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gener7 wrote
So the contractors went back and put the new electronics in the same size large box they used before to keep him happy.
Packaging is everything. And yes, size matters 
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I used to love seeing new additions to this thread, so I've woken it up.
Obligatory cat meme
And she isn't even Spetsnaz
And my favourite, (because you can always use it to practice your selection technique if it doesn't make you laugh).
This reminds me of another joke Trevor.
Paddy had just finished wallpapering his living room and his naber called in and asked him how many rolls of wallpaped did he by for the room. He replied fifteen roles and five packets of past. His naber bought the then rolls and the seven packets of paist and when he finished papering his room that was exactly the same sizes as his neighbor he found that he only used six proals of paper and two packets of paist. He called into his number and said I got the fifteen ralls of paper and the seven packets of paist and I have nine rolls of paper and seven packets of paist bit I have Nine rolls of paper over and four packets of paist. His naber sait SO DID I? 
Cheers.
Mike Irish.
On another subject entirely: Here is a product name I never thought I would actually see.
At least they don't seem to offering a Green version... yet.
--OB
Bob, I did wonder if the word might have an actual meaning in a non English language, but the only references I could find related either directly, or indirectly, to the movie and book. No surprises that the food products bearing the name, come from California. Hey, so we don't just get to smile from this thread. We sometimes get to learn 'vital' new information 
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AFAIK, the movie title was original, as the book it was 'loosely' based on was called Make Room! Make Room and by Harry Harrison of course. The book was published in 1966, and the Soylent food company was started 48 years later in 2014 after a crowd funding campaign. It makes you wonder how honest venture capitalists make a living nowadays.
Soylent (meal replacement) - Wikipedia
Google tells me that the copyright work published between 1923 and 1978 in the United States, lasts for 95 years, so perhaps the food company came to an arrangement with Harry's estate?
Well that filled ten minutes of my afternoon!
Graham, you and I have an unfair advantage when it comes to reading stuff they see as upside down in the northern hemisphere.
I've spent too many years in the sign business, setting up backwards signs to be applied to the inside of the window (readable from outside) and things like that. It actually took me a moment to realize that WAS upside down and backwards.
Good joke though. I will pass it along. Thank you for the laugh.
Speaking again for a moment about the movie Soylent Green; below is a still of a scene from the movie -- just before the food riot starts. I first really noticed it only a few years ago. Look at the sign in the background. It has led me to wonder; is it coincidence, or is that where the band Green Day got the idea for their name?
--OB
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