OT: Evil Spawn, was, Re: [Sca-cooks] Oops, I forgot...

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

That sounds like an excellent idea! Subtle carrot, without that 
poisonous "I know you could do better if you only tried" speech... 
because sometimes you can, and sometimes you can't, and when you already 
are trying it's just discouraging...   but a reason to try helps. 
Especially if it doesn't feel like a lecture...  Good luck. Because 
you're right - it is important...

Seems to me someone I know told me about a pistachio marzipan cake in a 
modern cake cookbook. Cake Bible or some such, maybe?

AEllin

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> Well, we had an idea... it seems his cousin is getting married in 
> Mexico in May, and we've already said we couldn't be sure we'd have 
> the time and cash to make the trip at that time. In the mean time, his 
> other cousin, the groom's sister, wanted to bring him, on the 
> condition that he manages to bring his averages back up to the SP level.
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> My lady wife and I discussed this at just slightly louder than 
> conversational tones, in our bedroom, which shares a common wall with 
> his. Anyway, we concluded that this wasn't going to happen. We 
> wouldn't mind his going, we agreed, but figured most of the time, it 
> was just going to be a lot of teenage girls in bikinis and mass 
> quantities of seafood, and we agreed our son, who'd just be turning 
> thirteen, wouldn't have any interest in _that_. [Muffled sounds from 
> other side of the wall, possibly indicating a child just realizing his 
> parents are psychotic aliens.] And it was a long time to be without 
> the strict supervision of his parents. And besides, he'd probably have 
> to miss _at least_ a week of school. [Louder noises from other side of 
> the wall, possibly stifled cheering or some kind of seizure...]
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> It seemed like a pretty well-thrown-down gauntlet. Evil Spawn (tm) 
> last seen studying periodic table of elements. We'll see.
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> Adamantius
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