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Subject: BS: Living on beer for Lent From: JennieG Date: 15 Mar 11 - 07:03 AM It takes all sorts, I suppose, but this bloke Perhaps I could live on chocolate for Lent....... Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: JennieG Date: 15 Mar 11 - 07:05 AM Woops - trigger finger was a bit quick! As I was saying when I so rudely interrupted myself, the bloke in the link above is planning to consume nothing but beer for lent. No food, nothing except beer. I would still rather fancy chocolate. Cheers again JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Charmion Date: 15 Mar 11 - 07:52 AM After six weeks on a chocolate-based diet, you would never want to face the stuff again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:27 AM For Lent in German monasteries special strong beers were brewed to substitue some kinds of food banned during the time in the Middle Ages. Because beer is so nourishing it is often called the liquid bread. Scientists are still discussing which was first: beer, malt not needed to brew baked to preserve it, or bread accidentally wetted and starting to ferment in Sumerian times. But to subsist on beer only for Lent is a little bit crazy, the same with chocolate. For a stout Lutheran there is no need to fast; I eat fish, too, but not on Frydays. Charmion, you are right with chocolate. Although you may keep your ammo pouches filled with chocolate bars like Cpt. Bluntschli, this is only for emergencies. Continue to serenade the cows - I'll never forget it. Prost! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Dave the Gnome Date: 15 Mar 11 - 09:32 AM I tried the Whisky diet once. Lost 4 days in the first week... Good luck to the man anyway. :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: katlaughing Date: 15 Mar 11 - 10:36 AM It is a an interesting idea, esp. given the historical context. I was glad to read he has a doctor on board. Seems to me he would lose quite a bit of weight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie Date: 15 Mar 11 - 10:49 AM I gave up Christianity for Lent many years ago. The best bit is that you don't have to think each year what to give up next.. Good or what? I like the idea of living on beer for Lent though. Add pickled eggs and you get disturbingly close to my diet before I met my wife.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 15 Mar 11 - 11:33 AM If only the guy's liver could speak, it would beg for mercy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 15 Mar 11 - 11:43 AM I know someone who does the opposite drinks a lot of beer all year but stops just for Lent but somehow that seems just as bad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Bill D Date: 15 Mar 11 - 12:10 PM I may have to take up religion....just so I'd have an excuse to join him. naawwww... it ain't worth it.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,mg Date: 16 Mar 11 - 12:33 AM I read a book called something like the barkeepers in Dublin...and they talked about the stevedoors..who lived on beer and did not eat..I think it was stout...imagine doing that work on no food. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Mar 11 - 04:38 AM Wilfried says: For a stout Lutheran there is no need to fast; I eat fish, too, but not on Frydays. Well, I think I prefer ale with fish, not stout.....and I rather like the Catholic tradition of Fridays being fish fry days. In the US, you're likely to get only lager at a Catholic fish fry. I wish the Catholics would improve their beer selection. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 16 Mar 11 - 08:25 AM So if St. Patrick's ever fell on a Friday does that mean no guiness only lager? Going back to the chap living on beer it's not only his liver that will suffer but he is going to end up with one heck of a beer belly. I didn't read if he was married or single but I can't believe that many wives or girlfriends would put up with that 24/7, I don't think he has really thought this through. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Ed Date: 16 Mar 11 - 08:49 AM Patsy, The article makes it clear that he's married, and also that he's thought it through. His intended alcohol intake isn't huge, so I very much doubt that he'll have any liver problems. Go back and read the article... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Charmion Date: 16 Mar 11 - 08:50 AM Whenever it falls, even on a Friday in Lent, a saint's day is still a feast. I suspect that's why St. Patrick's Day is such a big deal; it's always in Lent, and often right in the middle of Lent when one is most fed up with the whole penitence and abstinence thing. (It's easier as Easter approaches and the end is in sight.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 16 Mar 11 - 08:55 AM Here we are, only a week into Lent, and all I can think about are crumpets dripping with butter, coffee swimming with thick cream and pint glasses of lovely Jersey milk. Not to mention great lumps of ripe Stilton, oozy segments of Camembert and new potatoes covered in melted butter. Yes, I've given up 'dairy' for Lent. The only benefit will be my fat derriere and my cholesterol levels. I'm getting grumpier and grumpier. It must be like this in rehab! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Nigel Parsons Date: 16 Mar 11 - 09:34 AM Forty days & forty nights I was fasting in the wild Quelled my 'solid' appetites, Just drank Bitter, Stout & Mild. Ate no solid food at all, Be-er makes a fine repast. P****d it all against the wall, This I term my Lenten Fast. Tune 'Heinlein' Cheers Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: C-flat Date: 17 Mar 11 - 06:09 AM What an idea! Give up sobriety for Lent?? Carlsberg doesn't do Lent, but if it did....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST Date: 17 Mar 11 - 10:26 AM Like the couple who got married and after a week his wife asked him when they were going to have sex and he said honey it's lent and she said to whom and for how long
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Louie Roy Date: 17 Mar 11 - 10:54 PM The last guest on this thread was me and for some unknown reason my name was dropped from the membership list |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,999 Date: 17 Mar 11 - 11:19 PM Please don't, Jenny. It has within it the sweat, labour and agony of slaves. As such, and having read your posts for years, I can GD guarantee you you won't keep it down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: JennieG Date: 18 Mar 11 - 12:23 AM Maybe so, but it still tastes good...... Cheers JennieG PS Guest999, please note the spelling....JennIE, not JennY.....that's not me, that's the others......many thanks....xx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,999 Date: 18 Mar 11 - 12:43 AM Dear Jennie, Sorry. Bruce |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Mar 11 - 04:51 AM We had a German bishop for ten years, after a number of Irish bishops. If St. Patrick's day fell on a Friday in Lent, the German bishop wouldn't give us the exemption we'd come to expect. Now we have a Mexican-American bishop who seems to be seeking Higher Office, and the jury is out..... I think the old rules said that Catholics couldn't drink alcohol on certain days during Lent (maybe all days), and that was a very rude imposition. When that rule was in force, I was too young to drink, anyhow. Praise the Lord!!! -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie Date: 18 Mar 11 - 08:03 AM So catholics don't get good beer eh Joe? Tell you what, be like me and sign up to The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. No beer sadly, but a delightful bottle of Chianti. Anyway, my becoming a Pastafarian is now paying dividends. There is a section in the UK census form that has just landed asking for my religion. Other than not enough boxes available to spell out the full word, I was able to put Pastafarian, and feel better for that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Mar 11 - 03:58 AM It was Lent, but I got it back.... she's happy now .... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: JHW Date: 19 Mar 11 - 03:54 PM I once gave up non-alcoholic beer for Lent - and never drank it again |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: Ebbie Date: 20 Mar 11 - 01:36 PM I keep reading this title as 'Living on beer for less'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Living on beer for lent From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 20 Mar 11 - 07:28 PM We could ask Les, how it went When he gave up beer for Lent ... |
