Flood icing is the consistency of custard and used to fill larger areas or sections of the biscuit with a smooth, shiny surface. As a rule, we allocate two-thirds of the royal icing mixture to making flood icing; the other third is for [lines].

As a guest lecturer in Nelson's class, Miller ran through his ideas for a Xanadu-like software system. Afterward, he was approached by one of the students, Stuart Greene. Miller asked Greene what the reaction to his ideas had been. Not so good, Greene informed him. As always, the class had listened in dumb incomprehension. They seldom understood what Nelson was talking about, and when Miller launched into a similar enthusiastic tirade, their response, Greene laughed, was Oh, no, we can't believe there's another one!

... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body is more shot than mine.

It has given birth to boisterous palm pounders, tin-sheet shakers and shillabers on the right hand, and to nose wrinklers, tongue stickers and loud sneezers on the left.