Make-a-Flake

Not to be confused with the venerable "Shake and Bake" coating for chicken, the Make-a-Flake web site is hours and hours of fun at final exam time when one is REALLY wanting to make paper snowflakes out of all the papers that have piled up and are demanding to be graded or one will go to hell, go straight to hell, like the wonderful Albert Finney in the musical Scrooge. (I'll watch Albert Finney chew the scenery in just about anything. How wonderful was The Dresser?)

Go and try it. Making a virtual snowflake, that is. Not going to hell.

Was that first one a long enough run-on sentence for you?

Actually, that term "Shake and Bake" has been adopted by the military. It refers to white phosphorous shells that were fired on cities "exploding on houses and sending up huge plumes of white smoke. Insurgents would be killed instantly or, fleeing the carnage, exposed to sniper fire" according to Toby Harnden of the News Telegraph among others. People unable or unwilling to evacuate are now the chicken in this recipe, a ghastly development.