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The Brick Testament: The greatest story ever lost down the back of the sofa.

  
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:36 / 17.05.02
The Brick Testament
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:52 / 17.05.02
Aww. Nobody wanted to come and play with Legos. Look, they've got Lego Adam & Eve, Lego Noah, Lego Sodom & Gomorrah... if you can't laugh at Lego Sodom and Gomorrah, what can you laugh at?
 
 
The Apple-Picker
16:59 / 17.05.02
Oh, I laughed. Genesis was wonderful. I got all lusty looking at that luscious plastic apple.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
18:49 / 17.05.02
i'd just like to give apple picker the "endearingly sticking to concept award". thank you for constantly reminding me of climeable trees, the smell of autumn, and the ultimate crunch of a hand picked fruit.

ok, sorry, back to lego bible stories...
 
 
w1rebaby
18:54 / 17.05.02
always makes me think of Cider With Rosie
 
 
The Apple-Picker
18:58 / 17.05.02
Yay! I'm endeared.

Hey, you people keep giving me the opportunities. I'm not letting those babies go to waste.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:44 / 17.05.02
So, I've been meaning to ask: are you into large, floury, sweet apples, or do you prefer a more tart'n'crunchy apple experience? I have to know.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:47 / 17.05.02
Cool. Didn't know the men of the Bible were so butch. Or that the Chief Priest went on to have a singing career with the Village People.

And when Jesus ( Mr Angry Lego Jesus) says, at the Last Supper, thrusting forth a bit of lego, "This is my body", it throws a whole new revelatory light upon the subject of transubstantiation of the host.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
12:50 / 18.05.02
Oh, you gotta have the tart'n'crunchy thing. Red delicious? The worst apple ever (sorry Americans--supposedly our number one apple). It's too simple, too blah. And would makes absolutely horrible cider.

I prefer my apples on the smaller, less-genetically-modified side, too.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:52 / 18.05.02
Apples after my own heart. I favour a nice Cox's Orange Pippin, myself.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
13:28 / 18.05.02
Ooh, woman. You've got some good taste, sounds like:

"Considered by many experts as the finest dessert apple grown. This orange-yellow colored fruit with yellow flesh ripens in late September. It dates back to 1830 in England."



Unfortunately, my selection is limited to what my local grocery stores will provide. And apparently those stores think that people who live in the ghetto don't want options. You can pick from Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Gala. Sometimes they'll even have some McIntosh's for sale.

Oh, and in a weak attempt to bring your thread back to its path: I really cannot get enough of The Brick Testament. I am full of wonder.

God is indeed great!
 
 
The Apple-Picker
13:30 / 18.05.02
Grack! Misused apostrophe in my last post!

And, sure, we get some options--just no fancy ones.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:37 / 19.05.02
Yeuuurghhh. Red Delicious. I never liked those things. Or Golden Delicious.
 
 
that
11:15 / 19.05.02
Some people have far too much time on their hands. I'm impressed.

I like Discovery apples when they're available, for that straight-from-the-tree freshness. Fuji are nice. And I like very crisp Red Delicious.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
09:41 / 20.05.02
apples in the uk are so expensive! good apples, that is (the tart and kerrrunchy ones)

did you know it's now easier to buy bananas than it is to buy apples? bananas are one of the top 5 agricultural crops produced worldwide; the others are tobacco, coffee, sugar and tea.

it's depressiing to think how many tasty varieties of apples are extinct, and how many floury squdgy apples we have to endure instead :[
 
 
grant
17:29 / 20.05.02
Braeburn's the best apple in the grocery, for eating. Firmer than a Fuji, but not waxy and pretty.

Never had a mushy Braeburn. Plenty of mealy Red Delicious apples, and the McIntosh, well, that's just mealy off the tree, isn't it.
 
 
bitchiekittie
17:41 / 20.05.02
hmm, I dont like the red delicious, either. too mushy. I like the nice, crisp, tart green ones.

when I was a kid I used to go to the pumpkin farm. youd go on a hayride through the apple trees, pluck them fresh and dewy. wed pick our pumpkins from the field, sitting right where theyd been cut, and trundle right back through the apples. wed buy fresh apples and homemade apple butter and cider, too. wed lug it all to the car, all in a little red cart. *sigh* I still go to a pumpkin farm every year, but none of them are as nice as that one was
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:01 / 20.05.02
You just can't get a good sour Granny Smith anymore, elsewise they'd rule the apple roost. But Cox's Oranges are my next favourite. & about the only fruit that still seems to be seasonal. Only get them occasionally up here in boring bloody Scotland.

& back to the Lego Bible: didn't know all that stuff about Abraham lending out his wife to Pharaoh because of the secondary gain. He was a very naughty boy.

& Lot's wife is still there, on a hill above sunken, salty, ruined Sodom-in-the-Sea. She looks very like her lego representation too.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
21:12 / 20.05.02
Can I just say how much I adore this thread? Madly, I tell you.

Has anyone ever had a Honeycrisp? It's got a lovely name. "Crisp" is one of the best words ever. Does this apple taste as great as its name?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:18 / 20.05.02
Probably not, you Apple-maniac you. Crispness has been genetically modified out of the modern apple. Like the Russet which sounds like it'll be very tasty and full of apple-y redness and flavour and isn't.

Didn't apples evolve from pears? You can still cross breed the two. Apparently Eve tempted Adam with a pear originally, not an apple.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
21:23 / 20.05.02
Actually, the Bible never mentions what specific fruit Adam was tempted with, just that is was a fruit of some kind.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:39 / 20.05.02
Actually the whole fruit thing is a mistranslation- the real source of the temptation was a lovely snuggly blue cardigan that the snake had cunningly knitted.
 
 
Grendix
02:34 / 21.05.02
off thread but to keep apples not 'floury' and same of tomatoes from getting all 'mealy' and craptastic tasting.. .do not put in fridge. it's just that simple.

they grow in 'room temp' places (duh) and can survive there quite nicely w/ o refigeration.

I work at (one of my 3 jobs) a natural foods co-op... and we've got organic yummyness alla time. GMO stuff is not allowed by our strict product policy.

~G~
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:08 / 21.05.02
Flux, you are scaring me with all that arcana crammed into your incredible cranium. It will explode one day with just one more wafer thin sliver of esoteric information...
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:31 / 21.05.02
It's true about putting apples in the fridge- you want a nice fruitbowl. However, in my household it's not a problem 'coz Lurid and me eat the apples as fast as we can buy them.

There's a lot to be said for frozen grapes tho'. Fuckin crunchy, man.
 
 
Grey Area
19:41 / 21.05.02
That "reverend" must have a killer Lego collection...I'm jealous. On that thought: Is being jealous about religious Lego worse than being jealous of regular Lego? I mean, will this go straight to the top of the list of Bad Things I Have Done?
 
  
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