Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[PINJOHN]

Waiting(tonight) the start of The Walking Dead, the second half of season 2.

Will check when it restarts here. Second half had better pick up, first half of season 2 wasn't nearly as good as season 1,too much sat in one place building up relationships between characters, it's a zombie apocalypse we don't need complex personal relationships in the story line.

Head Cheese sandwich Just kidding.

With lots of gory tomato sauce

[chris-uk]

With lots of gory tomato sauce

Funnily enough I had tomato sauce in my corned beef sandwich at lunchtime.

It reminds me of the tradition that gave me my taste for tomato sauce in a corned beef sandwich.

Scout camp. I was about 15. My patrol on prep for lunch, one of the jobs was chopping up a catering tin of corned beef. I managed to slice my thumb on the corned beef tin, and quite a lot of the younger Scouts saw me bleeding and getting the cut dressed - it was quite a bleeder, so word got round that I'd sliced off a bit of my thumb (it was all still attached, but you know how the Chinese whispers effect works). With my war wound covered I returned to supervise my patrol finishing the lunch prep, and had an epiphenial moment where I realised that there was some wind up mileage to be had from my cut hand. So I started adding globs of tomato sauce to the inside of the corned beef sandwiches, so it couldn't be seen until you bit in, at which point a bit of red would ooze out. Stacked a few "booby-trapped" sandwiches in amongst normal ones, and started spreading the word that my thumb had gushed heavily when I cut it on the tin.
I enjoyed my corned beef and tomato sauce sandwich far more than a couple of the younger Scouts who squealed when their sandwiches started bleeding...

[guidofatherof5]

Great story.

[EasternGirl]

You are absolutely terrible, Chris...and I love it!

[kibakiba]

Ew. Blood + me eating food while sick = not anything great! Ick ick ick ick ick.

[EasternGirl]

Okay...I have a weird request...if anyone happens to have any slim jims in their house...and they happen to have them in a slim jim can....They were making slim jims in cans for a while...they look like small versions of pringle cans. I'd guess they're about 6 inches long. They recently stopped making them and now they are putting them in cardboard boxes. Cee Cee's favorite hide is a slim jim can. I have to throw the can out every so often because it gets stinky and gross. Now that they aren't making them anymore, she is on her last can. I'm going to try pringle cans, they make small ones...but they are a bit too small. So...if anyone has any of these slim jim cans around their house and wouldn't mind mailing it to me...Cee Cee would be very grateful. I would be happy to send you money for shipping. I'm going to try to collect as many cans as I can. Thanks.

[PINJOHN]

Funnily enough I had tomato sauce in my corned beef sandwich at lunchtime.

It reminds me of the tradition that gave me my taste for tomato sauce in a corned beef sandwich.

Scout camp. I was about 15. My patrol on prep for lunch, one of the jobs was chopping up a catering tin of corned beef. I managed to slice my thumb on the corned beef tin, and quite a lot of the younger Scouts saw me bleeding and getting the cut dressed - it was quite a bleeder, so word got round that I'd sliced off a bit of my thumb (it was all still attached, but you know how the Chinese whispers effect works). With my war wound covered I returned to supervise my patrol finishing the lunch prep, and had an epiphenial moment where I realised that there was some wind up mileage to be had from my cut hand. So I started adding globs of tomato sauce to the inside of the corned beef sandwiches, so it couldn't be seen until you bit in, at which point a bit of red would ooze out. Stacked a few "booby-trapped" sandwiches in amongst normal ones, and started spreading the word that my thumb had gushed heavily when I cut it on the tin.
I enjoyed my corned beef and tomato sauce sandwich far more than a couple of the younger Scouts who squealed when their sandwiches started bleeding...

enjoyed the story Chris .....you really are a nasty piece of business

[PINJOHN]

Char is much more reasonable, we never go out on the busy restaurant nights around Valentines day. If I'm going to take her out for dinner because I love her I will do it on nights of my choosing when the staff aren't so overwhelmed that they can't give decent service, the kitchen isn't overwhelmed and turning out substandard food, and the restaurant isn't crowded and noisy.

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Chris this is a piece of pure parsimonious perfection, a paragon of the penurious,a priceless piece of perfidious penny pinching...a work of sheer genius .........any further tips for not shelling out on the wife's birthday... o lord of the deep pockets

[EasternGirl]

I have a whole new respect for Chris.

[mikem]

chris - great story! poor kids
marnie - i'll keep a look out for the cans. i know what you're talking about, but haven't seen any here for a while...