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Harry having a blue day ? 

cheer up Harry, it will all be better tomorrow

Need to bump this topic back Harry

There was nearly a fracas in the snug last night when the conversation turned towards Baked Beans and how many beans are contained within a 415 gram tin.

Opinions raged from 250 right through to 1000 with a bit of squaring up at one point.

Can you please settle this once and for all Harry, as your reply will be treated as Gospel

so, thats why you haven't been posting as much recently, you have been counting baked beans.

well someone has to do it I suppose

Ah, well. A number of factors are important in this calculation. The common North American bean is not as dense as the Southern Belle bean which can be squashed more successfully in a tin - especially when threatened with a gun. Heinz did experiment with the Columbian square bean during the seventies in an attempt to pack more in, unfortunately they tasted like poo.

During today's continued snowy golflessness, I conducted a count on the three tins in stock at Stottle towers - although one had sausage which required a mathematical adjustment far beyond my capacity so I ate em.

Sadly during the count, the phone went and following a further incident when the cat jumped up and some rolled under the fridge, I gave up in favour of waiting for the thaw.

My best guess is 458, within 2 or 3 hundred.

Harry, at a recent job interview , I was asked this question

"If you were a ruminating quadruple which type would you be and why?"

Well I was immediately on my back legs as I began chewing the cud in an attempt to regurgitate an answer, and then stalling for time I remembered the e Royton 'Ask Harry' Topic and thought I could possibly milk a job winning response from your extensive repertoire of Factoids   

Is that the giant family size tin Ejay

oops i am off to count them now 

Last edited by Rebel (16.Jan.10 19:35:54)

Harry, many thanks for your astute and researched response.  I would have never considered the Rhinoceros owing to the fact that is a large, primitive looking mammal that in fact dates from the Miocene era millions of years ago and I thought was a non ruminant. But just thinking about it, on the plus side they have an extended "vocabulary" of growls, grunts, squeaks, snorts and bellows. Additionally, the rhino is prized for its horn. Not a true horn, it is made of thickly matted hair that grows from the skull without skeletal support.

If I am ever asked the Ruminating Quadruple question ever again my reply will be Rhinoceros  ....... yet another 'Ask Harry' success 

Bit of an embarrassing one this     Winking       yep winking  well it all started a few months ago at a bus stop with a toddler in a pram you know,, aww isn't he cute and you give them a wink,, well i  gave a big wink to the toddler who tried to wink back , from there i got on the bus and winked at the driver you know a sort of how are you wink ,   since then its escalated i wink at my work colleagues now all the time  i wink at other car drivers  i wink at people who are walking past me in the street , I go in shops and the first thing i do before paying is give the till girl a big wink ,,, library   its oh you owe £4 80P so what do i do i give them a big wink back and stroll out ,, i have good mood winks ,bad mood winks,  cheeky winks, angry winks ,funny winks, strange who are you looking at winks , i have also started whistling and winking  now  as well ,up to yet i have been slapped twice by women  had a piece of paper with a telephone number on it from Guy who thought i fancied him [ no way] Anyway it all came to a head last night at the table eating our Chinese takeaway and a refused to speak but conversed with winks  and when i get excited i wink like mad plus go cock eyed , i have been to the doctors but we dont see eye to eye ,  Harry  your my last hope what shall i do ?