Author Topic: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)  (Read 7033 times)

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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2006, 09:31:51 pm »
...though the one I remember most fondly was when I set a dozen oranges, loose in an untied bag, on the bus floor and they went bowling.  Getting my oranges back to their rightful owner, hand over hand,  became a community project which engrossed every person on that bus, and man was the bus packed.

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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2006, 09:36:20 pm »
Thank you Andrew, for coming to my aid and for saying it more eloquently than I could. Are you littledarlin by any chance?
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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2006, 09:59:20 pm »
I am a little darlin, not the littledarlin.  More of a big one I guess.

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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2006, 10:01:25 pm »
"Big darlin'".  There's something profoundly wrong with that.

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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2006, 10:09:09 pm »
No, not at all. Welcome bigdarlin Andrew!!
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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2006, 08:56:05 am »
So do we have a consensus here that the soup in question was probably dried/dehydrated, in cardboard boxes, and this is what made them hard to pack?

Unlike someone else on this thread (ahem), I, too, was alive in 1963, and the only soup I remember from my early childhood was Campbell's, in cans; thus I was assuming that for some reason the Basque was claiming that it was difficult to pack cans of soup in boxes like the one we see on the side of one of the mules when the bear spooks them and they run off. And it made no sense to me that canned soup would be any more difficult to pack than canned beans.
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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2006, 09:31:26 am »
Are U trying to bring this subject to a conclusion, just when I get to flirting??   :P
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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2006, 11:21:51 am »
Are U trying to bring this subject to a conclusion, just when I get to flirting??   :P

Nope, just askin' if others are understanding this the way I'm understanding it.  :)
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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2006, 06:02:27 pm »
So do we have a consensus here that the soup in question was probably dried/dehydrated, in cardboard boxes, and this is what made them hard to pack?

Nope, I'm in the 'big/heavy cans in thin boxes hard to pack' camp.  ;D

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Re: Them boxes of soup are hard to pack (Was: Don't never order soup)
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2006, 06:46:05 pm »
Nope, I'm in the 'big/heavy cans in thin boxes hard to pack' camp.  ;D

That's precisely why I never believed the Basque. See, I figure they take the heavy cans out of the thin boxes and put them in something like that box on the side of the mule. So what's the big deal about transporting cans of soup compared to cans of beans?  :P I can't believe the cans of beans came in cartons any sturdier than soup would.

Is this starting to sound circular?  ;D
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