Sweet Revenge: 200 Delicious Ways to Get Your Own Back

theme. "My Ellen (his wife) and I, we're both psychic. I can tell when things are going to happen. I knew I was going to get this job, 'cos I'm psychic, see? 'Course I got the timing wrong
    - psychics do that -1 thought I was going to get it a year ago when it went to Asker. But I knew it was coming. What do you think of that?"
    ' "Very interesting," I said, as non-committally as possible. But all the time I was thinking: "Oh, no! I've just had a year working for a tricky editor. Now I've got a psychic one."
    'He interrupted my reverie: "And, you know, Rod," he said, "being psychic, like I am, I can see us not getting on."
    'I left the paper about a month later - and have not regretted it one bit since. Derek lasted a bit longer; but, in the end, the circulation continued to tumble and he, too, left suddenly.
    'The day he went, I sent him a postcard. It was addressed to Derek Jameson (Britain's First Psychic Editor) and it said: "Pity you didn't see it coming." '
    - with thanks to Rod Tyler.
     

     
    A major TV executive summoned a junior editing hack and insisted that a particular current affairs programme, which had been transmitted very late the previous night, must be 're-edited' for a showing at the board meeting the following day. The young-but-enthusiastic editor protested, but was advised that, unless the major exec's will was followed, his neck would be on the line.
    The programme had been broadcast 'live' and contained complicated errors involving high level corporate policy which were potentially explosive to the executive's career. The young editor discovered the major gaffe in the programme and realised that it was the responsibility of the major executive. The young blade decided to exact his revenge - he duly spent many hours editing the programme as requested and this was shown to the board at the appointed hour.
    After the event the major exec called in the junior to say well done. 'Would all the board like a copy as a keepsake?' the editor asked. The major exec thought this a wonderful idea and urged junior on. Which copy of the tape do you think the board received in their mail the following day?
     

     
    In Weston-Super-Mare a small but successful confectionery factory produced lettered rock which is familiar at all British seaside resorts. This particular factory, Farmiloe's, owned and run by Mrs Farmiloe herself many years ago, employed an unpopular foreman whose job it was to oversee the time-honoured procedure of putting the coloured rods around the outside of the huge fat, round block of rock and inserting the letter rods in the middle before they were stretched into the long, thin sticks that we know and love.
    The foreman finally earned himself the sack for one too many transgressions and, before he left, he decided to create a little souvenir of his time at the factory. He rearranged the letters to create around ten miles of rock bearing the message: 'Get Stuffed Mrs Farmiloe.'
    A junior medic was given punishment duties at the hospital and a senior spokesman said: 'We didn't think it was funny.' The medic's 'crime'? A woman spent ten days on the loo after he had laced her cup of tea with the world's most powerful laxative - the potent drug 'Picolax'. She was his nursing boss and had moaned about his work. Pauline Ainsworth lost pounds before the effects of the prescription-only drug wore off.

     
    A peer of the realm is now rather careful what he eats since he went stalking with, amongst others, a cordon bleu cook with a grudge. Lunch time saw the hungry peer settling down to a delicious venison stew which he finished with relish, much to the hilarity of the rest of the house party. Only when he had picked the plate clean did they reveal that his stew was made entirely from stags' balls.
     

     
    A man in New York needed to pay back a manager in his office who was always playing practical jokes on people. He took a styrofoam plate and filled it with cottage cheese and other perishable food. He then covered the whole thing with another styrofoam plate and taped it up under her desk so that she would be unlikely to find it. For months the smell bothered her and it was six months before she found the 'Blue Plate Special'. It caused pandemonium in the office when she opened it.
     

     
    C O Stanley was the notoriously tough chairman of Pye Radio and TV in the 1950s and all employees knew that anyone who put a foot out of line was out of a job.
    John Hodgeson was in the statistical