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* CIGARETTES, SAVE MONEY AND SAVE YOURSELF - 1 messages, 1 author
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* what if you find contaminant on store bought kids fruit snacks? - 1 messages,
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TOPIC: free breakfast at Denny's
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 3 2009 10:05 pm
From: The Real Bev
Rod Speed wrote:
> albundy2@mailinator.com wrote:
>>
>> When I was a wee lad, a kid could go to the drug store and purchase
>> bulk chemicals from the pharmacist. With a little knowledge, a kid
>> could make things go boom. Nobody I knew ever got hurt from it.
We used to buy chemistry sets at yard sales. My baby son liked to make gunpowder...
> One fool in my school class blew his hand right off, quite literally.
My HS chem lab partner liked to mix random things together. Fortunately all he
created was bad-smelling smoke.
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Cheers, Bev
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== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 3 2009 10:38 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
albundy2@mailinator.com wrote:
> On Feb 3, 5:43 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> albun...@mailinator.com wrote:
>>> On Feb 3, 12:03 pm, James <j0069b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Feb 3, 8:05 am, clams_casino <PeterGrif...@DrunkinClam.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Woody wrote:
>>>>>> Denny's is offering a free Grand Slam breakfast on Tuesday
>>>>>> between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
>>
>>>>>> Only the dish is free; drinks are not included, and sides are 99
>>>>>> cents for two.
>>
>>>>> Even free would not be enough to draw me into a Denny's.
>>
>>>>> First requirement is to have something eatable.
>>
>>>>> Second is to have a minimum level of service.
>>
>>>> It's pretty hard to screw up bacon & eggs with pancakes and
>>>> sausage. Really long lines so I just took a rain check.
>>
>>>> When I was a wee wee lad, there was a drug store that had egg,
>>>> toast, & coffee for 29 cents.
>>> When I was a wee lad, a kid could go to the drug store and purchase
>>> bulk chemicals from the pharmacist. With a little knowledge, a kid
>>> could make things go boom. Nobody I knew ever got hurt from it.
>>
>> One fool in my school class blew his hand right off, quite literally.
>>
>>> We could not afford 29¢ for breakfast.
>
> My father was an electrical engineer with a chemistry background. He
> used to make nitroglycerin and explode it as a kid. I learned some
> safety measures, but still was lucky to survive to adulthood in one piece.
Yeah, me too. I made up a heavy wooden thing with eye holes in it which
had perspex plugs in the holes and metal mesh over that, so we could
watch stuff blow up very closely. That went fine until we tried filling the
glass bottles we were blowing up with oxygen from an oxygen cylinder
we used from an adjacent building site. We had solid model jet engine
slugs in the bottles. Still got a bloody great scar on my leg from that one.
Mate of mine's mother was the chemistry teacher in the school, we borrowed
the keys to the chem lab one school holidays and damned near blew the
whole place up making stuff only half understanding what we were up to.
The fool the blew his hand right off was hammering the stuff used for loading
bullets by hand into a heavy water pipe with a solid metal rod to pack it in.
We always thought he was a terminal fuckwit even before he blew his hand right off.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 3 2009 10:42 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
The Real Bev wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> albundy2@mailinator.com wrote:
>>> When I was a wee lad, a kid could go to the drug store and purchase
>>> bulk chemicals from the pharmacist. With a little knowledge, a kid
>>> could make things go boom. Nobody I knew ever got hurt from it.
> We used to buy chemistry sets at yard sales.
I used to buy chemicals in bulk from the main supplier to schools and industrial chem labs etc.
> My baby son liked to make gunpowder...
Yeah, did plenty of that stuff, and damned near blew the school chem lab up one
holidays, my mate's mother was the chemistry teacher and we borrowed the keys.
>> One fool in my school class blew his hand right off, quite literally.
> My HS chem lab partner liked to mix random things together. Fortunately all he created was bad-smelling smoke.
We used to research in the state library in the textbooks used for mining engineering, and
stole stuff from the quarry that wasnt that far away from the house at the edge of town.
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TOPIC: CIGARETTES, SAVE MONEY AND SAVE YOURSELF
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/bc3a04fb3f70d426?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 3 2009 10:16 pm
From: The Real Bev
ecignews@gmail.com wrote:
> Suppliers are being advised not to make cessation claims unless you
> have the clinical studies to back them up lest you ruin it for all
> users. Keep e-cigs legal !
I assume there's some sort of law that requires that they be sold as
quit-smoking aids rather than environmentally-friendly nicotine delivery systems.
--
Cheers,
Bev
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TOPIC: what if you find contaminant on store bought kids fruit snacks?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/1b369dfc229b9353?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 3 2009 10:30 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
OhioGuy wrote:
> My sister gave us some Kroger Veggietales fruit snacks Sunday.
She's clearly trying to kill you lot. Check whether she has you insured.
> Box was still sealed, as were all of the pouches. I gave half the box to
> my kids over the past couple of days, and then opened another pouch
> today and started eating a few. I had to spit them out, because
> there was something really awful and gritty on them.
>
> Take a look, here:
>
> http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=krogerveggietalesfruitsxj6.jpg
>
> The contaminant is gritty, kind of like charcoal or graphite, and
> breaks up if you take a spoon or something and try to crush it.
> However, it does not make a mark on a white piece of paper. It was
> stuck all over every single piece of the fruit snacks.
>
> This stuff was in there right when the sealed pouch was opened.
> Clearly, it is NOT supposed to be in there, nor is it anything you
> would think to look for when you are grabbing a few to munch on.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what I should do. I doubt I'm the only one who
> has run into this.
>
> On one hand, I don't want other people to be running into this if it
> is dangerous or widespread. However, I'm sure the company doesn't
> want the expense of a recall or anything like that. If I simply take
> it to Kroger, they will probably brush it off and offer me a free
> package, and that would be the end of it.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? I haven't ever run into anything like
> this before, so I'm not sure what I should do. I tried calling the
> telephone number on the package, but just got put on hold, and
> eventually I hung up.
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