The Party’s Just Beginning. Nuts, the establishment, and the luck o' the Irish.

NRO; ^ | January 28, 2004, 11:27 a.m. | By Bernadette Malone

[.cnI redruM]

I used to have a bunch of rugger buddies who brewed when we weren't out being even more stupid. We tried some homebrew mead once. Once.

[RosieCotton]

Rats.

Lemmings are more innocent.

[RosieCotton]

Was it any good?

Seems like it'd be one of the easier things to brew, but I have no idea what mead would really taste like.

All of which has nothing to do with Kerry OR Dean, but...

[Salamander]

Austria was originally inhabited by the ancient Celts.
( but One-Nut was not one of them, I suspect )

[Salamander]

It has a special hangover all its own, doesn't it?....LOL!

[Salamander]

Very sweet beer.
Very bad hangover.
No wonder the Vikings were cranky.

[.cnI redruM]

1) The first seven bottles were a treat....

2) Here's my take on the seven remaining dwarves....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066820/posts

[RosieCotton]

Heh...

OK, just wondered. My dad used to brew beer, though it's been years...and what with having Celtic / Nordic ancestors, the idea of brewing mead kind of appeals to me.

Maybe someday I'll give it a try. I do more "tasting" than really drinking anyway, so I'd probably escape the hangover factor. Still might inflict it on someone else, but...

[.cnI redruM]

Mercy me it does.

[Salamander]

I always thought the cute little bee on the bottle was a subliminal warning.
It's smooth and sweet and flows down your throat ever-so-gently and you don't realize what's happened until it stings you right between the eyes.

The bottle was shaped just a like a little wooden beer keg with a pull-off tab top.
Adorable...and deadly....:))

[Salamander]

Like you, I drank Mickeys once.
Once.

[.cnI redruM]

They also were the first to trash Rome (Brennus -389BC)

http://www.slider.com/enc/8000/Brennus_fl._c.389_B.C..htm

[Salamander]

They sacked Rome a coupla times but didn't do the strategically smart thing and hang around long enough to take it over.
They just grabbed their loot and went home to party.
The Romans, naturally, held a grudge and the rest is history....:-\

[.cnI redruM]

So I guess poor old Boadicea was the bag left holding the bag....

http://www.undelete.org/WHM/WHM05.html

[Salamander]

Yup.
She achieved what few did.
She got several clans to unite in a common cause.
There's a whole thread where I compared the Celts to Republicans.
The Dems are the Romanesque "hive-mind" drones who vote as one while we tend to let our differing degrees of "conservative-ness" split our tickets.

The fiercely independent minds that make the Celts/Republicans great is also our Achilles heel.

[.cnI redruM]

That and a very well-sharpened Gladius.

[Salamander]

Vercingetorix was another:

http://members.aol.com/skyelander/vercin1.html

Supposedly "Arthur" was the historical/pseudo-mythological clan chieftain who united all clans into a single kingdom.

The stuff of romance and legend.

[jim35]

Must be some ancient Celtic curse, one that will never go away:)

[Salamander]

The Roman soldier's tactic of sublimating his individuality and "becoming one with the whole" was far superior militarily and utterly alien to the Celtic mind.

[jim35]

If tubby Teddy and Lurch don kilts I'm gonna ralph for sure, lOl!! Gag at the thought, my mind's eye just went blind!