On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:50:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 9, 7:12*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:10:15 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Oct 9, 5:21*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:56:48 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 8, 10:28*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith

wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. *Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. *We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. *:)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nest time go straight Old Milwaukee. or Strohs.

There won't be any beer left!

Oh beers - just got me to thinking.

Ballantine XXX (rat pee), Narragansett, Carling's (Mabel - Black
Label), Schaefer (the one beer to have when you're having more than
one - always thought that was a bit odd for a slogan), JAX, Falstaff
and of course the worst beer in the world that's actually good after a
while - Dixie. *:)

Oh - thought of another one - Hamm's - The beer - refreshing.

I need to do some research on that - there's got to be a website with
old regional beers I don't remember.

....Around here, it was Blatz, Schlitz, Drewery's, Hamms, Bud, PBR,
Busch, Miller, Stagg, Little Kings, Heilmann's Old Style, Heineken,
Old Millwaukeee, Strohs, *colt 45 Malt

There's more but that's about all I can think about in a minute..

Blatz - now there's a name for beer. *:)

Yes, and the *end result* was pronounced the same...

ROTFL!!

Schlitz? speaks for itself/

Another oldie but goodie.

On Oct 9, 8:49*am, John H wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:02:03 -0300, "Don White"





wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:34 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:51:23 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. *:)

I am drinking PBR these days. I have trouble finding regular Coors in
a bottle, my other choice.
I used to always drink Bud but I just lost the taste for it and I
don't like the heavy beers.
I drink Busch if I can't find PBR or Coors.

I drink lots of water, and have been doing so for 22 years. Water's
not bad, but it's not a hot conversation topic. It doesn't get much of
a head, and is usually pretty clear.

You must have had some of that crap they had from the Phillipines in
SEA.

San Miguel I think it was called? *Had to strain it before you drank
it to get the crunchy bits out? *:)

Well, yes. Actually I'd drink about anything that had an alcohol
content. Luckily, I had an Engineer company with dump trucks and a
First Sergeant who was a wheeler-dealer, and a Post Exchange at Cu Chi
that was always needing laterite for its swampy parking lot. So we
always had free beer and enough steaks for a Friday cookout.

Times were good.

For you maybe...while the real soldiers were out crawling through the jungle
getting shot at.

Don, most of us don't get a big charge out of discussing the bad times
we had.

And all of us have some good, or at least humorous, stories about the
war - even the 'real soldiers' to whom you refer.



Yeah. My dad was baptized with fire and all he would ever talk about
was the good. the fun.

On 10/9/09 10:58 AM, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:50:58 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Oct 9, 7:12 am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:10:15 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:



On Oct 9, 5:21 am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:56:48 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Oct 8, 10:28 pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:54 -0600, Vic Smith

wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:03 -0400, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:20:49 -0400, Tosk
wrote:

Funny, as soon as I started to read the above paragraph I knew it was
our WAFA spinning his tales again...

Add speaks Russian - probably in French - to the list of
accomplishments.

He is truly the most interesting man in the world.

Heh heh. Timely. Daughters boyfriend, an international gadabout, left
a couple Coronas in the fridge while I was on vacation.
I passed, and grabbed a bottle of Harnas, "Of Polish Highlanders.".
Don't know how interesting I am, but drinking Polish hillbilly beer
should help that, along with my BAC.

True story. We had a get together here a couple of years ago - Mrs.
Wave collegues, some of mine and a few oher friends and neighbors. So
I went out to buy beer.

Now you have to understand that when I quit, over 30 years ago, there
wasn't much choice for beer - in fact, the height of American beer
snobbery was Coors - which you couldn't get on the East Coast at the
time.

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nest time go straight Old Milwaukee. or Strohs.

There won't be any beer left!

Oh beers - just got me to thinking.

Ballantine XXX (rat pee), Narragansett, Carling's (Mabel - Black
Label), Schaefer (the one beer to have when you're having more than
one - always thought that was a bit odd for a slogan), JAX, Falstaff
and of course the worst beer in the world that's actually good after a
while - Dixie. :)

Oh - thought of another one - Hamm's - The beer - refreshing.

I need to do some research on that - there's got to be a website with
old regional beers I don't remember.

....Around here, it was Blatz, Schlitz, Drewery's, Hamms, Bud, PBR,
Busch, Miller, Stagg, Little Kings, Heilmann's Old Style, Heineken,
Old Millwaukeee, Strohs, colt 45 Malt

There's more but that's about all I can think about in a minute..

Blatz - now there's a name for beer. :)

Yes, and the *end result* was pronounced the same...

ROTFL!!

Schlitz? speaks for itself/

Another oldie but goodie.


Piels...just another ****y American beer, but fabulous commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HtmV0DmRU

and B&R in street clothes:

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



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In article 0700dc6c-5355-4c60-883f-c62e19d052c1
@e12g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, says...

On Oct 9, 8:49*am, John H wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:02:03 -0300, "Don White"





wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:34 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:51:23 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. *:)

I am drinking PBR these days. I have trouble finding regular Coors in
a bottle, my other choice.
I used to always drink Bud but I just lost the taste for it and I
don't like the heavy beers.
I drink Busch if I can't find PBR or Coors.

I drink lots of water, and have been doing so for 22 years. Water's
not bad, but it's not a hot conversation topic. It doesn't get much of
a head, and is usually pretty clear.

You must have had some of that crap they had from the Phillipines in
SEA.

San Miguel I think it was called? *Had to strain it before you drank
it to get the crunchy bits out? *:)

Well, yes. Actually I'd drink about anything that had an alcohol
content. Luckily, I had an Engineer company with dump trucks and a
First Sergeant who was a wheeler-dealer, and a Post Exchange at Cu Chi
that was always needing laterite for its swampy parking lot. So we
always had free beer and enough steaks for a Friday cookout.

Times were good.

For you maybe...while the real soldiers were out crawling through the jungle
getting shot at.

Don, most of us don't get a big charge out of discussing the bad times
we had.

And all of us have some good, or at least humorous, stories about the
war - even the 'real soldiers' to whom you refer.



Yeah. My dad was baptized with fire and all he would ever talk about
was the good. the fun.

Real soldiers don't talk about war...

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:15:05 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:34 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:51:23 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)


I am drinking PBR these days. I have trouble finding regular Coors in
a bottle, my other choice.
I used to always drink Bud but I just lost the taste for it and I
don't like the heavy beers.
I drink Busch if I can't find PBR or Coors.

I drink lots of water, and have been doing so for 22 years. Water's
not bad, but it's not a hot conversation topic. It doesn't get much of
a head, and is usually pretty clear.

You must have had some of that crap they had from the Phillipines in
SEA.

San Miguel I think it was called? Had to strain it before you drank
it to get the crunchy bits out? :)

Well, yes. Actually I'd drink about anything that had an alcohol
content. Luckily, I had an Engineer company with dump trucks and a
First Sergeant who was a wheeler-dealer, and a Post Exchange at Cu Chi
that was always needing laterite for its swampy parking lot. So we
always had free beer and enough steaks for a Friday cookout.

Times were good.

Ah yes - the military barter system.

Next time we get together, we'll have to swap stories about First
Shirts and swapping for beer, steaks and potatoes.

Our guy actually managed to get real country eggs flowen in for a
steak and egg breakfast one time. :)

Still don't know how he did that one.

I did one myself once - courtesy of my Dad who worked a deal with some
big cheese at Polaroid who had a son in my company. And we had a kid
whose Dad ran a seafood company out of Galveston, TX.

Oh the stories. :)

On 10/9/09 11:09 AM, Gene wrote:
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:40:02 -0400, H the K
wrote:

ne of the most massive translation projects in
the history of English up to this time

translation......

TRANSLATION...... Frickin' TRANSLATION!!!!

What's next on the English Lit list.... Hell, we've got Bablefish,. it
is ALL English Lit!!!!


The KJ bible is a bit more than a "translation," as I am sure you well
know. But it is a translation. :)

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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:02:03 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"John H" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:34 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:51:23 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:28:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Anyway, I went out and bought a case of Sam Adams lager, case of Bud
and a case of Pabst Red, White and Blue.

I had half a case of Sam, 3/4 case of Bud and the Pabst was gone.

Go figure. :)


I am drinking PBR these days. I have trouble finding regular Coors in
a bottle, my other choice.
I used to always drink Bud but I just lost the taste for it and I
don't like the heavy beers.
I drink Busch if I can't find PBR or Coors.

I drink lots of water, and have been doing so for 22 years. Water's
not bad, but it's not a hot conversation topic. It doesn't get much of
a head, and is usually pretty clear.

You must have had some of that crap they had from the Phillipines in
SEA.

San Miguel I think it was called? Had to strain it before you drank
it to get the crunchy bits out? :)

Well, yes. Actually I'd drink about anything that had an alcohol
content. Luckily, I had an Engineer company with dump trucks and a
First Sergeant who was a wheeler-dealer, and a Post Exchange at Cu Chi
that was always needing laterite for its swampy parking lot. So we
always had free beer and enough steaks for a Friday cookout.

Times were good.

For you maybe...while the real soldiers were out crawling through the jungle
getting shot at.

That's totally uncalled for Don. A lot of us who were in the jungle
getting shot at have some great stories and even with all the crap we
went through, had some great times and made some long time wonderful
friends.

Great, humorous and funny stories are not the provence of REMFs - the
front line guys had their own fun too.

On 10/9/09 11:08 AM, Tosk wrote:

Real soldiers don't talk about war...


Obviously, you've never heard of James Jones, who talked quite a bit
about war in From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Jones was a
real soldier.

You really are a short little ignorant ****.

On 10/9/09 11:28 AM, Gene wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:33:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

And we discussed many other things in English Lit than just English Lit

Well, then, what you had was some sort of Socratic Dialog or Seminar,
not an organized class. A proper class has an approved syllabus and
the instructor sticks with that syllabus to make sure the course
objectives are met. A class entitled one thing in which all things are
taught is just a free-for-all.... usually driven by the personal
whims and interests of the teacher. This is the equivalent of
education by ADD........


Uh, I disagree. In the 7th and 8th grade, when we were discussing
Dickens in English class, we also discussed the society in which the
novels were set, and some of the reasons why Dickens chose the subjects
he did. I'm sure we stuck with the teaching plan by doing so.


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On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:55:03 -0400, Gene
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:37:13 -0400, H the K
wrote:

On 10/9/09 11:28 AM, Gene wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:33:33 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

And we discussed many other things in English Lit than just English Lit

Well, then, what you had was some sort of Socratic Dialog or Seminar,
not an organized class. A proper class has an approved syllabus and
the instructor sticks with that syllabus to make sure the course
objectives are met. A class entitled one thing in which all things are
taught is just a free-for-all.... usually driven by the personal
whims and interests of the teacher. This is the equivalent of
education by ADD........


Uh, I disagree. In the 7th and 8th grade, when we were discussing
Dickens in English class, we also discussed the society in which the
novels were set, and some of the reasons why Dickens chose the subjects
he did. I'm sure we stuck with the teaching plan by doing so.

Uh.... no, we don't disagree and the teaching plan likely included the
social conditions of the novel. As I posted earlier:

"The study of Literature should or could encompass the following
points:

1. The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
2. ........"

thus, "the society" is fair game. Reading NON-English Literature in
English Lit is NOT fair game and, certainly, "And we discussed many
other things in English Lit than just English Lit" is just hosed.

Put another way.....

in FRENCH Lit.....

it would be perfectly reasonable to study Les Miserables, which
"examines the nature of law and grace, and expounds upon the history
of France, architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy,
antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of
romantic and familial love." It would be fair to, then, discuss any of
those other topics, including religion in the context of Les
Miserables.

It would NOT be reasonable to study Beowulf, The Bible, or the Zuo
Zhuan as French Literature..... because they just aren't.

One would have to wonder if Dryden's translations would not merit
study in an English Lit class. Literary translation cannot be weighed
as having literary value for the recipient language?

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