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20 November 2009

all-purpose flour is a lie. →[More:] You can't use it as a roofing material.

post by: arse_hat at: 17:10 | 10 comments

You can make delicious cake, though.

posted by Obscure Reference 20 November | 17:15

It works just fine at stanching a bleeding chicken toenail. I'd say that's pretty damn all-purpose.

Would you feel better if they called it "most-purpose"?

posted by mudpuppie 20 November | 17:43

How about a "whole lot of purpose"?

posted by arse_hat 20 November | 17:49

You can make delicious cake, though.

Or you can make a crappy cake! That's pretty flexible right there. It makes a lousy nail polish, though. Unless you're a chicken.

posted by elizard 20 November | 17:55

Also a lie - when your personal trainer says "this will be a lot of fun". Except, of course, that she has fun watching our pain. So, not a complete lie, rather a half-truth based on deliberate omission I guess.

posted by dg 20 November | 17:56

And don't even get me started on all-day suckers!

posted by Atom Eyes 20 November | 17:56

On the contrary: you just need to add salt and water and bake for an hour.

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Life without a lie is just ... f

That sounded a lot more profound when it was bouncing around my head, and before I realized a stray "f" doesn't mean much.

posted by filthy light thief 20 November | 18:49

I have heard from good authority that so-called all-porpoise flour does contain some tuna.

posted by Ardiril 20 November | 19:30

At least it's purposeful. You cannot get that with just any old type of flower.

posted by mightshould 20 November | 21:07

I mean, say what you like about the tenents of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos....

posted by Triode 20 November | 23:20

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