Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Open Thread

I'll be offline for a couple of days, so feel free to engage in wide ranging philosophical discussions without me.

24 comments:

RebeccaH said...

I'll start. I was walking my dog this morning and got rushed by a gang --- a shih tsu, a chihuahua mix, and a cat. Apparently they all live in the same house, and they don't want you on their sidewalk.

rinardman said...

--- a shih tsu, a chihuahua mix, and a cat, walked into a bar...

rinardman said...

Have you noticed, since liberals took over the education system, people are getting stupid?

Coincidence?

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... Rebecca, I take these were separate incidents, or it's time to move when the critters form gangs. The cat was the leader, of course.

Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes Paco to get withdrawal symptoms and posts again?

rinardman said...

Eric Holder: people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat

Ah, so, now we know the basis for Obo's foreign policy & national defense.

Run away! Run away!

kc said...

Talk amongst yourselves, I'll go brew some sweet tea...

mojo said...

So: Bourbon or Tequila?

SwampWoman said...

Tequila, please.

bruce said...

'...and a cat'

Yes I always suspected cats are 'moles', just waiting for a signal to make war on us. I never bought the act.

bruce said...

But if we fatten them up till they can hardly move I think the danger is minimised. Unless they use mind control.

Anonymous said...

Deborah ....Hey! Where's that meade that was stashed...Wron!

JeffS said...

No mead? Well, I'll take bourbon, thank you.

TimT said...

RebeccaH great starter! And Rinardman reminds me of that joke that makes sense when spoken:

"I went to the animal sanctuary the other day. But it was just a dog in a cage. It was a Shih Tsu."

TimT said...

We rebottled our mead the other day - ie, filtered out the dead or inactive yeast and funnelled it into a new 1 gallon/5 litre demijohn. I did some tests to try and work out how alcoholic it was and it took me three gos - first test said it was over '1000 per cent alcohol', second, over '130 per cent alcohol', and the third was a relatively acceptable '11-and-a-bit per cent alcohol'. Well, I know the yeast *was* very active, and the sugar content between initial brew-day one and a half months ago and re-bottle day now dropped by quite a large amount. Still, 1000 per cent alcohol!

We have bees so come summer I look forward to hopefully being able to do another batch of mead.

RebeccaH said...

--- a shih tsu, a chihuahua mix, and a cat, walked into a bar...

They each ordered a Limearita, and the bartender said, "You people are animals."

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... TimT, does Wron have your address?

TimT said...

I'm sure he does but our mead is a bit too young for him to be interested in I hear.... apparently he's more into the 4th millenium BC vintage.

TimT said...

If there was Sumerian mead it's a surprise they didn't prefer it over their beer. Early Sumerian beer - gloopy stuff, bread that had got a bit too wet basically - was so messy and gunky and clouded that it had to be drunk with straws. By contrast mead would have provided the same pleasant intoxication effects without being anywhere near as messy and probably with a residual sweetness - the yeasts, wild or cultivated, used probably weren't that strong.

rinardman said...

Any of you old Blairites remember this - http://static.flickr.com/28/46101050_0a9075a492_o.jpg

mojo said...

Hey, who the hell drank all the bourbon?...

Minicapt said...

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/she_was_called_margo_kingston/

Cheers

JeffS said...

HAW! I do remember that one, r-man!

TimT, as I understand it, Sumerian "beer" was actually food that you could drunk from. Like jello shots, only messier and less tasty.

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... TimT, he isn't that picky. Wron doesn't waste the opportunity for booze based on a millennia.

Mojo, did you check the Tardis?

Anonymous said...

Deborah .... Welcome back, Paco. But it was a bit preemptive according to your notification, and verified by the Practical Astronomical Calculating Object.