So, now that you're on a low-whatever diet, do we have to threaten you with
muffins laced with I Can't Believe It's Not Arsenic?
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:44 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: History of the Muffins ... VERY LONG
:
:
: 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.
: >
: >
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
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