Saw this post first and thought "Pussy?" Then I scrolled up...

I bet a review of your search history would be *very* interesting.

That only works if you create a Google archive. I don't want them keeping track of my searches, that's between me and the fencepost... and the NSA, FBI, CIA, KGB, MSS, and Limey's MI6.

Actually I think that picture came from historical times.

You forgot GCHQ.

It's the only part of Government that listens to the electorate.

edit: no, it was Huffington.

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Looks like a pretty good trade.

Didn't you used to arbor climb, Grav?

Ever climb one in the snow.. that was that tall?

I've been known to drag an extension ladder up a tree in the past. That shit gets old. Really fast. It's also very expensive to the owner of the tree. Like $200/hour expensive, if I'm climbing..

That's why they make bucket trucks.

As for in the snow? Hells no! I was in the bucket once, though, after a spring snow and was making along nicely when a clump of snow in a tree branch decide to vacate the premises about 40 feet overhead. Knocked my hard hat off and about gave me whiplash. Not to mention the fair amount that went down my neck under my jacket.

Good times, man, good times.

Did ya notice the size of the limb near the guy at the top?

Four feet thick if it's an inch...at the top.

You've said that before...

♪ ♫All those downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"♪ ♫
♪ ♫All the men just call him "Sir"♪ ♫

:jig:

From GrindTV:

Divers encounter mysterious blob off Turkey

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Good grief!

Seafood Omelet for 1,000.

1 ommastrephid squid egg case

etc, etc,

I opened up a package of butter ring cookies the other day:

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Yes, no, maybe? WTH? I don't even know what the question is.


ETA: They were delicious.:yum:

What brand?

Honeymaid? Milkmaid? Somethingmaid.

Don't eat the ones in the middle.
No always means no.

Honey Maid is a Nabisco company, I didn't know that.

Can this be real? Do people actually fall for this?

They say it was just the one store, and it was a mistake:

Yeah, but they pulled it from their shelves after the sticky icky wore off.

eta: I posted this at the same time as Toad, when I read the explanation of the rep it made my jibe all the more poignant.

Yeah, it was a mistake, not made properly, not corporate approved, yada yada yada. However, it got made, labels printed, item priced, and on the shelf.
Doesn't this bring the safety of their process of approval at each step into question, when this didn't get flagged along the way?
Oh right, California hippies. Nevermind. http://cellar.org/2015/shades.gif

Took me awhile to figure out what the issue was :p I thought....asparagus water? ok, some sort of juice maybe - hadn't spotted that it was just spears of asparagus in a jar of water lol.

Guize, it occurred to me --

the official story is they wanted to officially make vegetable water by soaking vegetables in water for a long time

that is not broth. you can make actual broth by simmering the vegetables. do they intend to not do that.

"We are offended by this asparagus water story. We intended to keep the asparagus in the water for like two days before selling it. With mushrooms too. It was supposed to be vegetable water not asparagus water."

I've seen water infusions of fruit and vegetables. Usually, say, strawberries or cucumber. It's just very weak juice.

Asparagus, though, has such a tough skin, that I can't imagine it would infuse well whole. Maybe if it were cut in half the long way. Either way, it doesn't sound especially appetizing.

And $6 is criminal.

But but, what if a child, elderly person, or someone with a compromised immune system, should accidently ingest that water?

My god, won't somebody please think of the children/elderly/people with compromised immune systems. :eek:

I usually wash vegetables I bring home from the supermarket... This is like drinking that wash water...

Lil Dutch Maid. That was driving me nuts.

I don't see a website for Lil Dutch Maid, but the CA Attorney General has filled suit against several outlets selling Lil Dutch Maid Ginger Snaps for containing lead.

Boy, these cookies really fill me up. :haha:

*and* weigh you down.

Fehr Foods

Couldn't find the butter rings, though.

Ah, butter Rings, 5 cookies = 120 calories.
16 oz bonus pack, $2.49 at ShopRite.
11.5 oz x 24, $46.08 at Amazon.

The bride and his bridal party make their entrance

We sell Lil Dutch Maid ginger snaps and animal cookies ($2.79, EDLP, they look nasty but they're popular. They're an impulse buy item) and "infused water." The latter is all the rage, we've only been cashing in on the trend for about a month or so. Not asparagus yet, though, all fruit so far. But people buy that shit. It's "Made In House". Maybe I'll look how much it costs tomorrow, but I'm gonna bet $2.99ish. But the bottle is pretty reusable for a while... and pretty and square IIRC. Look, here it is in the Longmont store

http://www.yelp.com/biz/luckys-market-longmont

The infused water is the right thing at the right time. Long ago much of the water available where most people lived, wasn't safe to drink, so they drank other stuff. Then water became safe, but boring, they liked other stuff more.

Then recently get healthy became the hip thing but water was still boring. Now instead of sneaking a Pepsi in the garden shed, they can buy infused water that tastes better than plain water, and drink in front of their friends.

I wonder if they'll get heat from the anti-bottled water crowd?

Now, are those free-range blackberries, or have they been confined to a tiny cage all their lives?:eyebrow:

http://s8.postimg.org/3pbva6wgl/Hedge.jpg


Tall Order. A gardener working for the National Trust clips the 18th Century, 46' tall, Yew hedge at Powis Castle, near Welshpool, ancestral home of the Earls of Powis.

I shall never complain about having to trim the hedge ever again.

yew wood have do that.

After he was done, I bet he was bushed.

What in ye olde phucke?

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No doubt sponsored by a hedge fund manager. ;)

The reason for trimming the hedge is so it won't get too tall/wide. The Powis Earls were not taking care of business. Or were busy taking care of business and the hedge trimmer was busy taking care of Mrs Earl. :eyebrow:

Yewze guys gotta get into the 21st century.

Those upper 2 pics are strictly: Here hold my beer !

That's really where I want to be - hanging in the air with a whirling steel blade
while someone swings me back and forth and up and down and... Oooopy-daisy !

The guy in bottom right is perfectly positioned for a shot to the head right thru the screen

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...You're welcome, ladies.

:p:

Thanks! Nice cupcake!

What's up with the 'text-on-cookies' thing, lately?

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This my second encounter of writing on cookies recently.

I told you to never call me cupcake on the Cellar. That's a private thing.

'Nice' biscuits have always had it written on them.

Though that looks unlike Nice biscuits as I know them. Too thick and the bevelled edge is too prominent. It looks like the bastard offspring of a Nice and a Malted Milk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_biscuit

Nice biscuits and a Malted Milk biscuit:

What is this shit, how can you pay hookers with this?

You buy the coffee and chocolate, and you barter the coffee and chocolate with the locals for services needed.

Of course, good thinking glatt, you buy nylons. :smack:

Re: Nice biscuits/cookies: There's the thing I learned today. Thx, Dana.


Re: How can you pay hookers with this?: Nice scrip. No, not Nice, nice.

Never, ever, give up.

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I was tempted to put this in the nightmare thread...

I mean y'all know I have issues with walking down stairs with doors open behind me, mirrors/ reflections in dark windows, clowns, ventriloquist dummies being sentient etc. I think these fears are common if not always acknowledged.

But this... this...
I worry that dolls will come to life and try to steal my eyes with their cold plastic fingers (because they want real eyeballs for their horried frozen faces, all the better to watch you with) but this is actually so OTT that I'm not sure if I'm terrified or just sad.
Oh I wouldn't let it over the threshold. They can double bluff, you know.

And FTR, this is not a comedy style doll, like Garbage Patch Kids or something.
There's a real range of them.
I just pulled the worst out for a photo op.

I call it Used Paedo Toy.
One of the others looks like he's constipated, the other like he's been spiked (in a Withnail way).

£4.99? I guess they can't give them away free or it would make people even more suspicious.

Looks like they're trying to tap into the big eye children thing, which are creepy to begin with. :eyebrow:

Never, ever, put a live crawdad up your ass.

ftfy

Gloobee Dolls? Gloobee? That's the best name they could come up with? Think about this for a minute...That name made it through numerous meetings. Conferences were held to try to determine a name for these abominations. Not only did someone say "How about Gloobee?", but, apparently, someone else said, "Say, that's not bad...". And no one, no one that mattered, anyway, stood up and said "That's a stupid fucking name for a doll. Especially one that looks as if it's just watched "Brokeback Mountain"."

And then someone stuck their head in the room and said "Doughnuts in the breakroom.".

"Gloobee Dolls it is, then."

Quote:

Adorable dolls with cheeky real life facial expressions.

Adorable? Real life facial expressions?

Whoever wrote that must keep pretty strange company.