May 10 2012

I was a terrible father

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When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse. I have been put to shame.

I can imagine my kids going in for psychoanalysis for the trauma, lying on the couch and weeping over my inferior, mediocre pancakes, which clearly testified to the fact that I didn’t love them enough.

But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

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StevoR

10 May 2012 at 8:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Whoah. Now those are impressive pancakes. How the blazes?
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StevoR

10 May 2012 at 9:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PS. There’s really such a thing as a nudibranch??

[Eyes boggle checks wikipeidia finds :

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

Okay. Otherwise known as sea slugs.Kinda, sorta but not really. Neat.]

That’s a new fave word and something new for the day learnt.
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mattandrews

10 May 2012 at 9:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse. I have been put to shame.

…

But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

Depends on whether you told them the chips were mouse droppings or not.
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bbgunn

10 May 2012 at 9:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Who has that kind of time, patience and mad skills? Mine always resemble amoeba.
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Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort

10 May 2012 at 9:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Meh, I don’t like pancakes.

Now waffles, that’s where it’s at!

(#)
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Glen Davidson

10 May 2012 at 9:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You might get by so long as you weren’t making them look like uteri and colons.

Not to mention certain internet favorites.

Glen Davidson
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Stevarious

10 May 2012 at 9:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse.

You were also… violating copyright!

Expect to be whining the words ‘fair use’ to very dangerous men in black sunglasses very soon!
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Marcus Ranum

10 May 2012 at 9:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Mine usually come out blobby and shapeless so I just say they’re made to look like mohammed.
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Tyrant of Skepsis

10 May 2012 at 9:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m hungry!
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rubymoon

10 May 2012 at 9:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

1) I can log-in via Yahoo, but not Twitter???

2) For *some* reason, my only thought is “that one in the bottom-middle looks like that poor AU!Aperture employee…”.
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

10 May 2012 at 9:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Please tell me that you at least cut up hotdogs to resemble octopodes*, PZ. Hell, I do that now and I don’t even have any kids!

*-es? -i?
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Blondin

10 May 2012 at 9:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I heard a story from a friend about a relative who was making pancakes when the sticky fly strip fell from the ceiling into the batter. He pulled it out and continued to mix the batter but noticed a few of the flies had fallen off the the fly paper. Thinking he probably wouldn’t be able to pick them all out he just threw in a handful of raisins. An Edward de Bono solution?
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scrawnykayaker

10 May 2012 at 9:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

No, no, no! The chocolate chips go on top after you flip the pancake, to make eyes and stuff, not in the batter. As they say on the webalogs, “you’re doing it wrong.”
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Louis

10 May 2012 at 9:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Octopus -> Octopodes. From the Greek for “foot” pus -> podes. Not the Latin.

Louis
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Janine: History’s Greatest Monster

10 May 2012 at 9:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Saint Alphonzo’s Pancake Breakfast
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Louis

10 May 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Janine,

Where I stole the margarine.

A fellow Zappa fan. My love for you has only increased manifold.

Louis
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

10 May 2012 at 9:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Louis,
I was right (the first time, anyway)! Huzzah!

Plus, “octopodes” is way more fun to say. Octopodes, octopodes, octopodes!
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scrawnykayaker

10 May 2012 at 10:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That technique is incredible! I thought I was moving up from Mickey Mouse by doing a few crude bats and rabbits.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/96/batpancake.jpg

Just me and pygmy pony, down by the succotash bush…
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Louis

10 May 2012 at 10:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Dental floss bush.

Don’t go where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow.

Louis
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Janine: History’s Greatest Monster

10 May 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh my! I think I started something.
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Louis

10 May 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Who you jivin’ with that cosmik debris?

Louis
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twincats

10 May 2012 at 11:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

chocolate always makes things better!

There are some Star Wars pancakes 2/3 down the page here:

http://noms.icanhascheezburger.com/?from=moreabovefooter
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geebs

10 May 2012 at 11:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Bottom left: His Noodliness the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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keenacat

10 May 2012 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That technique is incredible! I thought I was moving up from Mickey Mouse by doing a few crude bats and rabbits.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/96/batpancake.jpg

Just me and pygmy pony, down by the succotash bush…

Scrawnykayaker…
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that:
But that is clearly a manfruit with dangly bits. It even has pubes.

Not that there is anything wrong with manfruit pancakes. Just avoid adding blueberries.
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DLC

10 May 2012 at 11:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ:

But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

No way dude. blueberries or GTFO :-)

I hope your children will someday forgive you for imposing such horrors on them. Your cooking is soulless, and godless.
Whereas mine is a religious experience. My family see what’s cooking and yell “Oh God, not that again!”
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Desert Son, OM

10 May 2012 at 2:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

My favorite Zappa quote (not from his prolific and awesome music catalog):

“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.” -Frank Zappa

In re: subject post, I’m impressed not only by the shapes, but by the skill required to flip, for example, the sea urchin or nudibranch cakes and maintain overall structural integrity.

Still learning,

Robert
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Frank Asshole

10 May 2012 at 2:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The psychoanalyst would be more concerned with intestines or urethra (not to mention anus!) shaped pancakes, or even worse, orally operated musical instruments. So yes. Mickey mouse was a pretty neutral choice.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-T5-UvRLJ94g/T6DQ_7firkI/AAAAAAAAWqU/tn1fl3iyBWA/03-1-1-Desktop%25255B5%25255D.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-gF82rjJMKCE/T6DSHV04juI/AAAAAAAAWqk/gJZ_tt3LJMo/05-Desktop-002%25255B5%25255D.jpg
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Amphiox

10 May 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The only way to settle this is to ask Skatje and the other kids whether or not being restricted to Mickey Mouse pancakes with the occasional chocolate chip has scarred them or not….
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'Tis Himself

10 May 2012 at 2:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I particularly like the backwards “p” in octopus.
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Sili

10 May 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

And here I thought this was gonna be about the lefse.
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myeck waters

10 May 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
– Frank Zappa
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a3kr0n

10 May 2012 at 4:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

All we got were round pancakes, and no chocolate chips. I’m still in counseling for it.
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ruteekatreya

10 May 2012 at 4:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Dat Nautilus. Holy Shit, that is fantastic.

Its just got submissions, no methods D: D: D:
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aaronbaker

10 May 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Maybe you’ll like these: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=295987070487332&set=a.177149582371082.45156.177141329038574&type=1&theater
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Pierce R. Butler

10 May 2012 at 10:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Prof. Myers – attorneys from the Disney Company on Line 3 for you, they say it’s urgent…