--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda <no_reply@...> wrote: > > shocking description :little beer-drowned consciousness of B by > nablusoss1008#292730 and related to #293725 > what remains to be quoted (in thus context)?- :Frank Vincent Zappa' > theory about beer > " A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The > compound > itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if > consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole." > Zappa, Frank > V. > > Frank Vincent Zappa' theory about beer: "Consumption of it leads to > pseudo-military behaviour. Think about it -- winos > don't march. Whiskey guys don't march, either (sometimes they write > poetry, > which is often more > horrible, though). > Beer drinkers are into things that are sort of like marching -- like > football. > Maybe there's a chemical in beer that stimulates the [male] brain to do > violence > while moving in the same > direction as other guys who smell like them [marching] -- "We, as a > group of > MEN, will drink this > refreshing liquid, after which we will get together and beat the snot > out of > that guy over there." > Beer seems to produce behavioural results which are psycho-chemically > different > from those produced by > other alcoholic beverages. > Alcohol (the part that 'gets you drunk') is only one ingredient. There > are other > things in beer, and those > [herbal and/or biological] components could affect the [male] brain, > creating > this violent tendency. > Go ahead and laugh. One day you're going to read about some scientist > discovering that hops, in > conjunction with certain strains of 'yeast creatures,' has a mysterious > effect > on some newly discovered > region of the brain, making people want to kill -- but only in groups. > (With > whiskey, you might want to > murder your girlfriend -- but beer makes you want to do it with your > buddies > watching. It's a buddy > beverage -- for buddy activities.)" > Max Weber, defined statehood as âthe monopoly of the legitimate > use of violenceâ. > > My favourite by FVZ: > " Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not > truth. > Truth is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. " > > another > favourite quote remains > "You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it > helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, > but at the very least you need a BEER." > - FZ > > > > PS.: > BTW His kind of fixation on the "B"word > F.V.Z. hilariousness in his "scientific"description **of how the > Republican > Party works its Special Magic on the American electorate: > "There's no question in my mind -- the beer, the balloons and the > bunting all > start with "B" for some > Cosmic Reason. > Bullshit also starts with a "B." If you took Beer, Balloons and Bunting, > then > stirred in the Bullshit, you'd > wind up with a scientific description of how the Republican Party works > its > Special Magic on the > American electorate. Oh -- let's add Bourbon, Blow Jobs and the Bohemian > Grove. > " > **(beside "Titties & Beer" because of the relative crudeness of the song > is > still "another kind of beer", Zappaâs concerts were made up, more > and more, of > adolescent and college-age men who wanted to hear songs with dirty words > in > them. And in many ways, âTitties and Beerâ seems to be a > very sly comment on > this sort of attitude.IMHO ) > > hope the (turquoise)B are still in vino's
Frank Zappa was a great man and musician ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc96Wiq9Odc&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmeznspMIc Beer and titties and treating women in a low way certainly reminds us of a certain fellow here. According to the him beer is the rule. As the americans says: Go figure !
