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[mindmetoo]

[swetepete]

Well, I don't know the guy, but I always liked reading his posts, and was actually thinking 'geez, maybe he really DID get botulism.' I surely hope not. That's some baaaaad little bacteria.
Geez louise. I hope you and he are just pulling our collective leg.

[Are they the lemmings]

I'm beginning to wonder whether or not this might be a rather clever way of killing the JongnoGuru character off, and I'm torn between hoping it is and hoping it isn't. I hope it isn't because JG is by far the best poster on these boards, and I hope it is because the alternative is that JG is really ill.

[mindmetoo]

[SuperFly]

Hey Guru, hope you're ok man. Be a little more careful eh?

[JongnoGuru]

peep!






I've just flown back from Japan -- and, boy, are my arms tired!
Nah.

I've just returned from a-broad -- and boy is my cock tired!
Heh. No.

I've just returned from the Great Beyond to comment on MM2's Nifty Ways to Off Your Dave's Self list. While I've been known to pull a 2) once or twice in R-L, and 6) sounds like heaps of fun, the real reason for my recent temporary disappearance is far more prosaic:

7) Just get yourself stupid busy.

I mean 'busy' in the old-fashioned, pre-Internet, AFK sense of the word. You've got "fun busy" -- busy fixing drinks for self or friends, busy travelling, busy planning or building something, bizy wid wimmin, busy rolling around naked on a pile of newly printed folding money, and yep, busy posting up a storm here on Davey-Dave's.

And then you've got "this-ain't-no-fun-at-alllll busy". Breathless, panicky scampering hither & yon to defuse a series of ticking time-bombs all set to go off at once, expending untold energy and resources, all in an effort to simply maintain stasis. Busy juggling competing work deadlines (which coincide to a *beep*-ing annoying degree with relationship speed-bumps or meltdowns), busy reeling from various Acts of God, to wit, mending roof leaks during the recent downpour and calming the nerves of people who live under them. What else? Ohhhh yeah, and busy with momentary misgivings over a peculiar-tasting pasta sauce.

About that pesto. In case anyone suspects, no, I am not now nor have I ever been a hypochondriac. I've steered well clear of all hard drugs my whole life. But seriously, I'm not a hypochondriac. First, because I don't really know what the word means. Second, because when it comes to food, I'm the most adventurous, thick-stomach-lined person I have the excruciating pleasure of knowing.

So then, why did I make this gasping, scaredy-cat thread? Well, I guess because I was a gasping scaredy-cat when I last posted. Just like with that damn pesto, my two very worst bouts with food poisoning -- even called my parents during one of them, thinking I wouldn't survive, to tell them how much I love them (no BS-ing) -- were both here in Korea, they both involved imported food products, and most disconcerting of all, they both had that unexpectedly sweet taste to them. That's a telltale sign of ptomaine/botulism/porkinosis/etc. right there.

The problem was, I didn't have anyone knowledgable to bounce my concerns off of. The gulflend was here, but she doesn't know what the hell sun-dried tomato pesto should taste like. She tried the pasta first and said "yummy!" Then I tried it and said, "Ewww... This is some funky, sweet-tasting stuff. I wonder if it's gone bad", and then she's all-of-a-sudden going "Ewww! It's gone bad! Tastes strange!" Yeah. Great. Thanks. In the end, we survived and we ate a second plate of it.

I checked back here a few times that night, and nobody answered my questions about the "rightness" of sweet-tasting sun-dried tomatoes. Damn y'all.

MM2 -- I think the chat transcripts will show that you did tell me to eat it. The lid on that jar didn't have any nasty black ring on it, and upon opening it, it gave off that reassuring broken-seal/air-release "pop" sound. So I think this thread title should be, "Sun-dried Tomato Pesto Has a Really Funky Sweet Taste, Doesn't It?"

Thanks for the kind sentiments. And sorry for those who wished I'd bit it. I read some of the latest posts and wonder if I ought to kill JongnoGuru and come back as ToxicPesto.


Say, did they change the ingredients of Canada Dry Tonic Water recently, or am I a goner?

[Guri Guy]

Back from the dead! Was it three days already? Jeebus...

[Woland]

[The Bobster]

Let's all write this down. Sun-dried tomatoes have a sweet taste. If not, there's something wrong somewhere ...

[Juregen]