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Frozen food alert

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1. At 05:59 PM on 14 Dec 2006, wrote:

   last week, I found fragments of glass in some frozen peas from Tescos.. It doesn't look like a lightbulb to me!

2. At 07:01 PM on 14 Dec 2006, AndyMac wrote:

   Yes, I thought the lemon chicken was a little sharp ...

3. At 07:50 PM on 14 Dec 2006, wrote:

   It's an Irish plot, no doubt. Yet another conspiracy.
   

4. At 12:26 AM on 15 Dec 2006, wrote:

   Hey, F Fred, can I be the first to comment on your strapline today (tonight). I love it . How you pander to young Eddie's ego there. I think the phrase is "damning with faint praise"

   I've never listened to Chris Evans. Does he have a radio programme then?

   BTW, just walked into kitchen at midnight, hearing the rumble of the microwave. Thought "Oh goody, SO is preparing thoughtful bedtime treat of milky coffee or cocoa for me since I've only now got back from work. How kind"

   What was he doing? Microwaving a glass of red wine because "I don't like it freezing & you put it in the fridge last night after it was opened"

   Sigh. Marriage is such a romantic existence sometimes...

5. At 02:13 AM on 15 Dec 2006, wrote:

   Annasee, Chris does indeed have a radio programme, on R2 I believe. I've only listened to it once, because my reception wouldn't let me have R4, but I really enjoyed it. I suspect he is the same Chris who cooked the carbonara & raised the subject of golf balls, Eddie is not the innocent in this project with his use of that particular strapline (-:!

6. At 08:56 AM on 15 Dec 2006, Joe Palooka wrote:

   Eddie,

   Thank you for the warning. I've found bits of rice in my light bulbs!

7. At 11:47 AM on 15 Dec 2006, Chris, London. wrote:

   Froggers...we are all mad. Mad mad mad mad mad. That’s why this world of ours is so fascinating.

   Must go, there’s a knotted ball of string that needs untangling in my top drawer, if you know what I mean.

   P.S. What’s the difference between a pamphlet and a leaflet ?
   

8. At 12:25 PM on 15 Dec 2006, Belinda wrote:

   I would say that a leaflet is a single piece of A4 or A5 paper which may or may not be folded and is used primarily for advertising to the general public. A pamphlet typically has more pieces of paper (like a small book) containing more information aimed specifically at interested parties.

   That's how I think of them at least. I am probably completely wrong.

9. At 01:13 PM on 15 Dec 2006, wrote:

   (7) Chris - well surely one flat has Pam living in it, & the other has Lee. Am I right?

10. At 01:55 PM on 15 Dec 2006, Patty O'Dors wrote:

    re leaflet/pamphlet:

    I would say that a leaflet would consist of many pages (Hence the word "leaf", books contain leaves surely?)

    Pamphlet is 1 sheet folded.
    Now, when does a leaflet (my version!) turn into a BOOKLET!?

    And if we're going for it, when does a pamphlet (again, my version!) turn into a FLYER? Just one sheet unfolded? A simple page-fold changes the meaning!
    

11. At 02:27 PM on 15 Dec 2006, Vyle Hernia wrote:

    According to the online dictionary at dictionary.com:

    Leaflet

    1. a small flat or folded sheet of printed matter, as an advertisement or notice, usually intended for free distribution.
    2. one of the separate blades or divisions of a compound leaf.
    3. a small leaflike part or structure.
    4. a small or young leaf.
    –verb (used with object) 5. to distribute leaflets or handbills to or among: Campaign workers leafleted shoppers at the mall.
    –verb (used without object) 6. to distribute leaflets.

    
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    [Origin: 1780–90; leaf + -let]

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    Pamphlet

    1. a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
    2. a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest: a political pamphlet.

    
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    [Origin: 1375–1425; late ME pamflet

12. At 02:45 PM on 15 Dec 2006, Frances O wrote:

    I worry about 'flyers'. I call them leaflets. But what do I know?

    Leaflets have one leaf (possibly folded), I'd say; when you have two or more leaves, they become a pamph, or, in the case of a small pamph, a pamphlet.

    Or not

13. At 03:51 PM on 15 Dec 2006, wrote:

    of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. "

    The most effective political pamphlet ever written. Imagine getting all that on a single piece of paper!

    xx
    ed
    

    Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;
    the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
    For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed,
    man would need no other lawgiver;"
    -- Thomas Paine,

    "It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan,
    more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage
    than the creation of a new order of things.

    For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit
    by the preservation of the old institutions,
    and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones."
    -- Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
    

14. At 04:26 PM on 15 Dec 2006, admin annie wrote:

    Dear Chris @ 7, why would we care? indeed why do you?

    I ask this in all seriousness as I am struggling to come up with a scenario in which it would matter but there must be one or Chris presumably would not have asked.

15. At 05:25 PM on 16 Dec 2006, chLuke wrote:

    C'mon Chris (7) I'm bursting - lets have the punch line

    chL

16. At 11:25 AM on 19 Dec 2006, Jack Scribbs wrote:

    What was the strapline on Thursday for this thread?

17. At 10:59 PM on 19 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Jack (16), the strapline is for the whole blog not just one thread -- they are not thread-specific. I'm afraid I don't remember what it was last Thursday but someone might.