Sunday, May 13, 2018

471 - The Colors Of Men, Food For Worms...Or Dinner, and "Death Excuse 14"

[10:49 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
My ex's brother would get yelled at by his dad for wearing purple.
According to him men don't wear purple.
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Depends on the time in history.
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Purple used to be the most expensive color a long time ago.
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
There have probably been eras and cultures that considered pink/purple masculine.
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Wearing it actually meant you had money.
[10:50 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
The Catholic church uses purple during Easter season.
[10:52 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
They used to only be able to make purple from shells of Bolinus brandaris  sea snails
I could not remember what it was - had to look it up again.
[10:53 AM] 
Pink used to, in fact, be a man's color.
As a shade of red it was considered too macho for girls.
And yes...Royal Blue was expensive.
[10:58 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
So wearing pink and purple is good
[10:59 AM] 
Yup..Tough and rich. A true Manly Man.
[10:59 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Just like how being fat and pale was a status symbol.
Now it's the opposite.
[11:00 AM] 
Right...well fed and didn't have to work in the sun...or at all.
[11:00 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Now being thin and tanned is a sign of having free time to relax (lay out in the sun) and travel to warmer climates. And to eat healthy + exercise.



[11:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
That funeral notice... Guy musta died recently. The Messenger says he's only been offline for 2 hours.
[11:36 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I wonder if he was in the building.
Working here when it happened, I mean
[11:37 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
I believe he was the one that had cancer.
[11:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Ah, yeah.
[11:37 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I didn't know any of them had cancer.
[11:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
He wouldn't shut up about it. 
[11:38 AM] 
He has a great work ethic if he managed to hold out til 9:30 this morning.
"I need to make a couple calls for funeral arrangements then I'm calling off dead."
[11:39 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
I stayed here to work when I turned brown.
[11:39 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Yet you've also left with a headache
[11:39 AM] 
...
[11:39 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
LOL
Lets not compare and compete with the dead guy
[11:39 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
A throbbing headache that shot to my eyes, right!
[11:40 AM] 
On topic, I just started the "was that sliced turkey still good?" experiment over lunch.
Here's hopin'
[11:41 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I don't play that game.
Any doubt...throw it out.
[11:41 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
If its slimy and smells, don't eat it.
If no smell and no slime, it should be good.
[11:42 AM]
Honey? This turkey is bone dry and has no odor.”
It's good!”
[11:42 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Food lasts longer than you think.
Longer than dates on packaging.
[11:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
My mom and grandma would eat around mold on bread.
[11:44 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Yeah. I saw someone scrape the mold off the top of refrigerated spaghetti sauce once.
[11:48 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
I have eaten left-out mayonnaise for 5 bucks before.
It had a crust.
It was still good.
I won't eat moldy stuff though, other than cheese that is supposed to be.
[11:49 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
LOL 
[11:54 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Some molds are safe but you need a lot of testing to know.
[11:54 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
The black stuff off basement walls is great on toast
[11:55 AM] 
Thing with mold...
If you see mold on the surface, it's already dug deep.
Surface appearance of mold tends to happen at the "Welp...I'm running outta eats...I'd better send out some spores" stage
[11:55 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Surprisingly, meat can sit out for quite a while before it gets really bad.
Even after a long time, its only an issue on the exposed surface.
[11:57 AM] 
Thus the old beliefs that a steak wasn't good til it had a nice layer of green, and you should hang your game birds til they start getting nasty.
I'm perfectly happy with the theory that early humans were basically scavengers and that we are still wired to have a taste for “rotten/spoiled” foods.
[11:59 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Dry aged steaks, for instance.
[11:59 AM] 
"Wow!  These chunks of rotten moldy milk are great!"
"I agree. Pass the rotten cabbage and squeeze me a cup of swill out of that waterlogged barley that's starting to fizz."
"I hear up north they've been burying fish and then digging it up after a few weeks." 
"Hmmm...we should try that."
"I know!  Turns to goo and stinks like Hell."
"Hot DAMN.  What are we waiting for?"
[12:01 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Mmm mmm... Good ammonia
Get your rotten shark here!”
I still want to try it
Although I see the jars of pickled herring at the store and pass it by.
Back in the days of people testing foods. Try a new one, and if didn't die you kept eating it
[12:10 PM] 
And then they invented the dog...
And you fed the new stuff to the dog, and if the DOG lived...
You had a better chance yourself.
[12:14 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Dogs can eat some things that people can't. lol
Then somebody feeds the dog grapes
Dog dies
They are poisonous!
And for years nobody realizes they can eat them.
[12:17 PM] 
Thus the "better chance" caveat. 
Grapes are one of those ones we certainly ate fresh, dried out, and rotten for the buzz long before we had dogs. 
People thought tomatoes were poisonous. 
Someone finally hit on and tested the theory that the new Americans trying tomatoes out were often serving them on high lead pewter plates and the acids were leaching it out.
Oopsie.



[1:00 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Soooo... Looks like Bruce Willis is the actor for the Death Wish movie remake.
[1:03 PM] 
...
We needed one?
I watched the first one...I was done.
[1:06 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I saw the first Death Wish.
There were 5 of them in total. 
[1:06 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
I've seen more than one Death Wish too.
Stuff just keeps happening to that guy.
LOL
[1:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
LOL
I forget the first one... It's just kind of an older NY guy whose daughter gets beaten up so he goes on a killing spree?
[1:07 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Either beaten up or killed
I forget now.
[1:08 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah, she mighta died.
[1:09 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
In one his neighborhood is being overrun by a gang, so he decides to fight back.
I looked. The first is his wife dies and daughter is raped.
The second his daughter is raped and maid is killed...after he got mugged.
Man, his life sucks.
His poor daughter's life sucks too. 
Three, the police use him as a weapon, because he apparently is a serial killer now who kills muggers.
[1:17 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
That'd be funny if in each Death Wish movie the thing that triggers him is progressively lamer
[1:18 PM] 
Death Wish 7 - Wrong order at Starbucks
[1:18 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Like Death Wish 1 - wife killed, daughter raped.
By the time you get to Death Wish 6: Neighbor used his outside spigot without permission
[1:19 PM] 
Death Wish 8 – Did That Kid Wave or Flip Me Off?
Death Wish 9 - Unflushed Stall Toilet
 [1:19 PM]  Mr. Brown:
Death Wish 10 - Drank water down wrong pipe, has coughing fit. 
Death Wish 11 - Given incorrect change at counter.
[1:21 PM] 
Death Wish 12 - Robocall Claiming to be from Oceania
(Sorry...that one was me)
[1:21 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
Death Wish 13 - Somebody farted

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