On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:28:31 -0500, philo wrote:

On 10/24/2015 06:58 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:41:09 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

I think the drain screen is good. Better, to
stop serving stir sticks.

Yes, it could even get worse with tiny tropical umbrellas the ladies
like so much. Men drink whiskey and don't need a stinking stick to
stir it.




Let me tell you something about real men.


Jimmie Vafiadis was the cook at the restaurant where I got my first job.

This was back before the days of pop-top beer cans and twist off bottle
caps.

He always dipped into the owner's Lowenbrau beer.

It was also in the days when the beer we drink here was actually brewed
in Germany.


One night after he had a few, he lost the opener and asked me to fetch
another one.

I was too slow, he just smashed the neck and drank from the jagged glass.

I was shocked but he told me the broken glass would just settle to the
bottom.


By ten PM almost each night...he'd be on the floor swinging a bottle of
beer and singing Greek songs and the owner would end up having to do the
cooking.

Nick never fired him though as he was the most reliable cook they had...
probably due to the free beer.


Now /that/ is how a real man does it.


Jimmie Vafiadis is the only real man I've ever seen.

I knew a guy that would break and swallow pieces of razor blades in
prison. Seeking attention. Medical staff put him on a diet of bread
and water. Kept him from having cuts in his intestines and stomach.

What an idiot