Check out the awesome spam I got this morning:
Dear Madam or Sir ;We are an importer company in Turkey and looking for sheep intestinal
(catgut).
We Want to buy big quantities of sheep intestinal (catgut).
If you can supply please contact us by e-mail.Best Regards.
Mr.Ferhan Bugay
Istanbul / Turkey
ersahin_gold@mynet.com
Well, it’s their lucky day! I just happen to have a truckload of sheep intestinal (catgut) lying around. But shipping it to Turkey might be difficult…
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How do you think sheep intestinal(catgut) are measured? Ounces? Liters? Pounds? Cubic gallons? Metric tons? Or is it actually measured in the number of sheep it came out of? Like I have 1,564,065 sheep worth of sheep intestinal(catgut)? I actually started this comment as a joke and now I really want to know.
Not to double comment but this reminds me of a great old Lewis Grizzard column where he wrote about a guy who stole 10,000 condoms from Grady hospital. He said it brought all kind of questions in his head. Did he do this on purpose or did he just stumble across them? And is 10,000 condoms large enough to be unwieldy to carry? Did he need a car/truck/railroad car? How much space would you need to store 10,000 condoms? Would you bury them in the back yard? Ok I have now uselessly used up space on someone’s blog today.
…Which reminds me, I have five non-lubricated mint-flavored Lifestyles condoms that so far I have been unable to give away. Who wants ‘em? You can chew them like gum, the minty taste is quite strong!
Oh and after googling it turns out that sheep intestinal(catgut) is a type of suture and apparently is measured in diameter and length..usually metric. I have now wasted enough time at work.
I love that they kept putting catgut, which is apparently what it is better known as. Love that.