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Blog Guy, I guess you’ve been reading about the huge recall of cantaloupes because of that deadly listeria outbreak?
Yes, but recalls in general are coming too fast to count. In the past month, we’ve had stories about recalls of lettuce, candy, ice cream, pine nuts, brewers yeast tablets, prawns, soy burgers, kale chips, spinach, organic eggs, frozen tuna…
Oh, I know all about that tuna recall. I’m piling my supply in my Chevy Equinox right now and driving it right back to the supermarket…
Your Equinox? Did you see that GM just recalled 36,000 of those and GMC Terrains to fix the tire pressure monitoring system?
No! Okay, I’ll return the tuna on my motorcycle, then.
I hope it’s not one of the 308,000 motorcycles that Harley-Davidson just recalled because of rear brake light switch problems.
This is very serious, Blog Guy! My cupboards are bare. I’ve got nothing to even cook on my GE gas rangetop!
It’s probably just as well. They just recalled a bunch of those because of an “explosion hazard.”
Fine. I’ll just sit here and starve. At least I’ll be comfortable in my glider recliner.
Oh, about that. Big Lots just recalled about 375,000 of those because of an “entrapment hazard.”
Jeez! And I moved up here to Wisconsin because I thought I’d be safe!
You live in Wisconsin? I see they’re trying to recall your governor…
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Top: The label from a package of recalled Nancy Adams Classics Mini S’mores in an undated handout image. Credit: Reuters/U.S. Food and Drug Administration/Handout
Left: A GE Monogram Pro Rangetop with Grill in an undated handout photo. REUTERS/Consumer Product Safety Commission/Handout
Right: “Total Recall” movie poster
Bottom right: President Barack Obama holds a Green Bay Packers NFL football jersey given to him by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (L) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, January 26, 2011. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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I was under the impression that the entire state of Wisconsin was being recalled? Or was it that the U of Wisconsin Alumnii Asstn. is calling again everybody? Sorry, things are not exactly clear after my spell in Robert’s basement.
kale chips? NOOOOOOOO! Say it ain’t so. How will I ever survive without my kale chips?!? What will I eat with my soy burger? Oh, nevermind. This weight loss plan just keeps getting easier and easier.
BG, when you do get elected, this phrase is evidently VERY important to know: “I don’t recall.” Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Even Cain is able to recall…..
I wish to be recalled.
My dear wife’s phone was busy and I had to recall it, like, twenty times.
The amusing thing about vehicle safety recalls is that the company expects you to drive the vehicle in, apparently ignoring the fact that they just pronounced it unsafe to do so.
Oooh, I’ve got stove envy…. I’d hazard the hazard to have a cool gas rangetop like that!
…and when did POTUS change his name to Woodson?
This dude, Yang Junsheng, now known as “the luckiest dude EVER”, was fortunate not to have been recalled.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pictureg alleries/picturesoftheday/8859552/Pictur es-of-the-day-31-October-2011.html?image =8
Whoa… that is some picture^ I must say, I can’t recall ever seeing such a close call since the bathroom stall where I breached protocol…
Should mini Smores not be called Slesses?
Slesses? That’s a word I don’t know, Crow. Would you mind explaining it in great detail?
It depends… I could be wrong; I’m just making assumptions. Perhaps you’d care to educate me as to the derivation of “S’mores”?
We seem to be at an impasse, Crow. I can’t tell you what S’mores are and you can’t tell me about Slesses, all because of you-know-who….
I like impasses.
Yeah I see the problem – there is no possible way to accurately describe the process of attaching a gooey marshmallow to a wine biscuit base, without being educational.
Hmm, I shall have to consider how to go about this.
Mini S’Mores to be called S’Lesses. I think I More or Less understand where Crow is going on this one.
Oh come on, take the zap already! Slesses is the plural of one sless. There, now you know BG. Was it really that hard CG?
Nosmo – it’s a “wine” biscuit base? Ooh.
S’lesses, as in there’s less of them, on account of them being mini S’mores. Though they look like Tunnocks Teacakes to me. http://www.tunnock.co.uk/teacake.html
Zap them Shra, zap them all
Ok you guilty lot.. line up now!
1, 2, 3… Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppp!
Ouch!
Dang it, the burns had just healed from the last one.
Well at least I’m fully awake now.
I prefer Jaffa Cakes to Tunnocks, though.
Ooh, warming and tingly!
Nosmo, are you familiar with Tunnocks Caramel Wafers? Food of the gods…
No I have not had the pleasure of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. I shall have to order them in my next ‘Red Cross’ package from the U.K.
Shraaaaa, could you kindly turn down the power a little next time? Not only the zap zapped me unconscious for a while, it blew away the light bulbs at home… thank you, dear.
Wait until they recall the U.S. dollar because too many are in circulation. Don’t worry, the government will give you a brand new, stronger dollar to replace every one hundred of your “old” weaker dollars.
@Shra: pay no attention to justM, turn it up, we’ve got a troll in here!
huh? what? where?? Why on earth are we having a dollar discussion all of a sudden?
Am I missing something? Is it too much meddies?
Bob, are you aware that you have been recalled to proof obituary columns on the Choctaw Plaindealer in Lexington, Mississippi? Only kidding; not everyone likes to be reminded of their origins, and there is no shame is being born and bred in a swamp; also, not everyone could stand up to chronic malarial infection they way you have. And there’s still not many people who credit those stories of you knocking over seven elevens in Mantachie; after all, you were only 13 then, and didn’t know any better, even it was you.
Thank goodness I haven’t had to return anything yet. I don’t think that many people are really hurt by the recalls, it is a very very very small percentage in comparison to the billions of working (or decently working) items in the market.