Rum, brandy, and beer were included in troop rations for the American Revolution (1775-1783).
By the time of the Civil War (1861-1865), these alcoholic libations in rations were replaced by coffee. ~Today's Seattle Times ________________________________ From: merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] fixation on the "B"word:little beer-drowned consciousness of B 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 “the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence”. 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", Zappa’s 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, “Titties and Beer” seems to be a very sly comment on this sort of attitude.IMHO ) hope the (turquoise)B are still in vino's
