Reason #374 for joining Eileen's Lounge

[ChrisGreaves]

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I am busy today, so y'all have about 24 hours to guess the contents of the package.
Cheers, Chris
Hint:

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They came wrapped as if for replacement parts for the James Webb telescope.

[HansV]

A 4 gallon tub of vanilla icecream?

[ChrisGreaves]

A 4 gallon tub of vanilla icecream?

Nice try, Hans, given that I didn't provide a scale.
The cardboard carton is six inches on a side, so if it were a 4-gallon tub, even of Virtual Vanilla ice-cream, it would be too heavy for me to spoon into my V.Eager mouth.

Spoiler

This is NOT a useful hint.

Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

Judging by the shipping label, does it contain 10 Volts?

[Leif]

Judging by the shipping label, does it c0ontain a fragile percolator?

[Graeme]

Judging by the first spoiler, is it an infrared camera?

[ChrisGreaves]

Judging by the shipping label, does it contain 10 Volts?

Getting colder, Hans.
Although I learned that the contents could be packed into a picnic ampere.
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

Judging by the shipping label, does it contain a fragile percolator?

Sorry Leif. It was shipped by Puroleifor.
Brought to my door (no need for me to trek to the PO) by "Derek" who looked far too cheerful, so I tipped him ten dollars and instructed him to trot over to Walkham's Cafe, which was deliberately mean of me.
Ten bucks is far too much for a coffee, and yet not enough for a breakfast, so either he must make 5.54' trips to Walkham's for a coffee, which means he will be late home for supper, OR he must spring an extra five dollars from his own pocket to get a breakfast sandwiche ("Served all day" until they get rid of it).
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

Judging by the first spoiler, is it an infrared camera?

Darn!

Now my dirty little secret is out.
No, Graeme, I have not built my own JWT in the backyard. I still don't have my wind turbine up, but there again I've only had it for eighteen months. (Segue from procrastinator into Puroltaor...).
As my interest in astronomy grows, if I feel a need for high-resolution images of nebul-wossits, I just happen to know of a fellow in Kent from whom I can order images via Email.
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I am busy today, ...

But my first ever French Pâte is out and looks and tastes like the first "Sandweech Pâte" I ate in Fontenay aux-Roses so many years ago. The 3 lbs of oranges are rendered down, 3 lbs sugar added, and is coming back to the boil, so I thought I'd give y'all another hint.

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This debris spread across my study floor is the result of me extracting the two bubble-wrapped objects from the acres of brown-paper wrapping that I found inside the bubble-wrap that was inside the six-inch cubed carton this cold day of December 29th 2022.
The curved white thing between the egg-carton and the bottom of an old cooking-oil jug is the flexible ruler I used to measure the carton in response to Hans's suggestion of a four-gallon tub of vanvilla ice-cream.

On reflection, I can't remember ever seeing a four-gallon tub of ice-cream, although I remember being unable to lift a four-gallon drum of petrol when I was eleven years old. In 1997-98 I used to order eleven-litre cartons of ice-cream from the Reid's Dairy factory one mile east of Belleville. Had it trucked in on a 53' trailer, and that always made me feel good.

Cheers, Chris

[GeoffW]

But how did you measure it?

When you were a child, Australia used British imperial measures. Four gallons of water was 40 lbs - plus the weight of the container.

While Canada is, I presume, metric, you would have a lot of stuff from the US, where one gallon is 8 lbs, so your container would hold 32 lbs of water.

US 4 gallons of ice cream would be a cube of about 9.75 inches per side I think.

But I'm not sure how a parcel of six inches per side could contain an egg carton, a clock face, assorted pencils and a variety of wrappings.

And I can only assume that vanvilla is the flavour of ice cream the truck brought.

[ChrisGreaves]

But how did you measure it?

In gallons. A four-gallon petrol can in Australia in the mid-1950s was cylindrical in shape and had fencing-wire handle. The weight was irrelevant. I couldn't lift one, and I was working in a garage.

When you were a child, Australia used British imperial measures. Four gallons of water was 40 lbs - plus the weight of the container.

Be that as it may, but petrol was less dense than water; and still I couldn't lift it.

While Canada is, I presume, metric, you would have a lot of stuff from the US, where one gallon is 8 lbs, so your container would hold 32 lbs of water.

One of the reasons I came to Canada was that I would no longer be eleven years old failing to lift a four-gallon can of petrol. How those Texans measure their ice-cream and petrol is up to them.

US 4 gallons of ice cream would be a cube of about 9.75 inches per side I think.

I cannot comment on this except to observe that assuming that your calculations are correct, then Hans must surely be way off the mark, since a linear increase of 9.75/6 inches is a volumetric increase of about 4.3 times. (I trust that you-know-who will step up to the plate here and correct my use of "volumetric")

But I'm not sure how a parcel of six inches per side could contain an egg carton, a clock face, assorted pencils and a variety of wrappings.

Excepting that there are egg-cartons in most rooms in this house. The parcel itself did NOT contain an egg-carton. FWIW I wrote "This debris spread across my study floor is the result of me extracting the two bubble-wrapped objects ..." and what you see in that cardboard tray is the tray with its original contents scraped in there after my hand slipped and I accidentally knocked the tray off the filing cabinet due to some firm in Orangeville Ontario using industrial-strength tape to secure the package.

And I can only assume that vanvilla is the flavour of ice cream the truck brought.

Not quite correct. This taxi-truck does not deliver ice-cream. (Would that it did!). It substitutes for the little P.O. Van that serves everywhere else in the civilized world and Toronto.

I'm too exhausted after building that reply. I shall turn off the heat under the orange marmalade and let it set overnight.
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

2022_12_20221229_105158.jpgI am busy today, so y'all have about 24 hours to guess the contents of the packgage.

OK. My last hint:

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Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

Some kind of cookies/biscuits?

[Leif]

Jars of peanut butter flavoured Word 2003 macros?

[LineLaline]

It's either a tiny planet or both.

[LineLaline]

And also: detailed Input on pâté and oranges required.

[ChrisGreaves]

Some kind of cookies/biscuits?

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OK. One more hint:

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Christmas day this year fell in 2022

Lamentations, Chris

[HansV]

Re your hint: always learn something new in Eileen's Lounge. What a surprising true fact!

[ChrisGreaves]

Re your hint: always learn something new in Eileen's Lounge. What a surprising true fact!

Australian Vitamins!

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P.S. If you want to see the best-before date, you will have to rotate the image in the third dimension.
Cheers, Chris