Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[The Atheist]

The caption on the back reads:
"Major Jesse Marcel inspects material as "Mac" Brazel discusses finding the debris field on the ranch near Corona, New Mexico, July 7, 1947"

Looks like we have an anniversary coming up!

God, if only that had happened in the days when people had cameras with films in them and not just aeroplanes, TV, radio, computers, atomic bombs, Lucky Strike cigarettes and Willy's Jeeps. What a pic that would have made!

Anyway, it's now all clear on Roswell, had you not caught up with that?

It wasn't aliens, but Russian mutant midget dwarfs, courtesy of the Angel of Death himself, direct from Auschwitz, Herr Doktor Mengele.

And I know that's true, because it was written by an investigative journalist and it was in a real newspaper!

[/frantically searches for nose-thumbing emoticon....]

[soundofmusic]

Looks like winter might be finally starting here and we haven't been back to our beach yet.

Lizzie's birthday was taken up with more civilised pursuits:



(the winner of the Open Hurdle at Ellerslie racecourse on Monday)

Isn't the horse supposed to jump the hurdle?

Ah a day at the races, that photo could have been taken this spring at Haydock - doesn't New Zealand do Autumn?

The daughter went to York races last month. She put £5 on a horse and it won, so she put £10 on a horse in the next, that won too. She went to put £20 on one in the next, but couldn't get to her lucky bookie in time, and the horse won. She had chosen horses she liked the look of, nothing to do with form.

Her boyfriend then got her to put all his remaining stake money on a horse she fancied in the next, and he lost it all.

That lady luck, fickle as ever.

Haha

I received the white glove treatment a couple of years ago.
My Dr. is from India, she has big hands.




Hold your Jackalopes!!...is Lizzie one of yours?
Great job and/or happy birthday.


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Entirely random; a fresh layer of chemtrail dust just settled on my property last night and it got me to thinking about other wordly phenomenon. I found this postcard I picked up the last time I passed through Roswell New Mexico:



The caption on the back reads:
"Major Jesse Marcel inspects material as "Mac" Brazel discusses finding the debris field on the ranch near Corona, New Mexico, July 7, 1947"

Looks like we have an anniversary coming up!


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Is the doctor big everywhere else? My gosh, how far did you have to go to find a big indian woman? You know, I never quite trust people that tell me to drop my pants and look the other way...are you sure it was a doctor...

And talking of getting taken...how about those air ballons....

[jocky]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater Somebody said Jocky was spending the day at South Beach in Miami

That is my brother Hamish he works full time as a male stripper, apparently the Women's Institute were most impressed by his last performance. Just between us he has a few shortcomings if you get my drift.

[jocky]

I note with great interest that surgical procedures seem to be the hot topic of the day. It was on this very subject that Mrs Jocky and I came very close to divorce. Those of you with a squeamish disposition should look away now. It all started five minutes after young Jocky was born, I was sitting with my tea and toast watching the medical team repairing the carnage when I asked the midwife if there was any chance of them inserting a few extra stitches. Well for some reason beyond my limited comprehension Mrs J leapt out of the bed and tried to strangle me, encouraged by several members of the female maternity staff. After all I had been through you would have thought a little sympathy and compassion would have been forthcoming.

[stlukesguild]

School is out for the summer and I finally go around to ordaining the grill for the first time with some marvelous brats and the thickest New York Strip cut steaks. Young's Double Chocolate goes to wonderfully with this. I've got 4 pints sitting ready in the 'fridge with an Ommegang ale to wrap things up. I've got the evening's listening also lined up: Thelonius Monk, The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan. Should be a wonderful evening... although whether I'm able to get up and get into the studio tomorrow morning is another story.

Right now listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HISecnfIFU

[jocky]

School is out for the summer and I finally go around to ordaining the grill for the first time with some marvelous brats and the thickest New York Strip cut steaks. Young's Double Chocolate goes to wonderfully with this. I've got 4 pints sitting ready in the 'fridge with an Ommegang ale to wrap things up. I've got the evening's listening also lined up: Thelonius Monk, The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan. Should be a wonderful evening... although whether I'm able to get up and get into the studio tomorrow morning is another story.

Right now listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HISecnfIFU

Enjoyed the Monk piece, shades of Acker Bilk or perhaps the other way round, your taste in music is first class. I got your subliminal message and take on board your observations. Perhaps we should just learn to live with each other. Have a good vacation as you thoroughly deserve it.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

School is out for the summer and I finally go around to ordaining the grill for the first time with some marvelous brats and the thickest New York Strip cut steaks. Young's Double Chocolate goes to wonderfully with this. I've got 4 pints sitting ready in the 'fridge with an Ommegang ale to wrap things up. I've got the evening's listening also lined up: Thelonius Monk, The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan. Should be a wonderful evening... although whether I'm able to get up and get into the studio tomorrow morning is another story.

Right now listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HISecnfIFU

Enjoyed the Monk piece, shades of Acker Bilk or perhaps the other way round, your taste in music is first class. I got your subliminal message and take on board your observations. Perhaps we should just learn to live with each other. Have a good vacation as you thoroughly deserve it.

Two of the Blokes finest return for some home brew :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvKb...eature=related

St. Lukes, sounds like you have a great evening lined up. Congratulations on your freedom.
“ordaining” the grill? Either you’ve already been tipping the bottle and missing keys, or…come to think of it, that makes perfect sense; “ordaining the grill”.

You can take care of Dylan and Cash in one shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PEVK66jsEM


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[jocky]

Gilliatt, it is fairly obvious that Stukes has been draining the bottle, sorry I mean the drain, no I meant derailing the girl. Well you know what I mean. Cue Atheist.

[stlukesguild]

Actually the beer hasn't done it's work yet. I haven't even needed to rely on spell check so far. So let's break out this stuff:



8.5% alcohol... that ought to get things warmed up.

Current listening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizPITXG9Ag

[stlukesguild]

Perhaps I should move on to Hank Williams next... but then it almost seems blasphemy to be drinking Belgian ale to Hank. Nothing but some good Kentucky whiskey or bourbon for Hank!

[The Atheist]

Mate! Great to see you back again.

Broken the shackles for another week?

... I asked the midwife if there was any chance of them inserting a few extra stitches...

Yes, women make such a fuss during childbirth. I've been present at all four and it didn't look all that difficult!

The Real Blokes' [TM] trick to talking about episiotomy stitches is actually to tell the surgeon to leave a couple out.

[jocky]

Since we are all in a joyous mood of alcohol induced stupefaction how about this for a half decent song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE8YLPHZImw

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Perhaps I should move on to Hank Williams next... but then it almost seems blasphemy to be drinking Belgian ale to Hank. Nothing but some good Kentucky whiskey or bourbon for Hank!

Funny you should mention Kentucky, I'm working on some Maker's Mark as we type.

...Mrs J leapt out of the bed and tried to strangle me,

By the way Jocky, where the hell do you go on these extended sabbaticals?
Rumor has it, you've been held up in Paul's Ivy League cottage tormenting the residents of his allotment.


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[stlukesguild]

Joyous drinking songs? I prefer the dark stuff. Of course I can't help it. I'm listening to Johnny Cash right now... and wouldn't you know he'd sing the same song that was on the Louvin Brothers disc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rct5EEt1VfA

Of course Johnny hits you like an Old Testament prophet...

hell, he even looked one...



That's a face that Michelangelo would have loved. I can just imagine it on a sculpture of Isaiah or Abraham.

although this might be my favorite photo of Johnny:



Expressing his thoughts, perhaps, on commercial Nashville "country" music.

[jocky]

By the way Jocky, where the hell do you go on these extended sabbaticals?
Rumor has it, you've been held up in Paul's Ivy League cottage tormenting the residents of his allotment.


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I have been worrying myself sick over Atheist's assertion that the Gulf stream is going to shift and Scotland will revert to an ice-age glacier. Then I got to thinking about the upside, as there always is, and the horror of our southern neighbours dealing with a mass invasion of six million Jocks. Farms and allotments in England look a very inviting prospect for us homeless supplicants. Mick and Paul had better pray that the weather forecast changes as mutton and aubergines will go down very nicely. In fact some of my fellow compatriots are planning to invade Halifax, nothing to do with survival you understand, for the specific pleasure of stringing up Brian Moore.