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31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

[quote="Entrailicus"]Happy 31, ahem, not doing the dance, not feeling the flow...

I am on my second drink and am just starting to feel the flow.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Don't post and drink, it is dangerous.

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

I know. Look what happened to ekmekparasi.

thorn yeti · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 6

have a beer or six on me 31 Twisted Evil

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

You are a gent thorn yeti. I am drinking very cheap red wine but am raising a glass in your honour. I am working tomorrow but as Ghost says, performance and expectations are low.

Thorn yeti, I don`t know if you know much about Ataturk but I feel an anecdote coming on.

Ataturk liked a drink and one Sunday he was on his boat off the Moda coast in Istanbul. He was on deck and drinking raki when people on the shore realised who he was. His aides were worried lest the people see him drinking and changed course. Ataturk said no and as the boat neared the coast he raised his glass to the people on the shore and said do you know this drink? It is raki. I drink it in honour of the Turkish nation. Or something like that.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Is this when raki became popular? or was it poular long before this. I dont drink raki and no nothing of its history

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

It was popular long before that.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I'm a little better informed.
http://www.allaboutturkey.com/icecekler.htm

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

hmm this started out as a teachers'association thread and it has ended up on booze Confused

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

Everyone knows the futility of trying to do anything about the miserable TEFL industry. Talking about drink is at least interesting.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

did you read that article 31. I liked the last line

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

Yes but I don`t believe it. I had a bad experience with raki when I was first here-Pendik funnily enough. That Necati Bey Apartmani, nearby was a village type house that had a dog outside. It would bark all night and a few weeks after I arrived I was tortured by that dog barking and not being able to sleep. One of my flatmates had a small bottle of raki in the fridge and I drank it with no water and next day I was xed. I can still taste that taste.

That excuse is a typical drinker`s excuse.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

When you were in Pendik did you go to Jazz bar? other than the birhane places it was the only place to get a drink.

31 · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 1797

I don`t remember any place called Jazz Bar. There were the birahane places and there were some expensive places that opened late but I think I would have remembered a place called Jazz. But I was so skint then that I really didn`t go out that much.

There was a place that was painted pink. Tom went to a late bar place and was friendly with the waiters.