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* Funny choice of words.lar3ryca
+- Re: Funny choice of words.HenHanna
`* Re: Funny choice of words.Bertel Lund Hansen
 `- Re: Funny choice of words.Athel Cornish-Bowden

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 by: lar3ryca - Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:43 UTC

I've been chuckling about this most of the day.

On the local TV news, they were talking about a retired fellow that is
volunteering for a charity that provides 'used food for people in need".

--
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

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 by: HenHanna - Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:15 UTC

lar3ryca wrote:

> I've been chuckling about this most of the day.
>
> On the local TV news, they were talking about a retired fellow that is
> volunteering for a charity that provides 'used food for people in need".

-------------- is that in the USA?


i've noticed that here (in the USA) little notations on Food-items
tend to use : [Use by ...] because other verbs (like Consume...) may be too difficult




>>> In times of famine, carob was a used food for people, although, as with the consumption of many wild plants, it was considered food for the poor and consumed ...

---------------------- odd use of the word [used] ???

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 by: Bertel Lund Hansen - Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:16 UTC

lar3ryca wrote:

> I've been chuckling about this most of the day.
>
> On the local TV news, they were talking about a retired fellow that is
> volunteering for a charity that provides 'used food for people in need".

A Danish company that runs truch to suck up toilet waste - typically
working on festivals - has this slogan painted on their trucks
(translated):

Used beer

--
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark

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 by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:13 UTC

On 2024-04-20 05:16:43 +0000, Bertel Lund Hansen said:

> lar3ryca wrote:
>
>> I've been chuckling about this most of the day.
>>
>> On the local TV news, they were talking about a retired fellow that is
>> volunteering for a charity that provides 'used food for people in need".
>
> A Danish company that runs truch to suck up toilet waste - typically
> working on festivals - has this slogan painted on their trucks
> (translated):
>
> Used beer

A graffito one can see (or could, anyway) in some British pubs is: They
don't sell beer here; they just rent it.

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

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