

Re: You need to watch more TV

[magid.livejournal.com]

Are the lawyer elves not doing their jobs, then?

[bitty.livejournal.com]

would you require non-milk chocolate to remain kosher?

Re: You need to watch more TV

[bitty.livejournal.com]

they're doin their jobs, alright. it's a PR campaign. loopholes. when was teh last time you saw complete truth in advertising?

[magid.livejournal.com]

People are not considered meat, just not kosher, unless there's nothing else around to eat (um, as it were...), in which case, they're neutral (pareve), I believe. So non-milk chocolate becomes more a preference than a requirement.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

so they've actually sat down and decided that cannibalism is pareve?

damn, that's scary.


i think i'll stick with maple pumpkin butter on cute goyim. simpler ;)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Maple pumpkin butter sounds like a good thing, on whomever/whatever (well, maybe not on anchovy pizza...).

Cannibalism is forbidden, unless something like you've crashed on a deserted desert island that has no food except for those killed in the crash kind of situations. People aren't food, therefore they're not "meat." Other things that people sometimes ingest but aren't considered food would also be pareve.
And hey, isn't it nice that all the situations are considered? ;-)

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Maple pumpkin butter sounds like a good thing, on whomever/whatever

*sigh* i just checked. it's vegan all right, but it has no K marking :( otherwise i'd say hey, bring over some challah and let's have a party.

Other things that people sometimes ingest but aren't considered food would also be pareve.

stay at pinkfish's long enough, and you'll ingest an entire cat.

And hey, isn't it nice that all the situations are considered?

I have a truly, truly tasteless (ahem) response to this. I'm going to refrain.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll just have to find a recipe for maple pumpkin butter. I know Paper and Provisions has pumpkin puree in industrial-sized cans...

I hear the cats are distinctly foofy.
A cat-worth of cat-hair, I assume, rather than the entire cat....?

Refrain, now? Why? ;-)

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Refrain, now? Why? ;-)

I have some vague modicum of taste, I'm afraid.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Must be pretty vague indeed...
;-)
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[bitty.livejournal.com]

hey, better than none at all, right?