| October 23rd, 2004 12:29 PM |
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| stewed & Keefed |
Well we start with my favorite three drinks.
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| October 23rd, 2004 02:36 PM |
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| Bloozehound |
tonight I've got a date live music, beer, scotch and some fine cigars
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| October 23rd, 2004 02:43 PM |
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| nankerphelge |
Nothing wrong with any of that!
Especially Jamesons and fine ceeeeeeeegars!
MMMmmmmmmm!
Had 3 Brown Ales for lunch!
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| October 23rd, 2004 02:59 PM |
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| stewed & Keefed |
And the perfect companion to Jameson
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| October 23rd, 2004 08:49 PM |
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| Bloozehound |
quote:
nankerphelge wrote:
Nothing wrong with any of that!
Especially Jamesons and fine ceeeeeeeegars!
no seeeeeeer!
There sure ain't.
speaking of which, it's R&R time
time to get rockin & rollin |
| October 23rd, 2004 09:08 PM |
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| nankerphelge |
Well I had meself a nice spicy Thai dinner and a bottle of Toasted Head Chardonay (13.5%, thank you very much). Now I am working off the remnants of last's night's bottle of red.
Wishin' I had one of them fine ceegars -- I have a soft spot for Macanudos. Okay, they are not top of the line and sometimes they burn shitty.
BUT
The Jamacian version is a nice spicy flavor that I like.
Also like Bolivars and Temple Hall Estates!!
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| October 24th, 2004 12:52 AM |
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| gypsy |
The above reads like a review from a true Howe alum! |
| October 24th, 2004 07:41 PM |
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| LadyJane |
Damn...I'm still recovering from last night!
Time to start again?????? Maybe just a little......
LJ.
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| October 24th, 2004 07:44 PM |
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| charlotte |
Us redheads can put away some drink and smoke...right LJ?!! |
| October 24th, 2004 07:46 PM |
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| LadyJane |
And then some...I blame the Irish bloodlines...and you??
LJ. |
| October 24th, 2004 07:48 PM |
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| charlotte |
Irish on one side/German on the other... |
| October 24th, 2004 07:50 PM |
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| LadyJane |
Who are you? My long lost brother? Same here.
LJ.
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| October 25th, 2004 05:37 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Drunken bees will help treat alcoholism
Experiments with drunken honey bees could unlock secrets to help scientists understand the effects of alcohol on the human brain and why people become alcoholics.
�On the molecular level, the brains of honey bees and humans work the same,� said Dr Julie Mustard, the study�s co-author and a postdoctoral researcher in entomology.
Mustard is one of a group of American scientists from Ohio State University who fed a sugar solution laced with alcohol to a group of bees in order to see how closely their actions resembled those of drunken humans.
The bees promptly became inebriated, paving the way for research into why we become addicted to alcohol and the way the drug affects our abilities to learn, remember things and socialise with each other.
Mustard explained that knowing how chronic alcohol use affects the genes and proteins in the honey-bee brain may help her to understand how alcoholism affects memory and behaviour in humans, as well as the molecular basis of addiction.
�I think we have to learn to help people who have a huge problem with alcoholism all over the world,� she said.
The behaviour of the drunken bees was familiar to anyone who has ever experienced that one drink too many. The larger the dose of ethanol � the intoxicating agent in alcoholic drinks � the less time the bees spent walking, flying or grooming themselves.
Instead, they fell over and lay motionless on their backs until they sobered up.
Mustard said the way the bees learned almost human behaviour entertained her team. The researchers trained the bees to associate a flower�s smell with a reward, in this case sugar water. The bee then learned to stick out its tongue because �when it smells that same smell it thinks that food is coming�.
Geraldine Wright, the study�s co-author, who is also a postdoctoral researcher in entomology, said she hopes to learn how drinking alcohol affects social behaviour as well as gaining a better understanding of the basic mechanisms that drive alcohol addiction and tolerance.
�Honey bees are very social animals, which makes them a great model for studying the effects of alcohol in a social context,� she said.
Wright added that they may be able to examine how ethanol affects the way a bee�s brain generates aggressive impulses and therefore learn how it affects humans.
�Many people get aggressive when they drink too much and we want to learn if ethanol consumption makes the normally calm, friendly honey bee more aggressive,� she said.
Mustard thinks that the bees� nature made them �great test subjects� for several reasons.
As well as being sociable and quick learners, bees spend a lot of time out foraging, she said. �They learn where the good nectar is then communicate the information back to the swarm through the honey-bee dance. We�d like to look at how alcohol affects that.�
Mustard conducted her tests on the common European honey bee, Apis mellifera. Tests on honey bees are very cheap, she explained, compared with mice or primates.
The work was presented yesterday at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego.
To conduct the research, they fastened the honey bees into a small harness made from a piece of drinking straw. The researchers then fed the bees on solutions made from sucrose and ethanol.
There were several con centrations of ethanol, ranging from 10% to 100%, mirroring the different strengths of alcoholic drinks. The 10% solution was equivalent to table wine while the 100% solution, which contained no sucrose, was equivalent to drinking 200 proof grain alcohol, Wright explained. One group of control bees were fed only the sucrose solution.
The scientists fed the bees and then observed them for 40 minutes, monitoring how much time each bee spent walking, standing still, grooming, flying and upside down on its back. The amount of ethanol in each bee�s blood increased with time and with the volume of drug that each bee had consumed.
The way a bee acted depended on how �drunk� it had become. The bees that had consumed the highest concentrations of ethanol � 50%, 75% and 100% � spent a majority of the observation period on their backs, unable to stand. They keeled over after only 10 minutes of the observation period and spent almost no time grooming or flying.
Mustard said these bees had lost postural control. �They couldn�t co-ordinate their legs well enough to flip themselves back over again,� she said.
The bees that had consumed the least amount of ethanol, a 10% solution, took 20 minutes to fall over and spent the least amount of time upside down.
Mustard said they would use this learning model to see how different doses of ethanol damage the bee�s brain, affecting memory and social skills.
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| October 25th, 2004 01:24 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
The way a bee acted depended on how �drunk� it had become. The bees that had consumed the highest concentrations of ethanol � 50%, 75% and 100% � spent a majority of the observation period on their backs.....
A control group of drunken RO females yielded similar results. |
| October 26th, 2004 03:24 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
I woke up one morning
I looked up on the wall
I saw a gang of roaches
Playing basketball
"Help me, help help me, Ronnie!" |
| October 26th, 2004 03:27 PM |
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| gypsy |
I'm worried about you, sirmoonie. |
| October 26th, 2004 10:30 PM |
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| parmeda |
Six days and counting...and this thread has only 16 posts to it?
Something is terribly wrong. |
| October 27th, 2004 06:38 AM |
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| LadyJane |
You know me Pammy...do it for the team...rest assured I'm doing my part!!! 
LJ. |
| October 27th, 2004 09:18 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
gypsy wrote:
I'm worried about you, sirmoonie.
7:45 AM CDT and my Ass is ALREADY Smelly !
Why ?!?! .............WHY ?!?!?!
Sassy Ass ! |
| October 27th, 2004 10:52 AM |
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| telecaster |
joey. Brush your tooth, tuck in your pajamas and slap on some SpeedStick
Let's go cocktailing
Have your gal call my gal
Cattleman's oh say....2pm? |
| October 27th, 2004 11:55 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
telecaster wrote:
joey. Brush your tooth, tuck in your pajamas and slap on some SpeedStick
Let's go cocktailing
Have your gal call my gal
Cattleman's oh say....2pm?
sounds good Tele ...................
Let me hose off and I will meet you at The Cattleman's promptly at 2:00 PM CDT !
W- W- W- What ?!?! .................Oh , sure ! :
http://www.ultimatedallas.com/ |
| October 27th, 2004 01:54 PM |
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| parmeda |
For Nanky...
A professor is sent to darkest Africa to live with a primitive tribe. He spends years with them, teaching them Reading, Writing, Math, and Science.
One day the wife of the tribe's chief gives birth to a white child. The members of the tribe are shocked, and the chief pulls the professor aside and says, "Look here! You're the only white man we've ever seen and this woman gave birth to a white child. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened!"
The professor replied, "No, Chief. You're mistaken. What you have here is a natural occurrence... what we in the civilized world call an albino! Look at that field over there. All of the sheep are white except for one black one. Nature does this on occasion."
The chief was silent for a moment, then said, "Tell you what. You don't say anything more about the sheep and I won't say anything more about the baby." |
| October 27th, 2004 02:04 PM |
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| Joey |
quote:
parmeda wrote:
For Nanky...
A professor is sent to darkest Africa to live with a primitive tribe. He spends years with them, teaching them Reading, Writing, Math, and Science.
One day the wife of the tribe's chief gives birth to a white child. The members of the tribe are shocked, and the chief pulls the professor aside and says, "Look here! You're the only white man we've ever seen and this woman gave birth to a white child. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened!"
The professor replied, "No, Chief. You're mistaken. What you have here is a natural occurrence... what we in the civilized world call an albino! Look at that field over there. All of the sheep are white except for one black one. Nature does this on occasion."
The chief was silent for a moment, then said, "Tell you what. You don't say anything more about the sheep and I won't say anything more about the baby."
Pam....................................
You make Joey sniggle .
*** Young Joey now hunched over his computer , cupping his hand to his mouth and giggling to himself ***
www.RachelFuller.com
Sassy ! |
| October 27th, 2004 07:53 PM |
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| egon |
not posting so much at the moment as i'm still on holiday.
but i'm still drinking!!!
tonight heinekens at flagstaff. yes, they do sell them here. (weather's shit though....) |
| October 27th, 2004 08:35 PM |
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| LadyJane |
egon???? egon????? Is that really you???
We've missed you...I can't believe you are in the States.
Enjoy!
LJ.
PS..You ARE coming back next year...for the Tour and RO gathering!!! |
| October 27th, 2004 11:08 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
Halloween is coming up. Thats got to be one of life's more sublime pleasures - getting piss staggering drunk in a gorilla suit. I can hardly wait! |
| October 29th, 2004 01:43 PM |
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| stewed & Keefed |
One hour to stella time  |
| October 29th, 2004 06:24 PM |
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| Trey Krimsin |
I have a three day weekend and I've got the Heineken in the fridge, getting ice cold. It will be ready by 8:30. Hope I don't doze off after the first one. |
| October 29th, 2004 06:30 PM |
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| nankerphelge |
"getting piss staggering drunk in a gorilla suit."
Yeah buddy!!
This year I think I am staying home, getting -- how do you say - piss staggering drunk - and scaring the B'Jeezus out of lil' kids!!!
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| October 29th, 2004 06:32 PM |
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| Trey Krimsin |
I think I'll pretend I;m a geyser and spew beer at some kids.
Wait. That's wasting beer.
I hate it when I have bad ideas.
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