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		|  12-09-2008, 02:45 PM | #2206 |  
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					Originally Posted by ironweed  Dean Venture, at the very least. 
 My bill is over $300, and I know it is because of the crapped-out fridge in the basement that is always running when I go down to get a beer out of it.  But I can't get rid if it - it's the beer fridge.  It has nothing but beer in it.  My beer.  Nothing else.
 
 The beer fridge means more to me than mere money.
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		|  12-09-2008, 02:52 PM | #2207 |  
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					Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone  Your problem is bottles.  You need to put a keg in that fridge.  And run the tap through the door.  No more opening the fridge multiple times per day, leading to much energy savings.  Also, much less packaging waste.  It's the green thing to do.
 Happy to be doing my part to save the Earth.
 |  Opening the door and seeing the massed ranks of shiny bottles with their cheerful labels is an essential part of The Beer Fridge Experience.  I explore.  I find the last bottle of something I thought I had run out of.  Pondering my choices, I cannot hear the meter whirr.  
 
A beer keg in a tapped fridge turns one's basement into a wood-panelled, shag carpeted, likely nautically-decorated graveyard of choice.  It is the beer in the fridge (probably Genny Cream Ale, judging by my experience with these things) or nothing.  Where is the joy in that?  No offense. |  
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:08 PM | #2208 |  
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					Originally Posted by ironweed  Opening the door and seeing the massed ranks of shiny bottles with their cheerful labels is an essential part of The Beer Fridge Experience.  I explore.  I find the last bottle of something I thought I had run out of.  Pondering my choices, I cannot hear the meter whirr.  
 A beer keg in a tapped fridge turns one's basement into a wood-panelled, shag carpeted, likely nautically-decorated graveyard of choice.  It is the beer in the fridge (probably Genny Cream Ale, judging by my experience with these things) or nothing.  Where is the joy in that?  No offense.
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Go ahead and rape Mother Earth, if that's your thing.  Anally, even.  And nautical decore is wayyy underrated.  Ahoy!
 
My current beer is even green.  It's a Portland thing; folks in Jersey wouldn't get it, I suppose.
   
I do still have to open the main fridge to get the holiday beers and the Belgians.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:09 PM | #2209 |  
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					Originally Posted by dtb  This man who has a kid in my sons' tae kwon do class stays every week to watch his kid in the class, and then about half way through the class, leaves for a little bit, and comes back just REEKING of weed.  
 Do you think maybe he just doesn't realize how obvious it is, or he just doesn't care?
 
 Why can't he just wait another 15 minutes to get baked at home?
 |  He can't get baked at home because Mom won't let him smoke in the house.  She doesn't want to set a bad example for the kids.  He probably assumes the kids don't know what the smell is (which, given the kids' ages may  be true.  You, he could care less if you know.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:10 PM | #2210 |  
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					Originally Posted by ironweed  A beer keg in a tapped fridge turns one's basement into a wood-panelled, shag carpeted, likely nautically-decorated graveyard of choice.  It is the beer in the fridge (probably Genny Cream Ale, judging by my experience with these things) or nothing.  Where is the joy in that?  No offense. |  Au contraire, my good man. Dad kept Stanwix in his. And our basement was unfinished -- he had his workshop down there. But the one he made for a neighbor went into such a basement (though it stocked regular Genny, not the Cream Ale). The one he made for my uncle stocked Utica Club, and is still in the detached garage. |  
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:14 PM | #2211 |  
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					Originally Posted by ironweed  Opening the door and seeing the massed ranks of shiny bottles with their cheerful labels is an essential part of The Beer Fridge Experience.  I explore.  I find the last bottle of something I thought I had run out of.  Pondering my choices, I cannot hear the meter whirr.  
 A beer keg in a tapped fridge turns one's basement into a wood-panelled, shag carpeted, likely nautically-decorated graveyard of choice.  It is the beer in the fridge (probably Genny Cream Ale, judging by my experience with these things) or nothing.  Where is the joy in that?  No offense.
 |  I have to agree. Sticking with one beer all the time would be harder for me than monogamy. Both at the same time? Unpossible.
 
Maybe that's why Hank is always dreaming he's fathered so many children beyond his own marriage.
 
Hank, change out the keg of Labatt's for a variety pack of Michelob. We'll get to the Sam Adams variety pack next week. Don't rush it.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:15 PM | #2212 |  
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					Originally Posted by Not Bob  The one he made for my uncle stocked Utica Club, and is still in the detached garage. |  Very wise.  Utica Club, like vampires, should never be invited into your home. |  
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:16 PM | #2213 |  
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					Originally Posted by Not Bob  Au contraire, my good man. Dad kept Stanwix in his. And our basement was unfinished -- he had his workshop down there. But the one he made for a neighbor went into such a basement (though it stocked regular Genny, not the Cream Ale). The one he made for my uncle stocked Utica Club, and is still in the detached garage. |  Take care, NotBob.  I suspect that Weed has given this issue broad and deep thought, and he should be approached with caution.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:19 PM | #2214 |  
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					Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone  Your problem is bottles.  You need to put a keg in that fridge.  And run the tap through the door.  No more opening the fridge multiple times per day, leading to much energy savings.  Also, much less packaging waste.  It's the green thing to do.
 Happy to be doing my part to save the Earth.
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Yeah.  That's what Ollie's done with the jumbo wine boxes he gets over to the Costco, and the quality hasn't dropped off at all.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:20 PM | #2215 |  
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					Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone  Go ahead and rape Mother Earth, if that's your thing.  Anally, even.  And nautical decore is wayyy underrated.  Ahoy! 
My current beer is even green.  It's a Portland thing; folks in Jersey wouldn't get it, I suppose.
   
I do still have to open the main fridge to get the holiday beers and the Belgians. |  It may be a Portland thing, since my BIL has one there too.  Yes, it is only one type of beer, but those microbrews come in the 5 gallon canisters, not the 15.5 gallon barrels, so the change out is fairly frequent.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:22 PM | #2216 |  
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					Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone  My current beer is even green.  It's a Portland thing; folks in Jersey wouldn't get it, I suppose. |  We have St. Patrick's Day here too, Mr. West Coast Hipster.  
 
But there is no bottle deposit in New Jersey.  I was shocked.  People here get rid of their bottles by driving them one at a time in Humvees to recently cleared land in the pine barrens and throwing them onto giant piles of burning tires and plastic bags.  It's quite something to watch, and accounts for the smell. |  
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:23 PM | #2217 |  
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					Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone  Go ahead and rape Mother Earth, if that's your thing.  Anally, even.  And nautical decore is wayyy underrated.  Ahoy! 
My current beer is even green.  It's a Portland thing; folks in Jersey wouldn't get it, I suppose.
   
I do still have to open the main fridge to get the holiday beers and the Belgians. |  I no longer take beer advice from you, Mr. Celebration Ale.  The only celebration in my household involving that beverage occurred when we passed the last one off to some unsuspecting guest.
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:32 PM | #2218 |  
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					Originally Posted by ironweed  Opening the door and seeing the massed ranks of shiny bottles with their cheerful labels is an essential part of The Beer Fridge Experience.  I explore.  I find the last bottle of something I thought I had run out of.  Pondering my choices, I cannot hear the meter whirr. |   Are you saying that you drink them so fast that a FIFO approach is abandoned upon your willy nilly whim of what you have a taste for each time you open the fridge?
 
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:38 PM | #2219 |  
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					Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall  Are you saying that you drink them so fast that a FIFO approach is abandoned upon your willy nilly whim of what you have a taste for each time you open the fridge?
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		|  12-09-2008, 03:43 PM | #2220 |  
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					Originally Posted by Secret_Agent_Man  I've gotta say Hank is right on Jasmine.
 If you're hot for Ariel, Burger, you might wanna keep that to yourself.  PETA and all.
 
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 P.S.  Bottom line -- Ariel is a fish.  Snow White and Cinderella are basically asexual, and Princess Aurora (SB) is a bit too stiff -- maybe the many years of slumber, but you know she's not naughty in bed.  Belle is quite cute, but she's apparently into stuff I ain't, IYKWIMAITYD.  So Jasmine almost wins by default.
 |  I sort of dig the girl with the pink bob on LazyTown.....a real life cartoon if you will.....is she of a certain age?
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