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Wired magazine's AltText blog weighs in on What If New Editions of Cookbooks Were greeted Like New Editions of Dungeons and Dragons Rules?

Sample comments:

Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I'm so mad that there's a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I'm never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.

Posted: 12:42 a.m. by Kathraxis Hey, I have a question! When you preheat the oven, can you start it before you measure out the ingredients, or do you have to do it afterward? Please answer quickly, my friends and I have been arguing about it for four hours and we're getting pretty hungry.

Posted: 12:48 a.m. by Goku1440 I found an awesome loophole! On page 242 it says "Add oregano to taste!" It doesn't say how much oregano, or what sort of taste! You can add as much oregano as you want! I'm going to make my friends eat infinite oregano and they'll have to do it because the recipe says so!

There's more. Go read. I'll wait.

I haven't actually had anything to do w/D&D for years, since the last rule revision, or maybe the one before that... But I do recall the angst in some quarters when the original Advanced D&D rules were published. You'd've thought Gary Gygax had been caught selling nuclear codes to the Commies!