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Steady on Hosty...you're mixing your fonts there...
"small beer"...is there such a thing as a small beer??? Mines always a pint!:face-stir:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
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Sometimes you just need to get fonted! Go on then... make mine a pint as well!
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Ok, someone ate my post!
Just back from Vindolanda, with a necessary stop at Twice Brewed, sadly only for one pint. 'nother pint, please?
How many archaeologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Actually they are afraid to do it...they think that if they remove the top layer bulb, that they will disturb the (presumed) earlier bulbs that are screwed in beneath the one that is currently showing...
Prime practitioner of headology, with a side order of melting glass with a stern glare.
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deadlylampshade Wrote:Steady on Hosty...you're mixing your fonts there...
"small beer"...is there such a thing as a small beer??? Mines always a pint!:face-stir:
Small beer was an historical phenomenon - my understanding of the process was that you brewed normal beer, then boiled the mash again to get a weaker wort which would still ferment and that made "small beer", weaker than normal and drunk as a staple clean drink (boiled water and all that). Drink was part of agricultural wages for some jobs - so hot and heavy work would be "6d a day, plus bread and cheese and a gallon of small beer" or some similar arrangement.
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Which is perfect for archaeology work
I remeber in Germany that Beer was classed as food, so therefore you could.. e r... eat as much beer as you could at lunchtime xx(xx(
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So if beer is a food stuff what does that make gin? Can I class it as water with a bit of a kick?
Gin is the one thing I don’t drink so I do not even know what it is (chemically that is). What was the gin seen in Hogarth’s painting Gin Lane made of ? I cannot imaging anything even vaguely healthy got anywhere near it.
Ah just found a reference to gin being commonly mixed with turpentine ……xx(.is there any in the site hut ?
Think I will stick to the beer ……………..
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With the Russians I used to drink a thing called Spiritus... yummy.. says I...
You had to down it with a quickly followed up glass of water... lest it cause burns down your throat..... later I discovered exactly what it was... Pure Ethanol! ah... so I feel prepared for namby Pamby Turps!
(remember kids... this is all virtual... so please don't try drinking turps at home!)
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Ahhhh mind if I squeeze in?
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Thank you PeterM...I didn't know that!
Welcome thalinor...is it turps that has attracted you to the "norty" corner of the site hut?
I have had a very productive day in my quest for early evidence of the vuvuzela...but I am sure someone can find something even earlier (Is that a challenge? I think it is...)
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
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Many thanks deadly... I am a sucker for convival conversation away from the coalface and this kind of thing reminds me that archaeologists are still human :face-kiss:
Now is there any wine... large glass of house white please
