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[Mike]

He overtook me 2 hours ago Ulf.

Mike's learning point for the day: 2 train companies provide services between London and Birmingham. One does it quickly. One does not. Tickets for one are not valid on the other.

This is what privatising the railways did people! This is the future of your NHS! Rise up and be a nation again! Spartacus! Rinse and repeat!

[brucegray666]

Cut my hair and shaved for the first time in two months or so (I was marvellous hairy about the face). Rewarding myself by preordering some CDs - the Grinderman remix album and DROKK, the Geoff Barrow / Ben Salisbury "sounds of Mega City 1" album.

[brucegray666]

Now just taught myself a little bit of Autograph. Hopefully I'll be able to use what I've learnt to teach the kids something on Monday.

[David Meadows]

Cheese is your problem, stick some chocolate on there or even better a bit of peanut butter.

I don't get where this mice-and-cheese thing comes from. I mean, where in nature would a mouse ever acquire a taste for cheese?

Grains of wheat. That will do it.

[garjones]

I don't get where this mice-and-cheese thing comes from. I mean, where in nature would a mouse ever acquire a taste for cheese?

It's a strong feature of that nature programme Tom and Jerry I think you'll find.

[Steve Sensible]

Mice prefer grains but they will eat pretty much anything. I assume cheese is used in traps because it's more aromatic, and therefore more likely to lure the mouse in.

[David Meadows]

It's a strong feature of that nature programme Tom and Jerry I think you'll find.

But did Tom and Jerry originate it, or were they playing on an older myth?

[Steve Sensible]

But did Tom and Jerry originate it, or were they playing on an older myth?

I believe it was based on a hieroglyph from an Egyptian tomb.

[Martin Smith]

Rural communities have been making cheese for centuries. Presumably f mce have gotten into your storehouse it's easier to see that they've nibbled a wheel of cheese than had some of your grain.

[David Meadows]

That's a good explation. Mystery solved I think

[craggy]

That's a good explation. Mystery solved I think

and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky animated cats!

[Tonycal]

I just had a beer with Montell Williams and his brother Herman. It was kind of surreal since some ladies that might be druggies talked to us....

[stephanie familiar]

i'm rewarding myself for finishing a paper by eating, and with social intereaction. wait... posting on here counts as social interaction, right?

I just had a beer with Montell Williams and his brother Herman. It was kind of surreal since some ladies that might be druggies talked to us....

[steveuk]

I bought a pineapple.

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It was quite a spur of the moment addition to the shopping basket. I've never cooked with fresh pineapple before and now I have to decide how to prepare and serve it?

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Throw it on the fire and enjoy the smell of its demise. Pineapple is the devil’s fruit…!

[Russell H]

Is that a pineapple or your pineapple?

[stephanie familiar]

I bought a pineapple.

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It was quite a spur of the moment addition to the shopping basket. I've never cooked with fresh pineapple before and now I have to decide how to prepare and serve it?

you could make sweet and sour chicken, or sweet and sour meatballs. or you could soak it in some liqueur and serve it over vanilla ice cream. or you could bake this and hope to hell you don't ruin it as i did when i tried making it. or you could bake a pineapple upside down cake. or you could make a ton of frozen cocktails, and use the pinapple as a garnish. (i am rather fond of this last option)

OR, if you want to be a "happening guy" you could wear it as a hat.

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Throw it on the fire and enjoy the smell of its demise. Pineapple is the devil’s fruit…!

you're crazy, pineapple is scrummy and wonderful. unless you eat too much of it and you get cankers.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Pineapple is delicious, but I wouldn't bother with cooking it.

[al-x]

OR, if you want to be a "happening guy" you could wear it as a hat.

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"Happening guy" ... I used that term sometimes and now it is used on MW...

As for that picture... Carmen Miranda anyone?


Al...

[steveuk]

[quote name='Russell H' timestamp='1332615558' post='2418427']
Is that a pineapple or your pineapple?
[/quote]
Mine, I paid for it and it's mine, Mine, MINE!!!

[quote name='Ulf Imwiehe' timestamp='1332615556' post='2418426']
Throw it on the fire and enjoy the smell of its demise. Pineapple is the devil’s fruit…!
[/quote]
Fortunately for the pineapple I have nowhere in the flat to light an open fire for cremating fruit.

[quote name='stephanie familiar' timestamp='1332626848' post='2418478']
you could make sweet and sour chicken, or sweet and sour meatballs. or you could soak it in some liqueur and serve it over vanilla ice cream. or you could bake this and hope to hell you don't ruin it as i did when i tried making it. or you could bake a pineapple upside down cake. or you could make a ton of frozen cocktails, and use the pinapple as a garnish. (i am rather fond of this last option)

OR, if you want to be a "happening guy" you could wear it as a hat.[/quote]
The hat is... unlikely.

The recipe looks interesting and I could always make the cocktails to go with it?

[quote]you're crazy, pineapple is scrummy and wonderful. unless you eat too much of it and you get cankers.
[/quote]

Cankers?

[quote name='Arjan Dirkse' timestamp='1332627568' post='2418487']
Pineapple is delicious, but I wouldn't bother with cooking it.
[/quote]
That takes some of the fun out of it for me though.

[quote name='al-x' timestamp='1332630717' post='2418493']
"Happening guy" ... I used that term sometimes and now it is used on MW...

As for that picture... Carmen Miranda anyone?


Al...
[/quote]
I don't sing.

Or dance.

Be thankful.