December 9th, 2013
9 Dec 2013 · page 303 of 1306
Wait, I've read a book before!
Hey, an anthology I'm part of is being Kickstarted right now! It's another fairy tales book, this time African instead of Europeon tales, and it's got some amazing names attached, go have a look!
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Looks like Rosie's about to get from Alexa what Van Gogh got from The Doctor :P
Let's hope Rosie's story doesn't end the same way >_>
Rosie, would that be the "ABCs of Home Bakery" that we saw Alexis using in the July 19th comic?
Aaah, thanks, you've spared me the search :D
And July 5th, too, when she's sitting on the train.
... aannndddd ... Alexa falls prostrate at her feet "I am not wooorrthy!"
It should not be that extreme. Alexa knows she is good. Indeed, she may know it too well. But meeting someone that wrote the book you are working out of has to be a bit of a shock [tho it is somewhat strange she is relying on something called the ABC's. One would think she had memorized it years ago if she still used it at all.]
Depends on just how self-deprecatory that title was.
It shouldn't be that self-deprecatory. Any publisher is going to want to use that sort of title for a beginner book. True, Capablanca wrote Chess Fundamentals, which doesn't have the rules of the game [a distinctly fundamental part], but Capa was World Champ at the time and the editor wasn't going to argue with him. Rosie may be bigger stuff than she lets on, but that much bigger?
...So, Rosie is the alternate universe version of Julia Child?
Cookies must be her specialty, because Alexa is the cake specialist.
Did Ms King read the author's biog on the back cover I wonder? That would be a big hint if her plan worked. Did Rosie vanish mysteriously in the 50s while visiting Widdershins or does she get returned seamlessly to her correct time by Ms King's cunning plan?
Blurb, not blog... no blogs in the 1950s. I think they should all go back to their correct times.
That was biog, as in the biography you get inside the dust cover, rather than blog. Is there a serif font in this forum?
I thought it said blog at first too, but noticed it on re-read. :)
Should still be bio.
I need new glasses...
How about we compromise and call it a blob? :)
I liked Rosie but now I loooooove Rosie
Great thing about side salad is that you don't have to be that good at preparing it because no-one ever eats the damn stuff.
Hey now, side salads are tasty!
That's what you think.
Oh, well, restaurants. ;)
And the book also seems to be with her in her apron pocket when she went back in time. [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-26th-2013/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-26th-2013/")
Is this an example of "Chekov's Cookbook"?
I'd daresay so...
I really have to say that the 1950's were not a good era for women's morale. :/
...waiting for Alexa to hand the book to Rosie and for her to publish it when she gets back into her time, completing a closed time loop ...
The Oracle in the Matrix was a cookie baker.=) powers renowned.
This 1950s lady is American, right?
On the whole her accent doesn't seem nearly as blatant as one would expect of a yankiedoodle... but she says "y'all"... and nobody this side of the pond with all their mental faculties intact would say "y'all" non-ironically.
If Rosie’s not from Britain 🇬🇧,where’s she from? Not elsewhere in the UK 🇬🇧, I’m assuming. I thought of the USA 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 first, but it’s hard to distinguish accents in print. If it were a dialect that differed in vocabulary or something else besides pronunciation, it’d be easier to figure out. But I’m going to lean towards Anglophone North America, rather than Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, etc.