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Architect, for what it´s worth.....
Oh yeah, I forgot, right now I am a ringer for Church choirs. They hire me to give a little oomph to the Baritone section for holidays.
I arm wrestle defense lawyers into pleading their clients guilty to crimes their clients didn’t commit. In less than three years, I plan to start arm wrestling prosecutors into dismissing their cases charged against my guilty clients.
AF
I manufacture fruitcakes for the Christmas trade.
No kidding, I used to work at Weston Bakeries in Cobourg Ontario where they make 70% of the fruitcake consumed in North America. We made 132 different brands of fruitcake for all different retailers.
They have this old factory equipped with cast iron streamlined equipment out of the forties. Everything spotlessly clean and painted white but 70 years old. It was great fun.
So in other words, you're turning to the dark side, eh? I've got a few jokes you might enjoy...I arm wrestle defense lawyers into pleading their clients guilty to crimes their clients didn’t commit. In less than three years, I plan to start arm wrestling prosecutors into dismissing their cases charged against my guilty clients.
AF
Private income, do what i want when I want
VM
So in other words, you're turning to the dark side, eh? I've got a few jokes you might enjoy...
I am, indeed. I plan to retire from prosecuting in early 2015. And then I plan to make the (professional) lives of my former co-workers as miserable as I can. The other Senior Assistant has already informed me that she's filing a motion to banish from the district on the day I retire.
Even now, I sometimes sit at the defense counsel table during calendar call. I tell the judges that I'm just practicing...
AF
Oh. My. Goodness. I just had a character for a novel pop into my head after reading this. What a job!
Was it Dave Barry or Johnny Carson who joked that no one knew where Christmas fruitcake came from? There were only 5 of them in America and people kept sending the same ones to each other year after year.
The real story is they smuggle them in from a foreign country (Canada) under cover of darkness. It gets dark early that time of year you know.
Making fruitcakes in that factory was much like making them at home but on a large scale. We used a 10 foot high Hobart mixer with a pot 5 feet in diameter that looked like a giant mixmaster.
O ya make sure your character soaks the raisins in water overnight. Otherwise they suck all the moisture out of the batter and your fruitcake comes out as hard as a brick. This was one process that used to puzzle new hires.
...O ya make sure your character soaks the raisins in water overnight. Otherwise they suck all the moisture out of the batter and your fruitcake comes out as hard as a brick. This was one process that used to puzzle new hires.
Wellllll, if you soak the raisins and other fruit in BOURBON overnight, it all tastes much better