KFC takes use-by dates so seriously
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Words cannot describe how wrong that date is.
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11:23 pm
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That said, back before people really started becoming aware of the oncoming Y2K issue, different systems at the credit-card company where I worked used different ways to indicate the condition "expiration date not supplied". Some used 9912, figuring it was at least as late as any year-and-month combo that could ever occur, others used 0000 or 9999.
And one system, for reasons known only to the people who designed it, used 2222.
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@da Doctah said:
And one system, for reasons known only to the people who designed it, used 2222.
Well, 1111 is a valid month/day combination, and 3333 sounds too much like 生生生生 which means "alivealivealivealive" which isn't something you want to see on your food. 2222 is just right.
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@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生 which means "alivealivealivealive" which isn't something you want to see on your food
生 can also be read as "born", which in connection with chicken might serve to distinguish it from eggs.
Another reading is "raw", which is a little too close to home where the Colonel is concerned. (I've had salmonella three or four times in my life, and at least a couple of those were from KFC.)
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If there's any truth in the idea that the tokens in iconographic scripts symbolize the significant, then it means an armada of sail ships, on their way to the west to attack the eternal enemy.
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@oheso said:
@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生
Not in this neck of Tokyo. Maybe in Beijing?
Nor anywhere else in Japan.
And not all that similar in Mandarin (spoken in Beijing)... Cantonese? Looks likely but not familiar with the language.
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@jmap said:
@oheso said:
@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生
Not in this neck of Tokyo. Maybe in Beijing?
Nor anywhere else in Japan.
And not all that similar in Mandarin (spoken in Beijing)... Cantonese? Looks likely but not familiar with the language.
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@Ben L. said:
la .uikipedias.
So in Cantonese, yer sayin'. Whereas the four thing applies in Japanese as well and, I'm told, a variety of Chinese dialects.
Something that Pynchon fucked up in a novel ... He has a (novel) character saying it's the same (Chinese) character, which would just be silly.
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@da Doctah said:
@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生 which means "alivealivealivealive" which isn't something you want to see on your food
生 can also be read as "born", which in connection with chicken might serve to distinguish it from eggs.
Another reading is "raw", which is a little too close to home where the Colonel is concerned. (I've had salmonella three or four times in my life, and at least a couple of those were from KFC.)
...then why did you keep going back?
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@Mason Wheeler said:
Small town, limited choices, didn't initially associate the symptoms with the source, lots of perfectly fine encounters before, between and after the bad ones.@da Doctah said:
(I've had salmonella three or four times in my life, and at least a couple of those were from KFC.)
...then why did you keep going back?
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@oheso said:
@Ben L. said:
3333 sounds too much like 生生生生
Not in this neck of Tokyo. Maybe in Beijing?
My first thought was "I wonder how many necks this person would say Tokyo has."
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@kilroo said:
My first thought was "I wonder how many necks this person would say Tokyo has."
Depends on how you count them.
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@oheso said:
@kilroo said:
My first thought was "I wonder how many necks this person would say Tokyo has."
Depends on how you count them.
I don't know about necks, but it sure has a lot of Chins! bah-dum-tish
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@morbiuswilters said:
@The123king said:
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@El_Heffe said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@The123king said:
Filed under: Lousy Smarch weather
OP, I present you with UNDECIMBER
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