nah. he's a man, and sets great importance to it.

In our household, we came up with the terms unt and ancle 

Z

Quote from: Zythyra on February 05, 2009, 12:28:33 PM
In our household, we came up with the terms unt and ancle 

Z

unt is dangerously close to another word...



BUNT.  Get out of the gutter, you filthy-minded people!

uhm... what's a bunt ?

How about Runt ?

A bunt is a term used in baseball when the batter doesn't swing in order to hit the ball as far as possible.  Instead, the batter will position the bat in front of the ball and allow the ball to hit the bat.  The ball might bounce back toward the pitcher.  This is a tactic which counts as a hit and allows the batter to run for first while the pitcher and the catcher both run to the ball.

The word bunt is also used to describe a kind of cake as in bunt cake, whatever that is.

Those are the american meanings.  Apparently there's a community in India that speaks Tulu and is known as 'Bunt'.

The english band Disco Bitch used an instrument called a 'bunt'

bunt is a kind of fungus.

None of these definitions have any validity except for the american one.

Blunt is also a marijuana joint that is rolled in like Swisher Sweats (Cigar) wrappers.  Just in case you don't get out much.

Quote from: Rebis on February 06, 2009, 09:47:49 PM

The word bunt is also used to describe a kind of cake as in bunt cake, whatever that is.

Typo alert!

According to the Washington Post:

Bundt Pan Creator H. David Dalquist, 86

Associated Press
Thursday, January 6, 2005; Page B08


H. David Dalquist, 86, creator of the famous Bundt cake pan, died Jan. 2 at his home in Edina, Minn. He had a heart ailment.

Mr. Dalquist founded St. Louis Park, Minn.-based NordicWare, which has sold more than 50 million Bundt pans, the top-selling cake pan in the world.

"I think he was overwhelmed by the success and popularity of the pan," Mr. Dalquist's son, David, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "He never dreamed it would be as accepted by American consumers as it was."

Mr. Dalquist designed the pan in 1950 at the request of members of the Minneapolis chapter of the Hadassah Society. They had old ceramic cake pans of somewhat similar designs but wanted an aluminum pan.

Mr. Dalquist created a new shape and added regular folds for easy cake-cutting.

The women from the society called the pans "bund pans" because "bund" is German for a gathering of people. Mr. Dalquist added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the name.

For years, the company sold few such pans. Then in 1966, a Texas woman won second place in the Pillsbury Bake-Off for her Tunnel of Fudge Cake made in a Bundt pan. Suddenly, bakers across the United States wanted their own Tunnel of Fudge cakes, and Bundt pans were perfect for tunnel cakes.

The Bundt pan is now the single-biggest product line for NordicWare, which sells a large variety of pots and pans and kitchen equipment. More than 1 million Bundt pans are sold each year.

Mr. Dalquist founded NordicWare after returning from duty with the Navy during World War II. He was a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Minnesota.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Margerite Staugaard Dalquist; four children; and 12 grandchildren.

© 2005 The Washington Post Company

So Bundt is American, too. And Hadassah is the Womens' Zionist Organisation of America, a high-minded group, hardly in the gutter. So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

S

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

oh yeah, must be.

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
The women from the society called the pans "bund pans" because "bund" is German for a gathering of people. Mr. Dalquist added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the name.

Thanks for the history!

Z

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 07, 2009, 02:50:02 PM

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

oh yeah, must be.

Actually, I'd forgotten there was a 'd' in bundt...but I did think of bunt in baseball too!    But I mean really, between baseball and cake, which did you think I thought of first?    Actually, a lovely piece of bundt cake sounds delicious...don't have any, though...

http://lunchpail.com/fourandtwenty/wp-content/lemon_bundt_cake.jpg

For Jaimey:

It might interest you to know that there's a second part to the curious cat saying.
The whole thing is, "Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back!" I think that's pretty sweet.

Quote from: benji42 on February 19, 2009, 12:04:07 PM
The whole thing is, "Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back!"

Wow...satisfaction can raise the dead!

So does this mean that if I eat some or all of a Bundt cake, and it is really really good, that I can bring back 8-track tapes?

Cute They should have named you Evam or Adeve though

Quote from: Laurry on February 19, 2009, 12:59:03 PM
Wow...satisfaction can raise the dead!

So does this mean that if I eat some or all of a Bundt cake, and it is really really good, that I can bring back 8-track tapes?

...what's an 8-track? 

j/k.  mostly.

Speaking of old recording media, I had a bit of an argument with my band mates the other day. They are into vinyl records and I could not get it through their thick heads that they should get over them already! Vinyl is dead (except in leisure wear ), time to move on.

Actually I kind of hate what digital stuff does to the sound of crash cymbals (being a drummer in all, professional interest) - always sounds to my ear like there is some broken tinkly glass on the end of the crash as if the electronic compression has pulled holes out of the sound. I find it particulalry bad in MP3s

Quote from: Jaimey on February 19, 2009, 02:07:13 PM
...what's an 8-track? 

j/k.  mostly.

I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

Tom Cruise? C'mon Grandamme Where are you? "Marty we're going to take you, back to the eighties."

Quote from: Rebis on February 19, 2009, 03:35:01 PM
I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

I hear you! Let's bring back the 1840s. I want to head west, cut down a tract of the endless forest, burn the brush in an enormous bonfire lighting up the night sky, and settle in a cabin built with my own hands. If you do likewise, please keep your cabin a goodly piece from mine. Who wants to see the smoke of their neighbor's fire?

curmudgeonly,
S

Can you make a wooden internet?

pigeons...

i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.