Japan is a butter free zone ...

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 22 Apr 2008, 21:54

Japan is a market pioneer again: the first industrialised nation with no butter

A good example of unexpected systems failure. A rich country such as Japan RUNNING OUT OF BUTTER

Weird - but indicative of oddities we might expect in the future.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 746900.ece

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 23 Apr 2008, 09:50

'tis no bad thing.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 23 Apr 2008, 09:52

Last Tango In Pallis - postponed.

Post by **mikepepler** » 27 Jun 2008, 08:00

Slipped in the middle of a story about stock market plunges...

Yesterday, Japan was forced to secure emergency butter shipments as the rocketing price of feed and resulting drop in milk production has left the country?s supermarkets with sudden shortages of a basic foodstuff.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 223342.ece

oilslick · Post by **oilslick** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:08

I heard on the news the country is utterly butterless.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:14

Lots of scope for my new butter substitute product:

"I Can't Believe It's Butter - NOT"

oilslick · Post by **oilslick** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:17

I really hope this problem doesn't spread.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:41

oilslick · Post by **oilslick** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:45

One from google

A patient says: "Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: 'Could you please pass the butter.' But instead I said: 'You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life'."

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 27 Jun 2008, 09:47

I'm so glad it's Friday . . .

Adam1 · Post by **Adam1** » 27 Jun 2008, 10:39

Good systems resilience article Vortex. I think that the comments after it are going down a slippery slope though.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 27 Jun 2008, 10:44

Adam1 wrote:Good systems resilience article Vortex. I think that the comments after it are going down a slippery slope though.

Don't try to butter me up! Very greasy of you! And your lardy-dah accent won't help. Oily git. Oh I see, even 'tho it's early in the day, you are already well lubricated!

Adam1 · Post by **Adam1** » 27 Jun 2008, 10:49

Vortex wrote:
Adam1 wrote:Good systems resilience article Vortex. I think that the comments after it are going down a slippery slope though.
Don't try to butter me up! Very greasy of you! And your lardy-dah accent won't help. Oily git. Oh I see, even 'tho it's early in the day, you are already well lubricated!

I was going to make a joke about buttering you up but I thought I'd feed the line to you.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 27 Jun 2008, 11:21

Pull the udder one...

GAZ · Post by **GAZ** » 27 Jun 2008, 11:43

....it's got cow bells on.