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Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


P.M. Marc - Nov 13, 2008 11:05:00 am PST #1104 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I was baffled the first time I started seeing PBR as the drink of choice at shows. Oh, hipsters.

Rolling Rock used to be what PBR is now.


Steph L. - Nov 13, 2008 11:05:27 am PST #1105 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

So the doesn't drink coffee and likes Moby Dick things are just to keep him for being the Mary-Sue Elect?

For me, Moby Dick just increases his Mary Sue-ness.

I guess anyone who can get through the catalog of whales is bound to have the kind of patience Obama does.

I was baffled the first time I started seeing PBR as the drink of choice at shows. Oh, hipsters.

The hipster bar in my 'hood recently opened a pizza window in/adjacent to it that's open until, like, 4 a.m. Seeing as how my neighborhood is named Northside, the name of the pizza window? Northslice.

Ah, hipsters. Never change. (Because, then who would I mock?)

(Okay, it's fun to drive by and yell out the car window, "NorthSLIIIIIIIIICE!!!!" I seriously don't know why The Boy hasn't kicked me out yet.)

My neighborhood is so cool and so baffling, demographically. Part of it is the genuine, drug-dealing, gang-having 'hood. But the rest of it is hippie-granola-liberals, ffffffabulous gay men, low-key lesbians, working-class black families, and hipsters hipsters hipsters. All over the map; the only unifying factor I can suss out is that I'd bet my neighborhood went about 98% for Obama (and 1% for Bob Barr).

We barely fit in because of my hippie-granola-liberal ideals (though I don't dred my hair or wear patchouli -- seriously, someone needs to tell them to stop it right now), and, one assumes, because of the cross-dresser in the house.


Connie Neil - Nov 13, 2008 11:05:29 am PST #1106 of 10002
brillig

Iron City and Rolling Rock, around Pittsburgh.


tommyrot - Nov 13, 2008 11:06:07 am PST #1107 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Rolling Rock is way better than PBR.

Of course, I haven't had PBR since high school, so maybe my tastes have changed since then....


Steph L. - Nov 13, 2008 11:08:44 am PST #1108 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh, and -- did no one else drink Keystone Light? Barely drinkable and oh so cheap. I switched to Killian's my senior year, because, damn it, I had principles, and one of them (or possibly the only one) was to not drink shitty beer.


flea - Nov 13, 2008 11:08:54 am PST #1109 of 10002
information libertarian

I drank pitchers of Yuengling Black and Tans in college. This was before Yeungling was a national brand.

I have had a crap day - heck, week - of feeling low and getting nothing done. I got a ahircut this afternoon. Suddenly I feel really good! ...and am still getting nothing done. Crap.


tommyrot - Nov 13, 2008 11:09:28 am PST #1110 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I did almost no drinking in high school (because I was always driving) but I remember folks drank a lot of Old Milwaukee, which was called "frog piss" on account of the graphic on the can arguably showed what appeared to be a frog pissing into a funnel.


Dana - Nov 13, 2008 11:10:35 am PST #1111 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I think college was when I started drinking Dr. Pepper. Crazy times.


tommyrot - Nov 13, 2008 11:12:23 am PST #1112 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh yeah, in Madison, Huber was the cheap-ass beer everyone drank. Except when Huber Bock was available. The joke was that Huber Bock was what they got when they scraped out the bottoms of the brewing vats....


Jesse - Nov 13, 2008 11:13:11 am PST #1113 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yuengling was what people who knew better drank when I was in college.

Of course, I really knew better, and didn't drink much beer at all. The occasional Rolling Rock, maybe.