On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:03:49 -0800, The old geezer wrote:
> If you could have Dinner, Drinks & Cigars with any 5 people (at one
> table) who have passed on in these categories......who would they be??
> Sports:
Robert Cronfeld (Austrian glider pilot)
> Music:
Roy Orbison
> Movie Stars:
Steve McQueen
> Political:
Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's consort)
> Military:
Fitzroy Maclean (an original SAS man, he was dropped into Yugoslavia
to see who Tito was)
IMO you missed the final question: Why that group?
Because there's a reasonable chance they'd get on together, due to having similar interests to myself: flying, model flying, cars, travel. Dunno about Albert, but he had very wide interests and seems to have been quite a guy. Not all would be my first choice for a 1-to-1 meeting, but they'd be quite unlikely to get as well as I'd hope the ones I listed would.
-- martin@ | Martin Gregorie
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> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:03:49 -0800, The old geezer wrote:
> > If you could have Dinner, Drinks & Cigars with any 5 people (at one
> > table) who have passed on in these categories......who would they be??
> > Sports:
> Robert Cronfeld (Austrian glider pilot)
> > Music:
> Roy Orbison
> > Movie Stars:
> Steve McQueen
> > Political:
> Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's consort)
> > Military:
> Fitzroy Maclean (an original SAS man, he was dropped into Yugoslavia
> to see who Tito was)
> IMO you missed the final question: Why that group?
> Because there's a reasonable chance they'd get on together, due to having
> similar interests to myself: flying, model flying, cars, travel. Dunno
> about Albert, but he had very wide interests and seems to have been quite
> a guy. Not all would be my first choice for a 1-to-1 meeting, but
> they'd be quite unlikely to get as well as I'd hope the ones I listed
> would.
Martin..what is your opinion of Tanner Jack's Fine Ale??
> If you could have Dinner, Drinks & Cigars with any 5 people (at one
> table) who have passed on in these categories......who would they be??
> Sports:
> Connie Mack
> John McGraw
> Babe Ruth
> Ty Cobb
> Mickey Mantle
> Music:
> Jerry Garcia
> Frank Zappa
> Bo Diddley
> Dennis Wilson
> Bing Crosby
> Movie Stars:
> John Wayne
> Lee Marvin
> William Powell
> James Cagney
> Victor McLaughlin
> Political:
> Theodore Roosevelt
> Ronald Reagan
> Winston Churchill
> Prince Edward
> Rutherford B. Hayes
> Military:
> Ike
> Julius Caesar
> Napolean Bonaparte
> General Sherman
> Crazy Horse
> the old geezer
> ND: Tanner Jack's Fine Ale
> NP: Dream Circle - Steve Roach
I had many conversations with Bo Diddley (I saw him almost every time
he came to Phoenix from '85 until he died) and you would have enjoyed
that. He was an open book and you could ask him anything.
TT
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:06:36 -0800, The old geezer wrote:
> On Feb 22, 8:57 pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:53:03 -0800, The old geezer wrote:
>> > Martin..what is your opinion of Tanner Jack's Fine Ale??
>> Never heard of it. Where's it from?
> Morland Brewing Westgate Street St. Edmunds Suffolk IP33 England
Ah Ha! Morlands Brewery on Bury St Edmunds! Yes, of course I know them. They took over Greene King, who used to brew Abbot's Ale, many years ago. I have happy memories of that - it was a strong, dark, delicious beer - but dangerous! I had one of their T-shirts, which read "Keep upright. Abbot drinker". Abbot vanished for several years and is not available again, but to a modified recipe and not as good. I don't drink much Morlands beer (its not common in my part of Essex), but I know Bury St. Edmunds reasonable well because its one of my favourite gliding turn-
points (you can see the giant storage silos at the sugarbeet factory from 15-20 miles away on a clear day and the TP is about a mile past it) and its also home to the smallest pub in England: the Nutshell http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/40/4014/Nutshell/Bury_St_Edmunds which feels packed if there are more than 10 drinkers therein. I notice that serves Abbot too. Time for another visit, I think.
-- martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:23:04 -0800, The old geezer wrote:
> On Feb 23, 5:48 pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
> wrote:
>> >> > Martin..what is your opinion of Tanner Jack's Fine Ale??
>> >> Never heard of it. Where's it from?
>> > Morland Brewing Westgate Street St. Edmunds Suffolk IP33 England
> They also make Old Speckled Hen.
Indeed. Octagonal boxes of 9 or 10 bottles (I forget which) of Old Speckled Hen appear on supermarkets at decent prices (about 15 bucks of your money) before Xmas. One year they added a token that let you buy a really cheap but well produced, hard bound book about motor racing at the Goodwood circuit. It also says where the 'Old Speckled Hen' name came from. The beer was named after an MG saloon with an odd black-with-gold speckled paint job that was nicknamed 'The Old Speckled 'un'.
BTW, Morland was an Oxfordshire brew dating from 1711, and made in Abingdon from 1880 until 2000, when Greene King bought it out, closed the Abingdon brewery and moved the whole operation to Bury S.Edmunds. I don't think this improved the beer.
I like Oxfordshire beers, especially the Hook Norton brews. They built the brewery in 1849, a classic Victorian iron-framed, steam-powered tower brewery. Its still working, still stream powered (the engine was last replaced in 1899), and still producing excellent ales. Well worth a visit if you're in the area, and even better if you stop for a few at the 'Pear Tree', the pub at the entrance to the brewery lane.
-- martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |
