Posted on 05/10/2012 8:48:47 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
Well, it only rises to the level of 'infraction'. Kinda like a traffic ticket.
However, you can actually get positive recognition for eating their children.
My Dad was an Oklahoma native, which was a dry state until 1958. Folks went to Texas for their hootch or bought the local white lightning & flavored it with an additive called “Texas Noodle Soup” which made it taste sorta like whiskey.
BTW, stocking up on pints of Popov for barter sounds like a great idea.
Same here - been on e-cigs from Vapor4Life for almost a year (June). Cheaper, no smell, and I feel a lot better!
That’s cool! Thanks.
June will be my 1st anniversary, too. Good for us.
“Smoke” on, Friend. It’s great to smoke anywhere and anytime. I took a drag off somebody’s cigarette last week and it tasted bad.
I smoked 2.5 packs a day for 40 years. Took Zyban and have not lit another one in 12 years. I don’t know anything about Chantix but I know Zyban (Welbutrin) took the edge off just enough to make me a non smoker for life.
I was in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, the other day. You can’t smoke in public there and can only buy cigs in licensed shops. You can hardly find them.
BUT, Marlboro Lights were $1.75 a pack.
I would have bought an armload but I had a heart attack Jan 3 and they blamed my 5 smokes a day habit. Yes, I quit smoking!
5 smokes or 5 packs?
Free?? Negative sale price??
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
Just about that simple.
I haven’t done wine yet, but have made mead - so easy it’s almost hard to _not_ make it.
- 1 part honey dissolved in 3 parts hot water
- let cool
- add packet/tablespoon of yeast (mead or champagne) while still warm
- pour in fermenting jug
- apply airlock (balloon would do; proper airlocks are about a buck)
- let sit 7-30 days
- siphon into bottles
- cork & seal/wrap (lest corks blow - trust me)
- let sit until you can’t wait any more (6 months to 4 years).
Enjoy. I just had a bottle I’d made 4 years ago, quite nice. Comes out about $2/bottle when using cheap honey.
AFAIK, wine is about the same - just use good fresh grape juice without yeast-stopping chemicals. May even be simpler than mead as it doesn’t need thinning with hot water. Of course, you can make the process as complex/expensive as you want depending on perfection and pride, but doing it simple with minimal components works fine.
Take a peek at http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com - my blog for $1/plate meals.
$17 at Costco gets you 50 pounds of rice - enough calories for an adult male for 40 days.
Here’s another example of the kind of thing I’m talking about...
An employee of mine has no car and lives in a relative’s basement. He tells me he had to stop and buy cigs this morning on the way to work and that’s why he was late(no biggie, it was only 5 minutes and that isn’t a big deal to me). His license is suspended because he owes too many traffic fines. Then he tells me how he walked to the casino last night and lost 40 bucks in 20 minutes, then walked home. He does brown bag it to work to save money but the guy lives almost entirely on coke, doritos, cheetos, and twinkies. And he complains about the relative who’s basement he lives in because he won’t loan him enough money to get his license re-instated.
I don’t even try to say anything. There’s no point. It will just go in one ear and out the other.
I’ve already got several 50 lbs sacks of rice, several 25 lb bags of dry beans, and several 5 gallon buckets of whole uncracked wheat. I don’t need much more of of those. Rice needs to be boiled for 30-35 minutes. Whole uncracked wheat needs to be boiled for 2 hours. Beans need to be soaked over night. Pasta only takes 10 minutes. Only thing easier than pasta is oatmeal.
“Texas Noodle Soup” LOL! Excellent!
I started on e-cigs April 2......love ‘em so far. I don’t mind the nicotine cravings at all, now that the delivery system is so much better.
Heh...see my post 77. I’ve been doing the Vapor4Life thing.
Just 5 cigarettes a day, max. I would buy two packs a week on Sunday with the Sunday paper and occasionally have a leap pack week where I’d have enough left over to skip buying a pack.
Hard to believe that that “few” cigs could cause a heart attack. I’m only 51. 170 and 5’11” Average cholesterol readings, no family history of heart problems, raced bicycles for 20 years. Never was a big smoker.
I won’t turn into an ex-smoker crazy but if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone. Get a stress test, quit smoking, eat better.
I’ve got a great kid and I want to see him grow up and see how great he will be in the years ahead.
Well, ya know...sometimes non smokers get heart attacks and lung cancer too. You will never really know for sure if it was the cigs.
There was a period in my life(just a couple years) when I smoked a cigar about once per week.
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