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[likethebeer]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
Philadelphia
The South
The Inland North
The Northeast
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

In other news, mda got stuck at work. And he showed up 2 hours early again. He's got to start writing his hours on his hands or something.

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[nadine-a.livejournal.com]

I saw him at his work today too. Did he tell you we bought $198 worth of booze?

winter is coming.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

No, he didn't mention it, but he was mostly calling to give me updates.

Oooh--I think the butter should be softened for starting on cookies.

[larrondo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I just took the test and it said I was from the Inland Northeast and that people probably ask me if I'm from Chicago, and that I probably call soda "Pop." All this is terribly wrong.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you don't call soda "pop" then. Oh, how we used to denigrate our southern cousins over that difference. They called us "city slickers" though, so it went both ways.

[larrondo.livejournal.com]

No. And no one has ever asked if I was from Chicago. I'm from New York, born and raised.

[jaaladay.livejournal.com]

mda does seem to have a pretty abstract relationship to time.
What kind of cookies are you making?
I'm all cookied-up at my house. We made three kinds plus fudge this weekend!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I made potato chip cookies. My mom used to make them during x-mas time when I was growing up, and I found them in a cookie-making book that has never done me any other good. They're really yummy (and taste like what I remember!), and only use 1/2 cup of crushed potato chips. I realized later that I completely confused the checkout girl when i bought an enormous amount of potato chips--the cheapest I could get--and told her I was making cookies out of them.

Recipe (makes about 36 cookies):
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp grated lemon zest
1/2 cup crushed potato chips
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
2 cups sifted flour
Confectioner's sugar.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease cookie pan.

In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter & sugar. Beat in the vanilla extract and the lemon zest. Stir in the potato chips and chopped walnuts. Mix in the flour, 1/2 cup at a time.

Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of batter onto baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. Dust each cookie with confectioner's sugar. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies have browned around the edges. Remove from the oven.

Allow cookies to cool 2-3 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
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I've realized 2 things: the confectioner's sugar can make it really messy!

This whole "rounded teaspoon" thing works best when I scoop them up on the tsp then squish the cookie dough w/my hands (lots of handwashing occurred). They just don't like to form otherwise, although that was probably due to the fact that I dumped all the flour in at once.

[drunk-bohemian.livejournal.com]

That's a very strange combination but I'm intrigued! Might have to try the recipe...

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

They are really good cookies--wi_c was properly impressed. They don't taste like potato chips. I think the P.Chips must lend some fat or something. Like putting in a 1/2 cup of butter doesn't.

mda's chronological sense

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

It's a constant realization of mine!

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I scored "Inland North"

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Are you? I'm shamefully Midland. What's my #1 score? Philly, which I grew up outside of (but I don't say "wuder" for "water", or "bee-a-yoo-tiful").

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I was doing a Health & Safety audit at a plan outside Pittsburgh and one of the managers was referring to the metalworking fluid as "koolnt," as if she had swallowed the "a" in the word "coolant." It took me three tries to get what she was saying.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I forgot to ask how much wodder they put in ta dlute it.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

When I go back to Philly, I can channel the Philly accent if properly stimulated, but not for long. I never had it in abundance so I have to hear it first. Although I still can't say "Wisconsin" like a Wisconsinite, most times; unless I'm not thinking about it!

What tickles mda is when he asks what time it is and I reply, "It's 20 of," which means it's 40 after the hour. He has to ask, "20 of what? I dont' understand!" When we went back to the area this past May, the flight attendant said, as we were landing into "Philly--uh, Philadelphia" that we needed to change our watches to "20 of 3". So ticklish.

Regionalisms are so fun sometimes.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

That's good... I guess I woulda said "20 til 3."

Did your folks ever say "Criminy"? My hoosier Mom says that once in a while..

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I never realized it should be "20 til" until mda mentioned that the phrase I grew up with is really illogical.

Never said criminy. Maybe it's because mom was from southern Indiana--very close to Kentucky, so maybe she's more Kentuckian. And my dad grew up on the south side of Chicago, but I don't think he sounds like a Chicagoan. Then again, I grew up with them, so I can certainly tune it out.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I've been to Madison, IN a few times and I love that sorry old town on the Ohiah* River...
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*That's how they say it, at least.

Well, its 35 of so I best get some vittles.

35 of

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

That made me chuckle. Then again, I'm sick and am on my 2nd beer, so that makes me prone to laughing =>

Re: 35 of

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I've got two pinot noirs (with dinner) and three Sam Adams Winter Lagers following that. It's no my usual Wednesday fare, but, hey, it's my birthday...

Here's to Hopin' ya get better soon. (raises imaginary glass)