| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
|
 Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| This geriatric Caledonian was looking for a decent billet in Manama |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 17644
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
|
|
Anyone we know?
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Only cybernetically. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zeke0606
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Posts: 185
Location: East Outer Mongolia
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: what? |
|
|
| You guys know that the song 'Hotel California' is about a heroin rehab center, don't you? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 17644
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:58 am Post subject: |
|
|
Errr... I don't think so... granted this isn't the greatest source in the world, but it is the story that I have always heard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California
Should we now look at the meaning of the Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
VS |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grahamb
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 1945
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: Pedantry police: misplaced apostrophe alert! |
|
|
The Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? Funny, I always thought there were four members of the Fab Four.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 17644
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Have you ever noticed that English teachers are a pain in the ass?
VS |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grahamb
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 1945
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: No pain, no gain. |
|
|
Guilty as charged, ma'am!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Heroin ? I never did. Drink was my downfall. But I am sober today. I had a long battle with the booze before I put the bottle down. Last time I had a drink was on Easter Sunday 1990. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 17644
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
I apparently don't have the genetic tendency towards addiction. Thank goodness!! Drink never appealed and always bothered my stomach. I quit smoking cold turkey from 3 packs a day... back in the 1970's when EVERYONE smoked everywhere. You would sit in an office working with the smoke so thick you could barely see across the room.
VS |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lall
Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 358
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: Genetics |
|
|
Me and my (far-fetched) theories about genetics, again. Apologies before-hand, once again, lest anybody should feel offended.
Though I've noticed leanings towards Ol' Lady Nicotine amongst certain races (not to mention political leanings and love of certain sport among sub-races among races), I've personally not come across any disposition among races towards alcohol, the stories I've heard about the Irish and the Russians, notwithstanding.
I've noticed a particular thing, though. The earlier one begins smoking or using baccy in any form, the harder it is to give up (as if nobody knew that!). However, I've seen die-hard smokers quitting after around the age of 40, without difficulty. These were the same ones who'd wake up a fellow-smoker or rouse the local tobacconist at 3 am in the morning for cigarettes. And, no, they didn't have any life-threatening issues that prompted them to stop.
Wonder if the body says enough is enough. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
| From observation and reading I am convinced thatt here is a genetic predisposition to alcohol addiction. If you have Celtic, Norse or Native american genes, be careful ! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
grahamb
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 1945
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: The hard stuff |
|
|
By Norse, are you referring to the Lapps?
I'd say the common factor was they've all been shafted by Anglo-Saxon colonists: kicked off the land, marginalised, treated as inferior beings, you name it. The fate of the Aborigines is a prime example. It's enough to drive anyone to drink. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lall
Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 358
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: Music hath charm to soothe the savage breast. |
|
|
| Quote: |
| (never liked the King... preferred Pitney and Vinton... ...a bit too young perhaps?) |
Me neither. Grew up on a diet of Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, Queen, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Eagles, Englebert, Nana Mouskouri, Linda Rondstadt, Freddy Fender, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass............ and strangely, two pop bands (Pussycat and Silver Convention) whose covers the band played during my first dance ever with a girl my age, at that time.
Somehow, Elvis didn't, at that time, appeal to me. Yet, his songs were the ones that kept me company in Egypt as they were among the few that an acquaintance downloaded for me.
I played lead guitar for a small group during my teenage years and later played for the church choir.
I hope this doesn't make me sound like Walter Mitty. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 15343
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| 'Norse" ? I meant 'Northmen' Scandinavians. Mind you Finns seem to have that gene in abundance. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
