BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...

Subject: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 08:39 PM

At least this means that our American bretheren will not have to put up with foul tasting beer.

Says it is available in Asia. not seen it here.

Now Bar-Hoppers Can Inhale Liquor Instead Of Drinking It
Machine Combines Alcohol, Oxygen

NEW YORK -- A new machine that allows bar-hoppers to inhale liquor instead of drinking it is set to make its debut in New York City Friday night.

There's already an effort to get it banned.

The machine combines alcohol and oxygen to create an inhalable alcoholic mist.

It's called Alcohol Without Liquid -- or AWOL -- and it's already available in Europe and Asia. Its American distributor, Spirit Partners, is touting it as a low-carb, low-calorie and hangover-free alternative to drinking.

The company says AWOL sends alcohol into the bloodstream faster than drinking, resulting in a quick buzz. But it also says the level of alcohol in the body after AWOL use is lower than for traditional drinkers.

Andrew Spano, the county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., doesn't like it. He worries it will attract underage drinkers, and is seeking a local or statewide ban.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 08:45 PM

I think I will stick with the beer...I enjoy sipping it and slowly getting drunk while I write in my tablet in the pub...

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 08:00 AM

Might be fun - after all breathing in the steam off a hot punch is traditional enough.

Still, this will probably turn out to give you lung cancer or something. And there'll be all kinds of hassles about secondary breathing, or whatever it'll be called.

And what will it be called? We haven't got the vocabulary for it yet. Though of course there are terms that could be adjusted or revived -"going for a quick snifter". And they used at one time to talk about "drinking tobacco" for what we call smoking.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 09:33 AM

Anyone done any research on the effect it will have on asthmatics and others with lung disorders?

I'm not usually one to put a dampner on alcoholic persuits but this one looks like an asthma attack waiting to happen.

Give me the traditional pint pot filled with traditional liquid ale... preferably Grimbergen or Tanglefoot.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 09:36 AM

I thought this was about doing lines of cocaine.

The Japanese also invented the "instant drink" -- microencapsulated alcohol. Just add water, the capsule dissolved, and you had the perfect martini to celebrate your ascent of Everest.

Didn't last. This won't either -- no flavor.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Sooz
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 01:41 PM

I'll stick to Old Peculiar.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 02:49 PM

You could carry an aerosol instead of a hip flask.

I can't really seem the point though. If you're going to sit around inhaling something socially, I'm sure dope would be much bette - and probably safer too.
................................

"And at each social gathering a flowing nose I'll take
For that young Creole maid who dwelt beside Pontchartrain Lake."

Doesn't really work too well. Anyone like to try their hand at reworking other drinking songs to fit the new mode?

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: C-flat
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 03:17 PM

Wasn't this done in the 1800s with the "laughing gas" theatres and parties?
I can see the pubs dispensing refills for inhalers!

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: HuwG
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 04:12 PM

The idea sounds like a horrendous fire hazard. Patrons with a fag (US = cigarette) in one hand and one of these surgical spirit inhalers in the other, risk immolating the entire establishment.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 04:18 PM

"So sniff, sniff, and let's be gay
Sniff, sniff and let's be gay
Sniff, sniff and let's be gay
Let's sniff another."

Nah. Sounds like a convention of dogs.

"Come Landlord fill the aerosol..."

Nah.

"They call it that good ol' mountain air
And them that refuse it are fair...."

No.

"...take up your hose and fill your nose
With the real old mountain air."

Uh-uh.

I don't think that drinking songs can be successfully reworked.

Gimme some good scotch.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 06:47 PM

Have a sniff,
have a sniff
have a sniff on me,
Everybody have a sniff on me...

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:03 AM

So if the Old Dun Cow caught fire, there wouldn't be much time for Brown to mop up anything off the floor before he gets turned into one huge whiskey smelling fireball.

If it were the beginning of April, I might be more sceptical.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 11:55 PM

'No Officer I have not been drinking......' sniff, sniff, sniff.

'My name is Frank and I do not have an alchohol problem...I just have a cold..' sniff, sniff, sniff

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 08:13 AM

We had a song challenge about something not dissimilar to this some time back - Song Challenge 28.:

...This Challenge! was sent in by Mudcatter Jeri a while back and should definitely be considered an "urban legend" (as in, don't believe everything you read *BG*). It's a hoot, and I hope you all have a great time with it and we see some great songs -- Go For It, Challenger!s!!!

-- Áine

TOKYO (AP) The recent craze for hydrogen beer is at the heart of a three way lawsuit between unemployed stockbroker Toshira Otoma, the Tike-Take karaoke bar and the Asaka Beer Corporation. Mr Otoma is suing the bar and the brewery for selling toxic substances and is claiming damages for grievous bodily harm leading to the loss of his job. The bar is countersuing for defamation and loss of customers.

The Asaka Beer corporation brews "Suiso" brand beer, where the carbon dioxide normally used to add fizz has been replaced by the more environmentally friendly hydrogen gas. A side effect of this has made the beer extremely popular at karaoke sing-along bars and discotheques.

Because hydrogen molecules are lighter than air, individuals whose lungs are filled with the nontoxic gas can speak with an uncharacteristically high voice, giving chic Tokyo urbanites the ability to sing soprano parts on karaoke sing-along machines after consuming a big gulp of Suiso beer. The flammable nature of hydrogen has also become another selling point, even though the beer company has not acknowledged that this was a deliberate marketing ploy.

It has inspired a new fashion of blowing flames from one's mouth using a cigarette as an ignition source. Many new karaoke videos feature singers shooting blue flames in slow motion, while flame contests take place in pubs everywhere.

"Mr Otoma drank fifteen bottles of hydrogen beer in order to maximise the size of the flames he could belch during the contest. He catapulted balls of fire across the room that Gojira would be proud of, but this was not enough to win him first prize since the judgement is made on the quality of the flames and that of the singing, and after fifteen bottles of lager he was badly out of tune," said Mr Takashi Nomura, Manager of the Tike-Take bar.

Mr. Otoma apparently took exception to the result and hurled blue fireballs at the judge, singeing the front of one customer's hair, entirely removing her eyebrows and lashes. When the club's security staff showed up, he turned his attentions to them, giving the head bouncer no choice but to tackle Mr Otoma, knocking his legs from under him. Said the club's manager, "It was his own fault he had his mouth open for the next belch, his own fault he held a lighted cigarette in front of it and it is own fault he swallowed that cigarette . . . The Tike-Take bar takes no responsibility for the subsequent internal combustion, rupture of his stomach lining, nor the third degree burns to his oesophagus, larynx and sinuses as the exploding gases forced their way out of his body. His consequential muteness and loss of employment are his own fault."

Mr. Otoma was unavailable for comment.

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 07:41 PM

At least it will stop the bears nicking it all......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sniff! Dont slurp...
From: HuwG
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 03:45 AM

Of course, I'm only here for the bear ... <g>

Whether or not the story in McGrath of Harlow's post is urban myth, ethanol and naked flames do not mix well. Some years ago, I was staging through RAF Gutersloh, in West Germany. The aircraftsmans' mess in which my unit was temporarily billeted had a photograph on the wall showing several people, their heads and hands swathed in bandages, being led out of a building.

Apparently, there was a craze in the RAF at one point for a cocktail known as an "afterburner". I don't know the ingredients, but the important point is that is lit before being drunk, as an encouragement to get the drink down in one. Someone either made a mess of the technique, or left the drink flaming for too long so that it was almost at boiling point before he drank it. Whatever the reason, he took a mouthful of the stuff, and rather than swallow it, spat it out with a bellow of pain. There was a spectacular fireball that engulfed the nearest drinkers, and also set several other spilled drinks alight. The result was six aircraftsmen with quite severe burns to exposed flesh, and a mess in need of refurbishment.