04 Aug 08 What’s Your Poison?
I prepared a pasta dish for a dinner party I was giving. In my haste, however, I forgot to refrigerate the spaghetti sauce, and it sat on the counter all day. I was worried about spoilage, but it was too late to cook up another batch.
I called the local Poison Control Center and voiced my concern. They advised me to boil the sauce again.
That night, the phone rang during dinner, and one of my guests volunteered to answer it.
I nearly fainted as my guest called out, “It’s the Poison Control Center. They want to know how the spaghetti sauce turned out.”
Tags: dinner party, haste, pasta dish, poison control center, spaghetti sauce, spoilage
18 Jan 08 Death by Beard
Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it.
One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!
Tags: fire in town, haste, longest beard, steininger
280 | Unique Visitors |
