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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7485 on: February 24, 2017, 12:54:09 AM »
a set of SAE and metric spanners, 15 of each for $49CDN. With the exchange rate that makes it more like $39 for 30 wrenches. pretty good for canada.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7486 on: February 24, 2017, 12:21:58 PM »
Beer. :zoinks:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7487 on: February 24, 2017, 01:07:48 PM »

Came home with a decent sized log of Braunschweiger from a local German butcher.

This is the "Four Liver" recipe, beef, pork, lamb and foul. Just throwing some on a saltine cracker, it is fabulous!
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7488 on: February 24, 2017, 02:36:12 PM »

Came home with a decent sized log of Braunschweiger from a local German butcher.

This is the "Four Liver" recipe, beef, pork, lamb and foul. Just throwing some on a saltine cracker, it is fabulous!

Memories from my youth, Braunschweiger, Limburger Cheese, hassenpfeffer (made with rabbit).  My sister didn't like either one, so I didn't have to share.
  Do you put an onion slice and mayonnaise on the cracker?
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7489 on: February 24, 2017, 02:38:41 PM »
A couple 60 watt equivalent LED bulbs and a soda at the dollar store.   
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7490 on: February 24, 2017, 03:45:20 PM »

Came home with a decent sized log of Braunschweiger from a local German butcher.

This is the "Four Liver" recipe, beef, pork, lamb and foul. Just throwing some on a saltine cracker, it is fabulous!

Memories from my youth, Braunschweiger, Limburger Cheese, hassenpfeffer (made with rabbit).  My sister didn't like either one, so I didn't have to share.
  Do you put an onion slice and mayonnaise on the cracker?

No onion or any bother about the cracker,  just wanted to sample the bounty,  but both will go on my dark rye bread, soon.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7491 on: February 24, 2017, 04:44:45 PM »
Good Duct tape to fix my daughters loose bumper...temporarily. 
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7492 on: February 24, 2017, 06:42:46 PM »
The PR "repurposed" some extra money I gave her for bowling and bought some things that weren't needed.  I didn't have a smaller bill, so I gave her what I had.  So, I guess I bought some flowers for my best friend.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7493 on: February 25, 2017, 03:14:27 AM »
Good Duct tape to fix my daughters loose bumper...temporarily.
I fixed my car that way... it's been 3 years now :paperbag:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7494 on: February 25, 2017, 03:41:16 AM »
LOL QV!

She is such a sweetie :)
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7495 on: February 25, 2017, 06:11:03 AM »

Came home with a decent sized log of Braunschweiger from a local German butcher.

This is the "Four Liver" recipe, beef, pork, lamb and foul. Just throwing some on a saltine cracker, it is fabulous!

  When I used to work in a supermarket deli, we had two brands of liverwurst:
   Braunschweiger and Mother Goose.  duck  What do you think of Mother Goose?
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7496 on: February 25, 2017, 09:10:42 AM »
Good Duct tape to fix my daughters loose bumper...temporarily.
I fixed my car that way... it's been 3 years now :paperbag:

I managed to find a tape that nearly matched the car color.  My plan is to get the bumper fixed after the winter.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7497 on: February 25, 2017, 02:49:45 PM »
LOL QV!

She is such a sweetie :)

Today, I will sell her  >:D  to you for the $20 she took from our emergency fund.  Now I have to keep the medicines, sharp objects and all the money in the house under lock and key. 
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7498 on: February 25, 2017, 03:12:53 PM »
Done!

Although your underselling by a long way, I'd sure not be stupid enough to do myself out of money when there is a bargain. Although, as I remember your remark of some time ago 'pure and chaste', your going to have to be satisfied with 'genuine' 'not the exploitative type'  and 'got your back' '

I've been meaning to put some security measures in place for the lab in any case. Although the kitchen and the fridge would need a pretty thorough going-through considering some of the things that are hanging around in beakers and other containers, some of which aren't labelled, since *I* know what they are, and my old man knows that he'd be a complete idiot to drink or eat out of a vessel containing anything he didn't put there himself.

Lets just say that when lab space has been tight, things have often migrated. Xylene and ethyl acetate in the fridge, ergot sclerotia in the fridge, or there were a while back, something that needs analysis done on it to determine exactly what went on during a reaction but otherwise a golden-amber looking thick oil. Beakers of H2SO4 that have become colored and look like a soft drink (not kidding, it does, now bright red and could easily be mistaken for something drinkable if it wasn't in a lab beaker and you didn't know of my inclinations towards chemistry, pharmacology and bio), a cylinder containing white phosphorus under water....(highly toxic, bursts into flame on exposure to air and gives off a shitload of acidic P2O5 smoke, that looks way out of proportion for the size of the quantity of phosphorus that produces it when burning)

I do keep most of the lab escapees in their own spot though, and the spice rack has been emptied and repurposed to serve as a reagent bottle storage rack instead :P

Which is pretty much what you'll have to make do with it.
I'd argue for more than £20, if it was somebody else's wallet. But thats again because of her worth, and because no matter what someone is buying they would be a fool to argue for themselves having to fork out MORE than the asking price. I'm autistic, not stupid :autism:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7499 on: February 25, 2017, 06:00:47 PM »
A rake and  a new spot light with a motion detector on it
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