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

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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.