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<p>Cottonwood, I already got a mug, big 1-liter stein with old Germany motif (stags, castles, Octoberfest brewhauses). It even has the metal cap with the thumb tab. Don’t need any “summery” stem-wear, except when we might want to immitate Zorba and need some for smashing on the ground.</p>

<p>Thanks for the offer though…</p>

<p>Speakng of which, anyone else ever get over to Germany for Octoberfest? I could tell you a little about it, but the memories are “fuzzy” for some reason. But the beer, oh the beer! My God, was it good!</p>

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<p>A round on me. </p>

<p>Niece qualified for the Olympic Swim Trials, beginning this Sunday.</p>

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<p>Blows celebratory Viking Horn, raises glass in toast to LongPrime’s niece.</p>

<p>Congrats, LongPrime. Hopefully she’ll kick butt and proudly represents her country in a month. Based on media reports, I hope she brings her smog mask and doesn’t mind a bunch of Chinese “officials” rummaging through her luggage when she gets there.</p>

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<p>Thank You, Bullet:</p>

<p>Example of tolerance and attitudes:
To your above post; She will do her best, and since she is female, “Kicking Butt” is permissible? </p>

<p>She is of mixed heritage, and do not think she will have any problem with the Chinese “Officials” and may be treated very differently than if she was of a single ethnic group. The contrary may be not true.</p>

<p>Another round, Please.
The goal, is to get progressively better drinks. Eats Shoots and Leaves. whata guy am I.</p>

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<p>Bullet, “Child abuse”-hah! My father was (and still is at the age of 80) an avid ocean swimmer. Ya should have seen what he did to me to teach me how to be “drown proof”.</p>

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<p>LongPrime, she’ll be representing Old Glory. Kicking butt should be her goal, and what we’ll be cheering for in the Cave. </p>

<p>We’ll uncork the 18 year-old single malt when she makes the team. Something from some obscure village in the Highlands…</p>

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<p>get out the malt. Neighborhood girl made the US Olympic Soccer team.</p>

<p>She had to play on the boys soccer team in hs since we didnt have a girls team. She done good. (bad grammar intended)</p>

<p>Cheers.</p>

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<p>One of you guys left the gate open and Toblin got out. Please come get him. He is playing in traffic.</p>

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<p>Toblin can take care of himself. Why are you interested in Toblin’s welfare? </p>

<p>So can you tell me the difference between Scotch, Rye, and Bourbon whiskeys? I am getting a real appreciation of the small brands.</p>

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<p>Scotch Whiskey: Must be made in Scotland, uses malt Barley
Boubon Whiskey: Made in America, uses Corn Mash
Rye Whiskey: Also made in America, uses rye (obviously)</p>

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<p>One of the best trips I ever made: Stationed in England, took my family, another service members family (good friends), and friends and family from home and went to Scotland for a week. All avid golfers, rented a house just outside of St. Andrews. Golfed every day througout the area (played the Old Course at St. Andrews twice, plus some other great courses) , hit a distillery for an afternoon tour, then hit a pub in some out-of-the-way village every night to taste the local flavors (food and scotch). Awesome time!</p>

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<p>Tkx.
I was trying to break the fixation on Toblin. He’s must be hot.</p>

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<p>I don’t suppose you asked for a boilermaker of local scotch and stout?</p>

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<p>Only if I wanted the locals to give me a funny look and whisper to each other “silly Americans”. </p>

<p>Nothing beat having a pub dinner with a good Guiness or stout, then spending the rest of the night trying rounds of the most obscure scotches we could find in the pub. Hurt the golf game the next day, however. But who really cared (besides the rangers on the Old Course, who would make you pick up your ball if you held up play looking for all the lost balls in the heather)</p>

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<p>LOL. “Hot” is not the word that comes to mind for your pal Toblin. He’s been stirring up trouble in another thread. Just thought you guys in cave might like to help him out, and I don’t mean by joining in on the shenanigans. Oh well. Never mind. (And I jsut noticed the thread is gone anyway).</p>

<p>You guys got any spitoons around here?</p>

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<p>jym, there’s a howitzer shell every 20’ by the mile long bar, and some around the tables as well, that we use for the spitoons. I think we have some long-cut Redman behind the bar…</p>

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<p>jym, The guys that I know tend to MYOB. We would rather sit at the bar and discuss the other guy’s problem after the fact. I would very much doubt that any Man will jump out of his seat if some lady says that We should help some one out just on her say so.</p>

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<p>LongPrime and jym, </p>

<p>I really don’t want the Man Cave to go down this route, but here it goes:</p>

<p>Personally, if some lady came into my bar and said, “help, my car’s broken down”, I would be out of my seat in a flash (probably for a guy too). Same thing would happen if she came in screaming, “help, there’s a guy next store beating up my girl friend”. Jumping out of my seat wouldn’t begin to describe how fast I would be out the door, rolling up my sleeves. I expect most men would do the same.</p>

<p>But here we have a case of, “help, there’s a guy next store expressing his opinion in a rude manner to my friends”. What do you do? I agree somewhat that we would probably keep our seats and politley tell the lady that if he comes over here, we’ll “council” him on his behaviour. Or more likely make fun of him for being “mean” outside of the Cave. </p>

<p>But let’s not forget; this is all make believe on a somewhat anonymous internet forum. People should be allowed to express their opinion. If you don’t agree, don’t listen or use the “ignore” function. They get rude and obnoxious with you, let the mods know. </p>

<p>Jym, I’ll make a deal with you. He starts acting that way to a lady in the Cave, I will personally severely chastise him. He can have it out anyway he wants to another guy here, or another woman who has been accepted here. It’s part of the rules; expect to be ridiculed (in fun), part of being “manly”. </p>

<p>I’ll be honest, I haven’t seen the thread that has everyone’s feathers ruffled, so I can’t provide a true opinion on whether his behaviour was out of line for a thread outside of the Cave. All parties can feel free to PM me if they want my honest opinion, but I tend to be blunt. This here’s a drinkin’ and braggin’ establishment. You want the courthouse down the road if you want to present your arguements to a judge.</p>

<p>New Rule proposal: What a man expresses on this forum outside of the Cave stays outside of the Cave. </p>

<p>Seconds?</p>

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<p>I think you misunderstand. No one is sending this thread down any dark and dreary path (though the lesbo and the ASSumptions lines were outta line, IMO). I was just trying to be helpful-to let you guys know he was out playing in traffic. If he gets hit by a bus, I was just trying to warn ya. I thought he was one of your cronies here in the cave and thought that guys like to come to the aid of their buds, or prevent a barfight, or help someone to get home to sleep it off after a night on the town. And yes, you are right-- you shouldn’t make assumptions.</p>

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<p>jym, point taken. 'Nuff said. First few whiskeys are on me.</p>

<p>On to the next topic…</p>

<p>OK, I admit it. I actually watched the Euro soccer final. Ok action, and I liked the picture of the German guy with an open head wound and blood dripping down his neck. And not too many guys flopping to the ground when they were barely touched. Pretty tough.
Let’s hope Madrid doesn’t go up in flames tonight. Puts our rowdy celebrations to shame…</p>

<p>But, come on! One goal scored = Yawn!</p>