Filks and straight lines

[celticdragonfly]

selenite is evil, that's all there is to it.

He was explaining to phoenixsinger about a game master screen, and mentioned them having just about any table a GM might want to look up. I compared it to how many cookbooks will have at the front or back charts of measurements comparisons, how many tablespoons in a cup and such, and substitutions such as how much minced onion = a chopped up fresh onion.

Then I looked at selenite and softly sang "The prudent cookbooks give it / in tables at the end, the drops that make a teaspoon ..." (based on Leslie Fish singing Kipling's Hymn of Breaking Strain, of course).

We riffed off various ideas for this for a moment or two, and I was just thinking it would make a pretty good filk, although perhaps I should hand it off to someone who knows rather more about cooking than I do. (Why yes, selenesue, I was thinking of you.)

Then selenite looked at me and said, "well, you could make something out of it, but it's still going to be half-baked."

I whacked him with one of my knitting needles.

Comments

New Kipling

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Can't believe I missed this:

Be with us in our hour
Of overthrow and pain;
That we—by which sure token
We know Thy ways are true—
In spite of being broken,
Because of being broken,
May rise and build anew.
Stand up and build anew!

So thanks!

Re: New Kipling

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

This one was new to you? It's one of Karl's favorites. Someone sang it during the Sunday morning Ecumenifilk at GAFilk. At the start of it I was so wishing Karl was in the room - then he showed up in the doorway and I frantically waved him in.