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Another Meal ticket but without the wine

I had been hoping to have a guest joining me on today’s EAT MY LUNCH show to talk about wine, but presumably having found out that Michelle was away again, I was abandoned! Big shame as I had hoped to imbibe a few glasses.

Undaunted however we ploughed on with a few oddball stories.

Can you imagine being able to pay someone else to do your job and still draw the vast majority of your salary? Well that’s just what a computer programmer in the USA was able to do. Reportedly he outsourced his job to a Chinese company by paying them a fifth of his six figure salary so that he could spend his working days surfing the net. Even more astonishing was that since doing this he had received excellent reports from his employers.

Then we heard about the family of a fan of fast food who arranged for his funeral cortege to make a stop at a drive-in Burger restaurant. The mourners all received a Whopper Junior meal whilst the deceased was also given a final portion of his favourite Whopper meal which was placed on top of his coffin at the cemetery. It seems that since his wife died 25 years ago he ate just what he liked rather than the food offered by his daughter, who he considered a health freak. Ignoring  warnings to change his eating habits despite being fitted with a pacemaker and suffering from diabetes, he claimed that he would not live longer, but that it would certainly seem like it. As he was 88 when he finally succumbed, perhaps he was right!

Finally we heard about the debut performance of a 20 minute musical work composed by catching bird droppings as they fell on giant sheets of paper left in parks all over Liverpool. The work is aptly titled “BIRD SHEET MUSIC”, but be careful how you pronounce this! The composition was performed at the Tate  Liverpool art gallery by the experimental Liverpool based aPAtT Orchestra. Don’t ask me how to pronounce that!

Well that’s it from me. See you around,

Scott

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Another Meal ticket but without the wine

I had been hoping to have a guest joining me on today’s EAT MY LUNCH show to talk about wine, but presumably having found out that Michelle was away again, I was abandoned! Big shame as I had hoped to imbibe a few glasses.

Undaunted however we ploughed on with a few oddball stories.

Can you imagine being able to pay someone else to do your job and still draw the vast majority of your salary? Well that’s just what a computer programmer in the USA was able to do. Reportedly he outsourced his job to a Chinese company by paying them a fifth of his six figure salary so that he could spend his working days surfing the net. Even more astonishing was that since doing this he had received excellent reports from his employers.

Then we heard about the family of a fan of fast food who arranged for his funeral cortege to make a stop at a drive-in Burger restaurant. The mourners all received a Whopper Junior meal whilst the deceased was also given a final portion of his favourite Whopper meal which was placed on top of his coffin at the cemetery. It seems that since his wife died 25 years ago he ate just what he liked rather than the food offered by his daughter, who he considered a health freak. Ignoring  warnings to change his eating habits despite being fitted with a pacemaker and suffering from diabetes, he claimed that he would not live longer, but that it would certainly seem like it. As he was 88 when he finally succumbed, perhaps he was right!

Finally we heard about the debut performance of a 20 minute musical work composed by catching bird droppings as they fell on giant sheets of paper left in parks all over Liverpool. The work is aptly titled “BIRD SHEET MUSIC”, but be careful how you pronounce this! The composition was performed at the Tate  Liverpool art gallery by the experimental Liverpool based aPAtT Orchestra. Don’t ask me how to pronounce that!

Well that’s it from me. See you around,

Scott

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Another Meal ticket but without the wine

I had been hoping to have a guest joining me on today’s EAT MY LUNCH show to talk about wine, but presumably having found out that Michelle was away again, I was abandoned! Big shame as I had hoped to imbibe a few glasses.

Undaunted however we ploughed on with a few oddball stories.

Can you imagine being able to pay someone else to do your job and still draw the vast majority of your salary? Well that’s just what a computer programmer in the USA was able to do. Reportedly he outsourced his job to a Chinese company by paying them a fifth of his six figure salary so that he could spend his working days surfing the net. Even more astonishing was that since doing this he had received excellent reports from his employers.

Then we heard about the family of a fan of fast food who arranged for his funeral cortege to make a stop at a drive-in Burger restaurant. The mourners all received a Whopper Junior meal whilst the deceased was also given a final portion of his favourite Whopper meal which was placed on top of his coffin at the cemetery. It seems that since his wife died 25 years ago he ate just what he liked rather than the food offered by his daughter, who he considered a health freak. Ignoring  warnings to change his eating habits despite being fitted with a pacemaker and suffering from diabetes, he claimed that he would not live longer, but that it would certainly seem like it. As he was 88 when he finally succumbed, perhaps he was right!

Finally we heard about the debut performance of a 20 minute musical work composed by catching bird droppings as they fell on giant sheets of paper left in parks all over Liverpool. The work is aptly titled “BIRD SHEET MUSIC”, but be careful how you pronounce this! The composition was performed at the Tate  Liverpool art gallery by the experimental Liverpool based aPAtT Orchestra. Don’t ask me how to pronounce that!

Well that’s it from me. See you around,

Scott

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Another Meal ticket but without the wine

I had been hoping to have a guest joining me on today’s EAT MY LUNCH show to talk about wine, but presumably having found out that Michelle was away again, I was abandoned! Big shame as I had hoped to imbibe a few glasses.

Undaunted however we ploughed on with a few oddball stories.

Can you imagine being able to pay someone else to do your job and still draw the vast majority of your salary? Well that’s just what a computer programmer in the USA was able to do. Reportedly he outsourced his job to a Chinese company by paying them a fifth of his six figure salary so that he could spend his working days surfing the net. Even more astonishing was that since doing this he had received excellent reports from his employers.

Then we heard about the family of a fan of fast food who arranged for his funeral cortege to make a stop at a drive-in Burger restaurant. The mourners all received a Whopper Junior meal whilst the deceased was also given a final portion of his favourite Whopper meal which was placed on top of his coffin at the cemetery. It seems that since his wife died 25 years ago he ate just what he liked rather than the food offered by his daughter, who he considered a health freak. Ignoring  warnings to change his eating habits despite being fitted with a pacemaker and suffering from diabetes, he claimed that he would not live longer, but that it would certainly seem like it. As he was 88 when he finally succumbed, perhaps he was right!

Finally we heard about the debut performance of a 20 minute musical work composed by catching bird droppings as they fell on giant sheets of paper left in parks all over Liverpool. The work is aptly titled “BIRD SHEET MUSIC”, but be careful how you pronounce this! The composition was performed at the Tate  Liverpool art gallery by the experimental Liverpool based aPAtT Orchestra. Don’t ask me how to pronounce that!

Well that’s it from me. See you around,

Scott

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