004 - Mincemeat

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Barge. My name is Ned, and I have a completely arbitrary and unrelated question to ask.

If you had a minute - 60 seconds - with any person currently dead and could talk and interact with them as normal, alive people would...

What would you say or ask them?

I suppose this question goes to the people who are currently...dead....and have alive people back home they're separated from as well.

It's an odd question, I know. But I've been...curious, lately.



Also, would the elf who took my wallet please give it back now? I hope you remember me; I was the piemaker dressed as a Franciscan monk. I hate to treat the network as my own personal Lost Connections newsletter but I really didn't know what other way to get in touch with you.

And if you're not actually an elf, I'm sorry for calling you one.

Comments

[deadly_ned]

That makes sense. You can be redeemed without being forgiven, can't you?

[with_my_teacup]

I think so. Especially not being forgiven by everyone. Redemption's on you, forgiveness is on them, you only get to control one.

[deadly_ned]

That seems like it would set the stage for angry miscommunication.

[with_my_teacup]

Yeah, that sounds about like life-?

Sorry we crashed your post. I'll make you a pastry. This one will be edible.

[deadly_ned]

That's a fair point.


No meat with mine, please. I know you're a budding carnivore but I'm strictly vegetarian.

[with_my_teacup]

I am an omnivore in full bloom but yeah I know your tastes. Got a recipe for a quiche from Megamind's fish friend.

[deadly_ned]

I'm sure it will be spectacular.

Which reminds me. When we invent your signature dish you'll need to name it after yourself.

[with_my_teacup]

... do I have to have a signature dish? I feel like this wasn't introduced up front when we started lessons.

[deadly_ned]

It's a surprise bonus lesson. It comes when you invent something so tasty and wonderful that it wraps itself around you in its aroma and everyone who tastes it can't help but taste a tiny bit of home.

[with_my_teacup]

Yeah I'll leave that to you.

I don't think I'm that level.

[deadly_ned]

We'll get you to that level. And then you'll sit there eating your dish and wondering how you ever could have lived without it.

[with_my_teacup]

That sounds worryingly like addiction?

[Riddick: not often unsure of himself, but cooking kind of is his new frontier.]

[deadly_ned]

Good food usually can be. That's why some people get fat.

[with_my_teacup]

I need to not get addicted to things I can't have when I'm camping out on ice planets, though. It's kind of a necessity.

[deadly_ned]

You're not on an ice planet now. Why shouldn't you get to enjoy the little delicacies?

[with_my_teacup]

I might wind up on the ice planet after I leave, though. ...I really liked that ice planet.

I'll try your thing, though. I'm just a'ight if it never gels.

[deadly_ned]

We'll teach you how to make ice pops, then.

Fair enough.