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12/28/2005
My first adventure with Viking alcohol
I went to a post-Christmas get together at my wife's best friend's house last night. I knew very few people, but the main draw was some Norwegian concoction called glug. (The word has those two dots above the 'u', but I can't figure out how to type that) It's pronounced gloog.
I looked over the recipe a bit, and it's primarily red wine, but it's also got fermented raisins, orange peel, brandy, and a few other things in it. It takes a long time to prepare, and it's served not-quite-hot. Besides the overpowering fumes as you raise the cup to your mouth, the liquid then seems to suck all moisture out of your mouth as you swallow it, so you feel like you're drinking heat.
Apparently, the Vikings drank this to stay warm. It doesn't surprise me. My breath after drinking a very small cup (I was a glug virgin, and I was driving) would have melted ice off a driveway.
But if I ever get the chance, I'll drink it again. Hey, it would be cheaper than heating your home this winter....
18:35 Posted in Leisure | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
12/26/2005
Team FP/G Through Week 8
1. Big d's Monsters 45.45 (-0.09)
2. Chalkdust Torturers 44.69 (-0.15)
3. Toronto All-SARS 43.92 (+0.76)
4. Arnie's Army 43.48 (-0.06)
5. Hogscraper 43.48 (-0.24)
6. Ram Tough 41.70 (+0.19)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.64 (-0.14)
8. Ballfan1 39.98 (+0.52)
9. Lynx 36.92 (-0.16)
10. Peoria Opies 32.82 (+0.29)
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12/19/2005
Team FP/G Thru week 7
1. Big d's Monsters 45.54 (+0.26)
2. Chalkdust Torturers 44.84 (+0.10)
3. hogscraper 43.72 (+0.31)
4. Arnies Army 43.54 (+1.24)
5. Toronto All-SARS 43.16 (+0.06)
6. Ram Tough 41.51 (+0.07)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.78 (+0.82)
8. Ballfan1 39.46 (+0.02) (leaving Kidd in the lineup is better for the team than not)
9. Lynx 37.08 (-0.20)
10. Peoria Opies 32.53 (+0.41)
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12/18/2005
The Colts played the Chargers? Really?
Golly, I love how CBS set up its NFL programming today.
We here in Lexington got only one NFL game on our CBS affiliate today, and it's the 4 p.m. Bengals-Lions game, which is over before halftime.
Didn't get to see the Colts-Chargers. Hope the local affiliate likes its ratings this week, since they'll be in the crapper.
And I'm not even going to get into why the early game on Fox was 49ers-Jags. Ick.
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12/15/2005
Donovan McNabb can't win
I wonder if anybody owes Rush Limbaugh an apology.
Limbaugh got chased off ESPN when he suggested McNabb wasn't as good as the largely white media portrayed him as, and said McNabb was essentially treated with kid gloves because the aforementioned white media wanted to promote him. The NAACP was one of those calling for his firing before Limbaugh quit.
Now, the head of the Philly chapter of the NAACP basically calls McNabb out for being, among other things, a mediocre quarterback and a disgrace to his race for apparently playing a race card to defend his quarterbacking skills. Who gets to call for this guy to be removed as head of this NAACP chapter? I know Charles Barkley did, for one....
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12/12/2005
Team fp/g thru Week 6
1. Big D's Monsters 45.28 (+0.64)
2. Chalkdust Torturers 44.74 (+0.64)
3. hogscraper 43.41 (+1.56)
4. Toronto All-SARS 43.10 (+0.07)
5. Arnies Army 42.30 (+0.38)
6. Ram Tough 41.44 (-0.65)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 39.96 (-0.37)
8. Ballfan1 39.44 (+1.44)
9. Lynx 37.28 (-0.13)
10. Peoria Opies 32.12 (-0.19)
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12/11/2005
Fire Quin Snyder!
I'm not a fan of Dookies anyway, but this one has done nothing but drive nails in the coffin since he got to Mizzou...
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Heathen newspapers vs. Megachurches
I'm reading this journalist-inspired debate over the closing of such megachurches as Southland Christian here in Lexington on Christmas Sunday, and can only shake my head in disbelief.
First, if the preachers in these pulpits were specifically calling out newspapers, editors, writers, or politicians based on the decisions they made, they'd get viciously attacked in the press, with such standard attacks as threatening to take away their tax-exempt status, among other things. So how does the secular media get away with criticizing a church for its decisions surrounding a CHRISTIAN holiday? If you want the church and state kept apart, then you should keep your nose in your own house. Yes, that's right. Many people seem to think that the misinterpreted notion of separation of church and state only means that the church should stay out of the state's buisness, and that it's not a two-way street.
Second, I was raised in a Christian household, and we rarely ever went to Church on Christmas morning, even if it was on a Sunday. Odd? My family was the type that was at church at least three times a week as often as possible. But even we made the decision to attend Christmas Eve services because we traditionally opened presents on Christmas Day.
Thirdly, I hope and pray that those sniveling decision-makers at our local paper are positively affected by the Christmas spirit before it's too late for the well-being of their souls.
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12/09/2005
This isn't TV; it really happened
Too drunk to drive? Put your 7-year-old on your lap and pass out....
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/13373048.htm
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12/05/2005
Team FP/G thru Week 5 (12-4-05)
1. Big D's Monsters 44.64 (+0.13)
2. Chalkdust Torturers 44.10 (+0.25)
3. Toronto All-SARS 43.03 (-0.58)
4. Ram Tough 42.09 (+1.09)
5. Arnies Army 41.92 (-0.38)
6. hogscraper 41.85 (+1.37)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.33 (-0.77)
8. Ballfan1 38.00 (+0.02)
9. Lynx 37.41 (+0.67)
10. Peoria Opies 32.31 (+0.64)
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