4th January
I went to yesterday's market and bought celebrational food. Later, when we were in the bar, The Director asked me what I'd bought:
Me: Oh loads of things ... oysters...
TD: How many oysters did you buy?
Me: I can't remember
TD: Did it feel as though you were carrying one cat in the bag or two?
Me: Just the one
TD: You've only got a dozen then
Friday Poem
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King of the River If the water were clear enough, if the water were still,
but the water is not clear, the water is not still, you would see yourself,
slip...
2 hours ago
The Director is clearly a man who has not only eaten oysters, but also toted them. I can't recall carrying either oysters or cats; I suppose I'd have to use cairn terriers as my chosen units. That probably rules out shellfish on quantitative grounds.
ReplyDeleteI also get confused sometimes on the imperial-metric conversions.
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ReplyDeleteThe Director has clearly mastered oyster-cat conversion.
This is also a good weigh, ah way, to measure cats. Have know more than a couple of two and even three dozen oyster cats.
ReplyDeleteBT - When having a dinner party I would order cairn terrier's weight of oysters.
ReplyDeleteXl - My incapacity with figures is astonishing and embarrasses me greatly
Jacob - see - brilliant system works both weighs
let' see...one cairn terrier would be about 3 dozen oysters, wouldn't you say? maybe 2 and a half?
ReplyDeletelet me know when you get a 5-carin-terriers weight of oysters - i prefer mine roasted....
I suggest you get those two feral cats out of your pigeonnerie (did I spell that right), get them into some sacks and test this out. Congratulations on being spared the Lovely House.
ReplyDeleteDeb - Now you're talking, I've never had roasted oysters but I bet they're good, lets go get a HORSE of oysters
ReplyDeleteKSV - my cats in sacks hahaha... I got a little too close to Julie last week and have bloody scars to remind me.
I wonder how many oysters to a Bernese Mountain Dog?
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably need to invite the entire village.
haha... that's pretty funny
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