Not to mention it's fun trying to think of the come-backs.

@Lilac-JadeCanada And you my dear are so very good at it!!!!

@silverotter11 Gotta keep the old cells workin', ya know!

@Lilac-JadeCanada The little grey cells - Poirot.

Maybe we could plant the idea of combining visits to the police & a lawyer, to seed if something could be dug up on whoever is harvesting the celery to start with.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Good idea to branch out on the investigation in order to get to the root of the problem..

That's the way, stick it to 'em!

@Lilac-JadeCanada This reminds me of a true story….in a major multimillion dollar liquidation case in NZ, some lawyers took up a dare to include the word “asparagus” in their court submissions, even though the vegetable had nothing whatsoever to do with the proceedings:

There was issued to me what came to be called “Jim’s challenge”, which was to include the word “asparagus” in a legal submission. Not the easiest task when the subject matter in the case was the sale of shares in a steel manufacturing company. However, a submission drawing a contrast between a market for the sale of company shares and a market for asparagus met the challenge, though Justice Smellie’s puzzlement - “Asparagus?”, he queried - provided its own challenge to remain poker-faced to all those who were in the know. These included Don Mathieson QC, senior counsel for the Crown, who responded magnificently by replying with his own submission pointing to the inappropriateness of any analogy based on a market for asparagus.

Bloody kiwis, eh?

@puff I see that you’ve decided to dip into the conversation!

@Zealandia gnawing my way through it.

@Zealandia Hahahahaha.....I would have been falling apart!

@Zealandia Yeah, then thresh 'em to smithereens, so they can't re-grow to supply the stock-er.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Yeah, I would have found it hard to keep a straight face whilst delivering or listening to that discussion too.