BtZ42 pages 116-121 Surprise!

[Mark Kohut]

I have thought of this as a joke, a return of the repressed kinda joke, on the line from
generals thru business leaders: " I don't like surprises." What else is bureaucracy for but to eliminate surprise? 

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> On Jul 2, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Eileen Pierce <eileenpierce333 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Marmalade Surprises here.  Earlier Brigadier Pudding’s Gourd Surprise.  
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> "— yes, there is something sadistic about recipes with “Surprise” in the title, chap who’s hungry wants to just eat you know , not be Surprised really, just want to bite into the (sigh) the old potato, and be reasonably sure there’s nothing inside byt potato you see, certainly not some clever nutmeg “Surprise!”, some mashed pulp all magenta with pomegranates or something . . . well but this is just the doubtful sort of joke that Brigadier Pudding loves to play"
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