In my extensive and lengthy experience with Land Surveyors, particularly in Northern California (and reports from other areas tend to confirm what I'm about to suggest), a significant number of us, how shall I say this, are fond of intoxicants.
I had an enthusiastic young chainman once who was impressed with the number of Presidents who have been surveyors. I told him gently that more surveyors have been drunks than have been President, and maybe the Presidents were drunks as well.
Personally, I have never encountered a mind-altering substance or technique that wasn't worth exploring, and I have encountered many.
I always come back, though, to my first love, the one that seduced me when I was young, and who I will never abandon. Alcohol.
I'm an alcoholic, simply put, but I feel in control at this time of my life, enjoying only a few beers now and again and not, to my mind, in excess. It has been significantly worse, believe me; and alcohol was not my only diversion. It is now.
Be that all as it may be, my point, as trivial and silly as it is, is that alcohol is presented to us in an incredible variety of forms and has been throughout history, ancient history, mind you. It has always been here for us. It's God given.
Sorry, got a little off-track there. My point (back to my point again) which may actually have wandered off, is (was) that while we may all effuse frequently about fine whiskeys, fine wines and wonderful beers, what are we really talking about?
Getting high! In a dignified manner, right?
Maybe not. I could be wrong. I've actually just had a beer 🙂
Don
Last call for alcohol. Last call for your freedom of speech. Drink up. Happy hour is now enforced by law. Don't forget our house special, it's called a Trickie Dickie Screwdriver. It's got one part Jack Daniels, two parts purple Kool-Aid, and a jigger of formaldehyde from the jar with brains in it we got in the back storeroom. Happy trails to you. Happy trails to you.
DK's, 1981
only this .... The Gimlet
... is dignified...but only if consumed while wearing this....
Everything else is uncivilized..
no matter what this guy says...
Sometimes you've just got to be a boss
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Oatmeal Stout...NOT just for breakfast anymore!
The Power Is Yours
Mr. Blameuser,
It's been just over 2 hours. How many beers has God given you? 😉
Take care,
G
My cupboard has been almost barren and waning low for near two month. Was passing by my favorite dispensary this evening and brought home a fresh supply of Irish and Kentucky whiskey plus a local Beer.
Took some time there to teach my youngest about alcohol and sent him on his way with a few better bottles of whiskey in small taste testing sizes other than what he has become accustom and as a list that did not include some syrup induced gagger-master or a choking-cactus worm and some fruity desert tasting sour mash and no mind altering PGA based infusion.
At the house there is always wine chilled and ready or a decent table wine on the shelf.
As long as it comes in a glass bottle and perhaps a few in mason jars it may be acceptable. In southern parts Asia it probably comes in a very large plastic container and is homemade and tastes like a homemade plum wine with a mild alcohol taste (lychees, longans, rice and a few magic ingredients in a proper set up and time.
Heard about some new trend of vodka soaked tampons and the odds of suffering alcohol poisoning, definitely not for me.
Stopped the happy hour method after I sold my part of a club and today's DUI and BUI traps have just about stopped the afternoon trips to the lake and those boat runs to the hideaway lagoon unless I'm spending the night by a fire. Them moving violations are too severe for somebody like me that enjoys having the freedom of expression God gave us.
B-)
Some Drinking Music Please....
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....you know when your mouth is gettin' dry....you're pretty high..:snarky:
The consumption of flammable esters does have its merits. But in the words of my great-uncle Jasper Edgemon:
"Likker's fer sellin', not fer drinkin'."
I don't know if he said that before or after his 'still' in Blanchard, Oklahoma was discovered by the Grady County Sheriff. BTW, he only did 90 out of a 365 day sentence..
My neighbor grows this stuff, “Asian arthritis flower” he calls it. He dries it and stuffs it into a water bubbler thingy and lights it on fire. You suck smoke from a rubber hose thing for a few minutes. Then you forget why you were at the neighbors in the first place and go home and eat some of the twinkies you managed to purchase during the “Great Twinkie Shortage of 2012”. Afterwards I return and help him count ladybugs. Nirvana at its best.
Have a great weekend! B-)
ps: check your email
Beer before liquor, never been sicker.
Some Drinking Music Please....awesome choice!!
When I saw the topic, I thought of that song immediately!!!
E
the latest craze on campus
"but chugging!"
don't worry, this video is funny, not graphic!
> Beer before liquor, never been sicker.
Liquor before beer, never fear!! 😛
Nothing like a good sippin whiskey!
