I was sent this and thought Richard and Kalleh's friends on this board might get a kick out of it.

FOR LEXOPHILES:

. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
7. If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
13. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
16. A calendar's days are numbered.
17. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
23. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
30. When you serve gaspacho at the asylum, it is soup to nuts.


Hope no one minds the intrusion from one of their RealBeer.com cohorts.

Chaz, good work

But why esp Rich and k's friends

Is it that lovers of the brew most appreciate wordplay

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Is it that lovers of the brew most appreciate wordplay

No. It's the reverse. We are lovers of wordplay that appreciate proper beer (nothing from any one of the mega-brewers such as Dudweiser, Swiller or Curse, then).

Dale, I should have included you as you also post over on Realbeer.com.

And as Richard says - Drink proper beer. Not the swill that is passed off as such.

By the way, who's going to be at the GBBF (01-06 August at Earl's Court)? I am hoping to make it on Friday 04 August.

For those that don't know about it. GBBF is the world's best beer festival with around 500 different cask-conditioned beers and a similar number of specialist bottled beers (and not a drop from Dudweiser or its clones).

Although I'd love to, I'm afraid I won't make it this year. I have impending surgery and I'm certain that my doc would not clear me for the trip. I'm interested to see how it works out at the new diggs. Earls Court is a larger venue I've been told. Once again, I'm envious of Richard. Drink a few for us.

Sorry to learn that you won't be around. But surely I shall try a few for you.

I'll try to make it on the Friday, Richard. Perhaps we can make firmer arrangements by PM.

Hey, Cat! Since Bob has said he can't make it this year, fancy filling in for him?

Chaz, we do appreciate your 6 posts here. How's about a few more, from time to time?

That was a great list. Since Shu and I are going to France in October, I loved #24..."If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine."

Sorry about your surgery, Chaz, and I hope you have good nurses! Unless I change jobs, I will never be able to come to the GBBF because it is always at the same time as our annual meeting. What a bummer!

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Unless I change jobs, I will never be able to come to the GBBF because it is always at the same time as our annual meeting. What a bummer!

I've heard of worse reasons for changing a job :-)

In the absence of other arrangements, I shall be at the Young's brewery bar soon after noon (the doors open at noon). Young's bar is usually one of the first you see as you come in, but I don't know whether that'll be the same in Earl's Court as it was in Olympia.

OK, Richard. I'll see you there. The stand may have changed its name to Wells & Young's, though.

YUM. Drink one for me, too, please?

There are other CAMRA sponsored real ale festivals nearly every weekend in England. I know you would enjoy attending one even if it is not the GBBF.

In the summer there are several each weekend, plus private ones at pubs and rallies.

Rich: As an old fart on fixed income, sorry I can't make it. However, have a good time and when you find a winner, remember it for me

Just to confirm, I've arranged to take Friday 4 August off from work.

If the Young's stand is not in its usual place, or anyone otherwise misses me, I'll be on 07885 429799.

I'll really like to whizz down for a few but as it is I'm taking the weekend of the 28th-30th off for a hot rod do at the Shuttleworth Collection (that's the one I've mentioned to you before Asa, the newest aircraft there is a Spitfire!) and being self-employed I can't take two weekends off in a row- heavy sigh!!!

Priorities Man!

Richard, is there anything during that time we'll be in England in October?

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Originally posted by Erik Johansen:
I'll really like to whizz down for a few...

Sorry, but I cannot resist. Isn't that what most people end up doing at beer fests?

Now all you guys who are still allowed to drink, please tip one for me. Young's would be nice. Or Old Peculier if you can find it.

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Or Old Peculier if you can find it.

I am very impressed; few people get that spelling correct.

OP is readily available in London, although I find it too heavy for session boozing.

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Richard, is there anything during that time we'll be in England in October?

There are several CAMRA festivals but none especially near. I'll keep my eyes open and see what else there is. Bob might know of a local one.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Richard, is there anything during that time we'll be in England in October?

When will you be there in October?

Chaz,

See the Wordcraft Convention thread in the Community section. If you can make it, we'd love to meet you; I'm sure that even if there's no CAMRA festival nearby we'll manage to find a decent pub!

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I'm sure that even if there's no CAMRA festival nearby we'll manage to find a decent pub!

I have already suggested Ma Pardoes and the Crooked House.

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Originally posted by arnie:
Chaz,

See the Wordcraft Convention thread in the Community section. If you can make it, we'd love to meet you; I'm sure that even if there's no CAMRA festival nearby we'll manage to find a decent pub!

Thanks for that. I was last over in March. (Had several pints with Richard.) I had intended to come for GBBF again but I've had some health problems that dis-allow it this time. I'll look into those dates.

I went to the Jerusalem Tavern, in Clerkenwell, last night. The only St Peter's house in London and I tried their mild, bitter and a special summer brew which contained ginger. All were excellent.

Afterward we went to a Belgian bar in the same area are I reminded myself of just how good some Belgian beers are. The Forbidden Fruit (9.5%) was especially nice ;-)

Rich: Dudweiser and Swiller indeed. But you have to explain Curse

Incidentally, if you haven't tried them, many of the U.S. microbrews are excellent

Anyone wishing to discuss the brew, I am dalehileman@verizon.net

Coors,

known around these parts as Uncle Adolph's piss.

Pete Coors in the news.

From that story (my italics):

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Beer company executive, chief commercial pitcher and former Senate candidate

Not only does his company make the stuff but he also holds it?

Rich's pun has very profound implications. Before the advent of the microbrewery, there were only a few brews in the Western Hemisphere that I could stomach, so to speak, and none of them was a product of the Big Three

Forgive me for going OT, but can't resist a beer discussion. So I am
dalehileman@verizon.com

This board has many members who like good beer - and we shall surely sample a few in October.

And so far as the US micros are concerned - yes, I have drunk many of their brews and, a couple of years ago was lucky enough to go to Chicago and, with Kalleh and some others, go round the Goose Island brewery.

Rich: My No. 2 Son Sky would like you. Recently he made a tour of European breweries on his vacation from the Navy and after his stint hopes to go back to school so he can become a brewmaster

Excellent choice of career. Even more so now that many English breweries are recruiting brewsters as well as brewers.

Rich, thank you

But I had hoped Sky would find a nitche closer to Victorville

Since so many of the newer US brewers are copying the ideas of the traditional English brewing companies, I should not be at all surprised to see some US brewsters. Maybe there are some already.