Travis McGee > wrote in news:u6gev.295753$w93.203093
@fx08.iad:

> On 5/19/2014 12:42 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Travis McGee" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I barbecued some ribs yesterday. I was using a heavy cleaver to chop
>>> them apart, and ran into the same issue that has been bedeviling me
>>> for years: if I try to just hammer down, I usually don't hit the same
>>> place twice, and I end up with bone splinters and mushed up meat. A
>>> better approach has been to put the cleaver in the right spot, and
>>> pound on it with my hand. The problem with this is that hitting it
>>> hard enough with my hand can be painful. The next step was to use my
>>> head, but the SO suggested that this might hurt too...
>>>
>>> So, I went out tonight and bought a rubber mallet. I'll use it to
>>> pound on the cleaver, and hopefully all of my problems will be solved.
>>
>> I used to keep a mallet in my kitchen but now I can't remember what I
>> used it for. Hmmm...
>
> Did it have anything to do with "honey powder"?
>
Silly. That was a feather duster.

Just to be silly, I typed the following into Google:

erotic "rubber mallet"

The results were disturbing. You probably don't want to go there, or,
maybe you do.


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