Christmas Order Deadlines

[Techno]

Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas 

There's still a massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe. 

(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

[paulr]

Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw

Perhaps if you ask nicely...

Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw

[d_Guy]

fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!

[Techno]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

Maybe not. 

Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw
Perhaps if you ask nicely...
Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw

That's a good thought Paul.  ...Though we do own a circular chop-saw. (Unsurprisingly, I'm not allowed to use that...even under supervision.)

Stupidly.......My initial thought, when we were given this large chunk of meat was to freeze it.....thaw it....cut it...then freeze it again, until it was pointed out to me that that wasn't a very good idea, unless I wanted to eventually give myself food poisoning. 

It's way too big to thaw..... then cook in the oven for a single meal, (we'd be eating beef sandwiches for weeks....or until we got food poisoning...again) which is why I plonked it in the freezer in the first place......I'm not wasting it on the dogs. 

Cheers - Phil

[Sandinista]

Forget Christmas, I'm counting down the days until Salute where I can pick up some toys in person 

Cheers
Ian

[fsn]

fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!

Ah! 'tis but partially true. I usually don't know what I'm going to write until I write it. Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic. They have an odd way of force feeding Komondors with mint before devouring them. They also shave themselves so from a distance they resemble giant poodles then - snap - you're a lamb dinner!

[FierceKitty]

I have one word for you - chainsaw. 

NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.

[Techno]

Don't worry about the chainsaw......I was far too close to falling backwards onto a kitchen knife, and stabbing myself in the kidneys, a couple of nights ago.
JUST had time to stop myself breaking my fall with my left hand, which was holding said knife.

(Shouldn't have been using a knife to help re-set the boiler...and I shouldn't have been squatting down in front of the boiler with a pair of very loose slippers on.....Nearly big OOPS !)

Cheers - Got away with it again.

[d_Guy]

NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.

+1 - with a parcel to the backwoods also.

[d_Guy]

... Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic.

Ah! That explains the here-to-for indecipherable Runcornian flag. It with its belchs of cloud, large psychotic eyes and what appears to be a mugging occurring in the background. Still working on a translation of the motto, however.

[fsn]

Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag".  There is a school of thought that says it should be "Don't feed the sheep". Certainly up to 1964 the byline was "Don't Worry About the Yellow Clouds", with the unspoke corrolary of "but beware the Green ones." 

[Orcs]

There's still a massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe.  

(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)

Cheers - Phil

Its beef, so you should be able to defrost it once and slice it up then refreeze it without too much trouble. A quick search on Google says if you defrost in a refrigerator and refreeze it should not cause any problems.

To be safe you could  test it on the MIL first

[Techno]

To be safe you could  test it on the MIL first

Oh, don't, Mark  ......It's almost impossible to get her to eat anything, at the moment.
She barely eats enough to keep a sparrow alive.

(Though she claims she is...... We're not sure whether she's telling porkies..("I've cooked myself two eggs today.")......or whether she's just so confused, she doesn't know WHEN she's eaten anything.  )

If we didn't cook her something each evening.......

We're not sure if her thyroid has gone completely, ar*e about face...Or whether she's taking all her pills properly anymore.
Von's taken her down to the Doc's again this afto', for another blood test.....And see how much MORE weight she's lost.

Cheers - Phil.

[d_Guy]

Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag". 

Yes, while it was mostly clear that it was in the emphatic form using an implied verb, the accent mark in the fourth syllable of the third word was problematic. If pronounced with a sudden intake of air (as one does when one falls on the frame of one's bike) it implies the passage of time, BUT if pronounced with a rapid expulsion of air (as one does when hit in the abdomen with a bat) it implies the transfer of goods.

Yours  is certainly the best rendering of the possibilities that I have seen  - including, of course, Wikipedia. Thanks!
Always good to get the straight doe from a native speaker. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sorry, where did the plot go? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Plot - WHAT PLOT

IanS

And it's S. McQueen on a motorbike in the Barbled wire 

[fsn]

Gosh! That sounds like a new version of Cludeo! ("Clue" for our American cousins.)

My turn!

Arnold Schw...gger - squashed by a big metal press thing.

Alien Q Alien - blasted out the shuttle and incinerated by the rockets!

Isn't this fun!

Bambi's Mother ... 

[Techno]

 

Have to have a really good think about this one.

Cheers - Phil