I bought ginger beer once at a soda/candy store.. It wasn't in a
separate alcoholic section (actually that store does not have such a section) and I wasn't asked for ID or anything. I didn't think it was alcoholic when I drank it, as it didn't have that taste.

The only Ginger Beer I've ever had was bought at a liquor store and was like 7% alcohol if I remember correctly.

Canada Dry Ginger Ale is about the only one I can drink, every other brand I've tried burned my tongue.

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Re: Re: Help me here .. I am confused ?
By: Geri Atricks to Nightfox on Thu Jan 19 2023 04:32 pm

I bought ginger beer once at a soda/candy store.. It wasn't in a
separate alcoholic section (actually that store does not have such a
section) and I wasn't asked for ID or anything. I didn't think it
was alcoholic when I drank it, as it didn't have that taste.

The only Ginger Beer I've ever had was bought at a liquor store and was like 7% alcohol if I remember correctly.

Although it was called ginger "beer", I don't think the stuff I've tried had any alcohol in it. It was sold at a candy/soda store and I wasn't asked for my ID when I bought it. Similarly, none of the ginger "ale" I've drank has had any alcohol in it either.

Nightfox

Geri Atricks wrote to Nightfox <=-

The only Ginger Beer I've ever had was bought at a liquor store and was like 7% alcohol if I remember correctly.

I thought most ginger beers were non-alcoholic? One of my long-time BBS
callers went into rehab years ago and has stayed sober. He'd continue to
hang out with friends, but brought a six-pack of ginger beer with him
whenever he went out.

He disappeared from the BBSes for the month he was in rehab, and came
back with a post entitled "Things I learned when I stopped drinking..."

The only one I remember was "I didn't realize until I stopped drinking
that I don't know how to dance..."



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Ha! Probably the biggest contribution to wine from Austraya, is the " Bag", being the guts out of cask wine.. chuckle. Not much of a wine

That... doesn't sound either flattering or tasty, but _does_ sound entertaining.

There's a college campus trend now, called "smashing the bag". You take cheap box wine out of the box and squeeze the bag while drinking out of the spigot.

To each generation their own. My generation proudly made beer bongs out of rubber tubing, funnels and hose clamps - and we thought we were the sassiest froods out there.

Little did we know that college co-eds have been using gravity-assist inebriation devices as long as places of upper learning have existed.

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On 01 Apr 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

There's a college campus trend now, called "smashing the bag". You take cheap box wine out of the box and squeeze the bag while drinking out of the spigot.

you mean slap the bag? which we did in 2005?

i guess the youngsters are rediscovering almost 20 year old concepts

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Re: Re: Help me here .. I am confused ?
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 01 2024 10:11 pm

you mean slap the bag? which we did in 2005?

Oh, god, I've turned into that uncle who tries to talk to the kidz about things he's read about.
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On 01 Apr 2024 at 09:26p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

Oh, god, I've turned into that uncle who tries to talk to the kidz about things he's read about.

Ha, I told my daughter how it was 40 years ago when I watched the first Ghostbusters movie in the theater the other day, we'd just come out of watching the latest film Ghostbusters Frozen Empire... it was the first and only film she has seen in the franchise and liked it so much she went back to see it a second time, taking us along with her :)

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fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

On 01 Apr 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

There's a college campus trend now, called "smashing the bag". You take cheap box wine out of the box and squeeze the bag while drinking out of the spigot.

you mean slap the bag? which we did in 2005?

i guess the youngsters are rediscovering almost 20 year old
concepts

Hate to tell you this, but it's more like 40+...

Funny how kiddies think some things are "new".



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To each generation their own. My generation proudly made beer bongs out
of rubber tubing, funnels and hose clamps - and we thought we were the sassiest froods out there.

My second-hand experience, was watching the people living on the floor below me going beer fishing on American college football game day.

"Beer fishing" being taking a fishing pole, attaching a plastic cup instead of a hook, filling it up with beer, and encouraging random people walking along the road to drink the beer.

Once there was even an SUV driver with a sun roof who opened it, and they lowered a beer in.

I wouldn't say any of it was a good idea (or likely legal), but it was entertaining.

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There's a college campus trend now, called "smashing the bag". You

you mean slap the bag? which we did in 2005?

Hate to tell you this, but it's more like 40+...

They've been kicking around since the 60's somewhere... I seem to have recollections from the 70s for people hitting the goon bags.

Spec


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I saw Ghostbusters II at the movie theaters with my father a long time ago as well.


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On 05 Apr 2024 at 09:35p, Utopian Galt pondered and said...

I saw Ghostbusters II at the movie theaters with my father a long time
ago as well.

Still have a copy of that theme song from the film by Bobby Brown 'On My Own' which (from memory) he also did a short cameo in the movie??

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