A companion of mine for 17 years was found to have died this morning

[Sticks]

This morning when I was making breakfast, I discovered that my old Carlton duo Toaster was no longer working

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v158/25/16/642840893/n642840893_506121_6350.jpg

Attempts to revive it were mad (i.e checking the plug, the fuse and the wall socket) but all things pointed to the fact my toaster, which I purchased in 1990 had died.

I know I should have realised it was on it's way out a few months ago when I noticed that it was not toasting the bread so much on its current setting. I had increase the setting, and that appeared to work.

Even though it had a broken plunge switch, (some years ago a bit of plastic broke off of the plastic switch you use to initiate toasting) it still gave faithful service right up to the end.

The family have asked for funeral to be a private service, and in stead of flowers please send donations to St Mungos (http://www.mungos.org) a charity for the homeless

:(

[Kaptain K]

:boohoo:

[sarongsong]

Alas; it became what it did---how very zen.
My condolences...

[Neverfly]

It is most likely repairable- however the cost of parts would probably only be a bit less than a new toaster.

[mfumbesi]

For a moment there I was a bit worried.
Either way my condolences to you and your family.......
Interestingly you were attached to an innate object, someone should write a book on that.(I know there are countless books on this my favourate being "I know you've got a soul"-Jeremy Clarkson, the name might be incorrect.)

[Sticks]

It is most likely repairable- however the cost of parts would probably only be a bit less than a new toaster.

The local Sainsburys mini mart are flogging toasters for £3.75 if I saw correctly

[Whirlpool]

Let's have a toast to that .


http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/nahrung/a017.gif

[Frog march]

ashes to ashes; breadcrumbs to breadcrumbs

[farmerjumperdon]

It even LOOKS dead.

[Celestial Mechanic]

Maybe it's just pining for the fjords ...

I know how you feel. I still "grieve" for a small digital travel alarm clock made by Commodore (remember them?) in 1983 that was my alarm clock for about that length of time.

[Swift]

Its not dead, its just pining. Beautiful toaster, the Norwegian Blue.

[Frog march]

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v158/25/16/642840893/n642840893_506121_6350.jpg



I know what's wrong with it; it doesn't seem to have an 'on' switch.:think:

[Sticks]

The plunger switch and the level of toasting setting switch are up against the wall. That was how it fitted there with the way the electric lead was set up.

BTW the new toaster was £3.70, not £3.75 (I save 5p whoop-i-doo)

Throwing the old one out is going to be a wrench.

[Moose]

"Kip! Tell them what they've won!"
"It's a toaster! A two-slice toaster, it makes two slices of toast. It's a toaster!"

[farmerjumperdon]

Throwing the old one out is going to be a wrench.

We turned ours into a Mythbusters style experiment. I let the kids take turns dropping cinderblocks on it from various heights.

[NEOWatcher]

BTW the new toaster was £3.70, not £3.75 (I save 5p whoop-i-doo)
What? You didn't search for a new bank account so you can get a free one?

[Sticks]

What? You didn't search for a new bank account so you can get a free one?

There was no way I could pass myself off as a student

[Sticks]

This is the replacement I got from a Sansbury Mini Mart, that recently opened near where I work.


http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v152/25/16/642840893/n642840893_506524_7655.jpg

As mentioned before it cost £3.70

I vaguely remember the old one costing me around £11

[farmerjumperdon]

Looks like you cleaned up it's place of residence a bit.

[SeanF]

This is the replacement I got from a Sansbury Mini Mart, that recently opened near where I work.
Want to take bets on whether this one lasts seventeen years? :)

[Donnie B.]

Want to take bets on whether this one lasts seventeen years? :)
It will probably last forever. But burn every third piece of toast.

[peteshimmon]

If the thing gets to the tip it is not dead.
Just morphing in half a dozen small digital
cameras. (by way of China).

[Frog march]

Zen and the art of toaster reincarnation?

[Celestial Mechanic]

Celestial Mechanic: {dressed in a hooded robe} "Dona eis requiem!"

Crunch! {Smashes a burnt piece of toast on his head.}

CM: "Dona eis requiem!"

Crunch! {Smashes another burnt piece of toast on his head.}

{Rinse, lather, and repeat -- to get the crumbs out.}

[Frog march]

that toaster gave you the best years of its life, sticks.
your not really goin' to take it to the tip?

[JohnD]

Sticks,
It's clear you have NO idea of how to talk to toasters.
You should have asked it for a waffle!

See: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RZslRQvv5zM

John

[RalofTyr]

I take old, dead appliances to the desert and use them for target practice.

You'll need to get yourself a desert and a .22.

[Sticks]

I take old, dead appliances to the desert and use them for target practice.

You'll need to get yourself a desert and a .22.

A bit difficult where I live

[Torsten]

I smell a Shock to the System! Seventeen years of faithful service and replaced by a sleeker model the same morning! Even I left my last toaster's space vacant a full two days before finding a new one.

BTW, loved your Luggage tribute (http://www.bautforum.com/off-topic-babbling/58315-he-aint-heavy-hes-my-luggage.html).

[HenrikOlsen]

Celestial Mechanic: {dressed in a hooded robe} "Dona eis requiem!"
. . .

Don't you mean:

CM: "Pie Iesu Domine!"

CM: "Dona eis requiem!"

Crunch!

[mike alexander]

Yeah, yeah, same old story. Guy has first toaster, now a little older, a little worn.

Ditches it for curvy young trophy toaster. "My old toaster had grown cold," he said. "It no longer gave my bread the warmth it needed."

Did it occur to you that there's more to a long-term relationship than those few minutes of heat in the morning? Oh, sure, the crunch might be gone, but the memories remain. Can't you recall that misty morning sixteen years ago? Feeling a bit down, throwing the bread thoughtlessly into the slots, pushing down the plunge switch without a thought as you stared out at the fog and rain? And then, without complaint, the toaster popped the bread up, browned, crispy, the way you love it. There was jam that morning, and contentment. And now this. Tossed out with the other reminders of your own advancing age, replaced by that pale harlot.

Well, I hope you get your three pounds worth of pleasure from it.

You cad.

[sarongsong]

...Ditches it for curvy young trophy toaster...Ha! "You could'a had a V-8!" http://www.bautforum.com/images/icons/icon10.gif...A $250 KitchenAid turns toasting into a three-step process...
Channel3000 (http://www.channel3000.com/onyourside/4159643/detail.html)

[Sticks]

So far the old toaster is in a carrier bag in my lounge. I have not got around to disposal yet.

I had to replace the toaster, as the old one died, because life has to go on, and the £3.70 one was the last in stock.

[Maksutov]

To wit:Plastic toasters
Oh baby
Now you're such a drag!

[spoken]
I hear the sound of margarine
Down Sunset Boulevard
To Pandora's lox.

And there
We are confronted
With a vast quantity
Of plastic toasters!

[Donnie B.]

So far the old toaster is in a carrier bag in my lounge. I have not got around to disposal yet.

I had to replace the toaster, as the old one died, because life has to go on, and the £3.70 one was the last in stock.
OMG! You have your old friend's body in a plastic bag, waiting to be dumbed in some trash heap?

I'm shocked, shocked... ('cause I stuck my finger in the toaster).

Just be sure you get rid of it before the neighbors notice the smell.

[Nicolas]

From 1990 and already broken (sorry, dead, deceived, gone, a late toaster)? Rubbish!!

2 weeks ago, we used an electrical sandwich toaster from somewhere in the 1940's, and it still works perfectly. Had one little repair in its lifetime.

[Trebuchet]

From 1990 and already broken (sorry, dead, deceived, gone, a late toaster)? Rubbish!!

2 weeks ago, we used an electrical sandwich toaster from somewhere in the 1940's, and it still works perfectly. Had one little repair in its lifetime.

Of course, that toaster probably cost a week's pay when it was new. And I'm guessing it hasn't been used daily since the 1940's. It probably wasn't made in China, either.

Sticks' new toaster likely was made in China, or some other low-wage country (at least it would have been here in the USA, not sure how that goes in the UK) and probably cost him less than an hour's pay.

I do like to see old things still in use. That's at least partly why I drive a 1985 car. Not all that old, but older than most.

[Nicolas]

It's not used daily, but it is been used a lot. It's a waffle maker btw, I was mistaken. And indeed, it cost a lot more than it costs nowadays, relative to your wage. Anyway it's amazing it still works, because nearly 70 years is a LOT.

[Sticks]

All I know is that on Friday it stopped working, and I was in need of a toaster all of a sudden.

I have checked and it was made in China for Sainsbury's

As for the neighbours, does anyone know how to make Steak and Kidney pies

Mmmhawawaw

[sarongsong]

All I know is that on Friday it stopped working..."Hi, we're from Scotland Yard and have a few questions..."

[Tobin Dax]

So far the old toaster is in a carrier bag in my lounge. I have not got around to disposal yet.
The real question is if the new toaster will help you dispose of the old one. :)

[Kaptain K]

Wish I was an English muffin
'Bout to make the most out of a toaster
I'd ease myself down
Comin' up brown
I prefer boysenberry
More than any ordinary jam
I'm a "Citizens for Boysenberry Jam" fan

Paul Simon
Punky's dilemma

[Maksutov]

A toast to the old toaster in the best Rocky Horror tradition!

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4649/toastercz1.th.jpg (http://img49.imageshack.us/my.php?image=toastercz1.jpg)

[mike alexander]

I can't wait to heat the excuses when it's time to replace the clothes washer.

[Sticks]

I can't wait to heat the excuses when it's time to replace the clothes washer.

That was kind of done last year when I got a desk top washing machine

[Maksutov]

That was kind of done last year when I got a desk top washing machineSo you'd rather have her on the desk top than on the floor?

Que Sera, Sera.

[Sticks]

So you'd rather have her on the desk top than on the floor?

Que Sera, Sera.

Prior to that I was handwashing everything in the bath tub :shifty:

[Swift]

I think now is the time for my favorite screensaver
http://tomahawkfield.sub.jp/MT/archives/MT_images/2003/07/flying_toaster.jpg

[Tobin Dax]

I prefer this kind of flying toaster:

[dhd40]

This morning when I was making breakfast, I discovered that my old Carlton duo Toaster was no longer working

(snip)

:(

Don´t worry! It´s not DEAD. It transformed into a white dwarf! Which means, it will live (almost) forever

[dhd40]

This is the replacement I got from a Sansbury Mini Mart, that recently opened near where I work.


http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v152/25/16/642840893/n642840893_506524_7655.jpg

As mentioned before it cost £3.70

I vaguely remember the old one costing me around £11

As I mentioned bfore: A white dwarf!

[Frog march]

nah, it won't live forever; just until something "goes wrong" with it.....

[peteshimmon]

Mmmm..you know a few years ago you could wait
for a totter to come round who would take that
scrap from you. And the only pollution useful
for growing roses! Mmm...trust you cycle to
the local tip, sticks.

[dhd40]

nah, it won't live forever; just until something "goes wrong" with it.....

What can go wrong with a white dwarf? Oh, I see: A big companion (perhaps a desk top washing mashine)