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QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 10:37 AM) You pulling that from memory or tasting notes? Both, sort of. That was in 2002, so I had stopped taking exhaustive notes a few years prior to that. It was on a Thanksgiving trip back to Chicago when I was making a point of drinking as much Goose Island, Three Floyds and New Glarus brews as I could though, so they were definitely the objects of a hard target search. But I also was able to look back at an earlier post I made here about the New Glarus and another one I had made on a homebrew board back in 2002 shortly after I had sampled those ("Gravity Thrills" = me, as if you couldn't tell by the typos). Great recipe formulation tools site that I used to be a junkie at until the demands of the stoopid real world put homebrewing on hiatus.

Peter Garret, the scary, bald, Hills-Have-Eyes-looking front man from Midnight Oil back in the day is going to be the new Environmental Minister. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7118265.stm

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 29, 2007 -> 01:13 AM) If you're fighting for labor support, three weeks before a caucus in a state that labor can have a real effect on, you aren't crossing that picket line. Most of those candidates wouldn't dare. It would be insulting to the labor movement in general. And the first rule of politics is you don't s*** in the bed you've made. And the Democrat's bed is Union Made. Have the debate somewhere else with a different moderator. that ^^^

QUOTE(Brian @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 05:47 PM) Who put other and what is it? my topper is a Father Christmas-style Santa.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 06:37 PM) Me and my buddy went through a full bottle Wednesday night before going out for the worst bar night of the year but we had ourselves an amazing time. Mixed: Jameson and Ginger Ale is amazing by the way. Beer: Guiness, only in Europe though (preferably Ireland). Murhpys in a can in the states. New Glarus Spotted Cow. Wine: Eye of the beholder New Glarus is a brewery I give a lot of credit to for pulling off novel but stylistly faithful versions of lagers and ales equally well. I wish I could get their stuff with more regularity. I had a farmhouse ale from them probably 5 years ago that I think was the beer that became what they are now calling Spotted Cow. The same evening I had an unfiltered lager from them that they just referred to as a zywiecbier that I think is what they are now calling the Yokel lager. They were both really lively, fresh interpretations that used a combination of European and domestic ingredients to great effect. I couldn't believe both beers came from the same brewery, as typically it seems that breweries that nail their lagers fall down on the ales and vice versa. Mmmm.

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 12:10 PM) http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14713468/detail.html Stuff like this, rarely reported nationally, does so much to protect our environment. Yes it does. Major land acquisitions for preservation purposes are big-money things but are vital to the success of conservation ecology.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 10:52 AM) "Out you two pixies go, through the door or out the window!" :headbang NICK!!

QUOTE(Brian @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 10:31 PM) Am I the only one who ever watched "Nestor, the Long Ear Christmas Donkey"? No, but you may be the only one who liked it.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 28, 2007 -> 09:12 AM) Any favorite hot toddy's? Hot toddys?!? You have really embraced being old as dirt haven't you?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) Just seeing that word on screen made my body shiver and break out into that cold sweat like right before I puke. ^^^^ Most vile concoction known to man.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 04:21 PM) I should have known! We've got something here in Mpls. that you'd like, if you're into hops. The Furious, in particular. I'm a certifiable hophead for sure. I've not been lucky enough to sample anything from That place – I assume it's fairly new? Hmm, come to think of it, other than Summit, Schell, the defunct first James Page, and Cold Spring (now Gluek owns them I guess), I don't think I've had anything else out of Minnesota. Not much regional micro stuff makes it out to the Beer Wasteland that is Florida.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 03:03 PM) Jim, try some Kostritzer if you can find some. It's worth a search. Ah, the Schwartz is with you. Kostritzer is a long-time favorite of mine and the schwarzbier style is my favorite German dark lager style. Gooood stuff.

QUOTE(dasox24 @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 09:01 PM) Before voting, I knew that "A Christmas Story" would have the most votes. I don't get the infatuation with that movie. I like it, but it always seems to be everyone's favorite. As for my favorites: Home Alone, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Christmas Vacation. I can't really say which I like better b/c I always make it a point to watch all of those for Xmas. It may be a generational thing, where those of us that were kids when it came out like it more than younger kids do. To us, it was Messy Marvin from the chocolate milk TV ads and the Kolchak the Nightstalker in a quirky movie about a kid who wants a BB gun for Christmas. It's just so Shep, and so midwest, and so everyman's Christmas. . . It's a definitely a top 10 fave film of mine.

Here's a recent one destined to be a classic, though it's prokaryotes and not animals: Species of Blue-Green Algae Announces IPO.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 08:15 AM) I am a little surprised there isn't more love for Holiday Inn or White Christmas. You have really embraced your old-fartedness, haven't you? Seriously, I woun't turn either of those off if I happen across them, but they are not must-watch seasonal films in the way that Wonderful Life or The Sim Christmas Carol is for me.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 03:30 AM) The person this really sucks for is the MS voter. He/she putt Lott back in for a six year term last year. If Lott was so bored with the Senate then, why did he want re-election? If he knew in advance how 2006 was going to go down at the polls, I'm sure he'd have retired earlier. I think Rove and the WH put a ton of pressure on most senior GOP legislators to all run for re-election regardless of how burned out they were. Karl had his math after all, you know.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 27, 2007 -> 02:33 AM) Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Deuce is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. And I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes Come spend the night inside my sugar walls And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty. Yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall. Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon Gonna get high as a kite by then She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico. No, he couldn't look much stranger. I don't want a pickle. I just want to ride my motor-sicle. I like smoke and lightning...Heavy metal thunder. Fat-Bottom Girls you make the rockin' world go 'round. Get on 'yer bikes and ride! Ride, take a free ride, take my place. Have my seat, its for free. Oh, anything I want he gives it to me. Anything I want he gives it, but not for free – It's hateful! You got to get it up, get it up. You got to get it up, get it up, yeah you got to give it to me. Rock me baby, rock me baby all night long. Rock me gently, rock me slowly, take it easy, don't you know that I have never been loved like this before. So do that to me one more time. Once is never enough. One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. I'm a soldier. A lonely soldier, away from home. A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot, remembers the words "Thou shalt not kill". Said he's dangerous, armed and extremely dangerous. You're a notch and I'm a legend. Twenty dollars will make you die. I love the dead before they're cold. Dead babies can't take care of themselves. Helpless, helpless, helpless. Baby can you hear me now? Don't say words you're gonna regret. Its only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away. See the rapper's problem usually stems from being tone deaf. Pack the house and try to sing, there won't be no one left. You'll find him anywhere. On a bus, in a bar, in a grocery store. It's just that I am not in the market for a boy who wants to love only me. My Mama told me you better shop around. Big-legged woman, come and hold my hand. Lawdy mama, no need to worry. I will carry you home in my teeth Ahhhh Oooooh ... Werewolf of London Why don't you stay for the night (Night!), or maybe a bite (Bite!) From my laboratory in the castle east to the master bedroom where the vampires feast Not just any kind of burger will do, I'm being hit by those White Castle Blues. I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz Fifty-seven and French fried potatoes. Onions, onions, la la la, onions, onions, ha ha ha. Ob-la-di Ob-la-da life goes on brahhh...Lala how the life goes on. Life, Life, Clouds and clowns, You don't have to come down. Life is a carnival--its in the book. Life is a carnival--take another look. If I'm not the sole fool who pulls his trousers down. . . then Dear Madame Barnum, I resign as clown.

Just got back from a camping trip and 4 days of drinking what has become my standard camping beer menu for the past 4 years: • Pilsner Urquell • Hoegarden Belgian Witbier • Sierra Pale Ale • Newcastle Brown Those are all readily available throughout the US, but each one of them is the stylistic archetype (the "ur" beer) for their particular beer style. If you stock your fridge with those four beers you will impress even the most jaded of beer snobs. And if you add Guinness, London Pride, and a Bavarian weiss and festbier they will accept you into the club as a full-fledged beer snob. Now that I'm home, I'm drinking the last few six packs of the 2006 Sierra Celebration Ale reserves in anticipation of the 2007 vintage hitting the shelves in a week or so.

QUOTE(hogsmom @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 09:13 PM) We swam there during a visit to my parents place. The water was cold and the alligators came out during the rain. It was cool! My Cracker wife says it's too cold for her, but me and the kids swam for a good hour before they're chattering teeth convinced me I'd better drag them out. My cold-tolerance has certainly diminished in the almost 20 years down here, but as long as the air temperature is in the 70s or above I'll swim in 72º water all day. Or at least until hypothermia sets in.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 11:32 PM) http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idU...ndChannel=10000 Maybe they'll go with one of those cheesy Halloween fan-blown orange silk dealies.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 11:59 PM) Hey look, this is kinda making problems for Mississippi. Turns out state law says that if a Senator resigns in MS during a year that is not an election year, the governor must call a special election and the seat will remain vacant until this special election happens. So if Trent Lott resigns in 2007, MS has to have a special election (which may end up costing the RSCC a lot of money that they don't have.) If Trent Lott resigns in 2008, Barbour gets to appoint a Senator to hold the spot until the November election - BUT Lott no longer gets a non-stop ticket to K street and instead has to wait two years before he can become a lobbyist. Interesting twist indeed. If the resignation is not much at all to do with getting into a lucrative lobbying gig under the wire, as Lott suggested today, then he should have no problem holding off on resigning until january for the sake of the Mississippi GOP. If he decides to go forward with the resignation in 2007 and knowingly screw over his party in MS, then it's probably safe to say it's simply a go-for-the-money move. The pending Flynt "bombshell" notwithstanding, that is. It would be something if it was Trent he's been alluding to, no matter what the nature of the scandal is.

Best Onion Animal Story Ever! "I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, 'Holy fµ*k.'"

:cheers Wonderful news!

QUOTE(G&T @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 10:32 AM) The answer is Jenks. All he needs is a couple shots of whiskey and he should be ready to go. Right on. And then they play that "Pop Goes the Weasel" song and he goes all crazy and beats everybody up. . . No, wait, that was Curly from the Three Stooges. Dang, I always get him and Jenks mixed up.