Do you know where the largest concentration of fresh pork meat in the world is?

Jo - I think if we put our minds to it we can corner the world market.

oops..... doorbell....

This is a guess, but in Arabia?

Not Saudi Arabia. In the Persian Gulf along side the Saudi-Bahrain causeway right beside the Saudi customs checkpoint.

LOL

Unlike Saudi, is pork allowed in the Persian Gulf? And if not, what is its main use if not for human eatable consumption?

And how many pigs we talking anyway?

Pork is not technically allowed in any Muslim country but there must be an animal called a burrowing pig because we have underground pork in some of the more liberal states such as Bahrain, Dubai, Oman (in Muscat only and only at one outlet) and....well....that's about it I guess. So more adventerous people drive to Bahrain and try to smuggle it back to Saudi Arabia. Some don't get caught. Some do. Those who get caught have their pork tossed over the side into the water to get rid of it as quickly as possible. Now what I guess they haven't thought about is that fish will eat that pork and then they eat the fish - which would still be a sin.

LOL! I couldn't figure out why the pork was in the Gulf. I tried to post a succinct, "Why there?" but didn't get it posted. Now I know!

Sorry to interrupt the stimulating pork conversation. At least you're not craving Domino's Pizza, Pio.

Volunteering is a fabulous thing and I'm not against it and do it myself. My question was about those people who will volunteer for everything involving children in an effort to not spend time with their own. As an example, there is a woman in town with five children, maybe not all brats but all fairly high strung and demanding. She is at every event, on many committees, basically front and center for every effort on behalf on kids. At one choral event I pull up to the school to do my bit for volunteering and her youngest is climbing all over the school, looking in windows, shrieking trying to draw attention to himself, while she is blissfully unaware inside selling cupcakes. The people who use volunteering as a way to get away from home and their children yet look involved are the ones I speak of here. Surely you wife is nothing like that.

I wonder if the starving people of the region go diving at night for pork products.

No WW is not like that. More often than not she will volunteer for events that involve the DDs. For example, she will be homeroom mom for one or both. She will assist on field trips for their classes. I can't imagine her ever volunteering for something for children that did not involve one of the DDs. I do know what you are talking about though. I have seen parents like that too.

We also have examples here of people that join EVERYTHING. One family, for example, does soccer, girl scouts, art class, balet, piano, swimming, softball, gymnastics and possibly ice hockey and they volunteer in the school. Their kids are a real mess. So are the parents.

What pork we can get in the region costs about $10/lb. Some smart marine salvage company could make a fortune - probably more than those Spanish coins recently recovered - and nobody claiming ownership!

Why is it that all mods have screen names that make them sound like X-men? Except Magnolia. "Magnolia" doesn't intimidate anybody.

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I'm thinking of changing my screen name to limp_noodle. If I could figure out how to do a poll, I would.

Better new screen name is "STRONG LIKE BULL"

How's that rubber band?

Oddly enough, I sent WW an email yesterday telling her how much I really missed her and how I wished I could be with her. For some unexplained reason, that seems to have snapped me out of my depression.

On a different subject, I have a new theory. I ride my motorcycle to work every morning and I notice that it is always a little coolish feeling when I leave the house and ride through my neighborhood. But then when I turn the corner and ride up the golf course road, it is noticeably hotter - probably 10 degrees hotter. This happens every single day. Then it occurred to me. In my neighborhood, there is a lot of grass and trees. It is very green. On the other hand, the golf course road is where the desert begins. So I have decided that the reason that the desert is so hot is because the Arabs never planted any grass or trees. So it is their own fault that the desert is so hot.

Too funny. Some friends of mine lived on Montserrat prior to the volcano exploding and destroying the island. On their first trip back to the States they loaded 2 huge grocery bags full of McDonalds and held them in their laps on the flight back home. I guess goat burgers weren't quite doing it for them, cravingwise.

I tried calling Pizza Hut. At first they told me that, according to their caller ID, Saudi Arabia wasn't in their delivery area. Then when I explained that I wanted the pizza delivered to the Hertz pickup lot in IAH, they rather impolitely told me they don't take phone orders three weeks in advance.

The other thing I will have to do is stop at Walmart on the way to my sister's house and get a fresh loaf of Pan Bimbo. If you've ever had Pan Bimbo, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Nothing like it in the world.

Of course, with all those carbs, I'll likely need to run a marathon.

They probably needed more time.

You should have been more flexible and worked with their need for a longer notice.

That's why you're going to end up having to settle on that Pan Bambi thing.

What kind of person eats deer pizza?

Who on earth would disrespect Pan Bimbo?

Pan Bimbo - con el cariño de siempre.

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Pan Bimbo - does that come with two rather large tomatoes on it?