Re: Greetings and whinings

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:54:54 -0700, Lorrill Buyens
<buyensl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:28:03 GMT, Dread Pirate Stuart Rogers
><stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Scourge of the
>alt.fan.british-accent Seas, yo-ho-hoed:
>
>>On 11/4/07 23:38, "Anen" wrote:
>>> Quoth Stuart Rogers:
>>>> 
>>>> That risk has now substantially waned, it seems.  However, my
>>>> misery is not diminished - I've just spent an unpleasant two
>>>> days throwing up, following a dinner consisting of what is
>>>> now known as The Pizza Of Death.
>>> 
>>> Make it yourself?
>>
>>No, it was bought from my local supermarket. Won't do that again.
>
>It's kind of hard to judge where and when food poisoning is going to
strike
>(with the obvious exception of cockroach-ridden filth pits).  My
stepfather 
>was sick for a week after eating a chicken sandwich in a presumably
nice-enough
>pub in the UK (I didn't go with him and my mother and half-sister to
>Stratford-on-Avon, having little interest in Shakespeare at best), and I
was
>sick as a dog for two days after eating half a Reuben (it was way too big
for me
>to consume the entire thing) in a perfectly clean, perfectly nice
"family"
>restaurant with ordinarily-good (and copious) food. 

lesson:  Don't eat in England.  Wait til you get home.


> (Hell of a nuisance, too,
>considering those two days were the day of and right after my
grandfather's
>funeral...)

He wanted you to join him.

KS