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Ryan Cousineau

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Aug 16, 2006, 2:30:42 AM8/16/06
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LIVEDRUNK would like to present the following announcement as a public
service:

If you buy a 750 mL bottle of beer that has a flying canoe and a devil
on the label and an 8% alcohol content, that's gonna affect you.

Thank you Unibroue, your Maudite is the most frighteningly smooth
crazy-ass beer I have ever drunk. It looks like ditchwater, it tastes
like heaven, and it kicks like a mule.

Given my girlish liquor-holding abilities, this bottle has lasted two
very mellow evenings.

LIVEDRUNK reminds you to drink irresponsibly, and when you drive, aim
for the haters,

--
Ryan Cousineau rcou...@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

Gabe Brovedani

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Aug 16, 2006, 2:47:22 AM8/16/06
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Ryan Cousineau wrote:

>
> Given my girlish liquor-holding abilities, this bottle has lasted two
> very mellow evenings.

You bastard. You embarrass LiveDrunk. One bottle, two evenings. And
you admit it, shameless.

Gabe Brovedani

Howard Kveck

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Aug 16, 2006, 2:53:45 AM8/16/06
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In article <rcousine-281225...@news.telus.net>,
Ryan Cousineau <rcou...@sfu.ca> wrote:

> LIVEDRUNK would like to present the following announcement as a public
> service:
>
> If you buy a 750 mL bottle of beer that has a flying canoe and a devil
> on the label and an 8% alcohol content, that's gonna affect you.
>
> Thank you Unibroue, your Maudite is the most frighteningly smooth
> crazy-ass beer I have ever drunk. It looks like ditchwater, it tastes
> like heaven, and it kicks like a mule.

It's a tough job but someone had to do it.

--
tanx,
Howard

Never take a tenant with a monkey.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Ryan Cousineau

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Aug 16, 2006, 3:04:29 AM8/16/06
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In article <_bzEg.1110$q63...@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
Gabe Brovedani <gb...@pacbell.net> wrote:

Gabe, babe: first of all, it's LIVEDRUNK. CamelCase is for Web 2.0
losers who also tend to forget vowels. Hey, is losr.com taken? Ahh!
That's horrible!! Remind me never to type random URLs in again.

The first step to solving a problem is admitting to it. Unfortunately,
due to the alcohol, I can't remember the next step.

In my defense, I'd like to point out that this was a 750 mL bottle. In
other words, this was a beer that was the size of a wine bottle, and was
closing on the potency of wine.

It says on the bottle that it is "strong beer on lees." Never mind the
beer: I need to try out some of this lees stuff! Because I want whatever
this beer is on.

Ewoud Dronkert

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Aug 16, 2006, 3:13:55 AM8/16/06
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:30:42 GMT, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
>If you buy a 750 mL bottle of beer that has a flying canoe and a devil
>on the label and an 8% alcohol content, that's gonna affect you.
>
>Thank you Unibroue, your Maudite is the most frighteningly smooth
>crazy-ass beer I have ever drunk. It looks like ditchwater, it tastes
>like heaven, and it kicks like a mule.

Have you ever tried http://www.achouffe.be/newen/produits.php ? I like
it.

--
E. Dronkert

Jonathan v.d. Sluis

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Aug 16, 2006, 9:05:13 AM8/16/06
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Ewoud Dronkert <firs...@lastname.net.invalid> wrote in
news:72h5e25p3cqo8j4jq...@4ax.com:

> http://www.achouffe.be/newen/produits.php

La Chouffe, yuck. Never liked it, like drinking dishwater.

Curtis L. Russell

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Aug 16, 2006, 9:38:44 AM8/16/06
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:30:42 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <rcou...@sfu.ca>
wrote:

>If you buy a 750 mL bottle of beer that has a flying canoe and a devil
>on the label and an 8% alcohol content, that's gonna affect you.

If you drink double and triple ales, this is what we call light beer.
They use those fluted corks that are a pain to get out and more to get
back in because they want commitment - if you open it, you finish it,
and if it means lying in the gutter instead of going home, try to lie
there with a bit of pride. But roll up onto the sidewalk

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

Donald Munro

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Aug 16, 2006, 9:33:34 AM8/16/06
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Curtis L. Russell wrote:
> If you drink double and triple ales, this is what we call light beer.
> They use those fluted corks that are a pain to get out and more to get
> back in because they want commitment - if you open it, you finish it,
> and if it means lying in the gutter instead of going home, try to lie
> there with a bit of pride. But roll up onto the sidewalk

LiveDrunk(tm) gives a new meaning to the term riding in the gutter.

Donald Munro

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Aug 16, 2006, 9:35:52 AM8/16/06
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Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
>> http://www.achouffe.be/newen/produits.php

Jonathan v.d. Sluis wrote:
> La Chouffe, yuck. Never liked it, like drinking dishwater.

Just add some horse piss and it'll be Ok (or so I'm told).

Snippy Bobkins

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Aug 16, 2006, 10:14:04 AM8/16/06
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"Jonathan v.d. Sluis" <nos...@nospam.nl> wrote in message
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LIVEDRUNK preferences -- the next helmet troll.

--
Snippy "Bass Ale" Bobkins
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
--Albert Einstein


Curtis L. Russell

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Aug 16, 2006, 10:46:35 AM8/16/06
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:38:44 -0400, Curtis L. Russell
<cur...@md-bicycling.org> wrote:

>
>If you drink double and triple ales, this is what we call light beer.
>They use those fluted corks that are a pain to get out and more to get
>back in because they want commitment - if you open it, you finish it,
>and if it means lying in the gutter instead of going home, try to lie
>there with a bit of pride. But roll up onto the sidewalk

Shoulda finished with:

...when the streeet cleaner drives by.

Damn program is sending the emails on its own. That's my story and I
sticking to it, at least for now.

Michael Press

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Aug 16, 2006, 2:49:24 PM8/16/06
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In article <qv66e2dnckg05g3ij...@4ax.com>,

Curtis L. Russell <cur...@md-bicycling.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:30:42 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <rcou...@sfu.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >If you buy a 750 mL bottle of beer that has a flying canoe and a devil
> >on the label and an 8% alcohol content, that's gonna affect you.
>
> If you drink double and triple ales, this is what we call light beer.
> They use those fluted corks that are a pain to get out and more to get
> back in because they want commitment - if you open it, you finish it,
> and if it means lying in the gutter instead of going home, try to lie
> there with a bit of pride. But roll up onto the sidewalk

One evening in October, when I was one-third sober,
An' taking home a 畦oad' with manly pride;
My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter,
And a pig came up an' lay down by my side;
Then we sang 栗t's all fair weather when good fellows get together,'
Till a lady passing by was heard to say:
刑ou can tell the man who "boozes" by the company he chooses'
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

--
Michael Press

joedop...@yahoo.com

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Aug 16, 2006, 2:57:48 PM8/16/06
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In May I peddled my bike to the Abbey near Aubel Belgium.They have a
little cafe that serves beer made by the Monks on-site.I drink lots of
beer but after drinking 2 of these I was at the point where I almost
needed to crawl back to my bike.I believe the name is Val Deiu or
something close to that.That stuff can stagger an elephant.

Curtis L. Russell

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Aug 16, 2006, 3:56:23 PM8/16/06
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That would explain the incident with the water buffalo in Thailand.
They look awfully big when you are flat on your back looking up and
pretty much frozen by too much formaldehyde in too much cheap Thai
beer. Fortunately he was careful where he placed his hooves when he
stepped over me.

Curtis L. Russell

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Aug 16, 2006, 4:51:17 PM8/16/06
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Val Dieu is strong compared to most U.S. beers not from a
micro-brewery, but low compared to most doubles and triples. Piraat is
about half again as strong by alcohol content (relatively light
tasting though).

That's the problem with the 'normal' triples - they are relatively
pale compared to others in that alcohol range, and many people in the
U.S. associate alcohol content in beer to darkness. Probably only in
the U.S. is that somewhat true. There are darker triples, but they
aren't my favorites. Nor do I like Ommegang brews all that much and
they are the better of the U.S. triples and quads IMO.

If you hunt through the Brit barley wines, you can find some that get
beyond triples, but they tend to be very dark. Not my normal range.

Ryan Cousineau

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Aug 17, 2006, 3:16:32 AM8/17/06
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In article <72h5e25p3cqo8j4jq...@4ax.com>,
Ewoud Dronkert <firs...@lastname.net.invalid> wrote:

Thanks to the rather odd way beer is sold in BC, it is probably going to
be hard for me to find it at my local liquor vendor. I should make an
effort to seek it out.

Tonight, having finished the last of the Maudite, it was Polar Ice
vodka. Longtime readers will know that drinking vodka goes against all
of my principles, but it was very cold, and very neat.

Still like gin and beer better,

Marty

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Aug 17, 2006, 4:43:08 PM8/17/06
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Curtis L. Russell wrote:
> >One evening in October, when I was one-third sober,
> >An' taking home a Œload' with manly pride;

> >My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter,
> >And a pig came up an' lay down by my side;
> >Then we sang ŒIt's all fair weather when good fellows get together,'

> >Till a lady passing by was heard to say:
> >ŒYou can tell the man who "boozes" by the company he chooses'

> >And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
>
> That would explain the incident with the water buffalo in Thailand.
> They look awfully big when you are flat on your back looking up and
> pretty much frozen by too much formaldehyde in too much cheap Thai
> beer. Fortunately he was careful where he placed his hooves when he
> stepped over me.

Whoa! What was your T/E ratio after that night?
--
Marty

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