Discussion:A nice story

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-story-of-william-a-turnier-the-man-who-designed-the-oreo-cookie/Content?oid=2640604

I've always loved an Oreo and milk.

I have to walk quickly by them at the store or they will mysteriously jump into my cart.

Tom

I have to walk quickly by them at the store or they will mysteriously jump into my cart.

Tom

A kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and throw the chocolate cookie on the outside - away.

I kind of like Oreo cookie ice cream though.

of an Oreo first, and throw the chocolate cookie on the outside - away.

I kind of like Oreo cookie ice cream though."

Brilliant. What made you add the last line? It pulls us up short and reminds us that childhood must end; it's a subtle reminder of our mortality. We may have discovered a new poet here today! :)

I'm afraid David has given me a case of Oreos on the mind which I won't be able to shake until I give into temptation and buy a bag and now I'm thinking about the icecream too.

One would hope that we are now beyond that, yet I still hear African Americans using the 'N-word', which I can't understand why that is even tolerated.

Rush Limbaugh likens President Obama to new Oreo cookie.

D&T, it's already been politicized. by Rush, no less.

Rush is an @ss.

Give me oatmeal raisan anyday, or if I need some chocolate, then chocolate chip, and not by Nabisco.

Crow - my little diddy was misleading a little. The last line about liking Oreo cookie ice cream is independent of the diddy. In fact, I can't fit it into the musical part. Too bad though because it is kind of a statement about growing up.

Action is right. Move this discussion back to the fun side of Oreo COOKIES!

I now have a craving for cookies and cream.

Tom

I may have to join you.

Tom

Bailey's is simply G-d's gift from the Irish. I have more than one bottle of the stuff here.

Do try the Guiness there. It's better there than it is here.

Tom

Muscal part? Rhyme? No, no, NOOOOO! The last line was what advanced it from the simple diddy into the realms of fine art.

Action, I hope you don't think a painting of a tree should look like a tree?! That went out the window a hundred years ago.

The last line of the poem had a shocking, thoughtful and yet winsome qaulity that quite moved me. Trust your natural artistic instincts. In the end, all great art is a loss of innocence. Genius should never edit.

I can't leave without saying something about this Bailey's blather. Particularly you Tom, as a real Irishman.......how could you? A little Irish whiskey (2-3 shots) and some black coffee and no sugar... maybe. (You'd be better to drink your whiskey straight.) By the way, what is the hisory of this Bailey's? Is it an Irish Koolaide? A ladies drink? Or was it cooked up by some marketing department trying to sell crap to Americans? Probably the latter.

They'll run Tom out of County Cork if he goes in a pub and requests Bailey's.

Never buy doctored up whiskey of any kind. It's a way to offload rot gut on Americans.

I am flying the white flag over the Bailey's. I give up on it. I can't fight the public.

I have to admit to having a Bailey's or something similar in a hotel one time in Charleston. It was drunk in the room and not in public. Remember that basketball announcer that run around in ladies clothes in his hotel room? That's all I could think of while I was drinking it.

This is why people shouldn't go on vacation.

(I have to admit it was pretty good, but I didn't consider it a drink. If this was to get out, I'd be ruined.)

We DO drink more tequila down here than we should...yes, we do, and there's some of that stuff that will eat the enamel of your front teeth. I use it for cleaning pistons. 'Course, if you'd rather go for the REALLY cheap stuff, that's available too...

I'm only half kidding...the ultra-bottom rank of tequila isn't even bottled in Old Mexico. They send it up in tanker trucks (also used for shipping Unleaded, I'll bet) and cut it here in the States with grain neutral spirit and distilled water to where the agave liquor fraction begins to equal the retail sales tax rate. I could name names but I won't, at least, not in public, but here's a hint: Garish, "Mexican" looking labels are a dead giveaway. And never, ever, EVER drink "well" tequila.

But the liquor I drink, when it isn't Irish Whiskey, is Presidente Brandy. I have a bottle of their premium stuff right now, forget what it's called, that the tide is slowly going out in. It has a kind of warm, spicy flavor to it that is quite distinctive. But even the regular run isn't bad.