C is for cookie and that's good enough for me!

[cosmolinguist]

Most things I did when I was sixteen don't seem all that cool to me anymore, but I still like this one: When I was a junior, I somehow ended up writing for my high school newspaper. I was charged with doing a survey. The topics and answers ranged widely in the two years I did it (usually depending on whether I forgot about it until just before submissions were due, or not), but my favorite one was always the first (or maybe second) one I ever did, for the just-before-Christmas issue.

I thought of it this weekend when we were having our second-annual cookie-making party, complete with pizza, presents, South Park, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Cootie-playing (it was someone's Christmas present!), and other assorted fun things, even cookie-making.

To get NRHEG [yes, that's the name of my school; the letters are the names of the four towns that comprise it] in the holiday spirit, I made a nuisance of myself by asking "What would you most like to see on a Christmas cookie?" to some lucky--and often very creative--individuals. The best thing about this survey was that no annoying person came up to me with a weird question, because I was the annoying person and it was my weird question. The second-best thing about it was the wonderful diversity in the answers.

Some gave specific cookie ingredients or toppings, like red and green sugar crystals, whipped cream and sprinkles, or simply "frosting."

Others suggested objects associated with Christmas, such as Santa Claus, Rudolph, a Christmas tree, a candy cane, an angel, a star and baby Jesus.

And then there's my favorite category, the answers even weirder than my question. Those include Lynsey Wenzel (she said "myself"!), a guinea pig, the Grinch and his dog with the reindeer antlers, an antelope, an elephant on fire, the Easter Bunny, a penguin, an orangutan, the periodic table, and, last but not least, "a mural of Santa and all his elves working day and night to make toys for me." Hey, nothing says Christmas like the kid who wants all the toys, right?

And considering some of the things we made last year (like a lightbulb, a thief, and the famous rabbitfish) ... and some of the strange things we made this year (a cookie sandwich, the AOL dude, and the Easter Bunny as Salvador Dali would imagine him) the answers are still strange, and still fun.

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[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

heehee...an elephant on fire =) sounds like something I'd say...even now...