Everyone say hi to my good friend Red Rum

[radou]

Are these your pen-friends?

 

[Evo]

Are these your pen-friends?

Yes, they are.

 

[Red Rum]

The food was Eritrean (Is there an echo in here?)
Which I believe is almost identical to Ethiopian
It was served on a pancake with additional pancakes on the side to pick up the food. And the consistency was pretty much as described above. I wouldn't say it was a totally authentic reproduction. The coffeee was excellent though. I should have brought my camera and photographed the way it was served. the filter was basically some dort of dried straw stuffed into the spout. One of my friends unkindly suggested it was probably ox hair (He was more specific about the bodily part of the ox from which it originated). Inevitably, while pouring, it fell out of the spout and into my coffee cup, imparting an additional novel and possibly unique flavour component.

In general I like Belgian beers because they offer more variety to the standard pilsener, but the phenolic flavour means there's a limit to how much I'm willing to consume. And their use of huge amounts of adjunct tends to induce hangover before the consumer has had a chance to get properly inebriated. And I'm not a fan of lambic and geuse beers because I believe that cheesey (like butyric and iso-valeric acid),vinegar, rancid and lactic flavours just don't belong in beer.
Am I being pedantic?

I worked with a lot of Eritreans when I was in Saudi and I noticed they joined the company looking like marathon runners but after a few months of eating bread and drinking laban (their food was included in their contracts) I had to make them start playing soccer in the evenings to keep them fit enough to work in the plant. At the time Eritrea was still part of Ethiopia and there was a civil war in progress, so most of them were also asylum seekers and many had fought in the war. One guy had children scattered across several European countries in foster homes until the war was over. I had a few Sudanese working for me as well who were also fleeing a civil war. And they all got on just great together.
As for the poor forklift driver, well the incident happened in another of our processing plants that I was only visiting so I don't know what the outcome of the subsequent inquest was but I'm pretty confident the conclusion would have been death by misadventure.

 

[Chi Meson]

Oh hey, there you are!

I don't know how to respond to your posts...

I like Ethiopian food. My brother used to live in Washington DC right down the street from three great Ethiopian restaurants.

Once, on a climb, about seven of us (my partner & I, a group of four, and this solo guy) combined whatever food we had, and shared a big banquet, and the solo guy who donated a single packet of ramen, ate nearly all of my avocado (which I had carried for six days, an absolute delicacy after a week on the trail). We didn't exactly kill this guy, but we left him all alone at 10,000 feet. He arrived solo, so he can finish solo, we thought. Before we left, I tried to find a snickers bar in his pack, but he had nothing. So I put a big rock in his side pouch.

 

[Evo]

I want to thank Red Rum for the picture he sent me of him artificially inseminating a cow. I don't know if I have enough wine here to get that picture out of my mind. That's one loooong glove you've got on there.

And white sneakers? You're standing in mud and lord knows what else and your sneakers are spotless.

 

[Moonbear]

I want to thank Red Rum for the picture he sent me of him artificially inseminating a cow. I don't know if I have enough wine here to get that picture out of my mind. That's one loooong glove you've got on there.

What I find really amusing is that EVERYONE who has EVER taken an AI certification course comes back with a photo of them with their hand up a cow's butt (that's not the actual artificial inseminating, just the part where you palpate the ovaries to see if they are ready to ovulate yet). It's as if every one has the same thought, "Nobody will ever believe me if I told them I did this if I don't have someone take a picture."

And white sneakers? You're standing in mud and lord knows what else and your sneakers are spotless.

That's impressive.

 

[Red Rum]

What I find really amusing is that EVERYONE who has EVER taken an AI certification course comes back with a photo of them with their hand up a cow's butt (that's not the actual artificial inseminating, just the part where you palpate the ovaries to see if they are ready to ovulate yet). It's as if every one has the same thought, "Nobody will ever believe me if I told them I did this if I don't have someone take a picture."

Quite correct, Moonbear. I was only helping out with AI on my day off. The AI team consisted mainly of Thais, supervised by a county Cork man who'd just left a farm in China and was appropriately name Tim Lee. I wasn't allowed leave the farm without a letter of permission to travel from my sponsor, so I spent a lot of my spare time (when I wasn't crying) learning about various aspects of dairy farming. We had 4,000 cows, so there was plenty of opportunity. Made me think I should become a vet in my next career.

 

[Red Rum]

Ai

I'm sure the AI team used to select cows that were on the verge of exploding any second with a view to getting me completely covered in cow ****e, but I always managed to effect my egress in a timely fashion.

 

[Red Rum]

Oh hey, there you are!

Once, on a climb, about seven of us (my partner & I, a group of four, and this solo guy) combined whatever food we had, and shared a big banquet, and the solo guy who donated a single packet of ramen, ate nearly all of my avocado (which I had carried for six days, an absolute delicacy after a week on the trail). We didn't exactly kill this guy, but we left him all alone at 10,000 feet. He arrived solo, so he can finish solo, we thought. Before we left, I tried to find a snickers bar in his pack, but he had nothing. So I put a big rock in his side pouch.

Nice one, Chi. Not sure I approve of the rock. I find the old pebble in the boot trick to be much more personally satisfying

 

[radou]

and the solo guy who donated a single packet of ramen, ate nearly all of my avocado (which I had carried for six days, an absolute delicacy after a week on the trail). We didn't exactly kill this guy, but we left him all alone at 10,000 feet. He arrived solo, so he can finish solo, we thought. Before we left, I tried to find a snickers bar in his pack, but he had nothing. So I put a big rock in his side pouch.

Vengeance was yours.

Btw, I wonder how AI-ing two cows at the same time would look like. That would make even a greater picture, and probably a superior postcard.

Edit: oh, I almost forgot. One probably needs the other hand to grab a handle or something to prevent getting lost in the cow's interior.

 

[Red Rum]

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Btw, I wonder how AI-ing two cows at the same time would look like. That would make even a greater picture, and probably a superior postcard.

Edit: oh, I almost forgot. One probably needs the other hand to grab a handle or something to prevent getting lost in the cow's interior.

I guess if you stood the two cows back to back rather than side by side, but god help you if they both choose to explode simultaneously .

 

[radou]

I guess if you stood the two cows back to back rather than side by side, but god help you if they both choose to explode simultaneously .

I'm trying to picture that, and it looks pretty interesting.

Wouldn't mind if these were Milka-cows, though.

http://www.kraftfoods.com.ua/kraft/images/uauk1/pictures/3.1_milka_cow.jpg

 

[Pyrrhus]

Red Rum is pretty funny. I was laughing quite a bit.

Welcome to PF!

 

[Math Is Hard]

Btw, I wonder how AI-ing two cows at the same time would look like. That would make even a greater picture, and probably a superior postcard.

I just had an idea for some novelty oven mitts.

 

[radou]

I just had an idea for some novelty oven mitts.

Why, does the cow have lasagna or some other delicious dish inside at a high temperature?

 

[Evo]

Why, does the cow have lasagna or some other delicious dish inside at a high temperature?

You mean you didn't know?

 

[Red Rum]

You mean you didn't know?

Is this something along the lines of a "bun in the oven"?

 

[radou]

You mean you didn't know?

Why, yeees, of course I knew.

Is this something along the lines of a "bun in the oven"?

Buns?

This thread makes me hungry. Constantly.

 

[Moonbear]

I just had an idea for some novelty oven mitts.

Good thing I didn't start eating dinner yet...I'd have been laughing food out my nose! Oh, the image!

 

[Evo]

<sigh> Indiana (Red Rum) Jones is vacationing in the jungles of Brazil. If he doesn't get a blow dart through the neck, I will get a post card, if he makes it out alive, which makes me happy. My last postcard from him was from Russia.

 

[Lisa!]

<sigh> Indiana (Red Rum) Jones is vacationing in the jungles of Brazil. If he doesn't get a blow dart through the neck, I will get a post card, if he makes it out alive, which makes me happy. My last postcard from him was from Russia.

Wow! Sounds like my kind of life!