Dearest Eri*K*a with a K in the UK with Philip with one L, Oh, how wonderful !! How absotively, posilutely delicious that you posted this !! Almost cannot stop laughing. OMG, did I *really* invent the lacquered muffin ?!? Has it really been _two years_ ?? <strains of "Thanks for the Memories">
gotta admit, though, some of them were crumby, half-baked puns! ;-) -Benny Only a little change - here, dear, have a fresh blueberry bran Zen muffin, with gobs of TakeControl margarine! :-) At 11:43 PM 3/19/03 +0000, you wrote: >OK. >Here it is. >Once and for all. > >The History of the Muffins ... > >Once upon a time, I posted this to the list: >http://www.developer.be/paste/DspPaste.cfm?id=944 > >Then Gel posted this in reply: > >>>| From: Angél Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 >>>| >>>| Thank you. >>>| Now I can't eat my blueberry muffins. >>>| *sigh* > >Then someone said they didn't eat muffins or bread ... Carbs and all >that, blah, blah, blah ... > >So then Gel posted this: > >>>| From: Angél Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 >>>| >>>| I am slim,trim,and too sexy for carbs to have an effect on >>>| me. *runs fingers through hair* *puffs out chest* >>>| >>>| I can eat whatever I want: >>>| a cheesecake a week and muffins in the morning; >>>| and I don't put on a pound =) >>>| >>>| It always gets women quite annoyed when I announce this, >>>| and worse yet when they find it to be true. ^_^ >>>| >>>| *still looking at the muffins and imagining them laced with >>>| arsenic* *sulks at Erika* *munches on an individually >>>| wrapped snickers instead* > >Then somewhere down the road Gel posts this: > >>>| From: Angél Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:02 PM >>>| Subject: RE: The sitaution with the p3 Orion in China >>>| >>>| You were a SPY!!?? >>>| AND WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU DONE!?? >>>| >>>| *pokes him in the tummy with a pink haired TROLL doll* >>>| >>>| OUT with IT! >>>| >>>| We have ways to make you talk! >>>| *eyes Erika with the arsenic and a fresh muffin* >>>| >>>| Fraulein Erika! Bring out the Muffins! >>>| Our dear Chris is....huuuungrrryyyyy.. >>>| >>>| *adjusts his pink frilly skirt* >>>| >>>| Why are you looking at my pink frilly skirt like that? >>>| Did you not hear the women on the list want to unite? >>>| So Fine..we will all be women now until they calm down... > > >Then our favorite Kevin Gilchrist posted this: > >>>| From: Kevin Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:15 AM >>>| >>>| My vision is swimming with pink tutu wearing muffins. >>>| >>>| **Been eating too many of the wrong kind of muffins....** > > >Then this the next day: ... > >>>| From: Angél Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:57 PM >>>| Subject: gosh why didn't I stay home today.. >>>| >>>| *streeeetches* >>>| >>>| *looks about* >>>| >>>| Its one of those lulls-between-projects days you know? >>>| >>>| *rests chin on desk* >>>| *looks at muffin crumbs* >>>| >>>| I really should wipe this thing off... > > >AND here is the first mention of laquered muffins ... Made by none other >than our very own master punmeister ... Benny! > >>>| -----Original Message----- >>>| From: Braver, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:56 PM >>>| Subject: Cowboy and Lesbian >>>| >>>| (before you start throwing lacquered muffins or anything, I >>>| ASKED FIRST <grin>) >>>| >>>| So, this cowboy is sitting in a bar.... > >... And insert any inappropriately funny joke here ... > > >Then Michael Smith was up late one night and here's the first documented >evidence of me trying to pass a muffin to someone, .... > >>>| From: Erika L Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:38 AM >>>| Subject: RE: Women of ColdFusion Unite >>>| >>>| Mike, You are going to be too exhausted to do your >>>| presentations on Saturday!! >>>| >>>| Shouldn't you be sleeping! <<< here's some of the muffin >>>| from Gel... >>>>> >>>| >>>| <<< ooo wait...that's the arsenic one....>>> > > >And here's evidence of President Todd joining in the muffin fun ... > >>>| From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:18 AM >>>| Subject: Re: www.cfbabes.com & www.cf-community.com >>>| >>>| Unlike you, I certify that whatever I do with >>>| cfsourcecode.com will be Gel picture free, unless he is a >>>| hot people magnet and would tend to draw tonnes of visitors by >showing off >>>| his sugar glazed muffins ;) > > >And lo and behold there's the infamous Dances-with-horsies post by Gel. >Forgot all about that one.: > >>>| From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:15 PM >>>| Subject: RE: CS vs BFA >>>| >>>| So when will be able to visualise a photo of you, Miss >>>| Dances-With-Horsies-For-Ten-Years ? > > >So the some time later I post the Froggie Loan joke and Gel tells me to >go play with the Horsies .... So Python was born ... > >>>| From: Erika L Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:35 PM >>>| Subject: RE: Give the frog a loan and an Easter Egg >>>| >>>| ** galloping in on her trusty steed, Python....trying to >>>| run Gel over ***** >>>| >>>| "No, don't bite Gel, Python, he can't help it, he just >>>| doesn't have a good sense of humor! Maybe if he gives you >>>| an apple, we'll forgive him.." > > >And Ben became the second person to receive the Python threat ... > >>>| From: Erika L Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:49 AM >>>| Subject: RE: Give the frog a loan >>>| >>>| LOL..... *** Thinking about letting Python loose on Ben now.... **** > > >The very first post offering a muffin to a newcomer/lurker ... > >>>| From: Erika L Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:26 AM >>>| Subject: RE: Math, and books and such >>>| >>>| !!!** A LURKER !!! **** >>>| >>>| People, we have a lurker! A lurker on the Babble List! >>>| >>>| ..... hmmmm.. Gel, should we allow lurkers? .... well. OK, >>>| but I think, only if they bring you a muffin every now and >>>| then. And some good coffee for Jen, and, and an apple for >>>| Python,....and, and an award for Ben!! > >And this just started becoming a shared community joke amongst all the >die-hards .... With others throwing muffins or baking muffins. Favorite >flavors were Blueberry then Banana ... Somewhere along they we brought >out the cast iron muffin pan as a weapon ... Though this was some time >after President Todd and Gel broke the aluminium one ... So I decided we >needed something indestructible. > >I was so involved in the list on a watchful day to day basis, I came to >recognize whether people had posted before or not ... So I started >pouncing on newcomers and lurkers ... Bringing FULL ATTENTION to their >first words and welcoming them with muffins.... > >Gel is ALWAYS around to tweak an earlobe or three ;) > > >Here he shares his breakfast ... Or does he ... ? > >>>| From: Angél Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:13 PM >>>| Subject: *pulls out muffins* >>>| >>>| It is early in the morning and I remembered I have to share >>>| these out to people.. but I don't quite remember who.. let >>>| me check my message history. >>>| >>>| ooooh look..a blueberry. >>>| *munch* *munch* *munch* >>>| >>>| Hmm..I forget I have the messages from yesterday at home >>>| since I didn't come out to work yesterday.. I'll have to >>>| check the online archives... >>>| >>>| mmm..strawberry.. >>>| *chomp* *munch* *munch* >>>| >>>| Damn this net is slow today. We really need to get a better >>>| connection. Good thing the office I'm moving to has Direct >>>| PC Broadband satellite. >>>| >>>| hmm..this one looks a bit hard..I wonder.. >>>| mmmm*munch* *munch* >>>| noff, noff, ithf quitff all riff.. >>>| *munch* >>>| >>>| Ahh here are the messages at last.. >>>| >>>| So it was Timothy,Rick..and Will was it... >>>| Alright here are the muff-.. >>>| wait nuh.. >>>| >>>| !_! >>>| Where did all the Muffins go!??! >>>| >>>| I'VE BEEN ROBBED! > > >Al Gore even turned up in the muffin discussions ... > >>>| From: Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:19 PM >>>| Subject: Gore and Muffins >>>| >>>| Big Al had a few muffins here in Minneapolis. >>>| >>>| >http://webserv6.startribune.com:80/viewers/story.php?story=678442&word=c >j > > >Gel turned Gelien with the muffins ... > >>>| From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:06 PM >>>| Subject: Grawwl..rarrkk..*shriek* >>>| >>>| *scampers across roof,tail swishing left to right for >>>| balance* *drops and flips to ground* >>>| >>>| *leaps over sundry obstacles* >>>| >>>| *holds up a blueberry muffin in a black,reptillian claw* >>>| >>>| Grawwl rarrk *chirrup* *chirrup*?? >>>| >>>| *gobbles muffin* >>>| *flees ensuing marine attack* >>>| >>>| -The Gelien. > > >Then we were going into cloning ... Maybe ... > >>>| From: Judith Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:20 PM >>>| Subject: Re: Goooood Morning >>>| >>>| No -- NO!!! Don't clone the evil muffins! Clone the good muffins... >>>| >>>| It's the evil muffins that work for the terrorists, don't >>>| you know that? >>>| >>>| From: Mike Townend >>>| >Good morning from me, me, me and me.... O heck from all of us... >>>| >Geez this cloning is easier than making a Pot Noodle... >>>| >Now for my evil Muffin cloning plan... >>>| >Mwaa haa ha haaaaaa > > >And now for a much more recent post: > >>>| -----Original Message----- >>>| From: Erika L. Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>| Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:49 PM >>>| Subject: RE: muffins >>>| >>>| MUFFINS???!!! >>>| >>>| Did someone say muffins? >>>| What? Who? When? I want some! >>>| GIVE ME MUFFINS NOW!!!!!!! >>>| Hot, moist, blue-berry packed muffins topped with great >>>| gobs of butter!!! NOW!!!! >>>| >>>| *** clears throat, straightens hair, fixes clothes ... *** >>>| >>>| Sorry about that. Haven't had a muffin in a while ... Been >>>| a little too busy to bake them and pass them around ... >>>| It's really all Gel's fault, he had a muffin one day and he >>>| ended up with crumbs all over his desk and behind his desk >>>| or something or other ... And he wouldn't share. ;) >>>| >>>| Well, for all you newbies and lurkers and >>>| been-here-a-while-but-not-welcomed-properly peeps, have a >>>| muffin, while they're still warm. And if you behave, you >>>| won't get bopped on the head with a cast iron muffin pan >>>| ... As for Python, well, he's turned out for the winter, >>>| living wild for a while. > > > >AND I hope that clears up where the muffins came from. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
