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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Started conversation Feb 6, 2006
Either I've been ill or my chip-pan anecdote was opaque.
One couldn't possibly be known as the type of person who owns a chip pan. A deep-fat fryer is *far* more sophisticated.
It's the way I tell them.
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Recumbentman Posted Feb 7, 2006
Yes, obtuse of me, the point didn't register till a good twenty minutes after I so rudely questioned the joke. Apologies.
To me chip pan and deep fat fryer are equally repulsive notions. The idea of a newspaper actually printing an apology for what was essentially a true report is quite weird.
I was thinking along the lines of a monastery with a chip monk and a deep, fat friar. Had heard some joke about them once.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Feb 7, 2006
No offence taken. This medium lacks the immediate intrapersonal feedback that lessens such gaps in comprehension.
Although I grew up on chips, I refuse to have a chip pan or deep fat fryer in my home. It's not snobbery, though. I have a weakness for fried food and am fat enough already. However, I do occasionally get out a wok and indulge in a pakora frenzy.
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