The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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What are my initiation questions?

Chuck! What a grand entrance!! I'm glad my "coming in from the cold" inspired you... living in NT-land surely has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality about it. Every day presents me with a perplexing new twist on some sort of NT-generated social/political drama.

YowlingCat: great poster! Can we frame it and hang it up in the Cafe?

I wanna join again....

Nothing much. Finish answering any outstanding questions. Phone the fire brigade. Turn off the sprinklers. Possibly not in that order.
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Then I'll go where no one can find me... and stare at the wall... for a couple of days... looking at all the fascinating patterns in the grains of sand in the mortar between the two bricks 3 up from the bottom and second and third in from the left.
Can't answer this one until I lookup jello... not a good start: Wiktionary doesn't have it... i thought as much... Wikipedia manages Jell-O, which naturally, I knew all the time.
And now... I've forgotten what the question was.... now that I look, what Jell-O/jelly is made of grosses me out quite a bit. (Though I like that stuff in pork pies that manufacturers these days seem to try hard not to put in). Have I covered it all yet? No. Still haven't answered the question. Maybe all colours, bar octaroon.
I know this one. One. I can't recall why. I think it should be... near infinity, or at least a bit indeterminate. If the aspie in question needs the light to read their book, the "one" answer is correct. If there's no direct need for the light, why would changing the light bulb be of any interest?
Actually, I've been meaning to say... I prefer crumpets. (I know my cake's run out, and there's this new brain influx, all with digital mouths to feed. I might have to cook up something else.)
Make a soufflé omelette... with crunchy bits.


And I really should post, but I'm drifting off with thoughts of grains of sand, silicon dioxide, neither of which elements come into existence without a star going nova, unless current theory has changed on that.

Which brings me to the quark urban myth? Which is that when Millikan did his original oil drop experiments, his (still available?) records show the (inaccurate) charge on a single electron quite clearly. All the one or two thirds results - he discarded them as experimental error. I.e. free quarks existed until Millikan decided not to believe in them. Theory drives reality.
And now I'm off again. A bit of research, and I can't track down any trace of my own urban myth. Maybe I should report it to Darwin Awards? Not really, as it doesn't involve gene pool cleaning. I've just tried to join the Mythbusters' site (Discovery), but can't seem to manage that. Lots of error 404.

Shall I post? Why not... (submit)

186

so, are you planning a big party in 186 days?

I have to post a reply or not get notified of any movement in the thread!

Welcome Back, Yowling Cat, I thought you were lost in the mist.

Merle

1. What do you do when there are three people talking to you and the fire alarm and sprinkler system are activated all at once?

Take complete command of the situation, dispatch the three people to the fire exit, round up anyone else I see to make sure they are out the door, help others to account for those that might not be out of the building. (and Inside I would be stimming and screaming and generally freaking out and melting down) After the event, I would down play it and eventually forget my actions and think that something like that would terrify me.


2. What color jello grosses you out most?

Lime jello with (don't blame ME, I don't make it this way) COTTAGE CHEESE in it with mayonaisse dolloped on top. oh, my goodness, is there ANYthing worse?

3. How many aspies does it take to change a light bulb?

oh, like an Aspie would let anyone else change the lightbulb with him/her

4. 4. Would you be willing to feed us - the elder aspies - muffins? If yes, with or without butter?

being one of the Elder Aspies, I would only if they were older than me. I wanted to say 'older than I' because it sounds posh, but it is not grammatical.

5. What do you do with a raw egg?

seperate out the yolk from the white and use the yolk as an after shampoo rinse ( pure protien and fats make the hair managable and shiny) and make an omelette out of the whites.

Merle

sinsboldly: oh, like an Aspie would let anyone else change the lightbulb with him/her

I had to walk out of the room. Ouch! My lower abdomen just did another bit of gymnastics.

PS. I knew I would. I went to all the trouble of answering the questions, looking back over them, checking.
Yep. sinsboldly joins me in totally missing/ignoring question 4b. In my case, strictly speaking, not only do I prefer crumpets (with cheese) to muffins, but I can quite happily eat the butter on its own - especially if it's unsalted, nicely chilled. So, my amended answer to that part would run along the following lines. Yes, I'd supply muffins (or similar), but if you wished to avoid having to put containment pontoons around them, to control the dangerous-to-wildlife butter-slick, you'd need to be a little more explicit than merely saying: "Go easy on the butter".

Bravo! Well done, Sinsboldly and Lau! Love your wit and playfulness. I believe Sinsboldly nailed the lightbulb question exactly on the mark! Wish I could stay to play awhile myself, but just stopped by to say "Hi to all". The Wrong Planet server went out while we dinos were conversing last night, and while waiting for its return I conked out. My apologies to last night's participants for my faux pas doze.

Note to Lau: After reading your post on how they make Jell-o I'm glad I never liked Jell-o.

I lived with a daddy long legs through the rainy winters in the Siskiyous Mountians of Southern Oregon. He was all that was left after the coyotes spirited away my cat Slinky. I understand the company of the creatures.

I love REAL Maple Syrup, Lupine, and I don't live far from your biosphere. The woods are rugged up here and rainy but the mist lies like cotton candy all around the sides of the mountians . . .

Welcome to the home of the Hans S. Asperger's Open Stage, our muffin shack, our dear tavern, The Spam and Kipper. This is a nice collective.

Merle

Snnn...(hack cough wheeze). Wipes eyes. Rocks for a few moments.

Alarm? What alarm?

How did I get under here? Who rolled me under the counter? Who stacked the recycle on me?

Did anything happen while I was pseudo-catatonic? Is there someone who can make me a grande skinny mocha, no whip, three shots, puhleeze pretty pretty.

Ta so much.

Rjaye

Is there someone who can make me a grande skinny mocha, no whip, three shots, puhleeze pretty pretty.

You got it kiddo; comin' right up.

Welcome back. We're composing pop quizzes for the young'uns.

Hmm... how does one do the "so-and-so wrote" quote thing in these posts?!

Hello all,

Your answers bemuse me and amuse me.

I'm not much good for entertainment this evening, I'm dealing with a new job ( ) and am in the process of being evicted. I've lived in this apartment complex for four years and eight months, and the owning corporation won't give me until the 19th to pay the other half of my rent from my first paycheck... no...I must pay it by the 15th, and so I will be evicted, and of course, lose my job.

I'm spacing out, right now, and quite ill...feels like an ulcer. My head's not in a good space.

Sorry about the rant.

I'm an angry woman.

YowlingCat: sorry to hear you're having to deal with such a bunch of crap! Anything we DA Cafe patrons can do to help you out, support-wise?

YowlingCat: I know this is very AS of me (feel compelling need to apply fix-it strategy to presented problem), but, in my neck o' the woods, "owning corporations" can't evict folks quite so quickly... can you connect with a local (free) legal representative to explain renters' rights?