You all remember Lost In Space? It was a silly TV show with the worlds strangest robot. His favorite saying was "Danger, Danger Will Robinson'!
Well I certainly could have used the robots help tonight.
Jan wad made some baked pork steaks and salad. I grabbed the plastic salad dressing bottle (Safeway Select Brand - Blue Cheese), took the cap off, inverted the bottle (as recommended) and gave a squeeze. Not much happened, a couple of little drops dribbled out. At that rate, I reasoned, it would take approximated 57.5 years to get enough dressing for the salad.
My problem was obviously that I was not applying enough squeeze to the bottle. So I gave it a quick shake a little more squeeze. The plastic top came bursting out like the bullet from a snipers rifle, closely followed by a explosion of blue cheese dressing, pork, salad, counter, knives and forks, dish cloth, etc, are all now absolutely covered in the stuff.
I looked at the disaster, and keeping a 'stiff upper lip' remarked to Jan "maybe I should have gone for the BBQ sauce instead". If we lived in Southern California I know that I would have a Million Dollar law suit on my hands, but here in Canada, the best I can do is to send a complaint to the company, and of course I will be including the URL to this article!
2 comments:
I think they used the old 'Robby' robot from "Forbidden Planet" in that show to save a buck on props.
Lost was as bad as Forbidden was good. Too bad that most small screen Sci Fi is just Days of Our Lives with a rocket backdrop.
I like the written genre but not the pale copy seen on the flickering tube.
Here is an interesting one Mr. Guru. My three year old just mashed a few keys at random on my keyboard and increased the type size of everything that shows on the screen. I didn't know that was even possible. Maybe I should send him to MS school.
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