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Yes. My Cook's Illustrated baking book says:

Traditionally a snickerdoodle has a subtle tang or sour undertone that contrasts with the cinnamon sugar coating. Most recipes rely on baking soda and cream of tartar as the leavening agents for two reasons. First, the cream of tartar provides the characteristic tang. Second, the cream of tartar and baking soda cause the cookie to rise very quickly and then collapse somewhat. The result is the characteristic crinkly top.

Odd Weather
 

Thank you. Hmmm...my favorite sugar cookie recipe requires cream of tartar and a little lemon juice. Perhaps it is not a full-blooded sugar cookie recipe afterall, but the lovechild product of an illiicit affair with a snickerdoodle recipe? How tawdry. But yummy nonetheless.

Prezzies!
 

Three. Or, a spa day with three treatments (nice long ones), if you are not feeling profligate.

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Are you working out a special to-do list for your outside counsel over Christmas weekend?

Hank's Hat
 

We dig it.

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Indeed I am. Good call! There are some things I really need to have on the 26th that I am planning to tell them about on the 23rd.

At least one of them does not celebrate Christmas, if that helps.

Prezzies!
 

Jewish lawyer? Is this Thurgreed's firm?

Festive Holiday Gift Recap
 

No. Starting so close to the end of the year, the secretary won't get shit from em's new firm, so you'd better pony up with the generic holiday gift in order to avoid bad juju.

Prezzies!
 

Doesn't matter. The Jews were the only ones smart enough to tell everyone God forbids them to work on particular days. It's almost as if Moses anticipated Title VII. Meanwhile, the Catholics ran civilization for 2,000 years but Christians still can't point to anything that says they don't have to work on Christmas, and now we can't even put a fucking crèche in the lobby at the law firm of Mick, Mick, Dago & Pole.

Islam, a lifestyle religion
 

Fuck that. The Muslims sussed it out best. They take a whole month where they don't eat. Do you think heavy construction firms in Kandahar get much done from a bunch of guys who've been fasting all day? Assuming they're union, those guys still get paid just for showing up. Anyone know if they get double time because they're working on a holiday?

Prezzies!
 

Well, it was a virgin birth, Aloysius. Duh.

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So make that one do all the work.

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Yeah but we get eternal salvation. Small price.

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Unless you fuck up. We have a covenant with God. Another way we got it all over the goyim. We got it in writing and we lack the foreskins to prove it.

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I have not enquired as to her religion. I don't think she is Jewish.