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12-15-2002, 11:26 AM | #1 |
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12/15/2002: Drunken moose
This might have made a Friday, except that you can't really tell just from looking at this guy why the shot is interesting. This moose is drunk. Norwegians have been on alert for drunken mooses recently. It turns out that they had a long and exceptionally warm summer. This caused some fruit, specifically the apples that the moosies like to eat, to ferment right in the skin while ripening. This makes me think. Wine and beer have been found to have been produced very early in history - just as early as the development of civilization. And generally they have a religious connection/connotation. When you think about it, how could it not. You're a simple early people with little understanding of the world. Your tribe comes across an orchard or an area with natural vines. The fruit is sweet, but when the harvest time comes, it transforms into something that gives you visions, makes you dizzy and a little sick. It's all magic to you; you don't know there may be natural yeasts on the skins of the fruit, and you don't know when the sugar content becomes high enough for those yeasts to take an interest and convert it to alcohol. You might conclude that God converted that fruit for you to get closer to him. And just as the fruit was at its sweetest! The following year you take the fruit and squash it for beverage, and you make clay pots to keep it in. And the liquid changes! You put fruit into the vessel, and sealed it; now when you open the jar, the contents are harsh and bitter and give you the same visions as last year. More magic! And then the older people in your tribe figure out that the people who drank the beverage did better than the people who drank the (unpurified) lake water. It's all over; this beverage is definitely a gift from above. |
12-15-2002, 12:12 PM | #2 |
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"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."-- Benjamin Franklin.
See also: "Sumerian Beer" http://beer.tcm.hut.fi/Misc/SumerianBeer.html
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12-15-2002, 12:13 PM | #3 |
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Excellent post Undertoad! Now what's your anthropological idea on why people smoke thing?
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12-15-2002, 01:35 PM | #4 |
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Same thing! Except that, like a lot of weird practices that have some benefit, you have to wonder why someone tried it the first time.
But with so many billions upon billions of people on the earth, there are precious few things that haven't been tried once. |
12-15-2002, 01:47 PM | #5 |
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About alcohol- We did my wife's companies Christmas Party last night. Thing is, these parties used to be a blast. A beer blast specifically, open bar, loud talk, steam blown off, dirty dancing, business done, bonds made, blah blah blah. Well a couple years back word came down from headquarters, its time to clamp down on the boozing. I understand the liability fear dwi/wrecks etc... but the event that killed the Christmas spirits was a wig from corporate who traditionally drank until falling chose that year to fall down a flight of stairs instead of just falling in the john er something, stupid. So we had a two hour cash bar at the beginning of a six hour party. Its sad that we need to get hammered to loosen up and have fun but when the dj sucks its hard to keep everyone up. On the positive side, of the six couples at our table the chicks were all the company folks, we guys all had different schemes, cool.
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12-15-2002, 01:48 PM | #6 | |
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12-15-2002, 08:37 PM | #8 | |
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12-15-2002, 08:45 PM | #9 | |
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--Herodotus, <i>Historics</i>, .ca 450 BC (While this is translated as "seeds", many modern authorities agree that a more correct translation would be "buds". )
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12-15-2002, 09:04 PM | #10 |
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I wonder if you could get close enogh to them to pet them when they're drunk?
I'd like to put a cigarette in Bullwinkle's lips and get a good closeup pic.
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12-16-2002, 01:30 AM | #11 |
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nit pick and anecdote.
i suspect that this photo was taken during the summer/fall as 'recently' in norway they are in the dead of winter and there ain't so much greenery going around....
....also....when i was a kid growing up, ok fine, when i was a kid as i still have much growing up to do....we used to watch robins get drunk on the berries from the moutain ash in our backyard....... mmm. drunken birds. *wap* *wap* *wap* the sound of them crashing into our bay windows after...... |
12-16-2002, 07:53 AM | #12 |
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"Hey, Rocky! Watchsh me pulla fifth outta mah hat! *burp*"
If you want to talk brave, think about the folks who first tried mountain oysters... <font size=1>"moosies"... heh heh.<font size=2>
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12-16-2002, 12:45 PM | #13 |
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Beer, wine, bread, cheese = mystical, magical inventions.
Forget the sex scandals- I think 21st century monestaries/nunaries have a definite recruiting angle here. |
12-16-2002, 12:59 PM | #14 | |
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Put yourself in the moose's place. When YOU are drunk, would you put up with someone sneaking up on you, even in a friendly manner, to pose you for silly pictures? You'd kick ass, take names, and probably leave a couple leaky holes in anyone that tried. Moose have larger feet than you do, and are pretty good at trampling things that annoy them. Even for no apparent reason at all ... I forget what website I found it on (ehowa.com maybe?) but I have seen some very impressive video of a moose stomping. Gives you a whole new respect for moose, actually.
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12-16-2002, 04:03 PM | #15 |
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I have a way with big drunken animals First I be nice. Then if that doesn't work I crack their fucking cranium with a louisville slugger. A good rugged pair of moose proof boots helps too.
Thats only the last resort though, for when the big dumb bastard cant keep the cig in his lips for the pic.
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