Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I would hope we could move beyond the "____ drinks too much" jokes for 2007.

I have many friends who are basically alcoholics and if one of them started reading posts here and decided to leave because he found the site hostile to drunk alcoholics, well, that would make me sad.

You know I have no problem with drunks. I welcome Newbers of all persuasions: scotch drinkers, whiskey lovers, beer quaffers, wine sippers (box and screw). My only concern is when the drinking interferes with post quality. There are countless internet-based cyber-chatting boards out there. The only way we are going to get noticed is through high quality of posting content. Hank, you are better than Hungarian-Vulgarian puns. You know that. Don't get lazy. Not now. Not with 2007 right around the corner. Do you want to look back and hazily remember how you stumbled drunkenly into the new year with a series of half-assed posts typed haphazardly between sips? Or do you want to recall how you upped your game, ramping up to the greatest new year ever, the Year of the Hank!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
There are countless internet-based cyber-chatting boards out there.

I post at Yahoo 360, the DU, macforums oldskool page and urbandictionarycom's comments page......anything else requisitely cutting edgerian out there, or is the rest just typical white noisy dins of stupidiousness?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You know I have no problem with drunks. I welcome Newbers of all persuasions: scotch drinkers, whiskey lovers, beer quaffers, wine sippers (box and screw). My only concern is when the drinking interferes with post quality. There are countless internet-based cyber-chatting boards out there. The only way we are going to get noticed is through high quality of posting content. Hank, you are better than Hungarian-Vulgarian puns. You know that. Don't get lazy. Not now. Not with 2007 right around the corner. Do you want to look back and hazily remember how you stumbled drunkenly into the new year with a series of half-assed posts typed haphazardly between sips? Or do you want to recall how you upped your game, ramping up to the greatest new year ever, the Year of the Hank!

the Year of the Hank. Can that be the new thread title?

PLF you are SLIPPING there are newbers here and you aren't greeting them. Or Penske? someone?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
For you August 20th

Great. I've got plenty of time to plan the celebrations. I'll start now, as I sit here waiting for the e-mail that says it is time for me to join a conference call.

I knew I should have left at 4.

[Tables R Us]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Are you Romanian?

Originally posted by Anne Elk
No. Hungarian.

Either neighbor of Transylvania can stake a claim to superiority. In their various feuds, the Romanians commited more robberies, the Hungarians more assasinations.

[Tables R Us]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I am all about the natural hardness and boosted drive. But I suppose one could always use more, particularly when one is frequently encountering nubile young pretties who have a fondness for the UF.

I doubt ladies with a taste for the user friendly would like your whip hand any faster or harder than it already is.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tables R Us
Either neighbor of Transylvania can stake a claim to superiority. In their various feuds, the Romanians commited more robberies, the Hungarians more assasinations.

Does it help that there are rumours of Roma blood in the Hungarian stock?

[Tables R Us]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Does it help that there are rumours of Roma blood in the Hungarian stock?

Depends how the board's culinary experts feel about that technique for thickening broth.

[tmdiva]

PM me.

tm

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tables R Us
Either neighbor of Transylvania can stake a claim to superiority. In their various feuds, the Romanians commited more robberies, the Hungarians more assasinations.

Between the two, I don't know which one can claim superiority over the other but they both can claim superiority over my ethnic heritage. My family is pretty much all Anglo Saxon. The Hungarians, when they were working with Attila ran over my ancestors like a steamroller. The French put up a better fight against the Nazis than my ethnic kin did against the Hungarians. It is my understanding, that many Roman soldiers retired to Romania (it was called Dacia then) and then their descendents intermarried with Slavs who arrived later. So today’s Romanians are mainly a Slavic, Roman solider mix. The Roman army kicked the Angles and Saxons around Europe like a soccer ball for hundreds of years (enslaving many of them while they were at it) and the Slavs kicked the Angles and Saxons out of Bohemia and Poland without breaking a sweat (which inspired many to run off with their tails between their legs to a cold and rainy island off the coast of France so they could be kicked around by the Vikings a few centuries later ).

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Spanky
Between the two, I don't know which one can claim superiority over the other but they both can claim superiority over my ethnic heritage. My family is pretty much all Anglo Saxon. The Hungarians, when they were working with Attila ran over my ancestors like a steamroller. The French put up a better fight against the Nazis than my ethnic kin did against the Hungarians. It is my understanding, that many Roman soldiers retired to Romania (it was called Dacia then) and then their descendents intermarried with Slavs who arrived later. So today’s Romanians are mainly a Slavic, Roman solider mix. The Roman army kicked the Angles and Saxons around Europe like a soccer ball for hundreds of years (enslaving many of them while they were at it) and the Slavs kicked the Angles and Saxons out of Bohemia and Poland without breaking a sweat (which inspired many to run off with their tails between their legs to a cold and rainy island off the coast of France so they could be kicked around by the Vikings a few centuries later ).

Attila the Hun wasn't Hungarian. Hungarians are of central asian descent. They are not slavic.

No google or wiki - I think I'm right, but not positive.

ETA: I've checked wiki. Huns were not Hungarians, who were/are Magyars.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Spanky
Between the two, I don't know which one can claim superiority over the other but they both can claim superiority over my ethnic heritage. My family is pretty much all Anglo Saxon. The Hungarians, when they were working with Attila ran over my ancestors like a steamroller. The French put up a better fight against the Nazis than my ethnic kin did against the Hungarians. It is my understanding, that many Roman soldiers retired to Romania (it was called Dacia then) and then their descendents intermarried with Slavs who arrived later. So today’s Romanians are mainly a Slavic, Roman solider mix. The Roman army kicked the Angles and Saxons around Europe like a soccer ball for hundreds of years (enslaving many of them while they were at it) and the Slavs kicked the Angles and Saxons out of Bohemia and Poland without breaking a sweat (which inspired many to run off with their tails between their legs to a cold and rainy island off the coast of France so they could be kicked around by the Vikings a few centuries later ).

Spanky is a WASP......?

If you weren't on the west coast, I would swear you are someone in my office who is a serious history buff.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Attila the Hun wasn't Hungarian. Hungarians are of central asian descent. They are not slavic.

No google or wiki - I think I'm right, but not positive.

ETA: I've checked wiki. Huns were not Hungarians, who were/are Magyars.

The Displaced Dog's ancestors came to Hungary with the Magyars about 1000 years ago.

Still, most people mistake him for Jamacian.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You know I have no problem with drunks.

Yay! Meet me at Aura at 5:30 for UF.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Displaced Dog's ancestors came to Hungary with the Magyars about 1000 years ago.

Still, most people mistake him for Jamacian.

I can see that.

Apropos of nothing, I was discussing Key West with someone the other day and concluded that Key West bums have a better life than mine.