In article , Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:31 -0400, "Flying Pig"
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:38 -0400, "Flying Pig"
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"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

Bach's first book, Stranger to the Ground. was not bad. It has been
downhill from there. If the ****er tells me my cancer is a gift that I
need I will break his bones.

Casady

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your cancer... What is it, and what's the prognosis?

A spot on the tongue from forty years of smoking and drinking.

Sorry to hear about that. My mother has been undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer - the **** has really hit the fan, but I'm not going in to it all here.

[snip]

Just got back from a trip to Amsterdam. Stayed at
the Hemp Hotel, and yes you can legally smoke weed at the bar. They
banned smpking tobacco specifically, in the bars, but hashish is still
legal. A no star, with a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 foot [ I measured] ****ter
serving the five rooms on three floors, but the room did have a shower
and a small icebox.

There y'go, silver lining in every cloud (of smoke).


The bar is seven feet wide[I measured] and about
sixty feet long. The place has a cat door. They don't own the cat that
comes and goes at all hours, they just let it hang out.

Fat Freddy's cat?


There is a
park across the street, a tram stop and cab stand 150 yards away, and
a couple of blocks of shops and bars a half block away. A dedicated
chocolate shop, a dedicated cheese store. A a tobacconist with English
newspapers. A bitty convenience market, with, of all things,
Budweiser.

It seems that it would surprise you how heavily they market (and how much they sell) of that crap this side of the pond. When in Amsterdam one drinks Amstel.


Heinekin is harder to find than in the US, and comes in
smaller bottles.

Why, why, why would you want to find Heineken?! Of all the beers, in all the world you had to search for Heineken!

In the UK, at least, there is very little demand for Heineken. I believe it's the same in much of mainland Europe. It might have been half decent once, but not in the time that I've been legal to drink alcohol (25 years). I don't know who owns it, but the marketing machine makes sure that it's available in many, many places, but it has a much smaller place on the shelf than most European beers.

The currently popular beers in the UK are Stella Artois (aka wife-beater), Fosters, and Carling. Of the three I'd only drink Stella (better taste than the others), but I've given it up (my wife and I noticed one evening why it gets it's alias, I'd not noticed before but it made me rather aggressive - not violent, but definitely aggressively tempered, I'm not touching it again - it certainly explains the fights late at night in many UK towns).

Marketing drives much of UK beer consumption, big breweries dictate what is available in man of the bars. Of the readily available lagers I'd go for Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export, or Holsten Export, but they're not as widely marketed.

WRT Heineken, I'm sorry, but if you consider that a good beer you need to get back this side of the pond and drink a *lot* more beer! Come to England I'll treat to to some wonderful stuff produced by Harveys of Lewes, Shepherd Neame of Faversham, and The First In Last Out, High Street, Hastings. .... mmmmm beer. Perhaps you'd care for some English Channel sailing first?


*******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four
single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and
wines. No cheap stuff whatever. Two Euros for a Heinekin, eight[ten
bucks] for a

Your taste in Whisky is much better than your taste in beer!


Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

In article , Richard Casady
wrote:

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*******s. The bar has nothing but good brands, four
single malts, three brands of absinthe, several cannabis beers and
wines. (clip)

I heard an interesting story involving absinthe and a Japanese fellow...

He was fond of his liquor, but it gave him terrible gas. Worse, it produced
not only audible borgorygmas but very large rectal emissions of some volume.

Needless to say, this embarrassed him a great deal, saving face, and all, so
he sought all the best medical help he could find. None of the Japanese
medical folks could think of anything which worked, despite lots of trying.
Some remedies gave him cramps (apparently subduing the rumblings) but didn't
diminish the noise nor size of the emissions.

Finally, one of the visiting American crews studying Japanese medicine
suggested he change from whatever he'd been drinking to absinthe. As
nothing else had worked, and it still allowed him to get his alcohol
jollies, he agreed to give it a try.

Sure enough, not only did his stomach settle down, but the volume of
emissions, while not gone, diminished greatly. Oddly enough, however, the
sound produced suspiciously resembled "Honda."

Ever the rigorous scientists, they had the guy stop with the absinthe, and
return to his original poison. Sure enough, stomach rumblings returned,
and, in his full glory, his output resembled something akin to a heavy truck
using downhill engine braking.

Back to the absinthe, stomach settled, but, still slightly windy, and, still
curiously, it sounded like "Honda!"

The American, who'd not been involved other than sort of a consultant, when
he he heard of it, wasn't the least bit surprised, though he was feeling
somewhat chuffed for having solved the gastric discomfort.

When asked why he was so sure it would work, and why he wasn't surprised at
the end (pardon the expression [pardon the expression]) result, he said...

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"You didn't know??? Absinthe makes the farts go 'Honda'!"

L8R, y'all :{))

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:19:30 -0400, "Flying Pig"
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I heard an interesting story involving absinthe and a Japanese fellow...

Old joke but fairly well told. :-)