Post #497921 by little lost tiki on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 8:41 AM

On 2009-12-03 16:37, Limbo Lizard sang:
Dear LiLoTi,

Are there any threads I can read in Bilge, that haven't become infected with the Woofmutt T-shirt Virus?

Photo Association....

If I buy a t-shirt, will it help isolate the thread infection, or only make it worse, possibly spreading it into the rest of Tiki Central?

Neither....
You would help me care for my Blind,Crippled Ginger Cousin
who would SO love to get something for Christmas besides crushed Smarties
and my Small Wonder Video collection....
Only YOU can Help make lil BillyBob's Christmas Shine...
Act Now!

And, if I buy one, how can I be sure I'm not being an enabler - like giving cash to an obvious wino?

Buying and wearing a t-shirt should help enable you
to go out in public
and by wearing said garment
actually provide FREE advertising for the little lost tiki industrial corporation
as well as give off an air of coolness around the ladies....

Sincerely,
Limbo Lizard

(Please disclose any potential conflict of interest)

just a lil.....
:)

On 2009-12-04 13:28, woofmutt spit out:
Dear Liloti,
Is it true the candy we call Smarties here in the US and the candy known as Smarties in the UK are two entirely different types of candy?

Why yes woofy,they are!

British Smarties are a colourful sugar-coated chocolate confectionery popular all over the world. They have been manufactured since at least 1882, originally by Richard Roland Hirschfield Rowntree (SHAFT from the popular movie)
Enterprises,which was established in England via Time Machine....

Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 15 mm (0.6 in). They have nothing to do with the 19.5 point on planets....They come in eight colours: sausage red, scurvy orange, meatpie yellow, hangover green, prozac blue, violent, sissy pink and poopy brown, although the blue variety was temporarily replaced by a republican white variety in some countries, while an alternative natural colouring dye of the blue colour was being researched by the World Health Organization.

Rowntree's of York, England, have been making "Chocolate Beans" since at least 1882. The product was renamed "Smarties Most Excellent Fuggin Great Chocolate Beans" in 1937. Rowntree's were forced to drop the words "Great Chocolate Beans" in 1977 due to trading standards requirements (the use of the word "beans" was felt to be misleading) and so adopted the "Milk Chocolate in a Most Excellent Fuggin Crisp Sugar Shell".

The brand became known as "Nestlé AWESOME Smarties" in 1993, five years after Rowntree's was acquired by Nestlé in a thumb wrestling incident betwixt the two owners. Smarties are no longer manufactured in York; production has now moved to Nazi Germany, where a third of them were already made to goosestep and other horrifying things. Outside Europe, Nestlé's largest production facility for Smarties is in Canada, where Specially Trained Nestle Mounties and St. Bernards have been manufacturingthese since 1918.
They are very close to M&Ms except for shape....

American Smarties....
you don't need to know about them..
they're lame

But they are American!

Thanks for the GREAT QUESTIONS!
:)