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    The specified comment does not exist.

  • Steeve (unregistered)

    Doesn't the recipe say that you need to spice shrimps for four minutes?

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    AdT:
    Anonymous:
    Tino:
    I've got it!

    10-7=4

    Ummmm... Yea, enough said. Note to self: check work with calculator before posting.

    Note to self: check work with irony meter before posting.

    Note to self: look up irony before misusing the word like the rest of the world

    Note to self: The specified file does not exist.

  • Motti (unregistered)

    You miss the point, it takes -13 minutes to eat the shrimp.

  • CAR912 (unregistered)

    Too bad it wasn't a 3 Minute Meal.

  • Some Wonk (unregistered)

    Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 5-Minute Shrimp? Ted: Yeah, sure, 5-Minute Shrimp. Yeah, the meal. Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 4... Minute... shrimp. Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going. Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a grocery store, you see 5-Minute Shrimp sittin' there, there's 4-Minute Shrimp right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man? Ted: I would go for the 4. Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 4-Minute Shrimp. And we guarantee just as good a meal as the 5-Minute folk. Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that? Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 4 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B". Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 3-Minute Shrimp. Then you're in trouble, huh? [Hitchhiker convulses] Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 3! I said 4. Nobody's comin' up with 3. Who cooks in 3 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted: That - good point. Hitchhiker: 4's the key number here. Think about it. 4 doors. 4, man, that's the number. 4 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted: Why? Hitchhiker: 'Cause you're fuckin' fired!

  • modo (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    AdT:
    Anonymous:
    Tino:
    I've got it!

    10-7=4

    Ummmm... Yea, enough said. Note to self: check work with calculator before posting.

    Note to self: check work with irony meter before posting.

    Note to self: look up irony before misusing the word like the rest of the world

    An irony meter is the latest must-have labour-saving device for house work. It prevents over-ironed table-cloths (for the wooden table).

  • Logie (unregistered) in reply to mortah
    mortah:
    IT Girl:
    AdT:
    Anonymous:
    Tino:
    I've got it!

    10-7=4

    Ummmm... Yea, enough said. Note to self: check work with calculator before posting.

    Note to self: check work with irony meter before posting.

    Note to self: look up irony before misusing the word like the rest of the world

    Note to self: look up how to look up look up tooling before reinventing the wheel as I wouldn't want to look silly by looking up how to look up look up tooling when someone else has already done this. They've possibly done it by dividing by 1,000.

    Note to self: stop reading comments on TDWTF. Too many Dickheads.....

  • Phrasal verbs are more than one word (unregistered)
    "I checked the sign for delays and, as I thought, the bus timed out."
    Fixed that for you.
  • binford2k (unregistered)

    How did you manage to get the timeout on linuxlinks that high? I reloaded as fast as humanly possible for at least two minutes and I barely got it to 200 seconds. You must have a lot of free time.

  • wesley0042 (unregistered)

    Vinny Gambini: So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you 4 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit eating world 7 minutes? Mr. Tipton: I don't know, I'm a fast cook I guess. Vinny Gambini: I'm sorry I was all the way over here and I couldn't hear you. Did you say you were a fast cook, that's it? Mr. Tipton: Yeah. Vinny Gambini: Are we to believe that boiling water cooks a shrimp faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth? Mr. Tipton: I don't know. Vinny Gambini: Well, I guess the laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove!

  • wesley0042 (unregistered) in reply to wesley0042
    wesley0042:
    Vinny Gambini: So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you 4 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit eating world 7 minutes? Mr. Tipton: I don't know, I'm a fast cook I guess. Vinny Gambini: I'm sorry I was all the way over here and I couldn't hear you. Did you say you were a fast cook, that's it? Mr. Tipton: Yeah. Vinny Gambini: Are we to believe that boiling water cooks a shrimp faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth? Mr. Tipton: I don't know. Vinny Gambini: Well, I guess the laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove!

    Well, ruined that one. Stupid search and replace.

  • Stefan (unregistered)

    It feels like 7-10 minutes for the shrimps but for you its really 4 minutes. This is a question about relativity. Time to wait vs hunger vs timespace consciousness when being cooked.

  • (cs) in reply to Stefan
    Stefan:
    It feels like 7-10 minutes for the shrimps but for you its really 4 minutes. This is a question about relativity. Time to wait vs hunger vs timespace consciousness when being cooked.
    If you sit on the skillet for a moment, it feels like an hour. On the other hand, if you are kissed by a pretty girl whilst cooking, you are likely to burn the shrimp. That's relativity.

    I'm curious to know why the Ingredients says 'shellfish' not 'shrimp' - maybe so they can substitute some other kind of shellfish for the shrimp and get away with it?

  • 匿名 (unregistered) in reply to PseudoBovine
    PseudoBovine:
    Can anyone who reads Hong-Kong-ian translate what is written above "Test in Progress"? Is it accurately translated, or is this another automated translation error WTF?
    Yeah it means "Test in Progress." I'm wondering about the other part of that sign: "I love you, everyone who keeps the airport clean."
  • anon (unregistered)

    manchester is the centre of the earth....or the m60 ring road......i always get those two mixed up.

  • (cs) in reply to wesley0042
    wesley0042:
    Well, ruined that one. Stupid search and replace.
    That's why you ought to register. Gives you a chance to edit after submission if you spot a stupid error. Or to not look, leave it too long, and then at least append your bitching to the item rather than submitting a new one…
  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    manchester is the centre of the earth....or the m60 ring road......i always get those two mixed up.
    Oh, that's an easy one - cars MOVE on the Earth (budum tish! I'm here 'til Tuesday, try the Elephant...)
  • Piercy (unregistered)

    hmm, i find it rather amusing they named it G.E.S, well ignoring its an abbreviation gives you ges (which i pronounce guess).

    brilliant abbreviation :)

  • John Doe (unregistered)

    Here's a wtf i got today in my inbox. Blacked out part of it to hide my nick. http://i38.tinypic.com/23h3ds9.png

  • Bernie (unregistered)

    4 minutes? Must be a problem in the conversion between Metric units and whatever the hell us Americans use.

  • Bernie (unregistered)

    I finally figured it out:

    10 minutes of prep + 7 minutes of cooking + 4 minutes in the recipe name = 21 minutes. According to this at the Food Network, the recipe is part of a show called 30 Minute Meals. So, 30 - 21 leaves 9 minutes for commercials.
  • SpamBot (unregistered) in reply to TarquinWJ
    TarquinWJ:
    Perhaps they mean "minute shrimp" ("my-newt", meaning "small") as opposed to "minute shrimp" ("minnit", meaning 60 seconds). Still doesn't explain where the extra 3 mins difference between preparation and cooking time went.

    You obviously don't read enough recipe books (not that you should). This is a common convention: preparation time is all the stuff you do before you put things on the stove or in the oven, cooking time is how long you have to sit down and have a drink while it cooks.

  • Comfortably Numb (unregistered)

    A little late with this, but it is a simple rounding problem:

    Prep Time: 3.5 mintues (Displayed as 4 minutes) Cook Time: 6.5 mintues (Displayed as 7 minutes) Total Time: 3.5 + 6.5 = 10 minutes.

  • IanCal (unregistered)

    Just like I've been getting screwed on my minute steak: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/minute+steak.

    Seriously, TDWTF, so some basic research. The numbers thing then this? C'mon, have you run out of bad code?

  • quintopia (unregistered)

    8bitpeoples. . .nice. bitshifter is fun stuff.

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