on learning that I'm making pie tomorrow...

[1st_companion]

So I can't help with the measuring because it's all pre-measured, and I can't help with the baking because I'm not physically there, which is the same reason I can't help with the tasting.

What can I help with?

... you're going to let me pick the music? FANTASTIC!

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[ofdrumsthesound]

Pie? Can I have some?

[cosmo_gyral]

So that means none for me, either.

[That's disappointing, she does love sweets.] Music, though? Do you at least get to do some dancing, if not tasting?

[Not implying she might do that when she bakes... what, don't look at her like that. It's fun]

[1st_companion]

Of course there's going to be dancing! Can't have a revolution without dancing!

[yes, because the mun baking is exactly the same thing as a revolution. Totally.]

[cosmo_gyral]

Yeah! Danci-- Oh, wait, hmm. Revolution? [Like Dance Dance Revolution? She almost says]

I think you mean baking, right? Just good, harmless baking?

[1st_companion]

...Same thing, innit?

[cosmo_gyral]

I think not; definitely going to have to go with no on this one.

[Small laugh here, because he's kidding, definitely. Right?]

I mean, maybe it'll revolutionize the world of pie-making-baking-whatever you would call it.

[1st_companion]

Doubt it, she's not that innovative, my mun. Her version of 'fight the man' is to do everything out of cans.

[cosmo_gyral]

Oi, don't knock can-pies. Leaves more time for the dancing! [As well as the eating]

Might not be a revolutionary pie, though. However, your mun has the advantage of being able to make pie, mine is hopeless in the kitchen.

[1st_companion]

She did make revolutionary pies once! V For Vendetta Cherry Tarts, actually.

Those were good.

This one's just pumpkin, or these ones, she can't ever remember from year to year if a can each of pumpkin and condensed milk makes one or two pies.

[cosmo_gyral]

[There's a jealous ooooh from her, at that] n' you say she isn't innovative.

Shame none of that pie will be makin' it's way over here, pumpkin is good. Better than good, great, really - oh, I haven't had pumpkin in a long time... [Really, she's useless for help. Her mun's awful at baking, and she doesn't do it enough to know]

[1st_companion]

[He grins] Never said she wasn't creative, but it's not really the same thing most of the time.

Suppose there's some overlap, though, if you really think about it.

[cosmo_gyral]

Definitely go hand n' hand, creativity n' innovation; 'specially in the kitchen.

You ever watched any Food Network? Barmy, the things they come up with... [Like themed tarts, for instance] Has she made other themed things, your mun?

[1st_companion]

She doesn't let herself, not often, mostly because she's scared of Rachel Ray and her (and I quote) 'baby-eating smile'
She also thinks Guy Fieri is kind of a jackass (but she thinks his kids are adorable)

And she's also reasonably sure she'd get too many ideas and think she's capable of more than she actually is.

Hasn't really done any other themed things, closest she's come is making Caribbean Shrimp Tacos before going out to see Little Mermaid on stage.

Sorry! Sleep & errands happened

[cosmo_gyral]

[There's a laugh, and a little clap of her hands] I couldn't ever put a word to the look, but I think my mun agrees that is exactly what her smile says!

It's hard watchin' those shows, they make everything look so easy, not to mention, er, affordable.

n' really, I like Alton Brown. That's a fun fellow. He's like, like, if the Doctor cooked. All the Doctor ever wants to make is toffee, however.

then holiday dinner ate me instead of the other way around!

[1st_companion]

Oi, nothin' wrong with toffee. And yeah, pretty sure Alton's one of ours anyway, not a Time Lord, but probably knew one for a while.

[A bounce of a shrug]
Companions know our own, sort've a sixth sense.

[krypticfactor]

[He blinks, confused.]

What's pie?

[1st_companion]

[and have some blinking in return]

It's a food, dessert, usually, but sometimes dinner, that's usually a pot pie or a shepherd's pie or a handpie, though.

But handpies can be dessert too, just depends on what's in them, really!

[krypticfactor]

What. Users make pies out of hands? Or pots?

What's a shepherd?

[1st_companion]

Nooo. [shaking his head]

Handpies because they're eaten with the hands instead of a fork and knife. Pot pies because they were originally baked in pots, I guess, and shepherds are the guys who watch the sheep, dunno why they've got a pie named after them, though.

[krypticfactor]

[That would probably help more if Krypton knew what a 'sheep' was.]

Well, okay. That makes more sense.

Hi. My name is Krypton.

[1st_companion]

Thomas! [cheerful as anything, and offering a hand to shake]

Well, Tardis, really, but Thomas is less confusing to most people.

[krypticfactor]

[shakes his hand] Tardis is just as easy as Thomas. Do Users - uh, humans - have a problem with it?

[1st_companion]

Sometimes! Mostly on account of it's an acronym.

[and here he finger-spells each of the initials]
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space

See? Most of them don't quite know what to do with acronyms as names, even though they've got plenty of them.