Well the subject is mostly on beer so what better than to inform you of that hangover.
The dictionary defines a hangover as “the after-effects of excessive indulgence in alcoholic drink”. But that as any sufferer will testify , is most inadequate to describe the agonies you suffer after the joys of the night before : Vesuvius erupting in your stomach, a bass drummer thumping on your brain, and a canary fouling its nest in your throat.
Here’s a much better definition. You’ve got a hangover if, after a heavy night on the tiles you hear the cat walking across the carpet, forcing you to yell out : “ Do you have to wake me by stamping your feet ?”
The joy of a booze-up and the agony of a hangover began with Noah, or so the Bible tells us. For as we read in Genesis, “Noah, the tiller of the soil, was the first ( man in the world ) to plant a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and became drunk.”
Drunk as a skunk , infact, for he passed out stark naked in his tent! But a good session with the bottle ( or was it in a leather cask in those days ?) certainly did Noah no harm. He not only survived being seasick on the Ark, but lived to a ripe old age of 950! Looks like we have another 880 years to go if we keeep it up.
Mixing drinks does not make you drunk-it’s the alcohol in each drink that’s the culprit . But starting the meet at 1300hrs with beer and then switching to spirits can make you drunk more quickly than you’d imagine. However on this point the largest pewter beer tankard was made in Malaysia in 1985 , it can hold 2796 litres/614 gallons, enough to give us all who was there in the 60’s a giant hangover. Can you get hold of it Mick if we manage to come out again.
So happy reading till the meet will try to put another one up before then. Keep happy,
Toodle pip Magic
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