time to stir the pot

[Astro]

Mark... thanks for the offer to stir the pot, but I think you're talking about the old pot with the old recipe that needed a lot of stirring. No-one really found it tasty or palatable. That old pot is over in the corner. Its contents have congealed into a solid mass and there's a lid on it. If you look closely, you'll notice the lid has been welded shut. No-one complained when it was taken off the stove. Kawa wanders over to the old pot on a fairly regular basis and bangs it a few times trying to get someone interested in stirring it again... but no-one seriously wants the old recipe back on the menu. It was too spicy and had a lot of heat. It went through us like a dose of salts and gave everyone heartburn and nausea.

Feel free to take that old pot away with you and stir it as much as you want. Just don't open it here because it'll stink to high heaven by now and we don't want to have to put up with that.

There's a new pot now and its bubbling away nicely. No stirring required.