Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

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I think Mrs P uses rum. We do have an extra too. Very nice it was this year, and We've got some of the big one left.

I think most anything tastes better with a bit of rum in it...actually, I like most of my friends better when they have a bit of rum in them too

I had wondered what a cake would taste like with beer in it...particularly since I don't like beer.

Do you think Mrs P would notice if you sent a piece of that pudding to me?

Is that the one sounds?

That's the one...I love it! I'm putting it in my Christmas album...

My Mrs P wouldn't let me use the picture above for this years Christmas Cards.

I think we ought to make a year round calander with it...that's it; we should make a bloke calander with one of our fellows for each month and you will have the december slot.

We bought this cheap as dirt white wine that tasted like piss. I mixed it with Dr. Pepper, you couldn't taste the wine at all, it made spending the night with family fairly tolerable.

You poor man...I don't even want to think of wine in Dr Pepper...actually, I just avoid the holiday with my extended family; I find I like Christmas much better now that I make excuses to the brothers, sister, cousins....

Santa - the dyslexic me.

I never noticed that...

Hello all, hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Let me first take this moment to tell you how proud I am of your performance on stage.
The hard work and sleepless hours spent rehearsing paid off!

Haha..I remember that drunk Santa.
By the way, Santa was good to us. He dropped off a few movies including: "Them", "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", "World Without End", "Satellite in the Sky" and "Earth vs The Flying Saucers"...oh and a new lap top!

Now we must gear up and stock up for New Year's.

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Here, Here....best play since Andrew Lloyd Webers wife discovered he was gay!

Get thee behind me Santa!

It doesn't quite work does it.

I hear it works for Mrs Claus and some of the elves at the NP strip club

[The Atheist]

Now we must gear up and stock up for New Year's.

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On that. I'm off to the liquor supplier in the morning with Parker.

We'll get a double order of everything just to be on the safe side.

[jocky]

What a downer ! England have retained the Ashes in Australia for goodness sake. I had a good Xmas but that is my New Year ruined. I suppose it would be churlish to say that ,that is the worst Aussie side since cricket was invented. Good night.

On that. I'm off to the liquor supplier in the morning with Parker.

We'll get a double order of everything just to be on the safe side.

In Scotland we have a tradition of celebrating Hogmany by having a dram in the order of each country seeing in the bells. We raise our first glass to New Zealand followed by Australia, Russia, Japan, China, Thailand, Kathmandu ( that always gets a big cheer ) India, Afghanistan and so on and by the time we sober up it is 2012. Have a good one guys and gal.

[The Atheist]

What a downer ! England have retained the Ashes in Australia for goodness sake. I had a good Xmas but that is my New Year ruined. I suppose it would be churlish to say that ,that is the worst Aussie side since cricket was invented. Good night.

No, that wouldn't be churlish, it would be 100% correct!

Long may it stay that way.

In Scotland we have a tradition of celebrating Hogmany by having a dram in the order of each country seeing in the bells. We raise our first glass to New Zealand followed by Australia, Russia, Japan, China, Thailand, Kathmandu ( that always gets a big cheer ) India, Afghanistan and so on and by the time we sober up it is 2012. Have a good one guys and gal.

Haha! Great idea.

Since they changed the International Dateline to be the first country to clock over to 2000, you need to start 2 hours before NZ and use Tonga as the starter.

I can see the value in the idea - I'll meet you in about Athens, I'd say!

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

[prendrelemick]

Yes the shift in Cricketing power is confirmed. The two best sides, India and South Africa, are currently contesting a close series agin each other.
That said, C'mon England lets stuff 'em in Sidney as well.

The Scots are definitely The masters of New Year celebrations. (as I discovered in Blackpool one Hogmanay.) How they recover in time for Burns night I' ll never know.

[gbrekken]

In Scotland we have a tradition of celebrating Hogmany by having a dram in the order of each country seeing in the bells. We raise our first glass to New Zealand followed by Australia, Russia, Japan, China, Thailand, Kathmandu ( that always gets a big cheer ) India, Afghanistan and so on and by the time we sober up it is 2012. Have a good one guys and gal.

in the blokes' veins flows such a great tradition! i'd be passed out before the azores greeted the newyear-let alone the states!

[jocky]

and use Tonga as the starter.

Tonga is terra non gratis for two very good reasons. Firstly, their rugby team have hospitalised too many of our players and secondly their firework display is naff.

The Scots are definitely The masters of New Year celebrations. (as I discovered in Blackpool one Hogmanay.) How they recover in time for Burns night I' ll never know.

Please say it was not 1981. My alibi is watertight.

in the blokes' veins flows such a great tradition! i'd be passed out before the azores greeted the newyear-let alone the states!

Aye," We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart "

Now I know I am pushing on a wee bit but I have to tell you about Xmas eve. Mrs J was looking particularly good and the waft of the Vera Wang perfume was heading in my direction. I looked at her and said, sweetheart you are looking real good tonight, how could she resist? She gave me a sweet smile and declaimed " Well you can get that idea right oot o' yer heid " What a life!

[The Atheist]

Tonga is terra non gratis for two very good reasons. Firstly, their rugby team have hospitalised too many of our players...

Yeah, but they all go to church after and ask for forgiveness.

... and secondly their firework display is naff.

Should be much better this year - I understand the King is organising a firing squad for people who say he spends too much money on militaria.

. I looked at her and said, sweetheart you are looking real good tonight, how could she resist? She gave me a sweet smile and declaimed " Well you can get that idea right oot o' yer heid " What a life!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Happy New Year to my fellow blokes!!

I tried to get the missus and junior to join me in a fireside performance of the Blokes Christmas play at midnight, but no luck.

BTW, Jocky since you were out on holiday, you might have missed our play. (?) If so, you'll find it under General Chat, likely fallen off the front page by now.


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[prendrelemick]

'Twas a dissappointingly sober New Year for me this year. When shall these parental duties end? Am I a Father or a Taxi service? I ask myself.

[gbrekken]

'Twas a dissappointingly sober New Year for me this year. When shall these parental duties end? Am I a Father or a Taxi service? I ask myself.

'tis duty for you to care,ferry,tell,hold, etc. etc. etc. the joy of living a life!
Happy New Year one, all, each and every one of you!!!!

[soundofmusic]

I've got this rotten cold for New Years, no partying, just watching poor, very old and feble Dick Clark dropping his ball again with a much older group of the backstreet boys singing...very sad...
I've decided, for medicinal reasons, to begin drinking today

[Paulclem]

I've got this rotten cold for New Years, no partying, just watching poor, very old and feble Dick Clark dropping his ball again with a much older group of the backstreet boys singing...very sad...
I've decided, for medicinal reasons, to begin drinking today

The past few New Year's Eves have been just tiring. This year was too, but we had a laugh. We stay in; either at ours or the Mother in aw's and the TV is usually dire. It has now become a bit of a tradition to watch Jools Holland's Hootenanny with the once good, but now terribly aged, singers murdering theirs and others songs.

I'm glad to see the tradition of terrible New Year's Eve TV continuing across the pond.

Aged rant - and why is that I wonder? It's because those TV planners think that all under 25 year olds will be out, and so it doesn't matter.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

... and the TV is usually dire. It has now become a bit of a tradition to watch Jools Holland's Hootenanny with the once good, but now terribly aged, singers murdering theirs and others songs.

I'm glad to see the tradition of terrible New Year's Eve TV continuing across the pond.

Aged rant - and why is that I wonder? It's because those TV planners think that all under 25 year olds will be out, and so it doesn't matter.

New Year's does come with one small TV perk in our part of the world. We have a Scinece Fiction channel that runs 24 hours of continuous "Twilight Zone" episodes every New Year. It is nice to have on during the holiday down time.

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[Paulclem]

New Year's does come with one small TV perk in our part of the world. We have a Scinece Fiction channel that runs 24 hours of continuous "Twilight Zone" episodes every New Year. It is nice to have on during the holiday down time.

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This year we had Father Ted - a brilliant comedy. Still a repeat, but at least it hasn't been on for a while.