[Argh]

The official prayer of The Order of the Bottle, a religion created by me in 1972 when I had a lot of time on my hands over a period of a few days:

Our Father, who art in the Bottle,
Hallowèd be thy spirits
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done
In the bars as in the taverns
Give us this day our daily booze
And forgive us our sobrieties
As we would forgive those who are also sober
For thine is the brewery, the distillery, and the drunken stupor
For ever and ever
Burp!

I had a list of Tenets too, but lost them decades ago.

As you can well imagine, I'm still the only member.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I think that I shall never hear,
a poem lovelier than a beer.

The kind Joe's Bar has on tap,
with golden base and foamy cap.

Wondrous stuff I drink all day,
until my memory melts away.

Poems are made by fools I fear,
I get poetic when I have a beer.



-Stolen from somebody.

[Celtic Conservative]

In the name of the barley,

And the hops,

And the pure, clean water,

Amen