{"id":91,"date":"2008-11-01T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-06-03T00:42:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:42:38","slug":"october-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatbeetle.com\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"October surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well as I said on the front page, not a lot has happened this month. Ok, we had the whale watching trip, but I told you about that in last month&#8217;s news. Unless you&#8217;d like me to tell you all about it again? No?<\/p>\n<p>So this month&#8217;s news is short an sweet(ish.)<\/p>\n<p>In response to comments by certain people about last month&#8217;s major cock up; No we haven&#8217;t tried that expensive wine yet, we&#8217;re saving it. It&#8217;s been laid down. May try some at Xmas. And no I don&#8217;t care if you are prepared to take it off our hands, you&#8217;re not having any.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had an election here last week, in the Capital Territory, and the Labor party was returned by a slim majority.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks up to the election Lee-Anne was working flat out, as the Min wanted to be looking good for his electorate. As a thank you he took them all out for a meal on the day before the election. He wined them and dined them in fine style. In such fine style that when I returned home from work that night, Bethy greeted me with a stern face.<em> &#8220;Where&#8217;s your mother?&#8221; <\/em>I asked, Bethy replied; <em>&#8220;She&#8217;s in bed, she&#8217;s drunk!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Honestly all Bethy needed was a set of curlers and a rolling pin, and she&#8217;s have been a dead ringer for Andy Capp&#8217;s wife Florrie.<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Anne rarely drinks, four glasses of wine at lunchtime, and she was out like a light before 8.00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Since that day things have been dead quiet for her at work, she&#8217;s just waiting to hear which of the politicians gets the ministry now, although word has it that her old Min wants to poach her as his &#8220;special adviser.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If she climbs any higher up the greasy pole of local politics, I&#8217;ll have to start calling her &#8220;Sir Humphrey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The other day Lee-Anne went to see this show;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.busting-out.com\/images\/TopBanner_01.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Join our D-cupetteers as they unleash their playful puppies and walk abreast down mammary lane. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Busting Out is an uplifting celebration of bouncy songs, wobbly jokes, thigh slapping sketches, and of course, practical demonstrations of the fascinating lesser-known uses of your drooping assets. To make the show even more interesting they even have a giant screen so their melons go from DD to ZZ. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>So ladies pop on your best bra, shoes and handbag and gentlemen be prepared to learn a thing or two when our topless barmaids even show you how to mix that perfect cocktail with no hands!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A show about a couple of large birds showing off their knockers? Has to be good! Apparently it was too. I didn&#8217;t go, women&#8217;s night out and all that sort of stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The other\u00a0Sunday and I&#8217;m at work. There&#8217;s two of us on cover, and were just pacing the day, praying that no clients go postal. My co-worker wants to pop over the mall to get coffee and cat litter, no worries, I&#8217;ll keep the mobile (the emergency number) on me.<\/p>\n<p>I get a phone call&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Me; <em>&#8220;Hello Mental health team,\u00a0Taff speaking&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her;<em> &#8220;Hi Taff, it&#8217;s me,\u00a0 Brenda&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me; <em>&#8220;Hi there, Brenda. Look I&#8217;m not in a position to chat with you at the moment, can I ring you when I get back to the office?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her; <em>&#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s nothing important I just want to change my appointment with you for tomorrow.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me; <em>&#8220;Ok, well I&#8217;ll call you back when I get to the office in about 30 mins.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her; <em>&#8220;Oh can&#8217;t we just do it now?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me; <em>&#8220;Well I&#8217;m not really in a position to talk right now I&#8217;m afraid.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her; <em>&#8220;Oh, are you with another client? Where are you? You sound like you&#8217;re at the bottom of a well!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me: <em>&#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m with another client, can&#8217;t chat, I have to go. I&#8217;ll ring you back in half an hour.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her; <em>&#8220;Ok, byeee&#8221;. <\/em>click&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the trouble with mobile phones, people can get hold of you even when you&#8217;re in the middle of a really satisfying crap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bethy&#8217;s new team had their first win the other day, stuffing another side 46 \/ 8.\u00a0We&#8217;re ever so impressed with her, and the new team coach is really bringing out the best in her.\u00a0I must say it is scary that she&#8217;s playing &#8220;Under 16&#8217;s&#8221; , and some of the girls she&#8217;s playing with or against are taller than me.<\/p>\n<p>My mate in the USA, Andrew, recently sent me one of these;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davesgourmet.peachhost.com\/ct_dafpsh.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"170\" \/><em><strong>This great pack includes Ultimate Insanity Sauce, Insanity Sauce, Total Insanity Sauce, and Temporary Insanity Sauce all packed in a cool wooden crate.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plus a big bottle of Dave&#8217;s insanity sauce.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In the United States, a growing interest in hot sauces in general and extremely hot sauces in particular can be dated roughly from the institution of the annual <\/em><\/strong><a class=\"new\" title=\"Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show (page does not exist)\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/w\/index.php?title=Fiery_Foods_and_Barbecue_Show&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\"><strong><em>Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> in <\/em><\/strong><a title=\"1989\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/wiki\/1989\"><strong><em>1989<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. The original Dave&#8217;s Insanity Sauce premiered around <\/em><\/strong><a title=\"1995\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/wiki\/1995\"><strong><em>1995<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> and was one of the first sauces to be made directly from <\/em><\/strong><a title=\"Capsaicin\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/wiki\/Capsaicin\"><strong><em>capsaicin<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>extract, allowing it to be hotter than the hottest habanero-pepper sauces of the day. It was the only hot sauce ever banned from the National Fiery Foods Show for being too hot. It has been rated at 180,000 <\/em><\/strong><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Scoville units\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/wiki\/Scoville_units\"><strong><em>Scoville units<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, compared with 2,500-5,000 for <\/em><\/strong><a title=\"Tabasco sauce\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fatbeetle.com\/wiki\/Tabasco_sauce\"><strong><em>Tabasco sauce<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, which, before the 1990s, was the hottest sauce known to the average consumer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only tried the mildest one so far, and that was like lava. Truth be told I&#8217;m almost fearful of trying the hottest!<\/p>\n<p>Now to a subject close to my heart, or should I say &#8220;close to my arse.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0If I were to tell you that I had a distended vein in my ear which itched like all buggery, was extremely painful and frequently burst and bleed copiously, you&#8217;d give me sympathy wouldn&#8217;t you? You&#8217;d enquire politely after it, offer advice and cures, discrete packets of sterile ear wipes would arrive in the post. My hippy mate would buy me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biosun.com.au\/\">Hopi ear candles<\/a>, bless.<\/p>\n<p>So why\u00a0do I not get this sympathy just because the vein is up my bum?<\/p>\n<p>Yes I&#8217;ve got piles, Emma Frueds, Chalfonts, Nobbys, Bertrams. They are agony. They itch at the least convinient times, like when I&#8217;m addressing a big meeting, and some mornings the toilet ends up looking like Fred West&#8217;s cellar.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ve got ointment for them; &#8220;Retorgesic&#8221;, but it gives me headaches. Can you think of a good punchline for that please?\u00a0I would appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Ha, you already did didn&#8217;t you you bastards?<\/p>\n<p>Yes a fingerful of retorgesic stuck up where the sun don&#8217;t shine. Not an unpleasant experience, but one Lee-Anne refuses to share with me.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Why you holding your head Taff?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;My piles are playing up mate!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can just hear the laughter from that one can&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all bad news though!<\/p>\n<p>In fact\u00a0I can now fart in\u00a0four part harmony. If they get any worse I&#8217;ll be farting in 5.1 surround sound and be audtioning for &#8220;Australia&#8217;s got tallent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Write soon bastards.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n<mce:style><!   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-priority:99; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin-top:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-right:0cm; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; \tmso-para-margin-left:0cm; \tline-height:115%; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:11.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\"; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; \tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}  ><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><! [endif] ><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" mce_tmp=\"1\">Ok, in Australia during this month we have remembrance day on the 11 th, and a bloody horse race (Melbourne cup) on the 4th. Guess which one we have a day off for?<span> <\/span>Well at least most people will have day off, muggins here is working,\u00a0 it\u2019s paid at double time, so I'm not complaining.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">The other day, a Sunday and I'm at work. There's two of us on cover, and were just pacing the day, praying that no clients go postal. My co-worker wants to pop over the mall to get coffee, no worries, I'll keep the mobile (the emergency number) on me.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">I get a phone call...<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Me; <i> \"Hello Mental health team, Taff speaking...\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Her;<i> \"Hi Taff, it's me, Client X\".<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Me; <i>\"Hi there, X. Look I'm not in a position to chat with you at the moment, can I ring you when I get back to the office?\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Her; <i>\"Oh, it's nothing important I just want to change my appointment with you for tomorrow.\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Me; <i>\"Ok, well I'll call you back when I get to the office in about 30 mins.\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Her; <i>\"Oh can't we just do it now?\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Me; <i>\"Well I'm not really in a position to talk right now I'm afraid.\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Her; <i>\"Oh, are you with another client? Where are you? You sound like you're at the bottom of a well!\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Me: <i>\"Yes, I'm with another client, can't chat, I have to go. I'll ring you back in half an hour.\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Her; <i>\"Ok, byeee\". <\/i> click...<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">That's one of the downsides of mobile phones, even when you're in the middle of a really satisfying crap, the clients can still get hold of you....<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Lee-Anne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratheatre.com.au\/pages\/event\/performance829.asp\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratheatre.com.au\/pages\/event\/performance829.asp\">went to see this show<\/a> the other night.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canberratheatre.org.au\/pages\/event\/images\/BustingOut.jpg\" mce_src=\"http:\/\/www.canberratheatre.org.au\/pages\/event\/images\/BustingOut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\" \/><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i>Join our D-cupetteers as they unleash their playful puppies and walk abreast down mammary lane. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i><i>Busting Out<\/i> is an uplifting celebration of bouncy songs, wobbly jokes, thigh slapping sketches, and of course, practical demonstrations of the fascinating lesser-known uses of your drooping assets.\u00a0To make the show even more interesting they even have a giant screen so their melons go from DD to ZZ. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i>So ladies pop on your best bra, shoes and handbag and gentlemen be prepared to learn a thing or two when our topless barmaids even show you how to mix that perfect cocktail with no hands! <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i>There have been no knockers amongst the critics: <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i>\u201cWhat these women can do with their BOOBS is amazing\u2026 titillating comedy at its breast!\u201d MELBOURNE HERALD SUN <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><b><i>\u201cThe donut is an early shocker and a gymnastic highlight. The baby must be seen to be entirely understood.\u201d THE AGE.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Apparently it's two women with big knockers doing tricks with their tits. Sounds like fun. I didn't go. Just because, that's why.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">My friend in the US, Andrew, very kindly sent me some of this the other day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sampler-Insanity-Selling-Gourmet-Shipping\/dp\/B000BP2JIK\/ref=pd_sim_gro_njs_2\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sampler-Insanity-Selling-Gourmet-Shipping\/dp\/B000BP2JIK\/ref=pd_sim_gro_njs_2\">\"Dave's insanity sauce sampler\"<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Along with a BIG bottle of the full monty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Daves-Original-Insanity-Hot-Sauce\/dp\/B0000DID5R\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Daves-Original-Insanity-Hot-Sauce\/dp\/B0000DID5R\">\"Dave's insanity sauce.\"<\/a> Here's a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave%27s_Gourmet\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave%27s_Gourmet\">description from Wikipedia<\/a>;<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><i>The original Dave's Insanity Sauce premiered around <a title=\"1995\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995\">1995<\/a> and was one of the first sauces to be made directly from <a title=\"Capsaicin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capsaicin\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capsaicin\">capsaicin<\/a> extract, allowing it to be hotter than the hottest habanero-pepper sauces of the day. It was the only hot sauce ever banned from the National Fiery Foods Show for being too hot. It has been rated at 180,000 <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Scoville units\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_units\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_units\">Scoville units<\/a>, compared with 2,500-5,000 for <a title=\"Tabasco sauce\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabasco_sauce\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabasco_sauce\">Tabasco sauce<\/a>, which, before the 1990s, was the hottest sauce known to the average consumer. Part of the intrigue behind the sauce name (Insanity) was founder Dave Hirschkop\u2019s wearing of a straitjacket at events promoting his products.<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Ok, so far I've tried a small sample of the weakest one from the sampler pack; \"Temporary Insanity Sauce\", it's far hotter than Tabasco, and blew my head off. I'll be trying the others soon.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Ok, now a subject close to my heart. Or close to my arse would be more accurate.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">If I were to tell you that I have a distended vein in my ear. And that, all too frequently it itches like all buggery, and gets very painful. And that at random times it will bleed copious amounts of blood without warning. You'd be fully sympathetic wouldn't you? Condolences would be offered, advice given, presents of sterile ear wipes would arrive unannounced. My hippy friend would give me Hopi Ear candles as a cure. People would inquire after how it was\u00a0 doing.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">So why is it that because the vein is up my bum, do people treat it as a big joke?<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Yes I've got piles. hemorrhoids, Nobby Syles, Farmer Glies, Chalfonts, Emma Froyds. It's bloody painful, itches at the least convenient times, and some mornings the toilet look like Fred West's cellar. Not funny at all.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">I mean to say, you can get ointment for them, I've got some. But it doesn't half give me a fucking headache when I use it. Now if that's not a set up for a good joke, I don't know what is.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Hemorrhoid cream gives me a headache. Bloody hell. \"Rectogesic\" the stuff is called, and you stick it on your finger, and ram it where the sun don't shine. Actually that's not too unpleasant, but I've not talked Lee-Anne into doing it for me yet.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">But one of its side effects is headaches. And you cannot go into work clutching your head and looking for sympathy with that can you?<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\"><i>\"Why you holding your head Taff?\"\n\"I've got piles mate.\"<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">Anyway there is a plus side to it, I can now fart in two part harmony. If they get any worse I'll be farting in 5.1 surround sound and auditioning for \"Australia's got talent!\"<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div mce_tmp=\"1\">That's the news, see you soon. Wrtite, it's not painful.<\/d >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< ><--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well as I said on the front page, not a lot has happened this month. Ok, we had the whale watching trip, but I told you about that in last month&#8217;s news. 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