Liene From the Internet ([info]halomouse) wrote,
@ 2006-09-21 20:36:00
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YOU GUYS
("But I'm not a BOY!")

you guys I have just figured out where the DIVINE NAME of my PLASTIC LOBSTER AT MARLENE'S came from (which reminds me, uh, I need to figure out who can rescue him from there)

Somehow the lobster started being called one name, and then a supervisor of mine started calling him Thermidor ("no, I didn't start that," she said later. so it was like this mysterious critical mass thing where we all just suddenly started calling him the same name [wtf?]).

So I was looking up "equinox" today on Wikipedia (when exactly IS the equinox this year? 23rd September, 4-something a.m. UTC. If I had been thinking I would have remembered that I HAVE A CALENDAR). And then lo and behold, there was some French revolutionary period (~12 years) where they started the year on the autumnal equinox. And they had this crazy decimal calendar. AND

Emile Zola, who lived actually very very very near to here, named his book Germinal after one of the months of the calendar, AND

9 Thermidor, an II, (the ninth of Thermidor, year 2) was the year the Convention turned against Robespierre, who was totally guillotined the next day. YES THERMIDOR WAS A MONTH IN THE FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR

but wait

there's more

there is a dish

called LOBSTER THERMIDOR

you can make this dish IN THE SIMS (2). It requires TEN OUT OF TEN COOKING SKILL POINTS. It is the MOST COMPLICATED and SATISFYING dish in the ENTIRE game.

This is WAY too good to be made up. WAY.

LOBSTER THERMIDOR

WHAT

It makes his name even cooler. Well, the French Republican Calendar Play Celebration part, not the eating him with cheese/milk/butter/cream (how much dairy DO you need in one recipe?) and egg yolks and brandy and such.

oh I don't think anyone will understand how the WORLD has OPENED UP for me tonight

but can I just point out also how the root for thermidor is the Latin "thermos," meaning "hot"

yeah that's right I'm going to take my SEXY LATIN BEVERAGE DEVICE in my lunchbox now!

OHhhh I miss lunchboxes.

thermos!

ooooookay! done being excitable for now.

but HAPPY FRENCH REPUBLICAN CALENDAR NEW YEAR'S EVE! Fructidor, you have been a pretty sweet month.

this message has been BROUGHT TO YOU

by whom is IRRELEVANT



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[info]soulrockerbuffy
2006-09-21 07:12 pm UTC (link)
FUNNIEST ENTRY EVER.

you now need a lobster userpic.

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[info]halomouse
2006-09-21 07:20 pm UTC (link)
ohhhHHHH WHY

why are ALL my PLASTIC LOBSTER PICTURES backed up on CDs which are FIVE THOUSAND MILES AWAY?

Man; there is no justice here.

I sure do (need one), but then I need to either kick an old userpic out (I just updated them!) or, uh, pay money to the man again.

my life is just filled with DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

and BURNING FIELDS

whoops; I forgot to talk about that one today.

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[info]soulrockerbuffy
2006-09-21 07:23 pm UTC (link)
I HEARTS FIRE!

I have similar userpic troubles. Egads.

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[info]awarmgun
2006-09-21 07:23 pm UTC (link)
we must hear about burning fields.

oh and i'm heading to flikr or whatever that site is right now, so direct me to pictureeeees.
<3

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[info]halomouse
2006-09-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)
I am hoping that you have now figgered it out.

I'll talk about the burning fields once I get some pictures up. It was pretty dramatic. To me.

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[info]cat228
2006-09-21 08:16 pm UTC (link)
http://images.google.com/images?q=plastic+lobsters&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

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[info]halomouse
2006-09-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)
eek!

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[info]dichotomise
2006-09-21 08:55 pm UTC (link)
It is AS IF your capital letters are PERFECTLY transmitting the quality of your voice over the OCEAN. MAN this entry was awesome. Your voice was, like, in my head, shouting about lobsters...

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[info]halomouse
2006-09-21 09:01 pm UTC (link)
This entry may be worth it for the SOLE FACT that the comments I am getting are KIND OF AWESOME.

lobsters lobsters lobsters lobsters!

on a CD somewhere in the States, I have BRILLIANT pictures of as-yet-unnamed-Thermidor eating Mighty-Onuts (that sounds SO wrong and yet SO catchy!) a couple summers ago (crap; that long?).

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[info]dichotomise
2006-09-22 07:42 am UTC (link)
Well it IS a quality post.

Oh man.

Mighty-O is already dirty as it is...

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[info]scoticus
2006-09-21 11:15 pm UTC (link)
I want my sims to make that now

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[info]jeffylube
2006-09-21 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I refused to make the lobster thermidor when we made it in culinary class. Because you started out with them LIVE and I couldn't bring myself to murder them. I held lobster races instead :P

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[info]halomouse
2006-09-21 11:43 pm UTC (link)
There is something about killing things that aren't plants that just does not appeal to me at all in any context. Except sometimes mosquitoes. (I suppose now's when I mention that once upon a time, when I was little, we had a lobster one night and named it Dinner?)

I LOVE the idea of lobster races.

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can I help?
(Anonymous)
2006-10-09 01:40 am UTC (link)
Liene,
How can I help with the LobsterRescue?
I went to Marlene's yesterday & didn't know
how to start a conversation about it.
I need a script.
Love,
Mother

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Re: can I help?
[info]halomouse
2006-10-09 05:27 am UTC (link)
"Liene is wondering if Thermidor the plastic lobster is still in the left-hand drawer at the info desk."

If you ask someone near the info desk, it might be easier -- it's in the set of drawers parallel to the stair-wall, on the very left if you're facing out from behind the desk.

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