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  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    How about this

    Why use a knife to cut a piece of bread when you can buy a gadget to do it for you.

    I'm one of those people who buys the frozen chopped onions. I use them so infrequently that it's cheaper than throwing them out cause the 2/3 you put in the fridge has gone all yucky. Having said that. I've switched to shallots A whole one is cheaper than a whole onion with no waste.

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Love that!!!!
    Perfect-Soldiers™


    Left right, left right.
    Turning out up to 8 uniform soldiers takes no more than pressing this template onto a slice of bread, before popping it into the toaster. Quick, safe, easy to use, and with no waste (even the crusts become 'yolk bayontes'!), this is the perfect way to start your day

    Okay, how about this for my own marketing idea ....

    "Queenie's Perfect L'il Men"
    Left right, left right.
    Turning out up to 8 perfect little dunkables takes no more than a sharp knife and a keen eye. Quick, (easy soldier! :naughty: ) safe and with no waste-not-want-not (even crusts become 'yolk thrusters'!), this is the purrfect way to start your day! Send a S.A.E. and a slice of bread to Queenie Perfect Men Land and your eggceptionally perfect dunkables will be send return post :D:D:D:D

    Hmm, reckon I could Ebay that??? :think:

    But, let's be fair, it doesn't just run to food; there are so many things on the open market which, for those who can (and do!) really are nothing more than a convenience gimmick :o
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  • gerretl
    gerretl Posts: 427 Forumite
    Queenie wrote:
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Love that!!!!

    Okay, how about this for my own marketing idea ....

    "Queenie's Perfect L'il Men"
    Left right, left right.
    Turning out up to 8 perfect little dunkables takes no more than a sharp knife and a keen eye. Quick, (easy soldier! :naughty: ) safe and with no waste-not-want-not (even crusts become 'yolk thrusters'!), this is the purrfect way to start your day! Send a S.A.E. and a slice of bread to Queenie Perfect Men Land and your eggceptionally perfect dunkables will be send return post :D:D:D:D

    Hmm, reckon I could Ebay that??? :think:

    But, let's be fair, it doesn't just run to food; there are so many things on the open market which, for those who can (and do!) really are nothing more than a convenience gimmick :o
    Are you being smutty?
    Anyway what do they mean 'safe'? The only dangerous soldiers I know are ones with guns who have a thousand yard stare.
    "Don't critisise what people look like, how they speak, where they are from, and what they are called. They cannot help it.
    Do critisise what they say, and what they do, especially if what they say is different to what they do. They can help that"

    Anon

    "Life is the three weeks and six days between paydays" - gerretl

    £2 savers club =£42
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    gerretl wrote:
    Are you being smutty? ....

    :think: .... erm ... :think: .... hmmm .... :think: ..... gosh, that's a toughie!! :confused: Ask me one on Sport? :o
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  • gerretl wrote:
    Did you invent the gadget? If so, why? Can you not see the knife has been succesfully used since cavemen times.

    I didn't ;) Although if I did I think I might be too embaressed to tell anyone.
    Queenie wrote:
    (even crusts become 'yolk thrusters'!)

    It's possible that I may never eat another boiled egg without smirking :p
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    ...
    It's possible that I may never eat another boiled egg without smirking :p

    ;):D:D:D :whistle: :shhh: :silenced:
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  • gerretl
    gerretl Posts: 427 Forumite
    Queenie wrote:
    :think: .... erm ... :think: .... hmmm .... :think: ..... gosh, that's a toughie!! :confused: Ask me one on Sport? :o
    OK Queenie, I'm a bloke. we don't get subtle innuendo.
    "Don't critisise what people look like, how they speak, where they are from, and what they are called. They cannot help it.
    Do critisise what they say, and what they do, especially if what they say is different to what they do. They can help that"

    Anon

    "Life is the three weeks and six days between paydays" - gerretl

    £2 savers club =£42
  • Lurleene
    Lurleene Posts: 1,108 Forumite
    I too find that catalogue a source of endless amusement. This is my own current favourite:- http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!11228 :rotfl:

    I have got myself into trouble before though by asking my MIL why anyone would be desperate for a mango pitter. Apparently she uses one every morning. It seems for every seemingly absurd invention there is someone out there feeling that their prayers have been answered!
  • Lurleene wrote:
    I too find that catalogue a source of endless amusement. This is my own current favourite:- http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!11228 :rotfl:

    :rotfl: Good work! I can't choose between them!
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,639 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Lurleene wrote:
    I too find that catalogue a source of endless amusement. This is my own current favourite:- http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!11228 :rotfl:

    I have got myself into trouble before though by asking my MIL why anyone would be desperate for a mango pitter. Apparently she uses one every morning. It seems for every seemingly absurd invention there is someone out there feeling that their prayers have been answered!

    I am almost scared to post this but I will.......

    I'd never heard of a mango splitter but now that I have, I would almost be prepared to give my eye teeth for one! :o I just CAN'T get to grips with mangoes! My daughter can, my stepmother can.......it seems like everyone but me can.

    This would be well worth the money in my house to stop the torrent of expletives and the trail of mango bits all over the kitchen. The children now know better than to ask me for a mango smoothie. :o

    Pink
  • mrs_mix
    mrs_mix Posts: 1,800 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you

    I am one of the English sexy Shelias
    I'm also a hussy
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