Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Monday Night Dinner? 6/02/2025 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:46:29 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: <101ta8p$1r7hj$1@dont-email.me> References: <58a79d2f2f80134f03162fd5c93f37f9@www.novabbs.org> <101mg1m$3u1fv$2@dont-email.me> <2f1a59ce6e65f5bf74a24c7a2805c5b7@www.novabbs.org> <101nq7h$9erd$1@dont-email.me> <0f812366b027494b6b97f46ecb64b69d@www.novabbs.org> <101oa13$dbqk$1@dont-email.me> <101p2c8$nq00$1@dont-email.me> <29d8d6f238ef0a22b1d6510ce6fabbe3@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36d9c44ebfffc94a19d685aec070ba3b"; logging-data="1941043"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mvZZNK+mnqFgivbOPDCuBQ85ycEJdSjk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1BSdrj3F70gjYlhO2x2GwcckvNU= In-Reply-To: <29d8d6f238ef0a22b1d6510ce6fabbe3@www.novabbs.org> ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote on 6/5/2025 3:26 PM: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:49:47 +0000, Janet wrote: > >> In article , >> leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net says... >>> >>> If only we didn't stink after we die. Either the neighbors smell you or >>> the buzzards find you. There ought'a be a law, so we can RIP! >> >>   Depends on the time of year. >> >>   Many winters ago , MIL  (120 miles away) phoned us to >> say  "get over to the grandparents PDQ, somethings wrong. >> Their neighbour rang to say they haven't been seen lately >> and don't answer the door or the phone. >> >>  Grandfather was 90, completely blind, sharp as a tack and >> completely ran the show, managing Gran who had dementia. >> >> We went over straight away, about 40 miles. >> >>   After some persuasion Gran remembered who John was and >> let us in. She said her husband was in bed fast asleep. >> He'd had flu, lost his appetite and wasn't eating, so she >> was just letting him rest. >> >>    Upstairs, we found Grandad in bed, blankets to his >> chin, very dead. Not looking good, but no smell, bedroom >> freezing. On the floor beside the bed, were congealed >> plates of untouched dinners. >> >> He'd been dead a week. She didnt realise what had happened >> so every night she had continued sleeping in the same bed >> with his corpse,and making their meals. >> >> >>      Janet >> >> > The duplex I lived in before I bought this house had > a full basement with concrete floors.  It was February > and the fellow who had the other side and access to > the basement shot himself.  His dad and I didn't find > him for two weeks and there was no smell.  Yes, I had > been living upstairs in the other side the whole time > he was dead in the basement. Tragedy seems to follow your Majesty, much like Julie Bovine.