Black and Tans:
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
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Sue - Dec 04, 2007 10:03:37 am PST #5470 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Jars - Dec 04, 2007 10:04:02 am PST #5471 of 10001
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.
flea - Dec 04, 2007 10:08:06 am PST #5472 of 10001
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Heh. From Sue's link, the paramilitary Black and Tans were named after their funny pants, and because they resembled a pack of foxhounds.
sumi - Dec 04, 2007 10:09:12 am PST #5473 of 10001
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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.
Cashmere - Dec 04, 2007 10:12:12 am PST #5474 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
Nutty - Dec 04, 2007 10:12:40 am PST #5475 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.)
Kat - Dec 04, 2007 10:13:48 am PST #5476 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The coffee is much harder to duplicate.
Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.
Doesn't matter though. I still go and get them to make a Green Tea Lemonade for me. Just not this month.
Jars - Dec 04, 2007 10:15:46 am PST #5477 of 10001
I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan.
That is wonderful.
megan walker - Dec 04, 2007 10:24:24 am PST #5478 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.
Except when you seem to suck at making coffee. Like myself.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2007 10:25:16 am PST #5479 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Going online and clicking through to pay my bill is about the same as writing a check.
It's the mailing of said check that tilts it towards online bill pay for me. Do I have a stamp? An envelope? Do I remember how much the bill's for? Can I pay it from my desk at work?
Okay, all that other stuff tilts it too.
Black and tan always triggers the deliberate Jamaican mispronunciation of Lacatan which is a sort of banana. And when I think of mixing stout and stuff I think of mixing stout and ice cream which is really nummy and I wish people would stop looking at me funny about it.