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Budweiser, how could I ever live without you? Your red white and blue can is ever trustworthy and reliable to deliver middle of the road, never-offending brew, And now you have a beautiful new Millenium can. What more could anyone want, except another Bud? |
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I guess that being in Ireland, I may imbibe Guiness, though. It's better than most. |
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In the early part of the twentieth century in Ireland, doctors would prescribe six to eight pints a day to nursing mothers to keep their strength up. Guinness is what it's all measured by. After you're well into that, give Beamish or Murphy's a try. My favorite stout, however, is Lancaster Milk Stout, outta Amish country. |
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Also, the Wharf Rat in Baltimore handpulls their own beers. |
My fav tap beer has gotta be Bass. Something about it sideswipes me everytime. Guinness is too much for me, too heavy. Plus i don't like the ideal temp it is served at. I dig Murphy's, Murphy's is good. I also like Grolsche.......thats good stuff..... |
$4 for a pitcher of dark draught. Mmmmm. |
holy shitfuck! cheapest pitcher i have found around here is $8 bud light... |
holy shitfuck! don't tell me you bought one. |
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and bud light. how can you make a light beer out of a beer thats already light enough? It a wonder americans every get drunk off beer, considering how little is in it. you (low alcohol content beer drinkers) need to switch to something with some flavor, and character and colour. |
yes, it is a weak, sad excuse for a beer. but the consistancy in product is just amazing. |
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Porter is the true king of beers, and stout, origianlly a form of porter, is just dandy as well. They stopped brewing Natty Boh last year. You gotta get back to Balmer more often. |
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today I wrote down a bunch of latin and french phrases. esprit de l'escalier - "spirit of the staircase" - repartee thought of only too late, on the way home jolie laide - "beautiful ugly" - a woman who is attractive but not conventionally pretty forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit - perhaps this too will be a pleasure to look back on one day a tergo - from behind dux femina facti - a woman was leader of the exploit pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt - may they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us |
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I've been writing down lots and lots of words. I already knew lots of them but had forgotten about some. I bet markus knows them all. quiescent - inactive, tranquil susurrous - full of whispering sounds grass widow - discarded mistress Quinquagesima - the Sunday before Lent (March 5 this year, I believe) tabes - the wasting that accompanies a fatal disease termagant - shrewish woman prosy - lacking in qualities that seize the attention or strike the imagination, tediously dull in speech or manners protean - able to assume different forms pugnacious - truculent pursy - short-winded because of corpulence vagary - caprice valetudinarian - a person of a weak or sickly constitution, esp. one whose chief concern is his invalidism vellity - the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency venery - 1. hunting, animals that are hunted, 2. the pursuit of or indulgence in sexual desire venial - forgiveable verdure - condition of health and vigor vespertine - crepuscular vilipend - to hold or trear as of little worth or account virago - termagant erethism - abnormal irritability or responsiveness to stimulation eristic - characterized by disputatious and often subtle and specious reasoning prolix - wordy turbid - characterized by or producing obscurity vulpine - crafty lanuginous - covered with soft, downy hair |
Vespertine -- what a soft and beautiful word! Velleity -- has two Es in it. I only know this because a high school friend used to put the phrase "abject velleity" in all her poems. Yeesh. I learned a nice Latin phrase from one of my readings: alter idem -- "the second self" or the idealized self |
Vulpine from the Latin for fox. I once wrote a short story in high school with an antagonist named Ned Vulpine. |
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my worst grade in college was in latin 101. |
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm now you know. |
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this one is really sad. Teague, Jr. Delbert - 849 - 09/09/1998 - None. - Last minute he decided to eat a hamburger at his Mother's request. |
That was nice of him. |
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that no alcohol or tobacco thing seems ludicrous |
is the last meal supposed to make the executioners feel better? like they did something nice? why not alcohol then? tobacco? hell, why not prostitutes? why not an hour at disneyland? |
Anyway, my 2 cents: a civilized country should not be in the business of killing its citizens. Life imprisonment, no chance of parole, is punishment enough. |
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but you can kill someone who does something bad if enough people agree |
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And a six pack of bud is around $18. The Grump and my flatmate T love Bud. I dont like beer much - except Lion Ice Beer and it has to be in bottles. Give me a JD anyday. |
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that's incredible. what's the exchange? that's not US$18? |
I bet there's Kiwi beers that kick Bud's ass. |
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the best beer i ever drank in my life was made by belgian monks. can't think of what they call it, but i'd call it something like "Effervescent Nectar Ale". or maybe it was a bock. i can't remember right now. my brain has been fried by music. |
My feelings about the death penalty are mixed--I think there are some people who really do deserve to die, I don't care how they do it. As the system is now, though, it's stupid. They need to not be killing innocent people and not wasting so much money over it. I love how they clean the area of injection with rubbing alchohol first to stave off infection...Wierd. |
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I bet the states could make a lot of money holding them in arenas and selling tickets. |
I think it's been admitted that innocent people have been executed in the united states. I can't name the cases, though. I am completely against the death penalty. whenever an execution is scheduled here in the northwest, I feel like I'm an accomplice in a premeditated murder. |
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A Buttload of Death Penalty Links Erm? Ok. There's a start, anyway. |
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a former attorney of mine used to get death threats for saying he was against the death penalty. the local rednecks would call him up in the middle of the night & tell him they'd kill him, unless he stopped being so public in his views. i don't fully know where i stand on the issue. i've also got a head full of downers & am about to crash, which could explain any weirder-than-usual prose. but i thought i'd mention those things. the church i grew up in used to publish books in favor of the death penalty. |
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If you need to find a thread, just ask Markus. |
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come and spend. we do have bud. and guiness. and many other beers. In fact many bars do a 'round-the-world' competition. You drink one beer from each country (or something) and yay, at the end you be drunk. And maybe have a little sign nailed somewhere in the bar with your name and the date on it. |
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In the last couple of years most primary schools have made a hat in summer part of the dress code. I've got olive skin so I'm not one of those people who need to lie on the beach and get lobster red, so they can peel, and then go back to being whatever colour they were to begin with. |
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i'm a dork. and having a martini after work can do nothing to change that. |
Guinness is different. I have the house to myself for the moment, the housemate is off somewhere. I'm not sure where she went. I don't give a flying fuck, since I dislike her anyway. I want FedEx to come so I can get my purple pants. |
a jug (about 3 pints). When you consider how shit our dollar is right now that is amazing - a big mac in the USA comes to $15 N |
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happened to little Ralph? Tom, dont make me convert currency, it just makes me depressed. Good thing I'm not coming to the states this month, I would need three times as much money as I was planning. dammit |
Beer! Death penalty? Beer! Death penalty? Beer! Death penalty? Beer! Death penalty? Beer! Death penalty? Beer! |
So happy there are awesome local craft brews on tap at the bar where my favorite bands play. Went to two awesome shows this week. One was a tribute to Woody Guthrie, with a collection of folkie types sharing the stage. Heard a couple of Woody's songs that I'd never heard before, and some old favorites. Deportee gets me every time, and Hobo's Lullaby sounded great. The other show was my favorite band--Session Americana, with a few guests sitting in. Where's Agatha these days? She always seemed to know the musicians I follow, from her days back east. |
version of "i ride an old paint" has been running through my mind. here in my miserable little outpost on the old chisholm trail. |
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i've been listening to Neil Young lately. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XXdESX4-o |