BS: No it's chicken shit officer...

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 07:21 AM

the elizabethan landlady, Elinor Running was reputed to have put chicken droppings into her ale. Her customers were then supposed to have passed out after a pint or two, enabling her to rob them. She eventually got her comeuppance when the locals put her in a tun (barrel) and rolled her down the hill into the river. For further details see this thread on John Skelton's poem.

The "Running Horse" at Leatherhead, Surrey, claims to have been the original pub and it is on the side of the hill above the River Mole.
There's no problem with the beer these days - Linda and I have sung in there on quite a few occasions.

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 06:54 AM

If one ingredient is slaked (slacked?) lime, I should think the chicken-shit is there to bland it down!

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Amergin
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 04:25 AM

It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase chewing the shit....

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 03:03 AM

perhaps I could throw it on a non-polluting campfire and sniff the fumes.

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 11:46 PM

It's good though.

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:55 PM

you don't like to cook, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:54 PM

...but Bill D., that's the the way I like it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 08:13 PM

I guess they'll have to mix their drugs into Moose Turd pie now....

Subject: BS: No it's chicken shit officer...
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 08:04 PM

I think that this one is only for the more adventurous users of mind altering drugs.....

Think I will stick to plain old beer, wine and whiskey.



Turkmen Leader Orders People to Stop Chewing Chicken Crap
Created: 13.08.2004 18:12 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:05 MSK

The president on Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, has issued a decree banning his people to chew nas in common places, Russia's news agency Interfax reported on Friday. Nas or naswai is the country's staple drug, made of tobacco, slacked lime and chicken excrement. People chew nas for its mild narcotic and stimulating qualities.

According to medical reports, about 80 percent of Central Asian people diagnosed with throat cancer chew nas in their life.

Niyazov's decree, published on Friday, forbids to consume nas in ministries and public institutions, at all enterprises and organizations, in military units and border guard posts in educational and children's establishments, in theaters, in public and private transport, in parks and shops. The list of the places gives the rough impression of how spread the habit is.

The decree also banned selling nas everywhere except for specially assigned places — usually cattle markets.

Those who violate the decree will face fine of two minimum wages — 500 thousand manat ($85). Illegal nas traders will be fined $170.