beer
 

Have you had http://www.therazz.com/images/leinenkugel.gif or http://thebottlecapman.com/images/Us...s/Pfeiffer.jpg beer? Never heard of either of them outside of the midwest.

In fact, my freshman year roomate, who entered with enough AP and whatever other college course credits to be a junior, discovered beer for the first time and would drink a CASE (no exaggeration) of this piss EVERY DAY. All he had to do was pass the next class up (junior level) in like 5 different courses and he would have been a year from graduating. Instead, he ended up selling everything he owned to buy beer and would hang out on the floor waiting for people to come back from class so he could play Spit or Asshole or whatever card game. Failed out after the first year.

Thurgreed(and he was the only alcoholic roomate I had you vicious bastards)Marshall

Plea for Help
 

Please add this to our list of differences:

ncs: sucks up to fringey. Sings happy songs in a depressing way.
nfh: would never suck up to fringey ever, not in this lifetime. Doesn't sing.

While we are on gay shows
 

Mistress Pussy, actually.

beer
 

They sell Leinenkugel down here (again, central market), but I had it in Minnesota.

While we are on gay shows
 

Wow, you must be desperate.


And, Mistress Pussy it is.

beer
 

Leinie, man. Give me a hell yea! Another fine product of western Wisconsin. Chippewa Falls.

Leinie Red is actually some pretty good stuff.

Canadian beer
 

Just because it is sort of topical (and educational), I give you the latest (Canadian) patriotic offering from Molson that landed in my in-box this afternoon. It made me homesick.

http://www.iam.ca/toast/molson_final.swf

(needs sound and warning - gratuitous beaver shot)

Canadian beer
 

I favored the black squirrel shot. What's up with the Scot accent on the guy? Showing diversity of drunks from all booze driven countries?

Canadian beer
 

That's the idea, I think. Where I grew up, many people have Scottish or Irish accents. Lots of people came over in the 60's and 70's from there and have not lost their accents.

weekend time
 

Anyone seen a good movie recently? I'm ready to go the movies for the first time in a while, and I'd like some recommendations.

Leinenkugel's gets my thumbs-up. I even toured the brewery, back in the day. I was probably one of the few people to bicycle across several state lines to get there.

weekend time
 

Winged Migration and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are my two next sees.

Which may mean, though, when they come to blockbuster.

beer
 

You people drink weird shit. I have never heard of any of the beers you've been discussing. Outside of Molsons. And Coors.
In high school we drank Lucky, Rainier or Heidelberg. Or Bud when we got our allowances. Schmidt animal beer was strictly college.

weekend time
 

If you haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean, I'd highly recommend that. I'm headed to Once Upon a Time in Mexico at some point this weekend.

weekend time
 

American Splendor. If you haven't read any, try and read some of the comics first. I think they are on the net.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

An uncle of mine was a Gennie Cream Ale distributor. I've had plenty of those beer balls. Also had Iron City and Iron City Light in beer balls.

Anyone ever try Golden Anniversary? Only a couple of bucks a case, but nasty!

Anne
Don't play kickball in bare feet with an empty beer ball.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Don't know why, but that reminded me of playing beer croquet. Now that's good times.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Beer croquet? I'm not familiar with that event.

Leinie's aren't bad. First had them in Minnesota, found them at a beer store in Jersey, and was shocked to find a Leinie's brew pub outside of the Diamondbacks stadium.

Another favorite from HS was Heffenreffer aka Green Monsters. They (and Ballentine) had the puzzle caps, but you usually couldn't see straight enough to read them.

Anne
Trivia tidbit: the original Sam Adams Brewery in Boston is located in the old Heffenreffer brewery.

Package Stores
 

We have our share of pakis in Los Angeles too, but they run the gas stations down in Inglewood. The ones with the really slow pumps. They don't speak English very well.

Greedy, me, and Amazon women on the moon.
 

Mmmmm, martinis. I'll bring the fixings and tend bar.

Oh, and my favorite oppressed animal food is anything caught fleeing after I've set fire to a patch of rain forest.

CDF (once you've had meat smoked on the hoof, you'll never go back)

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

It's basically just croquet. The twist is that you must keep your beer on your person at all times when playing, including when whacking the ball with your mallet. Leads to both drunkeness and creative beer holding technique.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Sounds a little like bowling.

And is it too much to ask just to go home at a reasonable hour on a Friday just once? Just once!

I don't see what the problem is here...
 

Surprisingly, I have no earthly idea. Sounds like a recockulous superstition to me. Feel free to PM me if you want your ear talked off about the Donatist heresy, though.

Greedy, me, and Amazon women on the moon.
 

Okay, now you're just being mean.

It's kinda cool, too.

(I was gonna just say "the anger . . . .", but decided not to.)

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Leinie's are easy to find in most Chicago-area liquor, grocery and drug stores and they advertise pretty regularly on local radio. Drank it in college as well, as they used to sponsor tailgate tents for football at Playa U (obscure reference to last week's MNF telecast player introductions, bonus points to anyone who knows the school's real name).

They do some nice seasonal brews. Much better than Old Style, which for some reason people here (Cubs fans, mainly) consider a semi-local delicacy... Of the local beers, I prefer the offerings from Goose Island Brewery.

Oh, the swill I drank in HS and college. Coming from a semi-rural area, when I was at home we'd spend time cruising around drinking pretty much anything we could get, including RWB, Stag, generic, Hamms, PBR, Busch, you name it... BTW, I've had Wisconsin Club, and it is NAS-TY!! Used to be like $4 a CASE... aftertaste of raw sewage.

Great Moments in Film Criticism
 

Pauline Kael would be so proud...

Spree: David Edelstein's partially salacious yet glowing review of the new Bill Murray vehicle Lost in Translation.

She does have quite an eye. The director's Tokyo (and that of her cinematographer, Lance Accord) is all pockets of glowing neon light in the darkness. The movie has few tight close-ups: It's all about the characters' uncertain relationship to the space. Only the movie's first shot is a head-scratcher: a rear view of Johansson on a hotel bed, with her butt crack visible through sheer pink panties as she stares through the window at the high-rises of Tokyo. The meaning of this image is less transparent than Johansson's attire, but my guess is that Coppola wants us to see the whole film as the vaguely erotic dream of an alienated young woman. She wants to make this woman's detachment from this culture, and from her own body, hypnotically sexy, and to put the longing for human connection into your bloodstream from the first frame. But I was mostly thinking about her butt crack.

I'm guessng old Prince Akala didn't look closely enough at LawTalkers records.

Just saying...we have neither good records, nor credentials, nor, you know, money.

It is nice to be called President/CEO. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

(I think these are my favorite scam emails.)

And oh, I'll be exporting you all forthwith!



CHIEF AUDITOR-NNPC ATTENTION:THE PRESIDENT/CEO,
My name is PRINCE. JENKINS AKALA . I have taken enough time to study
your personal and business profile through business enquiry.
And I am very much impressed by your good records and credentials.
...

This sum of US $35M which my other
two colleagues and I have discovered are from over-invoicing
and inflated prices. ...We wish to use your facilities for this purpose. Your role is to provide your bank account (preferably your company's account) where we can transfer the funds at once. and I have agreed that you will receive 30% of the total sum ... which may include investment in your country according
to your guide, and exportation of your products to Nigeria according to market viability.

...

Yours Sincerely,

PRINCE. JENKINS AKALA.

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

Has this ever happened to you? You are in bed. You cannot sleep. Neither can the person who is supposed to be sleeping next to you. It's not that one of you cannot sleep and the tossing and turning is keeping the other awake. No. It is - spontaneous mutual insomnia. :eek:

We tried watching a really bad movie about women in prison. We had sex. We watched some of Bull Durham. We had sex again. We played name that tune. Finally, at 3:30, we got up, got dressed, and went out for waffles.

Then at 5:00 am, sleep. :sleep: If only the alarm had not then gone off at 7:00. . .

Reel fiction beats real fiction
 

Originally posted by ias_39


Originally posted by dtb

Yes, Beckinsdale was brunette; her hair was noticeably darker (maybe black) in the "Underworld" preview, and I remembered wrong.

Great Moments in Film Criticism
 

Scarlett has made ME shiver ever since I saw Ghost World. Mmmmmm, Scarlett Johansson. Mmmmmmmm.

str8.

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

I think you'll find that this happens more frequently around the full moon. This happens to me all the time, my husband calls me a vampire. It happens usually to "lunar" people I am told - lunar being those of us affected by the moon phases. Some people are immune. Perhaps you 2 are both lunar (or lunatics) and that would explain it. Husband never forgets to remind me that there's a full moon.

This affected my mother also - I blame her. Husband is totally immune of course.

Greedy, me, and Amazon women on the moon.
 

I am being mean, but I'm no longer angry. I'm just having fun. :)

(True to my moniker, I'm a mostly reactive personality. If someone repeatedly pokes sticks between the bars of my cage, I tend to bite back hard in return.)

By the way, it's a good thing that no one who takes the rain forest reaalllly seriously is reading my posts. I wouldn't want a person like that to burst a blood vessel just because of a comment on a silly internet chat board.

Ooops, gotta go. The crispy parrot-on-a-stick is almost done.

CDF

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

There are good movies about women in prison?

I frequently have insomnia, so if the person with whom I am sleeping has it it wouldn't be all that unusual for us both to have it.

I've learned, when I am having it on my own to get out of bed so I don't disturb the other person, but sometimes, it seems to disturb them when I do that.

What do people do when they have insomnia and the other person is able to sleep?

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

I usually read when I have insomnia. I usually read to go to sleep during the week too, so reading is my sleep-inducing thing. That's why I'm always looking for good books.

TV can work too, but that usually takes longer than reading. Of course occasionally the books keep me up if I'm really into them, but that is fairly rare.

Oh, and, if nothing else works, sex (if companion in bed) or erotica plus vibrator (if alone) can get me ready for sleep...

Purity
 

I've always interpreted the question to refer toeither an STD or a urinary tract infection, hence, I've always answered no.

I didn't take the test this year, but I've done nothing to change my score from years past, so I didn't feel the need.

Tax(I was a baaaaaaad boy)wonk

I did not lick the eyeball of that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
 

Every time I see your signature, I think of bed n' breakfast. Which, now that I think of, it rather appropos for this crowd.

I did not lick the eyeball of that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
 

You assume she answered "no" to that one. Also, that I would repeat last year's offer.

Bitch please.

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

The OM and I have been suffering from dueling bouts of insomnia recently, so we are taking melatonin. It's helped reset our sleep cycle and we're sleeping much better.

I am a light sleeper, so if he wakes up and turns on his light to read or the tv, we can have a mutherfucking problem. Sometimes he is able to and it is fine, sometimes, he goes to the living room, and sometimes, he just decides 5 am is the perfect time to head to the office to get a jump on the day.

When I am laying awake and he is asleep, I decorate random rooms in my head. I figure out the layout, style, colors, fabrics, furniture. It relaxes me, though not as much as notcase's technique.

If that doesn't do it, a tylenol pm or benadryl takes the edge off.

Edited to add: damn, when did I get so freakin old?

Spontaneous Mutual Insomnia
 

No, but that is why they usually make good sleep aids.

Great Moments in Film Criticism
 

I just saw this - it is a great movie that works on many levels. There are some pacing issues; I think maybe Coppola couldn't decide which of Murray's funny ad libs to cut. But the obligatory karaoke scene is handled wonderfully, and the shots of Tokyo and Kyoto are magical.

I did not lick the eyeball of that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
 

So, in my lifetime here, my moniker has been connected to a style of hotel and a barbeque sauce.

Hmmmm....wonder what that says about me?

Bn'(great on pork ribs, and a nice place to spend a long weekend)B