So, how many other Apolytoners have you met in real life?

[Japher]

I ain't met none of you

that you know of

[Ecthy]

Also, I never met PeteT or Taurus.

Had a phone conversation with Taurus, though, that lasted for 7 minutes.

"How are you? How was Manchester? Spink really such a d!ck? Figured so. PH? OK. Bye!"

[rah]

Originally posted by Sava
rah... what about the friday night meets you spoke of

Usually the group of us that attended U of I together back in the stone ages.

CivII MP on line and some board games.
Drinking and watching the Sox or Cubs Lose.
And during BB season, watching the Bulls lose.
And during Hockey season, not watching Hawks home games because that bastard won't televise them.

[germanos]

Zopperoni
Locutus
CapTVK
Atawa
Paul (not in the chart yet)

two meets (Amsterdam '03 and Utrecht'04)

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by ixnay
If you want to add me to that spiffy chart as my own little island I've met:

CapitanGarlic
Potassium

And they have met each other, I assume?

Originally posted by Ecthy
Also, I never met PeteT or Taurus.

The line to Taurus is PH's line to Taurus, you just got in the way. PeteT is Peter Triggs. I abbreviated to his CFC name for space.

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
And they have met each other, I assume?

They have.

[pchang]

Originally posted by Japher
I ain't met none of you

that you know of

Yeah. You ducked out on me twice.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Spiffor

You expect me to set foot on the perfide Albion?

The term you are looking for is parfait Albion

[duke o' york]

White Chocolate-Strawberry Mousse Parfait

Mousse:
8 ounces premium quality white chocolate (must contain real cocoa butter), coarsely chopped
1 large egg
1 cup heavy cream, heated until very hot (do not boil)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 dash kosher or coarse salt
4 shortbread cookies (such as Walker's Shortbread), crumbled
Strawberry Sauce:
2 cups fresh strawberries, stemmed and hulled*
2 tablespoons honey or to taste
Garnish:
4 whole strawberries
1/2 cup lightly sweetened whipped cream

1. Place chopped white chocolate, egg and vanilla into the container of electric blender and blend for 30 seconds.
2. Remove center of blender lid and while machine is running on medium to low speed, slowly pour heated cream into the chocolate mixture. Blend until well mixed and chocolate is melted. Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl and refrigerate until well chilled, about 2 hours.
3. With an electric mixer, beat the mousse mixture until stiff peaks form.
4. Carefully spoon half of the mousse into each of 4 parfait glasses; sprinkle with the cookie crumbs; spoon the strawberry sauce atop the crumbs and then spoon the remaining mousse atop the strawberry sauce. Chill until ready to serve.
5. Just before serving, spoon a dollop of whipped cream on top of each parfait and decorate with a whole strawberry that has been sliced just to the green stem and fanned out.
6. For Strawberry Sauce: In a food processor or blender, puree 1/2 cup strawberries on high speed until smooth. Place puree in a small mixing bowl.
7. Slice the remaining 1 1/2 cups strawberries and add to the pureed strawberries. Stir in the honey; using more or less according to personal preference. Makes 1 cup.

Makes 4 servings.

Yum yum!

Actually, perfide is closer to the truth.

[Provost Harrison]

You would say that, you live in Leeds

[duke o' york]

Which is nevertheless part of Albion (thank god the Yorkshire independence movement is run by people from Yorkshire, and as such, hardly worthy of the name "movement"), so has to come into your equation for perfection somewhere. Assuming that London is the wonderfullest place on earth, as your quibble would have us believe, then surely its shining glory will be somewhat dimmed by, er, the rest of the country!

[Provost Harrison]

Exactly

Yorkshire Independence Movement? Is there one of those?

[duke o' york]

I think that a bunch of morons in diverse taverns throughout the ridings muttering about "god's own country" qualifies as a movement, just don't expect much in the way of movement beyond the bar.

[Provost Harrison]

I hope I wouldn't be repatriated if they won

[duke o' york]

I hope I would!!!!!