A Conversation for Passing Out Chilis (UG)
Jeez, Paily
aka Bel - A87832164 Started conversation Jan 25, 2010
I missed this first time around, but read it now. It's brilliant, thanks for sharing. 
Jeez, Paily
Pheroneous II Posted Jan 27, 2010
I too enjoyed this a lot. Original. Amusing.
A minor minor query. The mustard gas was in WW1 and the dustbowl migration in the early thirties. So I am left wondering how the taste for chillies acquired in the thirties helped him react favourably to the gas!! Or am I missing something.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. I was immensly impressed.
Jeez, Paily
pailaway - (an utterly gratuitous link in the evolutionary chain) Posted Jan 27, 2010
Thanks, both of you 
In answer to your question, prolonged exposure to chili peppers hardens your insides until they're like cast iron - and outsides too - so by the time he was eighteen it would have taken sulfuric acid to etch him at all. 
Jeez, Paily
Pheroneous II Posted Jan 27, 2010
I suppose I should read things carefully before commenting! I saw "mustard gas" and assumed WW!, but now I see you wrote WW2 which, therefore, makes perfect sense.
Anyway, thanks again.Its coming across pieces like this that makes h2g2 worthwhile.
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