Waiting for the anzac biccies to cook

[alias_sqbr]

..but they're looking a bit goopy :( EDIT: they taste ok :)

Well, I survived my first week of full-time work, during the Crazy July Holidays no less. Today I was doing a show, and the computer doing the powerpoint presentation crashed meaning I had to captivate the audience using only my amazing powers of description ("Imagine I'm a shark about to eat a seal...") Of course someone pointed out I could have just restarted it... I'm such a doofus :) Luckily the kids actually seemed to enjoy it!

A question that struck me: if you videoed comedians and then played them back to people with the sound off/who didn't speak the language, would they still be able to tell who was funny(*)? This occurred to me as I was pondering how much audience response is based on tone/energy etc.

Doing mine would be dull, so here's the haiku meme for my favourite pair of Harry Potter fangirls, made by the ever amazing Grahame:

Haiku2 for potente-potions
weather fie upon the stupid cyclone system up the coast all hail
@ aboutmylife.netblogger.comblogs.gnome.orgblogspot.comdeadjournal.comgreatestjournal.comlivejournal.commyspace.comspaces.msn.com
Created by Grahame

(*)As judged by people watching the video with the sound on who do understand the langauge.

Comments

[bigmathsgeek.livejournal.com]

Anzac biccies are supposed to be goopy, it's only the ones in shops that are hard and firm and stuff, REAL Anzacs bend.

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

Naww, REAL Anzac biscuits should double as a weapon, like dwarf bread. They were supposed to withstand the test of time, overseas travel, and battle.
Cookies are goopy, it's an American thing.

[(Anonymous)]

But it's the golden syrup that makes them bendy and stuff... besides, most American cookies seem to be hard, not soft and floppy. I think we need to find an expert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_biscuit

Doesn't help us, but it's cool :)

[bigmathsgeek.livejournal.com]

that above me, by the way, is me... I love not paying attention and believing that my lappy is sufficiently competent to know where it stores its COOKIES...

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

Obviously your cookies are goopy as well...

[alias_sqbr]

Ah but it wasn't the biccies I was complaining about (which were not so much goopy as squishy) but the batter, which as a result fell apart and stuck to my fingers more than normal.

Also, and I mean this in the nicest way, who are you? I first assumed you were just some random ljer but your profile seems to imply I might know you... I mean it's cool, just curious :)

[bigmathsgeek.livejournal.com]

oh no, they're not meant to fall apart, they're ment to bend and fold like a fruit roll-up.

I'm not sure if there's any reason we should know each other, per se. There are some areas of cross-over I can see, but I think that's more coincidence than conspiracy... after all, you're UWA, I'm Murdoch, it's very much a matter of "two households, both alike in dignity" kinda stuff :)

OTOH, are you suprised that a person with the name bigmathsgeek was magnetically drawn to your posts? Personally, I'm feeling pretty random, or at least, pretty pseudorandom.

[alias_sqbr]

Fair enough. S'just we sandgropers are such a minority on the net I tend to assume any I bump into can't be at random :)

(Sorry for glacial reply, work+sick=ignoring email)

[bigmathsgeek.livejournal.com]

Technically, of course, I'm not a sandgroper, I'm an import from Tassie :)