Nov 7
Last night a husband and wife were sitting in the living room, talking about life… In-between, they talked about the idea of living or dying.
He said to her:
‘Dear, never let me live in a vegetative state, totally dependent on machines and liquids from a bottle. If you see me in that state I want you to disconnect all the contraptions that are keeping me alive, I’d much rather die’.
So, she got up from the sofa with this real look of admiration towards him…and proceeded to disconnect the TV, the Cable, the Dish, the DVD, the Computer, the Cell Phone, the iPod, and the Xbox, and then went to the fridge and threw away all the beer!!
….He Almost Died!!!
Care to guess what those signs mean? It’s an actual photo from a metro in Japan…
Oh God! I am pregnant… don’t know who did it!!
A mail i recently got: cut pasted here… i wouldn’t use the eggs, will make them without the eggs and let you guys know who they taste… meanwhile, a nice recipe with an even nicer story 
When decent people get screwed over, this is the result!
A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don’t know already, is
A very expensive store; I.e., they sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for
$50.00.
Let’s let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
Cafe In Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because
both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the ‘Neiman-
Marcus cookie.’ It was So excellent that I asked if they would give
me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown, ‘I’m afraid
not, but you can buy The Recipe.’ Well, I asked how much, and
she responded, ‘ Only two fifty – it’s a Great deal!’ I agreed to that,
and told her to just add it to my Tab.
Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-
Marcus Charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I
had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf.
As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said,
‘Cookie Recipe-$250.00.’ That was Outrageous! I called Neiman’s
Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
‘two fifty’, which clearly does not mean ‘two hundred and fifty
dollars’ by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money
because, according to them, ‘What the waitress told you is not our
problem. You have already seen the Recipe. We absolutely will not
refund your money at this point.’ I explained to the Accounting
Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the State
of Texas I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau
and the Texas Attorney General’s office for engaging in fraud. I was
basically told, ‘Do what you want. Don’t bother thinking of how you
can get even, and don’t bother trying to get any of your money Back.’
I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I’m going to have
$250 worth of fun. I told her that I was going to see to it that every
Cookie Lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a $2 50
cookie recipe From Neiman-Marcus…for free. She replied, ‘I wish you
wouldn’t do this.’ I said, ‘Well, perhaps you should have thought of
that before you ripped me off!’ and slammed down the phone.
So here it is!
Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.
I paid $250 for this, and I don’t want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make
another penny off of this recipe!
NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz. Chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with
flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate chips,
hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into b alls, and place two inches apart
on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.
PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY
PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!
THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!
Even if the people on your e-mail list don’t eat sweets send it to
them and ask them to pass it on. Let’s make sure we get these
ladies $250.00 worth. Enjoy the cookies, they really are good
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
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Bau I always remember your words: Meditation makes you to people like what an open pot of honey is to bees!!! But Bau, would love to read some special super fantastic recipe of cooking “cool” sense of humor within us!!!
Bau its sheer fun but still No offense, but sounds like some kind of Marketing Strategy.
This email is a scam for companies to collect other people’s email address
http://apcsnh.com/vacm/vacm100302.php
Thanks
Parth
Bau this last one was amazing…$250 of fun….cannot imagine the look on the person’s place on the other end of the phone…
and the vegetative state husband is something for us to ponder on how much basic needs list has increased…. !
oh had a good laugh from the first 2 parts of the post, especially the signs displayed on the metro in japan! lol!
having exams these days and was fun (for a change) to read today’s post! will soon make the cookies too 
Good fun , but snopes.com research says the status is false
http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp
jgd
Hahahahahaaa..Absolutely Hilarious!
Jai gurudev!
ha ha ha great stuff!
My God, what’s with the Japanese !! lol.
hey bau ,
thx for the good laughs …. needed tht in an otherwise dull day..
abt the recipe lemme knw whn u r baking… i ll be thr to njoy thm..
love ya
Bawa
Dear Bawa, thought i’d share an egg substitute recipe, i use a lot. Grind 2 tsp of flax seeds to fine powder. To this add 1/2 cup of milk (i prefer soy milk) and blend. You’ll end up with a gooey texture just like that of an egg.
<3
Ha Ha Ha!
Here is a “true story” almost everyone has heard by now, generically known as “The $250 Cookie Recipe” and most recently associated with the Neiman Marcus company, though during the 1980s it was the bane of cookie diva Mrs. Fields.
If you hadn’t figured it out already, it is not true, by the way. It’s a classic urban legend — a variant of a popular tale traced by folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand as far back as 1948, when the ridiculously expensive recipe yielded a red velvet fudge cake belonging to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the asking price for which was $25.
The current adjusted-for-inflation version (reproduced above) is still making the email rounds and its popularity shows no signs of waning, even though it has been debunked repeatedly over the past two decades. To paraphrase the ancient Klingon proverb, “Revenge is a dish best served warm out of the oven.”
As to the recipe itself, I haven’t tried the cookies, but by most accounts it yields damn good ones (and plenty of them). No one knows whose kitchen it came from, but we do know it wasn’t Neiman Marcus, whose restaurant didn’t even sell chocolate chip cookies when this legend first began circulating. The company chefs did create a chocolate chip cookie recipe after the fact, however, which Neiman Marcus now distributes free of charge ( http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nmAbout.jhtml#cookie ) as an antidote, if you will, to the defamatory urban legend. Bon appetit!
jai gurudev!
The story may still be quite true; the different recipe posted on the website could be an act of mending up the damage done by the e-mail, and an act of PR.
watever be it spam mail or truth, i had a hearty laugh & a cool way of getting back…haha
Good one..Very nice way to teach someone a lesson
I just read this one in the ‘sacred space’ column of Times Of India.Thought should share it with you .
“For the garden of your daily living
Plant three rows of peas:
1. Peas of mind
2. Peas of heart
3. Peas of soul
Plant four rows of squash:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
Plant four rows of lettuce:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
No garden is without turnips:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for protesting injustice
3. Turnip to help one another
And in our garden we must have enough thyme:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
Water freely with patience and cultivate with love.
There is much fruit in your garden because you reap what you sow.”
Marguerite Theophil
regards,
meghna
jaigurudev bau
hilarious post ..lol
here s a funny signboard notice (from the book funny signboards) -
Welcome to the X community “ool” ; you re right there’s no “p” in it and we’d like to keep it that way
love
tanu
I tried the cookies with following version
2 cups butter
4 cups flour (2 normal chapati flour, 2 fine wheat for baking)
2 cups brown sugar (I used Jaggery)
2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
1 cup liquid Sugar…
5 cups blended oatmeal
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 cups Coconut – This is excellent
4 to 5 tsp. AJVAYAN (for Different taste)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with
flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate chips,
hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart
on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 250 degrees. (First time I burnt cookies at 375 in 7 mins only) Makes 34 cookies.
From Europe
Remove Eggs from the recipe above
Thanks! Nice post.
yesterday was my dad’s birthday and this recipe came to my mind. So I baked the cookies, substituting the eggs with some crème fraiche, and they were absolutely tasty!!
Wokay! read the whole thing now.. dont bother to accept either comments!
Also.. great recipes!! U are SUPER!