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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[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.