Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Although I am perplexed by Yuengling Black and Tan which is just sort of brown and not mixy as far as I can see. Though yummy.
technically, a black and tan is any drink that mixes stout and lager. A Black and Tan is when the bartender floats the Guinness on top of the Bass (or you can have a Half and Half, which is Guinness and Harp)
Blacks and tans were the name of the English Army thugs used as enforcement during the Irish revolution of the early 20th century.
Huh. I did not know that.
Next you'll be telling us there's a political element to Brownshirt Ale....
Did they have a rep for drinking Guinness and (edit, not ale) lager?
Clearly I am dimwitted about the beers, since I can't tell lager from ale. I do know what stout is, though. I think.
I do know what stout is, though. I think.
Hint: here is my handle, here is my spout.
Blacks and tans were the name of the English Army thugs used as enforcement during the Irish revolution of the early 20th century.
This.
I don't like the sound of mixing stout and lager. Wrongity wrong.
Heh. From Sue's link, the paramilitary Black and Tans were named after their funny pants, and because they resembled a pack of foxhounds.
Oddly, this:
This mixture gave rise to their nickname, the Black and Tans (in Irish, na Dúchrónaigh), from the name of a famous pack of foxhounds from Limerick, the Scarteen Black and Tans, whose colours were and are similar.
Is my main association with that name - well other than Black and Tan Coonhounds - or as the general term for that color of dog.
We're ordering cookie basket gifts for DH's direct reports. I don't think the company gives bonuses for Christmas--but they do have annual bonuses in the spring based on company performance from the previous year.
I would be feel very badly if DH's group bought him a gift.
I'm giving the cleaning lady a gift card for Christmas because I don't know her that well but I want to give her a little something to say thanks for her hard work.
I thought that was quite funny when I first went to Boston, and all the 'Irish' Boston people were drinking Black and Tans and thinking how Irish they were. And I had to point out the flaw in their naming logic there.
We order this drink as a Half & Half.
all the 'Irish' Boston people
What, ridiculously romanticized and inaccurate stereotypes of the home country? Say it aint so! (Signed, "Celtic," as in the basketball team, pronounced SELL-tick, and used as a noun.)
(I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan. I don't know his middle name, but it might be Blarney.)