Have a body to get rid of?

[karohemd]

Come down to St. Andrew's Road, they're pouring the foundations for another apartment building. This is your chance!
*watches and waits for a builder to get buried*

Comments

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I prefer to cook and eat my victims. It's more eco-friendly, and nutritious too! >;D

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

Tastes like chicken! I'm a vegetarian, so it wouldn't do for me. Still, the local zoo probably needs lion food or summat. Definitely eco-friendly. Kill an enemy, save a horse or whatever they're feeding lions these days.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I myself will eat most things, except seafood, tripe, or brussel sprouts.

whatever they're feeding lions these days.

I think they should feed stupid people to the lions! :D

It would make the lions happy and the World can certainly afford to lose a few stupid people.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to have to lock this post soon...

Seafood, tripe (when fresh) and brussel sprouts (when cooked properly, i.e. not boiled for three hours) are lovely. Ignorant fool! ;oÞ

The question is, where do you draw the line?

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Seafood, tripe (when fresh) and brussel sprouts (when cooked properly, i.e. not boiled for three hours) are lovely.

You're welcome to my portions then! Blleeeeeurch! :P

The question is, where do you draw the line?

You mean, when deciding who gets to be lion-food?

Hmm, I'm a pretty good judge of character, so I reckon if I get to spend about five minutes with everyone, I'll know who we need to hang on to and who should be fed to the lions! LOL

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

Brussel sprouts = teh yummeh when cooked properly. I agree with karohemd on that one. I don't eat tripe, so I'll pass on comment. Seafood? The only meat I eat is fish with fins and scales. Grill up a nice piece of salmon to where it's JUST cooked through, add a splash of garlic-infused olive oil with dill and capers and I'm a happy camper.

The whole feed one's enemies to the lions does have a whiff of the Colosseum to it, one must admit. Oh, first it will be Dick Cheney and no one will mind, but then you'll move on to grey areas and where will it stop? The masses will want their bread and circuses. . .

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You mean like this?
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/karohemd/432725588/)

Lots of garlic, but no dill or capers.

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

Looks good to me! Next time, add some dill. ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Yes, mum. :o)
I tend to use what I've got at hand.
Hm, maybe I should really look into getting a window box but it'd die on me, I'm sure.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Yum! :)

Yes, sorry, I was excluding fish from the seafood category, which is about as sensible as most of the other things I do...

I'm not a huge salmon fan though, I'd have to say, I prefer some nice trout, preferrably caught locally up North somewhere.

Having said that, I remember having a lovely hoki dish on Malta too, which was bloody delicious! :)

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was being daft when I said seafood. I love fish! But in my twisted brain I don't count fish as seafood! Even though that's where most of them live...*ahem*

No, when I say seafood I'm really referring to the invertebrates. Mussels, oysters, octopi and squid. All the squishy stuff.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Seafood and fish are separate categories for me, too. Fish is fish and seafood is mussels, prawns etc. etc.

[kcontheroad.livejournal.com]

How interesting! I love learning about words and their usage. Seeing you both have the same interpretation, I went to my usual source -- the OED. Specifically, askoxford.com. Their reply hardly cleared the matter up:

seafood

• noun shellfish and sea fish served as food.

Seems to me that it covers both the ecto- and endo-skeletal, but perhaps usage these days is on the move to separate them in England and one day the OED will reflect that. As you both have the same interpretation, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

/didactic rant

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hm, Wikipedia seems to include seafish, too.

As I said "for me". Also, most menus and cookbooks will have fish and seafood as separate categories. The German analogy, Meeresfrüchte (literally, sea fruit), also refers to non-fish things coming from the sea.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thinking about it I'd assume the term refers to all food that comes out of the sea.

But for some reason, when I hear the term "seafood" I only think about all the non-fish stuff!

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmm sprouts.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Sprouts are like cabbages that have all the inate goodness of the cabbage sucked out and only this sour, shrivelled, nasty, bitter little lump remains! They're evil dwarf cabbages! LOL

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

There's a detective story I read many years ago - won't give the title since it's a bit of a spoiler - in which a plot of this sort is undone by... wait for it... the builders' quantity surveyor, who wants to know why they didn't use all of the premixed concrete they'd paid for, and, having heard that someone has gone missing, works out from when the surplus appeared where the body must be buried.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Sounds a bit implausible. The average human body has a volume of what, a cubic meter at most? The concrete would have to been measured very precisely and I doubt builders would only order exactly as much premix as they need.

Had he measured the density or structural integrity of the floor/wall/whereever and found a huge fault, that would have explained the body a lot better.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

when they did our floor out the back they worked out exactly how much they needed and ordered it with a bit of leeway. Unfortunatley they got the calculations wrong and so were short (mainly as we had a deepr base than they were used to so they did in on square footage or something)

But I agree on a big job they would have a lot more leeway than a square meter of concrete.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

As I recall, it was a relatively small part of a big job, something like filling in the void under some steps (it was a long time ago and I've forgotten the details) so only a few meters of ready-mixed were needed. It wasn't when they were pouring the main foundations.

Re big jobs, it's alleged that there's quite a few bodies in the M1 - the London mobs of the era found it VERY useful. Mostly in the foundations of bridges, flyovers, etc.