Tim Tams and hot chocolate: Bite the corners off and DIP!

Bingo of the night so far:

MISGUIDE (249 points) - against Patricia S.

High-scoring words of the night so far:

PAINT (149 points) - against Elena W. [5W, 3W, hook off PRIM to make PRIMP]
MISGUIDE (249 points) - against Patricia S. [bingo; 4W, 3W] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
INTONE (142 points) - against Itamar R. [4W, 5W]
DUPING (620 points) - against Babs G. [2W, two 5W]
JOULE (228 points) - against Janelle I. [two 4W, hook off AIR to make LAIR]
SUBTEEN (837 points; 3W, 4W, 5W, hook off CONE to make SCONE), OPAL (169 points; 3W, 5W) - against Alex R.
FLAX (114 points) - against Hanna M. [4W, 2L on X] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
REALITY (106 points) - against Teri L. [3W]

Played the word "PENIS" against poor Melissa R. just because I had the tiles. :D

BEFORE this thing decided to restart, I was having a lovely conversation with Corey about Tim Tams and hot chocolate:

[23:29:51] Flami: learning about martyrs: so what does Youtube say about how to eat Tim Tams?! :P
[23:30:58] Corey: you bite the corners off and use it as a straw to drink coffee or hot chocolate
[23:31:18] Flami: I don't have either around here
[23:31:30] Corey: then when it's pretty saturated, you put the whole thing in your mouth... it melts and is supposedly really really really really good
[23:32:34] Corey: I thought it lasted a while, but apparently they melt pretty quickly... so it'll fall apart on you if you don't put it in your mouth pretty quickly
[23:35:17] Corey: first one shows it working... the second one is actual Aussies demonstrating it, but the guy laughs and it falls apart on him
[23:35:53] Corey: so that should give some indication of how quick it needs to be :P there's another video that uses tea.... but coffee or hot chocolate sound a whole lot better to me
[23:38:57] Corey: that's the tea one, and has Natalie Imbruglia, who is apparently Australian. I don't think I've even heard anything about her in a really long time
[23:39:10] Corey: but she appears to have her technique down :P
[23:49:01] Flami: I remember that she is Australian, and that's about it
[00:13:09] Corey: okay, hot chocolate obtained and cooling to drinkable temperature
[00:14:22] Corey: Tim Tams, opened
[00:15:54] Flami: let me know how it is!
[00:20:48] Corey: well, when this hot chocolate seems like it's not going to burn my entire mouth while doing this, I'll give it a shot :P
[00:20:52] Corey: I think it's getting there
[00:22:11] Flami: okay, okay... I'm not an impatient person, y'know :P
[00:22:23] Corey: okay, it should be okay now
[00:23:42] Corey: okay, corners bitten off (not bad at all :P) ... let's see how this works
[00:24:47] Corey: wow, the entire thing totally melts right after you do that
[00:25:35] Corey: not as chocolatey as I imagined it, but very very good... definitely better like that than eating them plain :P
[00:27:49] Flami: it's been ages since I've had hot chocolate... tea, I do have around here, but meh.
[00:29:15] Corey: we've had hot chocolate forever... we bought a big box of Swiss Miss packets, and that lasted forever... I think right about when that ran out was when my grandma died.. and she had a whole ton of them too, so it's refilled and we still have tons. it apparently doesn't go bad because this is definitely a few years old at least, and the stuff we had before must have been even older :P
[00:33:27] Corey: okay, I did another one. you're definitely, definitely doing it wrong :P
[00:33:58] Corey: from eating the corners, it's obvious that they're pretty good plain, but still, that's wasting them :P
[00:34:10] Corey: go buy hot chocolate mix :P
[00:35:45] Corey: I think I can do one more before it gets too low to get it down in the hot chocolate... it doesn't use much of it at all, so you're going to have plenty of hot chocolate left over unless you use some kind of really wide-mouthed glass for it
[00:38:07] Flami: I had hot chocolate from about mid-September 2005 to sometime in July 2008
[00:43:01] Corey: well, make that 2009, too
[00:48:09] Flami: Korey drank it all!
[00:48:54] Corey: well, you have stores! :P get some more! :P
[00:49:59] Corey: I only did three, so I have more for later...
[00:54:44] Flami: okay, fine... I'll tell you about it when I do that :P
[00:56:54] Flami: it was a HUGE box with assorted kinds of Land O'Lakes cocoa in it: Chocolate Supreme, Chocolate Hazelnut, Chocolate Double Fudge, Chocolate and Raspberry, Chocolate and French Vanilla, and Chocolate with Caramel.
[00:59:33] Corey: Land O'Lakes? that's butter!
[01:00:41] Corey: well, I used to use two packets at a time, and that stuff still lasted forever... I guess I wasn't making it every day or anything
[01:09:38] Flami: well, I thought Land O'Lakes was butter and stuff too, until Vivian and Karen gave me the box for my birthday!
[01:10:34] Flami: I didn't make it every day, either for myself or Korey... although there were a few days where he'd have two in a couple hours.
[01:25:12] Corey: guess he likes it
[01:33:13] Flami: yeah... guess so :P then he'd wonder WHY he had trouble sleeping at night :P
[01:39:03] Corey: yeah, me too
[01:47:09] Flami: CAFFEINE, DUDE.
[02:05:12] Corey: caffeine!!!
[02:05:49] Flami: yup, there's the magic answer!

Leslie took the Are You a Grammar and Spelling Freak? quiz and the result is English Professor Material. You could correct College-Level papers! Your spelling and grammar are perfect! (Grammatical cases and diagramming sentences are NOT my main proficiencies, but the rest was EASY!)

Facebook quizzes taken from Jessica Lai, Morgana, and Dana:

Leslie took the Which Love Language do you have? quiz and the result is Gifts. You are a person of gifts. This means you are most touched when people give you a gift, because it means they were thinking of you when they bought, created or found what they give you. You see life as a gift! Gifts and giving is your emotional tool, and you will therefore also use this to connect to other people. Gifts are a great way of communicating, but when someone else you love doesn't necessarily talk the way you do, it doesn't mean they don't love you. What would be their primary love language? The downside of giving gifts without talking or doing things for someone else may come across as a quick fix to escape building a further relationship. Try to put in some effort by finding out what the other person's language is, too. A good conversation or spending time with them can be a gift to them, more precious than a box of chocolate! One last point to mention is that God also communicates in your love language. He uses gifts, too. He says in the Bible that He loves you, that you are the apple of His eye, and that He wants you to come to Him and talk to Him. He loves you and gave Jesus (God Himself in human form) to bridge the gap caused by the fall of sin through which we cannot fully obey the law He gave us. He made the solution through Jesus, and when accepting Him, you'll accept God Himself, Who loves you, and wants to communicate with you. Jesus is the greatest Gift, Who gives salvation FREELY to whoever accepts Him. Praise God!

Leslie took the Which Joss Whedon character are you? quiz and the result is Xander Harris. [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] You have a big heart. You are always forgiving your friends, and will love them no matter what. You tend to be attracted to strange people, but they aren't all bad. On the other hand, some of them are very bad, and you usually figure that out just in time - or else your friends rescue you. You're not quite sure what you want to do when you grow up, but that's okay. You don't want to be like your parents.

Leslie just took the "What colour is your soul?" quiz and the result is Yellow. Yellow is the colour of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Your soul combines all of these things, tending to mean that you are a more thoughtful person on the whole. Yellow usually goes with a sunny personality. You have a good business head and a strong sense of humor. Although all of this does mean you are a clear and precise thinker who is in control of their own ideas, it also means that at time you tend to shun responsibility, preferring freedom of thought and action.

Poo nugget for Tuesday, Apr. 7: Spreading Global Access to Toilets - The World Health Organization's Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment of 2000 found that 40 percent of the world's population doesn't have access to toilet facilities. The lack of toilets is found mostly in Asia and Africa. Efforts are underway to design hygienic toilets that are easy to build and maintain in order to help meet this need.