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Gern geschehen. BTW, nice touch on the spelling of my name up there, Stephen. That's what it used to look like, just seconds before Ellis Island...

Where is the what? Got me on that one, Skeezix

Read what my Weapons Officer said above ^^

Kapitän: "Load torpedoez int tubez 1 und 4!" Waffen Offizier: "Yah, Mein Kapitän. Torpeedoez loaded int tubez 1 und 4!" Kapitän: "Set for proximity fuse. Match bearings und shoot!" Waffen Offizier: "Proximity fuse, bearings matched. It's away! Two Black Butte Porters running straight and level, Herr Kapitän!" Kapitän: "Ahhhhhhhhhh, sehr gut, Waffen Offizier." Re-reading Shadow Divers and can't get U-869 out of my head...

For some reason, I now have this image of you going around and drinking the partially consumed cups of beer in the morning after a big party... You are not very far off the mark. And I've managed to spit out all but a few cigarette butts...

I don't like it much - it tastes "flat" (no carbonation) I don't drink beer for its carbonation. That's what sody-pop is for. And I've probably drunk more flat beer in my life than most men alive...

I don't know much about GENNIS at all, but I do enjoy a finely pulled Guinness, if that's what you mean. It's perhaps my favorite readily-available brew. It just takes a while to pull one correctly.

yes, but not as much as the darker stuff. This is the time of year that I drink the most of the dark stuff. Porters, stouts, doppelbocks, browns, etc. Gots to put on my winter fat for the upcoming hibernation, ya know... I'm into my second Black Butte Porter of the evening just now. And I'll drink big cabs any time of year...

Stuffed with catnip. Phydeaux approves of them, too...

That look on Frankie's face in the first pic says it all... "Don't even think about fuq'n with my stuff, dude."

Norm, Tsk tsk tsk... Pour a Fat Tire into a clear glass, let the head settle a bit, and then tell me what you see. Murkness, not will it be.

Yeah, Bridgeport IPA != beer. Costco has Bridgeport IPA for $22.00 a case,i buy 2 when i'm in town! They also have Fat Tires for $24/case. Much better buy, when you think about it...

I am the quintessential beer snob. I can be no other way. Do you even need to ask that question? "Beer is clear, murky is quirky." Mind you, a beer can be dark and clear. Cloudy beverages are not beer.

Quit drinking Moosepiss and take a real beer with ya! Yeesh!

Been givin' my thanks since 4:30 or so. Black Butte Porters again this week.

Which comment? About the billiard balls, or that I watched a beastie show afterwards? WTF? Hugh doesn't get the beatdown from you for the "popping out pingpong balls" comment? C'mon, I was like, 20, or something. Let a guy live a little, eh?

unless it's popping out pingpong balls in Patpong on the layover from Krabi [thread drift]Saw this "show" in Tijuana about 30 years ago. This woman would insert three billiard balls in order (numbered 1, 2, and 3) into herself while performing a seductive dance. She'd dance around some more, going through some pretty wild girations, even for an exotic dancer. After a few minutes, she'd pop those three billiard balls back out. The cool thing was, they didn't come out in the reverse order of how they went in. Nope, they came out in the same order in which they went in: 1, 2, 3. Pretty crazy. Then I wandered over to another tent to watch the beastie show...[/thread drift]

Chastity belts are coming back eh? Wow, they thought of everything, huh? It even has a nasty, teethed "gateway protector" for the pooper side.

I read them both in that same order, and I concur with what you're saying. I thought JK was an ass for his characterization of AB and his opinions in general. I thought AB was the consummate hero, along with a couple of Sherpas, too.

Other way around, Rob. The girl who gave a massage that wasn't...

Yes, that father/son dual death of the Rouses was a tradegy. It didn't take up a lot of text in Shadow Divers, I think only about 8-10 pages or so. I may have to get The Last Dive as well. Let me know how you liked it (or not). If, after you've read Shadow Divers, and you find that you like Kurson's writing style, then read Crashing Through as well. It's about a blind man who was given the gift of sight at middle age. Gives new meaning to the phrase, "Careful what you ask for"... Kurson's website

I'd like to hear the story... I got the time. I wonder if it was anything like my "massage" in Saigon...

Proper childcare mandates regular beatings, whether the little blighters need them or not. Ask kevbone.

Norm, being a diver, you might enjoy this book. I sure as hell did.

That ain't nuthin. My wife (before she became my wife) had over 500 OW dives and several advanced certifications (night diving, wreck diving, cert. divemaster, cert. OW instructor, etc.) before she got bored with it all and took up windsurfing and climbing. Unless you were being sarcastic, Rudy, in which case, forget everything I just wrote.