10 brandies on average, throughout an average family meal with my girl's parents, involving at least 3 times the amount of food you need, plus 10 potato pancakes. Then dancing.

1. You guys love to make everyone laugh, and since I love to laugh = Win!
2. Obsessively reading the recent comments page burns time yes, but it's like brain candy
3. Having a laugh with Choggie over how awful he's being at any given moment here.
4. Finding some wonderfully awful cheese and loving people when they vote it out the queue (just barely! heheh) GO Team Shatner!
5. Bourbon, Brandy and sometimes a nice red wine... to have while sifting of course

Later the gentleman told the soldiers, "I live in a country, not unlike yours, where I have absolutely no fucking say in the actions taken by my leaders, and suffer from it as you do, here manifest in an arm of her military taking some twisted pleasure in their job....an uncomfortable justification. In my country, instead of a power-hungry elite from a nation who has undergone enlightenment and restoration, I must suffer power-hungry 8th century throwbacks, who don't understand that their religion, and their instilled hatred for another religion, is what keeps them basically, spiritually fucked. ...or they do, and they use it as a weapon against the other country's leaders, and their own desire for control."

The bleeding heart reporter, with the grave and somber tone, employed by the same assholes who engineered this war, then went to his hotel room and gave himself a brandy enema, and drowned in a pool of his own vomit....

War bad, human rights good.......fer fuckssake man, beat that drum ya ineffectual do-gooders-

OMG I just spewed my brandy out my nose, wow.

What a touching tribute, Choggie. You've really captured the uh essence of motherhood and just what man feels and thinks on the most basic level. I say this of course in all respect and gratitude of course....

Inspired post.
Crackpot ideas come from many a bottle. Take Gurdjieff's thick-ass tome, "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" The prologue describes the setting in which he penned this epic-he had a nice little spot in the corner of a wine cellar. His bev of choice was Armagnac,(brandy) a French region and the oldest to distill-some cardinal back in the 12th century, had this extolation about this spirit's, many virtues...
"It makes disappear redness and burning of the eyes, and stops them from tearing; it cures hepatitis, sober consumption adhering. It cures gout, cankers and fistula by ingestion, restores the paralysed member by massage and heals wounds of the skin by application. It enlivens the spirit, partaken in moderation, recalls the past to memory, renders men joyous, preserves youth and retards senility. And when retained in the mouth, it loosens the tongue and emboldens the wit, if someone timid from time to time himself permits."-(wiki)

I like this new wino dag. Now yer an Okie, will wonders never cease?
-Brian d'Houston

You have China to thank for those cheap-ass slippery shoelaces, and everyone knows dinosaurs were hollow.

lyric rewrite:
This is really great (great).
We could make you hallucinate (hallucinate).
You should take quite a few of us (few of us).
Share or your friends will surely fuss (no no no no).

Call your dealer, Anthony (anthony)
Tell him the pills that you will need (you will need).
And they'll tell you how much money (money)
Save up your money or become a thief (no no no no).

We’re not candy (believe us!)
But we make you feel fine and dandy.
When you’re jonezin we come in handy, but
We're even better with Brandy.

Hey, for the first time, I just stumbled upon the "congrats gold!" thread that was made for me eight whole months ago. So now I'm thanking everybody individually to make up for the deafening silence. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by dag:
Lets all raise our glasses of apple brandy in salute. Thanks Calvados

Just a word first I picked up on 10-odd years ago when I was trying to think of a username that wouldn't need numbers after it and which sounded a little distinguished. Calvados is a small territory in Normany, France, as well as a brandy made from apples, but neither of those things have any significance.

My avatar is almost as old, from some online game I didn't actually play and which probably went tits-up. Just a world-weary, WW2-looking, non-specific-nationality Air Force pilot having a smoke in the dark.

Mmmm.... Kind of like a Brandy White Russian. White St. Bernard anyone?

as a sailor... (adopts marinegunrock authoritative voice)

he was turning round, not trying to cut across. you can't stop a boat, you can only turn it round, or turn into the wind so the sails lose power and you float to a stop.

so, my guess is he was drinking (looks like a rich toy boat) and while opening the 3rd bottle of brandy he dropped a glass, and had to go down to get another one. while he was down there he was fellated by a blonde 18 yearold gold digger. he then returned to the wheel, and realised to his horror that he was already past the point of no return and could not avoid hitting the enormous thing in front of him. In desperation he turns into the wind, not wanting to accelerate by turning away from the wind.

oh, scratch that, he was under diesel power, sails down, he's just a moron. or he had an epileptic fit and you should all feel VERY bad for laughing at him. or it was a woman, and we all know women can't drive. or maybe this is snuff and should be redacted.

thankyou and goodnight.

arrr, shit, yeah, sorry about that... no sleep plus brandy equals bad things.

All lyrics are taken from here, with slight modification of the English version.

The original Spanish lyrics
Soy un hombre muy honrado,
Que me gusta lo mejor
Las mujeres no me faltan,
Ni el dinero, ni el amor

Jineteando en mi caballo
Por la sierra yo me voy
Las estrellas y la luna
Ellas me dicen donde voy

Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay mi amor
Ay mi morena,
De mi corazón

Me gusta tocar guitarra
Me gusta cantar el sol
Mariachi me acompaña
Cuando canto mi canción

Me gustan tomar mis copas
Aguardiente es lo mejor
Tambien el tequila blanco
Con su sal le da sabor

Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay mi amor
Ay mi morena,
De mi corazón

Me gusta tocar guitarra
Me gusta cantar el sol
Mariachi me acompaña
Cuando canto mi canción

Me gustan tomar mis copas
Aguardiente es lo mejor
Tambien el tequila blanco
Con su sal le da sabor

Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay mi amor
Ay mi morena,
De mi corazón

Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay mi amor
Ay mi morena,
De mi corazón


The translated English lyrics
I'm a very honest man
Which I think is best
I don't lack women,
Nor money, nor love.

I'm riding my horse
Through the mountains I go.
The stars and the moon
They tell me where to go.

Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, the dark-haired woman
Of my heart.

I like to play guitar,
I like to sing in the sun.
The mariachi accompanies me
When I sing my song.

I like to drink my drinks
Brandy is the best.
Also white tequila
With salt for flavor

Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, the dark-haired woman
Of my heart.

I like to play guitar,
I like to sing in the sun.
The mariachi accompanies me
When I sing my song.

I like to drink my drinks
Brandy is the best.
Also white tequila
With salt for flavor

Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, the dark-haired woman
Of my heart.

Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, the dark-haired woman
Of my heart.

Well, well... I'm from Serbia and actually I find this shit very funny... especially your comments. I like the comment about the Star Wars! Anyway, maybe the painter had a liter of Serbian brandy which could induce such visions :-)

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Lets all raise our glasses of apple brandy in salute. Thanks Calvados

Heheh. So who was better? Darwin or Flipper? http://aqfl.net/?q=node/3873

In reply to your comment:
“talking dolphins don't end up as tuna, Darwin's probably teaching preschool somewhere
In reply to your comment:
“Yeah. I was sad when I found out back then. Oh well. I guess Darwin ended up as someone's tuna too.


In reply to your comment:
“whaaa? no, I did not... I guess he didn't want to end up on Celebrity Fit Club, Surreal Life, or any of the VH1 programming that survives on washed-up child stars.

In reply to your comment:
“Oh and did you know Jonathan Brandis suicided about four years ago? http://imdb.com/name/nm0000970/ ””””