Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 10, 2021

Well, it may look very hansel but you’ll regretel it.

What do children eat these days? Maybe it can be built out of that. Can they make a chicken nugget the size of plywood? Then we can put a bunch of those together.

My mom could build the Taj Mahal out of gingerbread.

You have never faced a construction nightmare until you try to duplicate the Notre Dame in Gingerbread. A little one room cabin? No problem!

Of course it can, if you can avoid the bureaucrats

“We’ll have to use oversize peppermint sticks as load-bearing beams, and I might be able to whip up a good meringue for pouring the foundation, but…”

He should be able to do it.. if he knows which side his bread is buttered!

If the gingerbread is anything like my ex’s banana bread it will stand up to a nuclear blast

She must remember to have them build a large walk-in oven for the kids.

Richard Harris told us that she built it in MacArthur Park back in 1968 and we all know how that ended. Well, some of us.

The build as contracted is easy. It’s when she decides she wants a pool, a hot tub, a greenhouse, and a two broom attached garage that balloons the cost and delays the date of completion.

Could the architect or construction contractor be liable in any way for anything that might happen in the house?

And after FHA comes the FDA…..

It will certainly have curb appeal.

Get it past the architect, then the zoning board, and she still has to face THE HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION!! Doomed!!

Rain proof ginger bread?

Read a long article about how Hansel and Gretel was true. A book written in 1963 purported that they were adults and bakers who accused a woman of being a witch to get her gingerbread recipe. Turned out the book was a fiction. The tale had been around for hundreds of years in one form or another before the Grimm bros wrote it up.

We are putting the final touches on a three-month long kitchen renovation. I swear that about 50% of the time was not spent on construction but on inspections.

The problem with projects like this are that what was code 25 years ago is no longer code.

I can give you references from the Three Little Pigs regarding appropriate building materials….

Old construction techniques (walls support roof) wouldn’t allow it. Skeletal frame construction would allow it. The gingerbread panels would hang off the frame… But would you want a peppermint stick frame rather than steel? Peppermint would be more attractive to Hansel and Gretel.

A tee square and a triangle on the drawing board and a computer on the desk. I learned to draft with one and am still doing it with the second. It was simpler with the tee square….

Who doesn’t love a story about child cannibalism?

Why is she asking redheads to pay for it?

Frank Gehry, the early years.

Hey, wouldn’t that be a perfect prefab habitat for Mars. Maybe even some gingerbread 3D printing. Food and shelter all in one.

Interesting. I’ve been looking at all kinds of alternative building materials, but ginger bread isn’t one of them.

Many, many years ago I had one of those craftsy girlfriends who enjoyed making all sorts of Christmas decorations, like angels made from Reader’s Digests, hand-crafted tree ornaments, etc. She decided to make a Christmas Castle out of Gingerbread, mini-marshmallows, various candies, and lord knows what else!

I admit that when she finished, it was quite spectacular but she got a bit carried away. It took up my entire dining room table and was too large to get through the door of my apartment! There it sat … for months!

After we broke up and she’d moved out of state, barbarians promptly attacked and razed the castle, literally sacking it, to be carted away to the dump.

The gingerbread house was quite a feat when you consider it ran a hot oven without burning the place down

“Its an art installation”

Yes, but your roof will get serious cavities…

And when you’re done with the witch, there’s an old woman who wants to live in a shoe.

A STALE Gingerbread house might last a while.

Do Jewish Witches use marzipan?

Gingerbread is a marginal building material but fruitcake should work fine.

Witches Be Loco…When Trying To Deal With Contractors! {SEMPER FI!… Faithful For 246 Years!}

A split level with attached garage may be a little ambitious.

not by the hairs on your chinny chin chin.

If you use my ex-wife’s industrial-grade gingerbread, it’ll be up to code.

Build Bake Batter!

Answer: Yes but only on an hourly, not fixed price, contract.

I always thought the cabin in the woods simply was cladded in Gingerbread.

The ladies business was to bake masses of them in the big oven and then putting them up on shelves around the walls to cool and becoming short. So yes, of course that’d be outside the house. If you think of her as cruel: How would you react, when some snotty kids come and raid your merchandise? Spices and sugar was expensive in those times!

The witches don’t need an architect and use magick to accomplish it and to keep it from being eaten by all other life except for humans.

Nowadays, the preferred materials for housing are churros with Oreo siding.

It depends on the Binding Quality of the Sugar used and whether you can keep the Tensile Strength up while still using enough Gingerbread to keep it from becoming a Candy House instead of a Gingerbread house.

I’ve seen this strip before, pre-2009.

Dang it, I can’t find any reference for the tensile and compression strength of gingerbread, peppermint sticks, or icing.