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When I was a kid my Dad used to joke about the shipyard going on strike and say "I don't have to worry about feeding my family if the paycheck stops I can just send them (pointing to Mama, my sister and I) out to the back pasture to graze - they love dandelion greens and fiddle heads!"
I still eat dandelion greens every spring - they make a great salad! I haven't seen a fiddle head since I left the farm though. Sure were tastey!
Monty it has to do with an unfortunate but timely incident at the gathering where Ultramag made me take pictures of Bud spilling his ribs all over the ground... Then ... THEN Mag silver tongued me into posting them on the site earlier today ... thus the term 'salad ribs' (grass) I am totally innocent here and am having my good standing name dragged about across the ground like I was one of those ribs!
There was a picture somewhere posted of a stack of ribs that aparently hit the deck at the gathering - it appears that somehow the dog was maybe tied to the table? which held the afore mentioned ribs and poor Bud was connected to this misadventure and hazed a bit for it.
I think all is well and we love ya Bud! A bit of teasing won't put a great guy like him down!
Did I ever tell you about the time I had family comming for roast cornish hens and got called into work for and emergency and Jessie was given direction to cook them? Some people don't know they stick the guts back inside the cavity and when you roast livers and gizzards in a hen the whole thing tastes like liver and gizzards! I neglected to mention to empty the cavity first. We eat at a local pizza place that day.
The greatest humorists play on the human foible for their jokes. In other words people screw up.
The people who capitalize on those screw ups are called comedians.
The comedians play on other's foibles and the people targeted feel like victims.
There is no winning in a situation like this.
SO, I would strongly suggest that we all get on with our lives. No sense crying over spilled ribs, no sense feeling victimized by what another person thought was humorous and no sense using this forum to make veiled comments.
This is an outlandish and completely inaccurate account of the Salad Rib incident as it is now being reported on the news. The only thing you may be missing Sir Monty is that PigCicles should be moderated and not allowed to drag my good name through the grass as it would be. I will not stand for these false allegations.
With all due respect, we have nothing to apologize for and there is probably no need to make a mountain of a mole hill. All participants are willing and in good spirits and just trying to share a really funny gathering moment with those who weren't there. If you are truly missing that, my apologies for the bad day you must be experiencing.
Now that I understand the situation I am willing to let it go another way. But please understand I really thought that there was a bit of hostility here and I was cosidering some sort of action.
I want to hear from all of you here that this is all in fun and not a family feud! We cannot have that!
Monty it's all in good fun... and I don't believe Bud is taking it in a bad way... the majority of this has been Ultramag and myself digging at each other... If there is truly a need for appologies I will be the first ... but Ultramag made me do it