Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 10:32:39 -0800, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Saturday, 9 November 2019 17:31:41 UTC, Graeme wrote:
I'm not sure why dates are printed on tins. How did we survive before
the dates were printed?



I was reading today about someone who was asked what he'd like in a
Secret Santa gift, and he just said "Something cool".

What he got was a can of Coke, and "Put me in the fridge, and I'll be
cool. And - hint - I'm nearly twice as old as you". He used that clue to
try and find which of the older people in the office had given it - no
luck.

He did drink it - not a Coke fan, normally. Thought it tasted odd but he
wasn't an expert. A colleague saw the empty can and went ballistic: "You
DRANK it?"

Turned out he was the Secret Santa, and his hobby was collecting sealed
old cans of stuff. He'd donated one of his prize cans - an unopened 35
year old can of Coke.

The victim survived with no ill effects.




Reminds me that when I was 19 some 40 plus years ago I got a temporary job
in a brewery and one day they demolished an old disused wooden loading
stage. It seems that over the 90 odd years it existed that when a plank was
damaged it was just replaced but no one bothered to clean out the area
underneath and whatever bottles had gone down through a hole in a damaged
plank was just left there . I retrieved a few of the full bottles whose
labels were in good condition and going by them and the memories of the
older staff some went back to the late thirties though most were from the
early fifties. I took them home and dusted them off and displayed them on a
shelf, moving forward to my 21 st birthday party there became a period
where my memory failed but on waking up the next day the ancient beer
collection had been raided with the now empty bottles lying amongst the
general debris. Most were not quite empty ,there were various snot like
growths still adhering to inside of the bottles.
The chief suspect was not at the pub that evening or the following two
which was very unusual for him, when he did finally appear he mentioned his
absence was down to the biggest bout of having the ****s he had ever in his
life . €œThought I had ****ing Dysentery €œWe asked him if he remembered
drinking the bottles on a shelf rather than the main supply table and on
thinking about he he recollected he may have done as they were closer than
the kitchen .
Anticipating he was going to turn up sometime I had taken the bottle with
the worst snot like growths along,
€œthis probably why you got the ****s €œ. Upon seeing the growths and still
feeling a little delicate he headed for the bog where he threw up.

GH