yes I was annoyed cause there was a love poem competition for Valentines day ( I don't like it when people on the ice try to adapt american holidays as our own) so I wrote a love poem for my lovely cupOriginally Posted by Pensive
I could relate, I think we all can. Have you written it yourself?
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
A swell glass bottle of coke with a straw, and a cheeseburger too, just like Lolita.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Tomorrow night while watching the movie!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I don't drink a lot of water
But I'm told I really oughter
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Rather than look like an alcoholic, I decided to go with another beverage I am passionate about, especially this particular brand that I haven't had in years.
Wild Turkey in poetry:
Wild Turkey in the morning
pecks the gravel from your eye.
Wild Turkey in the evening
makes you gobble at the sky.
by Gilliatt Gurgle August 24 2012
The following excerpt from Wikipedia:
'Wild Turkey is known for being a favorite drink of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and is mentioned in his 1972 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (as well as the film of the same name), and the 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. In Stephen King's book It, when asked what the bar whiskey is, the bartender replies, "For everyone else in this dump it's Four Roses, but for you I think it's Wild Turkey." David Foster Wallace's seminal novel Infinite Jest has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey; and in Scott Sigler’s science fiction book Infected, main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey. In Patrick Neate's 2004 book "City of Tiny Lights" the private investigator anti-hero and narrator of the tale, Tommy Akhtar, subsists on a diet of mostly Wild Turkey and Benson and Hedges cigarettes, referring to them as "Benny and the Turk".
GG
It gives me a bad head. When I was introduced to bourbon, (by a Southern boy I might add,) it was Jack Daniels gold, Jim Beam silver & Wild Turkey bronze. In the meantime, I discovered Old Knob and some of those great micro brewery's down there. It never ceases to amaze me how the US can produce such fine hard spirits and such terrible beer.
M.
Was it Knob Creek, maybe? Woodford Reserve is another good one, in case this information ever becomes handy. Like WT, they have the somewhat high alcohol content that really brings out the fireworks.
Last edited by billl; 08-25-2012 at 03:54 AM.
There are some good beers coming out of the US though, try anything from the Brooklyn Brewery, Sierra Nevada or Anchor Brewery. Goose Island is supposed to be good as well. Something to do with a flying dog as well? Of course I can only get hold of a tiny, wee fraction of beers here but I think after Belgian beers, which cannot be beaten ever, the American beers are right up there. At least I am very excited by the American brews.
Here's a top 100 list from rate beer:
http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/TopAmerican.asp
25 new American beers:
http://www.maxim.com/booze/the-25-be...-beers-america
Not sure about the quality of that webpage or the 'Porkslap' beer but some of those sound OK too.
It has to be frustrating that there are all those wonderful beers out there and the likes of Budwater is so marketed to death that it's the first name in American beer. They are a rip off company anyway. They stole the name from Czech beer of the same name.
http://www.budweiserbudvar.co.uk/
Billl
Your absolutely right "Knob Creek"and I've tried "Woodford Reserve" as well. Both damm good.
Neely
Thanks for the links. They will further my education on the important things in life. But I take issue with you on country choice in beer. After my trip to Munich last December, those German beers are up there on the podium.
I have to agree with Neely here. As someone who spent a good deal of his younger days in Germany and especially Munich, I found that the beers were better than those elsewhere but, then again they don't have anything comparable to English ale except for 'dunkles bier' that, although darker than lager, tastes nothing like bitter.
I thought that about wrapped it up until I took up with a Belgian girl and on a visit to Charleroi she took me to a monastery where the monks brewed beer and sold it to visitors. It was the best beer I ever drank and when other monastic brews later became available on the UK market, I bought them in favour of the German beers. I still like to drink German beer occasionally but for preference I would choose Belgian.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Oh there's absolutely no beating the Belgian beers, hands down, especially the Trappist and Abbey beers - it is folly to think other wise. As for German beers, well their strength, like the Czechs, lies mostly with the lagers/pilsners, although I love the German wheat beers as well. As I say though, if you disregard some of those tangy American craft beers, it will be to your loss.
I agree that the smaller breweries in the US are turning out some good beers but they have only recently surfaced in the UK and there is still a way to go before they are here in significant numbers. It's great to see private enterprise challenging monsters like Budweiser which in its American incarnation it just about equates to Fosters: a beer so weak and tasteless that it amazes me why anyone would want to drink it. I tried it when it first arrived here and that was the first and last time.Oh there's absolutely no beating the Belgian beers, hands down, especially the Trappist and Abbey beers - it is folly to think other wise. As for German beers, well their strength, like the Czechs, lies mostly with the lagers/pilsners, although I love the German wheat beers as well. As I say though, if you disregard some of those tangy American craft beers, it will be to your loss.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Edit: here it is.
"Beer brewers shall sell no beer to citizens, unless it be three weeks old. To the foreigner they may knowingly sell younger beer."
-- German Beer Law, 1466
Last edited by prendrelemick; 08-25-2012 at 09:19 AM.
ay up
Have you been at the Newcastle Brown again?
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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