Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Gori the Grey]

Hey, if Brits call what 'Murcins call cookies biscuits, what do they call what 'Murcins call biscuits?

 

[sophie]

Hey, if Brits call what 'Murcins call cookies biscuits, what do they call what 'Murcins call biscuits?

Those are also biscuits.

biscuit = bis (two times) + cotto (to cook). So anything that is baked twice would be considered a "biscuit". So from an etymological perspective the British definition is more "correct"

 

[Gori the Grey]

I bake both cookies and biscuits just once.

Funny that the Brits can't learn to speak English when we gave 'em a head start of many centuries.

 

[Arakhor]

According to Wikipedia, the 'biscuits' in 'biscuits and gravy' are akin to savoury scones, but whether you pronounce 'scone' as sconn or scoan is a different issue.

 

[Gori the Grey]

As is how one spells savory.

 

[timtofly]

The second part of making a biscuit, was turning it into a "cookie", to make it last longer. In the US, that would be a dog biscuit. Now days we make cookies and biscuits in a one step process. One just bakes longer than the other. Perhaps a scone was just a term for the amount, a small block of bread instead of the whole loaf???

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's much more sensible. We couldn't possibly call the quintessential British dish "fish and fries", now could we?

It's "chips" if combined with fish. It's "fries" if it's combined with a burger, chicken, sandwich, or on its own.

And don't ask me about poutine. I've never actually eaten it. It looks too disgusting to even consider eating it.

Why is Civ2 still the best?

It isn't. Civ IV is.

Civ II: Test of Time.

 

[Takhisis]

Just to clear up all the questions people are answering in any order: It's your opponent's fault he was unable to get a checkmate, the o in scone represents a diphthong, they're called ‘chips’, not ‘fries’, it's ‘savoury’ with a ’u’, and remains the best game in the series.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Just to clear up all the questions people are answering in any order: It's your opponent's fault he was unable to get a checkmate, the o in scone represents a diphthong, they're called ‘chips’, not ‘fries’, it's ‘savoury’ with a ’u’, and remains the best game in the series.

Actually, I'm partial to the original board game that existed long before any computer versions. Sitting around a table with half a dozen other people, all trying to pillage and burn each other's cities, steal them, cause mass civil disorder, slip them a flood card in the trading round, buy a Civilization card needed by someone else and it's the last one, throw a wrench into their carefully-laid plans by putting an army on a ship and invading the one part of their territory they'd thought nobody would notice...

Note to self: The next time I do a PBEM game of Civilization, Crete is not the best starting place for a player who is either new or rusty. But I was really tired of getting stuck with Illyria or Thrace. If that Spanish army hadn't mucked up my plans, I'd have had that Thracian player... *grumble, mutter*

 

[Uncle Sparky]

It's "chips" if combined with fish. It's "fries" if it's combined with a burger, chicken, sandwich, or on its own.

And don't ask me about poutine. I've never actually eaten it. It looks too disgusting to even consider eating it.

Civ II: Test of Time.

I shall accept ToT as the correct answer!

As for poutine, think of it as a type of cheesy shepherd's pie... fries, a little less gravy, cheese curds and add some pulled pork and crumbled crispy bacon...
I'm a cardiac patient... I know these things!

Fish pie or shepherd's pie?

 

[cardgame]

Civ 2 Scenarios was the best disc I ever played. The WW1, Civil War, 1979 scenarios kicked serious ass. Didn't know about ToT so I never tried it

 

[Valka D'Ur]

ToT has multilevel maps, so you have to think in three dimensions when planning your cities, roads, airports, etc.

The Original Extended game has two levels - Earth and Alpha Centauri, and they don't meet until the late stage of the game.

Lalande and Fantasy/Midgard both have 4 levels. Some units are confined to one level, or can operate in more than one. I've discovered a way to get Dwarves into the underwater realm to do their terraforming, since not much of the Merfolk level is good for city-building otherwise. I've also tried having a Dwarf terraform a Magic Cloud, and the results are... bizarre.

Lalande is a science fiction scenario, with 4 human factions and 3 alien factions. Until the late game, humans and aliens can't communicate with each other and each has tech the other can't research. So you need to watch their tech progress AND keep at least two of the alien civs alive so they can discover the tech you need to acquire in order to reach the final map level, which is a gas giant planet with a truly vicious alien monster that's very difficult to kill.

 

[Borachio]

I shall accept ToT as the correct answer!

As for poutine, think of it as a type of cheesy shepherd's pie... fries, a little less gravy, cheese curds and add some pulled pork and crumbled crispy bacon...
I'm a cardiac patient... I know these things!

Fish pie or shepherd's pie?

Oh, fish pie every time for me, thank you. (With a few prawns mixed in. And a nice fish stock and parsley sauce to go with it.)

Those shepherds always get stuck in my teeth.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

You were right, they were wrong. I hope you didn't let their anger carry the day.

What they did was take back their turn and keep playing until they put my king into checkmate, which took more turns than it should. They really did want to beat me in chess for some reason. Throughout the game they kept telling me how they won a game of chess in three moves.

 

[Yeekim]

The absolute shortest possible is two moves, but that is possible only when playing with blacks

 

[Borachio]

That's true. And it's called fool's mate.

Scholar's mate, which many people mistakenly call fool's mate, takes three moves.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What they did was take back their turn and keep playing until they put my king into checkmate, which took more turns than it should. They really did want to beat me in chess for some reason. Throughout the game they kept telling me how they won a game of chess in three moves.

Next time you see them let them know that there are no "take backs" in chess. You were right, they were wrong. Stalemate. They can either live with it or commit seppuku, their choice.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I actually perpetrated scholars mate on an unsuspecting victim once when I was in a sixth grade chess club. The overseer of the event couldn't believe I was calling for the confirmation of a win so soon after the matches commenced.

 

[Kyriakos]

Saw this in my FB feed:

Captions read:

-You should accept yourself.
-But how?
-Tell him to send you a friendship invitation.

 

[Arakhor]

I can see how φ might change into ϕ, but it's still confusing.