if it's too good to be true - it probably is!

[paulears]

At college, I got called by a large paint company who said they'd been told that we used emulsion. They had a load in the old colour ranges and wanted it given away, rather than pay to dispose of it. I asked what colours, they said lots of different colours. Only bad thing was I had to drive to the factory and collect it. I said "how much paint are we talking about". He said "how about 4 pallets worth?"

 

I arrived with a flat back, the fork lifts dropped on four pallets of shrink wrapped paint - off I went. Got back to college, unwrapped it and found MATCHPOTS! I have a store room still full of the damn things - not even in batches of colour - all colours in random order.

[gareth]

Paul, would you be terribly offended if I told you that I laughed out loud at your story?!

 

Does you college have an art department? If it does, perhaps you could foist some of the matchpots onto them. Otherwise, perhaps the art departments of local schools would be glad of some free emulsion, conveniently packaged into bite-sized quantities ...

[paulears]

I'm not offended at all - being laughed at was the norm for quite a while. I had the idea of giving people who annoyed me the job of decanting the pots into empty 5ltr containers. I've tried giving it away to everyone who may have been interested with no luck. the snag is that the colours are all shades like fucia, harvest gold, fiesta, etc all sort of magnolias or pinks or greens or yellows, but just very subtle tints - so not a lot of use. cinnamon is the only darker colour.

 

One good use I did find was that there were plenty of skin colour tones, and a matchpot on a black radio mic hides it nicely - and scratches off completely!

 

What a pratt!

[deranged-angel]

ahhhhh a joke springs to mind:

 

There's this man who goes upto his bedroom when his wife is at work at begins to, well you know, relieve himself ;). As he is in the middle of this act, he spots the window cleaner in the upstairs bedroom staring back at him. He quickly covers himself up and tells the window cleaner to go away. the window cleaner says that if teh man doesn't give him £15 for cleaning the windows, he will tell his wife what he has seen. So the man gives him the £15. When his wife gets home, she asks is the window cleaner has been. 'Yes' the man replies. She asks how much it cost. '£15' he says. '£15!' she yells 'He saw you coming'

 

ha ha ha ha ha

 

I'll shut up now.

 

 

Em

xxx