Piped dark brown swirls are never a good idea on a cake dotted with plastic farm animals.
On taking our seats I expected my father to mention inadequate insulation or corroded pipes, the dark undersides of home ownership, but instead he discussed only the positive aspects.
Where the pipe looks dark is the black mold inside the pipe.
"It's not easy to do, and I know how to do it," she said as she methodically piped whipped dark chocolate ganache onto quarter-size marzipan the way her father, a German-trained baker, taught her years ago.
It's ok, and in fact it's a good thing if the bowl of the pipe is dark and ashy.
Broad daylight in this grimy, unidentified city has a 40-watt radiance, and every interior space is mined with pipes, ducts and dark places where They might lurk in waiting.
By carriage, too, we drove through the bustling centre of town: market stalls, spice shops and tin-topped café tables with men smoking sheeshas (water pipes), and, after dark, to the Sound and Light show at the Karnak temple complex - its central hall, with 134 massive decorated columns a breathtaking eighth wonder of the ancient world.
European astronomers have found that a clump of gas in the dark Pipe Nebula shown here and visible to the unaided eye is rich in sulfur oxides, a sign the clump was once dense.
The Internet was causing an explosion in demand for bandwidth, and Qwest had 3,250 miles of dark pipe, 900 miles of lit fiber, rights-of-way for 5,300 miles more and $1.5 billion in long-term contracts to lay fiber for WorldCom and Frontier.
The Internet was causing an explosion in demand for bandwidth, and Qwest had 5,250 kilometers of dark pipe, 1,500 kilometers of lit fiber, rights-of-way for 8,550 kilometers more and $1.5 billion in long-term contracts to lay fiber for WorldCom and Frontier.
