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We very obviously haven't met. Unless the reception is starting at 9:00 p.m., it would not be difficult for me to consume well over 1/2 bottle of vodka.

ABBA(superthirstychamp)Kiss

Guess I'll have myself a beer.
 

Both "white trash" and "it's my day" are on my list of odious and vulgar phrases.

You pay too much for alcohol. Those are mediocre [i[retail[/i] prices. Rail vodka should wholesale for less than half that. I would imagine Absolut does as well.

But I realize that just makes your point stronger.

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The Exorcist is just terrifying. Has nothing to do with whether you are an atheist/agnostic/jain/buddhist/baptist/jew. It's just scary - if you don't get scared of those things, it just means that you don't get scared by those things, nothing to do with your spirituality. But maybe I am just a scaredy-cat. I also get very very scared at Rosemary's Baby, even though that has no gore whatsoever (I don't know which is scarier, her husband's flabby chest or that black cradle at the end).

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I find nothing fancy about standing over a keg and pumping and that is what most people think of when they think of "keg" -- I have never been to a private party held at a home or out of doors where they had a keg and thought to use gas instead of a fucking hand pump. If I had a beermeister (do they still make those?) with gas and all the bells and whistles I would use kegged beer -- my father converted an old refrigerator to hold a keg with gas lines going to it and a tap mounted to the front and I would not be opposed to that either so long as it is done tastefully. I will continue to drink from the bottle though because draft beer gives me headaches no matter what.

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The grandmas are few and far between that drink even close to $30 of liquor. You would think caterers would price by the age group of guests.

Where can I send you an invite?

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Microbeers are the cosmo/chocotini/appletini of the beer swilling set.

If you cannot order a Guinness or a real German Lager, drink real liquor and stop being a pussy.

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PS - So much for retiring at 500 posts

Because smell is integral to taste, and a glass allows the aroma of the beer to reach your nose while a bottle does not.

Plus, the lip of the glass is thinner (unless you are using gas station glasses or old jelly jars), which generally enhances the taste of a good beer.

And, you can pour the beer to have a slight head. Head is always good.

Denigrate me, baby
 

Don't forget "honky." It may include too many of your kin folk, but damn it sounds funny.

Thurgreed(ouise!)Marshall

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Dunno. Watching athletics is complete bore to me, even if I rather like the sport, but some people just adore it. I can't explain that, either.

I saw that special last night and thought it was great. (Of course, it also featured not one but two men on my laminated list: Lance Henriksen and Charles Dance - do you know how infrequently I get to see two of them at once???) I find the whole "how to" of the effects (and the film-making generally - editing is the most powerful force in the universe) to be really cool, particularly for horror stuff, which tends to be lower budget and thus more hands-on creative (i.e.: not "uh, I sat at my computer and made this code"). This may be a result of doing theatrical makeup in HS - I did everything from clearing up the leading man's skin to making really super bruises and swellings that freaked out the rest of the cast to doing a whole grenade-blast victim using latex, modeling clay and various interesting forms of cooked pasta (and lots of fake blood - I actually got complaints from parents about that one - :)). Also, they had the writers sitting there getting into all the stuff I really find intellectually interesting about horror movies - why ARE they scary, anyway? It makes no logical sense to be scared of pictures while sitting safe as houses in a room full of 100 other totally safe people, but you are. Something is going on there, and, whatever is making you scared, it is rarely what is actually going on up on the screen. The Alien writer going on about how the movie was really about terrifying men sexually with images of male rape and the co-opting of male bodies for use in reproduction and birth was terrific.

I think being scared by a movie is a hoot - you get the adrenalyn rush and the jumpiness and cold flashes running under your skin and all that without the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach that accompanies the more usual fear that you are about to be fired. YMMV.

Denigrate me, baby
 

I should have known you would be around to throw out denigrating-to-whites terms.

Edited to say, what's the geo area where honky is used? Or is it widespread? I think of cracker as being southeast/deep south (FL, GA, AL, MS, SC?, LA?). They should do a map like with the coke/soda/pop thing.

Denigrate me, baby
 

Isn't that spelled "wee-zee"?

Sidd(never could understand you peeps)Finch

Denigrate me, baby
 

On the East Side.

And in Queens, if memory serves.

I agree with you on both points.
Keg beer tastes MUCH better, especially if the lines are clean.
Heinekin is gross. I don't understand how people can drink this swill. People continue to brag about it and what a good beer it is. Because of that (and the gact that Guinness overseas is soo much better than Guinness in the States) I even went so far as to try it when I was traveling in Europe. It tastes horrible even in Europe. The Heinekin marketing department has done a stellar job.

Anne
Heinekin - Hmmm maybe it is just another word for piss - kin of the heinie?

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There were grenade-blast victims in your H.S. plays? There must be an alternate ending to "Twelve Angry Men" that I didn't know about.

I find this odd. draft beer is usually less carbonated that bottled beer (except when pumped wrong). I've always found bottled beers to taste more like soda in carbonation levels.

Trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine
 

It's used all over North America. "Honky" is a derivation of bohunk, which I have heard used in Canada much more than here, to refer to Eastern European immigrants. It started around the turn of the century. In the US, it became more just a slur on white people, rather than specific white people. For some reason, I think it started with Chicago meat-packers (used by non-white people to refer to all white people), but I think that is what someone told me, so I'm not sure.

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What I can't explain is the $40-75 ticket price for Tony Hawks Boom Boom Huckjam tour.

http://www.boomboomhuckjam.com/

Sure you get to see Tony, BB, Andy Mac, Bucky, and the bmx guys, but that's serious cash. You could buy a keg of Coltrane's urine for that much.

Your family's participation of a wedding would not represent the whole of the attendees nor the norm for weddings. Certainly, there would be other guests who undoubtedly would drink less and would balance our your inebriation tendencies.

As a whole though, restaurants play a game of averages, mark up the costs accordingly, and usually come out well ahead in the game. Even if you were to provide your own booze, the hotel still make money by requiring a corkage fee be paid on each bottle.

Crackers. et al
 

Strangely enough, the "Atlanta Crackers" were the Triple A team in Atlanta before the Braves arrived. Which would have made for an interesting game when the Houston Colt 45s were in town.

The dollar dance is a staple at midwestern weddings. I have only been to ONE wedding (out of 10?) in the past five years that did NOT have a dollar dance, and that was my own.

If you're free next summer, a friend of mine is getting married and I'm positive there will be a dollar dance. I'll give you the date, time, location and you can crash it, just to see for your own eyes.

I'm accustomed to Virginia prices. According to the Virginia, ABC a 750 mL bottle of Absolut retails for $19.95. Stoly is $18.95. Average Smirnoff is $11.90 a bottle. Awful Bowman's (the majority of which is exported to Russia) goes for about $7.00 a bottle.

If a hotel were to pay for Bowmans, they'd probably pay about $5.50 - $6.25 a bottle - if they are buying 750 mL bottles. With crap like that, they'd certainly bulk up any buy 1.75 L plastic jugs.

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I actually thought Mia Farrow was the scariest thing about Rosemary's Baby--even before she starts to sense she's bearing the Antichrist or whatever, she has a perpetually vacant, shell-shocked expression that creeps me out. Come to think of it, she has it in every role she's ever played.

I do get scared at every other type of horror flick though. Perhaps I just find gooey mucus-dripping sharp-toothed mini-monsters bursting out of someone's guts in outer space more plausible than demonic possession.

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I came across some old scrapbooks while searching for something this weekend and in one was my ticket from SkateFest '88 in Toronto -- only $9 (Canadian so like $0.33 American) and I got to see Tony, Cab, Dressen, all the greats. I also got to see Pink Floyd that weekend for something like $20 (Canadian so about $1.00 American). Seeing that almost makes me think that $60 a seat for hockey is expensive -- nahhhhhh.

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It really helps to know a player or two and to really like the sport.

Lance huh? So I take it you were a Millenium fan? I really liked that show and I guess it had an expiration date (2000) that doomed the show.

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One of the teachers who directed & did debate coaching had a real thing about the Vietnam war.

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That's not what the pump is for...

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Catharsis.

Don't even get me started on green beer - my Irish grandparents are rotating in their graves (even the ones still alive) at the concept.

It has given me the spins as well.

you know to cross the Potomac for any volumes right? (you are in Noth VA?)

Oh to be back at Gilley's liquor store (now torn down) on Pennslyvania between 21st and 22nd- just down the street from the 21st Amendment.

I doubt that hotels/restaurants in Virginia are able to buy liquor from D.C.

Now evreyone knows why she is No. 1 with a bullet on Slave and my bang lists.

you're right they're not- never mind.

By contrast, I have attended what seems like three hundred, but what is probably closer to twenty weddings in the past five years. Approximately fifteen of these were in the Midwest. Not one had a dollar dance. In fact, I have never been to a wedding with a dollar dance. Having said that, I am not going to take a position on the great class wars that are wracking the FB today. I do not side with the Bilmorian camp because I do not know whether dollar dances are, in fact, as common as he states, and also I am not against the high falutin', mileu-using, cake-eaters who believe the dollar dance is an appallingly tacky poor, white, trailer trash cracker sort of thing. But nor am I in the Debt-Slavian camp, for I am not against those salt-of-the-earth, regular joe, good Midwestern real people folk who not only think dollar dances are perfectly acceptable, but also recognize that they are similar to many time-honored ethinic traditions, and that they may be just the thing to lessen the debt of the upcoming honeymoon. I also refuse to take a position because the FB seems particularly sensitive these days, and I am concerned that if I took a position, Taxwonk would call me a shmuck again. And that really hurt.

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I read with great interest the thread on the "Dollar Dance" apparently prevalent at so many weddings.

Since January 2002, I have attended 16 weddings. At only one of these weddings did the bride dance for a guest. This had nothing to do with a "dollar dance", however, and more to do with an unsolicited offer of lots of money from a guest for the bride to wiggle around to music in the backseat of the guest's car in the parking lot and expose her vagina.

On the subject, I no longer purchase wedding gifts to bring to a wedding or even give one within one year of the nuptials. Wedding gifts should not be given until the fifth anniversary, at which point it is fairly safe to say that the happy couple has earned their gift and will likely not get divorced. Giving a gift before this point is just throwing away a good blender, napkin ring set, plate, or whatever, that will very likely end up in the center of a horrible and painful divorce battle as pre-fifth year anniversary divorce rates are awfully high. This causes severe and undeserved distress to the gift.

Sometimes, it helps to give the couple a card at the wedding that states: "Congratulations on your marriage! Remember the silver salad tongs you registered for at Williams Sonoma? [ENCLOSE A PICTURE TO MAKE SURE THEY REMEMBER.] Those babies are yours if you can make this marriage thing last five years. In the meantime, make your salads with a couple of longish spoons. They work almost just as good! Best of luck!"
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Who is that chick? I like your moniker and your avatar, but am not sure about the woman in the signature line.