Tuesday, September 6, 2022

You Are What You Phrase

 

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 Everything says something about you.

You know that old saying "you are what yo eat?" Well, you certainly are also what you say, and what you do. What you read says something about you, what you listen to, who you listen to, and what you write.
 
Here's a new thought, one that dawned on me while playing Phrazle a while ago. You are what you phrase.
 
Before I go on, let me just explain a few things. First, and I won't go into great detail since I wrote a whole blog post about this in March, called Wordle, Nerdle, Curdle, but I play and share a lot of word games, as well as posting one of my own daily (Monday through Friday), on my Baking In A Tornado FB page for others to play. If you haven't before, click on over via that link and read about it.

Second, is a brief rundown of how to play Phrazle, since that's what I'm sharing today. Phrazle, as opposed to a word guessing game, is a phrase guessing game. The puzzle shows you how many words are in the well known phrase, and how many letters are in each word. That's your blank slate. For each of your 6 guesses, you choose words for the phrase, press enter, and are rewarded with clues. Each letter of each word in the phrase will be a color:

grey: this letter is not in the phrase at all
purple: this letter is in the phrase, but in a different word from the one you used it in
yellow: this letter is in the word you used it in, but not in the spot you chose
green: this letter is in the correct spot

Wait. Don't go!

Even if you're confused at this point, it's just background, read on.
 
Do back to everything saying something about you. I was playing Phrazle a while ago and, probably for the first time, not only looked at the results, relieved to have guessed them, but looked at my process. And wondered what exactly these guesses say about me.
 
For instance, have I been dreaming about pigs? 

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That growl? It's what happens when you realize you're flat broke.
 
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Is this a sneak peek into where to go to pray for an end to that whole flat broke thing? The fancy pews?

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Well, I know what these two say about me.

Bad butter?
 
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Cold fried?
 
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Good grief, I'm hungry. 

No problem, I got this:

Strawberry Banana Cake | recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #cake
Strawberry Banana Cake
 
 
 
On this day I was clearly just thinking about the game I was about to play. Although, the way I go about it, it's more word salad (but salad doesn't have 8 letters).
 
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I actually can satire, don't you think?

One thing's clear, if I was robbed, I wasn't bold enough.
 
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Man in the hole? That's a long fall from the top of the hill.
 
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In the dim house? What was I thinking? Probably that I need more coffee.
 

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I'm willing to bet when I started this puzzle, the next thing on my to do list must have been to write my poetry post. I do adore those puns.
 
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OK, I'm going to argue for credit for having solved this one in two. After all, I could make a case for a strumpet wife actually being a dumpster fire.
 
 
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After that last comment, maybe we better forget the smog and the crib, I may need that get out of jail free card. 

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Strawberry Banana Cake
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Ingredients:
1 box (15.25 oz) strawberry cake mix
1 box (3 - 3.4 oz), divided
1 medium ripe banana
1 cup milk
1 tsp strawberry extract
3 eggs
4 strawberries, cored and chopped

1 can (16 oz) strawberry frosting
1 TBSP milk
3 strawberries, cored and sliced
1 banana
1/2 cup orange juice
 
Directions:
*Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
*Mash one of the bananas. Measure out 3 TBSP of the pudding mix and seat aside for the frosting.
*Beat, for 2 minutes, the mashed bananas, remaining pudding mix, cake mix, 1 cup of milk, strawberry extract, and the eggs.
*Pour evenly into the prepared baking pans. Sprinkle the chopped strawberries over the top, and bake for 20 - 30 minutes, until the center springs back to the touch.
*Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then run a knife around the edges and remove to cool completely. Trim the tops so the layers are flat.
*Slice the second banana. Place in a bowl with the orange juice. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing the wrap down onto the fruit. Refrigerate.
*Vigorously whisk the frosting, remaining milk, and the remaining pudding mix. Put about 1/4 cup into a plastic bag or piping bag for decoration.
*Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Spread about 1/3 of the remaining frosting on this layer and top with the second layer. Frost the sides and top of the cake.
*Pipe the reserved frosting onto the cake. Remove the bananas from the juice, decorate the top of the cake with banana and strawberry slices.

 



15 comments:

  1. Yum! I love strawberry/banana combination. I am a nut for my iPad games. I have a few favorites like Word Count & another I've been playing lately Triple match where you get a pile of things and you have a time limit to grab them all. It's harder than it sounds especially at 2 am lol.

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    1. LOL, yes, that does wound like something I wouldn't be good at at 2am.

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  2. OMG… “strumpet wife” to “dumpster fire” - a certain notorious couple comes to mind 🤣🤣🤣 This was all so funny, it makes me wish I’d copied my attempts. 😆

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    1. I had been sitting here laughing at myself when it dawned on me that I should be sharing these.

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  3. Hahahahaha! Hmmm...yes. I think I know much more about you now...

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  4. Just realized I could comment as myself. That last comment? Me.

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    1. LOL, I was wondering who that was. And as far as knowing more about me, that makes one of us, I have no idea what I was thinking.

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  5. I'm gonna have to try and find some low carb cake recipes because that looks good and now I want cake. lol
    I only play Wordle but I play it everyday. It's fun.

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    1. I play many word games every day. I keep saying I'm going to cut back, but end up not being willing figure out which ones to stop playing.

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  6. I was already hungry before I started reading your post. After reading the recipe I'm starving!

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  7. When it comes to word or phrase games, I am definitely in the dim house. I've never enjoyed them and I don't know why. Mental laziness? I'm one of the three people in the United States who doesn't play Wordle or a variation thereof. And how one gets a strumpet wife out of a dumpster fire - just don't ask me.

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    1. Well, it was a dumpster fire out of a strumpet wife acually, but it's just as funny either way!

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  8. Heeheehee! Phrazle is fun, although i never thought about what my guesses might mean. Maybe i'd best be watching more closely.

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