Kindereggs

system · November 10, 2003, 8:19am

Carol

I had one of the huge Kinder eggs. Inside the egg was a stuffed animal. It turned into a cat toy. My cat kept taking it and playing with it. I would find it in lots of different places.

I have a massive toy collection… and have way
to many Kinder eggs surprises.
I will bring some to you at the next convention.

Let me know if you want me to send any Kinder eggs to you from Canada. They come in 3 packs for those who need more than one at a time. The 3 pack would be about 2.00 US

Darren

info at bedfordunicyles . ca

brian.slater · November 10, 2003, 8:49am

I beg your pardon(!), everything is a cat toy, it’s just that some cats don’t choose to play with some of them. Humans are just permitted to use some of the cat toys.

Apparently, your cat doesn’t have it’s humans properly trained . . . a terrible state of affairs.

cat = master, master = cat, humans are only good for treats and scritches.

system · November 10, 2003, 8:53am

Re: Kindereggs

In article <gkmac.wmqiq@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com>,
gkmac@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com (gkmac) wrote:

> I thought that the main difference between UK and European chocolate was
> that UK chocolate has added or extra vegetable fat

Hi, Gavin! I think that UK chocolate also has fewer cocoa solids and
more sugar, leading to a less chocolatey, more sugary snack.

For the ultimate in sugary chocolate (from my experiences), try
Scotbloc. It’s supposed to be cooking chocolate. It’s sold as “chocolate
flavour confectionery for cooking,” or something like that. I looked at
the ingredients, and lo and behold - sugar was first on the list, and
absolutely no cocoa solids, or even cocoa butter!

White chocolate has no cocoa solids at all.

<clears throat>Anyway, on the subject of unicycling, have you made any
more breakthroughs since Tuesday night? I’ve almost finished my homemade
firestick. I just need to get some skateboard grip-tape to put on it, so
that the sooty stick doesn’t get too slippery. I need to get some silicon
handsticks, too. I may have it done by Tuesday, but it’s not looking
likely. Do you know of any skate shops in the Sutton area? There’s one
in Kingston, but I’m hoping that there’s somewhere a bit nearer.

Liam

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JJuggle · November 10, 2003, 9:05am

When I was growing up the favorite chocolate treat in our house was the Droste Apple. When I was in college my mom would send some to me and my rooomates. And up until very recently she still sent them out to the roomates I had kept in touch with who looked forward to them. We graduated back in 1982. Hmmm, 9/11 changed things on so many levels.

Has anybody ever custom ordered a chocolate uni?

Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

joona · November 10, 2003, 9:57am

Re: Re: Kindereggs

I thought chocolate for cooking should have a lot more cocoa than normal. At least that’s the way baking/cooking chocolate is around here. It’s really good and dark. Mmmmmmm, chocolate.

About that firestick of yours, is it a devilstick or a juggling club or what? I have a torch devil stick and I tried for the first time with fire last weekend. I used it with Sinol. Great stuff for fire juggling. It doesn’t smoke and it leaves the torches in pretty much good condinition. The devil stick looks great when it spins wildly (but of course under complete control ) in dark night.

joona · November 10, 2003, 10:01am

That’s pretty much true. I’ve had a cat for nine years already. Actually two of them. My first got run over by car when it was five years old. It really was a great cat, the best actually. It decided who could pet it and who couldn’t. Except that I could do pretty much anything to it and it didn’t care. If my mom tried to, for example, lift it up from my bed, the cat showed it’s claws and continued sleeping.

system · November 11, 2003, 2:48pm

Re: Kindereggs

In article <joona.wowb1@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com>,
joona@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com (joona) wrote:

> About that firestick of yours, is it a devilstick or a juggling club or
> what? I have a torch devil stick and I tried for the first time with
> fire last weekend. I used it with Sinol. Great stuff for fire juggling.
> It doesn’t smoke and it leaves the torches in pretty much good
> condinition. The devil stick looks great when it spins wildly (but of
> course under complete control ) in dark night.

It’s a fire devilstick. Everyone at my juggling club uses paraffin, so I
usually use that. Quite smoky, but makes a nice flame, and it’s dirt
cheap (£2 for one of those big white plastic bottles with the handle on
top - maybe 2/3 litres).

My firestick is quite light, because I find most firesticks too heavy for
comfort.

Liam

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schroder · November 12, 2003, 7:36am

ebay listings for kinder eggs

Hello All:

As someone who grew up in the US, I have to agree that US chocolates are, in most cases, terrible. Nowadays you can get European manfactured (Swiss, German) chocolate bars in large grocery stores so it’s not as bad as it once was. For me, nothing beats the rush of a dark bar that is about 65% cocoa solids.

Since there was a thread on ebay, I would like to point out to all the poor Americans like me that have never even seen kinder eggs that there are 70+ items available under “kinder eggs” on ebay (two words). I guess there are some importers flying under the radar (for now).

Phil

wobbling_bear · November 12, 2003, 8:15am

Re: ebay listings for kinder eggs

if you ever find “Weiss” chocolates try these: they are so potent that they only sell small chunks.
these are manufactured in St.Etienne in France
in summer when you get out of the station there is a terrible chocolate fragrance in the air (the factory is just by the railway station).
now they pretend that the chocolate is so strong because there is a chocolate mine underneath the factory (St.Etienne was a dreary coal mining
town).
another point: St Etienne has the most wonderful mountain cycle paths
I know of… One day I’ll go and try Muni there…
(after all I’ll walk some parts: I remember cycling on top
of a 10m high wall alongside a canal …I’ve no stomach for that on a muni)

bear

Beener · November 12, 2003, 8:22am

They sell Kindereggs by the case lot at places like Cosco here in Canada. I’m sure that someone could send or smuggle you some across the border. We also get the Xmas 6 packs that have strings on them for hanging on your tree.

system · November 12, 2003, 11:53am

Re: Kindereggs

In article <wobbling.bear.wsh05@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com>,
wobbling.bear@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com (wobbling bear)
wrote:

> if you ever find “Weiss” chocolates try these: they are so potent that
> they only sell small chunks.
Doesn’t “weiss” mean white? I can’t imagine any white chocolate being
strong.

Liam

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system · November 12, 2003, 12:23pm

Re: Kindereggs

Unicyclist.com administers, can you please move this thread to “Just
Conversation”? The thread was connected to unicycling where the
Kindereggs were a reward for achieving a unicycling task. Now, it is no
longer on the topic of unicycling and really shouldn’t be posted to
rec.sport.unicycling.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

Beener · November 13, 2003, 8:12am

I feel that this thread has not strayed from unicycling at all. I unicycle and I treat myself to a Kinder qite regularly. Now, from the popularity of this thread, it seems that Unicyclists all dig Kinder. That in itself fits the Rec.sport.unicycling classification.
In fact, I think that this forum should change its name to
Rec.Sport.Unicycling.Kinder, we all seem to love the stuff.

Ender · November 13, 2003, 9:42am

I live in Richmond, Va in the US and a chocolate store down the street from me sells kinder eggs!!! you should come and ride with me and my gang and you could pick some up!
sam

system · November 13, 2003, 11:59am

Re: Kindereggs

Mrs DM once made some chocolate unicycles and brought them to BUC to
celebrate the Companies xth anniversary. they were very nice, just like
the unicycle cokkies she sent to the first BMW. Thank you Lynn.

SArah

–
Union of UK Unicyclists
By and for UK riders

system · November 13, 2003, 4:18pm

Re: Kindereggs

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:19:51 -0600, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
wrote:

>Unicyclist.com administers, can you please move this thread to “Just
>Conversation”?

But then again, Ken, e-mail list subscribers and newsgroupers like you
and me would see no difference if the thread were moved to JC. What’s
more, this (Usenet) reply gets relayed to the RSU forum anyway and so
would put the topic back there if the thread has been moved indeed.
Oops!

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

“My butt has a crack in it , but I can still ride. - spyder”

system · November 13, 2003, 4:43pm

Re: Kindereggs

>On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:19:51 -0600, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
>wrote:

>>Unicyclist.com administers, can you please move this thread to “Just
>>Conversation”?

klaasbil_remove_the_spamkiller_@xs4all.nl (Klaas Bil) wrote:

>But then again, Ken, e-mail list subscribers and newsgroupers like you
>and me would see no difference if the thread were moved to JC. What’s
>more, this (Usenet) reply gets relayed to the RSU forum anyway and so
>would put the topic back there if the thread has been moved indeed.
>Oops!

Isn’t the purpose of the “Just Conversation” forum to put (or start) off
topic threads so the rec.sport.unicycling charter regarding off topic
threads isn’t violated, yet people can continue to enjoy those off topic
threads via unicyclists.com?

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

system · November 13, 2003, 11:53pm

Re: Kindereggs

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:40:06 -0600, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
wrote:

>Isn’t the purpose of the “Just Conversation” forum to put (or start) off
>topic threads so the rec.sport.unicycling charter regarding off topic
>threads isn’t violated, yet people can continue to enjoy those off topic
>threads via unicyclists.com?

Agreed, except for the minor point that I don’t think that MOVING
threads to JC is included in its purpose (as stated when JC was
created). However, my point is that a reply (to a moved thread) by
people like me, whose (primary) access to this online community is via
Usenet, would cause (part of) the thread to reappear on the RSU forum.
Because that forum is the only one linked to the newsgroup and vice
versa. And obviously, on Usenet the thread continues to exist
regardless of any putting it into another forum at unicyclist.com.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

“My butt has a crack in it , but I can still ride. - spyder”

system · November 14, 2003, 8:48am

Re: Kindereggs

klaasbil_remove_the_spamkiller_@xs4all.nl (Klaas Bil)

>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:40:06 -0600, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>
>wrote:

>>Isn’t the purpose of the “Just Conversation” forum to put (or start) off
>>topic threads so the rec.sport.unicycling charter regarding off topic
>>threads isn’t violated, yet people can continue to enjoy those off topic
>>threads via unicyclists.com?

>Agreed, except for the minor point that I don’t think that MOVING
>threads to JC is included in its purpose (as stated when JC was
>created).

You are right. I was just thinking that since threads in the
unicyclist.com forum rec.sport.unicycling can be put into the Spam
forum, shouldn’t off topic threads be put in “Just Conversation” or some
new “Off topic” forum that also doesn’t propagate to the newsgroup.

>However, my point is that a reply (to a moved thread) by
>people like me, whose (primary) access to this online community is via
>Usenet, would cause (part of) the thread to reappear on the RSU forum.
>Because that forum is the only one linked to the newsgroup and vice
>versa.

Yes, a reply from the rsu newsgroup or rsu mailing to any off topic
post would cause that reply to start a new thread on unicyclist.com
However, in general, newsgroup users and many mailing list users
understand and observe netiquette rules and are far less likely to post on
off topic subjects or reply to them. Many unicyclist.com members don’t
seem to even know netiquette, much less understand or observe (comply
with) them.

>And obviously, on Usenet the thread continues to exist
>regardless of any putting it into another forum at unicyclist.com.

Yes, but newsgroup users and mailing list users will very likely allow
off topic threads to die. There’s also the possibility of killing
USENET posts, but that is complicated, gets into censorship issues and
I’m not seriously suggesting it anyway.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

system · November 14, 2003, 8:53am