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Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject:

What VS says is generally correct. Lucky me, I was a military subcontractor and many of the wives on our compound were local hires by the U.S. Embassy, so our connection with the Embassy party crowd was pretty strong. All my wife and I had to do was pucker up and land a passionate one on the arse of one of these local hires.

Um...we couldn't. And, even if we did, the tickets were USD 30 and for that you got exactly three lukewarm cans of Budweiser swill (or so I was told.)

The missus and I had to put up with going to her Asian embassy which threw 2-3 shindigs a month all for the total cost of BUPKIS! You see, the Asians believe in communal festivities and her government wouldn't be able to show their collective faces if they were found to be CHARGING their fellow citizens for such things! I mean, it wouldn't be honorable now, would it???

So, instead of massaging the ego of the local ladies, I wound up hobnobbing with the Saudi government and social elite who just ADORE my wife's home.

Later, a language student/diplomat offered that if I would go to Bahrain with him to party once or twice a month, he would fill up my carry-on bag with the stuff that I could buy at the liquor store (Bahrain didn't require liquor licenses back then...don't know 'bout now) near the Pearl Roundabout and he would bring it back for me in his trunk.

A charming lad...

NCTBA

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject:

Oh! And, as an after thought, I googled this lil' beaut! When I was in saudi before and right after the internet came there, this was distributed by good ol' pencil and paper...ain't the internets great?!?

http://www.expats.org.uk/features/alcohol/theblueflame.html

It wuz like our bible.

NCTBA

P.s.- I replaced the called-for sugar with the requisite amount of honey...honey!

P.s.s.- "The Blue Flame" refers to the amount of alcohol in the particular mash that you had most recently acquired. What you would do is sequester yourself into a dark room with a very small portion of the mash. Ignite it and look closely at the flame. "Blue" was alcohol, "White/Yellow" was the water content.

If you EVER saw "Green", you pitched it as fast as you could and put a hit on the S.O.B. who sold it to ya. "Green" denotes contact with Copper. Copper will blind you... Mr. Green

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Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:

Stop it now! Do I sound like a fella who's EVER been offa my game?!?

Like a Chess player, I'm always two moves ahead. It's the recipe of my success in "the game"! Laughing

NCTBA

Psst: But don't let any others know...they ALL think I'm a dummy! Laughing