h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

w*rk is the curse of the drinking classes

(oscar wilde)

What can you tell me about this stuff?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardthebonobo/2552961921/in/set-72157605450850159/

So I take it they put out a different brew every year? label!

It's very tasty! But...what I can't work out is...if you guys drink this stuff...how do you manage to stay on your bicycles?

10.6%

'If I had all the money I've ever spent on drink - I'd spend it all on drink.'
- Viv Stanshall

>>A Barrelista is somebody who balances on a barrel while juggling!

Surely that's Beatrix?

"Down with rum"

The beginning of a W.C. Fields speech on temperance.

re 22: ah, yes, wiibroe's årgangsøl (vintage lager). a very elegant and classy beer from helsingør (known to the rest of the universe as elsinore). there were times when at least some of the production was actually stored in the basements of elsinore castle. you know, where shakespeare's play 'hamlet' took place.

hamlet did not drink wiibroe, though, the brewery was not founded until some time between 1800 and 1840

the label of every vintage is decorated by a recognized and established artist

as for the content: yes, surely not for the fainthearted, but the taste is usually great

thanks, by the way, for making me research this, because along the way i learned that wiibroe is going to re-introduce its famous 'imperial stout'. for some odd reason they stopped brewing it in 2002 and some of us have been missing it dearly ever since

i never drink water. in it

(w.c. fields)

is good for a lot - and a lot of is good for even more

(the brother of the unknown poet)

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

"many young people believe that they do not like , but it is a delusion that they learn to overcome with age"

(winston churchill)

And of course, there's Ogden Nash on seducing women:

Candy is dandy.
But liquor is quicker.

Nancy Astor: Mr. Churchill, you are drunk! You are very drunk!
Winston Churchill: Mrs. Astor, you are ugly. You are very ugly!
However, tomorrow I will be sober.

Dear Paul H.,

Thank goodness for that quote. It is one that I love - I had forgotten 0 and thank you for reminding me of it.

There is a song - I think it is called

Beer, Beer, glorious Beet.
Or is it

Drink, drink, glorious drink,

I cannot remember the words.

I think that all the contributors to Beer should start a beer making brewery. !!

~go well,

CME AR81

Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 7.35

Paul H:

It wasn't Nancy Astor, it was Bessie Braddock, 'The Docker's MP'. And to be brutally frank...Winnie had a point:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2006/12/20/bessie_braddock_home2_203x152.jpg

Well well! If I play my cards right, I may have an opportunity to sample the 2009 årgangsøl the week after next, during a quick swing through Copenhagen (and a short metro ride to Christianshavn. )


Could the one AlsoRan's thinking of be 'Drink!' from 'The Student Prince'?
Drink! Drink! Drink! To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLl2C3ChYY

i am sure hapi would claim that the song actually goes something like:

mud, mud, glorius mud...

well, what can i say, he is a hippo after all

Nothing's quite like it for cooling the blood....

Is it my imagination, or does the ship seem colder all of a sudden?

Oh dear Pierce the
and Paul H.

That is it,

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

Nothing quite like it for
Cooling the blood .........

..................like G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S MUD

The melody is whizzing in my brain but do you think I can remember the words.

I actually wrote "names" first of all.

Is this what altzheimers is all about?

How long will you poor dears be patient with me.?

with many thanks.

Christiane
alsoRan 81.
slipping down the slippery slope.!!

You only have to worry when you forget the name 'Alzheimer'.

Here's a youtube link for you, Christiane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0WPwFD9is