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The Curious Case of the Ketchup and the Missing Booth

So the BASTA conference wound down with a party and, as with every conference, the organizers tried to give the speakers and exhibitors a gimmicky gift with which to remember the conference by. Now, since the party had a BBQ theme, what better gift that your very own, personalized, bottles of Heinz Tomato Ketchup? And so now, I am the proud owner of my very own ketchup (pictured below).

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At the end of the conference, Oliver and I headed off to the airport. We checked in the Booth (pictured below) and a case containing some left over T-Shirts, CDs and brochures. We duly boarded our flight to London and then caught our connection flight to Edinburgh (ah it was nice to be back in Bonny Scotland). A quick trip to the luggage carrousel, however, showed that our booth was missing. Apparently the baggage handlers and Frankfurt Airport decided that, whilst we probably did need our T-Shirts etc, we could manage without our booth for an extra day or two. So, our booth has been enjoying a couple of days R&R in Germany before deciding to come back home. :-)

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Published Sep 30 2008, 02:22 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express)
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Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) said:

Essence of Gary Short, eh? :-)

September 30, 2008 9:25 AM
 

William Rowe said:

I knew that the 57th ingredient of Heinz ketchup was Gary Short!

September 30, 2008 9:33 AM
 

Gary Short (Developer Express) said:

Humph, wife just said " Oh no, 57 varieties of Gary Short!"

September 30, 2008 9:48 AM
 

Colin Mackay said:

I don't think I'll comment. The only possible thing to say at this point would nose dive the conversation directly at the gutter.... At least it wasn't brown sauce.

*mayday* *mayday*

September 30, 2008 9:55 AM
 

Adam Leffert said:

So you're saying you left your ketchup in Frankfurt?

September 30, 2008 11:07 AM
 

Gary Short (Developer Express) said:

No Adam, I have it at home now

September 30, 2008 11:18 AM
 

Adam Leffert said:

Hot dog joke?  Nobody??

September 30, 2008 12:10 PM
 

Brendon Muck said:

Probably should have went with "Hamburg" instead.

September 30, 2008 12:32 PM
 

Julian M Bucknall said:

Gary: I do hope you bring the Developer Express nominated ketchup to PDC. I'm sure Jeff could do something with it in a video...

On the other hand, perhaps not.

Cheers, Julian

September 30, 2008 2:11 PM
 

Gary Short (Developer Express) said:

Okay, I'll bring the DX ketchup to LA and see what Jeff can come up with, LOL. As for the rest of you, some of those jokes were terrible, you should be ashamed of yourselves!

Aside: Wont stop me stealing them though :-)

October 1, 2008 12:43 PM

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