Having said that,
the technology involved in making a baked bean tin that size, and then firing it into space, must have been quite something.
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:08,
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and what happened to the beans?
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thorpe www.voodootrombonequartet.com,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:10,
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I expect
they were sent to Ethiopia and given to the starving people.
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12,
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actually I imagine
that with the bureacracy associated with the UN, there's probably some huge baked bean mountain somewhere.
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thorpe www.voodootrombonequartet.com,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:13,
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they ate them
then used to resultant gases to fuel an ecologically sound propulsion method
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Pootle,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:23,
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Lidl
has them on special - 98,373g tins for 37p, 5 for £1.50
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thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl,
Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12,
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