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We don't need another / a new discussion to prove it.

It is as it is.

Let this "fred" (discussion thread) live under the theme .......

long live this family

brothers, sisters, brethern, dogs, cats and birds, ants and flees, water and air and gas and Clare and Jim and him and the window Simm (??) and you and me and he and she and we and them and us and puss (???) and fish and the dish (it's on) and paper and pen.

Yip.

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I still got Pullman Strike on the brain as the text couples with Train.  Or on the Braintree.  Pan, I think ya oughta do Sacco and Vanzetti (as performance art, of course). 

 

Ticker is fine.  They tacked in this little i-pod thingie ...just another damn thing to get under an ol man's skin. 

"Is Fascism Lurking?" "Lurking?"  Jesus Christ on a grinder.  "Lurking?"  Well, look at the events in the US between 1865 and 1915... fifty years.  Book em, Dan-o.  It landed like a bomb in Haymarket Square and put down roots for almost 40 years before another group of crazy Italians even gave it a name.   It's full-blown lead post with Grandpa Warbucks' picture.  It's center stage with all the lights up.  MAMMY!  All it wants to do is sell you something... and it don't wanna pay for anything you got.  especially now that they can get away with just flat-ass TAKING it

 

It's all part of a world where men kill rhinos so some clueless schmuck on the other side of the world can try to get his mojo workin.  I say it is possible to slip most of this... in fact most of us have done so.  Slipping it completely may be more difficult... and if it were simply a matter of being "tough," the rhino would not be having such a problem. 

 

Hey babe- there ain't no easy way out

 

Still like the Pullman Strike.   Don't know how I could convince the Arts Commission to give me a grant to go to Assisi to do research on it though.  So I'm reading the omnibus of source materials on St. Francis to see if I can get a hook.
Thought Curt would appreciate this:  archeological evidence about an ancient Celtic brewery.

Thanks, Bro. Much appreciated.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger

in German, it's called Bilsen Kraut. The Reinheitsgebot from 1516 may have been implemented to keep Bilsen Kraut out of our beer. Bilsen sounds a lot like Pilsen, doesn't it? Hmmmmmm.

Medieval brewers had used many problematic ingredients to preserve beers, including, for example soot and fly agaric mushrooms. More commonly, other "gruit" herbs had been used, such as stinging nettle and henbane. Indeed, the German name of the latter, Bilsenkraut, may originally mean "Plzeň herb", given that this region was a major centre of (low-quality) beer brewing long before the invention of (Reinheitsgebot-compliant) Pilsener.

The penalty for making impure beer was also set in the Reinheitsgebot: a brewer using other ingredients for his beer could have questionable barrels confiscated with no compensation.

Rosemary and lemonbalm beer sounds inviting, slightly stimulating it says in the comments of Pan's link.

 Took up drinking again a year ago, spoiled my 25 years of abstinence with that orange juice spiked with champagne at a formal dinner someone invited me to in error.  A mistake which may yet come home to roost and I am waiting in the bunker with my hands over my head still.

Haven't consumed vast quantities, chose carefully something that I wouldn't have to hurry.  Being careful, after all I mustn't break into song

the wall takes it up

and spreads it out in the wind so.

 

The very thought of singing has me in tears.  One glass of sherry a week perhaps.

Fine, absolutely fine, crying is normal in this house, emotional that's all.

My father sings all the time - when he is happy, when he is sad, when his working...  He has a lovely voice, used to lead singing at Sunday Mass.  Now he is called upon to sing at funerals.

Being raised Catholic, rather than Lutheran, we were an anomaly - the whole family sang loudly in harmony while the rest of the congregation mumbled miserably with much embarrassment.

 

Ms. Medusa insists that I brew a batch of sahti based upon the Finnish beer bittered with juniper branches and flavored with juniper berries  every winter.  I do include some hops in the recipe.  I've used dandelion leaves for bittering a wild rice beer when I realized that I had miscalculated the recipe and was low on hops.  Thinking about doing a sage beer.

20 years of abstinence under my belt. Always joked that I would start drinking again when I reached 70. If I make it that far, I figure all the time after is bonus-time and I might as well celebrate it. In my case, I'll be heading straight for the Southern Comfort.

 

Damn, I think the people in the trailer kattycorner from me were murdered or at least somebody died. The police, csi, and coroner were there most of the night. Police lady knocked on the door at about 8:30 pm to ask if I knew them, or to see if I had, I guess, seen anything. There's the usual crime screen tape and the police car parked out side of it this morning. Gonna go to our local news site and see if there's anything about it. Kinda un-nerving to say the least. Have the doors I usually have wide open closed and locked. I've lived here now for about 12 years and other then the occasional lawn mower theft there's never been any trouble.

Random murders are rare, so I would guess you have nothing to worry about. 

Let us know what you find out.

Pretty much all I know is the man living there was shot. But that's about it. The police car was still out front till about 3:00 pm yesterday then they pulled the tape and left. I never found anything on the news so I still have no real idea what happened. Oh well. Life in America, what're ya gonna do.

Auf Wiedersehn meine Bruder.  Im unser Deutsches Vaterland.  

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