Posted on 03/11/2019 10:53:46 AM PDT by PROCON
NEWTOWN, Ohio (WKRC) The season of Lent means Christians are fasting and giving up certain pleasures or vices.
One Ohio man is taking a page from history.
For 46 days, Del Hall is drinking only beer.
Im going to have all styles of beer, the Fifty West worker said about the fast.
Beer will be the only thing on Halls menu and he wont have solid food until Easter Sunday.
Hall says hes taking a nod from monks in the 1600s that would fast during the season by a bock beer diet.
Being master brewers, they decided they would take a popular style of beer in Germany, bock beer, make it extra hearty and that would be their liquid bread and thats what they call it, Hall said. So the monks in Bavaria, they would call doppelbock liquid bread and basically it would sustain them through the 46 days of Lent.Its not an entirely new concept for Hall. He previously did a four day water fast but this is a whole different beast.
I'm an army veteran, I was number one in my class in the army, I've run a full marathon before, 26.2 miles, I've done big challenges but this seems very daunting, Hall said. So I'm just curious if I'm up to the challenge, if I'm going to be able to do it or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at kimatv.com ...
Thats exactly why monks make great beer ... it was their sustenance during Lent.
So Tom T. Hall changed his name, huh?
wasn’t born for diggin deep holes
I’m not made for pavin’ long roads
I ain’t cut out to climb high line poles
But I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
I’m not the type to work in a bank
I’m no good at slappin’ on things
Don’t have a knack for makin’ motors crank, no
But I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
So hand me one more
That’s what I’m here for
I’m built for having a ball
I love the nightlife
I love my Bud Light
I like ‘em cold and tall
I ain’t much for mowin’ thick grass
I’m too slow for workin’ too fast
I don’t do windows so honey don’t ask
But I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
A go getter maybe I’m not
I’m not known for doin’ a lot
But I do my best work when the weather’s hot
I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
So hand me one more
That’s what I’m here for
I’m built for having a ball
I love the nightlife
I love my Bud Light
I like ‘em cold and tall
I wasn’t born for diggin’ deep holes
I’m not made for pavin’ long roads
I ain’t cut out to climb high line poles
But I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
I’m pretty good at drinkin’ beer
O hand me one more boys...
That’s what I’m here for
Ew
Ill drink to that!..........................
4 posted on 3/11/2019, 1:57:01 PM by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won’t be nice like the last one....................)
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Make mine an IPA!
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GyG!
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IPA’s are okay, once in a while, but not for 47 days straight 3 times a day!.........................
The season of Lent means Catholics are fasting and giving up certain pleasures or vices.
Great breakdown.
However this cannot apply to Kiwis or Aussies.
I’ve drank with them. I know.
When they say lets go on the piss. ..you’re gonna be drunk for days. Gonna take a week to recover. Don’t even mess those crazy kiwi’s.
https://aleteia.org/2019/03/05/no-food-only-beer-fasting-like-a-17th-century-monk/
Ya gotta keep in mind...beer has food value...but food has no beer value!
Never Fergit ta Laugh!
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GyG!
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Another Breakfast of Champions:
Wheaties & Buckhorn.
No milk. Just Buckhorn.
>> There are different ways of counting
Yup, there sure are. However, the number “40” appears some 146 times in the testaments. Hint.
“The season of Lent means Christians are fasting and giving up certain pleasures or vices.”
Who made up the Lent thing, anyhow? It’s not Scriptural. Why is it “a thing”?
Remember that beer I Lent you last summer.
I need it back.
>> Who made up the Lent thing, anyhow?
Google up “the temptation of Christ’. That’s a start.
After 6,000 years of Judaism and 2,000 years of Christianity, lotsa “non original” stuff has become tradition. (I’m cool with that, BTW.)
p.s. - Have you ever been to the “Babylon Bee” website? I was recently reminded: “Pastor Foolishly Spent 3 Years in Seminary When He Could Have Been Educated on the Bible by an Internet Atheist for Free.” (-:
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Blatz and cold KFC...
That had been left out overnight.
Stupid. All around.
Heard he’s lost 13 pounds so far...
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