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Awww, dont be like that! 
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Or wasnt it the melting ice caps reducing the salinity of the oceans, interrupting the gulf stream, and bringing permanent winter to the UK?
Hard to keep up with all the scare stories! 
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No no, something about a giant mutant star goat...
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Well the Mayan calendar does say something about that date,
it's meerly a nice supplier suggesting would be a shame to not have got your moneys worth before something bad happens.
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That must have been decided in the SALT agreement [History] 
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To be seriously boring ... because it doesn't contain just salt (they often also contain an "anti-caking agent") and / or because the packaging can degrade and let in moisture which causes the salt to "clump up".
Plus of course, it's a legal requirement in many places to put a "use by" or "best by" date on all food products.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Here's another question - If they get more of this salt from the same location later this year, will the expiration date be the same?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: “Best if used by 4/20/2019”
Well, it would be best if you used it all by that date and bought some more. You know... to ensure their profit margin.
Doesn't mean that the salt goes bad by then, just a friendly reminder from the company that it would be best for your health if you bought some more salt. They aren't threatening you, just being friendly is all.
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What's weird is that salt is a natural preservative, so does it ever really go bad?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The salt, no. The other stuff that gets added? Yes. Plus the 'best by' isn't the same as an expiration date.
I'm still still going with some sort of salt trafficking conspiracy theory. It would be 'best' for you if you purchased more salt by that date. Otherwise 'accidents' might happen.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
“Best if used by 4/20/2019”
Neither the salt nor the packaging is going to expire, it just may not be as good as it once was.
On packaging, a "Use Before" date, such as in milk means it will degrade to the point it is 'spoilt' if not used by or about that date; the salt packaging merely said, "Best if used by..."
It may seem like semantics, but having worked in the food industry, there is a significant difference.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: “Created in primordial seas over 250 million years ago.”
I keep hearing that millennials who shop of Whole Foods insist of having some sort of back story for every item they purchase, like how some chicken was raised on a free-range farm, that sort of crap.
I occurred to me that the part quoted above regarding salt has got to be there to appeal to these people, as it really serves no other purpose.
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I heard that there was a petition to prevent Great Britain from moving the stones at Stone Henge ahead one hour...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Never happen
It's gum'ment - they would need to bring in a huge project team (including an methodology compliance department), 3 safety teams, not forgetting a large team of team leaders with minimum 10 years experience in the latest rock moving technology that came out last year, shite load of mostly ill suited heavy machinery [designed not to fit in the work area without extensive excavation and reinforced platforms as well as break down often],
and a couple of people to do some work [should it ever get that far].
Realizing they forgot the pre-project study it'd get shut down before starting so some mates of the MPs a 'select committee' can arrange their friends properly paid 'consultants' to study the work required for 2 years... At which point they can start the above again.
By the plan it'd need to be closed for at least 2 years, but like domino's contractors will collapse, so with even higher priced replacement contractors (eerily identical to the original contractors) it'll grow to 7 years and even then only half done and deemed as an "art installation" - including the surrounding poisoned bogs left by the temporary sheds and machinery that were parked there.
And to think the oldenfolk built it in under a year with a little hard work and some pointy sticks.
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Yeah, they are going to rotate the field when the build the new tunnel under it.
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We're not interested in old things any more.
We now have HS2, the biggest investment in 19th century technology since the 19th century to catapult us into the future. We think big round these parts.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I love the CCC even though I'm rubbish at making clues so here's an Interloper Craven Clue of the Cruciate
Musichall great's incredulous workforce (5,3)
I thank you...
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Well... put me out of my misery then.... I give up.
??
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Looking back, I failed to follow convention - hence the rubbish clue. I should've put "we hear" at the end.
Maybe a clue?
It's a Knotty problem
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Here's what I meant:
Musichall great : Ken Dodd
Incredulous : Did he?
Workforce : Men
Ken Dodd's fictional set of characters were : Diddy Men
Ta A_Griffin for giving it a look
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I knew it had to have something to do with Ken Dodd - can't believe I didn't get it. It was a perfectly good clue - just me being brain-dead.....
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Thanks.
Android's ominous valediction (3, 2, 4)
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Quote: Hasta la vista, baby
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"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official Video) - YouTube[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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