Older version of Dry January

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Taken from an earlier life of IHE

[+bughtmaster]

IHE founder member of the Temperance Society..............  

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Until the offer of a Gallon was made

[Charles Bannerman]

I have never understood why they refer to that point of view as "Temperance" since the word means "moderation" whereas what these folk are advocating is total abstinence.

[+DoofersDad]

I have never understood why they refer to that point of view as "Temperance" since the word means "moderation" whereas what these folk are advocating is total abstinence.

The joys of the English language.  Someone can be awfully pretty or pretty awful yet the meaning is so different.  There are so many words with so many different meanings. I've no idea how folk who have been brought up in a foreign language ever learn to get to grips with ours.  It is a recipe for misunderstanding.

 

My father would tell a tale of when he was a partner in his firm and was attending a big evening dinner to which better halves were invited.  He was with quite a number of couples when he spotted a junior in the firm all on his own and invited him over.  The lad was an Indian immigrant and after Dad had made the introductions he asked the lad where his wife was.  The lad said she couldn't come because she worked at night.  "What does she do?" someone asked.  "She's a call girl" came the reply.  After a rather embarrased silence it eventually emerged that she worked on a telephone exchange!

 

I'll drink to temperence meaning moderation.

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But some tipples were medicinal and healthy

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That is more like it - the Howden End champagne

[+IBM]

Yes I remember that drink!

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What about a dram ?

[+IBM]

That was popular long before Buckfast!

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Or

[Charles Bannerman]

Or

The Buckfast of the 60s and 70s!!! Then there was also Four Crown.

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What about this pishh ?

[+IBM]

I think that was the popular one before Skol, was no competition for Tenants!

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What sound advice

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One fer the Canadians ?

[Scarlet Pimple]

Molson still doing well in Canada. Very big. Their favorite beer could be Molson Canadian which is  a nice strong to medium taste and very thirst quenching

 

The Kanaga Indians hailed from the Hawaiis or some such place and were brought over here as immigrants to work locally here in Maple Ridge. I think, if I remember correctly, that the word Kanaga melded into the word Canada. I'll look it up.

 

My favorite is a new local beer named Ironhorse. Full bodied but not too acrid.  Lovely taste.

[Charles Bannerman]

Full bodied but not too acrid. 

As long as that's not the wife you're talking about!!

[Scarlet Pimple]

No! Charlie--she's acidic, not acrid dear boy..

[Scarlet Pimple]

Ha! Ha!       :lol:    Wanna meet her Chas? 

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Well

[Scarlet Pimple]

 

[Scarlet Pimple]

That's neither acrid nor acidic .        It's..a scrubber.  

[veronica]

Hi Scarlet Pimple,

Just a quick question, are you living in St Thomas.... formerly from Inverness?

[Scarlet Pimple]

Good morning Veronica

 

Yes, I am from Inverness, Scotland but I live in British Columbia, Canada in a city named Maple Ridge which is just East of Vancouver which itself is situated on the West Coast, just 100 miles North of the US city of Seattle in Washington State.

 

I do believe, without looking it up, that St Thomas is in the Bahamas isn't it which is South West of Florida, U.S.A.????