Dinner With Dead People......

[The old geezer]

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

[Martin Gregorie]

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.


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[The old geezer]

On Feb 22, 7:27 pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
wrote:

Martin..what is your opinion of Tanner Jack's Fine Ale??

TOG

[Martin Gregorie]

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?

For my money, some of the finest ale around is "Hook Norton Bitter", from
the Hook Norton brewery in Oxfordshire, but Adnams Bitter isn't bad.

Amongst the dross from your bigger brands, i.e. Poors and Budpizler, some
Sam Adams and Sierra Pale Ale comes over here, but that's about it.

[The old geezer]

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

TOG

[ttuerff]

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

[ttuerff]

On Feb 22, 4:03 pm, The old geezer <J...@aol.com> wrote:

Sports:
Billy Martin
Ray Chapman and Carl Mays (put some tension at the table)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Music:
Zappa
George Harrison
John Lennon
Robert Johnson
John Philip Sousa

Movies:
Louise Brooks
William Desmond Taylor
Fred Astaire
W.C. Fields
Groucho Marx

Political:

James K. Polk
LBJ
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt

Military:
U.S. Grant
W.T. Sherman
General Cornwallis
George Washington
Robert E. Lee

[Martin Gregorie]

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.

[The old geezer]

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.

TOG

[Martin Gregorie]

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.