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"Palace? Call this dump a palace?" Rasputin sneered.

Sneered and laughed at for her blind faith, Alexandra refused to condemn the one holy man in Russia who could save her hemophilic son.

"Son, I hate to be rude, but these tea cakes taste like rat poison," Rasputin choked.

Choked and trembling, Alexandra fell to her knees and prayed for the soul of her blessed Rasputin, so brutally slaughtered.

"Slaughtered all but one of the girls," the whitelipped bolshevik reported.

Massacre accomplished, one assassin was secretly horrified to see the blood of the Imperial family staining the snow.

Snow White, Grumpy and Doc also noticed the blood on their way home from a mining seminar in Sevastopol.

Sevastapol was under seige for eleven months during the Crimean War.

"war the hell is sevastopol?" growled yosemite sam.

"varmints? daffy asked rasputin.

"shotgun!" cried woof, as daffy backed the car out of the drive.

"Lead the way, Sam," Daffy smiled, knowing that they were being followed by Taz.

Taz snarled maniacally and took a chunk out of Inky's right thigh.

"Thigh Master is definitely in your future," intoned the psychic, "if you don't stop eating so much gravy and biscuits."

Biscuits that will tempt your tastebuds can be made with flour, sugar, baking powder, grated lemon peel, salt, soda, shortening, eggs, buttermilk, cinnamon, nutmeg, and--the most tantalizing ingredient of all--blueberries.

Blueberries in biscuits - That is a recipe I will simply HAVE to try, if Nymtoc would be kind enough to PM me with all the proper measures of ingredients!

ingredients may be at hand and measured in the correct proportions, but southern biscuits also require a light hand in the beating.

Beating biscuit dough is hard, since dough really needs kneading.

Kneading the dough thoughtfully, Choppersmom could happily while away the hours, thus evading the writing commitments that were mounting up regardless on her desk.

"Pad your bra, my dear," said Floribunda, "if you want to get noticed by the guys you gotta be up front and in their eyes!"