eating your cake and having it too

[Fahrenheit]

You don?t always get what you want, never mind what you need. What goes around comes around as the saying goes? Ten years ago I asked myself the same question and made tough choices. But have you made tough choices? That?s the real question here. Whenever people ask me how to walk the tight rope I tell them better to run. That?s what you don?t understand.

If you eat the cake you lose the cake and then where are you. That?s right you are there. And there is a better place than over there. Better to stand than learn to crawl. But some of you just don?t understand and thats why you are over there.

[thenightsky]

you can't always get want ya want...

Never seen point of cake you can't eat TBH.

[SuePurblybilt]

I bet someone left the cake out in the rain

[tethersend]

French DP says "You can't have butter and the money off the butter"

[yousankmybattleship]

you can't have the money off the butter if you've used it in the cake.

[RoryCeilingCat]

Aim for the stars, and you might hit a chimney pot. Also, come Monday, it's back to porridge and old clothes.

[tethersend]

That's deep, yousank... that's deep...

[SuePurblybilt]

What if the cake needs butter? Like malt loaf?

[BuckBuckMcFate]

Sugar and duckballs!

Is over there netmums? Cos that really isn't a tough choice

[tethersend]

Good point, Sue. No wonder the French are such nihilists.

[WhereYouLeftIt]

Is this a Mumsnet version of the 'cliches' running joke on the Letters page of The Independent?

[pommedechocolat]

I always wondered what you would do with cake if you had it but didn't eat it.

[animula]

I think if you're cake is going around and coming around you are in a po-mo cafe, kitted out like Yo Sushi, or a fairground catch-a-duck stall - with cake, not ducks. I like the idea of that.

I think you're not eating your cake, or having it, maybe, because you're not fast enough.

[animula]

The early ninja catches the cake, maybe.

[SuePurblybilt]

Maybe the early worm catches the cake. My DD's happy bus worm

[baskingseals]

let them eat cake

[rushofbloodtothefeet]

Do not try and eat the cake. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth ...
There is no cake

[CaptainNancy]

What if it's a Herman cake, and self-replenishes?

[MsAnnThroppy]

Do they have punctuation "over there"?

[BitOfFun]

I think you're beating about the bush with the wrong end of the stick, mate.

[ExitPursuedByAGryffin]

Cake? What cake?

[mummy2zni]

Sniggering into my cocoa! :o You've made my night! No cake here though :(

[nenevomito]

I think you've mistaken bollocks for profundity.

Have you have the Star Wars conversation yet?

[Pancakeflipper]

I can only eat the cake if I have it.

I think carrot or lemon drizzle.