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heebiejeebie Feb 2013 4:19pm, 6 Feb 2013 3,129 posts	Quote Pin heebiejeebie "cupcake" is a word I reserve for when I'm taking the piss out of my Y11 students, e.g. "Wow, that's brilliant! Keep it up cupcake!" Also useful: buttercup, sweetie-pie... Makes them do a sicky-face. Except the ones who don't realise I'm taking the piss. Today my gears have been ground by some of my students' belief that I'm some kind of children's entertainer.
Frobester Feb 2013 4:20pm, 6 Feb 2013 21,827 posts	Quote Pin Frobester They've possibly seen your Fetch avatar, heebiejeebie...!
Ade1973 Feb 2013 4:21pm, 6 Feb 2013 774 posts	Quote Pin Ade1973 God, did I really write that? What a mangled expression... What can a seam be? Rich, I suppose? How about I just stop using tired metaphors, it'll be safer!
Frobester Feb 2013 4:22pm, 6 Feb 2013 21,828 posts	Quote Pin Frobester Nah, fertile works....it was just a colourful, possibly even double entendre, metaphor!
Ade1973 Feb 2013 4:22pm, 6 Feb 2013 775 posts	Quote Pin Ade1973 Didn't they used to be fairy cakes before they got covered in multicoloured piping and other assorted cack?
Ade1973 Feb 2013 4:24pm, 6 Feb 2013 776 posts	Quote Pin Ade1973 Ah yes, fertile seam! With you now! Say no more squire...
Frobester Feb 2013 4:24pm, 6 Feb 2013 21,829 posts	Quote Pin Frobester Yeah, they did. Here's the smoking gun... en.wikipedia.org
Ade1973 Feb 2013 4:52pm, 6 Feb 2013 778 posts	Quote Pin Ade1973 Bastards. Anthropomorphised food labels that say stuff like "Please keep me nice and cool and eat me up within a month". You're a jar of sodding mayonnaise. Shut up.
Frobester Feb 2013 5:05pm, 6 Feb 2013 21,832 posts	Quote Pin Frobester Hahahahaha, good one. "I'm a squishy squashy full of ickle wickle goodness yoghurt". No, you're not. Be quiet and be eaten.
Doctor K Feb 2013 5:10pm, 6 Feb 2013 2,800 posts	Quote Pin Doctor K Correct Pudds it is a bun. In the same way that toffees and not "candies"