How to annoy Chaz, without even trying...
Aug. 5th, 2008 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWell, you could be me, and keep leaving the heat on under my most expensive pans. For hours'n'hours. Grr.
Or you could be a cat, either of the cats, and keep leaping like thunder onto my desk and sending things that belong there plummeting to the floor. Grrr!
Or - today's favourite! - you could write a cookery book, and give all the dishes complicated names that list half a dozen of their crucial ingredients - and then you could index them with no more discrimination than a simple alphabetical order. Which would, for example, mean that Gin-Laced Pork and Pig's Liver with Cinnamon and Cloves is indexed - yup - under G for Gin. And nowhere else. Aurrgh! This does, since you ask, render the index entirely useless. And thus, pretty much, the book. I may have to re-index it my own self, picking out the useful things like, y'know, Pork. With a P...
Or you could be a cat, either of the cats, and keep leaping like thunder onto my desk and sending things that belong there plummeting to the floor. Grrr!
Or - today's favourite! - you could write a cookery book, and give all the dishes complicated names that list half a dozen of their crucial ingredients - and then you could index them with no more discrimination than a simple alphabetical order. Which would, for example, mean that Gin-Laced Pork and Pig's Liver with Cinnamon and Cloves is indexed - yup - under G for Gin. And nowhere else. Aurrgh! This does, since you ask, render the index entirely useless. And thus, pretty much, the book. I may have to re-index it my own self, picking out the useful things like, y'know, Pork. With a P...