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are you gonna put booze in it ?
can i have some ?
please ?
pretty please ?
with a cherry on top ?

Posted by reverend dr dj riz | July 30, 2007 6:27 PM
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You totally have to put booze on the sponge, aka pieces of broken cake. And the British put a layer of jello in it (they call it jelly, those weirdos). The cream layer can be pastry cream or custard. Bird's custard out of a can is not as good as homemade custard. And you need to put sprinkles on the whipped cream on top. Then it's really festive.

Posted by toni | July 30, 2007 8:02 PM
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Fuck the librarians! You can ask me this shit! My friends know me as a wealth of useless information.

Posted by Gitai | July 30, 2007 8:49 PM
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...and when you've grown weary of trifle, there's always syllabub and spotted dick; odd that the effete Brits would have invented such masculine-sounding desserts...

Posted by KENTUCKY KERNEL OF TRUTH | July 30, 2007 8:55 PM
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cake (yogurt OR pudding) layers glass =
[google]

sounds delicious!

Posted by josh | July 30, 2007 9:08 PM
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Google won't replace librarians, but it will replace libraries.

Posted by Nat | July 30, 2007 10:41 PM
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If the recipient of said probably scrambled cake merely adopts the expedient of consuming gin until they can no longer say syllabub (ok that's too easy - until they can no longer pronounce trifle), then the cake will seem quite fine and proper whatever state it arrives in.

Posted by kinaidos | July 31, 2007 1:43 AM
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Gee, Fed Exing cake. You can do it if you first freeze the cake and then package it in some dry ice in a styrofoam container. Swiss Colony ships pastries like that and it does not destroy the look or flavor of the items.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | July 31, 2007 7:10 AM
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I actually paraphrased my friend as saying, Google will never replace librarians, because librarians know how to use Google.

Posted by annie | July 31, 2007 9:25 AM
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It's just like Desk Set.

Posted by keshmeshi | July 31, 2007 10:37 AM
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my mother must have made 1,000 trifles when i was growing up. I didn't like them that much until I realized that they were way easy to make and you could just put a bunch of alcohol in it =)

Posted by war pigs | July 31, 2007 12:49 PM
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"Annie Wagner said, “My friend Caroline says, Google will never replace librarians.”"

Let's hope you're right. But what might this turn into ?


Google Voice Local Search

Posted by Garret Kelly | July 31, 2007 3:47 PM
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While I applaud you wanting to treat the librarians, DON'T bring homemade foods. Librarians deal with a lot of crazies that love us as much as you do, and we have to assume that anything left as a snack that doesn't come from someone we personally* know might be tainted with drugs, poison, body fluids, etc. You think I'm kidding, but most of us would rather be safe than take food of unknown origin from 20-40% of the people we deal with.

A nice gift is something like a Whitman's Sampler: a thick box protected by cellophane.That way we know you want to give us chocolate and not merely have a way to transmit your voodoo love potion made from your sweat to our unwitting mouths. Otherwise we'll probably throw away untouched whatever homemade edibles you bring to us.

*if the librarians know you as a local journalist, they might be okay with it. but then again, the last stranger staffer to mention offering sweets to public servants was dan savage, and we all know what was in those cookies....

Posted by gracious librarian | July 31, 2007 5:44 PM

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