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No - but BACON does! 
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Not my type... You enjoy 
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Got it. Thanks.
Have a great time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Thank you
My pleasure
OriginalGriff wrote: that was a joke
Oh, okay 
Saw in your below post that it's "Herself"'s birthday too. And I was like: Wow, they both share the same birthday 
OriginalGriff wrote: but never mind
Okay, will try not to 
OriginalGriff wrote: To "tag" someone in a message....
Let me try tagging you @OriginalGriff
Consider it as punishment of that joke Only if the mail gets successfully sent
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By "real birthday" do you refer to OG's current primate incarnation; or, do you refer to the date when the aliens finished with his brain ?
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: OG's current primate incarnation
No, it ain't. He told me yesterday that 01-Jan is his 'Real' Birthday. But he was joking 
BillWoodruff wrote: aliens finished with his brain
Did that ever happen in history?
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Don't forget that Bill can be a little... odd... at times. I often wonder what he's smoking to come up with some of his posts.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Bill ... odd... at times
Ahan! will start noticing that oddness from now on
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: what he's smoking to come up with some of his posts.
Now how come that you came up with this thought that he smokes something to come up with his post? May be a glass of fresh juice refreshes his mind and improves his creativity 
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And I have pictures to prove it: Dropbox - Bacon Curing[^]
For our American Friends: it's Back bacon, not the type you get over there that's 50% meat, 50% fat - we call that "Streaky" and it's made with Pork Belly, not Loin. Maybe next time...
Only eaten 1/2 a slice (Herself ate the other half) and it was deliberatly a thin slice, a couple of mm thick.
Taste wise: it's BACON all right! Not as salty as I'm used to - but that's a good thing - and pretty much the best I've ever tasted. But hey, "I Made This!" could be influencing that quite a bit.
While it cooked, no "white stuff" came out, the fat rendered beautifully, and the meat cooked quickly and evenly.
I've cut off 6 more thicker slices to include in a Full English at lunchtime as it's Herself's birthday and I think this is going to be a good 'un. If the thickness works, I slice the lot and vacuum pack it for the freezer over the weekend.
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well done
mmmm, real bacon, no nitrites - enjoy, and happy birthday to 'herself'
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It was cured using Sodium Nitrite (not a lot, 6.25% to 93.75% salt in the curing salt, which was only 8% of the meat weight) to avoid botulism since I can't get the meat direct from the pig and have to use supermarket joints. You can make bacon without the nitrites, but you need "clean" meat and a longer cure if you just use "ordinary" salt, apparently.
The nitrites should break down and be removed during the curing process anyway at this concentration. Again, apparently! 
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hmmm, maybe you need to befriend a butcher or even better a pig farmer - unless EU rules prevent them from selling direct from a carcass
enjoy anyway, I'm salivating you rotter
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Selling direct from the carcass isn't the problem - it's the slaughterhouse rules that make it difficult. Unless the animal is slaughtered in a licenced, regulated, inspected, and up-to-the-latest-code official slaughterhouse, you can't sell it at all. And that's difficult because pigs are long animals, and the smaller houses (like our local one) have closed as a result - they would have to build an extension that was taller than the original building to legally continue (even sheep were a bit close for the local one).
And my local butcher passed away about three years ago - and no-one wanted to take over the business, so that's gone as well... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: the slaughterhouse rules
Sounds like a book title to me, "The Slaughterhouse Rules" by P.Griffin.
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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It still looks dead.
I'll get my coat
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Most excellent! I am impressed. Glad it turned out well for you. 
You get extra credit for all the pics. 
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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We people often make new year resolutions in order to make our professional life better.
Lets create some resolutions to make your personal life and relationship better and stronger.
Some of them includes (IMHO):
1. Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year.
2. Give 4 surprise gifts to my wife.
3. Meet close friends personally every month.
4. Play with my kids minimum 1 hr every weekday.
If you are already doing it, its great. I realized that I failed to strengthen family/friends relationship last year due to over focusing on professional stuffs. I hope to balance it this time.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: 1. Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year. And leave them there.
2. Give 4 surprise gifts to my wife. A waterbomb, itching powder, the bill for my weekend in Vegas, and a one way ticket to Greenland.
3. Meet close friends personally every month. To score free drinks, dinners, and anything else I can squeeze out of their wallets.
4. Play with my kids minimum 1 hr every weekday. They make great bowling balls!
FTFY
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: Take my kids to Amusement park at least 2 times this year.
How would taking your kids to Amusement park make my personal life better?? Sorry dude, there are some things you shouldn't try to delegate 
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Is 1024 x 768 enough as a new year's resolution?
[Sorry Mr. Griff]
Life is too shor
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The old resolutions are the best, and should be recycled.
In this case, as firelighters...
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Sure, if the year is 1997 or so.
I switched to 4K on my desktop this last year and there's no going back.
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Lang may yer lum reek!
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DaveAuld wrote: Lang may yer lum reek!
Possibly not in Dubai though... 
Happy New Year Dave!
Best wishes to you and your family
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