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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Aug 31, 2007
Evidently it is a contraction from Mensurschläger to Schläger - a type of German Academic fencing where there are no winners or losers.
Some way from our quest, but helping to fill in our pool of ignorance.
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boredlaura Posted Aug 31, 2007
Which could perhaps lead us to (Gold)schläger, the cinnamon liquor with flecks of gold leaf in it that sometimes has a dangerous effect on its drinkers due to the precious metal content which the human body can't digest.
Soma didn't by any chance have some sort of metal mixed into it? Silver? Platinum? Gold?
Are we even answering the original question any more or have we wandered so far off topic at this point in the proceedings? 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Aug 31, 2007
Well, The only terms I connect with a sword fight are
'En Garde' and 'Touché'. I wouldn't know how to connect them to Drtinking and soma, though.
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Aug 31, 2007
You are begining to get the 'thrust'!
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Aug 31, 2007
You are looking for - poetry, poet, lyrics, a hymn, music and composer.
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Icy North Posted Sep 1, 2007
I guess you're looking for 'parry' - the word to fend off a thrust.
Composer Hubert Parry wrote the music to a number of hymns, including William Blake's 'Jerusalem', and 'Dear Lord and Father of Mankind'.
The lyrics to the latter appear within a poem by Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, entitled 'The Brewing of Soma'.
Is that it?
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Sep 1, 2007
Sure did - extra points for a full answer.
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